Many lending platforms have a minimum deposit/investment of .002 and I'm wondering if trying a few of the brand new ones with just .0025 would be a bad idea?
I don't think that's wise to invest into such lending platforms, what platform are you trying to consider?
Before you say "NO", please think about the fact that regardless of Ponzi schemes and referral links, many of these platforms have made a lot of people a ton of money from the lending alone. I do realize that Bitpetite bailed and that laser online did recently as well...but isn't any investment a risk?
Before you say so, have you earned with them? Ponzi schemes are real scams and if they made those people a ton of money, they have made a lot of people lost their money too.
I would like to try and trade some altcoins from my MEW wallet, but I don't even have any Eth for gas to get started
This is better, trade with real altcoins and buy them.