Apologies if this sort of information is redundant, but if you're just looking for an understanding of how it all works, this article helped me quite a bit
<a href="https://www.igvita.com/2014/05/05/minimum-viable-block-chain/" rel="nofollow">https://www.igvita.com/2014/05/05/minimum-viable-block-chain...</a>
Not an interesting pointer, but a warning:<p><i>Don't invest more than you can afford to lose</i><p>Every inversion has risk and benefits. Be sure that if there is a problem and you lose all your inversion you are going to be fine.