PickVidsBest Cryptography Videos
The 90 Cryptography videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 9 introductory, 23 intermediate, 48 for a general viewer, and 10 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Computerphile, aantonop, Black Hat.
I Live 500 Feet From A Bitcoin Mine. My Life Is Hell.
A More Perfect Union report from a small Texas town next to a large Bitcoin mining facility, where residents describe constant noise and health problems.
Elliptic Curve Back Door - Computerphile
Dr Mike Pound explains the suspected backdoor in the Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator and how elliptic curve constants could let someone predict its output.
Admiral Jeremiah Denton Blinks Morse Code Warning as P.O.W.
A short 1966 propaganda interview clip in which Jeremiah Denton, a US prisoner of war in Vietnam, blinks the word TORTURE in Morse code.
Bitcoin Q&A: Energy Consumption
Andreas Antonopoulos answers a Bitcoin Q&A question about energy consumption in mining.
My first interview with Sam Bankman-Fried
Tiffany Fong's phone interview with Sam Bankman-Fried shortly after FTX filed for bankruptcy.
The Laws of Mathematics are commendable
A clip of Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull saying the laws of Australia prevail over the laws of mathematics, regarding encryption.
Satoshi Has No Clothes: Failures in On-Chain Privacy by Ian Miers (Devcon4)
Ian Miers' Devcon4 talk on failures in on-chain privacy for Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Quantum Computing and Bitcoin (Vitalik Buterin, November 2013)
A 2013 lecture in which Vitalik Buterin explains what quantum computers are and what they can and cannot do.
Apple’s Software Chief Explains ‘Misunderstood’ iPhone Child-Protection Features (Exclusive) | WSJ
A WSJ interview in which Apple's Craig Federighi explains Apple's CSAM scanning and child-safety features, including neural hashes and safety vouchers, and defends them against backlash.
Nvidia Said We Couldn't Game On This Crypto Mining Card...
Linus Tech Tips tests a Chinese mining-only Nvidia card, hacked with a modified driver so it can render games and output video through an integrated GPU.
Roger Ver on MTGOX Bitcoin exchange
A short 2013 video in which Roger Ver says Mt.
How The Banks Bought Bitcoin | Lightning Network
A 2017 video arguing that banks and Blockstream steered Bitcoin toward the Lightning Network.
Don't Buy Bitcoin. It's Going To Crash!!!
A one-minute joke video titled as a warning against buying Bitcoin, giving a humorous summary of price crashes.
CNBC TechCheck+ chats with Tether's CTO and general counsel — 7/21/21
A CNBC interview in which Deirdre Bosa talks with Tether's CTO and general counsel about the company's role in crypto and the future of stablecoins.
KSK Key Signing Ceremony (16 Jun 10)
Highlights of the June 2010 ICANN DNSSEC root Key Signing Ceremony, showing the procedures used to generate and protect the root zone signing key.
Matthew Driver “Trust Is A Critical Component” | Perspectives | Channel NewsAsia
A short Channel NewsAsia interview clip in which MasterCard's Southeast Asia president voices distrust of cryptocurrencies produced by anonymous computers in anonymous places.
Ben Kreuter RWC 2017
A Real World Crypto 2017 talk by a Google engineer on using private set intersection to match ad views with in-store purchases.
I Think I Know Who Satoshi Is
A 13-minute video in which Ted Nelson lays out his theory about who created Bitcoin, proposing that Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym for mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki.