S17 E22: Jeremy Rubin on CTV, Char & Relentless Building in an Adversarial Environment
Four years. That is how long I have been chasing Jeremy Rubin for an interview, and it took the Bitcoin 2026 conference…
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S17 E20: Amir Taaki, Harry Halpin & Christopher Cialone on Palantir’s Technofascism, the Roman Storm Trial & the Privacy Arms Race
Some episodes are planned for months. This one happened because Zach Herbert postponed, I panicked, and the universe compensated…
S17 E19: Amaury Séchet on Forking Bitcoin Twice, Quantum FUD & Scars from the Block Size Wars
Two years after our first interview, I decided to invite Amaury Séchet(@deadalnix) to find out what the Greg Maxwell of big…
S17 E18: Dr. K on Scaling Proof of Work, Soaping the Competition with Quai & Unifying Physics
Dr. K (Karl Kreder), architect of the Quai Network, came back for his second appearance on Bitcoin Takeover to defend his…
S17 E17: Lukas Hozda on Building Bitcoin in Rust & Why Mempool Filters Can’t Work
Recorded in a soundproofed room at Braiins headquarters in Prague that once doubled as an ASIC oven (more on that later), this…
S17 E16: Summer Meng on Bitmars, Selling Bitcoin ASICs & Heating Your Home with Miners
There is a reason people call Summer Meng the ASIC Queen. If you want the latest Bitmain hardware anywhere in Europe or…
S17 E15: Danny Plainview & Chad Master on OP_NET, Smart Contracts on Bitcoin L1 & the Great Stablecoin Unlock
Editor’s note: this conversation was recorded in late March 2026, in the days surrounding OP_NET’s mainnet activation. The…
S17 E14: Kristian Csepcsar on the History of Bitcoin Mining, Braiins Hashpower & the Centralization Nobody Talks About
Editor’s note: this conversation was recorded in person at the undisclosed Braiins office in Prague, most likely in March 2026…
S17 E13: Charlie Spears on Blockspace Media, the Purity Spiral & the Case for Classical Maximalism
Editor’s note: this conversation was streamed live in mid-March 2026, a week after the US switched to daylight saving time (which…
S17 E12: Ray Youssef on the Mexico Arrest & Life After NoOnes
Ray Youssef does not do quiet exits. In his telling, he walked out of Monerotopia in Mexico after giving a Malcolm X…
