The Best Quotes from Every Episode of Bitcoin Takeover Podcast! (2019-2026)
The best Bitcoin Takeover quotes from every episode, seasons 1 to 17: Vitalik Buterin, Roger Ver, Phil Zimmermann, Slush and 300+…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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 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 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 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 E20: Amir Taaki, Harry Halpin & Christopher Cialone on Palantir’s Technofascism, the Roman Storm Trial & the Privacy Arms Race
Some episodes are planned for months. This one happened because Zach Herbert postponed, I panicked, and the universe compensated…
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 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 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 E45: Shai Wyborski on Bitcoin, Kaspa & Proof of Work Research
This turned out to become the longest episode in the history of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast… yet: 8 hours and 39 minutes,…
S16 E17: Ben Arc on LNBits V1 & The State of Lightning Network
Dive into the world of Bitcoin and Lightning Network with this engaging discussion featuring Ben Arc, CEO of Nostr, as he unveils…
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…
Decentralized Online Marketplace Protocol (DOMP): Enabling Trustless Marketplaces
● Abstract ● Introduction ● Background ○ Bitcoin and the Lightning Network ○ Nostr Protocol ● Anti-Spam Measures ● Defined Event…
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 E55: Jake Yocom-Piatt & Phoenix Green on Decred, Bison Wallet & the Trouble With Proof of Work
Decred co-founder Jake Yocom-Piatt and Phoenix Green on hybrid consensus, the mining cartel they voted out, Bison Wallet swaps…
S15 E54: Kruw on Running a Wasabi Coordinator, Blockchain Analysis & the Myths of Bitcoin Privacy
Kruw runs Wasabi's biggest coinjoin coordinator for zero fees. He explains how blockchain analysis works, Samourai's double…
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 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 E48: Paul Puey on Edge Wallet, the Four Layers of Privacy & Why Bitcoin's Layer 1 Might Die
Edge Wallet CEO Paul Puey on self-custody exchanges, Monero view keys, the four layers of crypto privacy, Lightning's limits, and…
S15 E47: Justin Bons on Bitcoin's Issues: Sharding, the Security Budget & a Live Lightning Test
Justin Bons debates Vlad Costea for 4.5 hours on Bitcoin's capacity, sharding, the security budget, on-chain governance & a live…
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 E40: Rijndael on Taproot Wizards, BIP420 & OP_CAT
Rijndael (CTO of Taproot Wizards) on OP_CAT, BIP420, Quantum Cats, covenants, Lightning limits, Ordinals flywheels, and why…
S15 E35: Nick Schteringard & Konstantin Wünscher on OpenDelta, Runes & the Synthetic Dollar
OpenDelta founders explain USDO, a delta-neutral synthetic dollar on Bitcoin Runes: futures hedging, yield for miners, meme coins…
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 E31: Ray Youssef on NoOnes, Freedom Money & Why Roger Ver Was Right
Ray Youssef on why he said Roger Ver was right, freedom money for the Global South, the limits of Liquid and Lightning, and the…
S15 E30: Charlie Lee on Lightning, Litecoin & Why Payment Coins Survived
Charlie Lee on why Litecoin still tops BitPay and beats Lightning on Bitrefill, plus atomic swaps, Lightning Labs and MWEB…
S15 E28: Amaury Séchet (Deadalnix) on Forking Bitcoin, Big Blocks & Scaling
Amaury Séchet (Deadalnix) on forking Bitcoin into BCH, the 2018 inflation bug he helped fix instead of exploiting, a Craig Wright…
S15 E27: Adam Soltys & Cole on Coinos, Lightning & Merchant Adoption
Adam Soltys and Cole on Coinos, the custodial Lightning and Liquid web wallet that Vancouver merchants use, and how it lets users…
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 E25: Nicholas Gregory & Tom Trevethan on MercuryLayer, Blinded Statechains & Lightning
