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Well this afternoon I cashed out of bitcoin and ethereum. Wife and I had discussed what we could do with the money and she said she was set on building a pimped out pool. The bitcoins alone will easily pay for that and all the ethereum will pay for the kids college funds. Holding onto my IOTA and Cardano for now. Not sure where its all going to go, but with what we cashed out with, couldn't be happier.

There is no way to directly buy IOTA with US Dollars. You need to buy a cryptocurrency like Ethereum or bitcoin first. This tutorial is essentially how I bought my bitcoins and ETH through Coinbase, which you can buy with linking to a credit card or paypal I think now. Ethereum transactions are much faster than bitcoins if you don't feel like waiting around for hours. So you would basically buy the $500 in Ethereum, once you have that verified in your Coinbase account, you need to setup a Binance account which allows you to purchase IOTA. You transfer your ETH coins to binance, then they have exchanges where you can convert ETH to BNB(Binance Coins used for trading and converting) then BNB to IOTA. So basically USD -> ETH(Coinbase) -> BNB(Binance) -> IOTA(Binance). If you do this, I am warning you that you need to read up on the procedures and risks for transferring and obtaining coins. There are alot of stories of where people are sending to different exchanges and mistyped something and lost everything. It would be like sending $500 to a paypal address and mistyping their email, you will lose it and no way to retrieve it back. I spent alot of time learning about this process, its not simple by any means. At this time, IOTA is like most cryptocurrencies in their infancy where its difficult to buy, but once they reach solid ground, exchanges like Coinbase will pick them up and that's where Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoins took off as anyone can open a coinbase account and buy them in a few minutes and sell them to cash out with a click of a button. Info on IOTA: https://coincentral.com/what-is-iota-cryptocurrency-coin/ Best of luck, but warning you to read up first and be very careful when you need to transfer the funds around.

This has been a ridiculous run, a few years ago for work I bought 10 bitcoins as the network I maintain got hit with a crypto virus and one frickin folder on our network wasn't being backed up(which I am extremely grateful for at this time) and it would have required a few years of labor work to bring it back, work ended up paying 2 bitcoins to decrypt the files, price at that time was $212. I bought 10 more personally just to have in case something happened again. One of my developers was very knowledegable about cryptocurrencies in general and explained to me how everything works and got me very interested. When the recent fork came in a couple months ago, I received 10 bitcoin cash(about $1,500 each as of last week) as a part of it for free, each bitcoin you owned you received one bitcoin cash for free if you had your coins in an offline wallet. I just cashed half those in for USD around $7,500 and the other half of those in to IOTA coins last week around $4 each, for about 1900 coins. The IOTA is harder to buy as you need to setup a binance account and trade the BitCoinCash for BNB then buy the IOTA. If IOTA gets in with Coinbase on their exchange which is where I have my ETH, it will explode just as ETH and Litecoins did. IOTA has doubled already in the past couple months. If it crashes hard, so be it, I've cashed in a bunch of profit already and the IOTA were free and all profit. I'm holding my ETH and Bitcoins for a long time and hoping IOTA explodes, if it does, I will be asking Mark A if I can buy into the Crew for sure.

https://www.google.com/amp/mashable.com/2017/03/24/ethereum-bitcoin-explainer.amp Im very intrigued with Ethereum. I have a couple developers that work for me and they brought it up in conversation a few months ago. I bought a bunch of shares last month at $11, now sits over $48. It's the future and some big organizations have been backing it including some Fortune 500 banks