I just got into cryptocurrency in the last month because I had a stash of ecr20 tokens I just found out about that was worth something. I had signed up for a lost of exchanges a year before after finding Steemit. So when I showed up a year later, a few were like wait a minute and locked my account down. I fought with a few for a while, then realized when I did get access, the whole process scared me away and I won't use them. So I got a hardware wallet, my first bitcoin purchase and have used it, ShapeShift and Gemini for the last month until I have time to do in-depth research. It's exciting, but also stressful because all of the stories I've heard.