I'd learn as much as I could about what the nature of the question would be beforehand and pay a human with a great track record of handing such questions.
Bitcoin has been bootstrapped into usefulness through the durability of the belief many have had in it, especially as people begin to lose confidence in the dollar and US equities.
The problem is that social systems aren't run off people teaching themselves things, and for many people being autodidact won't raise their status in any meaningful way, so these are a poor set of tradeoffs.