How to crack Bitcoin wallets with BTCRecover was discussed by the hosts on this week's episode of the CoinSec Podcast. Hackers hacking hackers with Ethereum honeypots was talked about. Discussion around the potential of generating keys that match wallet addresses was had. Lastly, don't store your mnemonic recovery keys on your disk or your going to have a bad day (Looking at you Bitcoin.com and Jaxx wallets).

Sidechains in cryptocurrency have been a relatively hot topic recently with currencies like Cardano and Lisk building functionality around them. Security concerns around sidechains were discussed in this episode. The crew talked about the Bitgrail hack, a 0-day vulnerability in Bitmessage, and the next dark web currency. Also discussed was how SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is upset about the lack of availability of GPU's to use in their search for aliens.

The CoinSec Podcast welcomes Travis Lelle (host of The Bitbull Podcast) to the show for an interview. Steve gave a rundown of the Verge cryptocurrency Wraith Protocol. A Russian engineer tried to use a supercomputer to mine Bitcoin. More mining malware, a Ledger hardware wallet vulnerability, predicting PRNG's in Ethereum Smart Contracts, and more on this week's episode!

On this episode Mike Felch (@ustayready) details some of the critical vulnerabilities that can be introduced into Ethereum smart contracts. The largest cryptocurrency hack ever happened to Coincheck. Coinhive made it's way into Google ads, and a new malware called WannaMine is using the NSA Eternal Blue exploit to compromise more hosts to mine on. Also, NIST put out guidance on Blockchain & cryptocurrency.

Steve Borosh (@424f424f) gives an introduction to mining cryptocurrencies. The hosts chat about the idea of splitting up private keys in different physical locations. News items for the week included VeChain's first ever cryptocurrency disaster recovery plan, reports of North Korea hacking South Korean exchanges, Sia ASIC miner drama, and discussion around millions being stolen from ICO's every month. Lastly the group chats about the penetration testing and bug bounty token Hacken.io.

This episode welcomes Chris Gates (AKA carnal0wnage) to the show to discuss how he got into cryptocurrency, and his new cryptocurrency project "The Great Altcoin Chase" (www.thegreataltcoinchase.com). Oracle WebLogic servers were being exploited to mine Monero, and Checkpoint states that Coinhive was the most prevalent malware of December, 2017. The Stellar Lumens wallet Blackwallet.co was DNS hijacked, and a vulnerability related to hijacking Lisk accounts was discussed.

In this inaugural episode of the CoinSec Podcast the hosts discussed their history in InfoSec & cryptocurrency, the latest cryptocurrency vulnerabilities, the PolySwarm ICO, how to get started with exchanges, and more.