I'll freely admit my motivation for buying bitcoins was reason #1. Even at ~$100, it still has a lot of room to appreciate if it catches on. But I also use it as an investment since I am investing my bitcoins rather than just leaving them in cold storage.
hwere do you ınvest your bıtcoıns ??
That's the hard part. Right now, I have my coins in a Coinlender CD, but it's gotten a bit crazy there. TradeFortress assured me that he's not planning on shutting the site down before my CD expires, but after that happens (in about another month), I'll be looking for another place to invest my bitcoins. Thinking of Cloudhashing, but I'm really not sure what I'll do once I take them out of Coinlenders.