Mastering Ethereum
by Carlo Parisi, Alessandro Mazza, Niccolo Pozzolini, Gavin Wood, Andreas M. Antonopoulos · first published 2025
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Why HN recommends it
Covers Ethereum's core concepts, including the EVM, smart contracts and how the blockchain works as a distributed ledger; suited to technical readers new to Ethereum or crypto.
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Read 'Mastering Ethereum' https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Ethereum-Building-Smart-Con... The short of it is: - The block chain is a distributed ledger database, where all peers hold a full copy to avoid manipulation (faking…
on “The Ethereum merge is done” ↗…platform. It was designed to be Turing Complete and enabled the use of "smart contracts". The DeFi space runs on smart contracts and Ethereum kicked off DeFi. This is the Ethereum white paper [3]. Mastering Ethereum by Andreas M. Antonopoulos & Gavin Wood is another book you could check out [4]. Here are a couple of introductions to DeFi, as well [5][6]. The hack that everyone is discussing here was on Poly Network,…
on “$600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date” ↗American Kingpin by Nick Bilton The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Mastering Ethereum by Andreas M. Antonopoulos The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper…
on “Top 57 Cryptocurrency Books” ↗…missing an important book. The list has the top rated books first. American Kingpin by Nick Bilton The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Mastering Ethereum by Andreas M. Antonopoulos The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper…
on “Show HN: I've compiled a list of books on cryptocurrencies” ↗…do, with most data structures algorithms being too expensive so you never have to employ the bullshit technical questions or any academic knowledge But you probably should read a book like O’Reilly’s “Mastering Ethereum”. Ethereum introduces a concept called an “EVM” (like JVM) which is used on several more platforms that arent called Ethereum, so you should be familiar with that. Oh! You also dont need to be distracted…
on “Ask HN: Jack-of-all-trades of HN, how do you approach job search?” ↗If you’re technical, read Mastering Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum, both for free on GitHub https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook, and https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/ Reason being is that how most of crypto works is a derivative of bitcoin or ethereum. And,…
on “Tether minted most USDT to just 2 firms – Alameda and Cumberland” ↗It would take quite a bit time, but with enough dedication, it's not that difficult. The books: Mastering Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum (although ethereum one is a bit outdated now) cover a lot of it pretty nicely and you can find them for free on github.
on “Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets” ↗…committed to doing so. Experience using Self-Custodial Wallets such as MetaMask Experience purchasing crypto tokens and NFTs Fundamentals of EVM and Solidity. For example, completed Cryptozombie, read Mastering Ethereum. 日本語のみでビジネスとシステムのディスカッションが可能な方 English skill over IELTS Overall 6.0 Preferred Qualifications Fluent in English Experience or Management of building dapps Familiarity with web3.js or ethers.js Familiarity…
on “Engineering Manager, or Tech Lead (Remote APAC). Full-Time” ↗EatTheBlocks is a Weekly Newsletter for Ethereum Dapp Developers. This week: Mastering Ethereum from Andreas Antonopoulos, Constantinople fork delayed... Post: https://eattheblocks.com/eattheblocks-newsletter-12-mastering-ethereum-from-andreas-antonopoulos-constantinople-fork-delayed/ Video: https://youtu.be/c7yr4At7fI4…
on “Mastering Ethereum from Andreas Antonopoulos, Constantinople |ETB Newsletter #12” ↗…me to understand the blockchain and bitcoin properly. It's available free online here~ http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000001802/index.ht... The author is putting out a similar book called "Mastering Ethereum" in February, also through O'Reilly.
on “Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?” ↗…with blockchain programming and cryptography. What are the best books on this topic if I plan to build my own blockchain based application? Two books I found online that people are raving about are "Mastering Ethereum" and "Mastering Bitcoin" from O'Reilly. Are these the best book-based resources available today? Also, any pointers to good online content would be much appreciated. Thanks!
on “Ask HN: Best Books on Programming Blockchain?” ↗Mastering Ethereum is great, and the high-level concepts all still apply, but I think it's important to mention that quite a bit of it is outdated. Basically, imagine you're reading a book on Kubernetes from a few years…
on “The Ethereum merge is done” ↗