People will learn to pay attention to different things than what they're normally used to pay attention to. This doesnt mean necessarily being smarter in general. it's just about getting used to something new
when they can learn something related to cryptocurrency, they become smarter than the other people. they can know much information about cryptocurrency and they can give an explanation for people around them so he can ask other people to join with him. but of course, if he doesn't continue to learn another knowledge about cryptocurrency then he cannot get a new information which will give him another knowledge.