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Hey there, i'm looking to start investing in crypto currencies but not sure where to start. i've been in the navy for the last 8 years and at sea for almost all of those years so i have not had even a minute to study how to start. any advice on what platform to start on would be amazing. what platform do you use?

Hey there, i'm looking to start investing in crypto currencies but not sure where to start. i've been in the navy for the last 8 years and at sea for almost all of those years so i have not had even a minute to study how to start. any advice on what platform to start on would be amazing. what platform do you use?

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Immerse yourself in crypto absolutely for a year without trading. Never take another persons advice to buy/sell.

You'll still probably lose money.

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Oh I should add that if you have any questions, you can feel free to DM me.

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Graham isn't good for his knowledge of the space. Graham is good for normies that want to stop being poor. Graham is some amalgamation of hype beast and newfag redditor.

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I would say its a little late but people told me that when I got into bitcoin at 7k. Any of the major exchanges are pretty easy but just be aware there have been some cases of large fraud.

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/s/Cryptocurrency

Check out Coinomi (coinomi.com)

Securely store, manage and exchange Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more than 1,770 other blockchain assets.

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Coinomi? Man, that takes me back to 2018. Jump in the DeFi deep end, my man. Legacy tech isn't exactly where the Xs are at...

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Your first mistake is asking other people how to get started. There's plenty of videos that explain the basics, but, ultimately, you're pretty behind on this cycle. If you're going to see much returned in this phase of the cycle, please don't waste your money on one of the big guys like BTC or ETH. Instead, just take a few moonshots with some microcaps. You don't have any business buying some big holds until you have at least five figures. Another big mistake newbies make is diversifying too much. I usually suggest people have no more than three holds up until five figures.

If you're good with pattern recognition and are used to spotting ESL, weird looking URLs and if you're a pretty untrusting person, give /biz/ a try. Maybe wait a few months for that though. Until then, go and just learn for a few weeks with some youtube videos for now. The space is huge and emerging. There's going to be a lot of duds, few gold mines and many, many scams. The fact of the matter is you will get scammed. It will happen. You won't avoid it. It's better to start low and slow and work your way up so that you learn the ropes and what to avoid. The good news is you probably won't get scammed more than once or twice, but if you invest in a market top, you will inevitably get justed.

Your best bet is looking for tech. Utility is the name of the game unless you like to do degenerate gambling. Investments like SHIBA or DOGE are retarded as fuck. Those are the easiest ways to get justed and following the process I'm outlining is what makes people nope out of the industry after briefly trying: they give up because they invested in some heavily manipulated asset that was always doomed to dump hard. Don't make this mistake. Instead, shoot for microcaps tech gems, which take a lot of research and reading between lines to understand. When you're reading to have more sure holds, look for blue chips.

If you aren't willing to hold an investment for two years or more, you're wasting your time. The people you see suddenly getting rich are the types of people that get lucky swinging with godly intuition, the people that have forgotten about prior investments and only recently realized it and people that have held for years. The first one is a precarious position, the second is a favorable position, but not exactly welcome and the third is the way most people keep their earnings.

The name of the game is patience and your best bet to make it big is by voiding emotion from your investment practices and not listening to anybody. Many people watch for swirling tips from normies and trade based on the exact opposite of public sentiments, a pretty smart plan. Maybe give that a go.

It's imperative you do your own research and trust yourself. I don't mean to offer you financial advice. I'm instead explaining how a person who's just starting would avoid calamity and make the most of intended investments from my perspective. Again, do your own research.