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In this podcast, hosts Vikram Ramakrishnan and Faizaan Shamsi, partners at the software consultancy QuantLayer, talk to investors and builders of the cryptocurrency arena. We discuss how industry participants think about crypto assets, how they uncover fraud in the market, and which technologies will turn the budding, nascent crypto space into the revolutionary powerhouse early market participants had hoped for.

Sep 3, 2018

We discuss the alerting platform we’re building for crypto investors and traders. We then cover how Ethereum miners are rolling in dough, and the gives and takes of Proof of Work. We talk about a few really interesting alerts that hit this week: a Land Estate Bug we found in Decentraland ($MANA), an $EOS Vulnerability that exploits RAM, a Stratis node vulnerability ($STRAT) that’s been around for almost all year, and a Bitcoin Cash ($BCH) vulnerability. We also talk about how the crypto space has really gotten a new wave of people interested in learning about how finance works, and what crypto teams will have to do to keep that interest going.

Topics:

  • Major issue they have with the crypto market
  • ZEC Sapling news
  • Lightning Network updates
  • Cheap ETH mining
  • MANA land estate bug
  • New EOS vulnerability allows to steal RAM resources directly from users
  • Stratis node vulnerabilty
  • Etherscan security vulnerability exposed by hackers
  • Bitcoin core developer could have wiped bitcoin cash from existence
  • How crypto has opened up people's eyes to how markets work

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