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03:30 What is security in the blockchain space

06:10 Two fundamental layers in blockchain to secure — consensus and execution

09:00 Why do people focus on smart contracts and what else is important in security

19:20 Rolling your own cryptography is risky

22:25 Different implementations of the same specification

28:15 Where nodes are hosted and security implications

32:35 The 'Pyramid of Pain' and different indicators of compromise

39:40 Monitoring based on mempool activity

45:55 Incentivising responsible security disclosures

56:35 Security regulation — education and protocol guidelines

Episode hosts - Corey Petty, Demetrick Fergurson, Jessie Santiago

Hashing It Out continues its series on blockchain infrastructure with part 1 of security. Corey, Dee, and Jessie talk to Mehdi Zerouali, director at Sigma Prime, about security within the blockchain industry. Mehdi is a penetration tester particularly interested in decentralised systems, with a strong focus on Ethereum. He has been an integral member of the security community for some time now, and he joins us to discuss how developers can look at the entire tech stack to secure their work.

<p>Hashing It Out is a highly-technical bi-weekly show that brings you the pioneering developers driving the Cypherpunk movement. In each show we take a deep dive through privacy, sovereignty, and network state technology with some of web3's most influential innovators.</p><section class="footnotes-container">&nbsp;</section>

Hashing It Out is a highly-technical bi-weekly show that brings you the pioneering developers driving the Cypherpunk movement. In each show we take a deep dive through privacy, sovereignty, and network state technology with some of web3's most influential innovators.

Dr. Corey Petty

Jessie Santiago

Demetrick Ferguson

Hashing It Out

<p>Hashing It Out continues its series on blockchain infrastructure with part 1 of security. Corey, Dee, and Jessie talk to Mehdi Zerouali, director at Sigma Prime, about security within the blockchain industry. Mehdi is a penetration tester particularly interested in decentralised systems, with a strong focus on Ethereum. He has been an integral member of the security community for some time now, and he joins us to discuss how developers can look at the entire tech stack to secure their work.</p><section class="footnotes-container">&nbsp;</section>