Welcome to episode 70 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. I'm always wanting to learn things via my podcast, and hopefully it helps others learn too. So when I heard Michael Flaxman on Stephan Livera's podcast, I thought he was such a compelling guest that I just had to have him on The Bitcoin Game. In this episode we dive into details about Bitcoin, security, and multisig.
LINKS
Michael Flaxman on Twitter
https://twitter.com/mflaxman
Michael Flaxman's Website
https://www.michaelflaxman.com
Michael Flaxman's Bitcoin Multisig Hardware Wallet Comparison
https://bitcoin-hardware-wallet.github.io
Michael's In-Depth Article on Multisig
Coming Soon!
Michael Flaxman on Stephan Livera Podcast (Hardware Wallets)
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/97
Mt. Gox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox
2014 Proof of Reserves article
https://www.coindesk.com/krakens-audit-proves-holds-100-bitcoins-reserve
PyCoin (Open Source Library)
https://pypi.org/project/pycoin/0.51
Shamir's Shared Secret
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
Coldcard Hardware Wallet
https://coldcardwallet.com
Trezor Hardware Wallet
https://trezor.io
Ledger Hardware Wallet
https://www.ledger.com
Hardware Wallet Passphrase (Trezor guide)
https://blog.trezor.io/passphrase-the-ultimate-protection-for-your-accounts-3a311990925b
Hardware Wallet Mnemonic Seed Phrase / BIP 39
https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Mnemonic_phrase
Ian Coleman's BIP 39 Tool
https://iancoleman.io/bip39
BIP 174 / Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBT) Github
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0174.mediawiki
Crypto Steel (One of several Seed Backup Solutions)
https://cryptosteel.com
Multisig
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Multisignature
Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
https://electrum.org
Electrum Personal Server Github
https://github.com/chris-belcher/electrum-personal-server
Secure Element (Gemalto site - supplier to Ledger)
https://www.justaskgemalto.com/us/what-is-a-secure-element
HD Wallet Hierarchical Deterministic Wallet (HD Wallet)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Deterministic_wallet
Random Number Generator (RNG)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generation
Segwit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SegWit
Bitcoin Core
https://bitcoin.org/en/download
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface
Bitcoin Testnet
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet
Nonce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce
Tails OS
https://tails.boum.org
If you liked this episode, I bet you'll like my fairly exclusive interviews with Peter Kroll, the creator of the paper wallet, and white-hat hacker Johoe, who recovered Bitcoin during the 2013 Android RNG issue.
The Bitcoin Game #56: Paper Wallet Inventor Peter Kroll
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-56-paper-wallet-inventor-peter-kroll<
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