Fees, mempool and the spam debate

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 E35: Vinny Lingham on Bitcoin Post-Maximalism, Scaling Regrets & Saylor’s Endgame

Vinny Lingham found Bitcoin in 2012 for the most unglamorous reason imaginable: chargebacks. His gift card company Gyft was…

S17 E30: Martin Matejka on Firefish, BTC-backed Loans & Bitcoin’s Purpose

Three years ago, I walked into the Firefish office in Prague to interview two founders with a fresh idea: what if you…

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 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 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…

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 E51: Mike Carson on Impervious, Spaces Protocol & Owning Your Name on Bitcoin

Impervious CEO Mike Carson explains Spaces Protocol: tokenless, cypherpunk names on Bitcoin with burned-bid auctions, ZK…

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 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…

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 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…

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…

How to Pay Lower Bitcoin Transaction Fees (Full Guide)

Fees are an essential part of the Bitcoin economy. They help prioritize transactions and support miners with an extra incentive…