peer-to-peer
description: type of decentralized and distributed network architecture
160 results
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
by Liz Pelly · 7 Jan 2025 · 293pp · 104,461 words
internet as a public good: starting in the nineties, the government provided high-quality public broadband for much of its population, allowing file-sharing and peer-to-peer technology to quickly take hold. And while Sweden had passed legislation discouraging piracy in 2005, it also had privacy laws preventing companies from easily attaching an
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the idea that would become Spotify. The concept was not yet music-specific, but he wanted to build something that would combine advertising, streaming, and peer-to-peer technology (which also underpinned file-sharing).1 Ek and Lorentzon had some things in common: they both knew a lot about search engine optimization, metadata, and
Bitcoin Internals: A Technical Guide to Bitcoin
by Chris Clark · 16 Jun 2013 · 52pp · 13,257 words
source would only have to provide one hash, and the rest of the hashes could be downloaded from untrusted sources, such as peers in a peer-to-peer network. This can be accomplished using a top hash generated by hashing all of the hashes of the chunks. The resulting structure is called a hash
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, it becomes more and more difficult to redo all the proofs of work. Chapter 6 Technical Overview 6.1 Architecture Bitcoin is run by a peer-to-peer network of computers called nodes. Nodes are responsible for processing transactions and maintaining all records of ownership. Anyone can download the free open-source Bitcoin software
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works). Chapter 7 Transactions 7.1 Structure When a Bitcoin user initiates a payment, the client creates a transaction message and submits it to the peer-to-peer network. A transaction contains the following information, with CTxIn and CTxOut shown below:11 class CTransaction int nVersion; std::vector<CTxIn> vin; std::vector<CTxOut> vout
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and will be ignored (except coinbase transactions that will be explained later). The nVersion variable is a version number for the transaction so that the peer-to-peer network can still function even when different nodes have different versions of the Bitcoin code running. The nLockTime variable can be used to prevent the transaction
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contracts that prevent a transaction from completing until certain conditions are met. 7.2 Verification After a Bitcoin client submits a new transaction to the peer-to-peer network, other nodes in the network will start trying to process it into the block chain (this procedure will be explained in Chapter 9, "Mining"). The
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stage of the validation. Chapter 8 The Block Chain 8.1 The Byzantine Generals’ Problem After verification, transactions are relayed to other nodes in the peer-to-peer network. The other nodes will repeat the verification and relay the transaction to more nodes. Within seconds, the transaction should reach most of the nodes on
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. The block chain is not just a simple list of transaction receipts though. It is specially designed to solve the double-spending problem for a peer-to-peer network of untrusted nodes. As discussed in the Double-Spending section, the goal is to determine the chronological ordering of transactions so that the first payment
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can be accepted and the second payment can be rejected. So the peer-to-peer network has to have a method to agree on an ordering of transactions even though some peers might be trying to sabotage the system. This problem
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power as a voting system. First, nodes group transactions into blocks that are linked to form the block chain. Nodes broadcast blocks to the entire peer-to-peer network upon creation. Each block contains a hash of the previous block in the chain. Therefore, at the time a block was created, the previous block
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nodes that do mining are called miners. Mining consists of the following steps, performed in a continuous loop: Collecting transactions that were broadcast on the peer-to-peer network into a block. Each miner can arbitrarily decide which transactions to include in their block. Transactions typically have a fee that the miner will receive
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. If a solution is found to the proof of work problem, the new block is added to the local block chain and broadcasted to the peer-to-peer network. If another node solves the proof of work problem first (most likely), the proof of work and the transactions in their block are checked for
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
by Parmy Olson · 5 Jun 2012 · 478pp · 149,810 words
anonymously donate to their anonymous account if he converted money into the Bitcoin currency and made a transfer. Bitcoin was a digital currency that used peer-to-peer networking to make anonymous payments. It became increasingly popular around the same time LulzSec started hacking. By May, the currency’s value was up by a
Perfection
by Vincenzo Latronico · 18 Mar 2025 · 88pp · 29,578 words
obsession—had crystallized into an industry destined to subsume all others. They had gotten into music just as online piracy was prompting the rise of peer-to-peer networks. At the end of the school day, their long afternoons would be spent jumping between History and Math homework and Photoshop and Flash, feeling their
Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain (Modernist Literature and Culture)
