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 E47: Tabconf 8 Livestream with Kevin Loaec, Ekrem Bal, Spaces Protocol & The Bitcoin Pivot
On the last day of TABConf 8, I did another livestream from the hallways of Georgia Tech in Atlanta. The recording was…
S17 E46: Livestream from Tabconf 8, Part 1 (feat. Paul Sztorc, Andre Beganski, Alex Lewin, Janusz, Christopher Allen, Will & Michael Tidwell)
Live from the last TABConf: Paul Sztorc on quantum soft forks and eCash, Christopher Allen on multisig, Janusz on Zark and…
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+…
Bitcoin BLAKE2b: The Fork That Fired the Miners
Luke Dashjr's BIP-110 soft fork stalled after eight blocks, then returned as a BLAKE2b hard fork whose proof of work was picked…
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…
S17 E40: Amir Taaki & Prof. Richard Werner on Decentralization, Community Banks & the Coming CBDC Panopticon
(Recorded live at Mallorca Blockchain Days in front of an audience, this episode is a crossover between the conference’s final…
S17 E33: Joël Valenzuela on Being Unbanked with Private Digital Cash
Joël Valenzuela, widely known for his commitment to living without banks and relying entirely on cryptocurrency for everyday…
S17 E29: Grafton Clark on Vibe Coding, Privacy & Bitcoin Culture
Some podcast episodes are about a product, a protocol, or a company. This one is about a feeling: the feeling that the…
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 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 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 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 E8: Riccardo Spagni on Bitcoin, Monero & Privacy
Riccardo Spagni (aka FluffyPony) is best known for leading the engineering and development efforts of the Monero project…
S17 E6: Vik Sharma on Ending Wars Between Privacy Coins
Lately, Cake Wallet has become the Swiss Army knife of financial privacy. And CEO Vik Sharma doesn’t seem to slow down: in…
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…
S17 E1: Bruce Fenton on Suitcoiners & The Spirit of Bitcoin
Season 17 of the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast debuts with a raw and candid interview with Bruce Fenton: Wall Street veteran…
S16 E45: Shai Wyborski on Bitcoin, Kaspa & Proof of Work Research
This turned out to become the longest episode in the history of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast… yet: 8 hours and 39 minutes,…
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…
Decentralized Online Marketplace Protocol (DOMP): Enabling Trustless Marketplaces
● Abstract ● Introduction ● Background ○ Bitcoin and the Lightning Network ○ Nostr Protocol ● Anti-Spam Measures ● Defined Event…
S15 E60: Andrey Sabelnikov & Pavel Nikienkov on Zano, the CryptoNote Wars & Private Proof of Stake
Zano co-founders Andrey Sabelnikov & Pavel Nikienkov on private tokens, hybrid proof of stake, the Bytecoin vs Monero feud and…
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 E57: Orkun Kilic on Citrea, ZK Rollups & Building the Bitcoin Economy
Days after the Citrea testnet launch, Orkun Kilic explains ZK rollups vs sidechains, BitVM's trust model, drivechains, StarkWare…
S15 E56: Richard Werner on Bitcoin, CBDCs & the Case for Community Banks
Prof. Richard Werner, who coined quantitative easing, on why banks create money, why CBDCs threaten us all, why cash is freedom…
On The Limitations of Bitcoin Privacy
Bitcoin is a permanent open ledger whose privacy features have mostly been defeated by blockchain analysis. Every transaction…
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 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 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 E49: Edan Yago on BitcoinOS, Permaware & Scaling Bitcoin with ZK Rollups
Edan Yago explains BitcoinOS, BitSNARK and the first ZK proof verified on Bitcoin mainnet, why rollups beat sidechains, and why…
S15 E48: Paul Puey on Edge Wallet, the Four Layers of Privacy & Why Bitcoin's Layer 1 Might Die
Edge Wallet CEO Paul Puey on self-custody exchanges, Monero view keys, the four layers of crypto privacy, Lightning's limits, and…
S15 E45: Lucas Ontivero & Turbolay on Wasabi Wallet's Future
Lucas Ontivero & Turbolay on Wasabi after zkSNACKs: community coordinators, WabiSabi, unfuckable CoinJoin, daemon integrations &…
