Meet the Bitcoin Foundation’s Newest Core Security Auditor, Sergio Demian Lerner
Back in November, the Bitcoin Foundation announced that it would solely focus on Bitcoin core development. They also mentioned “two critical, long-standing, unmet needs,” which included “somebody dedicated to ongoing security review of changes to the core code,” said the announcement. “We (the Foundation) hope to announce a new hire to fill this role very soon.” Now they have found the person for this position in the form of Sergio Demian Lerner. The official announcement reads: “As Core Security Auditor, Sergio will be dedicated to the ongoing security review of changes to the core code.....
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The Bitcoin Foundation has announced the appointment of a new core security auditor as part of its broader shift to focus on bitcoin core development. Sergio Demian Lerner will become the fourth full-time core developer funded by the Foundation, and will be responsible for reviewing the core code for potential security vulnerabilities. Chief scientist Gavin Andresen announced the hire in a new blog post that comes weeks after issuing a call for developers interested in auditing and testing the core code. Lerner has long been involved with core development on security matters - having....
Sergio Lerner, the well-known blockchain and cryptocurrency security expert who is also part of Rootstock, was present at LaBitConf Mexico yesterday. While at the event, he released the white paper titled RootStock Platform - Bitcoin Powered Smart Contracts. In an interview with a NewsBTC representative, he explains about RootStock, its comparison with Ethereum and Bitcoin, and also its security features. While explaining about the platform, Sergio made it clear that RootStock is not a fork of Ethereum, as many tend to believe. The development of RootStock had begun almost a year before....
A long-proposed bitcoin feature called 'sidechains' may soon take a big step forward thanks to a pair of proposals. The idea behind sidechains, most associated with the startup Blockstream (whose team boasts its originators), is to make it easier to add new features to bitcoin, something that's proven difficult in the past due to bitcoin's design. In short, sidechains are supposed to make it possible for users to move bitcoins between different bitcoin-based blockchains with different rule sets. For example, in this way, new techniques for preserving the privacy of transactions or a smart....
Timo Hanke, a mathematical researcher and cryptocurrency expert, in collaboration with Sergio Demian Lerner, a renowned security expert, has developed a new Bitcoin mining method that can increase mining revenue by up to 20 percent, translating to an increase of $30 million in annual profits if used by one of the biggest mining pools. The patent pending method available for licensing “involves a new design of the SHA 256 hash-engines (inside the ASIC) and an additional pre-processing step as part of the mining software (outside the ASIC)” according to the whitepaper. Through parallel....
Bitcoin has graduated from being a cryptocurrency to an applications platform that can be used in a range of industries to augment their operations. The use of Bitcoin’s underlying blockchain technology for purposes other than recording and confirming transactions is labeled under an umbrella term Blockchain 2.0. Smart Contracts is one of the applications of Blockchain 2.0 Currently, there are two platforms that are leading the Smart Contracts race – Ethereum and RootStock. While Ethereum is a standalone protocol developed by Vitalik Buterin and his team that uses a separate blockchain and....