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From the way the question was phrased, I think this is precisely for learning how to do such things. You still need to start somewhere, and as long as you know you should not take inconsiderate risks, you can screw up sometimes and learn from your errors.
Importantly, you don't get to learn from your mistakes in "opsec." Dread Pirate Roberts asked a question about connecting to a tor site using curl on StackOverflow under his own name. Seconds later he realized "D'oh, that is in hindsight a bad move." and changed his name to a pseudonym. Choose your own adventure: a) He got to learn from his mistake. b) That incident was recounted years later in the criminal indictmen…
(These sort of leaks are always much easier to find in hindsight: no one ever noted the Shroomery or Bitcointalk or Stackoverflow leaks before the indictment was released, yet once you knew what you were looking for, you could find the posts in minutes.)