What a fantastic community; all these guys jumping in to help
My advice/opinion would be to buy btc mainly; its been sideways for a while it's about time to have a good sustained rally
but diversification is best; so maybe use 10k to buy some mining equipment from one of the best producers, avalon or asicminer, and the rest just purchase btc
oh and this should be in the 'mining support' section:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=40.0Can you justify recommending to order either avalon or asicminer hardware at this time? What would be the time to ROI for either hardware even if received today?