2025 · 64 episodes
Season 16 Season 16 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast mixes Bitcoin history and neighboring ecosystems: early contributors such as Martti Malmi, proof-of-work and mining conversations, Lightning tooling, and guests including Zooko and Vitalik Buterin on Bitcoin-adjacent research and trade-offs.
Timechain 2026 53 2025 65 2024 57 2023 54 2022 37 2021 29 2020 41 2019 36 S16 E1: Mike Belshe on BitGo, Self Custody & The Future of Bitcoin ▶ 1:59:56 · 3 Jan 2025 + Queue
S16 E2: Liam Eagen on Crypto(graphy) Research & Innovation ▶ 2:03:55 · 9 Jan 2025 + Queue
S16 E3: Charlie Shrem & John Gotts on Digital Gold (DGD) ▶ 1:50:50 · 14 Jan 2025 + Queue
S16 E4: John Light on ZK Tech to Scale Bitcoin & Make It Private ▶ 1:43:40 · 16 Jan 2025 + Queue
S16 E6: Super Testnet on Monero vs Lightning Network Privacy ▶ 2:29:39 · 4 Feb 2025 + Queue
S16 E7: Michael Parenti (Exiled Surfer) on Bitcoin Politics & Rock N Roll ▶ 8:10:11 · 14 Feb 2025 + Queue
S16 E8: Alex Romanov on Beam, MimbleWimble & Privacy ▶ 1:58:29 · 18 Feb 2025 + Queue
S16 E9: Saunter on Alby & Lightning Network Adoption ▶ 1:48:48 · 21 Feb 2025 + Queue
S16 E10: Eric Voskuil & John Carvalho on Bitcoin & Austrian Economics ▶ 8:21:14 · 26 Feb 2025 + Queue
S16 E11: Paul Sztorc on Roger Ver ▶ 3:45:44 · 4 Mar 2025 + Queue
S16 E12: Martti Malmi on Bitcoin in 2009 & Satoshi Nakamoto ▶ 1:05:05 · 12 Mar 2025 + Queue
S16 E13: Corbin Fraser on Bitcoin.com & BTC vs BCH ▶ 2:35:15 · 20 Mar 2025 + Queue
S16 E14: Adam Krellenstein on Counterparty & Bitcoin Tokens ▶ 1:28:57 · 24 Mar 2025 + Queue
S16 E15: Marko Tarman on NiceHash & Proof of Work Mining ▶ 1:56:50 · 26 Mar 2025 + Queue
S16 E16: Andreas Brekken on SideShift & Bitcoin Moderation ▶ 1:18:43 · 8 Apr 2025 + Queue
S16 E17: Ben Arc on LNBits v1 & The State of Lightning Network ▶ 7:23:42 · 11 Apr 2025 + Queue
S16 E18: Rockstar Dev & Max Hillebrand on Privacy ▶ 3:40:31 · 15 Apr 2025 + Queue
S16 E19: Daniel Krawisz on Bitcoin & Narcissism ▶ 4:09:28 · 17 Apr 2025 + Queue
S16 E20: Felix Billbert on Wave Space & Spending Bitcoin ▶ 1:35:41 · 18 Apr 2025 + Queue
S16 E21: Filip Baturan on Tanari, Citrea & DeFi on Bitcoin ▶ 1:05:31 · 22 Apr 2025 + Queue
S16 E22: J-Dog on Counterparty & Bitcoin Tokens ▶ 2:07:36 · 29 Apr 2025 + Queue
S16 E23: James O'Beirne on Bitcoin Development (CTV, CFSF & Big Blocks) ▶ 2:25:17 · 1 May 2025 + Queue
S16 E24: Vitalik Buterin on the Future of Bitcoin & Ethereum ▶ 3:02:17 · 2 May 2025 + Queue
S16 E25: Chandra Duggirala & George Burke on Portal & Making Exchanges Obsolete ▶ 1:32:02 · 18 May 2025 + Queue
S16 E26: Mark Edge on Freeing Ian Freeman & Free Talk Radio ▶ 1:48:23 · 22 May 2025 + Queue
S16 E27: David Seroy on Alpen Labs & ZK Rollups on Bitcoin ▶ 2:28:56 · 27 May 2025 + Queue
S16 E28: Proof of Work Alliance with Charles Chong, Summer Meng & Spencer Yang ▶ 1:21:34 · 31 May 2025 + Queue
S16 E29: Zooko on Ecash, Bitcoin & Zcash ▶ 6:06:49 · 4 Jun 2025 + Queue
S16 E30: Peter Rizun on Scaling Bitcoin with Hardware ▶ 5:23:41 · 14 Jun 2025 + Queue
S16 E31: Andrew Camilleri ”Kukks” on Ark, BTCPay Server & Open Source Bitcoin Software ▶ 3:22:36 · 28 Jun 2025 + Queue
