My first time, was fairly easy because I am in a facebook group that directed me to coinbase just last month. Coinbase is a fairly user-friendly way to purchase coins so I bought some bitcoin, ether, and a litecoin (was only $65 then). I quickly got addicted to watching the market graphs, and I still am. I'm learning now that a lot of times you just have to be patient and not react to every time a graph is down because it's normal for a crypto to drop a lot of percentage points just to gain twice of it back. I made a rookie mistake of selling my $65 litecoin when it hit $103 instead of HODL'ing it and now litecoin has shot to over $300... I did get back into lite around $180 but that was still a lesson that this is a long term future investment. I'm learning new things about this technology everyday so I believe in it's potential in the future and am trying to learn the technical part of it all.