by Robert Spoo · 1 Aug 2013 · 552pp · 143,074 words
force in excess of its denotative capacity. Applied, as it often is today, to unauthorized file sharing by countless anonymous or pseudonymous users in decentralized peer-to-peer networks,17 the phrase conjures up conspiratorial intent to break the law—a gigantic, orchestrated music heist—when in fact the very nature of decentralized file
Bitcoin for the Befuddled
by Conrad Barski · 13 Nov 2014 · 273pp · 72,024 words
to operate the application. Early applications that used this approach include BitTorrent (for movie downloading) and Gnutella (for music discovery/downloading). Bitcoin also uses a peer-to-peer network in its design. Peer-to-peer systems have many advantages over traditional client-server systems, including improved durability and performance. Because of these advantages, it
How to Do Nothing
by Jenny Odell · 8 Apr 2019 · 243pp · 76,686 words
Dissatisfaction with this standard-issue water cooler has fueled the movement toward a decentralized web, which instead of private companies and servers makes use of peer-to-peer networks and open-source software. The goal is not only for users to own their own data, but to shift that data and software closer to
Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free
by Cody Wilson · 10 Oct 2016 · 246pp · 70,404 words
years. You can’t pull them all down. The threat is credible because everyone has a computer. Every computer is always already on the Internet.” “Peer-to-peer technology gives you leverage, sure. So, what are you saying?” “What I’m saying is you can leak more than emails and cables. There are new
Silk Road
by Eileen Ormsby · 1 Nov 2014 · 269pp · 79,285 words
. The report was an extensive critique of and response to Silk Road, well researched and referenced. It described anonymity and encryption, darknets, PGP, Tor and peer-to-peer technologies. It explained what hidden services were and listed those that could be found on the Hidden Wiki at the time. It discussed the security features
Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century
by Jeff Lawson · 12 Jan 2021 · 282pp · 85,658 words
head. One was for a new way of doing computer backups. Another idea would help people stream video from far parts of the globe via peer-to-peer networking. I had to decide what idea to pursue next, and talking to prospective customers was the way I made the decision. When you pitch a
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by Timothy Ferriss · 1 Jan 2007 · 426pp · 105,423 words
5 Day Weekend: Freedom to Make Your Life and Work Rich With Purpose
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Glasshouse
by Charles Stross · 14 Jun 2006 · 443pp · 123,526 words
Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence
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Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
by Thomas Rid
The Internet Is a Playground
by David Thorne · 24 Mar 2010 · 314pp · 69,741 words
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
by Michiko Kakutani · 20 Feb 2024 · 262pp · 69,328 words
Barefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia
by Becky Hogge, Damien Morris and Christopher Scally · 26 Jul 2011 · 171pp · 54,334 words
The Bitcoin Guidebook: How to Obtain, Invest, and Spend the World's First Decentralized Cryptocurrency
by Ian Demartino · 2 Feb 2016 · 296pp · 86,610 words
The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy
by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz · 4 Nov 2016 · 374pp · 97,288 words
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
by David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu · 23 Jan 2024 · 305pp · 101,093 words
Elon Musk
by Walter Isaacson · 11 Sep 2023 · 562pp · 201,502 words
The Price of Everything: And the Hidden Logic of Value
by Eduardo Porter · 4 Jan 2011 · 353pp · 98,267 words
A New History of the Future in 100 Objects: A Fiction
by Adrian Hon · 5 Oct 2020 · 340pp · 101,675 words
@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
by Shane Harris · 14 Sep 2014 · 340pp · 96,149 words
Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex
by Yasha Levine · 6 Feb 2018 · 474pp · 130,575 words
Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions
by Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray and George Kurtz · 15 Feb 2001 · 260pp · 40,943 words
If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
by Benjamin R. Barber · 5 Nov 2013 · 501pp · 145,943 words
Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)
by Adam Fisher · 9 Jul 2018 · 611pp · 188,732 words
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
by Evgeny Morozov · 16 Nov 2010 · 538pp · 141,822 words
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
by Saifedean Ammous · 23 Mar 2018 · 571pp · 106,255 words
The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
by Brad Stone · 30 Jan 2017 · 373pp · 112,822 words
The Rise of the Network Society
by Manuel Castells · 31 Aug 1996 · 843pp · 223,858 words
Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything
by Peter Morville · 14 May 2014 · 165pp · 50,798 words
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
by John Seabrook · 4 Oct 2015 · 388pp · 106,138 words
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
by Steven Johnson · 15 Nov 2016 · 322pp · 88,197 words
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
by Nathaniel Popper · 18 May 2015 · 387pp · 112,868 words
Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media
by Tarleton Gillespie · 25 Jun 2018 · 390pp · 109,519 words
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
by Robert Wachter · 7 Apr 2015 · 309pp · 114,984 words
Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, AirBnB, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail
