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Bits to bitcoin : how our digital stuff works / Mark Stuart Day ; with illustrations by C.A. Jennings.
Van Pelt Library QA76 .D3333327 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Day, Mark Stuart, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computer science--Popular works.
- Computer science.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 353 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Single process
- Steps
- Processes
- Names
- Recursion
- Limits: imperfect programs
- Limits: perfect programs
- Interacting processes
- Coordination
- State, change, and equality
- Controlled access
- Interrupts
- Virtualization
- Separation
- Packets
- Browsing
- Unstoppable processes
- Failure
- Software failure
- Reliable networks
- Inside the cloud
- Browsing revisited
- Defending processes
- Attackers
- Thompson's hack
- Secrets
- Secure channel, key distribution, and certificates
- Bitcoin goals
- Bitcoin mechanisms
- Looking back.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262037938
- 0262037939
- OCLC:
- 1015258699
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