Learning to trade is the most important thing, it doesn't have to be in class or have a mentor but just learn independently, especially now there is so much information that we can learn, the point is to learn. Because trading is not only difficult, but very very difficult. it takes years to learn technical analysis, risk and reward ratio, good money management, controlling emotions and greed.
I don’t agree that learning how to trade is extremely important. It’s an aspect to cryptocurrency investment and surely a way to build a portfolio but, it’s not the most important.
You can do well in cryptocurrency even without having to trade I believe. Not so many in the field are traders and that’s mostly due to the high risk environment associated with trading live markets.
You could still be investing on the sidelines and be good, whatever goes for an individual I guess. In the end what’s most important is having to build your portfolio.
You should be more specific if it is Bitcoin you are referring to so as not to complicates things for a newbies coming in to the thread with such use of the term cryptocurrency without being specific, if it is Bitcoin you say Bitcoin because that is only coin that holds investment and holding potential. However, even though anyone could do whatever they want with their coin the truth must be told that someone who is only focusing on increasing his or her Bitcoin size have a certain level preparedness with absolute peace of to grow their asset than a person who is investing and at the same time attempting or figuring out on how to trade his coin.