Bitcoin and Lightning Network on Raspberry Pi

Running Nodes on Pi3, Pi4 and Pi Zero
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4842-5521-6
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 575 g

Compile and run Bitcoin full nodes, lightning nodes, and user-friendly web-apps that help abstract the complexities of Bitcoin. This book not only explains the tools and techniques to help readers build their own banks and banking apps, but it also tells a story. Starting with the origins of Bitcoin—what it is and why we need it—find out what its strengths and limitations are. Understand the nature of mining and why so much energy is put into it.  The blockchain itself will be reviewed, as well, and compared to other options such as a normal SQL database or a simple spreadsheet.

With this book, you can control Bitcoin wallets via RPC commands on a Raspberry Pi. Configure, compile, and run two implementation of the Lightning Network-compatible daemons: LND and c-lightning. And employ user-friendly web apps that abstract the complexities of Bitcoin/Lightning-Network.

The Internet of Information is currently transitioning to the Internet of Things, which in turn may well  be followed by the Internet of Value (or Money). However, there is no evolution without happy users and Bitcoin will never reach the same heights like the original internet without having offered “useful” and “easy to use” tools. Just like nobody would ever want to use UUCP to send messages via web the same applies to current cryptocurrency tools. These are hard to use and very unforgiving. But, the evolution doesn’t stop here and many easy-to-use tools are already available. We will meet some of them when building apps for the Lightning Network, a new technology running on top of Bitcoin’s blockchain that makes it possible to generate billions of transactions within a single second.  

What You'll Learn

• Control Bitcoin wallets via console RPC commands
  
• Run two implementation of the Lightning Network compatible daemons
  
• Simplify the complexities of Bitcoin and the Lightning network with user-friendly web apps
  

Who This Book Is For
This book is for Makers familiar with the basics of Linux command line processes.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brakmi¿, Harris

Brakmic, Harris

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Hardware: Grundlagen und Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Bitcoin on Raspberry Pi 3 and Pi Zero

PART I: Enter Bitcoin

CHAPTER 1: What is Bitcoin?

CHAPTER 2: Bitcoin Technology

CHAPTER 3: Preparing Raspberry Pi

CHAPTER 4: Running Bitcoin

PART II: Using Bitcoin

CHAPTER 5: Bitcoin Core Wallet

CHAPTER 6: bitcoind

CHAPTER 7: Bitcoin Script

CHAPTER 8: Practical Bitcoin Examples

PART III: Using Lightning Network

CHAPTER 9: Introduction to the Lightning Network

CHAPTER 10: Lightning Nodes with c-lightning

CHAPTER 11: Lightning Nodes with LND

CHAPTER 12: Lightning Network Web Apps

PART IV: Appendices

APPENDIX A: Reference Tables

APPENDIX B: Dummy Text

Über Autor(innen)

Harris Brakmic is a senior software engineer from Germany. He has experience working C#, Java, JavaScript, Angular, React, and NodeJS. Occasionally he has worked on projects targeting Android and iOS platforms. He discovered Bitcoin a few years ago, but decided to approach it differently. While most people working in the cryptocurrency space were looking for quick gains, Harris ignored the whole monetary component and concentrated on learning Ethereum’s programming language. Ethereum itself is an alternative blockchain implementation that unlike Bitcoin script offers a turing-complete programming language, Solidity. Gaining a solid understanding of the programming behind cryptocurrency in general, he returned to Bitcoin to see what he could do with the world’s most popular cryptocurrency.