Mastering bitcoin : unlocking digital crypto-currencies.
Andreas M. Antonopoulos (Author), Rebecca Demarest (Illustrator), David Futato (Designer)
"A broad introduction to bitcoin--ideal for non-tech users, investors, and business executives; 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, elegant analogies, examples, and code snippets illustrating key technical concepts"--Page 4 of cover
eBook, English, 2015
First edition View all formats and editions
O'Reilly, Sebastopol, California, 2015
1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations
9781491902646, 9781449374044, 1491902647, 1449374042
900886224
How bitcoin works
The bitcoin client
Keys, addresses, wallets
Transactions
The bitcoin network
The blockchain
Mining and concensus
Alternative chains, currencies, and applications
Bitcoin security
Includes index