S17 E49: Kris Nuttycombe (Zcash at Ten, Hard Forks, Dev Fund, Ossification)
Kris Nuttycombe of ZODL on Zcash at ten: hard forks as a superpower, freezing Sprout, NU7, Tachyon, the Dev Fund, testnet forks…
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S17 E42: Bob Summerwill on Ethereum Classic & Bitcoin’s Fork Season
I first met Bob Summerwill in person at the Proof of Work Summit in September 2023: the event where Bitcoiners, Litecoiners…
S17 E41: Vik Sharma on Radar, Arbiter & Vibe Coding the Future of Cake Wallet
Seven months ago, Vik Sharma joined Bitcoin Takeover Podcast and effectively declared the privacy wars over, telling the Monero…
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…
Remembering Donald McIntyre: S1 E1 Remaster, on Bitcoin, Tim May, Nick Szabo and the History of Money
Donald McIntyre passed away in 2025, and the space lost one of its most unlikely polymaths. Born in Costa Rica, raised in…
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 E37: Paul Sztorc on the eCash Three Stage Launch, Free Coins & 12 Drivechains
Paul Sztorc now holds the record for the most appearances on this show: eleven. Nobody else has come close, and nobody else…
S17 E28: Josh Swihart on Zcash’s Comeback, the Orchard Bug & Forking the Company
Twenty months ago, Josh Swihart came on this show to talk about Zcash at its darkest hour: Binance was threatening delisting over…
S17 E27: Kieran Mesquka on Railgun & Building Privacy Where the Users Are
Sometimes you have to wait a year for an interview to happen. I first met Kieran Mesquka at DevConnect in Argentina, back…
S17 E25: Milan De Reede on Nano GPT, AI & Vibe Coding
There is something poetic about recording an episode at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas, the edition where the mining stage…
S17 E23: Hunter Beast & Mark Karpeles on Quantum-Proofing Bitcoin, Satoshi’s Coins & the Ghost of Mt. Gox
This interview took place on April 29th 2026, at the LayerTwo Labs booth at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas with Hunter…
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 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 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 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 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 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 E3: Zano Devs on Private Tokenization
Andrey Sabelnikov and Valeriy Pisarkov are the most important devs involved in the Zano project. The former is a co-founder who…
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S16 E10: Eric Voskuil & John Carvalho on Bitcoin
This record-breaking episode of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, whose running time exceeds 8 hours, features John Carvalho and Eric…
S15 E59: David Burkett on MWEB, Litecoin Privacy & Why Drivechains Need a Use Case
David Burkett, the developer who built MWEB for Litecoin, explains MimbleWimble, stealth addresses, peg-out leaks, Grin's decline…
S15 E58: Liam Eagen, Robin Linus & Jonas Nick on Shielded CSV, Private Client-Side Validation & the Future of Bitcoin Privacy
Liam Eagen, Robin Linus and Jonas Nick explain Shielded CSV: private client-side validation with ZK proofs, BitVM bridges…
S15 E55: Jake Yocom-Piatt & Phoenix Green on Decred, Bison Wallet & the Trouble With Proof of Work
Decred co-founder Jake Yocom-Piatt and Phoenix Green on hybrid consensus, the mining cartel they voted out, Bison Wallet swaps…
