Quote from: D3LL on June 21, 2012, 08:01 pmVlad ~ Are there any investment opportunities with BTC that you would suggest?Hi D3LL,Although I don't claim to be any more prescient than anyone else here, I can give you some basic tips based on my short but colourful time in hedge funds.Firstly I suggest you subscribe to TheBitcoinTrader blog and if you can afford it get a subscription to Bitcoin Magazine (who interviewed little old me last week!) :-)Firstly you need to bear in mind that any investment you make with Bitcoins is primarily an investment in the Bitcoin itself. This is particularly true for the Bitcoin stock exchange as naturally your dividends are paid in Bitcoins. This won't be a problem so long as the Bitcoin continues to increase in value - of course if you live in a country with high inflation then investing in BTC is currently a no brainer. I think this explains the popularity of the Bitcoin Exchange that was recently opened in Colombia as inflation there is ~10%.As for the stock exchange itself it seems that investment opportunities can be loosely grouped into three categories.Firstly, we have bonds such as the "Pirate" ones Frog is offering which promise huge returns of around 5% a week. Apparently this can be justified by the loans doled out by the bank backing them. My suspicion is that the interest paid on bonds is actually earlier investors' money but as Frog says it's possible to make money in this way. I would determine this to be a high risk investment and I wouldn't suggest you sink more than 3 or 4 % of your overall capital into it.Another option are mining pools which give you the option of investing in Bitcoin Mining Rigs - I have dabbled with this on occasion but it would seem in most countries the benefits reaped from Bitcoin investment are outweighed by the costs of the electricity required to daisychain that many computers together. Having said this, I was impressed to see a couple of erstwhile miners using green methods to generate the power they needed such as hydroelectricity.We also have my personal favourite where individual brokers offer you the opportunity to indirectly invest in an asset like the precious metals market. The promised returns are much smaller than the "Pirate" bonds (around 0.77% per week) but this is still light years ahead of what a savings account will pay. I have recently bought a number of shares in these kinds of schemes - the broker in question is Chinese so I imagine he's playing the Shanghai stock exchange off against shares in New York and London but it's easy to see why he wants my money to invest and how it is in his interest to guarantee a certain rate of return. Of course he is doing the hard work by spreading investments across a number of companies involved in the silver trade for example but that doesn't need to concern investors as you get your 0.77% per week regardless. Finally there is my pet project in which I have invested heavily which consists of a trading bot being run by a team in Thailand. Quite simply it's a piece of software designed to make money from Bitcoins the same way many people do in buying them from one exchange at a certain price and selling them for a higher one at another exchange. The bot is programmed only to make a sale when it would be profitable to do so however it is hard to guarantee how profitable the scheme will be overall - of course as time goes on and more exchanges open it has the potential to become very lucrative indeed!You should bear in mind that all of the above is just my opinion and the fact that I spread my investments over a number of schemes doesn't necessarily mean that this is a good idea - I prefer low risk even if it means I don't make a fortune overnight, everyone must do what they think is best!V.