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Mastering Bitcoin
Mastering Bitcoin is a technical book that explains what Bitcoin is and how it works.
This repository contains the complete text of three editions of the book Mastering Bitcoin as published in paperback and ebook formats by O'Reilly Media. Different editions of this book are covered by different open licenses (see LICENSE). The three editions are:
- The first edition, second print, published in December 2014
- The second edition, third print, published in March 2018
- The third edition, first print, published in December 2023
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Please note that some of the links in each chapter do not work when reading the book on Github. This is because those links are intended for the print and ebook editions of the book and only work when all the chapters are rendered together. Unfortunatelly, Github does not have the ability to render the complete book at once.
Mastering Bitcoin Third Edition
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The tag third_edition_print_1 corresponds to the first print of the third edition of Mastering Bitcoin as published in paperback and ebook by O'Reilly Media in December 2023.
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Mastering Bitcoin - First Edition
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Mastering Bitcoin - Second Edition
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Mastering Bitcoin (Open Second Edition), based on the Seond Edition, is also available in English and Spanish at https://aantonop.com. Mastering Bitcoin 2nd Edition is also published in German, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and other languages by publishers in the respective countries.
Issues, Errors, Comments, Contributions
To contribute to this book, see CONTRIBUTING.md. All contributions must be your original work and contributed under a public domain (CC0), or attribution (CC-BY) license. You must include your own attribution in the pull request, as an edit to the github_contrib.asciidoc file.
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