Big moment for me in terms of embracing crypto: I actually bought some. 

I got an email from Coinbase inviting me to participate in a $BTC giveaway sweepstakes that required making a trade, so I bought some $SOL, since it was down and I read some stuff about how it was undervalued. 

A smart trade? A dumb one?

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Would take some time to read about what makes these assets valuable $BTC and $ETH are the top 2 crypto assets by market cap and they have very different properties. Once you have a thesis on these two all other tokens are downstream of that. As a highly volatile asset class you need conviction to hold through the ups and downs and that can only come from a deep understanding of what you’re buying. Ofc if you don’t intend to be a long term holder then you can still succeed by trading but that’s a bit of a different game