Preface
1. Introduction
What Is Bitcoin?
History of Bitcoin
Bitcoin Uses, Users, and Their Stories
Getting Started
Choosing a Bitcoin Wallet
Quick Start
Getting Your First Bitcoin
Finding the Current Price of Bitcoin
Sending and Receiving Bitcoin
2. How Bitcoin Works
Transactions, Blocks, Mining, and the Blockchain
Bitcoin Overview
Buying a Cup of Coffee
Bitcoin Transactions
Transaction Inputs and Outputs
Transaction Chains
Making Change
Common Transaction Forms
Constructing a Transaction
Getting the Right Inputs
Creating the Outputs
Adding the Transaction to the Ledger
Bitcoin Mining
Mining Transactions in Blocks
Spending the Transaction
3. Bitcoin Core: The Reference Implementation
Bitcoin Development Environment
Compiling Bitcoin Core from the Source Code
Selecting a Bitcoin Core Release
Configuring the Bitcoin Core Build
Building the Bitcoin Core Executables
Running a Bitcoin Core Node
Running Bitcoin Core for the First Time
Configuring the Bitcoin Core Node
Bitcoin Core Application Programming Interface (API)
Getting Information on the Bitcoin Core Client Status
Exploring and Decoding Transactions
Exploring Blocks
Using Bitcoin Core''s Programmatic Interface
Alternative Clients, Libraries, and Toolkits
C/C++
JavaScript
Java
Python
Ruby
Go
Rust
C#
Objective-C
4. Keys, Addresses
Introduction
Public Key Cryptography and Cryptocurrency
Private and Public Keys
Private Keys
Public Keys
Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained
Generating a Public Key
Bitcoin Addresses
Base58 and Base58Check Encoding
Key Formats
Implementing Keys and Addresses in Python
Advanced Keys and Addresses
Encrypted Private Keys (BIP-38)
Pay-to-Script Hash (P2SH) and Multisig Addresses
Vanity Addresses
Paper Wallets
5. Wallets
6. Transactions
7. Advanced Transactions and Scripting
8. The Bitcoin Network
9. The Blockchain
10. Mining and Consensus
11. Bitcoin Security
12. Blockchain Applications
A. The Bitcoin Whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto
B. Transaction Script Language Operators, Constants, and Symbols
C. Bitcoin Improvement Proposals
D. Segregated Witness
E. Bitcore
F. pycoin, ku, and tx
G. Bitcoin Explorer (bx) Commands
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