Nicholas Gregory and Tom Trevethan explain MercuryLayer: blinded statechains, whole-UTXO swaps, Lightning Latch, and where…
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 E21: Fiatjaf on Nostr, Drivechains & Why Lightning Sucks
Fiatjaf is one of the most prolific developers in Bitcoin and Lightning. But despite contributing to lots of Lightning open…
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 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…
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 E4: Alexis Roussel on Nym, Privacy & Suing the Swiss Financial Regulator
Alexis Roussel is one of the most remarkable and accomplished bitcoiners from Switzerland. He sits on the board of companies such…
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 E2: Sergi Delgado on Developing Bitcoin at Chaincode
Sergi Delgado is an engineer at Chaincode Labs, whose academic background is in peer to peer (P2P) networks research. After…
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 E12: Agustin Kassis & Mariano on La Crypta, La Wallet & Bitcoin in Argentina
Agustin Kassis & Mariano on La Crypta's Fight Club house in Buenos Aires, Bitcoin-only Halloween onboarding, and La Wallet…
S14 E19: Martin and Igor on Firefish, a Bitcoin-Backed Lending Platform
Firefish is an ambitious project which takes on the massive challenge to create a trust-minimized version of BlockFi or Celsius…
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 E16: Philipp Hoenisch on 10101 Synthetic Stablecoins on Bitcoin
Philipp Hoenisch is a developer and trader who decided to create 10101 (Ten Ten One): a synthetic stablecoin system that’s built…
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…
S14 E7: Martin Habovštiak on Firefish & Rust Bitcoin Development
Martin Habovštiak is one of the most prolific Slovakian Bitcoin developers. Better known as Kixunil, he currently maintains the…
S13 E10: Hampus Sjöberg On Blixt Wallet & Improving Bitcoin
Blixt wallet is the new cool kid on the Lightning wallets block – and Hampus Sjöberg is the mastermind behind this ambitious…
Portal Présente la Démo Technique d’un Atomic Swap Ordinal
Ça fait quelques années déjà que l’équipe de Portal planche sur de “la DeFi au niveau de la layer 3 de Bitcoin”.…
Portal Presents Ordinal Atomic Swap Tech Demo
For a couple of years now, the Portal team has been working on “DeFi on Bitcoin layer 3”. The project, which was…
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…
S14 E1: Burak Keceli on Ark & Bitcoin 2nd Layers
Ark is a liquidity protocol developed by Burak Keceli, which aims to offer scalable and privacy-preserving off-chain transactions…
S13 E9: Martijn Wismeijer on GeneralBytes Bitcoin ATMs
Martijn Wismeijer is the marketing manager at GeneralBytes, the world’s biggest Bitcoin ATM manufacturer and software provider…
Breaking ChatGPT’s Bitcoin FUD #6: Limited Use Cases
According to ChatGPT, Bitcoin only accommodates a limited number of use cases, and this fact will consequently limit its adoption…
S13 E5: Nicholas Gregory on MercuryWallet & Adding a Lightning Network Integration
Nicholas Gregory first joined the Bitcoin Takeover podcast in June 2022 – and in the seven months that passed between the two…
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…
S13 E1: Eric Sirion & Obi Nwosu on Fedimint & Fedi
Eric Sirion and Obi Nwosu are responsible for bringing to life and popularizing the idea of increasing Bitcoin adoption through…
S12 E11: Lord Kristaps on JoinMarket & Bitcoin Privacy
Bitcoin privacy is a delicate topic, with lots of counter-intuitive nuances. After all, how can an open pseudonymous financial…
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…
S12 E7: Dr. Maxim Orlovsky on RGB Layer 3
Maxim Orlovsky is the main developer of RGB: a layer 3 protocol that’s built on top of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. Contrary to…
¿Estas Aquí Por La Explosion Del Precio O Por La Revolucion?
