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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…

S1 E3 Remastered: Zack Voell on Bitcoin & Politics

(This remaster is sponsored by Helen’s Pizza, 183 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, where you can buy pizza, pasta, and coffee with…

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 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 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 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 E7: Colin Harper on Bitcoin Mining, Epstein E-mails & Journalism

Colin Harper is a veteran Bitcoin journalist and commentator, whose articles you might have read in Bitcoin Magazine, Coin…

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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…

S12 E8: Lisa Neigut on Running a Core Lightning Node from Home

Lisa Neigut works at Blockstream to make Core Lightning (formerly known as c-lightning) a reliable and robust Lightning network…

Une explication du réseau Lightning que même un enfant de 10 ans peut comprendre

En tant que seconde couche de Bitcoin, le réseau Lightning apporte de nombreuses améliorations. Il permet des paiements quasiment…

The First 109 Episodes of the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

Much like Satoshi Nakamoto’s decentralized money system, the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast was launched in times of turmoil and…

RaspiBlitz 1.7.1 Adds c-lightning Support

The news about RaspiBlitz adding support for Blockstream’s c-lightning implementation first broke in early June of 2021, during…

BTCTKVR Radio #8: September to Remember

After another productive week in which fresh new podcast episodes have been released, the time has come to update the Bitcoin…

Explaining the Lightning Network So Even A 10 Year-Old Can Understand It

As Bitcoin’s second layer, the Lightning Network brings a lot of improvements. Its features instant payments that can scale to a…

S8 E4: Lawrence Nahum on Blockstream’s Jade

In January 2021, Blockstream has taken the Bitcoin world by surprise by announcing the Jade hardware wallet – a device which…

S5 E9: Matthew Haywood on the Liquid Sidechain & His Work at Blockstream

As the product manager of Liquid securities, Matthew Haywood is one of the people who possess the best understanding of…

Lightning vs Liquid: The New Bitcoin Scaling War

The ongoing tensions between Lightning Network proponents and Liquid sidechainers bring back memories from another scaling debate.

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.

Why is the BTSE Token a Big Deal?

[This article is written for BTSE’s Christmas Contest and expresses a personal reflection on the upcoming BTSE token which gets…