Single best link to explain bitcoins to newbies?

[LiteCoinGuy]

if they are able to read:

http://www.coindesk.com/information/

 

[willphase]

https://www.udemy.com/bitcoin-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-crypto/

cool videos.

how come the presenter calls the topic 'the Bitcoin'.

'you will learn all about the Bitcoin'

it sort of keeps distracting me as I listen!

Will

[Scott J]

I like evoorhees' introduction to Bitcoin here:

http://evoorhees.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/bitcoin-libertarian-introduction.html

[01BTC10]

A good link for noobs with some technical background: (can't put the link. Search Google for Satoshi white paper)

[BorderBits]

A good link for noobs with some technical background: (can't put the link. Search Google for Satoshi white paper)

Except that they'd read that and realize that BTC was simply intended to be a proof of concept; they'd quickly want nothing to do with a currency/commodity riddled with so many issues. 

I hear Bruce Wagner might be planning a new BTC show. 

[01BTC10]

A good link for noobs with some technical background: (can't put the link. Search Google for Satoshi white paper)

Except that they'd read that and realize that BTC was simply intended to be a proof of concept; they'd quickly want nothing to do with a currency/commodity riddled with so many issues. 

I hear Bruce Wagner might be planning a new BTC show. 

This is the paper that convinced me to invest after 6 months reading.

[kiko]

Search for the video: 'United Colors of Bitcoin'.

I hadn't heard of that one so I looked it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6sOFXHlhu

That's the driest bitcoin primer out there. I would recommend it to anyone with insomnia, but probably not the best first impression if you're hoping to get people excited about bitcoin. 

[BorderBits]

A good link for noobs with some technical background: (can't put the link. Search Google for Satoshi white paper)

Except that they'd read that and realize that BTC was simply intended to be a proof of concept; they'd quickly want nothing to do with a currency/commodity riddled with so many issues. 

I hear Bruce Wagner might be planning a new BTC show. 

This is the paper that convinced me to invest after 6 months reading.

Invest or use?  Is the goal to get newbies to invest in bitcoin or to use bitcoin as currency?  The whitepaper's first sentence references electronic cash; however, a quick glance at the instability of the currency commodity shows that it's not a favorable medium of exchange except for illegal markets.  However, another recent paper shows how unanonymous BTC is for kiddie-touchers -- http://fc13.ifca.ai/proc/1-3.pdf. 

[01BTC10]

A good link for noobs with some technical background: (can't put the link. Search Google for Satoshi white paper)

Except that they'd read that and realize that BTC was simply intended to be a proof of concept; they'd quickly want nothing to do with a currency/commodity riddled with so many issues.  

I hear Bruce Wagner might be planning a new BTC show.  

This is the paper that convinced me to invest after 6 months reading.

Invest or use?  Is the goal to get newbies to invest in bitcoin or to use bitcoin as currency?  The whitepaper's first sentence references electronic cash; however, a quick glance at the instability of the currency commodity shows that it's not a favorable medium of exchange except for illegal markets.  However, another recent paper shows how unanonymous BTC is for kiddie-touchers -- http://fc13.ifca.ai/proc/1-3.pdf.  

First I invested in a mining rig, then I bought more bitcoins with fiat, then I started to purchase and sell products and services.

The paper convinced me that it was not a scam and a robust system. When googling Bitcoin in mid 2011 there was more results calling it a scam than anything else.