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Remastering Bitcoin Takeover Podcast (2026-2027 Project)

When I first started doing interviews for my own project, I didn’t know too much about sound engineering and audio production. I…

S17 E36: Yonatan Sompolinsky on Kaspa Covenants, DAGKnight & Coordination Markets

Yonatan Sompolinsky came to Europe for a reason he would only describe on record as a secretive meeting of DAGKnight magicians…

S17 E35: Vinny Lingham on Bitcoin Post-Maximalism, Scaling Regrets & Saylor’s Endgame

Vinny Lingham found Bitcoin in 2012 for the most unglamorous reason imaginable: chargebacks. His gift card company Gyft was…

S17 E32: Perry E. Metzger on Bitcoin in 2008, Cypherpunk Culture & AI Optimism

Perry E. Metzger is the man who ran the cryptography mailing list where the Bitcoin whitepaper was first announced, and also the…

S17 E31: Alex Waltz Reveals Bitcoin’s First Miner

Alex Waltz spent a full year of his life on the first 170 blocks of the Bitcoin blockchain. Five months of research,…

S17 E27: Kieran Mesquka on Railgun & Building Privacy Where the Users Are

Sometimes you have to wait a year for an interview to happen. I first met Kieran Mesquka at DevConnect in Argentina, back…

S17 E26: Calin Culianu, Steve Thurmond & The Phenomenal Big Blockers on Nine Years of Bitcoin Cash

Almost nine years after the big split of the Bitcoin community, it was time. Time to sit down with the people who…

S17 E25: Milan De Reede on Nano GPT, AI & Vibe Coding

There is something poetic about recording an episode at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, the edition where the mining stage…

S17 E24: Zach Herbert on Passport Prime, KeyOS & the End of Air-Gapped

Some interviews you plan for weeks. This one I planned around a box. Two weeks after Zach Herbert handed me a Passport…

S17 E23: Hunter Beast & Mark Karpeles on Quantum-Proofing Bitcoin, Satoshi’s Coins & the Ghost of Mt. Gox

This interview took place on April 29th 2026, at the LayerTwo Labs booth at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas with Hunter…