welcome to the forum, first of all it's important to read the rules about what is "allowed" and not. After that my recommendation would be to start by understanding what the Blockchain is, and the technology behind it, how does it work and what problems does it solve, if you have understood the concept behind it and you believe that the blockchain is indeed the future, then you can go to the next step of trading or mining. If you'd like to stick to one of the two, I'd recommend you have better chances to start trading, because the mining part is currently at these times very difficult and not really profitable, you're unlikely to make any descent returns and the hardware costs to make descent returns are too high. If you'd like to get involved into trading, check the FX market (traditional currency exchanges) and read about how technical analysis works, then you'll find some patterns to determine how the price is changes, higher or lower and can slowly start becoming good at that. After having learned the FX markets you can move to crypto and BTC markets which are relatively more volatile and "dangerous" but you should be prepared more or less to handle that, once you understand FX markets.