Bitcoin Security and Ethics with Neha Narula
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Interview Location: Boston
Interview Date: 20th June
Company: MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative
Role: Director
The security of Bitcoin is one of the factors which gives it so much value, and after ten years there still hasn’t been a single counterfeit Bitcoin created, there has never been a successful 51% attack, and the few potentially catastrophic bugs have been fixed without any negative consequences. But how secure is Bitcoin? Is Proof of Work too risky? Can we trust those that are developing Bitcoin to do so with the right ethical judgement?
In this interview, I spoke with Neha Narula, the Director of MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative to talk about these critical issues. We discuss:
- How the DCI got started
- Bugs in the Bitcoin protocol
- Proof of Work being too risky
- Ethical development on Bitcoin
- 51% attacks
- Government controlled crypto
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Connect with Neha:
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- At MIT
Mentioned in the interview:
- Utreexo at MIT
- Lightning Labs
Other relevant WBD podcasts:
- WBD123: Tadge Dryja on Scaling Bitcoin With Utreexo
- WBD110: Andrew Poelstra on Schnorr, Taproot & Graft Root Coming to Bitcoin
- WBD109: Luke Dashjr on 300k Blocks and Full Nodes
- WBD107: Daniel Buchner on Why Microsoft is Building Decentralised IDs on Bitcoin
- WBD106: Bitcoin Block Reorgs Explained with Adam Back and Bryan Bishop
- WBD100: Tadge Dryja on the Limitations of the Lightning Network
- WBD085: Andrew Poelstra on Bitcoin Math & Research
- WBD074: How Bitcoin Works with Matt Corallo
- WBD057: Core Developer Bryan Bishop on Building Bitcoin
- WBD047: Adam Back on a Decade of Bitcoin
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