Ask HN: How to learn more about Crypto Currencies for a Newbie??

The Princeton Bitcoin class and companion text are very thorough. One of the crypto-currencies of note highlighted during the class was zerocoin, which adds a layer of anonymity to the blockchain. The Zcash implementation of zerocoin is currently launching in alpha. It may prove an interesting way to witness the progress of a crypto-currency being bootstrapped in real-time. As well as gaining insight into cutting-edge zero knowledge technology, that some believe may become standard in all future crypto-currencies.

https://z.cash/

Thank you man, just downloaded this book, will read it on this weekend. :)

To elaborate it further, lets take a situation here, lets say,for a newbie who has spent considerable amount of time on reading a few books and searching through reddits, and watching about 50 videos related to the topic on youtube, what would be the best course of action, because most of the time the material on the internet on most blogs and article is the same, but just written in a different way.

So are there any websites, blogs, reddit groups or other forums which an experienced miner would suggest to a newbie ???

Thanks for the link mate, just enrolled into the course, i hope this will help me understand 'BitCoin' in a better way