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 undervaluedI'm hoarding bitcoins and no you can't have anyBitcoin doesn't have the properties of money, it changes them.The Advent of Cryptocurrencies: A reason to rethink currency in the 21st centuryChina, cryptocurrency, and the world orderChina, cryptocurrency, and the world order part 2Code as Law: How Bitcoin Could Decentralize the CourtroomVirtual currencies can challenge the sovereignty of statesDark marketplaces positioned to accelerate the collapse of governmentsOnly the black market mattersTrust no US companies with the future of bitcoinBitcoin: Fact, Fiction, FutureEuropean banks are in troublePrivatize the pound?Could the bitcoin protocol be the birth of virtual collective consciousness?Bitcoin: Economy of the Eternal Nowhttps://paybycoin.intuit.com/Videos:
The real value of bitcoin technologyAndreas Antonopoulos on Bitcoin @ Maker Faire 2014 DetroitBitcoin the Organism TED talk with Jeff Garzik (from April)
Why Bitcoin's growth is normalThomas Spaas at TEDxUHasselt - The concepts of Bitcoin and their impact on the worldwide legal spaceInterview: Bernard von NotHaus on the Liberty DollarInterview: Max WrightInterview: Mike Maloney - is Bitcoin an NSA setup?Bitcoin 101, with Daniel AltmanRon Paul on the possibility of a Bitcoin boom (from January)
m/gallery/?video=3000289713]Draper's long-term bet on bitcoinIntroducing Crypto Cards!The Evolving Digital Commerce EcosystemBitcoin can fulfill the role of cash in a digital societyBruce Fenton: Bitcoin and the New York "BitLicense" proposed regulationsMatt Whitlock on Elliptic Curve CryptographyGood 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.