Where do I begin with getting a solid understanding of crypto currencies? It all seems so esoteric

Where do I begin with getting a solid understanding of crypto currencies? It all seems so esoteric.

Is investing in anything (stock market crypto whateve)r even worth it while i'm still just a poor college pizza delivery boy?

give me book recs, videos, pdfs to absorb while I save my pizza dough (LOL) in a few years ill be getting a check for around $20,000 and by then I want to be able to start setting up myself financially.

1. Buy SIGT

2. Get rich

Ez mun-e

If Veeky Forums is shilling a coin 90% of the time its garbage, but even with garbage most coins increase in value unless you do something stupid like buy a PnD coin near the apex.

Im pretty new myself but the best things ive found are read the whitepages even if it doesnt make total sense to you yet and check contributors, if theres 30 of them and 20 of them youve seen on other coins avoid

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Anyway, there is nothing to understand about crypto for the gambler other than to read the "white papers" of a new coin and then gamble on it and buy it. I would not recommend this for you right now.

You probably won't ever buy thousands of a coin at 2 cents that later goes maximum Bitcoin. This new shit is highly volatile (i.e fluctuates wildly) and unpredictable. For a coin to be proven worth buying, it has to moon first. If you buy before that and it moons, it's not because you're savvy or some shit, it's just dumb luck. This entire thing is dumb fuckin luck. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

I didn't buy any Ethereum until it was $8, and I would not have bought it before either even if I had known about it. I threw some into a wallet and sold/traded the rest as it rose. Forgot about the wallet for months, and when I remembered it, it had grown to several thousand dollars.

At this point I'd tell you to buy fucking silver before crypto. Besides that, by the time you get your $20,000, the market is probably gonna be imploding like a neutron fuckin star. This "recovery" from the 2008 recession is entirely superficial, and while things are ok now, we have 20 trillion in public debt and trillions in private debt to contend with. The bail-outs postponed a massive market correction, and in doing so only made it far more severe when it comes again. The (((Federal Reserve))) is out of tricks.

Grim prognostications, but that's how I see it.

SIGT is a great example of the volatility I mentioned. In 2 weeks it debuted, exploded, crashed, exploded, crashed again (albeit to a new and higher floor) and now it's stagnant.

is it safe to play gold? I bought some eth to long hold, probs wont make much but eh.

Metals are what you buy and hold as insurance against recessions and crashes, and to offset inflation, i.e maintain purchasing power. You don't "play" metals.

The market will implode sooner than people think, although BTC and ETH will actually be havens for wealth.

Putin met with the etherium guy to discuss blockchain possibilities for Russian state banking. Crypto is gaining a lot of traction for exchange everywhere except the US, although US is helping developing the tech. When shit goes down, the dollar is in trouble.

I used to think that crypto was just for pumping and dumping, but now I do always hold no less than 1.5 ETH and 0.15 BTC. I should buy a few Monero too for the fuck of it.

I also have about 130 ounces of silver and some various gram bars of gold.

Steel and lead are the kings though. I know it sounds Alex Jonesy but our society is heavily reliant on technology and welfare programs. Between the massive debt and the precarious position of being so reliant on technology and easy access to a massive surplus of food and clean water, everything can go real bad, real fast.

Even worse, the world is getting tired of the U.S. They have been for a while now. China could dump all the U.S bonds and shit and instafuck us.

I've been sitting on a pile of semi automatic rifles and ammunition for like 8 years now. Could have sold some off for big profit during the Sandy Hook pump but held.

I used to be full "idsgonnahappen", but more and more I believe that while there will be massive changes and imagined disruptive events, it's not going to be a full SHTF type event.

Having a good rifle and a concealable handgun is the minimum any responsible citizen of any country should possess. Whether they can do it legally or not.

Beyond that you're either just collecting, or making a long hold. You wont make a lot of money holding lead and steel on any timeline but multiple decades unless you're scalping panics like an asshole.

what does that pic mean?