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Join the technological revolution thatâ??s taking the financial world 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 youâ??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 itâ??s already spawned a multi-billion-dollar global economy 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 of bitcoin and its underlying blockchainâ??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
A deep dive into blockchain applications, including how to combine the building blocks offered by this platform into higher-level applications
User stories, analogies, examples, and code snippets illustrating key technical concepts

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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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 2nd edition (July 25, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 411 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1491954388
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1491954386
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches

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Andreas M. Antonopoulos is an acclaimed author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. Andreas makes complex subjects accessible and easy to understand. He is known for delivering electric talks that combine economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with current events, personal anecdote, and historical precedent—effortlessly transliterating the complex issues of blockchain technology out of the abstract and into the real world.

In 2014, Antonopoulos authored the groundbreaking book, Mastering Bitcoin, widely considered to be the best technical guide ever written about the technology. His second book, The Internet of Money, unveiled the “why” of bitcoin—and became a bestseller on Amazon as did the follow up books The Internet of Money Volume Two, and The Internet of Money Volume Three. Mastering Ethereum, a technical guide to the Ethereum network, was published in late 2018. His most recent book Mastering the Lightning Network explains Bitcoin's second layer payment network. His books have been translated and published in 14 languages so far.

He is a teaching fellow with the University of Nicosia, serves on the Oversight Committee for the Bitcoin Reference Rate at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and has appeared as an expert witness in hearings around the world, including the Australian Senate Banking Committee and the Canadian Senate Commerce, Banking and Finance Committee.

As an entrepreneur, Andreas has founded a number of bitcoin businesses and launched several community open-source projects. He serves as an advisor to several bitcoin and crypto-currency companies. He is a widely published author of articles and blog posts on bitcoin, is a permanent host on the popular Speaking of Bitcoin Podcast, and a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences and meetups worldwide.

Andreas can be contacted via twitter (@aantonop) or via the contact forms on his website aantonop.com

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BJ 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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Paul

Excelent Book, thorough, detailed

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2023

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I've purchased 3 books recently, plus one as a gift. I'm just trying to understand Bitcoin and crypto, for general knowledge not for investing. This was the best. 'The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains' by Antony Lewis was also very good. The other two books were essentially crypto fanboi marketing and poor.

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Alek

Andreas is the GOAT!

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2024

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amazing book from a master of bitcoin. If want to understand how bitcoin actually works, this is a must read.

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2022

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This book is a prereq for anyone who wants to understand how Bitcoin works. Even though it was made for programmers, as a non-technical person I was able to grasp the main concepts perfectly. The code snippets are followed by clear explanations of the processes portrayed, but even if you don't understand 100% of the technical parts, don't get stuck and don't give up. Move on, keep reading. Andreas is an impeccable communicator and any person can learn a lot from reading this masterpiece in its entirety. This book is fundamental if you want to have bitcoin in your life.

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Nice read!

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2021

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Great book to read. It is very in-depth and may take a few re-reads to get all the concepts but it is a great way to learn a about the Bitcoin network and from all aspects. From mining to wallers. The programming excersies are limited and for beginners might need more hand holding but this is a great reference to have for any bitcoiner.

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Joshua M. Levine

Despite all the free bitcoin resources, this book is more than worth the price

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2021

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I recently went back to Mastering Bitcoin and the graphical explanation of how to get from a public key to a P2PKH address is crystal clear. This is not the first time that I was using some internet source and ended up having to go back to Mastering Bitcoin to see what the correct answer was.

It is also nice to have clear and correct information all in one place, and presented in order. If you start at the beginning of this book and finish at the end, you will have covered everything you need to know about the bitcoin code protocol at the time the book was written.

Note that you can get this book online for free... in small pieces. If you are considering buying it maybe try using the online version to read about something you are on clear on before paying.

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Janet

This is the best technical book I have found on the subject

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2018

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This is the best technical book I have found on the subject, where many other blockchain and bitcoin books appear to be more popular science than technical education. This book prepares the reader to develop on this platform, as well as architect solutions. Each chapter describes the ingenious approaches that developers have come up with to solve practical, as well as existential, problems of trust and distributed exchange. Even if you are not a developer, it is fascinating to read about the solutions that have been developed, and how each one builds on the ones that came before it. The book is well-written and has been carefully edited for grammar, organization, diagrams, code examples, and so on. Of course, one should probably expect this quality of technical writing and publication from O'Reilly. I enjoyed it and have pre-ordered "Mastering Ethereum", by the same author, Andreas M. Antonopoulos.

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austin

By Far, the Best Development Resource for Bitcoin

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2020

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Mastering Bitcoin does not disappoint. Most of the knowledge in this book is available online (the book is actually open-source on Github), but having every aspect of Bitcoin explained in one location has been very useful and convenient for me. This book follows the usual O'Reilly format, which, combined with the clear, working examples and top-down explanation makes the concepts easy to grasp, even with little to no past exposure. Everything I've struggled with while developing a block explorer and mobile wallet has been covered in this book... Base 58, encryption algorithms, signing transactions, block formats, multisig, segwit, BIPs, scripting capabilities... you name it, this book explains it.

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Josh

Antonopoulos reveals Bitcoin as a ballet of cryptography!

Reviewed in Canada on January 11, 2023

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Mastering Bitcoin covers all the main concepts and algorithms you need to understand Bitcoin and Antonopoulos breaks them down into easily understandable chunks.

Antonopoulos takes us on a journey to understand the marvel of cryptographic engineering that is Bitcoin.

Salim Badakhchani

Essential reading for Bitcoiners.

Reviewed in Sweden on October 4, 2023

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It's the Bitcoin bible.

Dim Mak

Must to read

Reviewed in Italy on July 22, 2023

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Il miglior libro su bitcoin che ho letto.

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Everardo

La Biblia para entender Bitcoin

Reviewed in Mexico on March 1, 2021

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Este libro es la mejor fuente de información para comprender Bitcoin en su totalidad. Si después de haber visto muchos videos en Youtube o leido miles de paginas web que escriben sobre Bitcoin, y aun así sigues teniendo muchas dudas, definitivamente tienes que adquirir este libro.

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César C.

La Blockchain est très expliquée, claire et limpide.

Reviewed in France on December 14, 2020

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J'ai acheté ce livre pour comprendre ce qu'était le Bitcoin et plus particulièrement la Blockchain. J'ai fini le livre en une nuit! Tous les concepts sont particulièrement bien expliqué d'une part pour les personnes peu expérimentées dans les nouvelles technologies et d'autre part, ce livre permet de créer sa propre Blockchain. Le travail de vulgarisation est très pertinent.
Je recommande cette ouvrage vivement.

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