Is funny when you refers to $60 as stable substantial financial portfolio but let me assume you know what you're doing at 17 years, I hope your education is not dropped out? Learning crypto currency is not bad but your opinion of what your want looks like money monger. You sound like you're into crypto to make money, bro crypto is wide you need background knowledge to follows suits how to create its lifestyles not just for me. To venture into investment too is good but am afraid of your motive to make money at 17, please well to face education then while learning crypto currency.
And finally am sure you're not working, where did you intends to always get money from to fund your wallet? Crypto investment required a lot to bear, the risks, the time frame and patients, the ups and downs as you said. So just know much about crypto while growing.
I know a 15 years old coder who is almost a genius, he knows coding to the core and he is also into building apps and software, age is just a number and please do not discourage this person because he is 17 years old, also why are you on here if not to make money from crypto? I got into crypto in my 20s but that's when I knew about crypto, if I knew about crypto in my 15 I would have joined the train a very long time ago.
In today's world, you will see underage doing things that even those in their 50s can't do, avoid judging someone because of their age, knowledge doesn't know age, I remember people telling me almost the same thing when I was new in crypto, like how are you going to keep buying Bitcoin every month? What are you doing that's bringing you money? All these questions are expected only from the naysayers.
They just want to know, that's all, but mind you, we don't know OP, how he is going to keep investing will never be known to us, because that's the way it should be, it's possible for a 17 years old to invest in Bitcoin, homes can't be compared, pocket money can't be compared, family can't be compare, leave this boy be.