Hi @thorondor Thank you for sharing the mining link and also your experience. It is sure for a newcomer in the world of cryptocurrency it was really not the best time. But it looks much better today I believe when the bitcoins technology issue will be resolved we will all have better days. About the GirdCoins i don't know nothing but it seems, after looking at his market cap this coins is very weak with a market cap at 5370 BTC it is possible that one person own most of it making it a possible danger if this person or group of person decide to sell. If i have an advice to give you choose some coins with a much higher market cap so it minimize the danger. Anyway thank you for sharing.
If you know nothing about Gridcoin, shouldn't you stop there and go study it before trying to provide advice? Uninformed advice is often worse than no advice at all.
There are some high-quality articles studying the distribution of Gridcoin which have been written only recently. If you read them, you will realize that some of those coins with higher market cap often have even more concentrated distributions and that your advice could be misleading on that part.
https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@xaqfields/gridcoin-issue-breakdown-wealth-disparity
Thank you for the information. It is hard to keep track of all these coins. I will look into it. Thanks