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Mastering the Lightning Network
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Mastering the Lightning Network

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, René Pickhardt
November 2021
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 6m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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About the Authors

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and highly sought after expert in Bitcoin and open blockchain technologies. He is known for making complex subjects easy to understand and highlighting both the positive and negative impacts these technologies can have on our global societies.

Andreas has written two more best-selling technical books for programmers with O’Reilly Media, Mastering Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum. He has also published The Internet of Money series of books, which focus on the social, political, and economic importance and implications of these technologies. Andreas produces free educational content on his YouTube channel weekly and teaches virtual workshops on his website. Learn more at aantonop.com.

Olaoluwa Osuntokun is the cofounder and CTO of Lightning Labs, and also the lead developer of lnd, one of the main implementations of Lightning. He received his BS and MS in computer science from UCSB and was a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2019. During his graduate studies he focused on the field of applied cryptography, specifically encrypted search. He has been an active Bitcoin developer for over five years, and is an author of several Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIP-157 and 158). These days, his primary focus lies in building, designing, and evolving private, scalable off-chain blockchain protocols, such as Lightning.

René Pickhardt is a trained mathematician and data science consultant who uses ...

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