Mastering Bitcoin : programming the open blockchain / Andreas M. Antonopoulos.

Includes index.

Introduction -- How Bitcoin works -- Bitcoin core: the reference implementation -- Keys, addresses -- Wallets -- Transactions -- Advanced transactions and scripting -- The Bitcoin network -- The blockchain -- Mining and consensus -- Bitcoin security -- Blockchain applications.

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