Today's episode brings on Steve Marx from ConsenSys Diligence. Steve only talks with Corey this episode as Collin has to move across the states. Together, they chat about the what the "Diligence" section of ConsenSys is, how it got started, and where it's going. From there, Corey and Steve discuss the very concept of security and how it pertains to Ethereum. Don't miss this episode, as you'll walk surely walk away with a new, useful view of how to stay safe in the blockchain world!

Links:

• ConsenSys Diligence
• Steve's Twitter
• Steve's Github

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https://blog.ethereum.org/2019/07/10/geth-v1-9-0/

Dan Guido, CEO of Trail of Bits, comes on the air with us to talk about how tooling is evolving in smart contract security, the landscape of security auditing today, and we have the opportunity to congratulate him on being named a leader in Forrester Research's Midsize Cybersecurity Consulting Services, Q2 2019 report. We go over advancements in fuzzing, static analysis, formal verification, and some interesting and unexpected problems found in smart contracts.

Links

• Forrester Wave Blogpost
• What blockchain got right - slides
• Zeppelin forum for DSChief bug
• Anatomy of unsafe smart contracts
• Trail of Bits Twitter

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Blockstack is releasing their decentralized computing platform next year, and we have Aaron Blankstein on to talk about their whitepaper and what it means for decentralized applications in the future. Using their identity management system, Blockstack ID, their file storage system, Gaia, and their formally verifiable and non-Turing Complete smart contract language, Clarity, Blockstack will make it easier to build dapps on the Bitcoin network.

Links:

• Blockstack.org
• Blockchain docs
• Blockstack whitepaper

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