Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies
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Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies is essential reading for everyone interested in learning about bitcoin basics, the technical operation of bitcoin, or if you’re building the next great bitcoin killer app or business.
Introduction:
From using a bitcoin wallet to buy a cup of coffee, to running a bitcoin marketplace with hundreds of thousands of transactions, or collaboratively building new financial innovations that will transform our understanding of currency and credit, this book will help you engineer money. You’re about to unlock the API to a new economy. This book is your key. This book will help you learn everything you need to know about decentralized digital money, which is one of the most exciting technical revolutions in decades.
Just as the Internet has transformed dozens of industries – from media and entertainment to retailing, travel and many more – decentralized digital money, in the form of crypto-currencies, has the ability to transform the foundations of money, credit and financial services. It also has the power to transform other social activities and institutions that we don’t usually associate directly with money, such as corporations, governance, voting and the law.
As the first successful digital currency, bitcoin is the natural starting point for anyone interested in decentralized digital money, its implications and applications. Mastering Bitcoin describes the technical foundations of bitcoin and other cryptographic currencies, from cryptography basics, such as keys and addresses, to the data structures, network protocols and the consensus mechanism (“mining”) that underpin bitcoin. Each technical topic is explained with user stories, elegant analogies and examples, and code snippets illustrating the key concepts.
The first two chapters offer a broad and accessible introduction to bitcoin that is intended for all audiences, from new non-technical users to investors and business executives seeking to better understand bitcoin. The remainder of the book dives into the technical details of bitcoin’s operation and is aimed at professional developers, engineers, software and systems architects, systems administrators and technically-minded people interested in the inner workings of bitcoin and comparable crypto-currencies.
Mastering Bitcoin is intended to be used as a reference book for technical professionals, as a self-study guide for bitcoin entrepreneurs, and as a textbook for university courses on bitcoin and digital currencies. Bitcoin is still in its infancy, and yet it has already spawned a multi-billion dollar, global economy that is growing exponentially. Both new and established companies are adding bitcoin as a payment method, and investors are funding a flurry of new bitcoin and related startups. Mastering Bitcoin can help you become part of this vibrant new economy. The time to get started is now.
Contents:
- How Bitcoin Works
- The Bitcoin Client
- Keys, Addresses, Wallets
- Transactions
- The Bitcoin Network
- The Blockchain
- Mining and Consensus
- Alternative Chains, Currencies, and Applications
- Bitcoin Security
Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies By Andreas M. Antonopoulos PDF
18 reviews for Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies
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Ivanna Baldwin (verified owner) –
an actual smart… informative… amazing book. not for hypekids.
Grace Price (verified owner) –
I read most of this book in one marathon sitting the way I used to read Harry Potter as a little kid. Maybe this book’s super clearly written or maybe Antonopoulos’s interviews on the Joe Rogan Experience turned me into a bitcoin fanatic who’s just ravenous for any scrap of bitcoin info I can get my hands on.
Vada Henson (verified owner) –
Great book and amazing knowledge.
Onyx Hardin (verified owner) –
my first book on the subject. half of it is still too advanced for me but i will come back to it in the future
Brooks Marks (verified owner) –
not what I expected
Jayson Ramirez (verified owner) –
This is a great starting off point for anyone interested in Bitcoin. Very quick read! The book plays out the history of the new currency and introduces all the programmers who helped build it from the ground up. If anything, this is a great history lesson.
Deborah Rocha (verified owner) –
Excellent book to understand how Bitcoin works!
Eric Armstrong (verified owner) –
Glad I bought it.
Finnegan Whitaker (verified owner) –
I recommend this book as a reference manual for any crypto enthusiast. However, be careful youll be forced to push the bounds of your understanding at times and really stretch yourself to grow.
Reed Rowe (verified owner) –
clear quite easy to understant there is all needed to use protect and work with bitcoins (i am not English speaking)
Zaid Boyd (verified owner) –
Very crisp explanation with a lot of details. Good for beginnera and advanced.
Bellamy Compton (verified owner) –
Very informative and well written, easy to understand.
Elina Lindsey (verified owner) –
Good book for both the technical and non-technical. After reading this, you will have a solid understanding of the inner-workings as well as the economics of bitcoin.
Monica Kelley (verified owner) –
This is a great technical book and is also easy to read. Looking forward to the next one on ethereum that they’re making
Presley Brady (verified owner) –
Andreas really knows what he is talking about. This book goes from intro into the deep end of the code. It shows you things like 51% attack and other topics which commonly comes up in blockchain development.
Celia Hodge (verified owner) –
I like it as the description is getting down to the technology itself and just describing the concept.
Recommended !!!
Keily Robbins (verified owner) –
This is one of the best technical introductions I have read to Bitcoin and the public ledger. Following Bitcoin, there are many other cryptocurrencies. An understanding of the design goals of these cryptocurrencies necessarily starts with an understanding of Bitcoin.
Reign Nixon (verified owner) –
It is written for programmers who are interested in learning about Bitcoin. It’s ok for beginners but leans towards people who are more familiar with Bitcoin. There’s a lot of programming language in the book.