And what about investing in suspicious sites? I mean those offering high rates for depositing your bitcoins .... it's risky, but perhaps diversifying and selling out before the crash, you can get some BTC.
What do you say? That is simply stupid. What is the sense in getting some BTC when your main investment vanishes on the way. You invest 10 Bitcoins, get some 0.001 BTC and when you are at 0.01BTC profit then your investment is gone. Thats how most bitcoin investments happen to end.
Well, not always.
I know right now of two sites that let you deposit, offer a 1.8-3.6% daily, and let you withdraw your deposits (with a fee though).
It is VERY RISKY I agree, but you can deposit, get earnings for say 5 days, and then withdraw your deposits. Even with a fee, you still earn some revenue from those days.
I have done it already, and in more than one site.
Of course, you can get caught with your money in when the site collapses. Of course it is risky. But you are assuming your main investment "vanish" that is simply not true of all sites. And that is what I am referring too. It is not just blindly putting a large sum in one of those sites. You do your research: Does this site allow to get back my investment? What are the fees? How many days is my money "on risk" with the actual ROI? What is the minimum investment?
You do not even have to risk that much. Most of those sites I use, I have tried them before with small amounts (100.000 or even 10.000 satoshis). The interest is so high in some, that with 5-7 days of fauceting or posting in zapchain and investing those earnings, you are getting 3 or 4 cents in satoshis while the site stands. Sum some sites like that and well... you wont get rich, but it is better than just a simple fauceting strategy.
I do not mean to get 5 BTC and investing blindly on a random site, but a different approach. Although I agree it is still risky.