Andreas Antonopoulos, author of the books Dominating Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum, announced on Wednesday 28, which starts the book Mastering Lightning Network. He commented that the start date will be the 15th of September next, as a collaborative project and open, in conjunction with Olaoluwa Osuntokun, co-founder of Lightning Labs, and Rene Pickhardt, mathematical and scientific data, frequent contributor in the forums dedicated to this network of micro-payments of Bitcoin.In the video of the formal announcement of the book on Lightning Network (LN), which will be ready for the last quarter of 2020, the perpetrators joked about what they perceived to be “the worst kept secret of the ecosystem”, because two weeks ago a user of Reddit i7Robin had been informed that Antonopoulos had created a GitHub repository for the book Mastering Lightning Network. Although at that time, the referral directory contained no information. Contacted by Breaking News, Antonopoulos confirmed the existence of the book project, but declined to give details on the same at this time.The main difference with the first two books of Antonopoulos on Bitcoin and Ethereum, however, is that the work dedicated to LN, will be on a collaborative and open. This September 15, said Pickhardt, the authors will begin to place the initial contents of the work in GitHub, with the intention that you get all of the feedback as possible from readers.
Lightning Network (LN), is a protocol for Peer-to-Peer (or peer-to-peer), that runs on Bitcoin and other blockchains, and that offers micropayments safe and almost instant.Repository of the book “Mastering Lightning Network”.
Pickhardt said that he had been working on a book project collaborative on LN and that, at the beginning of the year, Antonopoulos had come to him to offer their collaboration in the initiative. With the subsequent incorporation of Olaoluwa Osuntokun to the project, they began to define the specific details of the work set and decided that the creation of the book out of character collaborative and open with their recipients.”The readers can collaborate in different ways,” says Antonopoulos. “They can participate in relation to the technical aspects of LN, or a reader not started might indicate that they do not understand a certain aspect of the content,” says Antonopoulos”.This book is not intended for programmers or developers of applications, says Antonopoulos, but to those who want to know more about this network of the second layer, and how to take advantage of its instant payments. However, it clarifies, it will provide the necessary information for those who want to program simple applications on LN.In the GitHub repository is available a Guide for contributors to the book on LN. It will place a table of contents of the chapter. The first will be placed the 15th of September next, and the procedure is the same provided by GitHub for collaboration on any project. The contributions will be made through a request of collaboration ( pull request) in the repository of the book and in line with the status of the project.