Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
Episodes
S16 E65: Moonsettler on OP_CTV & Failing to Improve Bitcoin
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Moonsettler is a bitconer who adheres to the old school cypherpunk values and believes that the best way ahead is to enable OP_CTV (BIP119) or LNHANCE...
S16 E64: Alex Chepurnoy on Ergo & Bitcoin Smart Contracts
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Chepurnoy is a cryptographer & researcher who famously wrote a Bitcoin client in Haskell in only 3600 lines of code. He is currently working on E...
S16 E63: David Bailey on NAKAMOTO, BTC Media & The Bull Market
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Bailey is the chairman of Bitcoin Magazine, the organizer of the most successful series of Bitcoin conferences, and the mastermind behind the Na...
S16 E62: Abdel's Updates on Starkware & ZK STARKs Adoption
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Abdel is one of the most prolific developers in the Zero Knowledge space. Since our conversation in September, he was able to accomplish so much that ...
S16 E61: Alan Szepieniec on Privacy, Scaling & Quantum Resistance
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Szepieniec is a cryptographer & systems architect who specializes in Zero Knowledge proofs. He created Neptune Cash, a L1 network which combines ...
S16 E60: Jonathan Bier on Bitcoin Civil Wars & BitMEX Research
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Bier is the author of the influential best-seller "The Blocksize War: The battle over who controls Bitcoin’s protocol rules", as well as on...
S16 E59: Curtis Green on Bitcoin, Silk Road & Forgiveness
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Curtis Green, better knows by OG bitcoiners as "Chronicpain" or "Flush", is a former forum moderator and website administrator of the Silk Road intern...
S16 E58: Leona Hioki on INTMAX, ZK Rollups & Privacy
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leona Hioki is the CEO, co-founder & architect of INTMAX: a ZK rollup layer 2 that focuses on private payments, scalability, and low fees. In this epi...
S16 E57: Trezor Safe 7 Setup with Matej Zak & Tomáš Sušánka
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, Trezor unveiled the Safe 7: the first hardware wallet in the world to include the Tropic Square verifiable secure element chip, a true game-...
S16 E56: Super Testnet on Papa Swaps, BIP 444 & Prediction Markets
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, Super Testnet built Papa swaps: a novel & optimistic way of doing atomic swaps on Bitcoin. In this episode, he talks about his new projects,...
S16 E55: Mert Mumtaz on Zcash, Privacy & Zillions
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mert Mumtaz is the man of the hour: the Zcash bull who successfully popularized privacy in DeFi, and one of the architects behind the spectacular pric...
S16 E54: Slava Zhygulin & Ros on Stroom Network, Bitcoin Staking
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Stroom Network presents an interesting proposition: staking your bitcoin on the Lightning network, and earning yield from the transaction fees tha...
S16 E53: Xenu on Bitcoin Culture & Moreno vs Zcash
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Xenu is the anti-moonboy: someone who is deeply dedicated to promoting digital money as something that you use to purchase goods & services, and a bla...
S16 E52: Paul Sztorc on Bitcoin's Culture Wars
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While the Bitcoin Core v30 vs Knots debate went on, Paul Sztorc was hard at work building the Drivechains software. However, this doesn't meant that h...
S16 E51: Sean Bowe on Bitcoin, Zcash & Scaling Privacy with Tachyon
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Bowe is a cryptographer and engineer who is best known for revolutionizing Zcash. After cooperating to fix the inflation bug in the first version...
S16 E50: Ray Youssef on Why Paxful's Terminated
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On October 1st 2025, Paxful announced the decision to "wind down operations" and blamed the "misconduct" of co-founder Ray Youssef for the company's t...
S16 E49: Jay Berg on Bitcoin, SidePit & Maximalism
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Berg joined Bitcoin in 2010 and became the first person to tweet about BTCUSD when the price hit a new high of $12. In this episode, he talks abo...
