Ahoy-hoy! Today we have Director of Security at MyCrypto, Harry Denley. We talk about phishing attacks! No, not assaults at jam band concerts, the kind where you lose your money. We go over the process of finding these attacks, reacting to them, and staying ahead of the scammers. We talk about the tools used to […]
Liam Horne is a developer, decentralization expert, and an open source entrepreneur with a focus on state channels. L4 and Counterfactual have released a new development playground that lets software engineers learn and play with state channels right from their browser. Liam gives us insights on what it’s taken to get to this point, where […]
We have the great honor of speaking with Dr. Patrick McCorry, lecturer at King’s College London and expert in cryptocurrency research. This conversation focuses on state channel research. We go over the latest and greatest in that field, what advancements have achieved, and what is yet to be done. It’s exciting to learn from someone […]
We have the great pleasure of speaking with Omer Shlomovits. Omer is a multi-party computation and cryptography expert with KZen. He speaks to us about KZen, his research on threshold signatures for building simpler and more secured wallets, key recovery schemes, and the future of multi-party computation. Fantastic episode choked full of deep knowledge! https://www.kzencorp.com/ […]
Managing crypto keys is difficult enough for private holders, but when managing large portfolios of cryptocurrency assets on an institutional level, the risk surface increases tremendously. Base Zero has devised a suite of tools to manage multi-signature signing over an air-gapped signing device and a sharded backup system to ensure security for large organizations. This […]
We have the pleasure to present one of the more entertaining speakers at SBC19, Dan Robinson. After two talks on Hash Time Locked Contracts (HTLCs), he drops a massive bomb in with a slide deck entitled, “HTLCs (And why they suck).” Lively and entertaining, we have him step through is thoughts on HTLCs and the […]
Guests: Trail of Bits & ChainSecurity Back with season 2 of Hashing It Out, and we have a doozy! This Episode features Trail of Bits and ChainSecurity to talk about their amazing last-minute catch of EIP-1283’s impact on the Constantinople Ethereum hard fork. We go over how they found it, what recommendations they made, and […]
Guests: Shawn Wilkinson & JT Olio File storage has long been known as a centralized solution. Storj seeks to change this with their decentralized file storage and retrieval architecture. We’ll go over their design, engineering goals, and challenges. We dive deep into how erasure codes can be used to mitigate replication requirements, how trust is […]
Guests: Georgios Konstantopoulos Plasma is one of the strongest candidates for Layer 2 scaling solutions. Since the Plasma whitepaper was released in August 2017, there’s been a multitude of Plasma implementations experimenting with the idea. On this episode we feature Georgios Kosntantoploulos, Lead Researcher at Loom Network, to talk about Plasma, the different variations, and […]
Guests: Alex Miller & Karl Kreder Grid+ is one of the most legitimate and exciting products utilizing blockchain in the space, so we’re very excited to present Alex Miller (CTO) and Karl Kreder (VP Hardware) on our program. We discuss their line of blockchain appliances, how they’re built, their design philosophies, and the challenges in […]