Mastering Bitcoin Programming the Open Blockchain

 

Chapter 1 Introduction

• Finding the Current Price of Bitcoin:
• Bitcoin Average https://bitcoinaverage.com
• CoinCap https://coincap.io
• Chicago Mercantile Exchange Bitcoin Reference Rate https://oreil.ly/ACieC

Chapter 2 How Bitcoin works

• Blockchain explorers:
• Blockstream Explorer https://blockstream.info
• Mempool.Space https://mempool.space
• BlockCypher Explorer https://live.blockcypher.com

Chapter 3 Bitcoin Core: The Reference Implementation

• GitHub Bitcoin page: https://oreil.ly/BdOwl
• You may connect your node instead to an alternative network, such as a free satellite data provider like Blockstream satellite: https://oreil.ly/cIwf3
• The data is returned in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), a format that can be easily be "consumed" by all programming languages but is also quite human readable.