- Remove appendix dedicated to `bx`. They had already been slated for
deletion, as I wrote to a reviewer on 2023-07-27: "I'm also probably
going to delete the library/tool focused appendixes as I don't think
they add anything". After the disclosure of CVE-2023-39910 on August
8th, it's clear that this appendix was worse than useless: it was
harmful.
- Remove other mentions of `bx` in the book. I had not previously
intended this because it looked like a pain, but mentions of a tool
often come across as endorsements to readers and no tool created by
the team behind Libbitcoin is one I would ever want to endorse. I
regret that I didn't remove the mentions earlier in the process of
updating the book.
- Remove appendix dedicated to pycoin. I'm now aware of any problems
with pycoin, but I don't think these sort of short detached tutorials
add anything. Programming Bitcoin is an entire book built on pycoin,
and all of these tools have their own webpages that get updated more
frequently than the book.
During his review, Mark "Murch" Erhardt discovered that the appendix
contained several errors and many entries that were confusing. When I
looked at the upstream source on the wiki, I discover that it had extra
information that eliminated those problems. Since we only reference the
appendix twice, don't really go into detail about writing your own
scripts, and since all the information is easily accessible online for
free, we drop the appendix and replace references to it with a link to
the wiki.
- BIPs: it's silly to repeat all BIPs in the book, especially when an
increasing number have never been used or are just silly. Instead,
use the list of implemented BIPs from the Bitcoin Core project, which
represents a list of mostly interesting BIPs.
- Add OP_CHECKSIGADD from tapscript to the Script copypasta.
- Bitcore removed per outline
The commit ab5ae32bae is the last commit
for the second edition, so all changes since then are dropped except for
several commits for the third edition authored by Andreas Antonopoulos.
No attempt is made to remove CC-BY-SA or other licensed content present
in the already-published first or second editions.
This revert may itself be reverted for versions of the book published
under CC-BY-SA.
This reverts commit 52dadba957.
book.asciidoc is being used for the O'Reilly early-release program and should only contain the completed chapters from the in-progress second edition of the book. Please do not modify, thanks!
