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Bits to Bitcoin: How Our Digital Stuff Works by Mark Stuart Day (English) Hardco
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- ISBN-13
- 9780262037938
- Book Title
- Bits to Bitcoin
- ISBN
- 9780262037938
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Computers
- Topic
- Operating Systems / General, Internet / General, Computer Science
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 23.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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An accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and other topics for the general reader. Most of us feel at home in front of a computer; we own smartphones, tablets, and laptops; we look things up online and check social media to see what our friends are doing. But we may be a bit fuzzy about how any of this really works. In Bits to Bitcoin, Mark Stuart Day offers an accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and related topics for the general reader. He takes the reader from a single process to multiple processes that interact with each other; he explores processes that fail and processes that overcome failures; and he examines processes that attack each other or defend themselves against attacks. Day tells us that steps are digital but ramps are analog; that computation is about "doing something with stuff" and that both the "stuff" and the "doing" can be digital. He explains timesharing, deadlock, and thrashing; virtual memory and virtual machines; packets and networks; resources and servers; secret keys and public keys; Moore's law and Thompson's hack. He describes how building in redundancy guards against failure and how endpoints communicate across the Internet. He explains why programs crash or have other bugs, why they are attacked by viruses, and why those problems are hard to fix. Finally, after examining secrets, trust, and cheating, he explains the mechanisms that allow the Bitcoin system to record money transfers accurately while fending off attacks.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262037939
ISBN-13
9780262037938
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243097228
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Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Operating Systems / General, Internet / General, Computer Science
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Genre
Computers
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
23.2 Oz
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Qa76.D3333327 2018
Publication Name
Bits to Bitcoin : How Our Digital Stuff Works
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2017-046504
Dewey Decimal
004
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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