Mastering Bitcoin [3 ed.]
Join the technological revolution that's taking the financial world by storm. Mastering Bitcoin is your guide throu
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Table of contents :
1. Introduction
History of Bitcoin
Bitcoin Uses, Users, and Their Stories
Getting Started
Choosing a Bitcoin Wallet
Quick Start
Recovery Codes
Bitcoin addresses
Receiving bitcoin
Getting Your First Bitcoin
Finding the Current Price of Bitcoin
Sending and Receiving Bitcoin
2. How Bitcoin Works
Bitcoin Overview
Buying from an Online Store
Bitcoin Transactions
Transaction Inputs and Outputs
Transaction Chains
Making Change
Coin selection
Common Transaction Forms
Constructing a Transaction
Getting the Right Inputs
Creating the Outputs
Adding the Transaction to the Ledger
Bitcoin Mining
Mining Transactions in Blocks
Spending the Transaction
3. Bitcoin Core: The Reference Implementation
From Bitcoin to Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin Development Environment
Compiling Bitcoin Core from the Source Code
Selecting a Bitcoin Core Release
Configuring the Bitcoin Core Build
Building the Bitcoin Core Executables
Running a Bitcoin Core Node
Configuring the Bitcoin Core Node
Bitcoin Core Application Programming Interface (API)
Getting Information on Bitcoin Core’s Status
Exploring and Decoding Transactions
Exploring Blocks
Using Bitcoin Core’s Programmatic Interface
Alternative Clients, Libraries, and Toolkits
C/C++
JavaScript
Java
Python
Go
Rust
C#
4. Keys and Addresses
Public Key Cryptography
Private Keys
Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained
Public Keys
ScriptPubKey and ScriptSig
IP Addresses: The Original Address For Bitcoin (P2PK)
Legacy Addresses for P2PKH
Base58Check Encoding
Decode from Base58Check
Compressed public keys
Legacy Pay-to-Script-Hash (P2SH)
Bech32 addresses
Problems with bech32 addresses
Bech32m
Private key formats
Advanced Keys and Addresses
Vanity Addresses
Paper Wallets
About the Authors
1. Introduction
History of Bitcoin
Bitcoin Uses, Users, and Their Stories
Getting Started
Choosing a Bitcoin Wallet
Quick Start
Recovery Codes
Bitcoin addresses
Receiving bitcoin
Getting Your First Bitcoin
Finding the Current Price of Bitcoin
Sending and Receiving Bitcoin
2. How Bitcoin Works
Bitcoin Overview
Buying from an Online Store
Bitcoin Transactions
Transaction Inputs and Outputs
Transaction Chains
Making Change
Coin selection
Common Transaction Forms
Constructing a Transaction
Getting the Right Inputs
Creating the Outputs
Adding the Transaction to the Ledger
Bitcoin Mining
Mining Transactions in Blocks
Spending the Transaction
3. Bitcoin Core: The Reference Implementation
From Bitcoin to Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin Development Environment
Compiling Bitcoin Core from the Source Code
Selecting a Bitcoin Core Release
Configuring the Bitcoin Core Build
Building the Bitcoin Core Executables
Running a Bitcoin Core Node
Configuring the Bitcoin Core Node
Bitcoin Core Application Programming Interface (API)
Getting Information on Bitcoin Core’s Status
Exploring and Decoding Transactions
Exploring Blocks
Using Bitcoin Core’s Programmatic Interface
Alternative Clients, Libraries, and Toolkits
C/C++
JavaScript
Java
Python
Go
Rust
C#
4. Keys and Addresses
Public Key Cryptography
Private Keys
Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained
Public Keys
ScriptPubKey and ScriptSig
IP Addresses: The Original Address For Bitcoin (P2PK)
Legacy Addresses for P2PKH
Base58Check Encoding
Decode from Base58Check
Compressed public keys
Legacy Pay-to-Script-Hash (P2SH)
Bech32 addresses
Problems with bech32 addresses
Bech32m
Private key formats
Advanced Keys and Addresses
Vanity Addresses
Paper Wallets
About the Authors
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