Ask HN: Learn about Finance and Cryptocurrencies

  • Be careful, don't throw money at something that seems cool, look into management, developers, the ecosystem. Read and watch people who naysay, they have good points too.

    Stick to the big names if you want to "invest" though I consider my activity pure speculation. Thing is, while there are lots of cool or useful tech pieces coming out, I have yet to see any viable business models that could sustain a company long term.

    Bitcoin is probably safe, most others have higher risk profiles. The industry is rapidly evolving and even Ethereum could be displaced. Most (all?) projects have fundamental problems to solve still, so you don't know if they can actually make their claims happen.

  • for bitcoin lopp.net/bitcoin if you want to play with data coinmetrics.com Linda Xie wrote some guides back in the day to keep up with eth, ethhub and ethresearch