I prefered eth
At this point, buying etherum has the most meaning, what is going on, gives the basis for thinking that someday it will be valued far more than bitcoin.
At this point will be a good way to buy the bitcoin and you could get free bitcoin segwit2x in the future and dump all of them and you can try to put your free money into the ethereum. that was the best step right now.
To buy the ethereum is quite good.