BitVM

Robin Linus, Art & the 1,000 BTC Prius: A Ride to the TABConf 8 BitDevs Barbecue

Art drove Robin Linus and me to the TABConf 8 BitDevs barbecue in the 2011 Toyota Prius that Rassah bought for 1,000 BTC in 2013…

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 E36: Yonatan Sompolinsky on Kaspa Covenants, DAGKnight & Coordination Markets

Yonatan Sompolinsky came to Europe for a reason he would only describe on record as a secretive meeting of DAGKnight magicians…

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 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 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 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 E4: {ideal} on BitVM Optimizations (Robin Linus, Liam Eagen, Ying Tong Lai)

On January 19th 2026, the Bitcoin development world was taken by storm: Ideal Group, aka {ideal}, launched Argo with a 2000x…

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 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 E43: Sergio Demian Lerner on BitVMX, Rootstock & Layer 2s

Sergio Demian Lerner explains BitVMX, a RISC-V take on BitVM that cuts dispute costs to ~$400, plus Rootstock vs. Liquid, blind…

S15 E42: Super Testnet & Shinobi on Bitcoin Projects That Suck

Super Testnet & Shinobi roast Taproot marketing, LND incentives, Wasabi CoinJoin gaps, Nostr key management, SeedSigner…

S15 E34: Charlie Lee on MWEB, Financial Privacy & Why Litecoin Dares to Experiment

Charlie Lee explains Litecoin MWEB: confidential transactions, cut-through, peg-outs, Samourai, the SegWit bounty, drivechains…

S15 E33: David Bailey on Bitcoin Maximalism, Ordinals & the Biggest Stage in Bitcoin

David Bailey on Bitcoin maximalism, Ordinals, OP_CAT vs CTV, high fees, BitVM, Tether and Bitcoin Conference boycotts, plus a…

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 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 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 E16: Paul Sztorc Talks Bitcoin Scaling, But Can’t Say Drivechains

A drunkast with Paul Sztorc about scaling Bitcoin: covenants, BitVM, Lightning, Rootstock and Liquid, discussed without him being…

S15 E13: Robin Linus on BitVM & Permissionless Bitcoin Development

Robin Linus on BitVM, trust-minimized Bitcoin bridges, ZeroSync and zkCoins, and why Bitcoin development does not have to wait…

S15 E10: Tuur Demeester on His Bitcoin Investment Thesis & The Supra Cycle

Tuur Demeester is the kind of guest who arrives with a spreadsheet in one hand and a Johnny Cash playlist in the other.

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…