Bits to Bitcoin av Mark Stuart (Visiting Lecturer Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Day

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<b>An accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and other topics for the general reader.</b><p>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 <i>Bits to Bitcoin,</i> 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. </p><p>Day tells us that steps are digital but ramps are analog; that computation is about “doing something with stuff” and that