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Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803234519

Length 666 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Blockchain

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Computer Architecture

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Jim Ledin

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Computer Architecture FREE CHAPTER

2. Digital Logic

3. Processor Elements

4. Computer System Components

5. Hardware-Software Interface

6. Specialized Computing Domains

7. Processor and Memory Architectures

8. Performance-Enhancing Techniques

9. Specialized Processor Extensions

10. Modern Processor Architectures and Instruction Sets

11. The RISC-V Architecture and Instruction Set

12. Processor Virtualization

13. Domain-Specific Computer Architectures

14. Cybersecurity and Confidential Computing Architectures

15. Blockchain and Bitcoin Mining Architectures

16. Self-Driving Vehicle Architectures

17. Quantum Computing and Other Future Directions in Computer Architectures

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

19. Index

Appendix

Introduction to blockchain and bitcoin

The concept of bitcoin first became public in a paper by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 entitled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. The author’s name appears to have been a pseudonym and the identity of the author (or authors) of the paper is not publicly known. The paper laid out the mathematical and cryptographic underpinning of a system for performing decentralized financial transactions.

In a centralized financial system, the operation of the system relies on entities such as governments and banks to monitor and control system activities and to regulate what users of the system are allowed to do.

The bitcoin concept has no centralized regulator and relies entirely on networked peers to competitively interact in a manner that maintains stable system operation. Anyone can join the network as a peer and immediately gain all the privileges available to network participants.

One important feature of the bitcoin design...

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