To get your feet in the door of Crypto currencies there are many different ways. Beside writing on publish0x or using presearch the most popular ones are mining and trading.

If you already own a decent computer with GPU at home the easiest way to get into crypto might be start mining. All you require is a wallet, that can be organised in 10 minutes with a bit of research. Then you let your GPU do the job and see how slowly the first coins come in your wallet during the next days and weeks. That might not make you rich, but you are now involved in the crypto currency market and community. Depending on how much of a tinkerer you are and the space available you might build a small mining rig or just place a couple of computers in your home that might "work for you". Now mining is not always profitable. You can check this out for example at https://whattomine.com/. As the time I am  writing this article you can easily earch the costs of your graphics card withing 3-6 months of mining. So this can also be a way to pay back your GPU.

You now own some crypto coins, now what? 

Well, many miners tend to keep the mined crypto (HODL) and then sell it if the price has gone up significantly. That can boost your cashback a lot. Although sometimes coins are accumulated over months or years before taking the profit. Some will like this approach but probably not all.

If you also like following the markets, be informed about interesting and promising projects another option might be to transfer your tokens on a regular base to an exchange and to swap them against coins you like or you see more possible gains in the near future. That could be on a time basis, like once a month, or once a quarter. You can also decide to do this everytime you have reached a certain threshold of coins or value of coins like e.g. 100$.

The advantages I see in mining is the steady cash flow you create. Especially if you are interested in the market and stumble up interesting projects every couple of days that give you a bit of extra money to test out those coins without flipping your existing portfolio too often. No problem with flipping or swapping coins, but if you do that too often it will primarily the exchange getting richer and not yourself. Also you have now more time to learn about the market as your wallet value growths.

Trading has the advantage that you can directly buy the coin you want and not first mine the only which is currently most profitable and need to swap afterwards. Also you don't need to look after you hardware, being dissapointed if your OS has rebooted after an update or other reason and the miner did not come up properly.

Unless you have invested a fortune into mining equipment psycholocically it might be easier to trade with mined coins as you did not invest "real" money in it. Of course electricity costs money and the time the spend on setting this all up also counts.

You just need to find the right way for you. For me it is a hibrid approch. Bit of mining for constant cash flow. Bit of trading to learn more and take advantage of the current bull market. Once bull market is over and mining might not be profitable anymore still the hardware can be turned off and sold or be kept for future mining.