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    Reckless Review

    Reckless Review, hosted by Bitcoiners Lawrence Nahum and Udi Wertheimer, is your unapologetic, professionally unprofessional podcast, on the latest and greatest in the Bitcoin community. Get your thinking hats on, because this is going to get technical.
    en-usUdi Wertheimer, Lawrence Nahum11 Episodes

    Episodes (11)

    RR11 - Many Happy Returns

    RR11 - Many Happy Returns

    It's been 6 months since the last Reckless Review, you know what this means!

    Join Udi and Larry as they discuss the Twitter hack, open source funding of bitcoin, usual hardware wallet dramas, and Reckless Review monetization plans...


    Links:
    Chainalysis analyzing the twitter hack: https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/chainalysis-doj-twitter-hack-2020

    Bitcoindevlist by Matt Odell and Dennis Reiman: https://bitcoindevlist.com/

    Reckless Review
    en-usAugust 17, 2020

    RR10 - Most Dramatic Episode Yet

    RR10 - Most Dramatic Episode Yet

    Did you miss us?

    Larry and Udi are back again, for the most drama-packed episode yet. There are dramas in Ethereum, there are dramas in Bcash, there are dramas in VR, and there are dramas in Hardware Wallet Twitter. Monitor your blood pressure closely!

    Reckless Review
    en-usFebruary 25, 2020

    RR9 - Entire Life Savings into DeFi

    RR9 - Entire Life Savings into DeFi

    The Reckless Duo is back once again, discussing important issues like the Taproot Review Study Groups and SNICKER, and silly issues like debating shitcoiners, apologizing for Segwit2X, and investing in DeFi

    Reckless Review
    en-usNovember 21, 2019

    RR6 - The McCormack Threesome (feat. Giacomo Zucco)

    RR6 - The McCormack Threesome (feat. Giacomo Zucco)

    The gang is back for an exclusive threesome episode! This time featuring British-Mexican podcaster Pedro McCormack (the journalist previously known as Giacomo Zucco) for an in-depth conversation on the optimal number of Bitcoins, educating and getting educated, and the top two shows called "game of thrones".

    Reckless Review
    en-usMay 22, 2019

    RR3 - Magical Quantum Machines and the Secrets of UTXOs

    RR3 - Magical Quantum Machines and the Secrets of UTXOs

    Today Larry and Udi discuss P2PK vs P2PKH, and whether the latter really bring to the table the benefits that it promised. There's also a primer on UTXOs, a discussion on dust attacks, and some thoughts on Replace-by-fee.

    Some links:
    Pieter Wuille's magical key cracker
    Wasabi dust attack
    Bitcoin Optech - subscribe to their newsletter!
    The Bitcoin Optech Scaling Book - in development, includes interesting discussions on RBF, CPFP and batching

    Reckless Review
    en-usMarch 25, 2019

    RR2 - Lightning Exchanges, Hardware Wallets and Gambling Your Life Away

    RR2 - Lightning Exchanges, Hardware Wallets and Gambling Your Life Away

    The second episode is where things really fall into place. Larry and Udi review current and future hardware wallet solutions, including the new fad of "blockchain phones". They also discuss Facebook's ever-rumored stablecoin, ideas for integrating Lightning into bitcoin exchanges, and also include a very important PSA on gambling addiction.

    Some relevant links:
    Ledger Nano X - hardware wallet with BLE
    HWI repository - hardware wallet interactions scripts for Bitcoin Core (experimental)
    Electrum Personal Server - set up a light electrum server backed by your full node, to use with an Electrum client with a hardware wallet
    electrs - Another option for Electrum server, built in Rust, works for multiple clients simultaneously
    Samsung confirms some built-in wallet support on the Galaxy S10
    Arwen protocol - non-custodial protocol for trading coins on an exchange

    RR1 - Full Nodes, Privacy, and DNA Scams

    RR1 - Full Nodes, Privacy, and DNA Scams

    In the very first Reckless Review, Lawrence and Udi review the state of full nodes solutions for individuals, look at how people are using Lightning, and why people are leaving Coinbase - before going down the rabbit hole into the dangerous world of DNA scams.

    Some links from this episode:
    Eclair mobile - Non-custodial Lightning wallet
    Blue Wallet - Custodial Lightning wallet
    Full node packages: Casa Node, Nodl, Node Launcher, ABCore
    "Privacy" - A Bitcoin Wiki entry

    Reckless Review
    en-usMarch 02, 2019