The Trail of Bits podcast explores the intersection of human intellect and computational power. Imagine having a couple of friends explain to you how they protect some of the world’s most precious data - friends who happen to be the world’s leading cyber security experts, and who know how to speak in plain, straightforward English. That’s what each episode of the Trail of Bits podcast is like. The only ads you’ll ever hear are for our free and open source software and tools.
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The Trail of Bits podcast explores the intersection of human intellect and computational power. Imagine having a couple of friends explain to you how they protect some of the world’s most precious data - friends who happen to be the world’s leading cyber security experts, and who know how to speak in plain, straightforward English. That’s what each episode of the Trail of Bits podcast is like. The only ads you’ll ever hear are for our free and open source software and tools.
Here's something lots of people like about Bitcoin: Governments can't control it. You can spend your Bitcoin the way you want to, and nobody can stop you. But here's the bad news: That's not true. It turns out that one of the things everybody believes about cryptocurrency is actually wrong. Really wrong. About a year ago, Trail of Bits was engaged by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to answer a question. DARPA wanted to know if one of the things that everybody "knows" about cryptocurrency is actually true: Are blockchains really decentralized? This is a key question for cryptocurrencies. And in this episode, we'll explain what the Trail of Bits team found.
Trail of Bits
The Trail of Bits podcast explores the intersection of human intellect and computational power. Imagine having a couple of friends explain to you how they protect some of the world’s most precious data - friends who happen to be the world’s leading cyber security experts, and who know how to speak in plain, straightforward English. That’s what each episode of the Trail of Bits podcast is like. The only ads you’ll ever hear are for our free and open source software and tools.
