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- Describe topological order to help readers understand how that solves the double spend problem - Mention that transactions can be safely relayed one block before their locktime allows them to be included in a block because they'll be valid next block. - Be a bit clearer about when subsidy becomes zero due to rounding and when BIP42 makes it zero unconditionally. - Describe the creation of the witness merkle root before the block header merkle root - Move up note about the retarget off-by-one bug - Make "best blockchain" an inherent property and not an alias for a current chain. When a new block arrives that triggers a reorg, we don't switch best blockchains---the new chain is the best blockchain and we switch to using it. - Combine two sections about forks that were repetitive - Mention that pool miners also need to prove they paid the pool's preferred coinbase transaction template - Add a todo to clarify terminology around the 51% attack. The existing text used this in a way that's consistent with how it was used in early Bitcoin history, but it's potentially confusing because it doesn't actually require a majority of hashrate to make the attack and it confuses it with a censorship attack that does require a majority (or at least a selfishing mining minority) to maintain. - Reduce the situations we describe as "double spends". Consensus prevents double spending within a valid chain; the other situations are about unconfirmed transactions, which might better be described using other terms that won't confuse readers into thinking Bitcoin's double spend protection doesn't work. - Add warning about backing up more than your seed when multisig or complex contracts are in use. - Add a todo to fix "millibits" situation, which might involve image changes. - Note that the first commitment transaction (the refund) needs to be signed before the funding transaction in LN channels. - Pluralize "bitcoin" as necessary (somehow missed this before). - Drop mention of tumblebit and teechan, which nobody is working on AFAIK. |
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Code Examples: 
Mastering Bitcoin
Mastering Bitcoin is a book for developers, although the first two chapters cover bitcoin at a level that is also approachable to non-programmers. Anyone with a basic understanding of technology can read the first two chapters to get a great understanding of bitcoin.
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