The Bitcoin Game #56: Paper Wallet Inventor Peter Kroll - a podcast by Rob Mitchell
from 2018-07-04T16:37:38
Welcome to episode 56 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. I met Peter Kroll at a Bitcoin conference about a year ago. When I asked Peter what his involvement was with Bitcoin, he told me he created the original Bitcoin paper wallet at BitAddress.org. I was pretty impressed, having used his tool often! Peter had kept it a secret that he was behind BitAddress.org until late 2014, and even since then, he's kept a pretty low profile. We cover a ton of topics in this exclusive interview, including Peter's introduction to Bitcoin, his paper wallet system, Bitcoin's division, and much more.
EPISODE LINKS
The First Bitcoin Paper Wallet
https://BitAddress.org
Peter's SlashDot introduction to Bitcoin
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/19/0149234/mint-it-yourself-with-a-browser-based-bitcoin-miner
Curaçao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curaçao
Peter "PointBiz" Kroll on BitcoinTalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=17857
First BitAddress.org thread on BitcoinTalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43496
BitcoinTalk BitAddress.org art contest posted by Mike "Casascius" Caldwellhttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=92969
BitAddress.org on GitHub
https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org
BitAddress Changelog
https://www.bitaddress.org/CHANGELOG.txt.asc
Entropy (Hackaday article)
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/02/what-is-entropy-and-how-do-i-get-more-of-it
BitcoinJS
https://github.com/bitcoinjs/bitcoinjs-lib
Tom Wu's JSBN Library
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/jsbn/
Live USB Linux
https://www.linuxliveusb.com
BitKey (bootable USB image for cold wallets)
https://bitkey.io
Tails
https://tails.boum.org
Canton Becker's Bitcoin Paper Wallet
https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com
Ian Coleman’s BIP39 Mnemonic Converter Tool
https://iancoleman.io/bip39/
Coldlar (new hardware wallet)
https://www.coldlar.com
Coinbin (offline transaction signing library, uses QR codes)
https://coinb.in
My interview with Jochen “Johoe” Hoenicke, who discovered Android RNG issues related to insecure Bitcoin wallets https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-7-bitcoin-hero-jochen-aka-johoe
Estonia - National ID Card RNG Flaw
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/09/security_flaw_i.html
Generating private keys with dice
http://kiararobles.com/blog/generating-private-keys-with-bitcoin-dice.html
Monero
https://getmonero.org
Decred
https://www.decred.org
The Future Of Bitcoin - Peter Kroll asks Craig Wright some questions @ 1:15:50
https://youtu.be/v1_gxvx_QGo?t=1h15m50s
Counterparty
https://counterparty.io
ERC20
https://support.exodus.io/article/108-what-is-an-erc20-token-and-does-exodus-support-it
Peter Kroll - Private Key Custody - Crypto Mexico - Ethereum Devcon 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idLaVk-3pDk
Peter on Twitter
https://twitter.com/pointbiz1
Peter on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/user/pointbiz
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CREDITS
All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by Rob Mitchell.
The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.
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