a couple posts I recently made on Bitcoin and Ethereum have alot of good resources in them that might be good to go through to help get up-to-speed...
Bitcoin: Officially More Valuable Than Gold, And It's Ascent To The Million Mark...
What The F^<k Is Ethereum? A New Era of World Supercomputing And Why This Is A Big Deal...
The Bitcoin one has some great videos that paint a good picture for why crypto is so important and will keep growing in popularity and value. The links in the Ethereum one give a good overview of the implications for the emerging decentralized blockchain ecosystem. Both are very fundamental perspectives to grasp if getting into all this stuff - and I'd recommend taking your time to digest the material in those as it may all be a great condensation of great content that'll shorten your learning curve... ;-)