by Robert Bruce Shaw, James Foster and Brilliance Audio · 14 Oct 2017 · 280pp · 82,355 words
Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor
by Glyn Moody · 26 Sep 2022 · 295pp · 66,912 words
Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps
by Daniel Drescher · 16 Mar 2017 · 430pp · 68,225 words
The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Netwo Rking
by Mark Bauerlein · 7 Sep 2011 · 407pp · 103,501 words
The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath
by Nicco Mele · 14 Apr 2013 · 270pp · 79,992 words
Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy
by Alexandrea J. Ravenelle · 12 Mar 2019 · 349pp · 98,309 words
The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
by Matt Mason
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
by Martin Kleppmann · 16 Mar 2017 · 1,237pp · 227,370 words
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
by Mike Isaac · 2 Sep 2019 · 444pp · 127,259 words
Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World
by Jeffrey Tucker · 7 Jan 2015
The Startup Way: Making Entrepreneurship a Fundamental Discipline of Every Enterprise
by Eric Ries · 15 Mar 2017 · 406pp · 105,602 words
Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future
by John Brockman · 18 Jan 2011 · 379pp · 109,612 words
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum & Smart Contracts
by David Gerard · 23 Jul 2017 · 309pp · 54,839 words
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
by Stephen Witt · 15 Jun 2015 · 315pp · 93,522 words
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
by Martin Kleppmann · 17 Apr 2017
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
by Matt Ridley · 395pp · 116,675 words
Team Human
by Douglas Rushkoff · 22 Jan 2019 · 196pp · 54,339 words
Hacking Politics: How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet
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Program Or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
by Douglas Rushkoff · 1 Nov 2010 · 103pp · 32,131 words
How to Be the Startup Hero: A Guide and Textbook for Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Entrepreneurs
by Tim Draper · 18 Dec 2017 · 302pp · 95,965 words
Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
by Timothy Ferriss · 6 Dec 2016 · 669pp · 210,153 words
The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
by Aaron Swartz and Lawrence Lessig · 5 Jan 2016 · 377pp · 110,427 words
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
by Ben Mezrich · 20 May 2019 · 304pp · 91,566 words
Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
by Cory Doctorow · 15 Sep 2008 · 189pp · 57,632 words
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom · 4 Oct 2006 · 218pp · 44,364 words
Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression
by Geoff Cox and Alex McLean · 9 Nov 2012
Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime
by Julian Guthrie · 15 Nov 2019
Raw Data Is an Oxymoron
by Lisa Gitelman · 25 Jan 2013
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
by Bhu Srinivasan · 25 Sep 2017 · 801pp · 209,348 words
Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence
by James Bridle · 6 Apr 2022 · 502pp · 132,062 words
The Smartphone Society
by Nicole Aschoff
Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
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Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
by Kyle Chayka · 15 Jan 2024 · 321pp · 105,480 words
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
by Jonathan Rauch · 21 Jun 2021 · 446pp · 109,157 words
The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine
by Peter Lunenfeld · 31 Mar 2011 · 239pp · 56,531 words
Collaborative Society
by Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska · 18 Feb 2020 · 187pp · 50,083 words
The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
by Astra Taylor · 4 Mar 2014 · 283pp · 85,824 words
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words
Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
by E. Gabriella Coleman · 25 Nov 2012 · 398pp · 107,788 words
The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
by John Hagel Iii and John Seely Brown · 12 Apr 2010 · 319pp · 89,477 words
Data Mining: Concepts, Models, Methods, and Algorithms
by Mehmed Kantardzić · 2 Jan 2003 · 721pp · 197,134 words
Mastering Blockchain: Unlocking the Power of Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts
by Lorne Lantz and Daniel Cawrey · 8 Dec 2020 · 434pp · 77,974 words
The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-Hackers Is Building the Next Internet With Ethereum
by Camila Russo · 13 Jul 2020 · 349pp · 102,827 words
How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age
by Andrew Keen · 1 Mar 2018 · 308pp · 85,880 words
What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
by Ed Finn · 10 Mar 2017 · 285pp · 86,853 words
Daemon
by Daniel Suarez · 1 Dec 2006 · 562pp · 146,544 words
How to DeFi
by Coingecko, Darren Lau, Sze Jin Teh, Kristian Kho, Erina Azmi, Tm Lee and Bobby Ong · 22 Mar 2020 · 135pp · 26,407 words
Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond
by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar · 19 Oct 2017 · 416pp · 106,532 words
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
by Kate Raworth · 22 Mar 2017 · 403pp · 111,119 words
Industry 4.0: The Industrial Internet of Things
by Alasdair Gilchrist · 27 Jun 2016
The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology
by William Mougayar · 25 Apr 2016 · 161pp · 44,488 words
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
by Lawrence Lessig · 14 Jul 2001 · 494pp · 142,285 words
SUPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World
by Sandra Navidi · 24 Jan 2017 · 831pp · 98,409 words
Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-To-Peer Debates
by John Logie · 29 Dec 2006 · 173pp · 14,313 words
