Newbies needs to be prepared for this coming new year, scammers will try to take advantage of that year because bitcoin halving is already dropping the HYPE in crypto space already, Learn to do research better, not all bad results in crypto are because a project failed, mostly are because of lack of research, with no good research you can easily fall for scam projects.
1) Do better research on new projects before promoting them or investing a penny on them
2) Visit scam accusation thread on the forum time to time, it will safe you a lot too
3) If you you have to invest always invest what you can afford to lose.
This is just the simple truth and best advice too, I think this is not just for newbies but for everyone in this community. Although some people might grounded in some aspects they might not be in some as well. Doing research on any project is really the first thing to be done before even going deeper or thinking of releasing funds for investment. And lastly, but very important, investing what one can afford is the best thing always not selling properties to invest because someone hyped the project etc.