Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

S15 E5: Reuben Yap on Firo & ZK Privacy

2025-01-30

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 Bitcoin soft fork to improve the network's privacy via Zero Knowledge proofs.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 363 MB - Duration: 4:12:39m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S16 E4: John Light on ZK Tech to Scale Bitcoin & Make It Private

2025-01-16

John Light is a researcher who specializes in bringing Zero Knowledge cryptography to supplement Bitcoin's limitations in scalability & privacy. With ZK rollups, Bitcoin stands a better chance to onboard 8 billion people onto trust-minimized layer 2s.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 149 MB - Duration: 1:43:40m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S16 E3: Charlie Shrem & John Gotts on Digital Gold (DGD)

2025-01-14

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 Gotts all the important questions about the legitimacy of their new cryptocurrency.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 159 MB - Duration: 1:50:50m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S16 E2: Liam Eagen on Crypto(graphy) Research & Innovation

2025-01-09

BulletProofs++, Full Chain Membership Proofs, Shielded Client Side Validation, ZK SNARKs, Alpen Labs' Strata... these are only a few of the projects to which Liam Eagen contributed. He is one of the most prolific cryptographers around, give him a listen!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 178 MB - Duration: 2:03:55m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S16 E1: Mike Belshe on BitGo, Self Custody & The Future of Bitcoin

2025-01-03

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 draw some really interesting parallels between the two complementary realms.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 172 MB - Duration: 1:59:56m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 256 MB - Duration: 7:07:54m (800 kbps 44100 Hz)

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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 93 MB - Duration: 1:04:36m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 260 MB - Duration: 2:13:38m (259 kbps 44100 Hz)

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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 188 MB - Duration: 2:10:46m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 121 MB - Duration: 1:02:24m (260 kbps 44100 Hz)