Great episode, looking forward to reading it!
Defending Bitcoin: Cybersecurity for the Monetary Grid | Luke de Wolf | BIS #202
By Knut Svanholm and Luke de Wolf
Aired May 11, 2026 · 1h 20m · Last boosted May 15, 2026
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Luke de Wolf joins the Bitcoin Infinity Show to talk about his upcoming book Defending Bitcoin: Industrial-Grade Cybersecurity for the Monetary Grid, the cybersecurity case for treating Bitcoin as critical infrastructure, and why arbitrary data on Bitcoin should be considered a textbook availability vulnerability. The conversation covers Luke's reversal on BIP-110, the governance concentration around Bitcoin Core, and why decentralized mining through Ocean, Datum, and Stratum V2 is essential for keeping the network resilient. Knut and Luke also preview BTC Prague, the Dublin conference, and the upcoming BTCHEL event in Helsinki this September, with its tracks on Nordic sovereignty...
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CykrosJul 22, 2026
1k Re:other nodes and making news, you're clearly not watching Eric Voskuil on Twitter. Libbitcoin 4 just did IBD in 14 minutes on a consumer connection (with assumevalid height of 950k) and 55 min for full validation. Older than Knots, and older than Core being called, well, Core. They slept for a good few years but are waking up with a vengeance.
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Northern Hodl🍁May 22, 2026
1k Super interesting episode, just bought @npub1cmc7sh0nz… book to learn more! Great listen for anyone interested in energy and home mining.
May 19, 2025
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CykrosMay 19, 2025
1k Thanks for removing the friction from consuming Mises.
Jul 16, 2026
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CykrosJul 17, 2026
580 This is sweet, thanks for covering this. Been getting excited listening to @npub1v25jqj332… talk about Stratum v2 for a while now. Nice to see it in action.
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CykrosJul 9, 2026
580 Welcome back
Aug 4, 2026
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CykrosAug 4, 2026
500 The cloak and dagger shit with Switck is heating up. People were already looking for a reason for this to be inside. Still not totally convinced but it looks sketchy as fuck. Never been more glad I had fun playing dice games with my bitcoin.
Jul 23, 2026
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CykrosJul 23, 2026
500 Boston Bitdevs is coming up on July 30 at MIT Building 4. Be sure to RSVP through bostonbitdevs.org (or with the link if David wants to put it in notes). https://app.evento.so/e/evt_3M48gmwDKdbzNc63 Come with questions!
Jun 26, 2026
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CykrosJun 27, 2026
500 One of the best WBD's yet. Dines' coverage of the Eurodollar mechanics here and the shift that happened with LIBOR to SOFR is something far too few people are talking about (Luongo notwithstanding).
Feb 16, 2026
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Northern Hodl🍁Feb 17, 2026
500 “I don't understand why I'm supposed to collectivize myself with a bunch of fucking idiots that can't think for themselves.” Amazing episode. Just bought Erik’s book.
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CykrosJan 6, 2026
400 Welcome back! Your break sounds like it was good. Missed your updates.
Mar 20, 2026
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CykrosAug 10, 2026
100 Your analogy is odd given that the twentyfirst amendment struck the 18th amendment from the constitution... The issue with 110 is that it was ineffective and targeting an issue that barely qualifies as one. 4 MB is 4 MB.
Aug 7, 2026
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CykrosAug 7, 2026
100 The point of airgapping isn't that QR'sbor SD cards are inherently more secure than USB or Bluetooth. It's that the amount of data is far more limited and easier to audit with lower tech methods. If you ask me floppy disks would be even better, as SD cards have firmware that could be an attack vector. But floppies are prohibitively hard to implement in 2026.
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CykrosAug 5, 2026
100 'Anything is safer than a coldcard' is not entirely accurate, especially if you're one of the fence cases. Malware hot wallets are having a field day. Saw one user lost 6.07 BTC on mobile 'wasabi' wallet which of course was fake.
Aug 4, 2026
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CykrosAug 4, 2026
100 Some of the best presentation of the issue I've encountered. Education not recommendations. The multisig evangelists are dangerous, and the guy who hosts the exchange is telling us to self custody. Man of the People @npub1cn4t4cd78… .
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CykrosJul 31, 2026
100 It turns out Leopold was NOT the biggest story of the day @npub1ahe2832lq… .
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CykrosJul 23, 2026
100 Guy with half a brain still listening reporting in 😂
Jul 10, 2026
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CykrosJul 10, 2026
100 I'm thinking the four year cycle is not as there as some have said. Stephen Perrenod has some great writings and math to go with it on some harmonics describing oscillations around the power law trend that seem to make more sense when thinking about fundamental factors. And it follows log time, with the last peak in 2017 and the next in 2027. There are sub harmonics, hence oscillations in between. The fun thing is, it captures the 2011 run up too...
Jul 7, 2026
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CykrosJul 10, 2026
100 So glad we finally got some weigh in here on the silliness that is 110. And yea, probably was a low blow last time I asked you about this topic on zoom Natalie...
Jul 9, 2026
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CykrosJul 9, 2026
100 Someone's out to capture Bitcoin all right. It's the ones who are running thebonly implementation and mining pool that supports this dumbass fork. They're just a lot more retarded than even Bcashers, with a single percent of blocks in any signalling period so far with only 2 to go. Most don't know enough about Bitcoin to realize how cooked they are though. And the ones who do are too sour to do anything about it. Have fun storming the castle.
Jun 25, 2026
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CykrosJun 25, 2026
100 I gotta say Rustin, I'm pretty disappointed in the portrayal of spam being about data space. That is hard capped at 4 MB/block. Being opposed to using that space is to be opposed to Bitcoin being used. Spam has other issues, sure. But the size on nodes is Simply noise.
Jun 22, 2026
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CykrosJun 22, 2026
100 Just gonna point out as a non-MSTR lover that $82.50 with 11.50 in annual dividends is a 13.94% yield. So when you say STRC hasn't done well but SATA has it's a bit weird as they're trading for the same yield...
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CykrosJun 20, 2026
100 Owning Bitcoin and buying Bitcoin are no longer counter culture. Spending it and accepting it as a merchant still are. Best part is, it makes the orange ties cry. It's a place they can't follow.
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CykrosJun 19, 2026
100 Linked identities on Nostr...interesting thought. Wonder if we can reuse some of the BIP-85 math for that. The downside to that is, BIP-85 only links to a master private key. As far as I'm aware there's no way the various xpubs can be seen to be related by anyone else. Though, I suppose if we share that master public nostr key (heck maybe it's your npub now and the agents get child keys). Worth exploration anyway.
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CykrosJun 18, 2026
100 I get they're a sponsor @npub1h8nk2346q… but the idea of a nationstate holding their bitcoin on a Bitbox is comical. They could use a few...or, they could do the much more likely thing of a much more solid system like the Glacier protocol, perhaps expanded with a variety of spending paths.
Jun 17, 2026
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CykrosJun 18, 2026
100 'You can just buy Bitcoin and ignore it.' Except you can't. Sure, your Bitcoin won't be debased. But the productive capacity of humanity is an engine that right now is running on fiat. The fuel you put in an engine determines its output. And Bitcoin's purchasing power is a finite value that grows because humans usually produce more over time. If fiat debt makes the humans produce less, the Bitcoin will stagnate too. Buying Bitcoin and doing nothing just gives you a first class ticket on the Titanic. To really fix the issue we need to change the fuel in the engine. Sorry for the mixed metaphors but hope the point is made.
Jun 14, 2026
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CykrosJun 15, 2026
100 Obligatory flack for not hating Litecoin in the past. But this podcast idea thing just might work!
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CykrosJun 4, 2026
100 Finally after all the orange ties and BLV'ers we got some real Bitcoiners on the show again. Fuck the suits, fuck the scammers, stack real sats.
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CykrosMay 28, 2026
100 Hearing a lot about how this will work because everyone is dumber than Mechanic. Yawn. Also don't think we missed that he said he wishes he had unilateral power. Have fun playing with your BLV's.
May 26, 2026
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CykrosMay 26, 2026
100 Tether Gold (XAUt) seems like it'd be a 100% backed money certificate for gold. Same with the pre-bitcoin e-gold systems.
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Annoyingly, Knots has merged BIP-110. So we're losing implementations for Bitcoin, as it has turned into an implementation instead for BLV. LOVE what I'm seeing from Floresta and Utreexod though as some good alternatives with a sane way to approach utxo bloat in a wat that recognizes that no matter what the utxo set HAS to be way bigger for Bitcoin to grow.