As a newbie & due to my lack of knowledge about crypto market I lost my first 10 days collection of bitcoins in mid January/2015. When I saw the advertisement of a site, said that they would make 1 btc from 0.01 btc in 24 hours. I deposited the coins but they all gone.
After this I lost few doges last month to coinsdouble. Again this month lost to BTC-PROFIT. After these I started to read the topics of this forum very carefully. Hope this will help me to recognize the gold.
Now I'm more careful. But still in dilemma of how to get more coins? Really there is no genuine trader to help me to make my journey to this world profitable?
There's no easy way to aquire bitcoin, any service offering 'interest' on btc deposits is guaranteed to be a scam / ponzi (just take a quick look through the scam accusation board).
Trading alts is also very risky, I'd avoid investing in them if you don't know what you're doing and haven't done your research.