Complete crypto noobie here

>the prices are low
what are you basing this on you retard

i see teenagers on music forums shilling for ethereum and normie friends are talking about bitcoin which is a good sign of a bubble

its time to get the fuck out ASAP

is that really a sign of a bubble? that just seems like demand is growing and may go exponential

internet stocks had bubbles along the way, but over the LONG term (10-20 years) it was a superior technology and was a wise investment.

All of this depends on how much you're planning on spending, how long you're willing to wait, how deeply you're willing to verify your personal identity, and if you're afraid of the IRS watching you buy it.

There are plenty of ways to buy bitcoin.

>whats the best resource to learn from scratch?

Reddit. You should also know whether you want to pump & dump like Veeky Forums or long-term hold.

If you want to long-term, just go to Gemini, get verified, and hope that ETH crashes back down to $150 so you can buy in.

If you want to pump & dump, good luck.

>Should I mine ETH, and if so how?

No. Go to a multi algo mining pool hub like miningpoolhub, set up a script to rotate between the algorithms, and have it auto-exchange into ETH/BTC for a 1.1% fee. Read the FAQ.

Compile your shit for native if you're on Linux. Otherwise, get prebuilt binaries for Windows on github.

The only algos on CPU worth the time are going to be Equihash or Lyra2v2. Vertcoin is pushing better returns right now. Zcash was doing pretty well a few weeks ago, but it's inflated pretty hard.

Unless you have several GPUs available, you're going to get jack shit for returns btw. My 3 GTX 970s net me around .1 eth every 3 days. That's obviously not bad; It's grocery money. But you're not making bank by mining unless you're renting off Nicehash or something.

If you don't have a CPU with AVX2 (Haswell+) you're just wasting electricity too.

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What I know:
Bitcoin literally rules all. Every cryptos value was practically based and fluctuated with BTC. That meant, investing in BTC was smart but shorting those other coins was risky but rewarding. Then Ethereum came into play. It became a huge meme around here in like February or March. It was like $13 per coin and people were flipping their shit. I'm nearly certain that it was ETH devs shilling the coin. It fucking took off. The difference between ETH and the rest of the Non-BTC cryptos is that ETH has a ridiculous market share. If this continues, ETH and BTC will be nearly 50/50. Ethereum has a much more stable system and is truly a world changing currency. So what I'm getting at. If you want to make actual investments in crypto, you go high market share coins like ETH/BTC. If you want to time the market somehow and make a ton, you find a coin like dash that will sometimes hit like $30/coin and hit $115 the next week. The main reason people call cryptos a bubble is because the little coins are all fucking schemes. They have absolutely nothing to introduce to the market, they are not innovative. They are solely there to exist for some time until they are pumped and then dumped a week later.

Example:
PIVX.
I bought in at like $.05 and I bought $400 worth. The fucking coin hit $2.00 in like 1 month. It was goddamn incredible. Three days later the coin hit $1.50, then 1.25 and now it's not talked about much. It will have a fate of being forgotten. This will also happen to coins like DGB And XRP. These coins are gambles. You can win or lose pretty big. They're fun. They are literally bubbles, but bubbles that erupt and expand at the speed of the Big Bang and pop at the speed of light. If you miss one, there'll be another the next week.

I'm thinking to use coinbase as a start. but its been down for a few hours now.
What other good platforms are there?

Also, What can you do, cyber-security wise to protect your assets from potential hackers?

comfycrypto.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/fueling-the-rocket-getting-started-with-crypto/

>What other good platforms are there?

Gemini for BTC/ETH

>Also, What can you do, cyber-security wise to protect your assets from potential hackers?

If you're day trading, just keep your coins on your exchange and enable 2FA

>WARNING: AUTISMAL CYBERSECURITY NERDSHIT AHEAD

If you're going long, put it in an encrypted wallet which sits on an HDD in a safe. Duplicate encrypted backups across cloud storage like ACD, Dropbox, etc.

Generate a password for your wallet using a password manager like Keepass2. Keep the KP2 database separate from the wallet if possible. The password for the database itself should be memorized or written down if it's unlikely physical theft would occur.

Most importantly: Do not touch the wallet unless you need to. Malware has targeted wallet.dat's before. Ransomware will too.

If you're handling large amounts of coins, I'd recommend only touching a wallet when used with a temporary secured OS like TAILS.

I could get even more autistic, but I don't feel like writing more. There are an immense amount of possible vulnerabilities in this world.

So coinbase and gemini are for BTC/ETH. where do i buy the other meme coins like doge, redd, ripple etc?