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=== Code Examples
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If you feel your use of code examples falls outside fair use or the permission given above, feel free to contact us at pass:[<a href="mailto:permissions@oreilly.com">permissions@oreilly.com</a>].
=== Changes since the previous edition
=== Changes Since the Previous Edition
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Follow Andreas on Twitter:
link:$$https://twitter.com/aantonop$$[]
Follow Andreas on Linkedin:
Follow Andreas on LinkedIn:
link:$$https://linkedin.com/company/aantonop$$[]
Many thanks to all of Andreas's patrons who support his work through monthly donations. You can follow his Patreon page here:
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You can contact David A. Harding on his personal site:
link:$$https://dtrt.org/$$[]
=== Acknowledgments for the first and second editions
=== Acknowledgments for the First and Second Editions
_By Andreas M. Antonopoulos_
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The first few drafts of the first few chapters were the hardest, because Bitcoin is a difficult subject to unravel. Every time I pulled on one thread of the Bitcoin technology, I had to pull on the whole thing. I repeatedly got stuck and a bit despondent as I struggled to make the topic easy to understand and create a narrative around such a dense technical subject. Eventually, I decided to tell the story of Bitcoin through the stories of the people using Bitcoin and the whole book became a lot easier to write. I owe thanks to my friend and mentor, Richard Kagan, who helped me unravel the story and get past the moments of writer's block. I thank Pamela Morgan, who reviewed early drafts of each chapter in the first and second edition of the book, and asked the hard questions to make them better. Also, thanks to the developers of the San Francisco Bitcoin Developers Meetup group as well as Taariq Lewis and Denise Terry for helping test the early material. Thanks also to Andrew Naugler for infographic design.
During the development of the book, I made early drafts available on GitHub and invited public comments. More than a hundred comments, suggestions, corrections, and contributions were submitted in response. Those contributions are explicitly acknowledged, with my thanks, in <<github_contrib>>. Most of all, my sincere thanks to my volunteer GitHub editors Ming T. Nguyen (1st edition) and Will Binns (2nd edition), who worked tirelessly to curate, manage and resolve pull requests, issue reports, and perform bug fixes on GitHub.
During the development of the book, I made early drafts available on GitHub and invited public comments. More than a hundred comments, suggestions, corrections, and contributions were submitted in response. Those contributions are explicitly acknowledged, with my thanks, in <<github_contrib>>. Most of all, my sincere thanks to my volunteer GitHub editors Ming T. Nguyen (1st edition) and Will Binns (2nd edition), who worked tirelessly to curate, manage, and resolve pull requests, issue reports, and perform bug fixes on GitHub.
Once the book was drafted, it went through several rounds of technical review. Thanks to Cricket Liu and Lorne Lantz for their thorough review, comments, and support.
Several bitcoin developers contributed code samples, reviews, comments, and encouragement. Thanks to Amir Taaki and Eric Voskuil for example code snippets and many great comments; Chris Kleeschulte for contributing the Bitcore appendix; Vitalik Buterin and Richard Kiss for help with elliptic curve math and code contributions; Gavin Andresen for corrections, comments, and encouragement; Michalis Kargakis for comments, contributions, and btcd writeup; and Robin Inge for errata submissions improving the second print. In the second edition, I again received a lot of help from many Bitcoin Core developers, including Eric Lombrozo who demystified Segregated Witness, Luke Dashjr who helped improve the chapter on transactions, Johnson Lau who reviewed Segregated Witness and other chapters, and many others. I owe thanks to Joseph Poon, Tadge Dryja, and Olaoluwa Osuntokun who explained Lightning Network, reviewed my writing, and answered questions when I got stuck.
Several Bitcoin developers contributed code samples, reviews, comments, and encouragement. Thanks to Amir Taaki and Eric Voskuil for example code snippets and many great comments; Chris Kleeschulte for contributing the Bitcore appendix; Vitalik Buterin and Richard Kiss for help with elliptic curve math and code contributions; Gavin Andresen for corrections, comments, and encouragement; Michalis Kargakis for comments, contributions, and btcd writeup; and Robin Inge for errata submissions improving the second print. In the second edition, I again received a lot of help from many Bitcoin Core developers, including Eric Lombrozo who demystified segregated witness, Luke Dashjr who helped improve the chapter on transactions, Johnson Lau who reviewed segregated witness and other chapters, and many others. I owe thanks to Joseph Poon, Tadge Dryja, and Olaoluwa Osuntokun who explained Lightning Network, reviewed my writing, and answered questions when I got stuck.
I owe my love of words and books to my mother, Theresa, who raised me in a house with books lining every wall. My mother also bought me my first computer in 1982, despite being a self-described technophobe. My father, Menelaos, a civil engineer who just published his first book at 80 years old, was the one who taught me logical and analytical thinking and a love of science and engineering.
Thank you all for supporting me throughout this journey.
=== Acknowledgments for the third edition
=== Acknowledgments for the Third Edition
_By David A. Harding_
The introduction to the non-interactive schnorr signature protocol that
The introduction to the noninteractive schnorr signature protocol that
starts with first describing the interactive schnorr identity protocol
in <<schnorr_signatures>> was heavily influenced by the introduction to
the subject in Borrommean Ring Signatures (2015) by Gregory Maxwell and
the subject in "Borrommean Ring Signatures" (2015) by Gregory Maxwell and
Andrew Poelstra. I am deeply indebted to each of them for all of their
freely-provided assistance over the past decade.
freely provided assistance over the past decade.
Invaluable technical reviews on drafts of this manuscript were provided
by Jorge Lesmes, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, René Pickhardt, and Mark "Murch"
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expectations.
I also owe a debt of gratitude to Jimmy Song for suggesting me for this
project, to my co-author Andreas for allowing me to update his
project, to my coauthor Andreas for allowing me to update his
bestselling text, to Angela Rufino for guiding me through the O'Reilly
authorship process, and to all of the other staff at O'Reilly for making
the writing of the third edition a pleasant and productive experience.