Thanks all, wanted to get a experienced take on all this. I will stick to futures trading and forget this bitcoin. Thanks again.
While I'd personally (in the extreme wide majority of cases) advise against day trading in general (case in point
no. 1,
no. 2 and
no.3; see
this post for one example on what to do instead), there's plenty of massive legit cryptocurrency exchanges (e.g. Bitstamp, Binance, Kraken etc.; while I haven't heard about major ongoing issues in any of these, obviously, do your own research, buyer beware and all that jazz) that you can buy / sell a variety of cryptocurrencies and be relatively safe that you'll be able to withdraw them without any advance fees.