Everyone who trades has certainly experienced losing their money in the trades they make and they cannot avoid it if at that time they cannot predict market conditions. For those who have just started and don't understand trading well, of course they have to do it carefully so as not to lose their money in the trades they make. Choosing to make long-term investments is certainly good for those who are just starting out, but they still have to have good knowledge of market conditions.

How much money you can risk and how long you can stand , if you are here just to make your 10 dollars to 100 dollars in short term then better back off because that is not going to happen.
there is no instant millionaire here as even those Old timer took years before turning their thousand of dollars to million value.

Use bitcoin for trading and if not goes on your plan then keep them on hold because there is no losing if you are HODLER as long as you dedicate time for waiting.

but if your sole purpose is to make quick bucks then best to try altcoins as they are fast moving but if you can choose which is which.

I wouldn't say that it depends but I would only recommend you to just invest instead of trading, unlike others who wants to say that it depends, they don't want to take responsibility. And with investing, I think that you're better off doing that compared to trading because it's safe and almost risk-free because you're in the bitcoin game for the long-term which is always a win no matter what happens in the short-term which is always unknown to the people and will always be volatile.

That's what beginners should do before starting to trade. At least they have to start learning what is required in trading and understand it while learning to control their emotions while trading. This is what will usually have an impact on beginners in trading.
Continuing to learn is a way that beginners can master trading and now they have many sources that can help them learn trading.

They can invest in bitcoin instead of trading if they find it difficult to understand trading. That would be better for them because they wouldn't have to find out more details about when they can buy bitcoin. They can use the DCA method to invest in bitcoin.

Starting with a demo account while learning to trade is better because they practice what they learn.
But they can also start trading with small money to see the situation and find out how well they understand trading. If they can understand trading well, they will start making profits.
If they continue their learning, they can improve their analytical skills which will be useful for knowing market movements.

Those who have not been able to be lucky in trading should not be disappointed because they can continue to learn to improve what needs to be improved. There will come a time when they can make a profit and it's just a matter of time.

It's easy to say
They can search on the internet by typing the keywords they want. They will find many sites that can provide more information. If he could get a teacher, it would be easy for him to learn the trade.
But the problem is, not many people are willing to teach someone about trading in more detail.

Beginners are more suitable to start becoming investors because they don't need a lot of learning. But if they want to make a profit, they can learn about trading. Learning to trade is not easy, depending on each person's wishes.

The answer is in yourself. Are your skills in investing or in trading? The only person who can answer the questions you ask is yourself. But of the many people I know, generally they have more ability to invest than trade. You also explained the investment and trading side correctly, you should have an answer that can be concluded. Both have good potential if they can be implemented correctly and the decision is of course in our own hands.

Personally, I prefer long-term investments because I don't need to monitor market movements all the time. If we want to achieve the target at what price, just wait until Bitcoin jumps to that price. Trading is not like that because you have to see the potential and always analyze the market and this is where the difficulty lies if we don't understand how.

Investing seems to be a good choice for those who are just about to start knowing about crypto. Trading is another level of making money as it needs a wide market understanding and a high level of TA. As we know, a lot of people tried to do this but unfortunately, only a few of them became successful and this is because trading is not for everyone, the same thing as investing.

Either of the two, we choose the field where we think that suits us and we think that we never regret it later.

Cryptocurrency is risky, before anticipating in the system, we already know what we're signing up for. Investing and trading are complicated, but with appropriate tools, everything will definitely become easy for one to understand. Investing is probably for newbies and those that doesn't have enough time to stay active on live charts for trading. They thoroughly scout out a prominent crypto project and invest in it, it can be for short-term or long-term depending on their initial motives and capital. However when it comes to trading, it involves stress, technical and fundamental analysis to be practically skilled inother to executes good plans on the market.

Trading involves your knowledge of the cryptocurrency market, and you have to learn how to master a certain trading pattern that will favour you, hence you need a mentor to guide you and put you through so you won't blow your trading account from the beginning.

While investment, has a lot to do with your patience and also knowing when to buy if the rates are low, and hold for a long time till their is a return in investment, so you could earn good profit at the end of the day.
So both of them, have advantages and disadvantages, so it depending on which side of the divide that best suits your interest.

 It all comes down to the individual preferences and skills. One can exceed in investing but fail to succeed in trading, or the vice versa, or one can do both because he's capable to succeed from investing and trading. And I think a lot of us here are taking risks in both endeavors.

However, due to the fact that trading offers bigger and quick profits than investing, people decide to learn to trade because they believe that it can be done easily as long as knowledge, skills and experience are present.  But when you're already in live trading, you will realize that skills are not enough. You need to have more control of your emotions for you not to end up with wrong decisions, otherwise your trades will end up being screwed. That's the reason why majority still end up focusing more in investing than trading because its certainly less risky and stress free.