Durante los momentos de exuberancia extrema o de sufrimiento, es fácil perder el enfoque y olvidar porque te involucraste en el…
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…
S11 E5: Charlie Lee on Mimble Wimble Extension Blocks (MWEB)
Mimble Wimble and Extension Blocks are two interesting Bitcoin proposals that were heavily discussed by Core developers, but…
S11 E3: Adrian, Patrick & Bastian on Lipa
Lipa is a Swiss-made service which aims to make Bitcoin payments simple. At first glance, it’s a wallet with Point of Sale…
Explicando El Lightning Network Para Que Hasta Un Niño De 10 Años Lo Pueda Entender
Como segunda capa de Bitcoin, el Lightning Network trae muchas mejoras. Cuenta con pagos instantaneos que la escala a una…
Comic Strip: Bitcoin Eating Popcorn #2 (Scaling Debate Edition)
Over the years, Bitcoin has undergone numerous centralizing attacks. The idea of increasing the block size to enable more…
Los beneficios de Privacidad de Taproot
[Esta es una traducción de un artículo que Vlad Costea publicó en el blog Wasabi Wallet] El soft fork de Taproot en…
John Carvalho Presents Synonym: The Hyperbitcoinization Company
For almost two years, John Carvalho has kept his company in “stealth mode”. He dropped some hints about his vision during his…
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…
S9 E8: Kenichi Kurimoto & Hitomi Moriyama on Nayuta, Bitcoin & Lightning
When we talk about Bitcoin, our perspective is mostly American-centric – with some exceptions of events taking place in Europe…
S9 E5: Matt Hill on the Philosophy of Sovereignty
Today, sovereignty is more important than ever. As the internet centralizes around a handful of actors and data becomes more…
S8 E9: Ben Arc on Bowser Wallet, LNBits, and Open Source Development
Ben Arc is the creator of the Bowser hardware wallet, the mastermind behind Lightning service LNBits and decentralized social…
Where To Listen to the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
The Bitcoin Takeover Podcast has been running for more than seven years and now has 372 episodes: long conversations with the…
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…
Introducing the #LightningKillsShitcoins Torch
It has been two years since Hodlonaut first passed the #LNTrushChain torch to Fartface2000 and entered the Bitcoin Lightning…
Unboxing Review: Fulmo RaspiBlitz & Hyperbitcoinized 2021 Calendar
Fulmo’s RaspiBlitz offers one of the most convenient and honest ways to run a Bitcoin full node. It relies entirely on open…
How to Make Bitcoin Transactions Environmentally-Friendly
So you’ve read the news about Bitcoin mining consuming a lot of energy. And while the numbers are difficult to verify and…
S6 E10: Shilling Lightning to the Moon with John Carvalho
John Carvalho is the Lightning Network business developer that nobody asked for. And in this podcast, he explains how we can…
S6 E7: Jarret Dyrbye (JD2983) on Lightning Development, SparkShot.io & Socket.Money
Jarret Dyrbye is the developer of Lightning-based digital art marketplace SparkShot & MoneySocket protocol.
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.
Dear Barely Sociable, here’s why Adam Back isn’t Satoshi Nakamoto (Video)
Barely Sociable is wrong about Adam Back being Satoshi Nakamoto. So I’m gathering all evidence in a video and a written criticism…
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.
Bitcoin Takeover Games: Lightning Agar
With some improvements, Lightning Agar can become a cultural phenomenon among bitcoiners and attract nocoiner Agar.io players.
Bitcoin Takeover Games: Bitcoin Bounce Review
Bitcoin Bounce by Thndr Games is the easiest and most fun way to stack some sats every day.
Bitcoin Takeover Podcast Season 4 Sponsors
The fourth season of the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast is all about hardware wallet makers and their breakers. It will feature 10…
S3 E4: Carlos Roldan on Satoshi’s Games and Lightning Network
Spanish bitcoiner Carlos Roldan is the creator and lead developer of Satoshi’s Games, an awarded video game platform which makes…
S2 E9: Fartface2000 on #LNTrustChain and Investments in BTC
American bitcoiner Jim, best known as Fartface2000 and his great contribution to the #LNTrustChain movement which Hodlonaut…
