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There are benefits to having your crypto in the care of a custody provider like Paypal. You cant lose it by accident. When you say getting an understanding of how it works you mean transacting and each transaction has the carbon emissions of a transatlantic flight (fuck bitcoin).
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You cant lose it by accident
I'm not sure this stands up to scrutiny. Plenty of people lose crypto that is hosted with exchanges. Plenty of exchanges that are too big to fail have indeed failed. Seems crazy to assume PayPal will be different.
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each transaction has the carbon emissions of a transatlantic flight
One single transaction? Is that correct?
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Can't help on PayPal but I wouldn't do that as you don't own your coins, so you can get exposure to price movements, but won't get an understanding of how things work.
I'd sign up with an exchange. It's easy to do small volume stuff as a way of learning and the fees are transparent.
I think Coinbase Pro has the lowest fees at the moment. Binance is probably the biggest. They all take £ deposits from UK banks nowadays.