S15 E41: F/Dev (1440000bytes) on Joinstr, CoinJoin & Bitcoin Privacy
F/Dev (1440000bytes / Floppy) on Joinstr, Nostr-coordinated CoinJoin for Electrum, LayerTwo Labs, Lightning limits, eCash…
S15 E38: Crypsi on Crypto Art, Memes & Cypherpunk Culture
Crypsi on Bitcoin crypto art since 2014, Rare Pepes, memes as cypherpunk culture, and why a Solana meme coin became their…
S15 E37: Marek Narozniak on MimbleWimble, Grin & Why Quantum Computers Won't Steal Your Bitcoin (Yet)
Marek Narozniak explains MimbleWimble, Grin's privacy and scalability, a possible Bitcoin extension block, and why quantum…
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 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…
S15 E6: John Light, Super Testnet & Alexei Zamyatin on Improving Bitcoin
Bitcoin is still a young project that’s bound for disruption. While the money layer is supposed to never change, the advancements…
S15 E4: Alexis Roussel on Nym, Privacy & Suing the Swiss Financial Regulator
Alexis Roussel is one of the most remarkable and accomplished bitcoiners from Switzerland. He sits on the board of companies such…
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 E1: Max Hillebrand & Lando Rothbardian on Wasabi’s New “Buy Anything” Button
With the launch of version 2.0.5, Wasabi wallet now includes a “Buy Anything” button. Though it might sound banal, what it does…
Preview: Bitcoin Takeover Podcast Season 15
Season 15 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast marks two significant milestones: the 5th anniversary of the show, as well as the 200th…
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 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…
What would you tell Satoshi Nakamoto if you could time travel?
If you could go back in time to meet Satoshi Nakamoto while he was still developing Bitcoin, what would you tell him?…
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…
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…
S14 E6: Mike in Space on STAMPs and Attacking Bitcoin
Mike in Space’s journey into the world of Bitcoin began with his popular show Bitcoin Car Talk, back in 2016. His latest…
10 Reasons You Should Run Your Own Bitcoin Full Node
In Bitcoin, you’re not a first class citizen of the network until you run your own full node and also use it…
S14 E1: Burak Keceli on Ark & Bitcoin 2nd Layers
Ark is a liquidity protocol developed by Burak Keceli, which aims to offer scalable and privacy-preserving off-chain transactions…
FUD for Thought
For all the certainties that it offers and all the FUD that it can destroy through its continued existence, Bitcoin is still…
S13 E5: Nicholas Gregory on MercuryWallet & Adding a Lightning Network Integration
Nicholas Gregory first joined the Bitcoin Takeover podcast in June 2022 – and in the seven months that passed between the two…
S13 E3: Casey Rodarmor on Ordinals, Inscriptions & Bitcoin Culture
Ordinal inscriptions are all the rage. They obsoleted the concept of NFTs by offering artists a permanent way to display their…
S13 E2: Nopara73 on Wasabi Wallet’s Beginnings and Future
First launched in October 2018, Wasabi wallet has certainly elevated the standard for Bitcoin privacy. Mostly developed by…
S12 E14: Viktor Vecsei on IVPN & Internet Privacy
The idea of internet privacy lays at the foundation of Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto himself used every tool which helped him protect…
S12 E12: Max Hampshire on Nym, Tor & Internet Privacy
Nym is one of the most interesting and promising projects in the field of internet privacy. And in the context of Bitcoin…
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…
The Best Black Friday 2022 Deals in Bitcoin
Black Friday is usually the best time to purchase discounted items, either to gratify yourself for having kept your low-time…
S12 E9: Christian Rootzoll & Matthew Croughan on RaspiBlitz + NixOS
Christian Rootzoll is the creator and lead developer of the RaspiBlitz project – an operating system for the RaspBerry Pi which…
S11 E6: Nicholas Gregory on MercuryWallet, Statechains & Privacy
Nicholas Gregory is the CEO and director of CommerceBlock, a privacy-oriented company whose best known product is MercuryWallet…
Les bénéfices de Taproot en matière de confidentialité
