IOTA is a cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin, although quite different. It is decentralized, as Bitcoin, it has 0% inflation (Bitcoin's inflation is 3.89% right now), no IOTA coins will ever be minted. It uses a different technology to secure the network and because of that, the transactions are for free and the network is capable of massive amounts of transactions per second, much more than Bitcoin is. Sounds too good to be true? I did myself a research and i am telling you, I am in for sure. My current portfolio is 75% Ethereum, 20% IOTA, 5% Zencash and Stratis. While doing my research i discovered a lot of great resource, i am sharing these great resources with you, so you can easily learn about IOTA and make your own investment decision. But beware, it's a lot of resources. You would need probably a full day to digest all of it. Enjoy.
Introduction
Teaser
IOTA review - watch this to understand why even care about IOTA in the first place?
Watch one of the following videos to get to know basics about IOTA. The first one is shorter, the second one goes to more details.
IOTA in a nutshell
Ivan on Tech (@ivanli) explains how IOTA works
IOTA intro - interview with a member of IOTA team - i really recommend you this interview, even though it's long
https://soundcloud.com/arthurfalls/ether-review-69-iota-the-post-blockchain-era
The technology (might be difficult for beginners, be strong and patient!)
Although this video is a little bit long, it's worth it, it explains how IOTA works in fairly simple way from the technical stand point of view. It is not intended for people who don't know anything about blockchain though.
Explanation how IOTA consensus works.
https://forum.iota.org/t/iota-consensus-masterclass/1193
IOTA white paper
https://iota.org/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf
Development
Ivan on Tech (@ivanli) analyzes how is the development of IOTA going
Where do I buy IOTA?
The best place to buy IOTA is https://www.bitfinex.com/
Realtime tangle network - just for fun
https://tangle.blox.pm/