I want to invest, but have no idea where to start and need to learn more about bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general before taking the plunge.
About 80-90% information you will get easily without any problem .
Secondly some things are complicated to understand that will be understood by you as the time spent by you increases time to time . I mean this is all about the experience of use .At every day you will got better experience to handle bitcoin in better way . This is a simple thing that happened with everyone . usually most of the bitcoiners who were newbie faced the same problem that your facing . But with time to time they gather much knowledge and experience with Bitcoin that how to deal with it .