As some people have already mentioned knowledge is an important factor and it is the fundamental for any kind of way in making money in crypto. Just think about the four most common ways: trading, bounties, airdrop and participating in icos. In any of these knowledge will give you an advantage and will make you perform better. But for gaining knowledge reading is not enough, sometimes you will do mistakes and gain knowledge this way. Just today I invested in the wrong Bitrewards token since there were two and I didnt realize. One of them is a more or less dead project. Shit happens.