Have you read the bitcoin whitepaper-The paper that first introduced Bitcoin?

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Satoshi Nakamoto's original paper is still been ignored by many today. The crypto (Bitcoin) community on bitcointalk.org (Bitcoin Discussion) welcomes new community members (potential investors) in their hundreds daily yet i see no effort/discission made available to educate these newbies on what bitcoin really is.
 Let's take a good look at the Bitcoin Discussion thread for a second all you can find there are spam upon spam. The newbies have now been left in the hands of spammers to educate them. I feel every newbie should be introduced to what bitcoin truly is first via the whitepaper (it should be pinned) so they know bitcoin is truly a revolution and not some get rich quick scheme and keep their emotions in check.

Here is a link to the whitepaper:
https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper

What's your opinion on this? And back to my question, Have you read the bitcoin whitepaper?.

[BrewMaster]

apart from the obvious fact that there is a lot of spam on bitcointalk, you don't come to a forum to be educated! a forum is a place of discussion and a place to ask questions that you couldn't find the answer to.
all the information anyone needs to be educated about bitcoin is already out there on good sources such as bitcoin wiki and bitcoin.stackexchange.com

as for reading the bitcoin paper, it is a pretty good idea but not a mandatory one in my opinion. specially for the end users who are scared of anything remotely technical! they are better off sticking to simplified versions that can be found elsewhere on the internet.
for example i would say watching Andreas Antonopoulos videos for these people is better than reading the paper as their first move!

[Pan Troglodytes]

Sure I have read it, didn't everybody do? I even tried to solve a 1BTC puzzle based on the artwork which resulted from creating a word cloud from the whitepaper

[Marcel666]

Those who have not yet read the whitepaper surely can't complain of lack of access to it, as a simple Google Search is enough to get it.
And some would still fail to use the link at the top of the page or yours for that matter.

Although the whitepaper is quite complicated and takes some understanding, which someone with limited technical knowledge doesn't have.
Starting from the basics and analyzing every aspect of bitcoin singularly is a better was to understanding the concept.