Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain 2nd Edition

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (Author)

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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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	Mastering Bitcoin	Blockchain	Decentralized Applications	Bitcoin, the Blockchain, and Their Potential to Change Our World
Related Cryptocurrency Titles	Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies	Blueprint for a New Economy	Harnessing Bitcoin's Blockchain Technology	What You Need to Know About Mining, Exchanges, Wallets, Payments, Security and More

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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: 1491954388
ISBN-13: 978-1491954386
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
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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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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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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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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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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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Cireyoung

On the technical side. Had difficulty understanding some contents

May 15, 2018

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This book is a little bit on the technical side so I had a hard time understanding the full scope of it. But it is a good introductory material for those who are interested and would want to know a bit more than just it's dollar value.

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Tru-bleu

it still was a great explanation on so many fronts of the whole bitcoin ...

October 3, 2017

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While it did go above my head in many areas (as I was warned it would), it still was a great explanation on so many fronts of the whole bitcoin aspect. Highly recommend it to someone willing to mentally dig a little and challenge yourself.

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January 6, 2018

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Good technical introduction to bitcoin. Using this to develop mining node, will update as development continues.

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