What is the best coin to invest in as of July 2017?

[x697]

Title sums it up

Thanks in advance. 

[TrigrH]

US dollar ayy

[cj09beira]

Right now ethereum is cheap and has great future (long term) but not much for mining its best to just straight up buy it

[aisle9]

The best "coin" right now is a cheap GPU. Snap up a few RX 480s on the cheap when they get puked onto Craigslist like cheeseburgers from a supermodel, then resell them at double what you paid the next time someone realizes that if you buy 10 GPUs and run them all at full blast 24/7, you'll only need 37.4 years to recoup your investment and start seeing pure profit.

[Antistatic12]

The best coins to invest are potentially not even out yet. They are all in ICO phase.
But the buy in can often be to much for a regular person, and more geared towards investors, essentially the same people who would invest in IPO's.

But have some fun like I have and just get a few coins of some of the cheaper ones and hold them for the long term and see what happens.

[rn8686]

Eth is really cheap ATM, BTC is low and will probably drop more temperately around the start of August (Due to SegWit, should hopefully recover after it clears). 

[2bitmarksman]

At the moment, it'd be better to wait until the last few days of July to snap up some coins on the cheap. The Bitcoin SegWit fiasco has the cryptocurrency market shooting way down (good time to buy!) and it won't shoot up until after the fork and they know which BTC iteration the exchanges are gonna take.

[DutchTexan]

13 hours ago, 2bitmarksman said:

At the moment, it'd be better to wait until the last few days of July to snap up some coins on the cheap. The Bitcoin SegWit fiasco has the cryptocurrency market shooting way down (good time to buy!) and it won't shoot up until after the fork and they know which BTC iteration the exchanges are gonna take.

"The easiest way to think about what will happen is with some rough dates:

• July 21 — Segwit2x is due to be released and presumably all participants to the New York Agreement will run it. The miners currently signaling “NYA” in their coinbase transactions, or about 87% of the last 24 hours’ worth of blocks, are a good estimate of blocks that will mine using Segwit2x.
• July 23 — BIP91 should lock in (requires 80% of 336 blocks to signal)
• July 26 — BIP91 should activate. At this point, all blocks are required to signal for Segwit (BIP141) or they will be orphaned off the network.
• Around July 26–27 — This is also around when we can expect a new difficulty adjustment period to begin. The last one as of this writing was June 17 and they typically take 12–14 days (closer to 13 since new hardware comes online constantly). So June 30 (block 473760), July 13 (block 475776) and July 26 (block 477792) seem to be the next 3 difficulty adjustment period starts.
• August 10 — This is around when we can expect block 479808, which is the end of the difficulty adjustment period. Very close to 100% of blocks in this difficulty adjustment period should be signaling for BIP141 (Segwit). As this is above 95%, Segwit should be locked in.
• August 23 — This is around when we can expect block 481824, which is when Segwit should activate. From this block on, Segwit transactions will be legal on the network. This also sets the activation date for BIP102 on Segwit2x to block 494784 (exactly 144*90 blocks later).
• November 18 — This is around when we can expect block 494784, which is when Segwit2x should hard fork to 2MB blocks."

https://medium.com/@jimmysong/segwit2x-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-2mb-hard-fork-27749e1544ce

[2bitmarksman]

On 7/14/2017 at 9:43 PM, DutchTexan said:

"The easiest way to think about what will happen is with some rough dates:

• July 21 — Segwit2x is due to be released and presumably all participants to the New York Agreement will run it. The miners currently signaling “NYA” in their coinbase transactions, or about 87% of the last 24 hours’ worth of blocks, are a good estimate of blocks that will mine using Segwit2x.
• July 23 — BIP91 should lock in (requires 80% of 336 blocks to signal)
• July 26 — BIP91 should activate. At this point, all blocks are required to signal for Segwit (BIP141) or they will be orphaned off the network.
• Around July 26–27 — This is also around when we can expect a new difficulty adjustment period to begin. The last one as of this writing was June 17 and they typically take 12–14 days (closer to 13 since new hardware comes online constantly). So June 30 (block 473760), July 13 (block 475776) and July 26 (block 477792) seem to be the next 3 difficulty adjustment period starts.
• August 10 — This is around when we can expect block 479808, which is the end of the difficulty adjustment period. Very close to 100% of blocks in this difficulty adjustment period should be signaling for BIP141 (Segwit). As this is above 95%, Segwit should be locked in.
• August 23 — This is around when we can expect block 481824, which is when Segwit should activate. From this block on, Segwit transactions will be legal on the network. This also sets the activation date for BIP102 on Segwit2x to block 494784 (exactly 144*90 blocks later).
• November 18 — This is around when we can expect block 494784, which is when Segwit2x should hard fork to 2MB blocks."

https://medium.com/@jimmysong/segwit2x-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-2mb-hard-fork-27749e1544ce

Thanks for the date outline

[x697]

Thanks everyone for the replies. Appreciate it.

[Guest]

31 minutes ago, x697 said:

Thanks everyone for the replies. Appreciate it.

I may just risk it and invest all my money in a currency but I don't know how long itll take to make good profit...