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      "body": "As I've recently become an adult with a proper job, for the first time in my life I have had an income that covers more than just food and rent. This revelation prompted me to consider how best to invest my surplus income and make the most of the savings I had been able to accrue. \n\nThere are many options out there, and the most long-term-saving-for-the-future-sensible option would probably be to save up for a deposit on a house and start renting it out to pay off the mortgage which would provide a long term cash producing asset that could fund retirement plans, or even begin to fund future investments or ventures. \n\n![Bitcoin banner](https://www.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/what-is-bitcoin-story.jpg)\n\nHowever I'm still one of those young techy types, so my eyes were drawn to crypto currencies as it's something that I have had experience with before*, and it is an extremely interesting technology to try and get to grips with. 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What I will focus on is how to get to a point where you can start trading and investing with ease and security. \n\n### Sell Walls, Smart Contracts & Whales\nOne barrier to entry with the crypto world is the huge amount of jargon to learn, both from the technical side and from the trading side. For trading terms a lot of them are going to be identical to the stock trading world, so if you are familiar with that you will have a nice leg up. \n\nHowever if you aren't so sure on what an order book is or what a limit order entails, and want to get some definitions, I've found that looking up a term on [investopedia](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/limitorder.asp) has been really helpful. \n\nFor the tech side of things, it gets a little more tricky as every crypto currency will not only have it's own technical differences to all the others, but will also have it's own branding and marketing. 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There are a few options out there, such as [localbitcoins.com](https://localbitcoins.com/) that are just for the sale of BTC, or alternatively most exchanges will have some system to allow you to transfer money to be used as fiat*.\n\n<center><p style=\"font-size: 12px\"> &#42; fiat is a term used to describe \"real world\" money, used to by assets. <a href=\"https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp\">Investopedia definition.</a></p></center>\n\nPersonally the best way I have found to do this step is to sign up to [Coinbase](https://www.coinbase.com/) and go through their full verification process. This allows you to transfer money directly from your bank to your coinbase fiat wallet and back with zero fees*. 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If for no other reason than to try and help avoid someone making an expensive mistake*. \n\n<center><p style=\"font-size: 12px\"> &#42; When <a href=\"https://www.bit-z.com/trade/ark_btc\">Bit-Z</a> first listed ark, someone bought 1 ARK (~$3) for 0.3 BTC (~$1900).</p></center>\n\nThe important bits to observe are the current market value (the value a coin last sold at), the volume (how many coins were sold in a period), and the order book that contains all of the buy and sell orders.\n\n![GDAX](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*vvn2Dq4z4YZA1qkrzdov8Q.gif)\n\nEvery exchange has a different interface but they mostly have these key elements in some form or another. GDAX for example (shown above) has the market value shown with a line graph and [candleticks](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/candlestick.asp), behind that is the bars representing the volume (number of transactions in that period), while just below that is a visual representation of the order book. 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Due to the nature of blockchain technologies, the owner of a private key for the currency address has complete (fairly) untraceable access to the coins in the address. Meaning that if someone were to take your private key, or you were to lose it, the coins are gone. *Forever*. \n\nBecause of this I decided to invest in a hardware wallet, what is effectively an encrypted USB stick with some accompanying software designed solely for the purpose of securely storing your private keys to your wallets. The advantages of a hardware wallet are that your coins are not stored on a device that is connected to the internet (not even electricity!) which means that to get to the private keys, you would need to physically steal the device *and* beat the passphrase or seed out of the owner. \n\nI opted for a [KeepKey](https://www.keepkey.com/), however I think I would now recommend a [Ledger Nano S](https://www.ledgerwallet.com/products/ledger-nano-s) as the KeepKey only supports a very limited number of coins, whereas the Ledger has been more widely adopted and has seemingly much better support for new coins. \n\n![KeepKey](https://icdn3.digitaltrends.com/image/keepkey-2.jpg?ver=1)\n\nThe downside of a hardware wallet is that if you want to make a trade, you have to first move the coins from the hardware wallet to your wallet on the exchange, which can take a while in the case of Bitcoin. This can prevent you from trading sometimes if you only have an hour of free time and see that you want to sell *right now* but your coins are locked away, it can be very frustrating. \n\nHowever coins stored on an exchange are subject to attacks from the whole internet and in the past exchanges have gone rogue and taken customers coins, so it's a risk you have weigh up and decide what will work best for you. Personally when we are talking about large amounts of money I would much rather trust my coins to be physically stored offline, so I would recommend getting a hardware wallet. \n\n\n### What to buy? Altcoins?\nI recommend that your first purchase is in Bitcoin, this is because bitcoin enables you to enter many other markets for what are known as \"altcoins\", essentially \"any other coin but bitcoin\". The biggest ones are currently Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple and Monero, however there are literally thousands of others out there. \n\nSome exchanges will have fiat/altcoin markets where you can buy altcoins, GDAX has LTC and ETH listed, however to get the lesser known alts you will need to find a BTC/altcoin market on another exchange. Once you have found an exchange with the market you want, say BTC/XMR, you can send your BTC from your wallet to your wallet on the new exchange and begin to trade BTC for your alt of choice. \n\nThis is all well and good, but why would you want alts in the first place? Well for a variety of reasons, altcoins all offer some unique opportunity, some like Monero (XMR) offer complete and total privacy while others like Ark offer lighting fast transaction times and [smart bridges](https://blog.ark.io/what-is-the-ark-smartbridge-and-how-does-it-work-1dd7fb1e17a0). Every different coin aims to find a niche in the market, and some niches might suit your interests more than others. \n\n![Altcoins](http://goodbyematrix.