S15 E50: Murch on Popular Bitcoin Myths: Ordinals, OP_CAT, Zero-Conf & the 2140 Panic
Murch of Chaincode Labs and Bitcoin Stack Exchange busts popular Bitcoin myths: ordinals as spam, a captured Bitcoin Core…
S15 E21: Fiatjaf on Nostr, Drivechains & Why Lightning Sucks
Fiatjaf is one of the most prolific developers in Bitcoin and Lightning. But despite contributing to lots of Lightning open…
S15 E20: Bastien & Baudoin on Satochip, Satodime, Seedkeeper & Bitcoin Self-Custody
With the power of smart card security technology, Satochip offers an affordable way to self-custody your bitcoins, turn them into…
S15 E22: Eric Voskuil on Libbitcoin & Bitcoin Culture
Eric Voskuil embodies one of the most harmonious combinations of cypherpunk ethos and Austrian economics… with a twist! As the…
S15 E19: Alexei Zamyatin on Build on Bitcoin & Layer 2s
Alexei Zamyatin is a (recovering) academic cryptographer who co-founded the Build on Bitcoin project – an initiative which…
S15 E18: Orkun Kılıç on Citrea, The First ZK Rollups on Bitcoin
Orkun Kılıç is a Turkish developer who co-founded Chainway Labs – a team of coders that tries to bring ZK rollups to…
S15 E17: Andrew Poelstra on Bitcoin Covenants (OP_CAT vs OP_CTV)
As of February 2023, there seems to be a consensus among users that Bitcoin needs covenants. And Andrew Poelstra, as Director of…
S15 E7: Sergio Demian Lerner on Rootstock, Satoshi’s Bitcoins, Drivechains & More
Sergio Demian Lerner is perhaps the most prolific Bitcoin contributor from Argentina… and certainly one of the most underrated…
S15 E3: Hernán Marino on Bitcoin in Argentina & Becoming a Core Dev
Hernán Marino is a software engineer, academic, and Bitcoin enthusiast from Argentina. In this episode, he delves into the impact…
S15 E2: Sergi Delgado on Developing Bitcoin at Chaincode
Sergi Delgado is an engineer at Chaincode Labs, whose academic background is in peer to peer (P2P) networks research. After…
S15 E14: Nicolas Dorier on BTCPay, NBitcoin, TumbleBit & Coding Bitcoin in C#
Nicolas Dorier on how SegWit2x pushed him to build BTCPay Server, plus NBitcoin, TumbleBit, NBXplorer and his book on programming…
S14 E19: Martin and Igor on Firefish, a Bitcoin-Backed Lending Platform
Firefish is an ambitious project which takes on the massive challenge to create a trust-minimized version of BlockFi or Celsius…
S14 E18: Lisa Neigut & Calle on Scaling Bitcoin & Free Open Source Software
During the 10th edition of Hackers Congress at Paralelni Polis (HCPP), I’ve had the pleasure to meet Lisa Neigut and Calle. The…
S14 E16: Philipp Hoenisch on 10101 Synthetic Stablecoins on Bitcoin
Philipp Hoenisch is a developer and trader who decided to create 10101 (Ten Ten One): a synthetic stablecoin system that’s built…
S14 E15: Phil Zimmermann on Bitcoin, Cryptography & PGP
Without Phil Zimmermann, Bitcoin couldn’t get invented. I know that this is a bold statement, but there are two main ways in…
S14 E5: Ben Arc on LNBits and Nostr
Ben Arc is the creator of LNBits: a modular Lightning wallet which empowers users to pick their desired features (presented as…
S14 E4: Peter Todd vs Sergej Kotliar on Full RBF
In the first half of 2023, before ordinal inscriptions emerged and Drivechains stole the spotlight for the rest of the year, Full…
S14 E8: Fadi Barbàra on DMix & Bitcoin Privacy
Fadi Barbàra is a cryptography researcher from the University of Turin who came up with the DMix protocol: an interesting…
The worst way to self-custody your bitcoin?
