Here are some painful lessons I've learned...

First, watch some videos about wallets and transferring money. THEN:

Use your bank account and or credit cards at Coinbase.com to buy major currencies (here's a referral link that'll give me $10 https://www.coinbase.com/join/5a35c4a3686dee012464f8ac if you sign up with it). You're capped at $750 a week unless you use transfer funds. The cap is a good thing. Go slowly at first. Don't buy BITCOIN because it costs a ton to send. Buy Ethereum or Litecoin instead. Dunno what BCC is and I don't like it.

Then register, and send the money over to Binance.com (again, here's a referral link: https://www.binance.com/?ref=15783565 ).

Binance has fairly established coins. You don't want to buy the really freaky ones yet. Stick to the reasonable ones: these ones have grown a little and are in the $1-$5 range. Prices fluctuate a lot but buy with the intention of holding for at least a week or two. At times this will be very very painful. You will feel like you're missing out. Be patient.

If Gatormo starts giving away cash post your wallet even if you look like a weasel.

The crypto board is mostly trustworthy but look for consensus rather than the advice of individuals. If a few people like something then it's probably safe.

I'll update periodically.

After sinking about 1750 of my own money in and getting about $250 worth from very generous posters... my portfolio is up to about 0.16BTC and I'm up about 200 dollars or so and expect to be up far more than that at the end of Jan.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3844444&forum_id=7#35043669)

NB I think you gave me some the other day!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3844444&forum_id=7#35043740)

Thank you so much for giving me some the other day, that was really nice.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3844444&forum_id=7#35043794)

Have you traded stocks before? If you have you can adapt a lot of those ideas to crypto. If not crypto will be challenging

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3844444&forum_id=7#35043813)

i.e .00003434

the above is 3,434 satoshis or sats.

if you pay a .0000007 fee to send a transaction you paid a 7 sat fee.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3844444&forum_id=7#35043994)

If something has had a double-digit growth over the past 24 hours, you're too late.

BUY LOW, SELL HIGH!!!!

MAKE MONEY ON EVERY TRADE

Oh, actually the fastest way to lose money is to buy BitCoin from Coinbase and move it to another exchange. I've been stung for $40 on a $50 trade!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3844444&forum_id=7#35043727)

I bet you told that bot what’s what

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3844444&forum_id=7#35043779)

4chan.com/biz will give you ideas but keep in mind you're late to the party...

Twitter is the wild west

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3844444&forum_id=7#35043777)

Just one pumos thoughts

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3844444&forum_id=7#35043805)

Track what you've done and how much you've spent and how much you've earned. Do it in a consistent format. BTC for example.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3844444&forum_id=7#35044970)

the second most stinging lesson is when you do hit your target and it's not intended to be a longterm hold, have the discipline to sell.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3844444&forum_id=7#35045050)