I have 500,000$ to invest

[HabBear]

where should i invest and why ?

Ok, nice...put 500,000$ on Bitcon Cash and you gotta let it ride!!! Haha, psych...maybe put just a bit on BCH if you're really feeling randy.

Seriously though...

400,000$ in Bitcoin. Invest slowly over the next year so you can gain the advantage of the sizeable swings we see over the months.

50,000$ in ETH and 50,000$ in LTC.

If you really want to play a few flyers on ICOs, take it out of the ETH and LTC investments, maybe 10,000$ to be spread over some of the (actually) useful ICOs. The coins that offer an advantage beyond Bitcoin.

[avikz]

where should i invest and why ?

First thing, you need to decide about your investment term. Are you going to stay invested for a long term or short term profit you are looking for. If you want long term profit, then start buying bitcoin, ETH, Zcash, Monero and Dash. These coins can give you a very high return in long term.

Secondly, start learning trading. This one method will give you unlimited profits during your free times. If you don't know how to trade, go to youtube and you will find a lot of training videos there. Start with little investment to learn. Once you are confident about this method, start with big investment to gain more.

[maeusi]

You could invest parts in Bitcoin and well known altcoins like prposter already suggested and for example Litecoin, Steem and MaidSafeCoin and hold them on longterm. When you conpare the prices of those coins from today with the last years, you see contuus signifikant raisings.)And you can put other parts into crowd projects like ICO. There are for example very promising projects with new technologies or services, like mobile healthcare or worldwide solarparks, that pay dividends or new cloud services that are paid by cryptocurrencies like GOLEM "supercomputer".
Those projects are innovative and enable great opportunities.

[rockbits]

where should i invest and why ?

many new projects are springing up now basic smart contract ,Select according to you the best of all projects, and later your money will grow in the next few months

[Yakamoto]

where should i invest and why ?

It all depends on what it is you want to make money off of, how active you want to be with your investment, and what kinds of risks you're willing to take to get various types of returns. I also don't know why you're asking a public board for investment advice but whatever, I'll try to contribute.

Active investments:
Bitcoin trading - Trading Bitcoin back and forth on exchanges to make a profit off of whatever movements occur. Decent amount of risk with low returns short-term but good long-term trends.
Altcoin trading - Trading various altcoins back on forth on exchanges to make a profit (in Bitcoin). Medium risk with high reward, great short-term trends but very timing dependent, might get left holding a bag on a worthless token.
Starting a business - Starting your own business. Medium risk high reward, assuming that your business takes off.

Passive investments:
Loaning - Loaning Bitcoin to other people. High risk low reward, lots of defaults and will likely not be paid back. Skip, in my opinion.
Investment in a gambling site - Investing Bitcoin into gambling websites for a return. Low risk (most of the time) low reward, better for large investments.

I'm not telling you how to use your money, I'm giving you potential ideas and personal perceptions. This is anecdotal and in no way guaranteed to see happen.

[posternat]

In my own opinion, I refer you to bitcoin alone, the money you have now is not just a joke figure right? So bitcoin has a bright future because people are continue supporting it, unlike to some other coins that dumps, but take note the risks, better invest to bitcoin and it you gonna gain the good amount of profit after few months. Bitcoin is best for investment these days. Even Gold is not as much profitable as bitcoin is now a days.

[BitcoinHodler]

where should i invest and why ?

Nothing.
because simply put, you have no idea what you are doing. and when you ask random people you get random answers as you have gotten so far. and everyone tries to push their altcoins they are bagholding on you so that maybe the price goes a little higher so they can get rid of them and don't lose much.

try doing some research and stop being lazy, that would pay off a lot more. i promise you.

[Xester]

If you will live here in our country that amount could priced as 24M and you are millionaire here.  You could buy a lot of assets and could live a good life compared to us.  I guess, you could try other things than investing the whole 500k to bitcoin.  If you will buy bitcoin in that amount there is no guarantee that you actually earn a profit.  We do not know and I believe that price of bitcoin will continue to goes up but what if it goes down.  Try to put not all your eggs into one basket.  

[boyptc]

If I have that amount of money, I will franchise one of the most popular fast food chain here in my country. And if there is still some remaining $ I'll put it no doubt with bitcoin. In a less 10 years you can just double that amount easily or even triple it that fast. But if you want to focus with crypto's go for ETH and BTC.

[hubballi]

where should i invest and why ?

The Best and safest way is jut go and buy BTC and forget it come after 3 or 4 years and see your funds grown to ?xxxx times. If you want to invest in altcoin then their is no coin which is worth in long on.

[TTITA]

where should i invest and why ?

The Best and safest way is jut go and buy BTC and forget it come after 3 or 4 years and see your funds grown to ?xxxx times. If you want to invest in altcoin then their is no coin which is worth in long on.

There is very long time, just buy btc and leave it for 3-4 years after.
Why he dont doing some trading, since nowdays price some coins are going too good. it could got some profit in short-term, isn't

[webmastax]

I suggest to invest in many small coins from top 50.
In 2 or 3 yrs (maybe less) you'll be millionnaire.

[TheRakula]

I think you should buy bitcoin with all of the money and just hold it for at least 3 years.

[Justaguy2]

Depends of how much a risktaker you are. Since you want to put in that amount of money i would go half BTC, the rest in alts.

Your BTC will give you your initial investing and more.
The alts will be a higher risk higher profit kinda thing.

If you want to invest in alt then you should know that you have to keep track of them as well.
Invest in good teams with a positive userbase, maybe higher market cap ones.

Bitcoin 50%
Etherium   Smart contracs, also the backbone of a lot of other projects. This one is a stayer for long term.
Litecoin.   Fast currency / also called the silver bitcoin
Maidsafe. Internet privacy
Ripple.    Centralized banking system
NEO.      Chinese market, gets you dividents as well (like some other coins here)
Monero   Like BTC
Stratis.   Like Eth
Golem.   I mean a decentralised supercomputer!!! How awesome is that
Waves.  decentralized exchange that also acts as a fiat gateway.
Nem.  Like Eth
ARK.  https://youtu.be/CgD4WqHJFtU

Below is higher risk

Sia.     Decentralised private cloud, i think there will be times when people are sick of all the data leaks and privacy issues.

Steem, get money from every post you make. Free money attracts people right? Who isn't sick of all the forced adds shovved down our throat.
Safex. Aims to be like ebay with privacy, i hope they succeed. Gets you dividents as well.

[revo1044]

i think the best invest with 500.000 $ is 150.000$ for eth , 150.000$ for ltc and 200000$ for btc

[trippki]

where should i invest and why ?

45% BTC  - safe store of value
35% ETH  - medium risk
20% for ICO's - high risk, high return/loss

[LFC_Bitcoin]

OP is complete bull shit. I doubt anybody with $500,000 to investnwould make such a dumb thread out in the open so everybody can see it.

[pushups44]

If I had that money I'd be conservative and put most of it in bitcoin and Ethereum. The rest would go to altcoins with great promise and strong leadership and developer teams, and with a strong network and community.

Fortunately, it's pretty easy to research the backgrounds of those behind cryptocurrencies. In my view, there will be many winners in the long run, though the vast majority of projects will fail.

[Cryptocoinsmania.com]

Don't forget to diversify your funds.

[childish]

where should i invest and why ?

i think in local exchanger or you can come in bank have been accept bitcoin
in my country invest in local exchanger more safety than other