When I saw the title of the thread, at first I thought the Op was asking about how much he (op) can invest in crypto because of the use of “how much” in the title but opening the thread I realise it was more of “what to consider “ and not how much.
3. Evaluate your financial situation: Evaluate your current financial situation, including your income, expenses, debts, and savings. Determine how much you can invest without affecting your other financial obligations.
To me, the amount that a beginner should use depends mainly on their source of income. Because if you think of it, using or starting an investment with $50 for someone that earns $80 is not fixable and aside the income their monthly expenses should also be considered. After all one should invest what he or she can afford to lose so if a beginner decides to DCA $50 on a monthly basis when his income his around $80 dollars with time he’ll find himself need that money that he has invested and since we’re dealing with crypto you never can tell what the current price might be at that time.
And again, for beginners I’ll advise that they should focus more on bitcoin. Dealing with altcoin as a newbie with no experience is more like gambling with a very high probability of you falling for a scam project. So they should buy more bitcoin and if at all they want to diversify their portfolio then they can do so just little amount of altcoin and when they become better at analysing a project then heheh can start increasing their altcoin allocation.