Well guys this is only my opinion about why to hold bitcoin and litecoin until 2020.
Let's go about the reasons
Mining bitcoin / litecoin long term ? or trading video card coins like ethereum, etc, zec per litecoin / bitcoin?
Mining is good reason to get some bitcoin/litecoins faster, for example u can take some good altcoins like below.
- good coin for miners and traders long term
- Steem
This coin have good future and reason to hold it, this social network is very strong, people are motivated to put very good posts here to get paid for this, this is other and good reason to miners take this platform and use it to spread your best coins are mining at the moment for holding in long term, try to think and take a good strategy where and WHEN spread your coin.
- Stratis
U dont know about stratis yet ?, its a very very strong coin because your nodes get more integrated with web and api's, because your nodes are develop in c# not C++ like all bitcoin and forks / wallets, this coin have strong future, your focus is only blockchain study cases to apply on enterprise, have team to advice and help to input blockchain / private chains with api's on stratis, to help administration in your business, u think ahh i cant mine it... but u can mine other coins and trade per stratis, also u can put a node too if u are miner or not, to help security of this new C# network nodes, very easy to upgrade, find new developers and spread new ideas and evolutions to technology, yes stratis is the WAY !!!.
- Siacoin
Siacoin have a good future, and good development upgrades, because this coin can protect the enterprises, using the blockchain, with a cheap price, u dont need infraestructure to backup some types of data are important and very low access, also good for use in dual mining too, in the world... more pass years business need more hard drive space.. think on hold this coin u are doing good job.
2- Miners advice long term
For miners u can only think in long term, pay your energy do some mining administration, pay your bills, and hold this coins or trade with same value or 1 sat more, try change the market for your coins get positive market cap change 24h, this good for your market, only put a order and wait for sold it, if that price pay your bills, dont care about that.
3- halving's
Remember this, if u dont know halving is a very strong date and the market need adjust the prices of the coins, create new asic's to keep mining with good hash power and taking some profits, when bitcoin halving in 2016 the promise is price "double", well... price get a 200% not only 100%, keep this on mind, litecoin have strong future in micro transactions, and bitcoin keep in the revolution of the market, litecoin for me is better than bitcoin to use in transactions for example to send to one exchange or debit card , and use it faster to pay your bills or convert in bitcoin, have better and securityr reasons to hold litecoin, for example segwit is activated, charlie is very good on the community, leading the litecoin project again with incentive of the community when he take decision to get off from project of coinbase and back to litecoin, this is one things like litecoin is 50U$ now, because secret MIT project, and litecoin is very ahead in development, all wallets types, browser, blackberry, linux and etc... this is help to spread in all countries and all type of people.
Bitcoin in other side is a gateway to take some new tokens and project, remember to buy bitcoin u NEED one ledger, forget about "black market" this is very very small community of hackers have it, bad intention guys need to make a ledger, and when ico's down for example all of this guys are in PRISON now.
Be careful ever about ico's, ico's is good if have strong developers on it.
Like this guy "Sasha ivanov" Sasha ivanov is very good developer "i know about the last project in 2016 is the "WAVES" COIN, the other reason to try hold WAVES in long term (3-5 years or more ).
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