YOU live and learn, as the saying goes, but when it comes to cryptocurreny mistakes can be costly.

So The Sun’s money team has spoken to Kevan Edgerton, the UK director at the crypto trading platform Bitpanda, about the blunders that beginners make when first investing in crypto and how to avoid them – so you needn’t make any rookie errors.

Crypto is a digital currency that isn’t managed by a central bank or government, and there’s no need for a middleman, like a bank or payments provider, to make a transaction.

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