{"product_id":"mastering-bitcoin","title":"Mastering Bitcoin","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe technical reference. Keys and addresses, wallet types, the anatomy of a transaction, Bitcoin Script, the peer-to-peer network, the blockchain data structure, mining and consensus — and in this third edition, Taproot, Tapscript, Schnorr signatures and the Lightning Network. With real code and command-line examples throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAntonopoulos wrote the first edition in 2014 and it became the book developers pointed newcomers at. Harding joined him for the third. A Bitcoin engineer at Chaincode Labs put it plainly: nearly a decade after the initial publishing, this edition cements the book's role as the go-to source of technical Bitcoin educational content.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe line from the jacket has stuck for a reason. \u003cem\u003eMastering Bitcoin provides the knowledge. You supply the passion.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKnow which book you want.\u003c\/strong\u003e This one answers how Bitcoin works, not why it matters. It assumes you are comfortable at a command line and rewards some programming background. If what you are after is the argument rather than the machinery, take \u003cem\u003eThe Bitcoin Standard\u003c\/em\u003e from the same shelf and come back to this when you want to read the code.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd there is something worth noticing about how it is sold. Antonopoulos negotiated an open licence with O'Reilly for the first edition and has kept it: the complete text is Creative Commons and free to read on GitHub, published simultaneously by a major technical press. People buy the paperback anyway — because a book you can hold, mark up, and keep beside the keyboard is a different good from a repository you can clone, and the market prices them separately. Menger would have had no trouble with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Amazon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50454329851971,"sku":"Mastering-Bitcoin-10270496587843","price":69.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/4737\/5683\/files\/719RIE806KL._SY522.jpg?v=1790302343","url":"https:\/\/cafe.tollbooth-dpyc.com\/products\/mastering-bitcoin","provider":"Good Brew","version":"1.0","type":"link"}