Even going so far as to gift me €100,- worth of coins because I'm broke and have no money to play around with.

He recommends using Kraken and and Coincap, which I'm looking up info on right now.

I have no reason to doubt his advice per se, but since he's a bit of a casual (by his own admission), I wonder if any of you nice folks maybe have other starting suggestions (aside from taking it easy)?

Since I'm still getting Wild West vibes from this whole thing I figure it's smart to get input from as many different sources as I can.