Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain 2nd Edition

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Join the technological revolution that's taking the world of finance by storm. Mastering Bitcoin is your guide through the seemingly complex world of bitcoin, providing the knowledge you need to participate in the internet of money. Whether you're building the next killer app, investing in a startup, or simply curious about the technology, this revised and expanded second edition provides essential detail to get you started.
Bitcoin, the first successful decentralized digital currency, is still in its early stages and yet it's already spawned a multi billion dollar global economy. This economy is open to anyone with the knowledge and passion to participate. Mastering Bitcoin provides the knowledge. You simply supply the passion.
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A broad introduction to bitcoin ideal for non technical users, investors, and business executives
An explanation of the technical foundations of bitcoin and cryptographic currencies for developers, engineers, and software and systems architects
Details of the bitcoin decentralized network, peer to peer architecture, transaction lifecycle, and security principles
New developments such as Segregated Witness, Payment Channels, and Lightning Network
Improved explanations of keys, addresses and wallets
User stories, analogies, examples, and code snippets illustrating key technical concepts

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Related Cryptocurrency Titles	Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies	Learn How to Program Bitcoin from Scratch	Blueprint for a New Economy	Harnessing Bitcoin's Blockchain Technology	Building Smart Contracts and DApps	How Blockchains Will Change Your Business (and What to Do About It)

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Andreas is a passionate technologist, who is well-versed in many technical subjects. He is a serial tech-entrepreneur, having launched businesses in London, New York, and California. He has earned degrees in Computer Science and Data Communications and Distributed Systems from UCL. With experience ranging from hardware and electronics to high level business and financial systems technology consulting and years as CTO/CIO/CSO in many companies — he combines authority and deep knowledge with an ability to make complex subjects easy to understand. More than 200 of his articles on security, cloud computing and data centers have been published in print and syndicated worldwide. His expertise includes Bitcoin, crypto-currencies, Information Security, Cryptography, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Linux, Open Source and robotics software development. He also has been CISSP certified for 12 years.

As a bitcoin entrepreneur, Andreas has founded three bitcoin businesses and launched several community open-source projects. He often writes articles and blog posts on bitcoin, is a permanent host on Let’s Talk Bitcoin and prolific public speaker at technology events. Andreas serves on the advisory boards of several bitcoin startups.

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Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (July 4, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781491954386
ISBN-13: 978-1491954386
ASIN: 1491954388
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,497 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dillon

This book gives a great explanation as to how bitcoin works

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2018

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I have very little experience with programming, and am only just getting interested in cryptocurrency, so I was somewhat nervous that this book would be too in depth, and too complicated for me to understand. Thankfully I was wrong. This book gives a great explanation as to how bitcoin works, which is something that is limited with other methods of learning about bitcoin. For most sources I read about bitcoin, they would only briefly cover the technical, leaving it ambiguous, as if transactions are just magic, and that we just accept that these happen. This book really shows how a transaction works, how blockchain works, and why we need it--along with a history and and thorough introduction of bitcoin that could explain it to someone that knows nothing of distributed ledger technology.

I would suggest this book for anyone technically minded that wants to take the deep dive into understanding blockchain technology.

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John

Deep complex book for programmers. Do not buy if you are looking for an introduction.

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2017

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Deep complex book for programmers. Do not buy if you are looking for an introduction. Mostly about programming and crypto programming. Buy only if you know python and C++.

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Boris

Must read if you want to call yourself Bitcoin expert

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2017

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Fantastic book if you want to learn what Bitcoin is and how it works. But when I say "learn", I mean LEARN it from technical perspective. It is very technical book, but so far - the best book on the market. Recommended!

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Sean Murphy

Fantastic book for programmers

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2018

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This is definitely a book for people who already have a programming or computer science background. I very much recommend this book as an entry point into working with Bitcoin.

It is starting to get a little outdated in as much as there have been a few advances with Bitcoin that this book either mentions only briefly or doesn't include. Segregated Witness is mentioned in an appendix, and Bech32 isn't mentioned at all. The 2nd edition was published in July 2017, so it's only about a year out of date currently. Also, explanations of the new technology can be found online in various places, and you still need the understanding of Bitcoin that the rest of the book provides.

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Engineer

Solid, well-written, informative text on all things bitcoin.

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2018

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I am not a bitcoin enthusiast or a bitcoin miner. I do not recommend bitcoin as an investor or speculator. However, I did want to have a clear understanding of bitcoin and the blockchain. As usual, O’Reilly delivers a solid and informative book. I have relied on O’Reilly for almost 20 years and this book does not disappoint. He author does a solid job of describing bitcoin and its associated technologies. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand bitcoin technology.

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Brian Dunne

An incredibly well-written, informative, and non-ideological guide to programming Bitcoin

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2018

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I have read a lot of books on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and the quality of this one simply blows all the others out of the water. This is a very murky area informationally, and I was frankly shocked at just how good this book is. If you're familiar with other O'Reilly Press programming books, it might be less surprising that this is exceedingly well-written, extremely useful, and incredibly enlightening, but still I was taken aback at the depth and quality of this book. (I've said it already, but it bears repeating that cryptocurrency books vary widely in quality and frequently toe the line of marketing rather than informing.) In any event, kudos to Andreas and his editors and I have already preordered (and breathlessly await) his forthcoming Ethereum book.

One final note: this book is a great resource not just for programming, but simply understanding, Bitcoin. Much of it is reasonably complex and requires programming background, but the book does not require you to actually be plugging code into a command line to appreciate the insights and explanations.

