Quote from: Shimmiry on December 31, 2017, 04:44:14 AM

Quote from: OnkelPaul on March 26, 2015, 12:55:39 PM

Investment means giving the money to someone who uses it for their business and pays you back a dividend (and you normally get some kind of share that can be sold later). Think stocks.

"Save in bank" is actually a kind of investment. You give money to the bank, they use it for their business and give you a small interest (if at all) as dividend, and you can withdraw your money. With current interest rates, this is pretty boring, the only advantage compared to keeping money in a safe at home is that it's easier to do most types of payment, and that you don't need your own safe...

Buying precious metals is not an investment because those metals won't work with the money you paid for them. It's mostly speculation (you hope that you can sell it for a higher price) and safekeeping (real value of money can fall due to inflation, while precious metals will mostly retain their "real" value). But you need to consider storage fees.

To decide which is better you need to know what you consider "good".
Do you want to maximize your ROI? Do you want to store your wealth safely? Do you want to enable entrepreneurs to build their businesses?

Onkel Paul

For me, both of this is a better way of managing your money, it is only based on the holders perspective if he wants his money to grow surely, he should try to invest here. Saving is a good idea also because through that you can get money when you are in the times of financial crisis.

It depend on you that how you want to use bitcoin if you want to invest so it can make your money double and you can be rich in a very short time and if you want to keep it save so it can also help you because there is no doubt that after some time it can help you in your life so both of them are good and Im also using both options some bitcoins I keep it save because I know it will help me one day and then the rest of Im doing investment.