From your post, it seems like you dont even know much anyway....

Crypto is not bitcoin  . You're telling him to read about cryptography or what? Stop talking like a moron and let serious ppl do serious business. We dont want to hear another failed bitcoin business run by idiots.


EDIT: joined date December 23rd 2013, another noob attracted by price hikes .... no wonder you call bitcoin "crypto"

You might like to read this and also the thread mentioned at the end of this thread => https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/594344.0

Bitcoin Jesus, meet Coinhead.

the investor you talk to is not into programming..

so please please please please DO NOT show him videos that spend 20 minutes talking about cryptography and how mining works.

forex investors do not watch videos about how the fed works, or how a bank note is printed. they truly dont care what patent the cotton of the paper bank note is...

so do not waste a minute on the science of bitcoin.

instead talk to them in human terms. bitcoin itself has not been hacked. (only businesses have, but thats a different story) so just say that hackers have tried to break bitcoin and failed, thats why hackers now love bitcoin for their own store of wealth, because they trust it.
talk about the government side. there are now more government investigations and countries approving bitcoin as an asset. which if you ask a government to approve a tin of baked beans as an asset, they would laugh, again making bitcoin a trusted value store for the government
talk about deflation vs inflation. EG
30 years ago a pizza was less then a dollar, now its over $10..
3 years ago 1 pizza was 5000btc. now you can buy over 60 pizza's for just 1btc.
talk about the fact that forex trading is boring and slow. EG UK-US only moves cents per day and for decades has been stuck on a bracket of £1=$1.50-$1.90 where as bitcoin has no higher or lower brackets. and definitely is at such a small utility now, and growing that the sky is literally the limit..

Keep the "how it works" short. EG

stick to what he knows and wants to know. dont go into mining unless he is going to buy rigs and set them up himself. if he is an investor, its better and cheaper to just buy coins and hoard. or invest into an actual registered and legit business.

mining is not an investment in bitcoin, its an investment in electric supply companies. so dont waste too much time on the mining side.

Here's a nice article that says a lot of current Bitcoin and altcoin's financial situation:

http://cryptobizmagazine.com/cryptogenic-bullion-and-the-consultancy-culture/

Some advice: It's not the easiest thing to do, but it's best not to respond to an attack in this way. Better is to wait for a while, and someone else will do it for you, which makes you look much better.

Hi - thanks : )

The Bitcoin whitepaper of course is the first thing I read back in end of 2010, and the first item in my list : )

I have an pretty good understanding of basic cryptography, hashing, elliptic curve etc

As I said this is not for me (though it is always good to learn new things of course) and the gentleman I am in talks with will only ever most likely
want a rudimentary understanding of the deeper workings of the protocol - hence why I am looking for good primers to get the guys up to speed...
 I have enough info already , just scanning for any good polished sources that I may not have seen.


 

Hi yeah I know my bad - I have dealt with a fair share of mindless trolls in my life, and I can see that this chap is not a very smart or a useful troll even, so he is now on ignore, where he shall stay.
 

Good one