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myarbrough@oreilly.com
0e38c403b6 Made changes to ch01.asciidoc 2014-10-15 08:25:36 -07:00
Chris Pappas
c44017a5ee Renaming figure filerefs 2014-10-07 11:35:22 -04:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
8235b51ca8 review comments from Allyson MacDonald 2014-09-25 12:02:07 -04:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
7a4539732a remove reference to web wallet 2014-09-17 10:13:11 -04:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
42a975730a replaced example of blockchain wallet with multibit wallet. Even though the blockchain wallet examples were written before I got a job at Blockchain, I want to remove even the appearance of bias. 2014-09-17 10:09:34 -04:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
a42063616d It takes a 51% attack to cause a double-spend. 2014-09-10 12:51:04 -04:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
14aeecaba9 ch1 and ch2 fixes and diagram improvements 2014-09-07 12:52:06 -04:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
5b887594a4 preface and ch1 fixes 2014-09-07 11:52:11 -04:00
Minh T. Nguyen
23b83c354f Reverting 3rd paragraph back to its original for issue #132. We'll change this later. 2014-09-05 06:55:35 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
85654d7367 Revert some change from pull request #132. You don't 'unlock' an address. No need to mention paper walllets; keeping it simple 2014-09-04 21:52:20 -07:00
bitcoins.SG
e2f7349fe2 Update ch01.asciidoc, What is bitcoin 3rd para
Made a few implied points more explicit and changed "transaction" to "address" in a few occasions where it was more appropriate
for e.g.  
"Users of bitcoin own keys which allow them to prove ownership of transactions in the bitcoin network, unlocking the value to spend it and transfer it to a new recipient. " to 
"Users of bitcoin own keys which allow them to prove ownership of addresses in the bitcoin network. Unlocking these addresses, unlocks any value associated to it and grants the user the ability to spend and thus transfer value from it."

Do key holders really own transactions? when someone transfers bitcoin to a user's address, is that transaction really theirs rather than the spender's? Isn't it more appropriate to say that the bitcoins associated to their address is theirs.

"Unlocking value to spend it and transfer it to a new recipient"
here unlocking value implies the "value to spend" instead of "spend the value", also, isn't spend and transfer the same thing? and a user could transfer bitcoins to an old recipient instead of a new one.
2014-09-04 14:20:45 +05:45
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
770115bab2 removed section describing the economic benefits of bitcoin. Do not want to add political and economic statements that are not easily substantiated and seem off-topic. 2014-08-25 10:53:48 -04:00
Lornestar
4fb7306030 improved explanation of confirmations
identifying that the additional blocks must be removed first
2014-08-23 19:28:12 +08:00
Lornestar
8e5111a3f9 Removing question marks from new titles 2014-08-23 18:51:25 +08:00
Lornestar
0149c111e0 Update ch01.asciidoc
I personally use bitcoinwisdom all the time to watch/analyze prices over the exchanges
2014-08-22 19:32:13 +08:00
Lornestar
d30a644e32 Update ch01.asciidoc
You can buy bitcoin using Purse.IO.
However I do not think it's a good idea to add purse.io to ways you can buy bitcoin because there is a chance that at any moment Amazon can shut them down and then the comment will become obsolete.
2014-08-22 19:27:06 +08:00
Lornestar
78b5d4f868 Update ch01.asciidoc
Using a bitcoin ATM is another method of getting bitcoins.
2014-08-22 18:13:38 +08:00
Lornestar
d3d95954e5 Update ch01.asciidoc
I took the Coinbase description from their own about page.  They are not an exchange, since you do not exchange bitcoin with other users, you buy and sell it directly with Coinbase.  The big value they bring is making it easy to use bitcoin.
2014-08-22 18:10:53 +08:00
Lornestar
68fe6a3d29 Update ch01.asciidoc
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
2b8040e4b0 Update ch01.asciidoc
accidentally put What is Bitcoin, for History of Bitcoin
2014-08-22 17:35:03 +08:00
Lornestar
4079a650cd Update ch01.asciidoc
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
Chapman Shoop
ee130bf277 Wee typo "is collection" -> "is a collection" 2014-08-12 17:00:35 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
b970d2051c Reverting some more text back to the original text 2014-07-24 23:06:44 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
e098389271 Reverting the mentioning of ATMs. While it's true, let's leave it to Andreas to update this chapter. We just finished half of 2014, and there is a lot that will change here in Bitcoin space. The previous sentence of using credit card is also already outdated 2014-07-24 23:03:51 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
2577657b54 Undoing the digital signature part, as signature that produces a signature sounds unnecessary 2014-07-24 23:02:19 -07:00
edeykholt
5eed7fe509 Update ch01.asciidoc
not "remove" but "replace"
2014-07-23 00:31:43 -07:00
edeykholt
9d7ef19a37 Update ch01.asciidoc
Clarifications and grammar suggestions
2014-07-23 00:07:20 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
69a4ec8ace Actual tiny merge of Issue #44 2014-06-24 23:44:51 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
578b3b6c75 Tiny partial merge of Issue #44 2014-06-24 23:31:31 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
25e32ccbc7 Better wording for 'be they are legitimate governments' from issue #41 2014-06-07 12:22:59 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
286c63d44e Changing casing of millibits to milliBits following the standard on https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MilliBit 2014-06-07 12:22:59 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
6e12333733 Merging the latest from erikwam:patch-1 (pull request #11) 2014-05-02 23:43:22 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
cac668f0bd Remove merge markers that was left during a merge 2014-05-02 23:08:58 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
6b51c8afe2 Merging the majority of winchell's suggestions from pull request #7 2014-05-02 22:54:51 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
60c0a1c007 Change setup noun to set up verb 2014-04-29 23:09:30 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
bb227ea41f Remove the hyphen from QR-code because you later use QR code without a hyphen 2014-04-29 22:59:53 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
13f0261b5e Suggestions for fixes for what seems to be grammatical mistakes in opening paragraphs of chapter 1 2014-04-29 22:15:00 -07:00
Erik Wahlström
8fdb7ab0c5 Update ch01.asciidoc
Typo fixes.
2014-04-25 11:15:32 +02:00
Eric Winchell
2027290039 Chapter 1 syntax, grammar, and flow suggestions. 2014-04-19 13:33:11 -07:00
ishotjr
f7aecc36d4 Fixed a few typos in ch0(1-3).asciidoc 2014-04-19 11:35:05 -07:00
ishotjr
24cca79402 Fixed a few typos in ch0(1-3).asciidoc 2014-04-17 18:21:47 -04:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
066b55775c changes per AM's notes, completed 2014-04-02 08:43:33 -07:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
d898d925c9 qt moved to ch3 2014-04-01 22:45:14 -07:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
998e5ccb3e gox-be-gone 2014-04-01 22:42:28 -07:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
6713032b68 ch1 fixes 2014-04-01 22:20:59 -07:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
d7109008d1 chapter 3 - Building and using the bitcoin client 2014-02-09 10:10:23 -06:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
6e8e68779f ch2 continued 2013-12-26 12:01:47 -05:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
15bab38566 typos 2013-12-12 00:37:48 -08:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
f2cf572270 final draft for chapter1 2013-12-12 00:31:22 -08:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
5dc240f54b finished ch1 2013-12-11 11:29:51 -08:00