Mastering the Lightning Network: A Second Layer Blockchain Protocol for Instant Bitcoin Payments

Antonopoulos, Andreas M., Osuntokun, Olaoluwa, Pickhardt, René

  • 出版商: O'Reilly
  • 出版日期: 2022-01-04
  • 定價: $2,680
  • 售價: 9.5$2,546
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 466
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1492054860
  • ISBN-13: 9781492054863
  • 相關分類: 區塊鏈 BlockchainFintech
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商品描述

Launched in early 2018, the Lightning Network (LN) is rapidly growing in users and capacity. This second-layer payment protocol works on top of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to provide near-instantaneous transactions between two parties. With this practical guide, authors Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, and Rene Pickhardt explain how this advancement will enable the next level of scale for Bitcoin, increasing speed and privacy while reducing fees.

Ideal for developers, systems architects, investors, and entrepreneurs looking to gain a better understanding of LN, this book demonstrates why experts consider LN a critical solution to Bitcoin's scalability problem. You'll learn how LN has the potential to support far more transactions than today's financial networks, ushering in an era of global micro-transactions at sub-second resolution.

In several parts, this book examines:

  • The challenges of scaling blockchain technology and why the Lightning Network was invented
  • LN basics including wallets, nodes, and lightning payments
  • Lightning payment channels and how they work
  • Routing payments by constructing paths of payment channels from sender to recipient, including onion routing, and atomic multi-path payments
  • Lightning developments such as eltoo, Schnorr signatures, HODL invoices, JIT routing, channel splicing, and channel factories
  • Building applications on Lightning (Lapps)

商品描述(中文翻譯)

2018年初推出的閃電網絡(Lightning Network,LN)在用戶和容量方面迅速增長。這個第二層支付協議建立在比特幣和其他加密貨幣之上,可以實現兩方之間幾乎即時的交易。在這本實用指南中,作者Andreas M. Antonopoulos、Olaoluwa Osuntokun和Rene Pickhardt解釋了這一進展將如何為比特幣提供下一級的規模,提高速度和隱私,同時降低費用。

這本書非常適合開發人員、系統架構師、投資者和企業家,他們希望更好地了解LN,並展示了為什麼專家們認為LN是解決比特幣可擴展性問題的關鍵解決方案。您將了解到LN有潛力支持比今天的金融網絡更多的交易,開啟了次秒級全球微交易的時代。

本書的幾個部分包括:

- 區塊鏈技術擴展的挑戰以及為什麼發明了閃電網絡
- LN的基礎知識,包括錢包、節點和閃電支付
- 閃電支付通道及其工作原理
- 通過構建從發送方到接收方的支付通道路徑來路由支付,包括洋蔥路由和原子多路徑支付
- 閃電的發展,如eltoo、Schnorr簽名、HODL發票、JIT路由、通道拼接和通道工廠
- 在閃電上構建應用程序(Lapps)

作者簡介

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 co-founder and CTO of Lightning Labs, and also the lead developer of lnd, one of the main implementations of Lightning. He received his B.S and M.S 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 5 years, and is an author of several Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIP 157+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 his statistical knowledge to do research with NTNU about pathfinding, privacy, reliability of payments and service level agreements of the Lightning Network. René maintains a technical and developer-oriented Youtube channel about the Lightning Network and has answered roughly half of the questions about the Lightning Network on Bitcoin Stackexchange making him the go-to point for almost all new developers who want to join the space. René has held numerous workshops about the Lightning network in public and private, including teaching students of the 2019 Chaincode Labs residency together with other core Lightning Developers.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Andreas M. Antonopoulos是一位暢銷作家、演講者、教育家,以及比特幣和開放式區塊鏈技術的專家。他以將複雜的主題易於理解並強調這些技術對全球社會的正面和負面影響而聞名。

Andreas曾與O'Reilly Media合作撰寫了兩本暢銷的技術書籍,分別是《精通比特幣》和《精通以太坊》。他還出版了《The Internet of Money》系列書籍,關注這些技術的社會、政治和經濟重要性和影響。Andreas每週在他的YouTube頻道上提供免費的教育內容,並在他的網站上舉辦虛擬工作坊。詳情請參閱aantonop.com。

Olaoluwa Osuntokun是Lightning Labs的聯合創始人兼首席技術官,也是Lightning的主要實現之一lnd的首席開發人員。他在加州大學聖塔芭芭拉分校獲得計算機科學學士和碩士學位,並入選2019年福布斯30位30歲以下的傑出人物。在研究生學習期間,他專注於應用密碼學領域,特別是加密搜索。他已經是一名活躍的比特幣開發人員超過5年,並且是幾個比特幣改進提案(BIP 157+158)的作者。目前,他的主要關注點是構建、設計和發展私有、可擴展的離鏈區塊鏈協議,如Lightning。

René Pickhardt是一位受過訓練的數學家和數據科學顧問,他利用他的統計知識與挪威科技大學(NTNU)合作進行關於Lightning Network的路徑規劃、隱私、支付可靠性和服務水平協議的研究。René維護一個技術和開發者導向的YouTube頻道,關於Lightning Network的問題,他回答了大約一半,使他成為幾乎所有想要加入這個領域的新開發者的首選。René曾在公開和私人場合舉辦過多次關於Lightning Network的工作坊,包括與其他核心Lightning開發人員一起教授2019年Chaincode Labs的學生。