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BTC is basically the "Gold Standard" of Cryptos. That is very smart! I have moved to U$D a time or 3, but now that I am not tied strictly to coinbase, I can easily switch between coins w/o selling to U$D first, and paying excessive fees :p Coinbase is for beginners, it's great for that, but I prefer Poloniex.

Yep that's well put.

My next move is to open an exchange. I belive there's a massive potential in passive earnings growth to be made over the next year and a half. There's packaged off the shelf hosted software/ hardware deals that you can join. All based themselves on blockchain. You start as an empty node with a blank order book relying on existing nodes to funnel requests in their order book to you. You recipricate when your order books become full. All handled automatically and hands off.