S16 E48: Christopher Smith on Quantus, Bitcoin & Quantum Resistance
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Smith (aka Yuvi Lightman, aka Ganesha 1024) is the founder of the Quantus network: an mbitious quantum-zk blockchain which he proudly buil...
S16 E47: Max Hillebrand on White Noise & Private Messaging on Nostr
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Max Hillebrand makes his 8th appearance on the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast in order to talk about his latest project: White Noise, a private messaging ap...
S16 E46: Val Venis on Bitcoin, Liberty & Wrestling
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2013, former WWE Intercontinental Champion Val Venis bought 24 bitcoins for $80 each. Today, he is a big advocate for freedom, privacy, and th...
S16 E45: Shai Wyborski on Bitcoin, Kaspa & Proof of Work Research
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shai Wyborski is one of the three co-authors of the GHOSTDAG paper, and a man who takes pride in his independent thinking and divergent approach to re...
S16 E44: Abdel on ZK STARKs & Bitcoin Maximalism
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Abdel is a Starkware engineer who, over the last 7 years, went from building EIP 1559 on Ethereum to becoming a Bitcoin maximalist who wants ZK STARKs...
S16 E43: Vikrant Sharma on Cake Wallet, Bitcoin & Privacy
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vikrant Sharma, better known as Vik, is the CEO and founder of Cake Wallet: the first Bitcoin wallet to support both Silent Payments and PayJoins. In ...
S16 E42: Michael Tidwell on Bitcoin Drama & Tabconf
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Tidwell is the organizer of Tabconf, the longest running Bitcoin technical conference which takes place every year in Atlanta. In this episode...
S16 E41: Yonatan Sompolinsky on Bitcoin, Kaspa & Proof of Work
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yonatan Sompolinsky is an academic in the field of computer science, best known for his work on the GHOST protocol (Greedy Heaviest Observed Subtree, ...
S16 E40: Cory Klippsten on Bitcoin Culture & Maximalism
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cory Klippsten is the CEO of Swan Bitcoin and has a long history in both traditional finance and the Bitcoin space. In this two-part episode, he talks...
S16 E39: Karl Kreder (Dr. K) on Scaling Proof of Work, Bitcoin & Quai
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Karl Kreder, better known as Dr. K, is best known in the space for researching the use of merged-mined subnets to scale Proof of Work in 2018 – a co...
S16 E38: Bitcoin Payments in 2025 with Sergej Kotliar & Matt Ahlborg
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sergej Kotliar is the CEO of Bitrefill, while Matt Ahlborg recently created PPQ.AI to enable millions of users to experience LLMs without expensive su...
S16 E37: Andrew Poelstra on Simplicity, Bitcoin Smart Contracts & Upgrades
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Simplicity, a scripting language so simple that it can fit on a t-shirt, has finally launched on Liquid after a decade of development. Andrew Poelstra...
S16 E36: Maud Bannwart & Cheng Wang on Alephium, Proof of Less Work & Bitcoin
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alephium is one of the most interesting Proof of Work projects, which aims to build secure smart contracts & fast DeFi on a mineable base layer which ...
S16 E35: Hunter Beast on Bitcoin's Quantum Resistance & BIP 360
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hunter Beast is the author of BIP 360: a proposal that seeks to provide quantum resistance to Bitcoin, to prevent powerful computer builders from brut...
S16 E34: Prof. Richard Werner on Bitcoin, CBDCs & The Big Beautiful Bill
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Richard Werner, one of the world's most famous economists, is best known for writing "Princes of the Yen" and penning the term "quantitative eas...
S16 E33: Liz Steininger on Least Authority & Auditing Open Source Software
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Steininger is the CEO of Least Authority: a company which specializes in auditing open source software since 2014. Originally founded by Zooko Wil...
S16 E32: Bitcoin vs Monero vs Zcash Privacy with Diego Salazar & Luke Szramowski of Cypher Stack
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diego Salazar & Luke Szramowski are working to build Cypher Space: a privacy & sovereignty company. In this episode, they compare + rate the privacy o...
