Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
On the Bitcoin Takeover podcast you're going to hear the builders and innovators who make the Bitcoin project valuable. It's thanks to their work that the BTC price goes up, and it's their efforts that convince large investors that Bitcoin is the future of money. Here you will find the projects and ideas that will radically improve Bitcoin in the future, presented by the creators and innovators themselves. Time to learn!
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S15 E71: Amir Taaki on Bitcoin & DarkFi
2024-12-31
In this record-breaking episode, whose running time exceeds 7 hours, Amir Taaki immerses us in his vast knowledge of arts & science. He covers everything from Bitcoin development to building DarkFi, plus his fascination with math & dinosaurs.
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S15 E70: Jeff Garzik on Hemi & Bitcoin Development
2024-12-19
Jeff Garzik is a legendary Bitcoin developer: the first big blocker, who proposed a capacity increase to 7 MB back in October 2010, and one of the first people in the world to understand that building bridges between blockchains is the future.
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S15 E69: Zach Herbert on Passport Prime by Foundation Devices
2024-12-17
Just a few days before officially revealing the new Passport Prime hardware wallet, I challenged Foundation Devices CEO Zach Herbert to convince me to replace my faithful Trezor Model T with his company's new device. Did he succeed? Let's find out!
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S15 E68: Paul Sztorc on Activating Drivechains via CUSF (Core Untouched Soft Fork)
2024-12-10
Recently, LayerTwo Labs CEO Paul Sztorc has come up with an interesting scheme to upgrade Bitcoin: it's called CUSF (Core Untouched Soft Forks) and it puts the miners in control, in order to bypass the Bitcoin Core bureaucracy. Will it work, though?
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S15 E67: Rocelo Lopes on Self Custody, Tether Truth & Generational Bitcoin
2024-11-28
Rocelo Lopes is one of the most prominent bitcoiners in Brazil and Latin America. In this episode, which we recorded in a gym and call a "gymcast", he talks about self-custody advice and envisions the future of peer to peer internet money.
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S15 E66: Jameson Lopp on Michael Saylor, Bitcoin Ossification & Paranoid Crypto Anarchism
2024-11-20
Lately, Jameson Lopp has expressed some particularly interesting opinions which are in line with the OG bitcoiner goals, but oppose the school of thought that investors such as Michael Saylor promote. In this episode, we talk about it all.
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S15 E65: Bitcoin Covenants Without Soft Forks with Avihu M. Levy of StarkWare
2024-11-13
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 most remarkable breakthrough since BitVM and co-author Avihu M. Levy is here to explain how it works!
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S15 E64: David A. Johnston on Bitcoin 2.0 & Decentralized AI
2024-11-07
David A. Johnston is best known for creating "Johnston's Law", which says that everything that can be decentralized will be decentralized. In this episode, he talks about his early days working on the Omni layer & why he believes in decentralized AI now
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S15 E63: David Bailey on Bitcoin & Trump
2024-11-02
In recent months, David Bailey has become one of Donald Trump's closest allies – and someone who is pulling strings to accelerate Bitcoin adoption in the USA. In this episode we find out more about what a Trump administration means for Bitcoin.
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S15 E62: Josh Swihart & Kris Nuttycombe on Zcash & Privacy
2024-11-01
Zcash is perhaps the most influential project in the cryptocurrency space, as it produces extremely useful research in the field Zero Knowledge proofs. Electric Coin Company CEO Josh Swihart & Zcash Core dev Kris Nuttycombe explain why Zcash us great.
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S15 E61: Polto & Darko on Self Custody Pro Tips
2024-10-28
Polto & Darko are the co-founders of Hodling.ch: a Swiss company which specializes in offering advice on self custody best practices. In this episode, you will get some pro tips about private key management & setting up backups to secure your coins.
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S15 E60: Andrey Sabelnikov & Pavel Nikienkov on Zano & Privacy
2024-10-16
Andrey Sabelnikov has a history with the CryptoNote protocol, and even worked under pseudonymous Monero grandfather Nicholas von Saberhagen. Recently, he built Zano with Pavel Nikienkov. It's a protocol for issuing tokens with good privacy.
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S15 E59: David Burkett on MWEB & Privacy
2024-10-14
MWEB (MimbleWimble Extension Block) is a way to add privacy & extra scalability on a parallel blockchain. First proposed by Andrew Poelstra in 2016, it was quickly forgotten in the Bitcoin world. But thanks to David Burkett, it's now live on Litecoin.