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/altcoins.png)\n\nThe other main reason to look into altcoins is that when compared to BTC they are even less stable, and can offer exponential gains. It's not uncommon to see a coin gain 20% or 30% of it's value in a single day, which if you are paying attention can lead to some quick profits. Another way of looking at it is as a more long term bet, IOTA for example is an ambitious project not based on blockchain but a [tangle](https://iota.org/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf), and it aims to be *the* currency for the future of IoT (Internet of Things) devices. The world of IoT is a long way off, but something like IOTA might be part of making it happen. I'm not recommending investing in IOTA right now, it has some technical issues that put me off for the time being, but it is a nice example of an altcoin that could be seen as an investment in the future. \n\n### Gee golly there is a lot of numbers!\nOne of the most difficult parts of building a crypto portfolio is keeping a track of everything, and being able to monitor how the markets are doing. First of all *the* place to go for getting the bigger picture of how different coins are performing, what exchanges they are listed on and links to their wesbites and wallets is [coinmarketcap.com](http://coinmarketcap.com). I use an [android widget](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bitcoin.bitcoincryptopricewidgets) on my home screen that pulls data from their API's so that I can stay up to date. \n\n![Coinmarketcap](https://steemit-production-imageproxy-upload.s3.amazonaws.com/DQmXVnjDUp7h41pJA6fWTxKaVvofNbMYufBT9bE3xMbKSoh)\n\nIf you were to just keep your coins on one exchange it would be fairly simple to keep a track of their value (provided the exchange has a nice interface), however I quickly found myself in a position of owning several different currencies from a variety of exchanges, each with their own wallets and passphrases. \n\nThankfully there is a solution to this quandry, it does take a bit of manual effort on your part, but if you sign up for [cointracking.info](http://cointracking.info) you can enter all of your transactions on all of the different exchanges, and they will keep a track of their value and any gains (or losses) you make. \n\nTo import your trades you just need to go to \"Enter Coins > Exchange Imports > Your Exchange\" and follow the instructions. It's a bit different for every exchange but the basic process is logging into the exchange and exporting your trades as a CSV and then re-uploading it cointracking.info for processing. \n\nYou can then see your entire portfolio in one place with some really nice visualisations of how it has performed over time. I also installed their android app and widget to allow for instant updates whenever I look at my phone. \n\n### Now you should actually invest something\nIf you have made it this far and are still interested in this curious little world, I recommend you give it a try. Start with buying some BTC, put half of it on your (hardware) wallet for safe keeping, then use the rest to try out some altcoins. Update your portfolio on cointracking, make sure your coins are secure on your (hardware) wallet(s), then sit back and [hodl](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0) on for dear life. \n\nOr don't, you can try your hand at day trading your coins to try and maximise any gains you stand to make. I think this is a fine art that requires a lot of time and attention. I've dipped my toes in a few times and I've been burned every time, usually because to trade effectively you need to be able to sit down for a day and give it your undivided attention, which isn't something I've been able to do lately. If you fancy giving it a go I recommend starting with a small amount and picking a coin with a slightly lower transaction volume so it's easier to keep up. \n\nIf trading isn't for you and you are happy with the process and have setup all the various accounts you need for being an astute investor, I think the best thing you can do is to just try and stay up to date with news in the crypto-sphere and be ready to make react to any big events. For example we recently had the [sudden cancellation of the BTC 2x hardfork](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/2017-November/000685.html) which threw the market into chaos, and was a great time to sell off some alts and buy BTC. \n\nSome resources I use for keeping in the loop are the [/r/CryptoCurrency](http://reddit.com/r/cryptocurrency) subreddit, which needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, some YouTube channels ([big list](https://redd.it/7ax5dc)) such as [Crypto Investor](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTKyJALgd09WxZBuWVbZzXQ), and slack channels for altcoins. These are particular good for more insider knowledge specific to a coin.\n\nThe other thing you can do is to slowly expand your knowledge of what the different altcoins have to offer and how easy they will be to work with. A good place to start doing this is on coinmarketcap.com from there you can see some statistics and then click through to the project's website. There are four things to consider when evaluating a new coin, aside from just the numbers. \n\n1. What problem does it solve with its tech?\n2. How easy is it to buy / sell / store?\n3. Who is behind the project?\n4. What is the community around the project like?\n\nFinding the answers to these questions is a quick way to get a picture of how much you like the project, but always do your due diligence and read as much as you can. There are some projects like Bitconnect which are clearly pyramid schemes. \n\nAnother dangerous area is with ICO's (Initial Coin Offerings), this is when a company offers a sale of its coins that have been pre-mined for dirt cheap, as a way to fund the future of their project. There have been many legitimate ICO's for excellent projects like Ark or Neo, however it's now seen as easy money and there are more and more ICO's being launched with dubious intentions. You can get an overview of how well (and how badly) some ICO's have done on [icowolf.com](http://icowolf.com).\n\n### Conclusions\nThere is clearly a lot to take in, so if it all seems too much I wouldn't blame you; go and buy a house it will probably do you better in the long run, although I've heard that isn't exactly simple either! \n\nIf you have enjoyed this however and want to learn more, I hope that this post has given you a solid starting point on how to get setup, and will help you to avoid making some of the mistakes I've made along the way. \n\nFor the purposes of full disclosure I currently only hold BTC, LTC and Ark, of which you can tip me a beer at any of these addresses!\n\n    BTC | 15FYeMgQsETViUcc8JtSmoHmCAmADy2Ymn \n    LTC | LVdVyd3R1S719ZRApaAY1RgLJ5vYgEGGxW \n    ARK | ANKmYTHV7QdkcLz2R65uMzEvcRRdz2iRQm\n\n:wq",
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