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Preface. Acknowledgments. Quick Glossary. . CHAPTER 1. Introduction. What is Bitcoin? History of Bitcoin. Bitcoin Uses, Users and Their Stories. Getting Started. Quick Start. Getting your first bitcoins. Sending and receiving bitcoins. 2. How Bitcoin Works. Transactions, Blocks, Mining, and the Blockchain. Bitcoin Overview. Buying a cup of coffee. Bitcoin Transactions. 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. The Bitcoin Client. Bitcoin Core - The reference implementation. Running Bitcoin Core for the first time. Compiling Bitcoin Core from the source code. Using Bitcoin Core’s JSON-RPC API from the command line. Getting information on the Bitcoin Core client status. Wallet setup and encryption. Wallet backup, plain-text dump and restore. Wallet addresses and receiving transactions. Exploring and decoding transactions. Exploring blocks. Creating, signing and submitting transactions based on unspent outputs. Alternative clients, libraries and toolkits. Libbitcoin and sx tools. pycoin. btcd. 4. Keys, Addresses, Wallets. Introduction. Public key cryptography and crypto-currency. 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. Wallets. Non-Deterministic (Random) Wallets. Deterministic (Seeded) Wallets. Mnemonic Code Words. Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets (BIP0032/BIP0044). Advanced Keys and Addresses. Encrypted Private Keys (BIP0038). Pay To Script Hash (P2SH) and Multi-Sig Addresses. Vanity Addresses. Paper Wallets. 5. Transactions. Introduction. Transaction Lifecycle. Creating Transactions. Broadcasting Transactions to the Bitcoin Network. Propagating Transactions on the Bitcoin Network. Transaction Structure. Transaction Outputs and Inputs. Transaction Outputs. Transaction Inputs. Transaction Fees. Adding Fees to Transactions. Transaction Chaining and Orphan Transactions.Transaction Scripts and Script Language. Script Construction (Lock + Unlock). Scripting Language. Turing Incompleteness. Stateless Verification. Standard Transactions. Pay to Public Key Hash (P2PKH). Pay-to-Public-Key. Multi-Signature. Data Output (OP_RETURN). Pay to Script Hash (P2SH). 6. The Bitcoin Network. Peer-to-Peer Network Architecture. Nodes Types and Roles. The Extended Bitcoin Network. Network Discovery. Full Nodes. Exchanging “Inventory”. Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) Nodes. Bloom Filters. Bloom Filters and Inventory Updates. Transaction Pools. Alert Messages. 7. The Blockchain. Introduction. Structure of a Block. Block Header. Block Identifiers - Block Header Hash and Block Height. The Genesis Block. Linking Blocks in the Blockchain. Merkle Trees. Merkle Trees and Simplified Payment Verification (SPV). 8. Mining and Consensus. Introduction. Bitcoin Economics and Currency Creation. De-centralized Consensus. Independent Verification of Transactions. Mining Nodes. Aggregating Transactions into Blocks. Transaction Age, Fees, and Priority.The Generation Transaction. Coinbase Reward and Fees. Structure of the Generation Transaction. Coinbase Data. Constructing the Block Header. Mining the Block. Proof-of-Work Algorithm. Difficulty Representation. Difficulty Target and Re-Targeting. Successfully Mining the Block. Validating a New Block. Assembling and Selecting Chains of Blocks. Blockchain Forks. Mining and the Hashing Race. The Extra Nonce Solution. Mining Pools. Consensus Attacks. 9. Alternative Chains, Currencies, and Applications. A taxonomy of alternative currencies and chains. Meta-Coin Platforms. Colored Coins. Mastercoin. Counterparty. Alt-coins. Evaluating an alt-coin. Monetary Parameter Alternatives: Litecoin, Dogecoin, Freicoin. Consensus Innovation: Peercoin, Myriad, Blackcoin, Vericoin, NXT. Dual-Purpose Mining Innovation: Primecoin, Curecoin, Gridcoin. Anonymity-Focused Alt-Coins: CryptoNote, Bytecoin, Monero, Zerocash/ Zerocoin, Darkcoin. Non-currency alt-chains. Namecoin. Bitmessage. Ethereum. Future of Currencies. 10. Bitcoin Security. Security principles. Developing Bitcoin Systems Securely. The Root of Trust. User Security Best Practices. Physical Bitcoin Storage. Hardware Wallets. Balancing Risk (loss vs. theft). Diversifying Risk. Multi-sig and Governance. Survivability. Conclusion. A. Appendix: Available commands with sx tools. B. Appendix - pycoin, ku and tx. C. Appendix: Transaction Script Language Operators, Constants and Symbols. D. Appendix - Bitcoin Improvement Proposals. |
