 TITLE: Is Bitcoin Safe? CONTENT: Alternatives Ways to Invest\n---------------------------\nIf you're just starting to invest and unsure about your options, be sure to spend time educating yourself before making any major decisions. There are many investment options available and Bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies in general, are relatively new. More traditional investments include:\n*   **Stocks**: Purchasing a stock makes you a partial owner of a company. The value of the stock may rise and fall depending on how well the company is expected to do in the future, which means your investment can grow as the company expands. Additionally, some companies pay dividends to shareholders, giving you a share of their profits.\n*   **Bonds**: A bond is a loan that's given to a corporation or government. As the lender, you can receive interest payments over time and then get back the principal loan amount at the end of the bond's term.\n*   **Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs)**: Mutual funds and ETFs allow you to quickly invest in a wide range of stocks, bonds or a combination of the two. They do this by being made up of or mirroring a group of other investments. For example, you can invest in the 500 largest companies in the U.S. stock market by buying shares of an S&P 500 mutual fund. END