buying and holding any altcoin for long term is a huge risk, they can simply get dumped hard and disappear in a moments notice and nobody will even care because nobody uses them really, people will actually enjoy the dump of an altcoin because they will happily short it to make a lot of money.
and when it comes to ethereum you know it is in a bubble and a terrible idea to invest in a bubble.
as for bitcoin, it is too big, with a lot of different usages. the price can never go down drastically. you look at the charts sometimes and see a big red candle that scares you but that is a short lived manipulation dropping the price 5% tops!!! and it jumps back up always.
and the usage is growing and adoption comes with it and consequently the price will rise in long term.
altcoins in comparison are staying idle, no adoption, no more usage, .... they just get pump and dumped.
in other words: alts are good short term trading things never long term.
Topic: 10 ETH or 1 BTC? - page 22. (Read 11984 times)
With $3000 to invest, is there any advantages to either, with the expectations/hopes that they both will continue to grow? Just trying to see what others would do, as I plan to let this initial investment sit for 5yrs minimum in a cold wallet.
Thanks ladies and gents!
If i do have that money to put on then i would really go for Bitcoin when we do speak about 5 years harvest time then btc would be a good choice but if you are on doubts then you can divide your money and go for eth too so that you do have both coins specially for long term but dont really expect too much since no one would really know on what would happen on next 5 years.Its either you would smile for profits or would grudge on the money you lose on those coin when they already tend to dump on those years but its a really hard thing to believe for these two coins to dump on those days.I would rather believe they did already reach new all time highs compared as of todays price. Thanks ladies and gents!
Looking for ETH because ETH is always special for me & ETH change my life.BTC dumping always & sometime pumping but most of the time ETH so pumping.I think at future ETH price is cross BTC that's why I prefer 10 ETH.
I think ETH is the best coin.I always suggest ETH because ETH future is so much good.After 4-5years ETH hit worth of 4000$-5000$ it's my personal opinion.I think ETH is best for investment & ETH future is so good better than BTC.
If btc price drops, ETH price also always goes down.
If BTC price increases ETH price sometimes increases sometimes not.
So btc would be better i think.
If BTC price increases ETH price sometimes increases sometimes not.
So btc would be better i think.
i always prefer ethereum to bitcoin. because bitcoin always problem and processing taking long time all transaction.
This should be resolved this year, so it's not a good reason.Btw, what did op decide to do?
BTC is definitely a better long hodl.
BTC assuming no crazy stuff happens will always be gold
BTC assuming no crazy stuff happens will always be gold
i always prefer ethereum to bitcoin. because bitcoin always problem and processing taking long time all transaction.
I would rather hold 1 BTC holding it in the wallet as a long-term investment and not interested in holding 10 ETH in the next 5 years
I would definitely choose 10 ETH instead of having to choose 1 BTC because according to my prediction ETH will grow because of being more used than BTC. ETH is being optimized platform and generating a lot of altcoin from this platform so i'm sure future ETH will probably become the top cryptocurrency
But you need know Ethereum had growth early 2017 until today very fast. With an altcoin growth as ETH and the rules on market, need have correction price in long time before want comeback again. This is reason make me choose Bitcoin for holding. 
I would definitely choose 10 ETH instead of having to choose 1 BTC because according to my prediction ETH will grow because of being more used than BTC. ETH is being optimized platform and generating a lot of altcoin from this platform so i'm sure future ETH will probably become the top cryptocurrency
With $3000 to invest, is there any advantages to either, with the expectations/hopes that they both will continue to grow? Just trying to see what others would do, as I plan to let this initial investment sit for 5yrs minimum in a cold wallet.
Thanks ladies and gents!
Thanks ladies and gents!
In my mind in this case it is wise to chose btc. Because in the long run btc has more potential because of its positioning as "main" crypto coin.
On other hand if one would want to invest short-term ETH has more potential, right now it could easily go to ~400$ which is 100% profit . But the BTC most likely will not go to 5000$ so soon.
It depends on your risk perception. In 5 years maybe Ethereum will be hacked again. All your money might gone. It's very long time, hard to speak bold on this matter. I prefer to hold Bitcoin in long term because Bitcoin proved itself. On the other hand we see problems about Ethereum every year. Remember DAO incident and hard fork? There are 2 Ethereum coins in the market now. How could you trust a coin like that?
I could not say more.
Maybe the only problem about bitcoin in 5 years will be the high electricity consummation.
It depends on your risk perception. In 5 years maybe Ethereum will be hacked again. All your money might gone. It's very long time, hard to speak bold on this matter. I prefer to hold Bitcoin in long term because Bitcoin proved itself. On the other hand we see problems about Ethereum every year. Remember DAO incident and hard fork? There are 2 Ethereum coins in the market now. How could you trust a coin like that?
Til august 1st you can invest on ethereum after hard fork happens you can start invest on bitcoin after a week or some days till that i am keeping my max bitcoin in altcoins means converting into altcoin.
If I think it's better to buy bitcoin than Ethereum. And if there is an option for Altcoin, I prefer Waves, besides its price is not too expensive, I think waves have good potential for future Crypocoin
Its better to unvest the half of your money in bitcoin and the half will be in ethereum because this two have big potential to increase more in the future. More bitcoin and more ethereum more profit you earn for sure . Because I believe the price of ethereum will become 1000 dollars and for the bitcoin will become 5000 dollars that happen for before end of this year 2017. Invest now.
I agree with diversifying. If 10 ETH is your budget, go 5 ETH and 0.5 BTC. If you like riskier bets, then spread 10-20% of your budget on promising altcoins, such as AiCoin.
Maybe it should weight more on the ETH.
Always split up your investment. I think BTC might be the one to stay in the long term. Simply because it was the first and is the "king"
I think there are chances for both of them because now in many countries ETH is accepting as one of their payment options. So both of them has great demand when it comes to value in coming days. So we have to diversify them according to the situation we are facing.
Both have the potential to increase, but if you want to buy and save it first, I advise to choose 1Btc that you have to buy. But if I become you, I will split those two funds. 50% for Btc, 50% for ETH
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