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Identifying the potential pains that Bitcoin can solve, quantifying how big of an impact the innovation can really have. This should hopefully get the reader excited about the possible power their code can have, and encourage them even more to learn more about Bitcoin.
2014-08-22 17:38:58 +08:00
Lornestar
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accidentally put What is Bitcoin, for History of Bitcoin
2014-08-22 17:35:03 +08:00
Lornestar
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As I read through the history of Bitcoin section I kept asking when are you going to get to the part about Bitcoin. I think half of that section is really events leading up to Bitcoin, as well Bitcoin didn't have any history until it was invented.
2014-08-22 17:02:02 +08:00
Lornestar
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A clearer explanation of the value a wallet brings to a user
2014-08-22 16:55:14 +08:00
Lornestar
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Maintain consistency. If you're gonna show an example bitcoin address, should show an example private key. It also helps to understand it further when you can see an example.
2014-08-22 16:42:00 +08:00
Lornestar
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I think it's better to explain the value and usage of a fee, instead of a more technical definition that identifies how it works.
It is possible for a transaction to be processed without a fee.
2014-08-22 16:24:20 +08:00
Lornestar
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bitcoin address clearer explanation
2014-08-22 16:14:14 +08:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Merge pull request #115 from kargakis/ch02-fix
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Add another missing comma
2014-08-21 23:00:29 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Merge pull request #113 from physicsdude/develop
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fix superscript
2014-08-20 22:52:28 -07:00
Bryan Gmyrek
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fix superscript
2014-08-20 15:52:26 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Updating GitHub contributors
2014-08-20 08:21:43 -07:00
Michalis Kargakis
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Another missing comma
2014-08-20 14:54:29 +03:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Reverting changes from Issue #109 back to its original
2014-08-19 18:54:51 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Merge pull request #111 from kargakis/ch09-fixes
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Add more missing commas
2014-08-19 18:48:12 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Merge pull request #110 from kargakis/ch08-fixes
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Add missing comma
2014-08-19 18:47:05 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Merge branch 'jbisterfeldt-develop' into develop
2014-08-19 18:43:46 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Minor copyediting following merge from issue #109
2014-08-19 18:43:29 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Merge branch 'develop' of https://github.com/jbisterfeldt/bitcoinbook into jbisterfeldt-develop
2014-08-19 18:40:59 -07:00
Michalis Kargakis
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Add more missing commas
2014-08-20 02:54:20 +03:00
Michalis Kargakis
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Add missing comma
2014-08-20 02:31:14 +03:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
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README added
2014-08-19 16:08:06 -04:00
Jason Bisterfeldt
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Update address definition
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Addresses are the 160-bit hash of a public key, multisignature addresses begin with three (3).
2014-08-19 14:06:27 -05:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Changing Summer 2014 to mid-2014, since seasons have different meanings in different hemispheres
2014-08-19 09:13:49 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Light copyediting/grammer/spelling mistakes
2014-08-19 09:10:24 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Merge branch 'jlopp-confirmationClarification' into develop
2014-08-19 08:28:01 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Change 'can not' to 'cannot'
2014-08-19 08:27:42 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Merge branch 'confirmationClarification' of https://github.com/jlopp/bitcoinbook into jlopp-confirmationClarification
2014-08-19 08:26:59 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Merge pull request #106 from jlopp/indexUpdate
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Add Chapter 9 to book index
2014-08-19 08:24:57 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Merge pull request #105 from ethers/ch5
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fix Mutli typo and grammar
2014-08-19 08:24:19 -07:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
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Merge pull request #103 from vericoin/patch-1
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Corrected case and added feature
2014-08-19 11:24:02 -04:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Merge pull request #104 from ethers/ch4
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Chapter 4
2014-08-19 08:23:43 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Merge pull request #102 from schinzelh/darkcoin
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Darkcoin: corrected launch date and maximum coin supply, according to ht...
2014-08-19 08:21:25 -07:00
amacdonald@oreilly.com
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Updated book.asciidoc
2014-08-19 08:05:58 -07:00
Jameson Lopp
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Attempting clarification of 6 confirmation standard
2014-08-19 09:36:17 -04:00
Jameson Lopp
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Adding Chapter 9 to book index
2014-08-19 09:14:19 -04:00
ethers
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fix Mutli typo and grammar
2014-08-19 01:09:52 -07:00
ethers
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be more precise about secp256k1 curve
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(is also more consistent with further text in the chapter)
2014-08-18 23:30:30 -07:00
ethers
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grammar
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effectsToCause
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I added here an additional novel feature of VeriCoin that directly relates to bitcoin, as an example how alt-coins can co-exist symbiotically with Bitcoin in the market.
2014-08-18 10:20:57 -04:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
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Merge pull request #101 from nekomata-3/patch-1
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Update ch09.asciidoc
2014-08-18 08:55:59 -04:00
Holger Schinzel
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Darkcoin: corrected launch date and maximum coin supply, according to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.0
2014-08-18 12:01:02 +02:00
Nekomata
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Update ch09.asciidoc
2014-08-18 01:11:30 -03:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Add 'virtually' to 'virtually impossible' when talking about hash collisions per issue #94
2014-08-17 16:00:05 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Change 'Jing’s node has assembled a chain of 277,314 blocks' to 'Jing's node has assembled a chain up to block 277,314.' per issue #92
2014-08-17 15:54:21 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Change 'In the example above' to 'In the hashing example above' to disambiguate which example is being referred to per issue #87
2014-08-17 15:40:14 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Reword the block verification checklist per Issue #85
2014-08-17 15:33:25 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
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Reword the transaction verification checklist per Issue #85
2014-08-17 15:27:19 -07:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
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Merge branch 'chapter/Chapter9'
2014-08-17 18:11:18 -04:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
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Merge branch 'chapter/Chapter9' into develop
2014-08-17 18:10:21 -04:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
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updated Myriad info
2014-08-17 18:09:48 -04:00
