I'm a newbie and I want to share to those who are newbies also here in the forum. Maybe to avoid, scams, phish, and hacked, we should learn what is Blockchain, how it works, what is decentralization. Because, today some people engaging cryptocurrency without knowing what is in the above mention. In fact Bitcoin needs Blockchain while Blockchain does not need Bitcoin. Heres a blog which was made my mind wider about cryptocurrency, and newbie like me needs this.  Read: https://www.quora.com/What-is-block-chain-technology-could-you-explain-it-in-an-easy-way/answer/Saurabh-Narayan-Singh