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What Does Cornell’s Emin Gun Sirer See As The Main Security Threats In Cryptocurrency? ‘Everything’

Unchained

Laura Shin

Tech News, News, Business News

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Cornell University computer science professor Emin Gun Sirer, an influential figure in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space, describes his ideas for improving security in the space, his skepticism about how to scale these networks, and how the last time financial institutions invested in their systems appears to be for Y2K. He also tells us how growing up in an environment where he saw a lot of scams helps him find problems in code, explains why Bitcoin is the “universal bug bounty,” and reveals how two high school students saved burgeoning cryptocurrency network Ethereum “like in the movies — just before the clock was going to expire.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi everyone, welcome to Unchained, a Forbes podcast produced by Fractal Recording. I'm your host

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Laura Shin, a Forbes contributor covering blockchain, cryptocuracies, and FinTech.

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unchained. For today's episode, I'm speaking with Emmun Seer, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, who works on operating systems, networking, and distributed systems.

1:21.0

He is extremely active in the cryptocurrency community.

1:24.6

He and his team have written several influential white papers and even blog posts that have

1:29.4

changed the trajectory of cryptocuracies. They've also been behind some improvements to the code

1:35.2

in Bitcoin and Ethereum. He's also co-director of the Initiative for

1:39.1

Cryptocuracies and Contracts, an initiative put together by professors at Cornell, Cornell Tech, Berkeley,

1:45.4

and other universities to help advance the adoption of cryptocuracies and smart contracts.

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