Nearly all of the forum members are gravitating back to this same point that you are better off learning first... which seems quite strange to me.. I am sticking to my guns. .You are better off getting started as soon as possible, learn along the way and take a small enough position size that it does not matter if you lose it, but at the same time, you are neither trying to lose it and you do have to likely spend a bit of time in your preparations to figure out how much you are going to start out with and how you are going to gain exposure and then you can also tweak those matters along the way.. .where you buy your BTC, where you hold your BTC, and then later down the road, learning the aspects of self-custody, but the need for self custody is not necessarily a prerequisite to getting started in bitcoin, and maybe you spend a year or so investing a small amount, but then after you reach a certain level of holdings then you transfer that to self-custody.. but if you ended up screwing up because you got involved in some kind of an investment vehicle that does not allow you to take self custody, then you have to deal with that matter, but the mere fact that you made those kinds of mistakes does not take away from the value of getting the fuck started rather the waiting around until you have some kind of level of knowledge that involves what it takes many forum members years to figure out

, you said something, and it is quite funny though, you said
Nearly all of the forum members are gravitating back to this same point that you are better off learning first... which seems quite strange to me.. I am sticking my guns... , yes you can still stick to your guns. But you know we can't all do the same thing, like, some might learn before they start investing and some might like to invest while they are learning and others can invest without even learning if they see someone who is already making profits, so it is all depending on the characters of the investors and not the investments or even the knowledge.
Your points are clear, and I also support that investing along the line you are learning is a good start, and it shows that the person is so serious about what he wants, and he doesn't care if he loses it or not. I do understand that the little capital at that time was just like materials for practical practice, so without practice the knowledge is meaningless.
(Depending on how much time that members had been spending to learn about bitcoin.. we still have forum members who have been on the forum for many years and still seem to not know shit about bitcoin.,. and it could be part of the problem is that they spent a lot of time learning rather than acting.. and one of the better ways to learn is through acting.. or a combination of acting rather than telling yourself that you can wait.. blah blah blah.).
Yes, it's true, there are a lot of them, it is not that I want to support them, but sometimes it seems that most of them are too occupied with activities either on the forum or outside the forum, talking about the ones from the forum. I think most of them are in the bounty sections doing other stuff instead of learning Bitcoin.
Spending a lot of time learning about Bitcoin is the fastest way to learn about Bitcoin.