S16 E31: Andrew Camilleri ”Kukks” on Ark, BTCPay Server & Open Source Bitcoin Software
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Camilleri, better known as Kukks, is one of the most prolific contributors to BTCPay Server & an advocate for using bitcoin as money. Recently,...
S16 E30: Peter Rizun on Scaling Bitcoin with Hardware
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Rizun is the chief scientist at Bitcoin Unlimited: a software client that aims to scale Bitcoin with big blocks, while also empowering regular u...
S16 E29: Zooko on Ecash, Bitcoin & Zcash
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zooko has been thinking about building decentralized Chaumian ecash since the mid 1990s. When Bitcoin came out, he was the first cypherpunk to write a...
S16 E28: Proof of Work Alliance with Charles Chong, Summer Meng & Spencer Yang
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a predominantly Proof of Stake world, The Proof of Work Alliance emerges as a champion of research & education among Proof of Work miners. Fractal ...
S16 E27: David Seroy on Alpen Labs & ZK Rollups on Bitcoin
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Seroy works at Alpen Labs: the company which aims to bring an extended suite of financial applications to Bitcoin via ZK (Zero Knowledge) rollup...
S16 E26: Mark Edge on Freeing Ian Freeman & Free Talk Radio
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Edge is a libertarian radio veteran best known for co-hosting Free Talk Radio: a show that's responsible for helping lots of OGs discover Bitcoin...
S16 E25: Chandra Duggirala & George Burke on Portal & Making Exchanges Obsolete
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chandra Duggirala & George Burke are co-founders of Portal: an ambitious project which aims to replace centralized exchanges with atomic swaps across ...
S16 E24: Vitalik Buterin on the Future of Bitcoin & Ethereum
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vitalik Buterin is the creator of Ethereum, but he's also a true Bitcoin maximalist. In this episode, Vitalik tells his story as a bitcoiner, explains...
S16 E23: James O'Beirne on Bitcoin Development (CTV, CFSF & Big Blocks)
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James O'Beirne is a Bitcoin developer who's not afraid to support unpopular improvement proposals: recently, he spoke about increasing the block size ...
S16 E22: J-Dog on Counterparty & Bitcoin Tokens
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
J-Dog is the former maintainer of Bitcoin's Counterparty protocol – a role which he fulfilled for about 8 years. Under his stewardship, XCP witnesse...
S16 E21: Filip Baturan on Tanari, Citrea & DeFi on Bitcoin
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Filip Baturan is the CEO of Tanari – a decentralized finance application suite that's built on top of Citrea. With it, bitcoiners can enjoy the feat...
S16 E20: Felix Billbert on Wave Space & Spending Bitcoin
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Felix Billbert is the Chief Maximalist at Wave Space: a European company which specializes in making bitcoin easy to spend. They offer a Visa debit ca...
S16 E19: Daniel Krawisz on Bitcoin & Narcissism
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014, Daniel Krawisz was one of the most prolific Bitcoin writers: he published some excellent articles with the Nakamoto Institute, and most of th...
S16 E18: Rockstar Dev & Max Hillebrand on Privacy
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Privacy has had a couple of rough years: companies & protocols shut down, developers got arrested, governments issued new regulations... regardless, R...
S16 E17: Ben Arc on LNBits v1 & The State of Lightning Network
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Arc is the creator of LNBits: a modular Lightning network wallet which, after 5 years of development, has just launched version 1. To celebrate t...
S16 E16: Andreas Brekken on SideShift & Bitcoin Moderation
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andreas Brekken is best known for creating SideShift.ai and acting as the CEO of Shitcoin.com. In this episode, he talks about his views on Bitcoin de...
S16 E15: Marko Tarman on NiceHash & Proof of Work Mining
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marko Tarman has been mining Bitcoin since 2012 – and today, he works as Lead Mining Manager at NiceHash. In this episode, we talk about the current...
