Stop pretending like you understand cryptocurrency and take these online courses
Most years, December is the time you justify your procrastination by gift shopping, reviewing essential "Best Of" lists, and planning extremely well-deserved holiday vacations. However, in staying true to its persistent weirdness, 2017's December made cryptocurrency one of the trendiest, most distraction-worthy subjects of the year. While a single bitcoin reached nearly $20,000 in value, many other cryptocurrencies saw similarly optimistic gains, and the news cycle turned towards teenage millionaires. Like, what is this world we live in?
If you're one of those people who invested early and are reaping the benefits, then stop reading.
For the rest of you, now's your time to catch up.
Check out the Beginner's Guide to Cryptocurrency Investing, available as an online class now in The Mashable Shop for $10. This 2.5-hour course covers the basics of how to do your research, how to estimate the true value of the entire market, and how to invest intelligently in cryptocurrency.
Beyond investing, you can also learn how to make money as a crypto miner in the Beginner's Guide to Cryptocurrency Mining. Miners are the lifeblood of cryptocurrency, working to verify every cryptocurrency transaction on the blockchain, thereby earning a small cut of each trade. While that may sound complicated, this course will teach you a method that requires little technical knowledge or overhead to get started.
If you sign up for Coinbase through a friend's referral code, they'll send you $9.99 worth of Bitcoin. Therefore, when you buy the Beginner's Guide to Cryptocurrency Investing for $10 and the Beginner's Guide to Cryptocurrency Mining for $10 today, you can start paying them both off in a jiffy tomorrow.
Topics Bitcoin Cryptocurrency
Leah Stodart is a Philadelphia-based Senior Shopping Reporter at Mashable where she covers and tests essential home tech like vacuums and TVs, plus eco-friendly hacks. Her ever-evolving experience in these categories comes in clutch when making recommendations on how to spend your money during shopping holidays like Black Friday, which Leah has been covering for Mashable since 2017.
