$500,000 USD to invest, What should I invest in?

[Winner]

Ducknote (XDN) is a good investment.

would get in that and put some money on the side.

Whaaaa???!!! So are my collectible used underpants  

That could be worth a pretty penny.

On a side note OP just use 10% save the rest.

[Melbustus]

I'm have over $500,000 USD to invest in coins.

My question is, what is the best coin, is your favorite investment choice for the future?
I will gladly invest my 500k, but i need solid answers on why so-and-so coin is the future.

Bitcoin for *at least* 95% of your funds.

Because:

... It should be somewhat clear that 99% of existing alts will lose 99% of their value over the next few years. Most alt "innovations" either aren't innovations (like tweaking blocktime or supply), don't work, don't scale, or don't matter. Furthermore, ninja-mining, pre-mining, ugly emission curves, 51%s, NaS attacks, etc, can all kill coins even if there *were* actual innovation. And further still, it's probably the case that if any meaningful, viable innovation ever gets done in the alt-space, bitcoin could eventually incorporate it, making the separate chain irrelevant.

You have to understand that bitcoin's innovation was 30yrs in the making. Solving distributed global consensus was a breakthrough in computer science. There has not been a single innovation in the alt space that even sorta compares to that. Not one. Which is why bitcoin is highly likely to remain dominant.

Furthermore, it's been well understood for the past 20-30yrs that if you could solve distributed global consensus, you could do digital cash, and it would be a big deal. It's just that no one had figured out how to solve double-spending (global consensus) prior to Satoshi. There is no similar known problem being attacked in the alt-space for which a solution would be a breakthrough of similar magnitude. So an alt would have to luckbox into some completely unforeseen yet incredible innovation.

So bitcoin likely remains the primary crypto-coin. That said, there *are* potential niches to be filled by alt-coins. The only one I can clearly identify is anonymity. It's clear that bitcoin does not offer meaningful anonymity unless the user is technically skilled enough and motivated enough to obfuscate their transaction chains sufficiently. Furthermore, bitcoin is becoming a global asset class, fit for corporate balance sheets and HNW portfolios. It's also obviously seeing high-profile merchant adoption, and tacit acceptance/approval by various governments and regulatory bodies. If bitcoin offered technically pure anonymity that required zero user effort, governments would probably be a lot more directly hostile towards it. Thus, it seems unlikely that the bitcoin community would embrace full-anon tech in bitcoin core; lest governments react harshly and reduce existing ecosystem investment value dramatically.

So that leaves the anonymity niche open to an alt. As I've previously noted, ever since Zerocoin was published, I thought that when it came out as a functional implementation, it'd be the first actually interesting alt-coin. Well, it looks like these CryptoNote coins have beaten it to the punch of functional anonymity. Which CN coin will win is a different matter. XMR seems out in front, but the waters are muddy still.

I don't see any other obvious niches for alts. Turing completeness is interesting in theory, but I wouldn't trust the security of such a chain for a quite a while, and much of the benefits may be possible in bitcoin anyway. Other than that.... ?

Now that's not to say you couldn't make a killing if you play the alt market perfectly, and jump from coin to coin as they fall in and out of favor. But good luck not losing your shirt.



tl;dr: Alts suck, with very few even theoretical exceptions.

[First.Bitcoins]

If you are looking at the longterm, I recommend you read this post, bitcointalk.org - Re: How we crypto-geeks get it wrong & the reality of altcoin success

It will give you a guide on how to do your due diligence on any altcoin.

[finity]

Too bad there isn't a solid exchange with cfd's and support for short positions

[BTCat]

CGB is a great investment!

[jotaceo]

What are you doing here? If you have $500k to invest create your own company and have fun. You will probably have thousands more if you have $500k "to invest"...

[rogerdonkey]

I'm have over $500,000 USD to invest in coins.

My question is, what is the best coin, is your favorite investment choice for the future?
I will gladly invest my 500k, but i need solid answers on why so-and-so coin is the future.

Cryptcominer: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=762929.260

[InwardContour]

I wouldn't invest any high amount of money on any altcoin because no one untill now has proven to last years.
They increase in value for a couple of months and then fall for the rest of their virtual life.

[robmob]

I am looking for someone to invest in to the crypto currency community I own https://cryptoinfinity.com let me know if your interested.

[manfred]

Lol, good one asking on the internet for financial advise, epic.

[counter]

All I can suggest is you pick the top coins that you believe have long term potential to grow.  Follow the community, charts, developers and chat rooms.  If you're going to do it think of it as a part time  job at least.  If you put the time into figuring out which coins are worth buying and when is a good time to buy you should do very well IMO.

There are a decent amount coins I think have potential, but best not picking one coin.  Diversify and play the market swings.

[ltbharley]

Invest all you can in ethereum when it will hit an exchange in the first day, you will triple your capital.

[devphp]

I'm have over $500,000 USD to invest in coins.

My question is, what is the best coin, is your favorite investment choice for the future?
I will gladly invest my 500k, but i need solid answers on why so-and-so coin is the future.

All in Doge. Diversification is for pussies. Don't be a pussy.

Yeah! You can be a multidogebillionaire! Who wouldn't want that?

[Nullu]

Anyone with half a million USD could literally propel a coin into the top 5 on coinmarketcap and double their money.

Also, anyone with half a million USD certainly wouldn't be posting here for advice.

[Keyara]

I'm have over $500,000 USD to invest in coins.

My question is, what is the best coin, is your favorite investment choice for the future?
I will gladly invest my 500k, but i need solid answers on why so-and-so coin is the future.

Rental yield in US is quite high right now.

You can search hudstore and buy some extremely cheap homes up and fix them up to rent it out. ROI is quite high compare to other other investment vehicles.

[grantenierman]

I hope this wasn't a serious thread because 500,000 usd you can pretty much start your own coin with marketing and mining support but that what i would do with it anyways. just saying. plus maybe put some aside for bitcoin litecoin and doge the three titans of crypto.

[Bogleg]

I hope this wasn't a serious thread because 500,000 usd you can pretty much start your own coin with marketing and mining support but that what i would do with it anyways. just saying. plus maybe put some aside for bitcoin litecoin and doge the three titans of crypto.

There are already so many useless coins out there.

Putting money into useless products with high risk is not a good advice.

[rocoro]

Imo.. Blackcoin because it has the highest chance of merchant / business adoption, widescale use.

reasons:  
Fast confirmation times,
NO pure anonymity = good because it can be somewhat regulated & consumer protection.

another small plus is you get 1% yearly return - without having to buy mining equipment or other bs.

[amirmass]

If you don't have time for daytrading, invest in vericoin, easily X10

[grantenierman]

There are already so many useless coins out there.

Putting money into useless products with high risk is not a good advice.

Point was with that kind of money you can start your own business with anything and include these coins as payment.