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In my completely uneducated opinion (I've literally only started reading about crypto since I got that curie vote the other day), Ether is gonna be a bigger grower than BTC in 2018. But 9 years from now... Nope. No idea.

Diversifying evenly across the 5 biggest coins sounds like the best bet though. Not just to maximise chances of a hit, but also for damage limitation if any one of them tanks. Don't need to know much about crypto for that, it's just good sense. Similar concept as diversifying across Apple, McDonald's, Coca Cola, Toyota and 7 Eleven, for example.

I am far, far, far from an expert but I would go with ADA, SUB, and ETH. I would do $200 for both ADA and SUB and then $600 in ETH. But, the reality is your guess is as good as mine. I think ETH has a lot of long term potential and is a bit "Safer" since so many tokens are based off the erc20 token. Take this with as many grains of salt as you want!

How much SALT? 😂 (sorry, couldn't pass that up)

lol, that was a pretty good one.

@mikepm i think so you should divide your 1000$ in 5 parts and invest 200$ in each cryptocurrency which you guess it will boost up in future instead of all 1000$ spend in 1 currency.

Good post 👍 followed and upvote you hope you will do same for me 😊 best luck

I'd use half to buy 3-4 big name coins and use the other half to buy 5-10 coins that are less well known but that you believe have potential. Ones that have an unique (and usefull 😉) idea that current coins don't cover.

Personally, I'd skip Bitcoin: because it was the first it will probally be around for a long time, but coins like ETH will eventually rise over it (in my opinion).

I think the smartest thing would be to buy tokens that are not minable and without fees because they are the future as you can see by looking at coinmarketcap. There has been crazy price action regarding EOS , Stellar Lumens and recently Railblocks.
If I were you I would buy some EOS, Komodo ( because privacy is also all the rage), Railblocks and as for small market cap coins I would get Substratum ( because it promises to let people to navigate the internet without the fear of censorship or the need for VPNs which is huge) and Agora token. These are kind of "hipster"coins but I think they are on to something important.
The only thing is I don't know how forks will affect them.
Cheers man!

P.s And of course one Fuck token for shits and giggles :))

Eos iota trx xvg xrb. Put 200 in each

From what I've seen the past couple of years is if you bet against BTC you loose, but 9 years is a long time. I would say 20% of your money into BTC would be a good investment.

20% into LTC and 20% into ETH. I think these 2 coins will be around. LTC because it was such an early coin like BTC and ETH because it seems they have a good well laid out development team. I think ETH will continue to make solid and game changing improvements over the next 9 years.

20% into EOS or Steem would be a slight gamble. (maybe 10% in both?)

The last 20% I'd split on big gambles like EOS, SALT, Bitshares, and OMG. Basically the last 10-20% think would be worth on gambling on something big.

Nice way to think of it, and since it's for your son's education I will recommend an ICO presale. I'm biased but take a look at teachmzansi.science and help your son help other kids - full circle.

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