Today's guest is Piers Cockram, the founder & CEO of Mineracks, a Brisbane-based Bitcoin company that offers ASIC sales & hosting, as well as Bitcoin self-custody training for both beginners & seasons veterans alike.

Piers' technical background makes him the ideal guest to breakdown some of the more technical concepts in Bitcoin - from encryption & entropy through to best practices for minimising trust in a wallet setup.

It's difficult to overstate the importance of getting your security setup done properly. One of the beautiful things about Bitcoin is self-custody, but with with great power comes great responsibility!

One day your stack could be worth 6,8 or 8 figures - so making sure your setup is robust will go a long way to helping you sleep safely at night.

Timestamps:

(03:14) – Pier’s entry into Bitcoin & Bitcoin Mining (09:01) – Bitcoin’s security model (14:48) – Bitcoin best practices for self-sovereignty (19:03) – Bitcoin third party custody providers & multi-sig (26:55) – Passphrases and single-sig (32:45) – BTC ETFs & how its adoption mirrors the internet (43:01) – Bitcoin mining in Australia

If you're interested in the discussion of 12 v 24 words, check out this blog post  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php topic=5450411.new#new

Piers can be found on X ( @mineracks ) or you can visit his website https://www.mineracks.com/ for more information on his services.

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Edited by Sean Lowe.

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