S16 E14: Adam Krellenstein on Counterparty & Bitcoin Tokens
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Krellenstein is one of the co-founders of Counterparty and the current maintainer of the protocol. In this episode, he talks about his plan to im...
S16 E13: Corbin Fraser on Bitcoin.com & BTC vs BCH
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Corbin Fraser is the new CEO of Bitcoin.com. In this episode, he talks about the Scaling Wars, his perspective as a BCH advocate, and the lessons the ...
S16 E12: Martti Malmi on Bitcoin in 2009 & Satoshi Nakamoto
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Martti Malmi, aka Sirius, was Satoshi Nakamoto's closest collaborator between 2009 and 2010. In this episode, he reminisces about the early days of Bi...
S16 E11: Paul Sztorc on Roger Ver
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Despite your bad memories from the Block Size war, you should support Roger Ver's campaign for clemency – or at least this is what Layer Two Labs CE...
S16 E10: Eric Voskuil & John Carvalho on Bitcoin & Austrian Economics
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, Bitcoin has undergone a major culture shift which promotes stagnation, complacency & simping to politicians over maximizing the util...
S16 E9: Saunter on Alby & Lightning Network Adoption
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Saunter is a designer and bitcoin advocate who works at Alby: one of the most popular Lightning network wallets. In this episode, he describes his exp...
S16 E8: Alex Romanov on Beam, MimbleWimble & Privacy
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Launched on January 3rd 2019, a whole decade after Bitcoin, Beam is the first MimbleWimble implementation to hit the markets. Unlike its smiley cousin...
S16 E7: Michael Parenti (Exiled Surfer) on Bitcoin Politics & Rock N Roll
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The life of Michael Parenti is truly extraordinary, as he witnessed two significant cultural movements that changed the word. Growing up in Malibu, he...
S16 E6: Super Testnet on Monero vs Lightning Network Privacy
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bitcoin developer Super Testnet argues that the Lightning Network is more private – and therefore better suited for darknet markets than Monero. In ...
S15 E5: Reuben Yap on Firo & ZK Privacy
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Reuben Yap is one of the co-founders of Firo (previously Zcoin): an implementation of the Zerocoin paper from 2013, which was first proposed as a Bitc...
S16 E4: John Light on ZK Tech to Scale Bitcoin & Make It Private
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Light is a researcher who specializes in bringing Zero Knowledge cryptography to supplement Bitcoin's limitations in scalability & privacy. With ...
S16 E3: Charlie Shrem & John Gotts on Digital Gold (DGD)
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bitcoin OG Charlie Shrem is now the chief evangelist of a project called Digital Gold (DGD). In this episode, I ask him and his business partner John ...
S16 E2: Liam Eagen on Crypto(graphy) Research & Innovation
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Time stamps: Introducing Liam (00:00:25) Shielded Client-Side Validation (00:01:53) Challenges in Bitcoin Development (00:05:36) The Soft Fork Indepe...
S16 E1: Mike Belshe on BitGo, Self Custody & The Future of Bitcoin
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Belshe is the co-founder and CEO of BitGo. As a Bitcoin and internet pioneer, he has witnessed some of the most significant phenomena and can dra...
S15 E71: Amir Taaki on Bitcoin & DarkFi
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time stamps: Introducing Amir (00:00:47) Reflections on Bitcoin Privacy (00:01:44) Layer 2 Solutions Discussion (00:02:36) Challenges of Layer 2 Usab...
S15 E70: Jeff Garzik on Hemi & Bitcoin Development
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time Stamps: Jeff Garzik’s Contributions (00:00:47) Overview of Hemi (00:02:32) Scaling Bitcoin (00:03:11) Challenges with Current Solutions (00:04:...
S15 E69: Zach Herbert on Passport Prime by Foundation Devices
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time stamps: Announcing the New Passport Prime (00:01:49) Competitive Landscape of Hardware Wallets (00:03:17) The Challenge to Replace Trezor (00:03...
