What podcasts say about Mike Belshe
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What Mike Belshe has said on podcasts
38 statements · 23 positive · 13 negative · 1 mixed · 1 neutral
The Trump administration’s regulators are coordinating effectively on crypto policy.
“this administration is working together”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 2:05
Crypto policy will improve whether or not the Clarity Act passes.
“we're going to get a good result whether clarity passes or not”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 3:41
Operation Chokepoint 2.0 has ended.
“the Operation Chokepoint 2.0 is clearly over”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 4:08
Belshe hopes the Clarity Act passes.
“I hope that it passes”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 5:37
Appropriate AI use can produce stronger cyber defenses than previously available.
“If we use AI appropriately, we end up with much better defenses than we've ever had before.”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 8:36
AI models should be broadly accessible and need not be feared.
“I think it should be open access to everybody. I do not think we have to be afraid of this at all.”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 9:14
AI systems need environments where defensive cybersecurity use is permitted.
“we need to have places where this can happen because we need to be able to use it for defensive purposes”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 11:01
Crypto companies should use AI tools in their software development and security work.
“everybody should be using these tools”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 11:31
AI regulation would hinder rather than help the United States.
“I really think this is not a place where we need regulators. I don't think it's going to help. I think it's going to hold America back.”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 12:05
Digital assets are more difficult to secure than physical assets.
“digital assets are harder to secure than physical assets”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 14:45
Human users are the primary security weakness in many digital-asset hacks.
“humans are not good at security. Individuals, all of us are vulnerable. We are the weak link.”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 15:23
Multisignature wallets reduce single-key vulnerabilities by eliminating a single point of failure.
“multi-signature is the mechanism by which you take that single key vulnerability and you break it into no single point of failure”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 16:20
Independent multisignature security stacks make simultaneous failures very unlikely.
“the chances of both of them failing, right? Very, very small.”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 17:34
Self-custody will probably remain difficult indefinitely.
“self-custody is going to be hard probably forever”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 17:44
Two-of-three custody protects against both theft and loss.
“the two out of three model protects against both theft and loss”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 21:55
Bitcoin users should prefer multisignature over MPC.
“Using MPC on Bitcoin rather than multisig is terrible. You shouldn't do it.”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 22:11
Self-custody is necessary to prevent a return to centralized banking.
“We need... Self-custody.”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 22:27
Bitcoin ownership will balance between self-custody and custodians.
“I think we're going to see a balance”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 25:05
Institutional Bitcoin trading fees are approximately 10–20 basis points.
“Institutions don't pay that. Institutions are like 10, 20 basis points.”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 27:12
Large Bitcoin ETFs could threaten Bitcoin to some extent.
“the big ETFs do become a bit of a threat to some degree to Bitcoin potentially”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 29:57
Large single-treasury Bitcoin accumulations could threaten Bitcoin.
“anyone that's accumulating large amounts of Bitcoin in a single treasury also do”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 30:03
Bitcoin’s protocol should be hardened against concentration risks.
“we need to build Bitcoin such as hardened against that”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 32:00
Exposed Bitcoin public keys could potentially be compromised by quantum computers.
“elliptic curve cryptography, if the public key is exposed, could potentially be hacked by a quantum computer”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 32:48
Bitcoin’s address-generating hash algorithm is not vulnerable to quantum attacks.
“the hashing algorithm that creates the addresses is not quantum vulnerable”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 33:04
Bitcoin wallets can reduce quantum exposure by avoiding public-key revelation.
“we can change the way we do the unspense so that we optimize for not having any public keys revealed”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 33:48
Building a capable quantum computer is difficult.
“building a quantum computer turns out to be kind of hard”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 40:26
A black-hat hacker is unlikely to be first to build a quantum computer.
“I think it's relatively unlikely”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 41:51
Quantum progress will likely prevent quantum computing from becoming a serious Bitcoin issue.
“I do think we're making fast enough progress on quantum that it won't be a real issue anyway.”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 41:54
Bitcoin is a long-term appreciating asset despite short-term declines.
“It's a forever up asset. But that doesn't mean it never goes down.”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 49:57
Most cryptocurrency chains will eventually become worthless.
“Most of those will go to zero.”
Open the episode · Mike Belshe: The 100 Bitcoin Hacking Bounty & How to Hold Bitcoin Where the ETFs DoListen at 51:01
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