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You mentioned basic knowledge of investment. Having basic knowledge is one of the basic foundations to start investing. If you ignore this issue or try to ignore it, you may be putting your valuable assets at risk. It is important to have the ability to buy, how to store or choose a reliable wallet. Even knowing how to use your chosen wallet correctly is part of basic knowledge. If you make mistakes in acquiring basic knowledge, then you are leaving a shaky foundation for investment, the results of which will not be positive at all. Even acquiring deep knowledge after starting investment is important.
Knowledge about wallet security is better placed as the most important thing, even more than basic knowledge because knowledge about wallets is the foundation for long-term investment sustainability.
I think JayJuanGee's post can be read below on your answer to my post above.
Placing expensive and valuable assets like Bitcoin must be serious because it is not the same as gambling which is easy to lose or get big money. Bitcoin investment is not just an investment but has a clear goal during the investment period.
I never said that learning about wallets is basic knowledge that must be known before getting started investing into bitcoin.
I agree learning about wallets is important, but getting started investing into bitcoin with money (but also time and engergy) is much more important, and you don't necessarily need to know about wallets when you first start investing into bitcoin.
Of course, the larger your bitcoin investment, the more important it becomes to aim towards storing your bitcoin yourself rather than keeping them on custodial services, and the threshold regarding how much bitcoin anyone is willing to keep with custodial services is going to depend on individual circumstances, yet at the same, time I would think that most people should be striving to protect their own interest in regards to not keeping too many coins with custodial services.... because there are a variety of ways in which custodians can lock you out of your coins.. but if you also are not very responsible person, then you have to learn how to be responsible if you are going to make sure that you guard your private keys once you do start to use a private wallet. Guarding keys with backups and don't overly complicated it and don't leave your keys vulnerable, since anyone who gets your keys has abilities to get your coins and transactions are not reversible once they move the coins to their own keys or to the keys of someone else or cash them out.
So learning about bitcoin wallets is not a prerequisite to getting started in bitcoin, even though learning about wallets is an important and powerful thing.. .At the same time, some people might be challenged in their abilities to learn about bitcoin wallets and to put their learning into practice without screwing up.
I agree with you that learning about wallet is not that important for a new investor to know first before he starts his bitcoin investment, because he has no bitcoin to secure yet and wallet is very technical which he can make any slight mistake through unsafe practice that can make him lose his bitcoin. Moreover, since he is a new investor who wants to be buying through DCA every week or month, those small amounts that he is buying every week shouldn't be sent directly to his private wallet to avoid too many small UTXO which will later in future affect his profits due to high transaction fee from many small UTXO.
New beginners need to know this to help them have an amount of $500 and above piled up before sending to their private wallets. So you can keep piling up these small weekly DCA purchase with a third-party or centralized exchange. It does not mean that during your this period of piling up your small small buy orders that you will lose your coins with tge centralized services. However, you shouldn't leave your bitcoin for long in an exchange.
During when your accumulation, you can learn about the best self custody wallet to use. I am using electrum cold storage since I cannot afford a hardware wallet.