Bitcoin Cash (BCH)

The Best Quotes from Every Episode of Bitcoin Takeover Podcast! (2019-2026)

The best Bitcoin Takeover quotes from every episode, seasons 1 to 17: Vitalik Buterin, Roger Ver, Phil Zimmermann, Slush and 300+…

S17 E44: Marc De Mesel on the Bitcoin Cash Bet, the Privacy Coin Basket & the Price of Conviction

There is a particular kind of person the Bitcoin Cash community produced in its glory years, and Marc De Mesel is the…

eCash (XEC): The Fork That Taxed Itself

How Bitcoin ABC lost the BCH ticker over an 8% developer fund, rebranded a million to one, and built the only Bitcoin fork with…

S1 E4 Remastered: Omar Faridi on Bitcoin in Pakistan, Brain Drain & the Case for Moderate Thinking

In January 2019, I was still an editor at Crypto Insider. Working a fixed salary and editing other people’s articles while…

Bitcoin Forks, Described by Dorks

A collection of Bitcoin Takeover podcast quotes about soft forks, hard forks, Bitcoin Cash, SegWit, Taproot, Drivechains, BIP110…

Bitcoin SV: Big Blocks All the Way

How the big block camp split in two, why the losing side kept building, and what a chain with no limits and…

Bitcoin Cash: The Big Block Breakaway

Bitcoin Cash is the primary consequence of Bitcoin’s 2015-2017 block size war. It produced Bitcoin’s first durable chain split…

S1 E2 Remastered: John Carvalho on Bitcoin Politics, the Foundation’s Failures & That Roger Ver Interview

(Recorded January 2019, remastered 2025. Sponsored by Helen’s Pizza in Jersey City, 183 Newark Avenue, where you can pay with…

S17 E39: Kurt Wuckert Jr on the Big Block Wars, BSV, Craig Wright & the Road Not Taken

Every community has its designated villains, and in Bitcoin’s longest running morality play, Kurt Wuckert Jr has worn the black…

S17 E38: Keagan McClelland on Lightning Metrics, Covenants, Consensus Politics & Verifying Bitcoin

There is a certain genre of Bitcoin Twitter argument that never quite resolves into a conversation. People trade metrics, memes…

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 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…

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 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 E11: John Carvalho on Bitcoin Depression, Lightning Derangement & the Atomic Economy

John Carvalho was the second guest in the history of this podcast, way back in season one, episode two, when he was…

S17 E10: Mark Karpelès on Mt. Gox, the 1Feex Fortune & His Plan to Hard Fork Bitcoin

Mark Karpelès is the one name in Bitcoin that needs no introduction and always gets one anyway. The former CEO of Mt.…

S16 E13: Corbin Fraser on Bitcoin.com and BTC vs BCH

“I supported it [BCH] before Roger” – explains Corbin Fraser about 12 minutes into the interview, in an attempt to debunk the…

S15 E54: Kruw on Running a Wasabi Coordinator, Blockchain Analysis & the Myths of Bitcoin Privacy

Kruw runs Wasabi's biggest coinjoin coordinator for zero fees. He explains how blockchain analysis works, Samourai's double…

S15 E53: Charlie Shrem on the Block Size Wars, Life After Prison & Bitcoin's Leaderless Future

BitInstant co-founder Charlie Shrem clarifies his block size war stance, recalls prison and rebirth, defends Tether and explains…

S15 E32: Aaron Day on CBDCs vs Bitcoin, Digital Tyranny & Parallel Economies

Aaron Day on CBDCs as programmable surveillance money, Project Hamilton, ETF confiscation risk, and why he wants parallel…

S15 E31: Ray Youssef on NoOnes, Freedom Money & Why Roger Ver Was Right

Ray Youssef on why he said Roger Ver was right, freedom money for the Global South, the limits of Liquid and Lightning, and the…

S15 E28: Amaury Séchet (Deadalnix) on Forking Bitcoin, Big Blocks & Scaling

Amaury Séchet (Deadalnix) on forking Bitcoin into BCH, the 2018 inflation bug he helped fix instead of exploiting, a Craig Wright…

S15 E26: Roger Ver on Hijacking Bitcoin & Freedom Maximalism

Roger Ver on seven years with BTC and seven with BCH, his book Hijacking Bitcoin, the CashFusion chain analysis test, and why he…

S15 E24: Bryan Bishop on BIPs, Webcash & Biohacking

Bryan Bishop first heard about Bitcoin from the cryptography mailing list in January 2009 – but instead of quickly downloading…

S15 E23: John Carvalho on Lightning, Synonym & Bitcoin

Before becoming the CEO and co-founder of Synonym, John Carvalho was one of the most prominent Bitcoin and Lightning advocates…

S11 E2: Karliatto and Chill on Bleskomat, An Open Source Bitcoin ATM

Bleskomat is the kind of project that gives me confidence in the future of Bitcoin and also reminds me why I enjoy…

Comic Strip: Bitcoin Eating Popcorn #2 (Scaling Debate Edition)

Over the years, Bitcoin has undergone numerous centralizing attacks. The idea of increasing the block size to enable more…