When I knew about bitcoin wasn't exactly when I gave it the attention I do give it today. It took me a long period before I had to get involved to know more about it. Now am glued.
I gained knowledge about economics and trading mainly after being introduced to Bitcoin, later I learned that Bitcoin is not just for trading, it is a kind of economy power that is created through decentralized design.
Bitcoin is a currency which serves as money though decentralised. So whoever that has large quantities of bitcoin could be said to have some level of economic power. Because contrasting this to the bitcoin whales, seeing how they most times manipulates the bitcoin market due to their large sums of bitcoin ownership.