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
by Kevin Kelly · 6 Jun 2016 · 371pp · 108,317 words
What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy
by Tom Slee · 18 Nov 2015 · 265pp · 69,310 words
Television disrupted: the transition from network to networked TV
by Shelly Palmer · 14 Apr 2006 · 406pp · 88,820 words
Beautiful security
by Andy Oram and John Viega · 15 Dec 2009 · 302pp · 82,233 words
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
by Lawrence Lessig · 2 Jan 2009
Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges and Leaderboards
by Yu-Kai Chou · 13 Apr 2015 · 420pp · 130,503 words
The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen · 5 Jan 2015 · 361pp · 81,068 words
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
by Evgeny Morozov · 15 Nov 2013 · 606pp · 157,120 words
The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives
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Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
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Against Intellectual Monopoly
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Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
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Bank 3.0: Why Banking Is No Longer Somewhere You Go but Something You Do
by Brett King · 26 Dec 2012 · 382pp · 120,064 words
Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project
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The Industries of the Future
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The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
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The Social Life of Money
by Nigel Dodd · 14 May 2014 · 700pp · 201,953 words
Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future
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The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
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Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
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Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane
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Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
by John P. Carlin and Garrett M. Graff · 15 Oct 2018 · 568pp · 164,014 words
Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps
by Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood Ph. D. · 23 Dec 2018 · 960pp · 125,049 words
The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind Crypto
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Docker in Action
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Cryptoeconomics: Fundamental Principles of Bitcoin
by Eric Voskuil, James Chiang and Amir Taaki · 28 Feb 2020 · 365pp · 56,751 words
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner · 31 Aug 2006 · 339pp · 57,031 words
Beautiful Visualization
by Julie Steele · 20 Apr 2010
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011
The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It
by Jonathan Zittrain · 27 May 2009 · 629pp · 142,393 words
The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance
by Eswar S. Prasad · 27 Sep 2021 · 661pp · 185,701 words
Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism
by Robin Chase · 14 May 2015 · 330pp · 91,805 words
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott · 9 May 2016 · 515pp · 126,820 words
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
by George Gilder · 16 Jul 2018 · 332pp · 93,672 words
Talk Is Cheap: Switching to Internet Telephones
by James E. Gaskin · 15 Mar 2005 · 731pp · 134,263 words
The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs Over Self-Interest
by Yochai Benkler · 8 Aug 2011 · 187pp · 62,861 words
Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems
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The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
by Benjamin H. Bratton · 19 Feb 2016 · 903pp · 235,753 words
Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
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What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption Is Changing the Way We Live
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The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism
by Arun Sundararajan · 12 May 2016 · 375pp · 88,306 words
The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of All Business Is Small
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The Architecture of Open Source Applications
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
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Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy
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The Art of UNIX Programming
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DeFi and the Future of Finance
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Hacking Capitalism
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Peer-to-Peer
by Andy Oram · 26 Feb 2001 · 673pp · 164,804 words
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
by Duncan J. Watts · 1 Feb 2003 · 379pp · 113,656 words
Cancel Cable: How Internet Pirates Get Free Stuff
by Chris Fehily · 1 Feb 2011 · 106pp · 22,332 words
Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet
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The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy
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Network Security Through Data Analysis: Building Situational Awareness
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Version Control With Git: Powerful Tools and Techniques for Collaborative Software Development
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Think Complexity
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