This is the wrong thinking of many people. Knowledge is the foundation of every path to success, but that does not mean that having knowledge will help us succeed. If OP wants to invest in bitcoin, of course knowledge is needed, but don't expect that just by having knowledge you can easily make a profit. Just like having a college degree does not mean we will get a high-paying job. It all depends on how we apply that knowledge into practice.
Furthermore, OP, if you want to start trading, it is really a big challenge and learning knowledge without practice will be useless. Therefore, in addition to focusing on improving knowledge, OP should also use a minimum amount of capital to get used to everything.
Having knowledge is not enough if we haven't put the knowledge we have into practice on what we have learned, the knowledge we have gained will be very different if we have faced it in reality, it takes a lot of experience so that we are experts in the knowledge we have learned. If we have mastered it well and have enough experience, we will be able to produce what we do.
I really agree with your suggestion that starting trading with little capital is a good strategy if we are just starting out so that we can understand it slowly and get profits from trading.
The reason why I advised him to start trading with minimal capital, other than understanding it slowly, I'm pretty sure that
losses in trading are inevitable in the first days. Therefore, we should only use the smallest amount of capital to avoid big losses as well as use that money to exchange for lessons and experiences that no book can teach us. No one can win or make a profit in the first days of trading, once you participate in trading,
you must accept losses before thinking about profits.
I don't completely disagree with you, and you seem to be pointing out one of the reasons why trading is such a bad idea, unless maybe it is built upon investing first. So what I am suggesting would be to first build up a bitcoin position and then that will inform you better how to play your position. Yeah, people want short term profits, but it seems that if the BTC price is going down and you are buying BTC, then you just keep buying...and it could take some time before you get into profits in such a way that you are able to trade.. so I guess I am not even considering short-term trading but instead how to play BIGGER swings after you have already built your bitcoin position and then you have strategies to never lose your principle... which surely is one of the issues with any short-term traders.. they put their principle at risk and you say that it is inevitable that they lose, but there are ways to play it so that you do not end up losing, as long as bitcoin keeps going up, and even though that is not guaranteed, it has been a pretty damned great thing to be mostly "in" rather than fucking around with trading it, as if it were a shitcoin...
Now shitcoins are another story.... seem very risky to hold, so surely there are needs for in and out plans, and personally, I believe it is a BIG waste of time to get involved in shitcoins, even if yyou might be able to make money off of them, but people have differing ways of thinking about how they approach bitcoin as compared with other things in the space.. including but not limited to shitcoins.