Today Cryptoreportage brings you the PDF book “Mastering Bitcoin” by the author Andreas M. Antonopoulos, one of the most respected “Bitcoiners” in the ecosystem.
Andreas has been a Bitcoin pioneer since its inception and has led the “evangelization” of the protocol through his teaching at conferences and his books.
Bitcoin consists of: A decentralized peer-to-peer network (the bitcoin protocol) A public transaction ledger (the blockchain) A set of rules for independent transaction validation and currency issuance (consensus rules) A mechanism to reach a global decentralized consensus on the validity of the blockchain (proof of work algorithm).
Andreas Antonopoulos, Mastering Bitcoin
About the author
Andreas M. Antonopoulos (born 1972) is a Greek-British bitcoin advocate. He is a presenter on the Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast and a professor in the Digital Currency master’s program at the University of Nicosia.
Antonopoulos obtained a degree in Computer Science, Data Communications and Distributed Computing from University College London. He provided consulting services to various companies around open source and open networking issues in the 1990s.
He is the author of more than two hundred articles published in print and distributed throughout the world.
As a partner in the company Nemertes Research, Andreas researched IT security, stating that the biggest threat to IT security was not experienced hackers, but overly complex systems resulting from rapid business change.
Andreas and Bitcoin
In 2012 the author of the book Mastering Bitcoin fell in love with bitcoin. He quit his job as a freelance consultant and began speaking at conferences about the Bitcoin protocol and its technology, began consulting on the protocol for startups, as well as writing articles on bitcoin for free.
According to his podcast, he is a consultant on several bitcoin-related startups.He served as head of the Bitcoin Foundation’s anti-poverty committee until 2014, when he resigned citing the foundation’s lack of transparency as a reason for the resignation of him.
In January 2014, Andreas joined Blockchain.info as Chief Security Officer (CSO). In September 2014 he stepped down as CSO and became an advisor to the Blockchain.info board.
More information about the author and his journey on Wikipedia.
