Antonopoulos, Andreas
Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain
- ISBN 13:
- 9781098150099
- author:
- Antonopoulos, Andreas
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 450
- Dimensions:
- 23.3 x 17.8 x 2.1 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Business, Finance, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 6 working days
Description
Mastering Bitcoin provides essential knowledge to participate in the internet of money. This revised and expanded third edition guides you through the world of Bitcoin, covering its underlying blockchain, technical foundation, and cryptographic currency.
Whether you're building an app, investing in a startup, or simply curious about the technology, this book offers a broad introduction to Bitcoin and its decentralized network, peer-to-peer architecture, transaction lifecycle, and security principles. You'll also learn about new developments such as Taproot, Tapscript, Schnorr signatures, and the Lightning Network.
With user stories, analogies, examples, and code snippets, Mastering Bitcoin illustrates key technical concepts and shows you how to combine the building blocks of this platform into powerful new tools. This book is ideal for nontechnical users, investors, business executives, developers, engineers, and software and systems architects.