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…
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Hal Finney
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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…
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 E31: Alex Waltz Reveals Bitcoin’s First Miner
Alex Waltz spent a full year of his life on the first 170 blocks of the Bitcoin blockchain. Five months of research,…
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 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 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…
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 E15: Aaron van Wirdum on The Genesis Book, Cypherpunks & Bitcoin’s Pre-History
Aaron van Wirdum walks through The Genesis Book: e-gold, Hayek, the Extropians, the cypherpunks, Hashcash, Bit Gold, b-money…
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…
Referirse A Bitcoin Como Un Proyecto De La NSA/CIA Es Una Falta De Respeto A Los Cypherpunks
Mientras que Satoshi Nakamoto pudo haber sido la NSA/CIA, Bitcoin definitivamente no lo es. Asimismo, los cypherpunks hicieron el…
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…
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.
