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Can anyone point me to good resources to understanding the technical side of Bitcoin? I tried to read the white paper but it glossed over technical details (fo

Can anyone point me to good resources to understanding the technical side of Bitcoin? I tried to read the white paper but it glossed over technical details (for instance, what does "signing" actually entail?). Everything else is either very hand-wavey and high level or assumes you already know how it works. I'm interesting in understanding the spec and potentially expanding on it or being able to understand the ongoing issues with Bitcoin

weavie 11y ago
I found Mastering "Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies" by Andreas M. Antonopoulos to be a good introduction.
bhaak 11y ago
The beauty in what Satoshi did was that he took several existing technologies (p2p, hashcash, public key cryptography, etc.), combined them and added only a slight twist (how the consenus is achieved). In his white paper he only describes the twist, so you won't get a complete overview on how bitcoin works (even if you know how the stuff he's building on works). This link has been posted to HN before and gives a pretty good overview on how bitcoin works: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/ http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-a... So you won't get
kyrre 11y ago
This course is pretty good: https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech
ivan_ah 11y ago
Here are some links that have technical details and a bit of context about cryptocurrencies: A blog post: http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-raw-bitcoin.html http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-raw-bi... A paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/261 https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/261 A book: https://d28rh4a8wq0iu5.cloudfront.net/bitcointech/readings/princeton_bitcoin_book.pdf https://d28rh4a8wq0iu5.cloudfront.net/bitcointech/readings/p... Choose your adventure ;)

weavie 11y ago

I found Mastering "Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies" by Andreas M. Antonopoulos to be a good introduction.

bhaak 11y ago

The beauty in what Satoshi did was that he took several existing technologies (p2p, hashcash, public key cryptography, etc.), combined them and added only a slight twist (how the consenus is achieved). In his white paper he only describes the twist, so you won't get a complete overview on how bitcoin works (even if you know how the stuff he's building on works). This link has been posted to HN before and gives a pretty good overview on how bitcoin works: http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/ http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-a... So you won't get

kyrre 11y ago

This course is pretty good: https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech

ivan_ah 11y ago

Here are some links that have technical details and a bit of context about cryptocurrencies: A blog post: http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-raw-bitcoin.html http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoins-hard-way-using-raw-bi... A paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/261 https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/261 A book: https://d28rh4a8wq0iu5.cloudfront.net/bitcointech/readings/princeton_bitcoin_book.pdf https://d28rh4a8wq0iu5.cloudfront.net/bitcointech/readings/p... Choose your adventure ;)