059: An intro to Bitcoin and Blockchain
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this special "splinter" episode of the "Smashing Security" podcast we take a look at Bitcoin and Blockchain. What's all the fuss about cryptocurrencies? How can you protect your Bitcoin wallet? And how does the Blockchain work?
Lots of questions, and Graham offers to sell his family.
Listen to the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guest Peter Ullrich of the "Explain Blockchain" podcast.
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Special Guest: Peter Ullrich.
Links:
- Bitcoin Resources from Jameson Lopp
- Mastering Bitcoin book by Andreas Antonopoulos
- Explain Bitcoin Like I’m Five
- Bitcoin Exchanges
- Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht sentenced to life in prison, without parole
- Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
- Jaxx mobile cryptocurrency wallet
- Trezor hardware Bitcoin wallet
- "Explain Blockchain" podcast
- Smashing Security on Facebook
- Smashing Security merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, stickers and stuff)
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sorry, would you consider yourself a privacy wonk? Are you asking me or Peter? Well, you Graham, could you just... I think in some way time, yes, absolutely. You just said it with it disparagingly, and I was thinking, well, you're in that group, I think. Oh, no, there's nothing. Don't be ashamed if you're wonking. Nothing to hide, right? No, nothing to hide, exactly. |
| 0:22.3 | Everything to hide. |
| 0:27.6 | Smashing Security, Episode 59, an intro to Bitcoin and blockchain with Carol Terrio and |
| 0:34.3 | Graham Cluley. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of smash insecurity, episode 59. |
| 0:43.0 | My name is Graham Cluley. |
| 0:44.4 | I'm Carol Terrio. |
| 0:45.9 | Hi, Carol, and, well, hey, New Year. |
| 0:49.1 | Happy New Year to you, Mr. Graham. |
| 0:51.8 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:52.9 | And what better way to celebrate, 2018, but then with another episode of Smash and Security, Mr. Graham. Thank you very much. And what better way to celebrate 2018, but then |
| 0:56.3 | with another episode of Smash and Security, a special episode. And we are joined by a special |
| 1:00.8 | guest and expert this week, actually, we brought with us. Everybody say hello to Peter Ulrich. |
| 1:06.9 | Have I said that correctly? Yes, you did. Well, kind of, a little bit. Hello, hello. |
| 1:12.4 | Now, Peter, Peter is an expert in all things blockchain and Bitcoin related. Is that fair? |
| 1:18.6 | Is that a fair way to introduce you? |
| 1:20.6 | Expert is a very, I don't know, a term that is a little bit used to much by people who don't |
| 1:27.2 | actually know that much, |
| 1:28.1 | but I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I'm a computer science student, and I follow this topic |
| 1:32.4 | already for a while, and I think I have some things to talk about. |
| 1:36.3 | I trust him more now already because he said he's not an expert, don't you? It's perfect rhetoric. |
| 1:41.0 | And more than that, though, Peter, you're the host of a podcast called Explain Blockchain. |
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