Le soft fork Taproot est une étape essentielle pour améliorer la confidentialité on-chain de Bitcoin. Après l’activation de…
Affirmer que Bitcoin est un projet de la NSA ou de la CIA est un manque de respect pour les cypherpunks
J’ai récemment demandé à mes followers sur Twitter de me soumettre leur théorie du complot favorite concernant Bitcoin. A mon…
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…
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…
Why Square’s Block Hardware Wallet Is Going to Suck
In March 2022, we’ve received two major updates from Square’s hardware wallet project – which is still in development under the…
Preview: BTCTKVR Podcast Season 10
The Bitcoin Takeover Podcast keeps on keeping it real with season 10. This time around, we have 16 guests whose topics of…
Los beneficios de Privacidad de Taproot
[Esta es una traducción de un artículo que Vlad Costea publicó en el blog Wasabi Wallet] El soft fork de Taproot en…
S9 E7: Knut Svanholm on Sovereignty & Bitcoin in El Salvador
Knut Svanholm is the kind of bitcoiner who looks for the bullish perspective into every situation. As the author of “Bitcoin…
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…
S8 Special: Max Hillebrand on Wasabi Wallet, Hardware Wallets, Privacy & Anarchy
Wasabi works great with almost every hardware wallet on the market – and Max Hillebrand is the man who is responsible for…
How The Private Sector Is Helping Governments Regulate Bitcoin
If your government came up with a device that listens to you 24/7, tracks your exact location, and keeps logs of all…
S8 E2: Charles Guillemet on Ledger
Charles Guillemet is the CTO of Ledger and also the creator of the Donjon (the company’s security research department). So in the…
S8 E1: Benma on BitBox02
Benma is one of the people who get very little praise for their work, but do something that makes everybody’s bitcoins more…
4 Billfodl Privacy Tricks for Safer BIP 39 backups
The Billfodl is one of the best devices that you can use to keep your BIP 39 seed phrase/mnemonic in cold storage.…
It’s Time to Replace BTC-USD with BTC-Gold
As we watch the price of bitcoin hit new all-time highs against the US dollar, it’s hard not to feel like this…
12 Days of #BTChristmas, Ep. 2: Billfodl Faraday Bags
I just can’t praise Faraday bags enough. For the little money they cost, they accomplish a physical feat which is very valuable.…
Use Trezor with Tor Browser in 7 Easy Steps
Privacy is the mother of good security. And if you use your Trezor hardware wallet with Tor, you already have a better setup than…
S6 E9: Jonas Nick, Peter Todd & Alekos Filini on Bitcoin Development
Jonas Nick (@n1ckler), Peter Todd (@peterktodd), and Alekos Filini (@afilini) talks about Bitcoin development. Some major topics…
S6 E6: Max Hillebrand on Bitcoin Privacy Advocacy & Wasabi Wallet
Privacy advocate Max Hillebrand talks about online privacy, Wasabi Wallet, the upcoming Wabisabi & his fight against Big Brother.
Ledger Commerce & Marketing Database Gets Leaked
The Ledger Commerce and Marketing database has been leaked. What does this mean for your data and the security of your coins?
Why Delete Coinbase?
Coinbase has once again acted in bad faith in relation to Bitcoin. Here is why you should delete your account.
S5 E4: Francis Pouliot on Bitcoin Security, P2EP & Why S2F Sucks
Francis Pouliot explains how Pay to End Point (P2EP) works, criticizes S2F & gives advice on Bitcoin security.
S5 E6: Nopara73 on Wasabi Wallet, P2EP, Samourai & Bitcoin Privacy
Nopara73 explains the origins of P2EP (Pay to End Point) and how it all works, but also gives security and privacy…
Billfodl Faraday Bags Review (Video)
For less $35, Billfodl’s Faraday bag bundle will help you protect your Bitcoin hardware wallets, credit cards, and phone from…
Calling Bitcoin a NSA/CIA Project Is Disrespectful to Cypherpunks
While Satoshi Nakamoto might have been the NSA/CIA, Bitcoin definitely isn’t. Also, cypherpunks did 90% of Satoshi’s work.
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 E4: BTChip (Nicolas Bacca) on Ledger and Hardware Wallet Innovation
Ledger co-founder and Head of Innovation BTChip (Nicolas Bacca) talks about the elements that make the Ledger products great and…
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.
