How do I start off learning about crypto...

Yes but the problem is that ALL white papers sound plausible if you don't know about what you're reading. They're written to make the project sound exciting and relevant and potentially revolutionary. Telling a scam from a project with genuine potential takes time and expertise.

BTC is not a gamble, it’s running for 12 years, it was attacked in any possible way and it’s still up and running and growing stronger every day
Sure if you buy into defi scams, xyz.finance scams, andre cronje rug pulls, uniswap rug pulls or useless brand new layer 1 solution, you will definitely lose money

>digital value
Like a Mario high score.
I think the gold/BTC move on Trump having the Chyna bug told us everything we need to know about what the market thinks of the SoV argument.

Watch some simple videos explaining the basics of bitcoin, watch some about eth, and lurk here. I used to be the same and now about a year later I can understand whitepapers for the most part. It helps to know a little about economics and CS going into it, but you’ll be fine if not.

So how do I learn to tell the difference?

That's not the point. WPs are the technology without the math proofs. If you can't develop the expertise to tell a scam from a good horse, you pay an expert. No-one is going to give you that for free.

Could just die overnight

Okay but I think there are two possible interpretations of what OP was asking. He asked "How do I start off learning about crypto." Most people in this thread seem to have interpreted that as "how do I learn the technical background to know how it works". But you could plausible also read it as "how do I understand my way around this space so I can make money from it and not get scammed".
Since is OP's only other post in this thread, it's likely he was thinking along the lines of the latter question. So if your advice is to pay an expert... who did you have in mind? Getting your tips from Zig Forums isn't usually such a great strategy, after all.

you have no fucking idea how distributed systems work

tell me how platforms that don't have trust minimized access to off chain data are going to access off chain data

You can't transfer Mario High Score in a decentralized trustless way. If you could it would be considered a cryptocurrency.

just keep in mind that legit projects are like 1 out of 1000
start with BTC, with private key management, cold storage, backups
this is the basic, if you don't know how to manage your wealth don't even think to start investing randomly
also, keep in mind that at the end of the day all it matters is ownership of the funds
private keys = ownership
if you keep your wealth into a chink exchange, you don't own shit
if you wrap you btc you don't own shit
if you trust a 3rd party to manage your coins, you don't own shit

I want to understand how it works so I can find the long lasting coins and profit off them. I want the monies.

>I want the monies.
who doesn't?
but don't start gambling left and right or you will lose it all
the only safe coins are BTC and ETH, but split 80% in BTC and 20% in ETH
and keep accumulating each month with your paycheck, eventually it will pump once every 4 years and you can sell for a profit, but you need to be patient in this game

Where do I aquire this "paycheck?"

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step 1: Buy Chainlink
step 2: Hold Chainlink
step 3: Sell Chainlink and everyone will think you're a amazing investor even though you don't even know what a blockchain is

>Crashes 90% from one day to another
>Store of value

Why do you idiots keep parroting this meme? Cryptos are designed to launder money, drug trafficking, child porn and nothing else. Stop dreaming about your ancap fantasies, it will never happen.

>Cryptos are designed to launder money, drug trafficking, child porn and nothing else.
Go read FinCEN leaks you stupid monkey.
BTC tx are public, nobody is dumb enough to do illegal stuff with it.
Percentage of criminal related tx on BTC are orders of magnitude lower than USD.
Maybe some people buy weed with monero but that’s all

Yes all stores of value fluctuate. Congratulations on realizing this.

Criminals prefer fiat.

Keep telling yourself those stories lmao

Cryptos don't have practical use cases unless you are a CRIMINAL.

cryptos are designed to be self sovereign money that works without have to trust a central counterparty, fiat works great until it doesn't, enjoy your savings account, enjoy your paper gold and other pms (unless you own physical then based)

>Cryptos don't have practical use cases
The practical use case is being a store of value. And that's just for BTC.

Criminals use any currency that they are able to. USD is the most popular one.