In this episode the hosts of the show talk about what it takes to build a cryptocurrency mining rig. We fill a cart and purchase all the pieces necessary by the end of the episode. 

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The cryptocurrency CTF held at BSides NoVA hosts John and Will (bspar_). We discuss their CTF along with how they can create more interest in a specific topic like cryptocurrency. The hosts also discuss their experience with the cryptocurrency challenge MonteCrypto.

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Special guest Troy Mursch. We discuss his experience with the latest trends in cryptojacking. New vulnerabilities were discovered in some Equihash mining pools & a smart contract vuln called BatchOverflow. Lastly, the Route53 BGP hijack that happened this week.

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Special Guests Maurelian and Bernhard from ConsenSys. They brought their knowledge around smart contract security to the show. Discussion around auditing smart contracts with their tool Mythril and how to get started in smart contract security was had.

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A cryptographic flaw was found in Zerocoin. The top 10 smart contract vulnerabilities as detailed in the Decentralized Application Security Project (DASP). ACINQ lost their code signing key. $3.3 million stolen from the CoinSecure.

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Special guest Sneakerhax joins us! We discuss some of the security issues around cryptocurrency wallet software. Malicious coin-miners have been found embedded into semi-legitimate Android applications. Lastly, we discuss Verge cryptocurrency being hacked.

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This week on the CoinSec Podcast Brian Krebs investigates who and what Coinhive is. Atlanta is fighting a ransomware attack. Drupalgeddon 2.0 is happening as a new RCE has surfaced. Fileless crypto-mining malware has surfaced. All that & more on CoinSec Ep. 11.

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A fifteen-year-old found some pretty epic vulnerabilities in both leading hardware wallets Ledger Nano S and Trezor One. Research was released detailing how there is potentially illegal content being posted on the Bitcoin blockchain. A $10k bug bounty was payed out by Coinbase to a researcher who found a vulnerability that would have allowed an attacker to steal millions in Ether. Over the past 2 years attackers have been stealing over $20 million in Ether from publicly facing wallets. All that and more!

This week Beau and Ralph discuss a new vulnerability patched in IOTA related to signature issues. Monero is forking due to ASIC mining systems hitting the market for the CryptoNight algorithm. Trail of Bits released a new smart contract fuzzer called Echidna. A Kickstarter for a steel rod called CryptoHex to store BIP39 seeds is running. Additional topics covered this week were the CryptoSecure ICO, Google banning cryptocurrency ads, and more!

Bitcoin Private is a fork of a fork of a fork that merges the ZClassic and Bitcoin blockchains. The Binance exchange protected its' users against a major hack this week. Researchers found that the Ethereum network was vulnerable to 'Eclipse' attacks. Electroneum re-implemented a bug where a hardcoded hash was copied over from Monero. Lastly, $2 million worth of cryptocurrency mining equipment was stolen from a mining farm in Iceland.