Having an emergency fund is never a criteria to be emphasised prior to starting your investment, get the fucking started and figure that out down the road. It only becomes problematic when it is being ignored Perhaps emergency fund is very necessary in life generally let alone towards your investment, the point is to have an ongoing investment and figure out how much should kept or added to your emergency fund, by definition an emergency is meant to be built up to 3 to 6 months worth of our expenses and of which we shouldn't be waiting but should be done along side with our investment which is better than procrastinating ever buying Bitcoin.
Whether people are involved in investment or not, they definitely keep a fund ready for emergencies. We investors know this is an emergency fund and those who do not have much knowledge about investment may not know this is an emergency fund. But in our family life, most of us try to keep one fund from the beginning of our career, but we cannot name it.
If you are interested in investing and are ready to invest, then waiting for your emergency fund will not be a good idea at all. You should enter into investment without any hesitation and continue to gain knowledge about investment. For a new investor, it is more important to focus on investment than on emergency fund. However, you should keep in mind that your source of income should be sufficient to invest and prepare an emergency fund with the remaining money after meeting daily needs. When your investment becomes significant, you may need an emergency fund to maintain your investment for the long term. Remember, investment first, then emergency fund. That is, if you think about tree maintenance before planting trees or delay planting trees to make maintenance arrangements, you will make a mistake. Plant trees first and then make maintenance arrangements.