I recommend Perry G Mehrling [Columbia], (free) course on coursera [1] called Economics of Money and Banking. It provides a great context for how the current monetary system works. This context helps a bunch when comparing it to crypto.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking/home/welcome" rel="nofollow">https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking/home/welcome</a>
Don't read guides. They won't help you. Try to use the stuff. Get some money on the exchanges, on MyEtherWallet, use the Ledger Nano, invest in some ICOs, use the Etherscan API, etc.<p>I did the mistake reading too much about all this crypto stuff for too long actually doing nothing.<p>Once you do something it clicks and you understand the whole picture much better and you read automatically stuff that matters and which gives you a deeper context.<p>Edit: Why the downvotes?
For a quick video intro I recommend this video from 3Blue1Brown ("youtube mathematician") <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4</a><p>IMHO the best intro to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general.
Reading the introduction one question came to me: do the Big Five (Google, Amazon etc) show interest in blockchain technology and/or cryptocurrencies ? Google has invested in at least 2 companies that I know of (?)
This is missing byteball under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph</a> (that iota branded as "tangle") non blockchain using cryptocurrencies.
Does anyone know a good way of determining global net savings held in depository institutions? So basically fiat held on deposit globally? And stated in USD?
lot of biased (or to be blunt, incorrect) information from a quick glance.<p>There is a lack of protocol depth understanding from the author. Most of the recommendations seem to serve as market "advice" if you want to call it that.