It's most of the middle third.

I appreciate you Michael!

I had a great time telling Daniel all about Defending Bitcoin. Give it a listen to find out more about the book! We also cover the BIP-110 situation in quite a bit of deal, with my current reasoning made abundantly clear.

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This is where the cybersecurity side of the book starts. Chapter 3 walks the core concepts the rest of the book runs on, in plain language. It opens with the CIA triad (just a coincidence, I promise!), the three properties cybersecurity defends in every system. Confidentiality keeps information from anyone who shouldn't have it, integrity keeps it from being altered without authorization, and availability keeps it reachable for the people who need it. Every threat in Part II maps back to one of those three. From there it gets into threat modeling, which is a structured discipline rather than a vibes-check. Before you defend anything, you ask who the adversary is, what the asset is, where the attack surface lies, and what the mitigation looks like. Run that formally and some threats turn out to be less important, while others turn out larger than you'd expect. Then comes defense in depth, which is just the principle that you never lean on a single control. You layer them so each one stands on its own, and a failure in one doesn't cascade through the rest. The chapter walks how to design those layers so the whole system doesn't unwind from a single point. We also formally define the concept of risk, measured as likelihood times impact. A threat that's devastating but unlikely calls for different controls than one that's common but survivable, and that matrix is how Part II keeps everything in proportion. Without it, the threat chapters that follow would read like a long list instead of a prioritized map. By the end, you've got the cybersecurity vocabulary that the rest of the book depends on, and the bridge from "I hold Bitcoin" to "I'm responsible for defending a system I have a stake in."

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Chapter 2 of Defending Bitcoin. Bitcoin — The Hardest Money Ever Made. This chapter walks the case from first principles. Scarcity that can't be debased. Verifiability without trust. Ownership without anyone's permission. A supply schedule fixed in code and enforced by every node. It's my distillation of Bitcoin's monetary principles. This chapter will be familiar reading for most bitcoiners, but it gets us all up to speed. For the technical reader who is approaching Bitcoin for the first time through this book, it's an introduction to Bitcoin as money. If you want to read Defending Bitcoin right now, sign up for an advance copy below. All I ask is that you leave a review after the book launches: https://defendingbitcoin.com/advance-copy

Sounds excellent!

Cheers Roger, it looks great!