New technologies force us to learn throughout our lives. And the first steps in learning cryptocurrency can be compared with the first steps in reality. You have no experience but have an interest and belief in yourself, you just do the first step and see what happens.
In this sense I feel special respect to the people who begin acquaintance with computer technologies, being already in middle age - for them it is much more difficult. But I see a lot of them here, in Steemit and it's great!