Any recommendations for a trading platform? As guess if I did look into it further I’d need some sort of buy/sell software. Preferably something that deals in more than just Bitcoin under crypto currencies.
Nobody has addressed this yet so best advice is to really do some reading up on it all prior to making any decisions. That said it can be pretty simple to set up.
Also, it depends.
Depends on exactly what it is you want to do. If it's just simply buying a few euro of crypto for shits and giggles then you need a wallet for holding the coin and an exchange for buying, selling or trading them. Software like Coinbase and Exodus offer both wallet and exchange and are often recommended for beginners., others are available and if you decide to go deeper then it may be better to research other options. But you can have coin in like 10 minutes after setting up, it is easy. They also do trade many different coins.
May not be the best time to buy right now as it's all tanking, but buy the dip or wait to see how low it gets.
Also research your choices, some are greener than others for example and they mostly all work in different ways.
If you want to invest seriously then take better advice than a bonsai forum, lol.
That said if you are wary of putting money into it then you can always look at mining. This has the potential to be as complicated and expensive as you wish it to be but there are very easy and cheap options available if you have a relatively modern laptop or pc.
Hands down the easiest way is to sign up at Nicehash, download the software(you will need to make an exemption in win defender and you AV) and install it and it will do all the work for you. It is free to set up and fees are taken as you get paid. It picks the best coin to mine based on your CPU and GPU and off you go. Once you have mined a certain amount, around 30 cents of coin then you will get paid into your Nicehash wallet, they also have an exchange to trade and etc... but it is recommended to routinely move your earnings to another more secure wallet.
A lot of what you can make depends on you hardware, a full blown gaming pc make make you a few dollars a day, a crappy i3 based laptop(like mine) a few cents per day but it is an excellent way to get you a little bitcoin. But you only get paid on Nicehash in bitcoin, you may be mining any number of cryptos but they only payout in btc which isn't the end of the world really for a beginner. It's as simple as clicking a button while you re online using your laptop/pc.
There are other mining platforms available but NH seems to be the most user friendly and efficient. You can of course mine specific cryptos if your hardware permits but then you need to be able to setup all the things that NH automatically does for you.
I would advise reading up on all the options before making any decisions though, the above is all rather simplified.