I appreciate all the feedback. As you can probably tell I am new to cryptos and all the ideas and suggestions help. I am a novice stock market investor, but want to get involved in cryptos. My preliminary research into Bitcoin and Ethererum is not only encouraging, but has seriously restored my faith in humanity...really. The people who developed these systems are true humanitarians. Furthermore, the positive feedback here on this forum, I think reveals that the nature of cryptos, beyond the mechanics of currencies, is going to take me a little while longer to fundamentally understand. Kudos, we are rooting for the cryptos.
Aren't the guys here one big, helpful community? And welcome to Bitcoin! It's refreshing to see that newcomers find their initial information on crypto to be encouraging. I doubt many, including myself, will agree that the developers of these ideas are all true humanitarians, but I do recall being inspired by some of my early readings from those like Andreas M. Antonopoulos (you should read his books, quite easily available online) which for me were great introductions by way of insightful snapshots taken from his lectures.
Enjoy your journey!