riptide & 0xflint discuss his humble beginnings in crypto making $0.01 on his first contest to becoming an LSR at Certora, how to get what you want out of life, breaking into crypto and why merit trumps all, use cases for premium LLM tools while auditing, alpha drop on solidity trapdoors, why he punishes himself to improve day-in and day-out, why you should add communication and leadership skills to your tech stack, questions from the humble podcast audience, and much, much, more ...

Episode 16 - 0xflint

riptide & milotruck discuss being #1 on the codea4ena leaderboard in 2023, working as an LSR at Spearbit, from an infosec background to competing in contests, dipping his toes in bountyhunting, why competitive audits beats collaboration, how contests have evolved, incentives and rewards, bug hunting tools, how security has gotten worse in crypto, and much, much, more ...

Episode 15 - milotruck

riptide & bytes032 discuss the audit business, demand for languages outside of solidity, how to keep the drive to succeed, optimistic mindset, what makes a good auditor, auditor vs. bountyhunter, leaving your comfort zone and trusting your instincts, and much, much, more ...

Episode 14 - bytes032

riptide & 0xsimao "the human fuzzer" discuss being a humble aerospace engineer to getting started in crypto with ThreeSigma and then selected to be a part of Blackthorn, how he approaches audits vs. contests, auditors vs. bountyhunters, approaching bug hunting with the right mindset to locate zee bugs, auditing for clients that do not respect security, bountyhunting is playing the long game, taking the L when you miss a bug as an auditor, red flags in codebases and what to look for and things that are always out of scope during an audit that bug hunters should look at and much, much, more ...

Episode 13 - 0xsimao

riptide & tpiliposian discuss how auditors and bounty hunters differ, hexens audit model, what the certora prover actually does, what devs should do prior to deploying, RED FLAGS to look for when looking at a project to bounty hunt on, why everyone misses bugs, getting your money's worth as a protocol dev with audits and contests, and much, much, more ...

Episode 12 - tpiliposian

riptide & merkle_bonsai discuss his $400,000 bug find on Oasys which took a world record 7 months to finally get paid, bug hunting blockchain backend code instead of contracts, the future of blockchains and which coding languages have staying power, nicotine and caffeine, rewriting protocol code to better understand it, smaller screens means more bugs, behavioral tricks and environmental context to train your brain for bug hunting, how DeGate is his nemesis, humble elliptic curve explanation, ZK moon math, virtual earths and the relation to GPS accuracy, and much, much more ...

Episode 11 - merkle_bonsai

riptide and rootrescue discuss his $400,000 bounty find on Enzyme, how out-of-scope assets can land you monster bugs, relayers and forwarders, why to look at deployment scripts, how Army training translates to being a cracked bug hunter, a fat juicy ALPHA DROP, and how to check the chain using your own archive node w/ semgrep, and much, much more ...

Episode 10 - rootrescue

riptide and jack discuss how his audit competition/bounty platform Sherlock stacks up against the competition, why bounty hunters should focus their time there, how the platform has evolved over the years, addressing complaints with competitions to include: self-judging, spam, and insider bad behavior. Also how to create incentive based systems to obtain desired outcomes, what makes a good audit, and much, much more ...

Episode 9 - jack sanford

riptide & nnez discuss his secret to becoming a top 15 ranked bug hunter with Immunefi and earning $1,000,000 in bug bounties, meritocracy in crypto and why that is a good thing, bounty negotiations, why bounties are easier than contests, defi security with TradFi participants, what protocols to look at and how to find bugs, looking outside of solidity, an ALPHA drop, and much much more ...  

Episode 8 - nnez

riptide & riproprip discuss his $500,000 bug find on Raydium's CLMM, hunting bugs solo and the pitfalls of contests, how printing out calldata can help you find bugs, leveling up as a new hunter,  finding your motivation to devote time to bug hunting, and why to get and remain ripped and totally jacked at a young age with the first physical ALPHA DROP in the history of this podcast ... and much, much more anon

Episode 7 - riproprip

BOUNTY HUNT3RZ: LIFE ON THE BLOCKCHAIN interviews the top bug bounty hunters in crypto to discover their secrets to finding live bugs, saving the day, and making millions of dollars all while remaining extremely jacked and ripped

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain