This is a shallow and narrow way to view crypto, and describes the typical incurious HN view that crypto is just a big ponzi. Another way to view it, is as a d

This is a shallow and narrow way to view crypto, and describes the typical incurious HN view that crypto is just a big ponzi. Another way to view it, is as a digital economy running on a different set of technologies. You don't need to "invest" or "time the market" or anything, you just buy ETH to use it as a gas token. Buy some ETH, an amount you are OK to write to zero like you would a hamburger or movie ticket purchase. Move the ETH off a CEX into your own self custody wallet to understand what it means to hold an asset with nothing but a private key. Convert it to stable coins with DEX like Uniswap, to avoid thinking about price. Send them to and fro, use DeFi, buy a ENS domain. It might cost you $10-50 total but you will probably come out of the experience with a better understanding of crypto, and you might also start to see traditional banking infrastructure differently, maybe slower or less verifiable or less secure or too centralized or too hard to build programmable interfaces on top of.