2021 was my first year investing in crypto. I started off buying and holding assets in Coinbase, but I knew I was missing out on an entirely different set of benefits by keeping my coins in an exchange instead of where they belonged -- on the blockchain. The problem was that I was terrified of moving my money from a system I trusted to one I knew nothing about. Mostly, I was scared of making a misstep during a transaction and sending my funds off into the abyss -- gone forever with no custome...