Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
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Vik Sharma on Radar, Arbiter & Vibe Coding the Future of Cake Wallet
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00:00 Intro
01:18 Vik Sharma Returns: Two New Products in Seven Months
02:41 Radar: A Signal Fork with Bitcoin Lightning Built In
04:18 How Radar Works: Signal Servers, Monthly Donations & Linked Devices
06:21 Why Signal Over Telegram
07:36 Why Lightning Over Monero
09:19 Stablecoins for Normies: The Venmo-ification of Bitcoin
11:33 Spark, Breez SDK & the Stablecoin Question
12:55 The Nvidia Spark Cluster: Going All In on Local AI
16:25 Why Local Models Beat Cloud Subscriptions for Security Work
18:03 Guardrails: When Claude Refuses to Audit Your Own App
19:33 Dinner with the Trump Administration: America’s AI Regulation Mistake
21:45 Italy’s ChatGPT Ban & the Fear of Falling Behind
23:44 The $100 Cake Wallet Contest
24:15 Does Cake Wallet Use AI for Coding?
26:16 Arbiter: A Vibe-Coded Hyperliquid Trading App
28:44 $5 Million Traded, TestFlight & the Mac Desktop Build
31:13 Linux Requests & the Orange Rock Comparison
32:17 Gasless USDC: Circle CCTP & Frictionless Onboarding
36:10 Can This UX Work on Private Chains? Zano, Aztec, Tari & Beam
38:44 The $10,000 Red Team Donation & Cake’s Audit Results
40:34 The Coldcard RNG Flaw & the “Someone Is Looking at the Code” Fallacy
43:14 Passphrases: The Simplest Security Upgrade
44:58 The Bitcoin Forks: Luke Dash Jr’s Blake2 & the Ecash Hard Fork
45:51 Open-Mindedness: The Original Bitcoiner Virtue
47:44 Wownero, MoneroV & Why Cake Dropped It
50:22 The Winning Number Is 27 (and Nobody Picked It)
52:04 The Privacy Narrative: Why Monero & Zcash Are Pumping
56:07 “Bitcoin Maximalism Is Almost Anti-Bitcoin”
58:52 NEAR Intents, Maya & Spending Shielded Zcash
1:00:53 How to Try Arbiter Today
1:02:45 What’s Next: Desktop Apps, Multisig & Back to Self-Custody Basics
1:04:26 Still Bullish on Lightning
1:05:39 The Gatekeeper Question: How Cake Decides Which Coins to List
1:10:07 Dash Adopting Orchard While Zcash Moves to Ironwood
1:11:56 The Maintenance Burden: Why Exodus Dropped Monero
1:13:25 Zcash Voting, Sapling Addresses & Passphrase Support
1:17:03 Seth’s Role & the Foundation Devices Connection
1:18:01 Two Million Downloads & the Privacy Tipping Point
1:20:08 Bitcoin Amsterdam & Conference Plans
1:22:14 Sponsors & Goodbye
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