Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

S16 E55: Mert Mumtaz on Zcash, Privacy & Zillions

2025-11-04

Mert Mumtaz, otherwise known as a Solana developer and supporter, recently emerged as one of the most popular advocates of Zcash and privacy. In this episode, he tells us all about his journey from Bitcoin to Solana and why he chose ZEC.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 130 MB - Duration: 1:30:18m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S16 E54: Slava Zhygulin & Ros on Stroom Network, Bitcoin Staking

2025-11-01

The Stroom Network presents an interesting proposition: staking your bitcoin on the Lightning network, and earning yield from the transaction fees that routing nodes are collecting. To better explain how this system works, Slava and Ros join the show!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 137 MB - Duration: 1:35:41m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S16 E53: Xenu on Bitcoin Culture & Moreno vs Zcash

2025-10-27

Xenu is the anti-moonboy: someone who is deeply dedicated to promoting digital money as something that you use for the purchase goods & services, and a black market connoisseur. In this episode, we talk about Bitcoin & tackle the Moreno vs Zcash debate.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 168 MB - Duration: 4:18:45m (868 kbps 44100 Hz)

S16 E52: Paul Sztorc on Bitcoin's Culture Wars

2025-10-24

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 he doesn't have any opinions about the recent events and their greater significance.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 156 MB - Duration: 1:48:29m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S16 E51: Sean Bowe on Bitcoin, Zcash & Scaling Privacy with Tachyon

2025-10-18

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 of the network, he built Halo to remove the trusted setup too. Today, he works on Tachyon to scale ZEC.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 316 MB - Duration: 3:39:34m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S16 E50: Ray Youssef on Why Paxful's Terminated

2025-10-13

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 trajectory. But Ray Youssef had already moved on since 2023, building NoOnes.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 152 MB - Duration: 1:46:02m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S16 E49: Jay Berg on Bitcoin, SidePit & Maximalism

2025-10-10

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 about why most Bitcoiners are wrong in their recent filter debate and how SidePit aims to fix trading.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 367 MB - Duration: 4:15:04m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S16 E48: Christopher Smith on Quantus, Bitcoin & Quantum Resistance

2025-10-07

Christopher Smith (aka Yuvi Lightman, or Ganesha1024 on Soundcloud) is the founder of the Quantus network: an mbitious quantum-zk blockchain which he proudly built with his team in just 6 months, with a budget of $500k. A truly ambitious polymath.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 239 MB - Duration: 2:46:35m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S16 E47: Max Hillebrand on White Noise & Private Messaging on Nostr

2025-10-03

Max Hillebrand makes his 8th appearance on the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast in order to talk about his latest project: White Noise, a private messaging application for Nostr. We also talk about Core v30 vs Knots, Bitcoin layer 2s & other bull market topics.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 349 MB - Duration: 4:02:36m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S16 E46: Val Venis on Bitcoin, Liberty & Wrestling

2025-09-30

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 the right to benefit from the product of your own labor without extortion.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 392 MB - Duration: 4:32:43m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)