I feel that we are in a patch where everybody with a passing knowledge is going through a baptism of fire. I’m one of these people.
I did get pointed towards eToro as a starting point, and then it transpires that you can’t even push stuff to a wallet there! So much fumbling in the dark. At least on here crypto is a favourite topic (unsurprisingly) so you can get a bit of a passing knowledge. If you follow the right people.