Too Long; Didn't Read
It’s 2017 and the <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/cryptocurrency" target="_blank">cryptocurrency</a> party is in full swing with both <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/bitcoin" target="_blank">Bitcoin</a> and Ethereum up 400% and 5000% at one point respectively. Banks took a huge U-turn and stopped closing down the accounts of so-called “suspicious” Bitcoin traders in favor of joining the <a href="https://entethalliance.org/" target="_blank">Ethereum Enterprise Alliance</a>. Even my largely reclusive Asian tiger mom has heard of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pADgAmNzxek" target="_blank">比特币</a>. Yet amidst this bulging backdrop (or bubble depending on your point of view), there are surprisingly very few direct, end-to-end resources for the retail investor to take part in this speculation smorgasbord.