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What can you learn from a Cybersecurity professional?
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Today's guest on the show is Luke Dewolf, author of "Defending Bitcoin," who discusses cybersecurity challenges for critical infrastructure, including Bitcoin, drawing parallels between industrial control systems and the Bitcoin network.
Key Topics:
- Luke's background in critical infrastructure and cybersecurity
- "Defending Bitcoin" book and its motivations
- Real-world examples of cyberattacks (Stuxnet, NotPetya/Maersk)
- Ransomware and Bitcoin's association with it
- Individual Bitcoin security best practices (hardware wallets, full nodes, social engineering awareness)
- The CIA triad (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) in cybersecurity and Bitcoin
- The "arbitrary data" debate, Ordinals, Runes, OpReturn, and BIP-110
- Bitcoin's layered defenses: policy, miners, and consensus
- Soft forks versus hard forks
- The future of Bitcoin security, AI, and adoption challenges
- BTC Hell conference
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