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S15 E58: Liam Eagen, Robin Linus & Jonas Nick on Shielded Client Side Validation & Bitcoin Privacy
2024-10-10
Liam Eagen (Alpen Labs), Robin Linus (Zero Sync, BitVM) & Jonas Nick (Blockstream, Taproot) talk about their groundbreaking research paper about Shielded Client-Side Validation – a new way to bring privacy & scalability to Bitcoin.
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S15 E57: Orkun Kilic on Citrea, ZK Rollups & Building the Bitcoin Economy
2024-10-04
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-knowledge proofs and the ambition to create a BTC-only economy around it.
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S15 E56: Prof. Richard Werner on Bitcoin, CBDCs & Banking
2024-09-27
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 financial crisis. Today, he is a fan of Bitcoin and small community banks.
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S15 E55: Jake Yokom-Piatt & Phoenix Green on Bitcoin, Decred & Privacy
2024-09-21
Decred is one of the oldest & most respectable altcoin projects around, which today has base layer privacy by default, a very stable Lightning Network implementation & an excellent DEX. Jake Yokom-Piatt & Phoenix Green explain how it all works.
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S15 E54: Kruw on Bitcoin Privacy, Blockchain Analysis & Wasabi Wallet
2024-09-14
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 continuing Wasabi, the shortcomings of Samourai & how blockchain analysis works.
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S15 E53: Charlie Shrem on Bitcoin
2024-09-07
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 size wars, shares his thoughts on ongoing development & promotes his upcoming book about his journey.
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S15 E52: Ben Arc on the Future of Lightning, Bitcoin & Nostr
2024-08-29
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 of development in Bitcoin and why he is still bullish on the Lightning Network!
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S15 E51: Mike Carson on Impervious & Spaces Domains on Bitcoin
2024-08-22
Mike Carson is the CEO of Impervious (and Friendster): a Bitcoin-native ZK proof-native protocol which allows for scalable domain registrations on the Bitcoin blockchain. In this episode, he explains how & why he decided to disrupt ICANN.
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S15 E50: Murch on Popular Bitcoin Myths
2024-08-16
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 this episode, he breaks myths about ordinals, OP_CAT, Drivechains, 0conf, ossification & more!
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S15 E49: Edan Yago on BitcoinOS, Permaware & Scaling Bitcoin
2024-08-13
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 breakthrough, as it endows Bitcoin with extended financial features without the need for a soft fork.
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S15 E48: Paul Puey on Edge Wallet & Privacy
2024-08-10
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 philosophy behind Edge, how one should analyze privacy features & the various layers of Bitcoin privacy.
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S15 E47: Justin Bons on Bitcoin's Issues
2024-07-21
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 techniques will save the trilemma and bring uncompromising decentralization. Is it really so?
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S15 E46: Peter Todd on Bitcoin Covenants, Tail Emission, OpenTimestamps & Why Lightning Rocks
2024-07-19
Peter Todd is known for being brutally honest: so when it comes to topics such as covenant soft forks, monetary inflation, Bitcoin scaling & privacy, he won't hold back from being critical while expressing his love for the Lightning network
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S15 E45: Lucas Ontivero & Turbolay on Wasabi Wallet's Future
2024-07-06
What's next for Wasabi Wallet after ZK Snacks shut down the biggest CoinJoin coordinator? Lucas Ontivero & Turbolay, the two developers who still maintain the code, are positive that the project will grow even bigger than before! So when is 3.0 coming?
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S15 E44: Chris DeRose on Bitcoin Uncensored (feat. Jay Berg, Wayne Vaughan & Paul Sztorc)
2024-06-28
Bitcoin Uncensored co-host Chris DeRose makes his fourth appearance on the Bitcoin Takeover podcast! This time around, he dislikes the English language, hates materialism, and wouldn't even accept a free Supra! Three former BU guests join the reunion.
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S15 E43: Sergio Demian Lerner on BitVMX, Rootstock & Layer 2s
2024-06-22
Sergio Demian Lerner is the architect of Rootstock, Bitcoin's first sidechain. Recently, he became interested in BitVM as an instrument to create trust-minimized sidechains. So he optimized the design & created BitVMX!
