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Minh T. Nguyen
21a09c26a2 Changing 'Simple Payment Verification' to 'Simplified Payment Verification' in all other chapters to per issue #124. 2014-08-24 14:40:02 -07:00
Dirk Jäckel
6383f127f9 SPV stands for Simplified Payment Verification 2014-08-24 23:04:33 +02:00
Lornestar
06155bcb20 Never heard that ex nihilo before, no need 2014-08-25 01:52:05 +08:00
Lornestar
9322a60b83 Most won't know what a clearing house is 2014-08-25 01:50:03 +08:00
Lornestar
cc9ba043b1 Quick summary of miners role 2014-08-25 01:48:47 +08:00
Lornestar
bf732ce72d Clearer explanation of merkle tree value 2014-08-24 20:27:22 +08:00
Lornestar
9cd1c1a2d7 blockchain size is 20+Gigs 2014-08-24 10:41:34 +08:00
Lornestar
7ce978a224 Explaining satoshi denomination differently
I think it's really difficult to know that 100 millionth is 8 decimal places
2014-08-24 10:17:07 +08:00
Minh T. Nguyen
a61a67c5fa Merge pull request #119 from jlopp/chapter09Fixes
fixing market cap description for Dogecoin
2014-08-23 13:53:54 -07:00
Jameson Lopp
604c90590f fixing market cap description for Dogecoin 2014-08-23 16:27:37 -04:00
Lornestar
c3190cd32c Improved description of keys ownership 2014-08-23 20:28:20 +08:00
Lornestar
bd1cf52ff0 New block every 10 minutes is average
They may think it's written into the rules of bitcoin that a new block is discovered every 10 min, instead of on average every 10 min.
2014-08-23 20:11:55 +08:00
Lornestar
9c67b2c881 Added BIP to the quick glossary list
BIPs are mentioned throughout the book, so I figure many readers will be asking what does BIP0021 mean?
2014-08-23 19:45:27 +08:00
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
Minh T. Nguyen
7ae01f3a2e Merge branch 'erikwam-patch-15' into develop 2014-08-22 12:10:35 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
62262c3cf7 Adding another comma following the changes from Issue #117 2014-08-22 12:09:39 -07:00
Erik Wahlström
7586d4550f Update ch09.asciidoc
Minor changes/typos
2014-08-22 20:32:23 +02:00
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
Lornestar
97f37419f5 Update preface.asciidoc
A clearer explanation of the value a wallet brings to a user
2014-08-22 16:55:14 +08:00
Lornestar
fb2fe84c86 Update preface.asciidoc
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
e8f4ab417a Update preface.asciidoc
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
25af5c23bd Update preface.asciidoc
bitcoin address clearer explanation
2014-08-22 16:14:14 +08:00
Minh T. Nguyen
b1cf6c8693 Merge pull request #115 from kargakis/ch02-fix
Add another missing comma
2014-08-21 23:00:29 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
d1f7b4d277 Merge pull request #113 from physicsdude/develop
fix superscript
2014-08-20 22:52:28 -07:00
Bryan Gmyrek
185978a9f1 fix superscript 2014-08-20 15:52:26 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
77ccfb08b1 Updating GitHub contributors 2014-08-20 08:21:43 -07:00
Michalis Kargakis
0bf544abae Another missing comma 2014-08-20 14:54:29 +03:00
Minh T. Nguyen
a39956d520 Reverting changes from Issue #109 back to its original 2014-08-19 18:54:51 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
222f1dbaf1 Merge pull request #111 from kargakis/ch09-fixes
Add more missing commas
2014-08-19 18:48:12 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
07538c8569 Merge pull request #110 from kargakis/ch08-fixes
Add missing comma
2014-08-19 18:47:05 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
28c499ea7c Merge branch 'jbisterfeldt-develop' into develop 2014-08-19 18:43:46 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
7c5bacd303 Minor copyediting following merge from issue #109 2014-08-19 18:43:29 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
99ca075f84 Merge branch 'develop' of https://github.com/jbisterfeldt/bitcoinbook into jbisterfeldt-develop 2014-08-19 18:40:59 -07:00
Michalis Kargakis
f521a46225 Add more missing commas 2014-08-20 02:54:20 +03:00
Michalis Kargakis
6b852f2a8e Add missing comma 2014-08-20 02:31:14 +03:00
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
493e45bbe0 README added 2014-08-19 16:08:06 -04:00
Jason Bisterfeldt
54a1215a9c Update address definition
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
a86fa10543 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
0b093bef4e Light copyediting/grammer/spelling mistakes 2014-08-19 09:10:24 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
85e3893024 Merge branch 'jlopp-confirmationClarification' into develop 2014-08-19 08:28:01 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
d275835ec3 Change 'can not' to 'cannot' 2014-08-19 08:27:42 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
c3883cdf9e Merge branch 'confirmationClarification' of https://github.com/jlopp/bitcoinbook into jlopp-confirmationClarification 2014-08-19 08:26:59 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
151f0b2590 Merge pull request #106 from jlopp/indexUpdate
Add Chapter 9 to book index
2014-08-19 08:24:57 -07:00