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bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain

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

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57:49

Episode 32 - windhustler

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/12/08

riptide & windhustler discuss how he runs his audit business Burrasec, incentivizing your auditors, methods and tactics, SR talent, is Croatia a new SR hotspot, competing amongst other audit firms, thoughts about specialized audit business models, targeted bounty hunts as a service, and much, much, more ...

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39:00

Episode 31 - drastic watermelon

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/11/23

riptide & drastic watermelon lounge by the pool at the faena hotel in buenos aires and discuss devconnect, yAudit, CTFs, security outlook, competitions, getting shafted on a juicy bug bounty, judges must be crazy, auditor profit maxxing, AI submissions, and probing the mystery of why each time you order the same type of coffee in buenos aires it changes, and much, much, more ...

en

64:03

Episode 30 - mitchell amador

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/11/05

riptide & mitchell amador (CEO of Immunefi) discuss the IMU token, it's flywheel effect, and how you can invest in security researchers, why L1s are back in fashion, mitchell's view of 1000 blockchains, security and the future of our industry, the story of Steemit from the ICO era, deep thinking and the bigger picture, cosmology and finding a greater purpose, nicotine maxxing and much, much, more ...

en

60:18

Episode 29 - j4x

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/10/28

riptide & j4x discuss coming from cybersec and web2 CTFs to web3, a deep dive on rust, the contest game before and now, focusing on less popular languages, nomad bug hunting, why failing high school french and working at a call center helped him as a bug hunter, and much, much, more ...

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48:01

Episode 28 - tim

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/10/23

riptide & tim discuss competitions at immunefi, conditional pots, making the game fair, backroom dealing and shift protocols, why SRs should participate, proxy negotiation, and much, much, more ...

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64:44

Episode 27 - patrick collins

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/10/17

riptide & patrick Patrick Collins (co-founder of @cyfrinaudits, @soloditofficial, @codehawks, and @cyfrnupdraft) discuss how he got here and why he's building in crypto, web3 security and where its going, contests and codehawks, properly incentivizing bug hunters, how money drives decisions, his motivation behind educating bug hunters, a juicy ALPHA DROP for the gym, and much, much, more ...

en

59:52

Episode 26 - alix40

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/10/09

riptide and alix40 discuss soloaudit: his public good contribution to the security space where devs can find independent security researchers for hire, why valkyrisecurity is offering web2 & web3 security reviews, web2 bug hunting vs web3, web2 defi attack points, how we make this space secure for both grandma and JP Morgan, AI audits, and much, much, more ...

en

58:34

Episode 25 - adrian hetman

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/09/04

riptide & adrian hetman discuss running the triage department at immunefi, how to write the best bug report, using LLMs wisely, how your report is viewed by triagers and the protocol team, why reports get rejected, cleaning your brain's cache to improve your bug hunting, a juicy ALPHA drop, and much, much, more ...

en

51:21

Episode 24 - josselin feist

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/08/27

riptide & montyly (josselin feist, humble slither creator) discuss his tenure at trailofbits, web2 vs web3 security posture, security tooling, internalizing security and solving the human problem, concolic execution/hybrid fuzzing, using LLMs as a force multiplier, an ALPHA drop, why putting underscores in your file names is 32337, and much, much, more ...

en

57:41

Episode 23 - 0xjuann & 0xspearmint

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/08/14

riptide & the Obsidian audit team (0xjuann & 0xspearmint) discuss their Fraxlend high severity bug find including a deep dive into ERC4626 vaults, helping hyperliquid builders with their hyper-evm-lib public good, how they use automated tooling during audits, why you should drop out of med school to be an auditor, defi strategies and risk tolerance, alpha drops, and much, much, more ...

en

69:23

Episode 22 - mackenzie

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/08/07

riptide & mackenzie discuss the inner workings of immunefi, what happens behind the scenes as soon as you click submit on that juicy bug report, mackenzie's unique omniscient view of bug reports and bug hunters, how to up your negotiation game to get paid, and much, much, more ...

en

65:09

Episode 21 - danielvonfange

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/07/18

riptide & danielvonfange discuss running a bug bounty program at Origin and dealing with LLM spam and bounty sizing, how he creates tests and invariants, hunting bugs before you were born, the challenges of selecting audit partners, security in crypto now vs the past, why devs and auditors should cross-train, why PHP rules, and how morals, ethics and incentives intersect in crypto, and much, much, more ...

en

53:19

Episode 20 - chasethelight

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/07/11

riptide & chasethelight discuss how getting rugged on BSC led him to create his automated bug finding tool Lightchaser, why programming in C and ASM can make learning new languages easier, why static and dynamic analysis trumps LLMs, why you should dig deeper to outperform automated bug detection, why we need bounty hunters and the importance of manual review, how Lightchaser V4 is leveling up bug detection, and much, much, more ...

en

56:13

Episode 19 - 0xe4669da [SPECIAL n00b EDITION]

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/07/03

riptide & 0xe4669da discuss the challenges of breaking into bug hunting, mistakes he made when getting started, when to change your approach when it's not working, why you need to fully understand solidity inside and out, how focusing on your objective will lead to deeper bug discoveries, a LayerZero alpha drop from our guest, and much, much, more ...

en

61:36

Episode 18 - riptide

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/06/26

riproprip & riptide discuss the origins of the humble chad, his humble background, scoring big bounties in business class, repetition and building a knowledge base to find bugs, what to do when you find a bug but don't know who to contract, is the ethereum foundation bug bounty size correctly, avoiding burnout, incentives drive human behavior, and why you should jetsurf anon ...

en

80:02

Epsiode 17 - lonelysloth

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/06/18

riptide & lonelysloth discuss how it feels hitting 7 figure bounty payouts, how to find obscure bugs that no one is looking for, why bounty hunters find bugs auditors miss, ZK bugs and things to look for, approach to learning new complex subjects, what motivates a lonelysloth, what planet he actually comes from, and much, much, more ...

en

58:59

Episode 16 - 0xflint

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/06/06

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 ...

en

64:20

Episode 15 - milotruck

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/05/29

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 ...

en

58:58

Episode 14 - bytes032

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/05/20

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 ...

en

57:45

Episode 13 - 0xsimao

bountyhunt3rz: life on the blockchain ·

2025/05/13

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

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