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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	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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Average Customer Review: 90 customer reviews
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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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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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Jim R. Wilson

Excellent technical explanation of Bitcoin

February 2, 2018

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This book goes into meticulous detail about how Bitcoin works at every level of analysis. It explains how keys work—even down to the level of the elliptic curve math—the ins and outs of transactions, and the components of Script, Bitcoin’s language for securing unspent transaction outputs (UTXO).

Andreas explains the Lightning Network, a beautiful second layer solution to achieving payments at scale. He also details how Segregated Witness solves the problem of transaction malleability while making transactions smaller and aligning fee incentives to reduce the UTXO set.

I appreciated all the real world examples that help anchor the discussion. Andreas never fails to impress!

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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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Janet

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

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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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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Joe

Five Stars

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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Unfortunately the organization of the book is poor. It seems there were many authors and no ...

There is a lot of information in here. Unfortunately the organization of the book is poor. It seems there were many authors and no single mind proof read it.Read more

The best resource out there for learning Bitcoin. The content, writing style, and print quality are all top notch.

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A competent author turns Bitcoin inside out explaining each and every aspect with clarity and accuracy.Read more

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Aleksander Skjoelsvik

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Great introduction to Bitcoin, blockchain-based technologies, and the field in general. Easy read with easy-to-follow examples.

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The most trustful book about bitcoin/blockchain. This is a must, but it`s a little bit technical.

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yaluruns

wonderful! Now I understand how bitcoin works and what ...

wonderful!

Now I understand how bitcoin works and what blockchain is.

This one book is enough for bitcoin and blockchain.

many thanks.

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Juan Rosado

Five Stars

Excellent.

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Awesome book, good under the hood explanation of bitcoin technology.

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Anthony

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who doesnt like Mr Antonopoulos work? GREAT READ

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