The first thing I do with any investment is research people who are a lot smarter than I am relative to an investment.  My research on Bitcoin led me down a lot of roads full of technical speak and processes that were Greek to me.  When I learned that institutional money was being invested in different investment trusts whose holdings are in Bitcoin...THIS is when I became a believer in the crypto currency.  When institutional money comes in you know it is very, very, real.