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[bitm3]

My advice is to invest in 2-3 mining machine and the remaining money in some bitcoins.
With the mining machine you will make some bitcoin and with the other bitocin you will invest in some trading process.

Good Luck !

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[CaptainBeck]

Just throwing it out there,

You could give me the 12k to build rigs and invest in BTC. I make you FIAT and take a % for doing it.

Just an idea, but no different than giving ur money to a bank or hedge fund.

[Hanzie]

In terms of return/hour you are much better buying and holding atm imo. Mining research is time consuming and returns aren't what they used to be.

As for buying you can maximize your investment buy picking the cheapest exchange and buying when that exchange is cheapest relative to the other exchanges. I would recommend spreading your investment across the 3 or 4 main cryptocurrencies. These track BTC fairly closely but give you more diversification.

I'd go with 70% BTC, 15%LTC, 15%PPC. You can purchase all of these at BTC-e which is also cheaper on average than the other main exchanges.

Before you buy look at the prices on http://bitcoinity.org/markets and check the other exchanges. If BTC-e is the cheapest then it's a fine time to buy. If not you're better off waiting a day or 2.

[globalgaurav]

No mining at all - long term you are better in BTC.

No alt/shit/crap/joke/scam coins - longer term almost all of them will fail.

Just invest in BTC on the dips.

My 0.02 BTC.

Gee, this is such a mind numbing 0.02 BTC 

[BurtW]

No mining at all - long term you are better in BTC.

No alt/shit/crap/joke/scam coins - longer term almost all of them will fail.

Just invest in BTC on the dips.

My 0.02 BTC.

Gee, this is such a mind numbing 0.02 BTC 

Thanks.

[Trance]

Hello, I have nearly $12,000 dollars and would like some advice on how to invest with bitcoin.  Should I buy mining contracts from cloudhashing, cex.io, black arrow mining contracts
should I just short trade on coinbase, should i mine myself

Please help me out with some advice.  Thanks

You could mind alt coins and trade them in for BTC, start off with doing your research as far as the hash rate for GPU's in order to mine scrypt coins, SHA256 coins cannot be mined without specific hardware.

[geektang]

no BTC mining,it's equal to working for machine seller and so diffcult to get reward

[harkonnen]

Hello, I have nearly $12,000 dollars and would like some advice on how to invest with bitcoin.  Should I buy mining contracts from cloudhashing, cex.io, black arrow mining contracts
should I just short trade on coinbase, should i mine myself

Please help me out with some advice.  Thanks

Don't listen to others, specially for those saying mining is at loss.
They probably run small mining gear, and don't want any competition causing difficulties going up.
Their arguments are half true. It is true that difficulty level is at prohibitively high that miners are in danger of losing money. But how else are you going to get bitcoin? Invest on them and hold on to it for few years? Good advice, but only half truth. If everyone hold on to bitcoin, and do not use them, the function of bitcoin will suffer. This is bad for everyone. Most of bitcoin must be circulated like cash.

• Don't even listen to me, read everything on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin including all links in it.
• Follow available standard investment guidelines like from investopedia.com
• Spread your investment. Buy few bitcoins, do some cloudhashing, and mine yourself using some good gear from CoinTerra or KnC.

I personally use cex.io. But their hashing price is about three time more expensive than butterflylab, and a lot more than mining yourself. But I think it's good choice to parallel with other mining options. I currently have 5GHS, and will put two bitcoins in them soon. I'm waiting for coinbase to clear my purchase.
I am also trying to get mining machine from CoinTerra. KnC looks really good, but I live in USA, therefore, I will choose CoinTerra over KnC for various reasons.
 
But again, don't listen to anyone including me. It's your money.

[5thStreetResearch]

if you are gonna try to trade btc, coinbase wont be of much use, check out btc-e, they have numerous altcoins on there

[Nova!]

Bitcoin may increase in value if demand exceeds supply and more shops start taking BTC as a method of payment 

Actually I think the opposite will happen.  As more shops take BTC directly the price will drop.  The problem right now is hoarding.  When the price increases stop coming there will be some blood letting as the hoarders wake up 2 years later and realized they would have made more money in US Treasuries and then dump.

There is more than enough BTC to supply everyone's needs.  However the US Government is holding the silk road wallet and will eventually dump the silk road coins.  Eventually PirateBryan may want to spend his BTC as well.  That would free up substantial liquidity.

Still BTC will have it's ups and downs.  I would not be shocked to see $10k/BTC by the end of 2014.

[zoran]

Buy bitcoins tomorrow (700$) , sell them after 12th of february (1238$ they say    ). Profit. Then think again what to do with your 20k$.

[BurtW]

Buy bitcoins tomorrow (700$) , sell them after 12th of february (1238$ they say    ). Profit. Then think again what to do with your 20k$.

This is actually a real issue.  I invested in BTC a long time ago.  When it gets higher I sell a few.  Now I got all these stupid USD so what do I do with them?  Put them in the stock market?  Government paper?  Corporate paper?  Money market?

So I put them back in BTC (on the dips)!