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Bitcoin Security: 1/10th cent to a billion dollars
Bitcoin allows for new applications that utilize programmatic nanopayments smaller than a penny. Alternatively, bitcoin also allows millions of dollars to be stored on a flash drive, on a piece on paper, or in a passphrase. These disparate ways of using the same underlying bitcoin protocol require vastly different security models.
This talk explores micropayment and wealth storage use cases for bitcoin and examines the various novel cryptosystems used to facilitate micro-penny payments and secure billions of dollars in global bitcoin banks.
Speaker
Olaf Carlson-Wee
Head of Special Projects @Coinbase
Olaf is the Head of Special Projects at Coinbase, the largest bitcoin company in the world, where he was the first employee. He received a BA from Vassar College after completing his thesis on distributed networking, the implications of the mass adoption of bitcoin, and the development of open...
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Location
Windsor, 5th flr.
Track
Security, Incident Response & Fraud Detection
Topics
BitcoinFinancial ApplicationsSilicon ValleySlides
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