S16 E32: Bitcoin vs Monero vs Zcash Privacy with Diego Salazar & Luke Szramowski of Cypher Stack ▶ 5:08:14 · 3 Jul 2025 + Queue
S16 E33: Liz Steininger on Least Authority & Auditing Open Source Software ▶ 1:29:22 · 9 Jul 2025 + Queue
S16 E34: Prof. Richard Werner on Bitcoin, CBDCs & The Big Beautiful Bill ▶ 1:57:46 · 20 Jul 2025 + Queue
S16 E35: Hunter Beast on Bitcoin's Quantum Resistance & BIP 360 ▶ 1:24:26 · 24 Jul 2025 + Queue
S16 E36: Maud Bannwart & Cheng Wang on Alephium, Proof of Less Work & Bitcoin ▶ 1:57:33 · 2 Aug 2025 + Queue
S16 E37: Andrew Poelstra on Simplicity, Bitcoin Smart Contracts & Upgrades ▶ 1:38:53 · 6 Aug 2025 + Queue
S16 E38: Bitcoin Payments in 2025 with Sergej Kotliar & Matt Ahlborg ▶ 1:54:49 · 12 Aug 2025 + Queue
S16 E39: Karl Kreder (Dr. K) on Scaling Proof of Work, Bitcoin & Quai ▶ 6:17:29 · 18 Aug 2025 + Queue
S16 E40: Cory Klippsten on Bitcoin Culture & Maximalism ▶ 2:22:21 · 22 Aug 2025 + Queue
S16 E41: Yonatan Sompolinsky on Bitcoin, Kaspa & Proof of Work ▶ 7:35:17 · 29 Aug 2025 + Queue
S16 E42: Michael Tidwell on Bitcoin Drama & Tabconf ▶ 2:36:50 · 9 Sept 2025 + Queue
S16 E43: Vikrant Sharma on Cake Wallet, Bitcoin & Privacy ▶ 1:48:49 · 12 Sept 2025 + Queue
S16 E44: Abdel on ZK STARKs & Bitcoin Maximalism ▶ 3:18:37 · 17 Sept 2025 + Queue
S16 E45: Shai Wyborski on Bitcoin, Kaspa & Proof of Work Research ▶ 8:28:56 · 25 Sept 2025 + Queue
S16 E46: Val Venis on Bitcoin, Liberty & Wrestling ▶ 4:32:43 · 30 Sept 2025 + Queue
S16 E47: Max Hillebrand on White Noise & Private Messaging on Nostr ▶ 4:02:36 · 3 Oct 2025 + Queue
S16 E48: Christopher Smith on Quantus, Bitcoin & Quantum Resistance ▶ 2:46:35 · 7 Oct 2025 + Queue
S16 E49: Jay Berg on Bitcoin, SidePit & Maximalism ▶ 4:15:04 · 10 Oct 2025 + Queue
S16 E50: Ray Youssef on Why Paxful's Terminated ▶ 1:46:02 · 13 Oct 2025 + Queue
S16 E51: Sean Bowe on Bitcoin, Zcash & Scaling Privacy with Tachyon ▶ 3:39:34 · 18 Oct 2025 + Queue
S16 E52: Paul Sztorc on Bitcoin's Culture Wars ▶ 1:48:29 · 24 Oct 2025 + Queue
S16 E53: Xenu on Bitcoin Culture & Moreno vs Zcash ▶ 4:18:45 · 27 Oct 2025 + Queue
S16 E54: Slava Zhygulin & Ros on Stroom Network, Bitcoin Staking ▶ 1:35:41 · 1 Nov 2025 + Queue
S16 E55: Mert Mumtaz on Zcash, Privacy & Zillions ▶ 1:30:18 · 4 Nov 2025 + Queue
S16 E56: Super Testnet on Papa Swaps, BIP 444 & Prediction Markets ▶ 2:59:50 · 8 Nov 2025 + Queue
S16 E57: Trezor Safe 7 Setup with Matej Zak & Tomáš Sušánka ▶ 54:27 · 10 Nov 2025 + Queue
S16 E58: Leona Hioki on INTMAX, ZK Rollups & Privacy ▶ 2:41:05 · 12 Nov 2025 + Queue
S16 E59: Curtis Green on Bitcoin, Silk Road & Forgiveness ▶ 5:05:05 · 14 Nov 2025 + Queue
S16 E60: Jonathan Bier on Bitcoin Civil Wars & BitMEX Research ▶ 3:12:03 · 24 Nov 2025 + Queue
S16 E61: Alan Szepieniec on Privacy, Scaling & Quantum Resistance ▶ 2:41:12 · 11 Dec 2025 + Queue
S16 E62: Abdel's Updates on Starkware & ZK STARKs Adoption ▶ 2:32:15 · 17 Dec 2025 + Queue
S16 E63: David Bailey on NAKAMOTO, BTC Media & The Bull Market ▶ 2:06:58 · 19 Dec 2025 + Queue
S16 E64: Alex Chepurnoy on Ergo & Bitcoin Smart Contracts ▶ 3:21:19 · 23 Dec 2025 + Queue
S16 E65: Moonsettler on OP_CTV & Failing to Improve Bitcoin ▶ 10:09:55 · 26 Dec 2025 + Queue