Bitcoin

Books about Bitcoin

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction by Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, and Steven Goldfeder. Princeton University Press, 2016.

This book is a good starting point for learning about Bitcoin.
- A free pre-publication draft is available at http://bitcoinbook.cs.princeton.edu/. The hardcover version has better formatting than the draft but it is expensive.
- Video lectures by the authors based on the book content are available on Youtube.
- A Coursera course based on the book also runs regularly. It takes about 18 hours to complete.
Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain by Andreas Antonopoulos. 2nd Edition, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2017.

This book has a broader and in-depth coverage of Bitcoin targeted towards developers. It has shell command examples which allow one to interact with the Bitcoin network.
- The content of the book is available for free download at https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook.
- A paperback version is also available.

The Security of the Bitcoin Protocol by Saravanan Vijayakumaran. May 2018

A 27-page introduction to Bitcoin written by me for a paid consulting gig from Zebpay. Click here for the pdf.
An Introduction to Bitcoin by Saravanan Vijayakumaran. Oct 2017

I took a year-long sabbatical in 2017 to research Bitcoin and write a book about it. These notes are the first draft of the book. Click here for the pdf.
NCC 2018 Bitcoin Tutorial Video

Youtube video of a two-hour Bitcoin tutorial I gave at the National Conference on Communications in Hyderabad on Feb 25, 2018.