Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 153 MB - Duration: 1:46:51m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 163 MB - Duration: 1:53:28m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 133 MB - Duration: 1:32:51m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 98 MB - Duration: 1:08:08m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 95 MB - Duration: 1:06:14m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 90 MB - Duration: 1:03:10m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 115 MB - Duration: 1:19:53m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 150 MB - Duration: 1:44:25m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 172 MB - Duration: 1:59:32m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 176 MB - Duration: 2:02:45m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)