Can't buy Crypto with my AIB debit card on Coinbase??

I've been waiting for prices to fall before buying. And I'll be buying fairly conservatively so I'm not taking any high risks.

Thanks Potatoeman! Yeah I've been looking at Hardware Wallets. Do you mind me asking how I go about getting push notifications with AIB (just moved to them from UB so not as familiar with the ins-and-outs as I was with UB. Basically I was trying to purchase via Coinbase on their website via my desktop and I got the message mentioned in my original post...so not sure.

Yep circadian that's what I'm thinking. It's a risk but a calculated one and I'm not planning on any wild expenditure so I'd accept the loss if it doesn't recover but it if does (and I think it likely will in some way shape or form) then it will have been a smart enough move I think.

Thanks to all of you for you advice. Sorry to reply to each quote individually I'm sure there used to be a multi-quote option here on boards but I can't find it anymore.

Just to give a bit of framework on my thoughts here.

I'm no expert on any of this but I've been learning and following what's happening for sometime and I've had the general sense that a big crash was due pretty soon (though I couldn't have imagined the bizarre FTX drama) it's obvious in this kind of wild frontier period of any new thing. However I look at something like Solana which had reached up to €225 last year and at the time of writing this it's worth around €11 and my thought is given the proximity of exposure Solana seems to have had to the FTX it could well disappear but if it survives it will probably rise to a healthy enough number again...even if that's not as high as €225 but more likely €20 - €50 it's still not a terrible return on what is at present a very small investment. I still remember many years back when I was in college and couldn't afford bus fare I was telling anyone who would listen that I'd invest in BitCoin if I could afford it (it was around €150 - €250 at the time if I recall) well if I'd even just invested €250 and if it crashed to €2500 now that would still be a nice return or if I'd invested and jumped out now I'd have earned a fair auld whack on my initial investment. Again my feeling on these things is that it's not the volatility of any potential asset market that is risky - it's the extent of exposure you allow yourself to have. My hope is for anyone who has invested during more robust periods of health for Crypto that it does recover and they at least break even. But for me it won't be any real risk at all and I've no doubt that even if it recovers and I see my investment shoot up it will still crash again and again but if the initial investment is an amount you can afford to lose then it's worth it even just for the experience.

Finally I think whether it's NFT or Crypto or Blockchain or any other aspect of this new unpredictable evolution of the digital/online environment...Web3 is coming and it will be just as disruptive as all previous iterations so getting to grips with every aspect of it (possible) now is worth investment.

Not saying I'm right and I've no crystal ball but that's my 'philosophical approach' to all of this. Anyway I'm going to see if first and foremost I can sort this not being even able to purchase any crypto issue out first.

Thanks again folks and if you've any other thoughts please do feel free to share!