There are fast and slow thinkers in any discipline (Mr. Saylor for example who went from pleb to Giga in a year) so there is a place for everything. If you want a simpler entry point I would suggest the book "Magical Internet Money" or something like that. I have it on my shelf somewhere.
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Yeah I took the route of the money aspect and the technical route at the same time and read mastering Bitcoin. That hit a lot of aha moments for me as something who is fairly competent in technology.
For some reason I really didn’t understand mining until I read it. The analogies were too abstract in other literature.
lol AA's book was the first I ever read on BTC and I'm not a coder so you can imagine my dismay.
And yet I got it. And continued on from there.