S15 E68: Paul Sztorc on Activating Drivechains via CUSF (Core Untouched Soft Fork)
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time stamps: Introducing Paul… again! (00:00:46) Core Untouched Soft Work (00:01:56) Peter Todd's Criticism (00:02:19) Debate on Soft Forks (00:04:...
S15 E67: Rocelo Lopes on Self Custody, Tether Truth & Generational Bitcoin
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time stamps: Welcome to the Gymcast! (00:00:51) Rocelo's Introduction (00:01:47) First Bitcoin Transaction (00:02:51) Buying Bitcoin in Tokyo (00:03:...
S15 E66: Jameson Lopp on Michael Saylor, Bitcoin Ossification & Paranoid Crypto Anarchism
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time stamps: Introduction (00:00:56) Michael Saylor & Paranoid Crypto Anarchy (00:01:20) Bitcoin Block Size Discussion (00:03:10) Ossification of...
S15 E65: Bitcoin Covenants Without Soft Forks with Avihu M. Levy of StarkWare
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The recent ColliderScript research paper is a game changer: it enables Bitcoin covenants at a high cost, but without requiring any soft fork. It's the...
S15 E64: David A. Johnston on Bitcoin 2.0 & Decentralized AI
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time stamps: Introducing David A. Johnston (00:00:51) David's Bitcoin Journey (00:02:34) Bitcoin 2.0 Discussion (00:02:54) Mastercoin and ICOs (00...
S15 E63: David Bailey on Bitcoin & Trump
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time stamps: Introduction (00:00:47) David's Background and Media Interest (00:02:27) Transition to Trump Support (00:03:37) Historic Casascius B...
S15 E62: Josh Swihart & Kris Nuttycombe on Zcash & Privacy
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time stamps: Introducting Josh & Chris (00:00:50) Criticism of Zcash (00:01:44) Origins of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (00:02:18) Technological Challeng...
S15 E61: Polto & Darko on Self Custody Pro Tips
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time stamps: Introducing Polto & Darko (00:00:50) Top Hardware Wallets (00:01:33) Trade-offs in Multi-Signature Wallets (00:02:06) Importance of S...
S15 E60: Andrey Sabelnikov & Pavel Nikienkov on Zano & Privacy
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrey Sabelnikov has a history with the CryptoNote protocol, and even worked under pseudonymous Monero grandfather Nicholas von Saberhagen. Recently,...
S15 E59: David Burkett on MWEB & Privacy
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
MWEB (MimbleWimble Extension Block) is a way to add privacy & extra scalability on a parallel blockchain. First proposed by Andrew Poelstra in 2016, i...
S15 E58: Liam Eagen, Robin Linus & Jonas Nick on Shielded Client Side Validation & Bitcoin Privacy
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Liam Eagen (Alpen Labs), Robin Linus (Zero Sync, BitVM) & Jonas Nick (Blockstream, Taproot) talk about their groundbreaking research paper about Shiel...
S15 E57: Orkun Kilic on Citrea, ZK Rollups & Building the Bitcoin Economy
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Just a few days after launching the Citrea testnet, Orkun Kilic joins the Bitcoin Takeover podcast to talk about his team's approach to building zero-...
S15 E56: Prof. Richard Werner on Bitcoin, CBDCs & Banking
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Richard Werner is best known for proposing quantitative easing while working at the Bank of Japan in the 1990s, and then predicting the 2008 fin...
S15 E55: Jake Yokom-Piatt & Phoenix Green on Bitcoin, Decred & Privacy
21 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Decred is one of the oldest & most respectable altcoin projects around, which today has base layer privacy by default, a very stable Lightning Network...
S15 E54: Kruw on Bitcoin Privacy, Blockchain Analysis & Wasabi Wallet
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kruw runs the most successful Wasabi wallet 2.0 coordinator and is the kind of privacy advocate who actually builds. In this episode, he talks about c...
