Crypto Guru Review, says Your Mom

To my grown kids (and maybe yours) whom I'm trying to drag into cryptocurrency, the future of money 😛

Some of my favorite crypto gurus on YouTube are:

• World Crypto Network (WCN) – a variety of crypto shows a day, with multiple hosts, much like FreedomizerRadio
• Thomas Hunt – short Bitcoin news blips on the above WCN, but with his own channel too at MadBitcoins.
• Tone Vays – extensive Bitcoin chart analysis, but hates all other coins, including Ethereum
• Jimmy Song – Bitcoin blockchain programmer, teaching blockchain programming seminars
• Crypto Spark – short videos with a broad view on the world of crypto, which is much bigger than just Bitcoin
• Sunny Decree – Swiss German, good technicals, good overview of the crypto world. Dabbles in lending platforms and cloud mining platforms
• Ivan on Tech – Programmer, Russian born, now lives in Sweden. Good technical explanations. He appears to be younger than I think he really is. I think he wears lipstick. He is starting up an online academy to teach blockchain programming. He’s the one who said how hard it was to explain to citizens of 1st world countries why Bitcoin is a safe haven from banksters & governments who go rogue. But people in Russia, Venezuela, & Zimbabwe, etc, get it.
• Andreas Antonopolus – deeply philosophical and evangelical about Bitcoin saving the world – he saved his mother’s life savings from the clutches of the E.U./European Central Banks/Greek Government (aka crony banksters) when they went raiding the Greek public’s deposits, called “Bail-ins”, a crime they had been planning against the whole world, including Americans, to save the banksters from their own corruption failures, — by transferring her life savings into Bitcoin where they couldn’t get it.. (Don’t think the NWO doesn’t eventually have that planned for you and me, if they could possibly get away with it.)
• CryptoNick – a teenager who has a knack for trading & choosing lending programs & cloud mining investments. He made a bet with his parents he wouldn’t have to go to college if he could make a millionaire of himself, and he did it faster than he expected to.
• Trevon James – Used to be in Bitconnect, now more into Steem. Does some technical analysis, a lot of drama, always entertaining, he sometimes understands more than he’s able to express.
• Thrift Shop Hustler on YouTube, & @Reseller on Steemit (same guy), is pretty good at explaining Steemit, although its level of complication is like learning a high-strategy virtual game! 💡 😆

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Wallets

• Coinbase.com
• Blockchain.info
• GreenAddress.it
• Nano (hard wallet)
• Tresor (hard wallet)

You all need Coinbase accounts to move USD into and out of your bank accounts, although I hear others are becoming available. However, Coinbase is known to pass judgement on your transactions, and if they consider who you’re transacting with “spammy”, they will suddenly close your account.

For this reason, the advice I’ve heard more than once is to get a personal wallet for BTC/ETH/LTC that is the only path you move crypto money into and out of Coinbase with, even though it might cost you more fees. Some people have have Blockchain.info wallets. A lot of people have Exodus wallets you download and install on your hard drive. (I’m too scared of them, myself.) I believe Andreas Antonopolus is associated with both of those companies. I wouldn’t touch a phone wallet, except for maybe enough money to go grocery shopping with. Tone Vays recommends GreenAddress. A quick search on Blockchain.info (DNS, IP loation)’s & GreenAddress.it (DNS, IP location)’s server info, shows that they are both hosted in likely the same building in San Francisco.

Some people prefer and recommend hard wallets, which plug into your USB port, which have recovery protocols you can set up in advance to recover your money, if it ever gets lost, stolen, or destroyed.

Some of the gurus have demonstration/review videos of hard wallets. Nano S & Tresor seem to be the two big names.

I guess that’s enough for now.

Love, Mom

PS - for the people who were following my Bitconnect progress, the theory is you only lose money if you sell at a loss. So I have not sold. In fact, I've moved my BCC into a staking wallet and am still earning interest.