Self-custody is an integral part of the Bitcoin experience. It’s about holding and transacting the native currency of the Bitcoin…
S14 E3: Matej Zak on Trezor’s New Hardware
As the new CEO of Trezor, Matej Zak takes on the responsibility to expand and optimize a Bitcoin security empire. Trezor, the…
S14 E7: Martin Habovštiak on Firefish & Rust Bitcoin Development
Martin Habovštiak is one of the most prolific Slovakian Bitcoin developers. Better known as Kixunil, he currently maintains the…
S12 E11: Lord Kristaps on JoinMarket & Bitcoin Privacy
Bitcoin privacy is a delicate topic, with lots of counter-intuitive nuances. After all, how can an open pseudonymous financial…
S11 E5: Charlie Lee on Mimble Wimble Extension Blocks (MWEB)
Mimble Wimble and Extension Blocks are two interesting Bitcoin proposals that were heavily discussed by Core developers, but…
John Carvalho Presents Synonym: The Hyperbitcoinization Company
For almost two years, John Carvalho has kept his company in “stealth mode”. He dropped some hints about his vision during his…
5 raisons pour lesquelles vous devriez faire tourner votre nœud Bitcoin sur un Raspberry Pi 4
Les nœuds Bitcoin sont les validateurs du réseau : ils s’assurent que les mineurs restent honnêtes et ils permettent aux…
S9 E10: David St-Onge on Bitcoin Books
When David St-Onge fell down the Bitcoin rabbit hole, he took his studying very seriously. He didn’t only skim through a few…
S9 E5: Matt Hill on the Philosophy of Sovereignty
Today, sovereignty is more important than ever. As the internet centralizes around a handful of actors and data becomes more…
5 Reasons You Should Run Your Bitcoin Node on a Raspberry Pi 4
Bitcoin nodes are the network’s validators: they keep miners honest and they also allow users to verify their own transactions…
The Long Road to Taproot
Taproot is the most significant refinement that the Bitcoin code has received in recent years. It follows the same soft fork…
Why Bitcoin Free Open Source Software Matters
Why are bitcoiners so obsessed with free open source software? And what’s wrong with open source licenses which restrict…
Bitcoin Public Key, Receiving Address, UTXO: What’s the Difference?
Public keys, receiving addresses, and UTXOs are three concepts with which even some of the most seasoned bitcoiners sometimes…
Top 7 Bitcoin Wallet Developers Of 2020
Bitcoin wallets are an essential part of financial sovereignty. In a nutshell, they are the interface which helps us interact…
S6 E2: Crypto Coder Bob on Sovereignty and Bingo Cards
Crypto Coder Bob (8333tcoin on Twitter) talks about sovereignty through nodes and cryptography, as well as using Bingo cards as…
BitcoinIsSafe.com – Keeping Bitcoin Software Clean When Anti-Virus Programs Are Dirty
BitcoinIsSafe.com is targeting anti-virus false positives to defend legitimate Bitcoin wallets.
S5 E8: Eric Voskuil on Libbitcoin Development, Cryptoeconomics Book & Austrian Economics
Eric Voskuil talks about his breakthroughs with the Libbitcoin project, his new “Cryptoeconomics” book, and his axiomatic view on…
S5 E2: Leo Wandersleb on WalletScrutiny & Why Samourai Isn’t That Great
Leo Wandersleb is the creator of WalletScrutiny.com, a website which checks the verifiability & open sourceness of Android BTC…
Bitcoin Takeover Q&A #2: The Cheapest Bitcoin Full Node?
What is the cheapest way to run a full Bitcoin node and why are bitcoiners to toxic that they fight every day? These are two of…
Bitcoin Is Not Slow – It’s Highly Secure
When critics say that Bitcoin is “slow”, it’s good to remind them that security is much more important in decentralized networks…
S4 E9: Lixin Liu on the Cobo Vault & Cobo Tablet (Rebranded KeyStone, 2021)
Cobo Vault creator Lixin Liu talks about building a hardware wallet for the Chinese miners and adapting it for Western markets.
S4 E7: Peter Todd on Hardware Wallets, Security & Proofmarshall
Does Peter Todd use hardware wallets? Definitely not, and he’ll explain why he dislikes them. But does he offer great security…
S4 E2: ShiftCrypto’s Douglas Bakkum & Jonas Schnelli on the BitBox02 Hardware Wallet
Douglas Bakkum & Jonas Schnelli talk about the BitBox02 hardware wallet and their mission at ShiftCrypto.
S2 E9: Fartface2000 on #LNTrustChain and Investments in BTC
American bitcoiner Jim, best known as Fartface2000 and his great contribution to the #LNTrustChain movement which Hodlonaut…
S2 E8: Giacomo Zucco on Neutrino, The B, and Bitcoin-only conferences
The second season of The Bitcoin Takeover Podcast takes off with a surprise teaser episode involving Italian BTC maximalist…
S1 E1: Donald McIntyre on Bitcoin, The Teachings of Tim May and Nick Szabo, and the History of Money
In this season premiere, Donald McIntyre talks about the anthropological and historical elements that led to the creation of…
