To invest bitcoin in the economy is not profitable until it reaches your maximum price. The growth rate of bitcoin is many times higher than the growth rate of the economy. As for the attempts of major American exchanges to seize control of bitcoin through the futures I don't believe it. It is not beneficial to the bitcoin community and so they will not find customers.
You can' invest bitcin into real economy - for that you need to exchange it into $ or other fiat.
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Wall street speculators will start trading $btc soon and will make from bitcoin another shity speculation object if not already done, because 0.5% of Adresses own more than 90% bitcoins.
This!
But i guess investing is a nice thing too today.
Right now is the time to play a little with the money you got..ICOs for example got two huge advantages..first its a good way to make profit if done right and second its helping people found their projects.
There are good and trustworthy projects up and probably there will be much and much and much more in the future.
Just go as sure as you can, that you give your money only to people that deserve your trust.
Holding is nice..but why not play around with some % of your latest "profits" through the bitcoin-rise?
It helps, is fun and most of all you can learn about markets.
Dont get me wrong..you might lose what you got, but thats included in learning.
Investing is healthy for crypto-markets and ICOs.
And at this time..even private people with no market-connections can participate in this..that might change in the following years. As - it was already said -the big financial market (stocks, fiat etc.) slowly gets into BTC.