Mastering Bitcoin
Mastering Bitcoin is Andreas M. Antonopoulos’s technical guide to how bitcoin works. First published by O’Reilly Media in 2014 and revised in 2017, it was updated for a third edition in 2023, which added taproot, tapscript, schnorr signatures, and modern fee and relay mechanisms. The third edition is available from O’Reilly and booksellers, and its full text is openly licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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