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Jeffrey A. Steele

A 21st Century Developer's must read

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2017

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Being a developer myself, I always favor books that have simple, straight to the point code examples. The hashing examples alone are a great source of for a developer to use in practicle applications, escpecially if one is trying to create block chain applications for a specific industry. Thanks for the deep read on this subject. I can't wait to see where the blockchain will be a few years from now.

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The definitive book on Bitcoin (for the serious programmer)

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2020

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I bought this book a couple of years ago and sorta skimmed through it (was just trying to get an idea on Bitcoin and the book looked a bit too deep for me).
Couple of years later (today), I've actually started blockchain programming and I find myself ALWAYS coming back to this book for a deeper understanding on this topic than any other book in the market.
It gives me deep pleasure to see how beautifully so many topics and been analysed and explained.
It is not easy reading, but becoming good at anything needs an effort (and you CANNOT do better than using this book as a reference for serious bitcoin programming).

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GersprungledDog

This book is fantastic. REALLY

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 14, 2017

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This book is fantastic. REALLY. Ten out of ten.
It explains everything very cleverly. I used to machine code a Motorola 6502 chip on my Commodore Pet in the late 70's so I am not fazed by the coding sections. Thank goodness AA wrote this BIBLE for bitcoin for the masses.... as that is what this book is.
I am reading it now for a second time...just as enjoyable if not more so because I understand the whole thing so much better.
Do not bother looking for another book...this is the one.

The book also taught me a very useful lesson.The Bread wallet now allows one touch payment to suppliers. My Bread wallet was not set up to require my passcode before making a payment. MAKE SURE YOURS IS BEFORE SCANNING CODES.

BUY THIS BOOK

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n1msr

Excellent technical explanation on Bitcoin

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 9, 2018

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This is a great story and technical explanation. There are many (too many?) books that talk about Bitcoin and blockchain without explaining the detail. If you want a technical explanation, with code samples. get this book! You don't need to be a developer to understand it, but you need some technical knowledge or awareness and plenty of curiosity. I learned so much from reading particular chapters.

I am looking forward to a new book by the same author and publisher later in 2018 on "Mastering Ethereum".

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David Tickner

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 13, 2018

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I tried to read all of this along with Tor and the Dark Web. I read the latter in one day. As for this - it is thick and deep. Is it necessary to go that deep? I am still struggling to get through it. To understand a currency it is great to have this available as a reference but if I wanted to purchase dollars I wouldn't want such a deep read. This goes above and beyond with examples of all sorts including code which you can skip if you're not that way inclined. Well written and if I ever get to the end of it I might amend this review. Not a casual read.

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squashplayer

Excellent book which deserves close reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 28, 2017

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Excellent book which deserves close reading.
Found myself having to reread earlier chapters as focus jumped about a bit but mostly ended up telling me whstvi wanted to know. A bit weak on the difficult subject of elliptic curve cryptography - had the impression the author was struggling also.

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Ugo

Great book for everybody

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 12, 2018

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This is an amazing book. Whether you know something about bitcoin or not, this is the book for you. The first chapters are easy to understand for everybody. If you have a basic programming knowledge, you will also enjoy the rest of the book. Once you finish the book, you will find the original bitcoin paper, as it was published by Satoshi Nakamoto and you will be able to grasp every concept of any single line of this famous paper, because these concepts have been clearly explained in the previous chapters. I really recommend it to everybody. I have learnt a lot. Thanks Andreas Antonopolous!

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G. Rizzelli

The one stop shop to understand bitcoin and blockchain

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2017

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Loved this book. If you are not into tech you can easily skip the coding sections without loosing the thread. It explains everything you need to know to understand the technology (cryptography, blocks, miners, merkle trees, etc) underpinning the cryptospace revolution without speculating on future applications.

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D C W MORLEY

Contains good stuff but not for the innocent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2019

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I still don't understand all about Bitcoin, but this book explains quite a lot. The problem with Bitcoin as I see it is that either you are simply buying and selling or you are delving into the structure, perhaps for the sheer interest. If you are in the first camp, you don't need this book. If you are in the second camp, buy the book and put it on the shelf with all the others.

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Alex

By far the best technical introduction to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 28, 2018

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This is an excellent book that takes you from a gentle introduction to the idea and concepts behind Bitcoin to a detailed technical explanation of how the system really works.

All the main parts of Bitcoin are covered, including the blockchain, keys, addresses, wallets, transactions, scripting, the peer to peer network, mining, security, and 'advanced' topics such as coloured coins, segregated witness, and the lightning network.

I highly recommend this book to all developers and others who want a thorough technical explanation of Bitcoin. If you are planning to do any kind of serious technical work related to Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency then this is the best place to start.

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Very technical

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2019

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Very technical book and not very good for beginners. For slightly more advanced readers, it is a nice read

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THE book on bitcoin

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 30, 2018

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Very detailed and useful book on bitcoin, but not for people who are not familiar with programming concepts

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Only reason for not giving it 5 stars is that it feels with a subject like this, a book would do well to have ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2018

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This book gives a detailed explanation of BitCoin. Only reason for not giving it 5 stars is that it feels with a subject like this, a book would do well to have some exercises at the end of each chapter reinforce.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 23, 2019

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For any cybercrime students, or people trying to understand what cryptocurrency is, this is a helpful book.

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Andreas Antonopoulos is the authority on Bitcoin and this means ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 12, 2018

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Andreas Antonopoulos is the authority on Bitcoin and this means this book is a must read to really understand the technology.

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THE must have Bitcoin book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2019

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There is a reason this is the no 1 Bitcoin book!

This is a necessity if you want understand the technical aspects of Bitcoin and the Blockchain, or just to get some really good straight forward extra Blockchain development knowledge.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 28, 2019

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Very nice book and good price. Thanks

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