The biggest issue I have with these are that they've taken the 'crypto mining card' a bit too far.

If they had even 1 VGA/DVI/DP/HDMI port then it would have helped us a lot more as they could be used to a later sell on, warranty or not.
I get that they want to split 'gaming' cards and 'mining' cards, but (in my opinion) part of the attraction towards GPU mining is that there will be a resell value.

Just my 2c worth on these cards, I'm sure some people will love them, I'm just a bit 'meh' towards them!

The Dutch system is kinda crazy (but in a good way for us). If you're doing taxes (Netherlands only) then you need to add it under the 'Capital section' but the 'best' (insane in the crypto world) part is that they are only interested in the value of the crypto as of January the 1st of that tax year, which can lead to some pretty funny/crazy situations. You can read more here.

That said, I have heard whispers that they are going to change and adapt this in the near future, but whether that happens or not is something these.

Isn't the reason that you are asking this question the very cause of all problems related to Bounty Campaigns?

Bounty Campaigns are not designed for people to earn money for minimal work, the idea is to empower and reward people who are interested in their project to help advertise it to the world. But, where there is money, there is greed. Now we have 'people' (I'm sure that a large portion of these 'people' are just 1 person handling multiple accounts) joining campaigns without caring for what they join or the ideals of the project (that's how scam projects get their coverage) and are in it just for the money.

I don't think Bounty Campaigns are a waste of time, I think that in principle they are awesome. However if you're looking at it from a financial gain perspective then you're part of the problem that is damaging crypto in general. Better to get involved with fewer projects that you really can believe in and support them honestly and properly.

I really do not like to see the dev community upset and especially the crypto-dev community, but I think we have to seriously give Microsoft a chance.

Historically I do agree that they were not a company to be overly excited about (personally I used Windows simply because Linux and WINE was not advanced enough to run what I needed) however lately they have changed.

We - the communities - have asked them to get involved with open sourced and they have, people who pay attention to open sourced will know that Microsoft was one of the top contributors to public open source on github.

Microsoft have taken the first step with these statement:
GitHub will operate independently as a community, platform, and business. This means that GitHub will retain its developer-first values, distinctive spirit, and open extensibility. We will always support developers in their choice of any language, license, tool, platform, or cloud.

GitHub will retain its product philosophy. We love GitHub because of the deep care and thoughtfulness that goes into every facet of the developer’s experience. I understand and respect this, and know that we will continue to build tasteful, snappy, polished tools that developers love.

Read more here: https://natfriedman.github.io/hello/

I personally think that, instead of thinking that the apocalypse is upon us, we do our best to hold Microsoft to their word, in the long run, it is my opinion that this will help us more than anything.

Ultimately, I just don't want to loose GitHub, and if there is a chance for it to continue as is with MS, then I'm willing to take that chance. If it does fall through and Microsoft does go darkside on us, there is no doubt in my mind that an alternative will turn up to take over (Gitlab anyone?).

Ultimately it's down to the conditions of each campaign. When you join a campaign, read what the campaign rules are, and if in doubt send a message to the Campaign's manager, they will clear things up for you.

The very first thing that you should do is your own research. Ask yourself whether or not the project actually does something useful, whether or not they really need to use Blockchain tech/Cryptocurrency. If you look at a project and say, why are we trying to reinvent the wheel, then stay away.

However, if a project looks to actually use Blockchain/Crypto to it's advantage to offer unique features that it cannot offer without, then yes, look at it.

I'd be wary about relying on 'professional' crypto review sites as they've gotten it wrong many times. I've seen ICOs rated at 4+ (out of 5, so highly positive) turn out to be exit scams.

My best advice is, get involved in a project because you believe in it, not because you want to line your pockets. In the end, you'll get your crypto regardless, but it's easier to spot a scam if you are picky and back something you truly believe.

Ledger Nano S user here, since I've got it I've had no problems at all and it's worked like a charm - no regrets at all.

However, if you are the paranoid type who wants maximum-overdrive-security, I'd actually recommend the Trezor as they seem to take bug reports a lot more seriously and are quicker to respond to them, also with Ledger you have to make do with Chrome apps to access your funds whilst with Trezor they are moving away (or have moved away?) to using Trezor Bridge.

But seriously, in the end you cannot go wrong with either. But I would said that Trezor has like a 1% lead over Ledger right now.

On top of what netadacadug said regarding Coinbase, I'd recommend that exchange as well for an extra reason and that is Gdax.

You can definitely start off with Coinbase, get used to a bit of trading, but once you're comfortable, you can very easily move over to Gdax.com (a part of coinbase) and get into real trading. The pairs that they have are limited (BTC/LTC/ETH/BCH and fiat (USD, EUR and a bit of GBP), but for the newbies, that's great as there wont be as much confusion as to what crypto to trade.

Once you've got the hang of things, look at IDEX or Radarrelay for Ethereum token trading, or Binance for pretty much all trading.

You can make the description even easier (newbie friendly)

First, you'll have to understand what a Fork is (in the crypto terms). You have your original Blockchain - it goes forward in one direction. Forking (Hard or Soft) then splits the chain up.

If you HardFork, you create a new chain that has the history of the original chain, but the two chains are no longer compatible with each other.
A very good example is Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash, they share the same history, however at a certain point in time, they split up and became two unique coins. It's then down to miners and the community what chain they wish to support.

A Softfork would be when you have a change to the code, but the new version is still compatible with the old version, look at segwit on Bitcoin for an example.

This is a very simplistic explanation, if you want to learn more then google is your friend, there are an insane amount of articles that explain this in a lot more detail

I read an interesting article the other day that theorizes that other intelligent, organic beings are likely to have been wiped out by the AI that they created. But the twist on that is that the AI wouldn't have done it knowingly, but in a similar way that we (humans) would destroy an Ant hill if it is on a construction site - in most cases the builders wouldn't actively 'want' to destroy the ant hill, and they may not even notice that they did it, but ultimately it's destroyed nonetheless.
It's a bit grim, but gives food for though.

Personally, I don't think we're alone. We are a race of babies (on the cosmic scale) on a tiny insignificant planet, in a tiny solar system in a galaxy that would be barely out of it's diapers. The universe is old, older than most of us can imagine, and far bigger than what our best technology can hope to see. In my opinion, it's impossible that we're alone.

Personal goal is to help my girlfriend enjoy life (too much stress and anxiety in the past) and my professional one is to keep building my skills as a Community Manager, I like to think I'm half decent, but I know I can get better!

Like what the majority of people here have said, going with what the existing community agree's on as trusted is a good start.
I personally started with Kraken, then branched out to Gdax/Coinbase, and Binance, to this day I've not had any problems with any of those three.

This wont really help you, but it is important information for the crypto-newbies, regardless of the popularity of the exchange you are looking into, there seems to always be some negative comments, with some exchanges being extremely polarizing, so it is important to do your own research into whatever exchange you wish to use.

I like to use the exchange section of CryptoCompare to read up on some exchanges, link is here