Would like to buy some BTC and ETH (and much smaller positions in Dogecoin), just for starters. Plan is to just buy and hold, for years (decades?), like I do with equities & bonds. I have account with Coinbase. Played with purchase preview, the fees seems a bit steep-ish? (close to 15%?)
1) Read upon this, it sounds like I probably should buy via Coinbase Pro instead for lower fees (if I still wanted to do it thru Coinbase network), does that sound right? Guess I should find something else, Coinbase is on
"not recommended list" because it's a "custodial wallet". I premise because I don't have control of my keys?
2) Perhaps more importantly, should I be look into setting up account with something other than Coinbase, if there is one more suited for buy-and-holders with lower fees?
3) Anything I can do with my "idle" BTC and ETH positions once I get those? (like can I "lend" them out and earn some interest? Or would I forfeit any price gains/losses if I "lend" out the BTC/ETH positions?
Sorry if those questions don't make sense, but it's a starting place for me, clearly I'm new here