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S15 E42: Super Testnet & Shinobi on Bitcoin Projects That Suck
2024-06-20
What are the Bitcoin projects that suck? In this episode, Super Testnet & Shinobi point out to lots of suboptimal features in CoinJoins, Lightning Network, Nostr, BitVM, and Bitcoin development itself. It's fun, it's educational & it's brutally honest!
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S15 E41: F/Dev (1440000bytes) on Joinstr & Bitcoin Privacy
2024-06-05
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 Electrum wallet. In this episode, he talks about Bitcoin privacy & his new job at LayerTwo Labs.
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S15 E40: Rijndael on Taproot Wizards & BIP420
2024-05-31
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 matters and what kind of features we should expect to see in Bitcoin once a covenant soft fork gets activated.
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S15 E39: Pete Rizzo on Bitcoin History, Journalism & Culture
2024-05-30
Pete Rizzo is a veteran Bitcoin journalist who still remembers the time when Bitcoin & crypto were the same undivided community. In this episode, he talks about why Bitcoin history matters & how he approaches journalism.
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S15 E38: Crypsi on Crypto Art & Cypherpunk Culture
2024-05-30
Crypsi is the representative of an art collective which expresses its anti-establishment ideas through physical paintings & collages, as well as digitally tokenized ideas. In this episode, he explains why memes are art & why memecoins matter.
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S15 E37: Marek Narozniak on MimbleWimble & Quantum Computing
2024-05-25
Marek Narozniak is a Polish physicist who works on a MimbleWimble implementation that can get added to Bitcoin via extension blocks to become a privacy layer. He also specializes in quantum computing, and busts some FUD about their threat.
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S15 E36: Eli Ben-Sasson on STARKs, Rollups & Privacy
2024-05-23
Eli Ben-Sasson is an academic computer scientist whose interest in zero-knowledge proofs has led him to become a co-founder of Zcash. More recently, he became the CEO of StarkWare: a company which aims to scale blockchains with ZK rollups & STARKs.
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S15 E35: Nick Schteringart & Konstantin Wünscher on OpenDelta on Runes
2024-05-17
OpenDelta is a synthetic dollar (stablecoin) that's built on top of Bitcoin's newly-launched Runes protocol. In this episode, co-founders Nick Schteringart & Konstantin Wünscher discuss about how and why they built this.
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S15 E34: Charlie Lee on Privacy & MWEB (Mimble Wimble Extension Block)
2024-04-29
MWEB was activated on Litecoin's main net in 2022, providing a useful mix of privacy and scalability. It's a fascinating soft fork that's 100% compatible with Bitcoin. In this episode, Charlie Lee explains how MWEB works & why it matters.
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S15 E33: David Bailey on Bitcoin Maximalism & Ordinals
2024-04-28
David Bailey is the owner of Bitcoin Magazine. Ideologically, he is a Bitcoin maximalist who wants everything to happen on Bitcoin and get traded for BTC. During this episode, we also mint a special ordinal... which you can buy for 3.125 BTC!
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S15 E32: Aaron Day on CBDCs vs Bitcoin
2024-04-26
Aaron Day has been a bitcoiner since 2012 – and in the aftermath of the scaling wars, he decided to support the big block camp due to ideological reasons. Today, Aaron is concerned that adoption might not catch up with the rise of CBDCs.
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S15 E31: Ray Youssef on NoOnes & Why Roger Ver Was Right
2024-04-16
Ray Youssef is the CEO of NoOnes, a P2P marketplace which enables people from the Global South to exchange bitcoin for gift cards or local currencies. He believes in free market money and happens to agree with Roger Ver on some points.
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S15 E30: Charlie Lee on Lightning & Litecoin
2024-04-16
Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin and one of the earliest believers in the Lightning network – he also invests in Lightning Labs. In this episode, he explains why Litecoin is still relevant in a world where Lightning exists.
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S15 E29: Tomek Kolodziejczuk on Bitcoin Film Fest 2024 & The European Halving Party
2024-04-09
Tomek Kolodziejczuk is the co-founder of the Bitcoin Film Fest: a festival which screens some of the greatest Bitcoin-related films in Warsaw, Poland. This year, the event coincides with the European Halving Party!
