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Published by O'Reilly Media in paperback and ebook in December 2023
The third edition was written by David A. Harding, building on the work of Andreas M. Antonopoulos from the first two editions of the book.
Major Changes
A particular focus in the third edition has been modernizing the 2017
second edition text and the remaining 2014 first edition text. In
addition, many concepts that are relevant to contemporary Bitcoin
development in 2023 have been added:
Chapter 4 - Keys and Addresses
We rearranged the address info so that we work through everything in
historical order, adding a new section with P2PK (where "address" was
"IP address"), refreshed the previous P2PKH and P2SH sections, and then
added new sections for segwit/bech32 and taproot/bech32m.
Old Chapters 6 and 7
Text from previous versions of Chapter 6, "Transactions," and Chapter 7,
"Advanced Transactions," has been rearranged and expanded across four
new chapters:
- Transactions (the structure of transactions),
- Authorization and Authentication
- Signatures
- Transaction Fees
Chapter 6 - Transactions
We added almost entirely new text describing the structure of a
transaction.
Chapter 7 - Authorization and Authentication
We added new text about MAST, P2C, scriptless multisignatures, taproot,
and tapscript.
Chapter 8 - Signatures
We revised the ECDSA text and added new text about schnorr signatures,
multisignatures, and threshold signatures.
Chapter 9 - Fees
We added almost entirely new text about fees, RBF and CPFP fee bumping,
transaction pinning, package relay, and CPFP carve-out.
Chapter 10 - Bitcoin Network
We added text about compact block relay, added a significant update to
bloom filters that better describes their privacy problems, and new text
about compact block filters.
Chapter 11 - Blockchain
We added text about signet.
Chapter 12 - Mining
We added text about BIP8 and speedy trial.
Appendixes
We removed library-specific appendixes. After the appendix containing
the original whitepaper, we added a new appendix describing how the
implementation and properties of Bitcoin differ from those proposed in
the whitepaper.