Why bank it when it's the new currency? What evidence that it will pop given the limited supply?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2017/08/30/bitcoin-is-the-new-gold/
I'm no expert but would suggest the following:
Do lots of reading, there are a number of good forums, like https://bitcointalk.org/.
If you decide to buy any, don't spend anything you can't afford to lose.
The safest places to buy seem to be either bitbargain.co.uk, or a bitcoin ATM - there...
The weird thing is, all the lost coins (Not sure if the mtgox ones count, are they lost or stolen?) Effectively no longer exist, theoretically putting up the value of the rest... though it's impossible to tell how many are lost.
They're a lot easier to buy now than they were in the mtgox days...
Mine was stupidly writing down my backup words on a scrap of paper which got thrown away. At the time I wasn't that bothered as they were worth about £50 and I thought the project was dead in the water. I then took my eye of the game until April this year, when I discovered that I could've had...