Maybe a better question to ask - and I'd like to get a simple answer to - is this:

If I bought $1,000 of both BitCoin & BitConnect (coins, loans, whatever) and then I waited for 299 days - which one would be the better investment to have made?

Is there anyone out there who has posted an easy answer to this question? @libertyteeth may have answered it in his long article - but I got tired about 1/2-way through the article trying to figure out the answer. Somebody could have just said... what the answer is. I don't have time to research every coin out there - so I tend to just stay clear of the ones which seem to have some controversy and concern surrounding them - like BitConnect. There are plenty of other coins out there doing as well, or better - and they have a better reputation.