Quote from: Beliathon on October 21, 2014, 02:15:24 PM

Quote from: hugger on October 21, 2014, 12:56:28 PM

Why should someone (not knowledgeable about bitcoin) should start spending hours and hours to learn about bitcoin's concept. Why should that someone start right now?

Why? Because of the enormous opportunity cost of not learning about it. If you're wise enough to be here asking this question, you're wise enough to know why you need to know.

Here, I'll make it easy for you:

Reading:

Why You Should Care About Bitcoin: Money is going digital and it is impacting the biggest growth industry of the past 75 years Medium.com from Sept. 2013

Accelerated Learning for Bitcoin: How I got up to speed on bitcoin in about a month. Medium.com from Nov. 2013

Why Bitcoin is grossly undervalued

I'm hoarding bitcoins and no you can't have any

Bitcoin doesn't have the properties of money, it changes them.

The Advent of Cryptocurrencies: A reason to rethink currency in the 21st century

China, cryptocurrency, and the world order

China, cryptocurrency, and the world order part 2

Code as Law: How Bitcoin Could Decentralize the Courtroom

Virtual currencies can challenge the sovereignty of states

Dark marketplaces positioned to accelerate the collapse of governments

Only the black market matters

Trust no US companies with the future of bitcoin

Bitcoin: Fact, Fiction, Future

European banks are in trouble

Privatize the pound?

Could the bitcoin protocol be the birth of virtual collective consciousness?

Bitcoin: Economy of the Eternal Now

https://paybycoin.intuit.com/

Videos:

The real value of bitcoin technology

Andreas Antonopoulos on Bitcoin @ Maker Faire 2014 Detroit

Bitcoin the Organism TED talk with Jeff Garzik (from April)

Why Bitcoin's growth is normal

Thomas Spaas at TEDxUHasselt - The concepts of Bitcoin and their impact on the worldwide legal space

Interview: Bernard von NotHaus on the Liberty Dollar

Interview: Max Wright

Interview: Mike Maloney - is Bitcoin an NSA setup?

Bitcoin 101, with Daniel Altman

Ron Paul on the possibility of a Bitcoin boom (from January)

m/gallery/?video=3000289713]Draper's long-term bet on bitcoin

Introducing Crypto Cards!

The Evolving Digital Commerce Ecosystem

Bitcoin can fulfill the role of cash in a digital society

Bruce Fenton: Bitcoin and the New York "BitLicense" proposed regulations

Matt Whitlock on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Good luck, fellow seeker of truth.

Hey man thanks for this post, I've gone thry have of these and gonna finish this weekend!
Very interesting to see what direciton this will take in the coming years for sure.