S15 E53: Charlie Shrem on Bitcoin
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Shrem, best known for being the co-founder & CEO of BitInstant, is still an optimistic bitcoiner. In this episode, he comments on the block si...
S15 E52: Ben Arc on the Future of Lightning, Bitcoin & Nostr
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Arc is the creator of LNBits, as well as one of the founding fathers of the Nostr social media protocol. In this episode, he reflects on the state...
S15 E51: Mike Carson on Impervious & Spaces Domains on Bitcoin
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Carson is the CEO of Impervious (and Friendster): a Bitcoin-native ZK proof-native protocol which allows for scalable domain registrations on the...
S15 E50: Murch on Popular Bitcoin Myths
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Murch is a Bitcoin Core contributor, best known for his engineering work at Chaincode Labs & his prolific answers on Bitcoin's Stack Exchange page. In...
S15 E49: Edan Yago on BitcoinOS, Permaware & Scaling Bitcoin
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Edan Yago is the co-author of BitcoinOS: the first Zero Knowledge proof system to get verified on Bitcoin's main net. BitcoinOS is a significant break...
S15 E48: Paul Puey on Edge Wallet & Privacy
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Puey is the CEO & co-founder of Edge Wallet: a light mobile wallet which is optimized for privacy features. In this episode, we talk about the ph...
S15 E47: Justin Bons on Bitcoin's Issues
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Bons is one of the most popular Bitcoin critics on Twitter. As a fan of new technologies, he believes that sharding and other scaling technique...
S15 E46: Peter Todd on Bitcoin Covenants, Tail Emission, OpenTimestamps & Why Lightning Rocks
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Todd is known for being brutally honest: so when it comes to topics such as covenant soft forks, monetary inflation, Bitcoin scaling & privacy, ...
S15 E45: Lucas Ontivero & Turbolay on Wasabi Wallet's Future
06 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What's next for Wasabi Wallet after ZK Snacks shut down the biggest CoinJoin coordinator? Lucas Ontivero & Turbolay, the two developers who still main...
S15 E44: Chris DeRose on Bitcoin Uncensored (feat. Jay Berg, Wayne Vaughan & Paul Sztorc)
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bitcoin Uncensored co-host Chris DeRose makes his fourth appearance on the Bitcoin Takeover podcast! This time around, he dislikes the English languag...
S15 E43: Sergio Demian Lerner on BitVMX, Rootstock & Layer 2s
22 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sergio Demian Lerner is the architect of Rootstock, Bitcoin's first sidechain. Recently, he became interested in BitVM as an instrument to create trus...
S15 E42: Super Testnet & Shinobi on Bitcoin Projects That Suck
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What are the Bitcoin projects that suck? In this episode, Super Testnet & Shinobi point out to lots of suboptimal features in CoinJoins, Lightning Net...
S15 E41: F/Dev (1440000bytes) on Joinstr & Bitcoin Privacy
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
F/Dev, also known as 1440000bytes or simply "Floppy", is an open source developer best known for his work on Joinstr: a CoinJoin implementation for El...
S15 E40: Rijndael on Taproot Wizards & BIP420
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rijndael is the CTO of Taproot Wizards – a group of bitcoiners who want to make Bitcoin magical. In this interview, he talks about why OP_CAT matter...
S15 E39: Pete Rizzo on Bitcoin History, Journalism & Culture
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Rizzo is a veteran Bitcoin journalist who still remembers the time when Bitcoin & crypto were the same undivided community. In this episode, he t...
S15 E38: Crypsi on Crypto Art & Cypherpunk Culture
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Crypsi is the representative of an art collective which expresses its anti-establishment ideas through physical paintings & collages, as well as digit...
S15 E37: Marek Narozniak on MimbleWimble & Quantum Computing
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marek Narozniak is a Polish physicist who works on a MimbleWimble implementation that can get added to Bitcoin via extension blocks to become a privac...