Topic: should i go 50/50 with gold and bitcoin? - page 10. (Read 8867 times)

Well, why not buy DOGE  wich is 99.99999% under gold? I think your idea is not really good  

No, i'm not follow Armstrong. I've a jewerlery since 1999. So i bought gold since it was @ 200$ or @ 1900$ too . But gold market is really hard to understand.

I would go for a diversified investment too.
Never bet on 1 horse. So fifty fifty is a good option. However i prefer the stock markets too, since they are less risky and offer a better ROI.

Taking in account a period of 3-5 years

Is your choice no one is stopping you, but if I was you I would just do 30% gold and 70% for bitcoin.
I feel like that bitcoin will be more profitable, but is not my life and choice.
Well good luck than if you do 50/50 is nice to do if you earn a lot of money with it.

What you can do with your bitcoins is only your problem and no one have the right to judge your decision. The same with what you think. But in the same time even everyone have the right to tell what think about your decisions or previsions. Mine are totally against these you tell in your post. I wouldn't sell never 15 bitcoin to buy gold nor today and neither never. And not only gold but nothing. The best thing that can have someone who have bitcoin and which can be over it is only.... bitcoin itself. This is first.

The second is even more against than the first. How is possible to be worthless something that since the born 6 six years ago have known the biggest and fastest increase in value than everything else (currency, good or service). This "worthless thing" worth 450 times than the most strong and spread currency in the world named us dollar. This last currency is the most credible currency in the world and almost all the countries of the world use it as a irreplaceable currency in their monetary reserves which are used only or normally in critic economic situations. The "worthless thing" together with the "other finished thing" named internet, which, according to you will end soon, are the last most developed inventions of the human kind. The last one have changed radically the world of the last 30 years and the technology which has as the first materialization of it the "worthless thing" will change radically the world, at least, the next 30 years, but normally more than 50 years to come.

So my friend tell to them who have predicted to you the situation that make you to write your main post that must understand that being original don't mean to tell bullshits.

I'm no geek on the subject, but I understand there are technical reasons why BTC can't scale big without compromising its decentralized state.


I'd go with that.

Everyone has their own opinion about bitcoin and gold
I would put most of it in bitcoin
but it's like you said, don't put all your eggs in one basket
You never know what will happen, you might lose and you might win

Gold right now costs around 1,100 USD which 244% more than bitcoin, i could go with bitcoin before

I'm thinking the same.First it's good to have both.And then it's one personal decision how much percent you go in what.
Bitcoin is definitely having the bigger potential for more growth, so if you want to take a bit more risk then choose Bitcoin.Maybe 60/40.

If I still had any BTC I would hang onto them for now, especially as the Chinese Yuan looks likely to devalue again soon, and BTC is popular there for parking assets - along with gold too of course.  Btw, I don't think you can necessarily count on a BTC halving occuring - though if it does, I'll re-stock. Of course, you can't rely on gold being the right price when you sell any BTC - it could either be too soon or too late.


I agree. Do you follow Armstrong at all? Depending on time, Feb/March looks like when it could happen, yes? I would prefer to start taper buying at $1000 and take it from there if it goes lower.

Wait for break 1200 before buy gold, it could be a classic bull trap. I'm on markets since 1999, and i think gold goes under 1000$ shortly

Intrinsic as in something physical? I find Bitcoin to have much more potential growth than gold. It's just how I think about it.

I mean like investing in something with intrinsic value is better than investing in something without any intrinsic value. It's far more safer to invest in gold.

Do whatever you feel is good for you. I advice you not to sell any of your Bitcoins as long as we aren't even close to the halving. After the halving you can secure some profits by selling a few coins. You can then buy yourself some gold.

I would be very wary of keeping "cash" in bank deposits due to the likely Cyprus-style bail-ins on the way. As many of you will be aware, you don't own the money in your account, the bank does. You are simply one in a long line of creditors if the bank fails, so would most likely end up with little or nothing after any significantly financial event. Or, with credit controls in action, be rationed so much a week, as in Greece. For me, "cash" means the stuff I can actually hold in my hand.

it does not hurt, if you're less confident with the increase in bitcoin, you must take the 50:50, even as you play the trading, if the gold price falls, the price of bitcoin might be able to pay it, and vice versa

I guess by cash you meant bank deposits. But I do not invest nay money into bank for interest gaining as in my country bank interest rates are very much lower than inflation rate. So, the worth of money's buying capacity is getting decrease over time if we invest  in bank.

I'm 35% gold & silver, 60% bitcoin and 5% cash.

As all other have suggested bitcoin price is likely to be rise just before halving and you can look at the trend (look on monthly figure) you will find steady rise of price. And there is halving and china huge buying force making good support at this high prices.

If it were me, I would certainly want to hedge with many more than two options; more like five or six+, which would include holding physical cash (low denominations in case of Greek-style credit controls, so you aren't handing over big bills for cheap items, and not getting enough change due to shortage of cash). I decided to get out of gold a year ago at the $1,300 high and am waiting for at least a drop below £1,000 before getting back in (possibly by March?), and I got out of BTC at the $315 blip before the $450ish high (playing too safe, I know).

As well as roughly 15% each in physical gold, cash and BTC,  I'd probably split the rest with land, DOW/SP500 ETFs (until just before the peak, possibly later in 2017?), some P2P loans (which combined give around 6% interest), including to deflation-friendly sector businesses and buying assets such as portable fine art, and "useful stuff": tools, machinery etc; things that could either be used to sell or barter with IF we end up with a severe downturn which affects infrastructure. Perhaps more likely to hit first where I am here in Europe before the States.

Just my take. Always interested to here other views.