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.
The second edition includes:

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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About the Author

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.

Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (July 1, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781491954386
ISBN-13: 978-1491954386
ASIN: 1491954388
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Dillon

This book gives a great explanation as to how bitcoin works

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

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

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

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.

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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Donald Piret

One of the best technical books about blockchain technology I have ever come ...

July 18, 2017

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One of the best technical books about blockchain technology I have ever come across. Aimed at programmers or technical enthusiasts so definitely requires a bit of background-knowledge, but gives a very in-depth overview of many aspects of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

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Jeffrey A. Steele

A 21st Century Developer's must read

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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Brian Dunne

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

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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