Peter Todd

Why do people publish data on Bitcoin? What does that accomplish? How are they doing it? Is this an attack on Bitcoin? With the recent fuss about people putting whole JPEGs on Bitcoin - even filling up entire blocks - we'll go through this issue and what it means for Bitcoin. (2023-09-22)

Over 17% of Bitcoin Core v24 nodes have turned on full-rbf and you should do it too. This lightning talk aims to cut through the controversy, explain what full-rbf is and why it's good for Bitcoin, and hopefully leave you with setting mempoolfullrbf=1 on your node. (2023-09-22)

Decentralised systems are meant to be trustless. But our interactions with tech is always mediated by software. This talk will cover the threat, including real and hypothetical attacks, what it takes for communities to defeat these attacks, and how we can better design decentralised systems to defeat these attacks. (2019-10-16)

"Get a hardware wallet" is the defacto advice given to store cryptocurrencies securely, but how secure are they in reality? When you receive a bitcoin, how do you know that really happened? When you send a bitcoin, how do you know where it actually went? What's the deal with evil maids? Here we'll go over what types of attacks existing hardware wallets can and can't protect against, how peer revie.. (2018-10-06)

The panel discussion with Monero, Zcash, HORIZEN people will raise both philosophical and technical questions related to truly anonymous cryptocurrencies. What impact will they have on our society? How can the governments cope with their massive use? (2018-10-06)

Ultimately all security software prevents things from happening. Here we'll dive into what exactly does "blockchain" tech prevent, and where that can and can't be useful. (2018-02-04)