 Hi everyone, this is Andreas M. Antonopoulos and I'm here with my good friends Lalu Oshidoku also known as recipe and René Picard And we're here to announce our new book Mastering the Lightning Network now Those of you who know what we do and who we are probably seeing us together on camera. That's not a surprise Like the worst kept secrets in the world. Yeah, didn't you leak the repo? I leaked the repo and almost immediately Everybody told me from the very beginning you should write this book with René and Lalu. Like well, of course That's always been the plan. So I started talking with both of you at the beginning of this year and Amazing like it only took eight months and here we are. We're in the same room somehow and I guess it's happening So the book is going to be released next year It's going to take about a year to write and get through production We're starting in September and we're inviting everyone in the community to help us with contributions I'm very excited about this collaboration and I'm also very excited about this book I think we really really need a book like this. Oh definitely I mean, this is basically how I started with this thing, right? So in the end of last year, I was thinking about what I want to really do in 2019 And I already realized in lightning network. There is really education missing So I thought well write an open source book about the lightning network And this is how I started and then people come like hey This is mastering lightning and everybody was talking to me in this sense And then at some point in time Andreas contacted me and said hey René, why don't we join efforts? Why don't we do this together and Well as we just choked about it, right? It took us eight months to actually really set up everything But now we're here and I am really excited because I already felt a little bit bad that I Announced this thing and then this repo that I was working on was so silent all the time But I knew that we're gonna join forces. Yeah, so I didn't want to like head in one direction without having you on board Yeah, yeah, it's gonna go really fast I think I think we're gonna be able to work a lot more productively But we're also looking to get as many contributors as possible Definitely a lot of people think that they can only contribute to a book like this if there are software engineers If they're highly technical if they know the bolts by heart, that's not the case. In fact There are so many contributions you can make from simple English language grammar syntax typos and things like that to examples and diagrams and and any kind of contribution that allows us to make this a better book but also Having people who are new to this Read the book and give us feedback allows us to target it for an audience Everybody who picks up this book will be new to lightning. This isn't a book for protocol developers They don't need that book. Yeah, this is a book for everybody who wants to understand lightning from the beginning So if you read something and you don't understand it, let us know we need to fix that Definitely and so lots of opportunities to collaborate and to contribute. Yeah There's gonna be like a ton of content as well Difficulty because like lightning moves kind of quickly so we need to kind of like, you know Project ahead of time to see exactly what we're gonna get to the book itself So I'm really excited about that if it's gonna be like you're saying really good education Which works too because like we have a specification Which kind of like very like low-level and you know really has like I come examples We'll kind of have something a little bit more accessible So you have a complimentary maybe read the book first and go into the deeper into the spec And if like maybe even the book will improve the spec because maybe we'll have like, you know Certain texts that aren't really as you know kind of like Describe well in specification will get over the book So I'm very excited by just getting better education Definitely more engineered working on this stuff because it's like the coolest thing out there. That's why I'm doing it We're also gonna be talking about how to build applications on top of lightning So this isn't just about how lightning works But how you would use the various clients and interfaces to build a simple application So you can really see the power of this technology something. We're all very very excited about definitely and hopefully you You are very creative then and don't build only simple applications But even complex applications and transform the entire financial world Thing of the future Yeah, right back to lightning in 2021 and you know that was it and then So we are publishing this with a Riley media because they're one of the few publishers that Really understands the value of the creative comments like my previous books with a Riley media This is going to be open from the very beginning and what does open mean open means first of all That we're gonna write the book on a public repository and you will be able to see every paragraph in every line that goes in there That means you can read it for free and share it with friends at any time And learn all about it without paying anything for the book You can also contribute but We're also going to make it available so people can use it and use excerpts of the book in various other forms to make Seminars and workshops and videos and various media presentations A year after we publish it the licensing becomes completely open So commercial and derivatives will be allowed on a share like license, which means that people can go and translate it As volunteers into different languages as well as use all of the book to build whatever They want so very very excited about bringing this education and also a lot of the other education material I know Renee you've been building YouTube videos and lots and lots of slides Oh, yeah, you had like a hundred three hundred years like a hundred twenty plus. I remember as I was like all right He puts them work into this I mean I really when I discovered the lightning network I mean I thought it's one of the most beautiful pieces of technologies that I have seen in my life or in my career So I really wanted to understand this fully and my my best way of understanding something is to teach it to others so that's why I created this like deck and Already you mentioned these like apps on my YouTube channel the first video I started was heck a lap, right? And it was basically a 60 line web app where nine additional lines made it a paywall with lightning So this is really cool stuff that once you have your lightning note running You can you can create some stuff if you don't want to wait for the book In fact, some of those example applications would be perfect contributions so point if you make better example applications, right just come to it and Provide those examples to the book. Maybe I didn't provide the best example. Yeah, what happened? So if you want more information on this check out the website Ellen book dot info l n book as in lightning network book dot info and of course the github repository github.com slash Ellen book slash Ellen book and We're going to start writing in the middle of September. This hasn't been announced yet We're announcing it tomorrow at the conference here BTC 2019 in Denver, Colorado where all three of us are presenting a variety of sessions and Hopefully you'll see those videos as well. We're very excited to do this book. I'm so excited to have both of you working on this with me and It's gonna be huge, right? It's gonna be amazing. Oh, yeah It's kind of yeah, I'm super excited this this is a team that if you had told me two years ago I would be together with you two No I'm also very excited. I can say so Excellent fantastic. See you soon Ellen book dot info and we're gonna get cracking with this work and get that book out mastering lightning coming fourth quarter 2020 by O'Reilly Media Andreas Antonopoulos Well, I should go and really pick hard. Thank you so much. Bye. Bye everyone. Thanks