No hassle exchanges

These no hassle exchanges allow traders to sign up, deposit, trade and withdraw with minimal information. The sign-up process requires nothing more than a single email address and password. Each exchange has been personally tried and tested by many of our community members and come highly recommended. While this is currently the case, that can change at any time and we always recommend that users do not keep a large balance on any centralized exchange. Remember, the whole point of cryptocurrency is about personal responsibility. The safest place for your coins should always be your own personal storage wallet, secured and backed up!

Coinmarketcap.com

Coinmarketcap is my favorite resource due to the links they provide for each coin. From the main page, you can sort coins by name, market cap, price, volume (24h) or change (24h). If you are new to reading stats, I would suggest you sort by market cap  (high to low) and read the stats from there. This way you can get an idea of the size of each coin, by comparing the amount invested. From there you can click on the coin name, we will use Ethereum as an example, and you will see on the top left (for most coins) website, announcement, and explorer. “Website” will obviously take you to the coins official website. “Announcement” will usually lead you to their announcement of the coin on bitcointalk.org, or another forum. I find this announcement link particularly useful as you can get a lot of information, reaction and thoughts from the community about a particular coin.

Bitcointalk.org

Bitcointalk.org is a good resource for much more than just bitcoin. You will find they have an official announcement or thread for just about any crypto coin you can find. As mentioned above, this forum, as well as others, can be a great resource for learning more about a coin and getting an overall community feel for a coins potential.

Reddit.com

Known as the front page of the internet, Reddit describes Bitcoin as the currency of the internet. This is no doubt another invaluable resource when researching cryptocurrencies. Within Reddit users will find many unfiltered opinions about each different cryptocurrency.

Exodus.io

Exodus is a community favorite multi-coin wallet, it is lightweight, user-friendly and offers one of the most attractive user interfaces of any wallet. While not 100% open source, many of the wallet functions are open source and the developers are working towards becoming open source at some point. Because this wallet is not 100% open source, this may not be the best option for storing very large amounts of cryptocurrency. Large amounts of cryptocurrency are usually best stored offline, using cold storage practices. This wallet allows users to hold a variety of coins, including Aragon, Augur, BAT, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Civic, Dash, Decred, District0x, EOS, Ethereum, ETH Classic, FunFair, Gnosis, Golem, Litecoin, OmiseGo, and SALT. These coins can be displayed as a portfolio, showing your whole crypto net-worth, or individually displaying the current value of each coin vs the value when you received the coin. This is a very simple program to use, with a very secure backup and restore feature, requiring only a “seed word”. Note: A seed word is a 12-word passphrase, that will allow you to restore your entire wallet should you lose access to your computer. It is very important that you copy your seed word and store it in a secure place, should you ever need to restore access to your wallet.

Eden

Eden is known as the unsupported, advanced version of Exodus. Eden warns that normal Exodus users should not use Eden, as Eden is unsupported, pre-release software and things are likely to break. That said, because Exodus has such a thorough screening process for the coins it chooses to list, it can take some coins longer than others to make it to the program. Eden gives a little more flexibility allowing users access to more coins sooner. In addition to the coins Exodus offers, Eden supports: 0x, Bancor, DigixDAO, Factom, FirstBlood, Metal, Ripple, Status, Storj, Wings, and Zcash.

Bitcoin-Only Wallet

Looking for a safe, open source, lightweight, user-friendly, bitcoin only wallet? Electrum is known by the community for being the most secure light-weight bitcoin wallet, good for both long and short-term storage of bitcoin.  This wallet is pretty basic, yet has everything you need in a Bitcoin wallet and is really simple to use. You can even use this wallet across multiple devices including iPhone, Android, Windows, Linux, and Mac. Even install in “watching only” mode on your smartphone, or other devices. “Watching only” to allow you to receive funds and watch your wallet, without the possibility of someone spending your bitcoin if they happen to gain access to your device (smartphone). Just be sure to make a copy of your “seed word”, as you will need it should you ever lose access to your computer and need to restore your wallet.