Ask HN: I have $ 1k and don't know much about Bitcoin. How do I get started?

Not an interesting pointer, but a warning:

Don't invest more than you can afford to lose

Every inversion has risk and benefits. Be sure that if there is a problem and you lose all your inversion you are going to be fine.

Apologies if this sort of information is redundant, but if you're just looking for an understanding of how it all works, this article helped me quite a bit https://www.igvita.com/2014/05/05/minimum-viable-block-chain...