Security

The Business of Bitcoin Cold Storage

“As investors reallocate their current investment portfolios to include bitcoin, trillions of dollars in market capitalization appreciation becomes an inevitable result” –Nik Bhatia

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Open Sourcing Subzero

Alok Menghrajani, security engineer at Square, details their Multisig & Hardware key management system for the cold storage of customer’s Cash app Bitcoin balances. Plus their decision to embrace the principles of the Bitcoin culture and open source their efforts to the benefit of the whole industry.

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Responsible Disclosure in the Era of Cryptocurrencies

“On April 25, 2018, I anonymously and privately disclosed a critical vulnerability in Bitcoin Cash, one of the world’s most valuable cryptocurrencies…” – Cory Fields

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Let’s Do the Time Warp Again, Verge Hack Part Deux

“While patching the first hack, they seem to have initially wanted to decrease the time drift to 15 minutes, but things kept… going wrong.”

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BetterHash Aims to Increase Bitcoin Mining Decentralization

@TheBlueMatt has introduced a new protocol to re-decentralize the vulnerability of mining pools. Listen to @dantwany’s article breaking down what this could mean for the future of Bitcoin.

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Sharding Centralizes Ethereum

Today we read @StopAndDecrypt’s thorough breakdown of the Ethereum scaling and validation trade-off. Is ETH an inherently centralizing system? Find out in today’s Quik Read.

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Feared 51% Attacks Are Now Becoming Regular

The once-feared 51% attack of POW security has recently moved from a theoretical vulnerability to a common occurrence.

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Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes

If you are curious of the foundations of thought that ultimately led to the creation of the Bitcoin system, Nick Szabo is absolutely the one to read.

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The Security Token Thesis

Is the future of finance an internet of interoperable and programmable tokens? Stephen McKeon covers the possibilities in his Security Token thesis. Listen to learn more about the advantages and drawbacks of tokenizing the world.

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Ethereum Blockchain Exceeds 1TB!

@StopAndDecrypt gives us an excellent breakdown of the state of the over-stressed Ethereum blockchain. Do the trends spell disaster for the smart contract platform, or is there a way out? Listen to find out and be prepared to learn!

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