The advice I have always given to people interested in investing in crypto currencies for their first time is don’t put in what you are not comfortable losing. And when I say losing, I mean losing all of it as this is well in the realm of possibilities. All it takes is one hack, or one Cryptoexchange to shut down at the wrong time. The two risks with investing in anything are risk of loss of capital and opportunity cost. The risk of loss of capital is greater in cryptocurrencies because of the limited timeframe of their existence, security issues, and a lack of a framework for valuing them. There are some methodologies that have been developed for valuation but they mostly remain rudimentary. With that being said, if you do invest some capital which you are fully willing to lose, there is scope for extraordinary upside which can’t be gained in any other investments.