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S15 E28: Deadalnix (Amoury Séchet) on Forking Bitcoin, Big Blocks & Scaling
2024-04-05
Amoury Séchet (better known as Deadalnix) is the Bitcoin developer who created the BCH fork in 2017. A year later, he was also one of the first people to learn about the inflation bug in Bitcoin + he figured out CSW is not Satoshi really quick
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S15 E27: Adam Soltys & Cole on Coinos & Lightning Network
2024-03-29
Adam Soltys is a Canadian bitcoiner, best known for his work on Raretoshi – a marketplace for Liquid network NFTs. Cole is a marketer who likes the Lightning network. Together, they built Coinos: a custodial & newbie-friendly Lightning wallet.
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S15 E26: Roger Ver on Bitcoin
2024-03-28
As of 2024, Roger Ver has been in Bitcoin for 7 years and in Bitcoin Cash for 7 years. This episode is a reflection on his journey and an attempt to bring back one of the greatest Bitcoin advocates and entrepreneurs.
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S15 E24: Bryan Bishop on BIPs, Webcash & Biohacking
2024-03-18
Bryan Bishop is a computer programmer who currently moderates the Bitcoin-dev mailing list and considers a position as BIP editor. In this episode, he talks about his work in Bitcoin, his Webcash experiment, and why he is an advocate of biokaching.
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S15 E23: John Carvalho on Lightning, Synonym & Bitcoin
2024-03-14
As the CEO of Synonym, John Carvalho has experimented with many Bitcoin layers & protocols – including OmniBolt, Lightning + sidechains. In this episode, he explains what lessons he's learned & why he believes in more conservative ways to scale Bitcoin.
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S15 E22: Eric Voskuil on Libbitcoin & Bitcoin Culture
2024-03-08
Eric Voskuil is the maintainer of Libbitcoin & the author of Cryptoeconomics. In this episode, he offers details about the Libbitcoin incident that took place in the summer of 2023 and also criticizes some aspects of the cult of Michael Saylor.
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S15 E21: Fiatjaf on Nostr, Drivechains & Why Lightning Sucks
2024-02-22
Fiatjaf is the creator of Nostr, a decentralized social media protocol which enables everyone around the world to communicate without censorship. Surprisingly, he doesn't agree with some existing Nostr software, no longer likes Lightning & promotes BIP300
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S15 E20: Bastien & Baudoin on Satochip, Satodime, Seedkeeper & Self-Custody
2024-02-16
Bastien and Baudoin are the creators & main promoters of Satochip: an affordable self-custody solution which makes use of the smart card technology to provide hardware wallet features. In this episode, they explain how Satochip works & why it's unique.
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S15 E19: Alexei Zamyatin on Build on Bitcoin and Layer 2s
2024-02-13
Alexei Zamyatin is an academic cryptographer who works on the Build on Bitcoin projects. His approach to scaling Bitcoin with second layers involves some unconventional methods, which he describes in this interview. He also seems to like OP_CAT over CTV.
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S15 E18: Orkun Kilic on Citrea, The First ZK Rollups on Bitcoin
2024-02-06
ZK rollups are certainly promising, as they can bring scalability & privacy to Bitcoin. In this episode, Orkun Kilic talks about Citrea: the first protocol to enable ZK rollups on Bitcoin. He explains the advantages, the tradeoffs & why you should use.
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S15 E17: Andrew Poelstra on Covenants (OP_CAT vs OP_CTV)
2024-02-02
Andrew Poelstra is a mathematician who heads the research department at Blockstream. Over the years, he experimented with many Bitcoin OP codes – some of which are also enabled on Liquid. In this episode, he explains why he likes and prefers OP_CAT.
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S15 E16: Paul Sztorc Talks Bitcoin Scaling, But Can't Say Drivechains
2024-01-20
Paul Sztorc returns with a twist: he can talk about sidechains, rollups, BitVM, Lightning + other scaling solutions... but can't say the words Drivechain or BIP 300. If he breaks the rule, he must send a Lightning transaction and drink vodka!
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S15 E15: Aaron van Wirdum on The Genesis Book & Bitcoin Pre-History
2024-01-12
Aaron van Wirdum is a veteran Bitcoin journalist who has been writing for Bitcoin Magazine since 2014. On January 3rd 2024, after nearly five years of working on this project, he launched The Genesis Book: a reflection on the history before Bitcoin.
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S15 E14: Nicolas Dorier on BTCPay, NBitcoin, TumbleBit & Coding Bitcoin in C#
2023-12-31
Nicolas Dorier talks about the early days of BTCPay Server, activating SegWit before it was cool on NBitcoin, contributing to TumbleBit, writing a book about coding Bitcoin projects in C#, and working with colored coins.
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