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These "Free Culture" licenses were approved by the publisher O'Reilly Media (http://oreilly.com). O'Reilly Media is not just the world's best publisher of technical books but also a strong supporter of an open culture and the sharing of knowledge.
Mastering Bitcoin is a book for developers, although the first two chapters cover bitcoin at a level that is also approachable to non-programmers. Anyone with a basic understanding of technology can read the first two chapters to get a great understanding of bitcoin.
This repository contains the complete [first edition, second print](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/releases/tag/Edition1Print2), published in December 2014, and the complete [second edition, third print](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/releases/tag/second_edition_print3_rc1), published in March 2018, as published by O'Reilly Media in paperback and ebook formats.
This repository contains the complete [first edition, second print](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/releases/tag/Edition1Print2), published in December 2014, and the complete [second edition, third print](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/releases/tag/second_edition_print3), published in March 2018, as published by O'Reilly Media in paperback and ebook formats.
# Issues, Errors, Comments, Contributions
If you know how to make a pull request to contribute a fix, please write the correction and use a pull request to submit it for consideration against the [develop branch](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/tree/develop). If you are making several changes, please use a separate commit for each to make it easier to cherry-pick or resolve conflicts. Otherwise, please submit an issue, explaining the error or comment. If you would like to contribute extensive changes or new material, please coordinate with the author first; contact information can be found on his website: https://antonopoulos.com/
To contribute to this book, see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md). All contributions must be your original work and contributed under a public domain (CC0), or attribution (CC-BY) license. You must include your own attribution in the pull request, as an edit to the github_contrib.asciidoc file.
If you know how to make a pull request to contribute a fix, please write the correction and use a pull request to submit it for consideration against the [develop branch](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/tree/develop). If you are making several changes, please use a separate commit for each to make it easier to cherry-pick or resolve conflicts. Otherwise, please submit an issue, explaining the error or comment. If you would like to contribute extensive changes or new material, please coordinate with the author first; contact information can be found on his website: https://aantonop.com/
# Reading this book
To read this book, see [book.asciidoc](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/book.asciidoc). Click on each of the chapters to read in your browser. Other parties may choose to release PDFs of the book online.
To read this book, see [book.asciidoc](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/book.asciidoc). Click on each of the chapters to read in your browser. Other parties may choose to release PDFs of the book online, for those editions where a PDF derivative is licensed.
## Chapters
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# Published
"Mastering Bitcoin (Second Edition, Second Print): Programming the Open Blockchain" is now available in paperback and ebook formats by many booksellers worldwide:
"Mastering Bitcoin (Second Edition, Third Print): Programming the Open Blockchain" is now available in paperback and ebook formats by many booksellers worldwide:
Mastering Bitcoin (First Edition Second Print) is also published in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (Simplified) by publishers in the respective countries.
Mastering Bitcoin is also published in German, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and other languages by publishers in the respective countries.
Mastering Bitcoin (Open Edition), based on the First Edition, has been translated by volunteers into more than a dozen languages. Translations are available for free under CC-BY-SA license at: https://bitcoinbook.info
Mastering Bitcoin (Open Second Edition), based on the Seond Edition, is also available in English and Spanish at https://aantonop.com
# Source
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## Mastering Bitcoin - Second Edition
The tags, [second_edition_print_1](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/releases/tag/second_edition_print_1) and [second_edition_print2](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/releases/tag/second_edition_print2), correspond to the first (June 8th, 2017) and second (July 20th, 2017) print of Mastering Bitcoin (Second Edition), as published by O'Reilly Media.
The tags, [second_edition_print_1](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/releases/tag/second_edition_print_1) [second_edition_print2](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/releases/tag/second_edition_print2), [second_edition_print3](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/releases/tag/second_edition_print3), correspond to the first (June 8th, 2017), second (July 20th, 2017) and third (March 23rd, 2018) print of Mastering Bitcoin (Second Edition), as published by O'Reilly Media.
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# Translations
If you are interested in translating this book, please join our team of volunteers at: https://www.transifex.com/aantonop/mastering-bitcoin
Free copies of "Mastering Bitcoin Open Edition," translated in many languages, can be downloaded from: https://bitcoinbook.info
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