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== Chapter 1 - What is Bitcoin?
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* Updated Bitcoin history
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* More user stories and updates
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* More examples of bitcoin uses and clients
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* Updated guide on how to get, use, spend bitcoin
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== Chapter 2 - How Bitcoin Works
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* Many small changes, updates and improvements
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== Chapter 3 - Bitcoin Core
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* Improved and updated examples and code
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* Configuration options and examples
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* Running a bitcoin node
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* Updated libraries
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== Chapter 4 - Keys and Addresses
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* Many small improvements
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* Improved and new diagrams
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== Chapter 5 - Wallets
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* Much more detail on BIP39 Mnemonic Code Words
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* BIP39 Passphrases and use-cases
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* Using public extended keys on an e-commerce server
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* Improved and new diagrams
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== Chapter 6 - Transactions
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* Transaction Structure
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* More detail on inputs and outputs
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* Transaction serialization/deserialization
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* Transaction Fees
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* Dynamic fees
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* Fee estimation
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* Third-party fee estimation services
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* Digital Signatures
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* Signature creation and verification
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* Signature serialization (DER encoding)
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* SIGHASH flags
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* ECDSA Math overview
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2017-04-04 19:52:05 +00:00
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== Chapter 7
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* Time Locks
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* Transaction level absolute (nLocktime)
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* UTXO/Script level absolute (CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY)
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* Input level relative (nSequence)
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* UTXO/Script level relative (CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY)
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* Median Time Past
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* Timelock defense against fee sniping
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* Script Flow Control
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* VERIFY guard clauses
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* Time lock guard clauses
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* Complex script (example and analysis)
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== Chapter 8
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* Relay networks
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* SPV node improvements
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* Bloom filters and SPV
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* SPV nodes and privacy
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* Encrypted and Authenticated connections (BIP150/151)
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== Chapter 9
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* Merkle trees and SPV
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* Test blockchains
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* Testnet
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* Using testnet
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* Segnet
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* Regtest
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* Using regtest
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* Development with test blockchains
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2017-04-23 13:03:07 +00:00
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== Chapter 10
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* Hard forks, soft forks and signaling
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* Diverging hard forks
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* Soft forks for feature upgrades
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* Signaling soft forks with block version
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* BIP-9 (versionbits) signaling and activation
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* Consensus software development
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== Chapter 11
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* Security principles
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== Chapter 12 (all new chapter)
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* Blockchain application
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* Building blocks of the trust platform
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* Constructing blockchain applications
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* Colored Coins
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* Counterparty
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* Payment channels
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* Video streaming example
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* Timelock payment channels
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* Asymmetric revocable commitments
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* Hash Time Locked Contracts (HTLC)
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* Lightning Network
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* Routed payment channels
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* Transport and Onion routing
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* Lightning Network Benefits
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== Appendix - Segregated Witness (all new chapter)
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* Introduction to Segregated Witness
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* Why segwit?
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* Segwit transactions, outputs and scripts
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* P2WPKH
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* P2WSH
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* Nested segwit
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* Considerations for backwards compatibility
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* P2SH(P2WPKH)
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* P2SH(P2WSH)
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* Transaction Identifiers (txid) and Malleability Fix
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* New Signing Algorithm
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* Economic Incentives for Segwit
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