Monitoring Bitcoin P2P network attacks and anomalies with eBPF and USDT tracepoints

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

I spoke at the eBPF Summit 2024 about how I’m using eBPF and the USDT tracepoints in Bitcoin Core to extract P2P network events to use them for, for example, anomaly detection.

Recording (YouTube)

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October 10, 2024

Episode 6: Discussing Pre-25.0 Bitcoin Core Vulnerability Disclosures

I joined Gloria and Niklas on the brink.dev podcast to talk about the recently disclosed Bitcoin Core pre-25.0 vulnerabilities.

Episode 6: Discussing Pre-25.0 Bitcoin Core Vulnerability Disclosures

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August 31, 2024

Bitcoin Core Development

At the “Bitcoin Burg Academy” I talked about Bitcoin Core development to an non-techincal audience. Often when I talk to non-technical Bitcoiners, they don’t really know much about the Bitcoin Core open-source software project but are very interested to learn more about it. In this talk, I covered the basics starting from the beginning with Satoshi, to the early years without Satoshi, to how Bitcoin Core development works now. I detail how Bitcoin Core developers communicate, I briefly introduce GitHub, Issues, PRs, and review, and I discuss what jobs maintainers have and how Developer Funding works.