Bits to Bitcoin: How Our Digital Stuff Works by Day, Mark Stuart
Bits to Bitcoin: How Our Digital Stuff Works by Day, Mark Stuart

Bits to Bitcoin: How Our Digital Stuff Works

An accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and other...
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Author: Mark Stuart Day
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Bits to Bitcoin: How Our Digital Stuff Works by Day, Mark Stuart

Bits to Bitcoin: How Our Digital Stuff Works

$100.83
Bits to Bitcoin: How Our Digital Stuff Works by Day, Mark Stuart

Bits to Bitcoin: How Our Digital Stuff Works

$100.83
Author: Mark Stuart Day
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Mark Stuart Day
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 02/06/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780262551076
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Mark Stuart Day was Chief Scientist at Riverbed Technology for a decade and is currently Visiting Lecturer at MIT. With more than thirty patented inventions, he has also made technical contributions at Dropbox, IBM, Cisco, Digital, and BBN.
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