S17 E1: Bruce Fenton on Suitcoiners & The Spirit of Bitcoin
3:01:42 · 10 Jan 2026
2026 · 49 episodes
Season 17
Season 17 is the current season of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast. Long-form interviews with developers, founders, journalists, and critics on mining history, privacy coins, drivechains and ecash, covenants, custody, forks, and Bitcoin culture, with written episode articles on this site.
S17 E2: Tyler Spalding on Bitcoin Payments, Non-Scammy Altcoins & Bears
3:16:32 · 15 Jan 2026
S17 E3: Zano Devs on Private Tokenization
3:54:48 · 20 Jan 2026
S17 E4: {ideal} BitVM Optimizations (Robin Linus, Liam Eagen, Ying Tong)
2:03:25 · 24 Jan 2026
S17 E5: Paul Sztorc on Bitcoin Derangements
4:00:39 · 29 Jan 2026
S17 E6: Vik Sharma on Ending Wars Among Privacy Coins
1:48:25 · 31 Jan 2026
S17 E7: Colin Harper on Bitcoin Mining, Epstein E-mails & Journalism
1:21:29 · 4 Feb 2026
S17 E8: Riccardo Spagni on Bitcoin, Monero & Privacy
2:04:48 · 17 Feb 2026
S17 E9: Cameron Robertson on Burner & Bitcoin in 2010
1:56:39 · 27 Feb 2026
S17 E10: Mark Karpelès on Mt. Gox, 79956 Bitcoins & Chief P*ssy
2:30:11 · 1 Mar 2026
S17 E11: John Carvalho on Bitcoin Depression, Bitkit & Pubky
3:06:41 · 5 Mar 2026
S17 E12: Ray Youssef on Fighting for the Global South
2:14:32 · 7 Mar 2026
S17 E13: Charlie Spears on Blockspace, Bitcoin Culture & OP_NEXT
2:03:47 · 17 Mar 2026
S17 E14: Kristian Csepcsar on Braiins & The History of Bitcoin Mining
1:42:23 · 20 Mar 2026
S17 E15: OPNET Smart Contracts on Bitcoin L1 with Danny & Chad
1:46:20 · 25 Mar 2026
S17 E16: Summer Meng on Bitmars & Selling Bitcoin ASIC Miners
1:03:29 · 27 Mar 2026
S17 E17: Lukas Hozda on BIP110, Bitcoin & Rust
1:38:38 · 7 Apr 2026
S17 E18: Dr. K (Karl Kreder) on Quai & Scaling Proof of Work
3:46:47 · 12 Apr 2026
S17 E19: Deadalnix (Amaury Séchet) on Forking Bitcoin & Ecash
4:29:29 · 18 Apr 2026
S17 E20: Talking Privacy with Amir Taaki, Harry Halpin & Christopher Cialone
2:42:12 · 24 Apr 2026
S17 E21: Paul Sztorc Hard Forks Bitcoin to Launch Ecash with Drivechains!
2:07:47 · 24 Apr 2026
S17 E22: Jeremy Rubin on CTV, Char & Building on Bitcoin
1:23:28 · 6 May 2026
S17 E23: Hunter Beast & Mark Karpelès on Bitcoin's Quantum Upgrade
1:04:21 · 10 May 2026
S17 E24: Zach Herbert on AI & Hardware Wallets
2:36:12 · 15 May 2026
S17 E25: Milan De Reede on Nano GPT, AI & Vibe Coding
1:24:26 · 19 May 2026
S17 E26: Steve Thurmond, Calin Culianu & The Phenomenal Big Blockers
8:14:44 · 27 May 2026
S17 E27: Kieran Mesquka on Railgun & Building Privacy
1:42:41 · 1 Jun 2026
S17 E28: Josh Swihart on Zcash & ZODL
1:54:41 · 13 Jun 2026
S17 E29: Grafton Clark on Vibe Coding, Privacy & Bitcoin Culture
2:12:37 · 20 Jun 2026
S17 E30: Martin Matejka on Firefish, BTC-backed Loans & Bitcoin's Purpose
1:28:28 · 28 Jun 2026
S17 E31: Alex Waltz Reveals Bitcoin's First Miner
4:06:28 · 2 Jul 2026
S17 E32: Perry E. Metzger on Bitcoin in 2008, Cypherpunk Culture & AI Optimism
1:53:17 · 22 Jul 2026
S17 E33: Joël Valenzuela on Being Unbanked with Private Digital Cash
4:51:12 · 27 Jul 2026
S17 E34: Cory Klippsten on Bitcoin Cafe, Swan & Big Bitcoin
1:15:33 · 30 Jul 2026
S17 E35: Vinny Lingham on Bitcoin Post-Maximalism, Scaling Regrets & Saylor's Endgame
1:25:03 · 1 Aug 2026
S17 E36: Yonatan Sompolinsky on Kaspa Covenants, DAGKnight & Coordination Markets
2:44:31 · 10 Aug 2026
S17 E37: Paul Sztorc on the eCash Three Stage Launch, Free Coins & 12 Drivechains
28:28 · 13 Aug 2026
S17 E38: Keagan McClelland (Keags) on Lightning Metrics, Covenants, Consensus Politics & Verifying Bitcoin
2:40:31 · 18 Aug 2026
S17 E39: Kurt Wuckert Jr. on BSV & Big Block Bitcoin
3:39:09 · 23 Aug 2026
S17 E40: Richard Werner & Amir Taaki on Economics, CBDCs & Cypherpunk Tech
1:23:56 · 29 Aug 2026
S17 E41: Vik Sharma on Radar, Arbiter & Vibe Coding the Future of Cake Wallet
1:23:16 · 2 Sept 2026
S17 E42: Bob Summerwill on Ethereum Classic & Bitcoin's Fork Season
4:00:49 · 12 Sept 2026
S17 E43: Mike Belshe on BitGo, Quantum & Clarity
2:38:28 · 16 Sept 2026
S17 E44: Marc De Mesel on Early Bitcoin Investing & Polygamy
4:27:58 · 25 Sept 2026
S17 E45: Talking Tari with Naveen Jain, Fox & Marguerite de Courcelle
2:56:08 · 30 Sept 2026
S17 E46: Livestream from Tabconf 8, Part 1 (feat. Paul Sztorc, Andre Beganski, Alex Lewin, Janusz, Christopher Allen, Will & Michael Tidwell)
2:39:41 · 15 Oct 2026
S17 E47: Tabconf 8 Livestream with Kevin Loaec, Ekrem Bal, Spaces Protocol & The Bitcoin Pivot (Bonus: Peter Todd)
3:40:14 · 18 Oct 2026
S17 E48: Robin Linus in the 1000 BTC Car, Driving to BitDevs Atlanta
1:19:33 · 24 Oct 2026
S17 E49: Kris Nuttycombe on Zcash at Ten, Hard Forks, the Dev Fund & Why Ossification Is Death
2:23:42 · 1 Nov 2026
