Andreas M. Antonopoulos
cdc838b51a
Merge branch 'lornestar_suggestions' into develop
2014-08-25 10:54:07 -04:00
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
amacdonald@oreilly.com
2d50ed1aca
Updated book.asciidoc
2014-08-25 07:34:40 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
9bfe6b8f01
Merge branch 'biafra23-patch-1' into develop
2014-08-24 14:41:27 -07:00
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Minor changes/typos
2014-08-22 20:32:23 +02:00
Lornestar
0149c111e0
Update ch01.asciidoc
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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
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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
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Using a bitcoin ATM is another method of getting bitcoins.
2014-08-22 18:13:38 +08:00
Lornestar
d3d95954e5
Update ch01.asciidoc
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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
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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
2b8040e4b0
Update ch01.asciidoc
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accidentally put What is Bitcoin, for History of Bitcoin
2014-08-22 17:35:03 +08:00
Lornestar
4079a650cd
Update ch01.asciidoc
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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
97f37419f5
Update preface.asciidoc
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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
fb2fe84c86
Update preface.asciidoc
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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
e8f4ab417a
Update preface.asciidoc
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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
25af5c23bd
Update preface.asciidoc
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bitcoin address clearer explanation
2014-08-22 16:14:14 +08:00
Minh T. Nguyen
b1cf6c8693
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
d1f7b4d277
Merge pull request #113 from physicsdude/develop
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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
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Add more missing commas
2014-08-19 18:48:12 -07:00
Minh T. Nguyen
07538c8569
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
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
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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
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
