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 E45: Talking Tari & Privacy with Naveen Jain, Mr. Fox & Marguerite de Courcelle
There are projects in this space that are famous for what they shipped. Tari used to be famous for what it has…
S17 E44: Marc De Mesel on the Bitcoin Cash Bet, the Privacy Coin Basket & the Price of Conviction
There is a particular kind of person the Bitcoin Cash community produced in its glory years, and Marc De Mesel is the…
eCash (XEC): The Fork That Taxed Itself
How Bitcoin ABC lost the BCH ticker over an 8% developer fund, rebranded a million to one, and built the only Bitcoin fork with…
S17 E42: Bob Summerwill on Ethereum Classic & Bitcoin’s Fork Season
I first met Bob Summerwill in person at the Proof of Work Summit in September 2023: the event where Bitcoiners, Litecoiners…
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 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 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 E37: Paul Sztorc on the eCash Three Stage Launch, Free Coins & 12 Drivechains
Paul Sztorc now holds the record for the most appearances on this show: eleven. Nobody else has come close, and nobody else…
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 E24: Zach Herbert on Passport Prime, KeyOS & the End of Air-Gapped
Some interviews you plan for weeks. This one I planned around a box. Two weeks after Zach Herbert handed me a Passport…
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 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 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 E16: Summer Meng on Bitmars, Selling Bitcoin ASICs & Heating Your Home with Miners
There is a reason people call Summer Meng the ASIC Queen. If you want the latest Bitmain hardware anywhere in Europe or…
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 E14: Kristian Csepcsar on the History of Bitcoin Mining, Braiins Hashpower & the Centralization Nobody Talks About
Editor’s note: this conversation was recorded in person at the undisclosed Braiins office in Prague, most likely in March 2026…
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 E12: Ray Youssef on the Mexico Arrest & Life After NoOnes
Ray Youssef does not do quiet exits. In his telling, he walked out of Monerotopia in Mexico after giving a Malcolm X…
S17 E10: Mark Karpelès on Mt. Gox, the 1Feex Fortune & His Plan to Hard Fork Bitcoin
Mark Karpelès is the one name in Bitcoin that needs no introduction and always gets one anyway. The former CEO of Mt.…
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 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 E52: Ben Arc on the Future of Lightning, Bitcoin & Nostr
LNbits creator Ben Arc says Lightning is only 5% done, explains why ecash mints worry him, and shares his plans for LNbits, Boltz…
S15 E44: Chris DeRose on Bitcoin Uncensored, Simulacra & Life After Bitcoin
Bitcoin Uncensored reunion: Chris DeRose, Wayne Vaughan, Jay Berg & Paul Sztorc on simulacra, Bitcoin cults, stablecoins as bonds…
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 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 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 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…
