Mastering Bitcoin

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Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M Antonopoulos

Mastering Bitcoin is the essential guide through the seemingly complex world of bitcoin, providing the requisite knowledge to help you participate in the internet of money.

This book 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
• Offshoots of the bitcoin and blockchain inventions, including alternative chains, currencies, and applications
• User stories, analogies, examples, and code snippets illustrating key technical concepts