Crypto knowledge is essential for those who want to invest and harvest in a quick time that’s for traders who ever want to go into crypto trading need to have basis knowledge before they can take that step, but as for the OP, what’s needed of him is just the right investment plan and a little knowledge on how to safe keep those investment since no intention of trading it on a daily is mentioned in their.
The first basic thing before investing in crypto is of course to have knowledge about crypto. Without knowledge we are like gambling because there is no strategy and target. But if we have crypto knowledge, we can finally master this market and its cycles. It takes years to learn and follow the cyclical patterns, but they start to come together and you start out as a smart investor.
What the OP probably want to do is DCA since it’s earning comes on a monthly basis and the plan for what the monthly salary will be used for has already be mapped out, adding bitcoin as part of the primary things which need to be added into budget is a wise decision and if that continues before the end of 12 months one will be able to buy enough bitcoin that could be worth something.
DCA is the right strategy for investing in Bitcoin, especially since we set aside our own funds to do DCA every month. For me, the DCA method used by OP is also an anti-loss strategy, because every month we can buy bitcoin no matter the price goes up or down because we are investing for the long term.