Hi! Author here. Thanks for the appreciation! You're right, I didn't describe the details of networking. My main goal was to keep it as short as possible while

Hi! Author here. Thanks for the appreciation! You're right, I didn't describe the details of networking. My main goal was to keep it as short as possible while still explaining the main "pillars" of Bitcoin in detail, and networking did not make the cut. As far as my understanding goes, there isn't anything inherent to Bitcoin in the way its network works (it could apply to most other distributed networks), so I thought including this would stretch things too much and stray too far off topic in a way.