First of all, many thanks to the founder of this forum. I got ideas about bitcoin and bitcointalk forum by watching YouTube videos, I registered account in this forum to know bitcoin better and by studying daily regularly I was able to get better idea about bitcoin today. I had a hard time with one thing at first, because I live in a country where Bitcoin is still illegal, I didn't get any idea about Bitcoin from anyone. I am currently 30 years old, if someone had given me an idea about Bitcoin before 2010 or 2020, I would have made a lot of money investing in Bitcoin today.
Welcome to the forum and it is good to hear that you are here to learn about Bitcoin. You don't need to regret that you were not aware of Bitcoin a long time ago because is still in it's infant stage. Since bitcoin is illegal in your country it will be great to learn how to keep your bitcoin private to avoid persecution from the government. Using a decentralized wallet and avoiding centralised exchanges will help protect you from government invasion of privacy.
Luckily I came to know about Bitcoin 2 months ago by watching a youtube video. If I hadn't seen this YouTube video, I still wouldn't have got the idea about bitcoin. When I got the idea about bitcoin, the price of bitcoin was 25k to 26k. If I had invested in Bitcoin when it was 26k, I would have made a lot of profit today. I did not invest at that time as I did not have a good understanding of Bitcoin. Inflation in our country is increasing day by day. I didn't put all the savings I had in the bank, I bought land a few days ago for $10000. I still have $5000 in savings I bought bitcoin yesterday for $1000. I have another $4000, I will buy $100 worth of bitcoin every 15 days.
When you are buying Bitcoin your focus should be to hold it for the long term. Bitcoin price will definitely go up especially if the spot ETF is approved but buying now for short investment is risky. It could be profitable in the long run but projecting to make a profit in the short term might not be advisable. Buying Bitcoin using DCA is okay but the current price is high to target short-term profit..
The only reason I am posting this today is that I bought bitcoins from kucoin exchanger. I learned bitcoins are not secure in bitcoin exchangers. I chose a hardware wallet. Now my problem is that when I try to transfer bitcoins to a hardware wallet, I see a fee of 0.0005 bitcoins, what is the reason for the high fee? A few days ago, it seems that it was 1-2 dollars. Fee will not be reduced? If the fee is not reduced then I will withdraw with this fee.
Transaction fees will reduce with time. You can also consider suspending the transaction until the mempool is less congested will help you in avoiding this high fees. Keeping your funds in a hardware wallet or a good decentralized wallet like Electrum is also okay. But never keep your funds in centralized exchanges because many of them have people to lose money.