Bitcoin mining

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…

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…

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 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 E28: Josh Swihart on Zcash’s Comeback, the Orchard Bug & Forking the Company

Twenty months ago, Josh Swihart came on this show to talk about Zcash at its darkest hour: Binance was threatening delisting over…

S17 E27: Kieran Mesquka on Railgun & Building Privacy Where the Users Are

Sometimes you have to wait a year for an interview to happen. I first met Kieran Mesquka at DevConnect in Argentina, back…

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 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 E8: Riccardo Spagni on Bitcoin, Monero & Privacy

Riccardo Spagni (aka FluffyPony) is best known for leading the engineering and development efforts of the Monero project…

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…

S17 E2: Tyler Spalding on Bitcoin Payments, Altcoins & Bears

In January 2026, Tyler Spalding came to Romania to visit the Bear Sanctuary in Zărnești, Brașov. So I took advantage of the…

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 E15: Marko Tarman on NiceHash & Proof of Work Mining

Marko Tarman started mining Bitcoin in 2012 and hasn’t stopped hashing ever since. He’s witnessed the transition from graphics…

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 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 E50: Murch on Popular Bitcoin Myths: Ordinals, OP_CAT, Zero-Conf & the 2140 Panic

Murch of Chaincode Labs and Bitcoin Stack Exchange busts popular Bitcoin myths: ordinals as spam, a captured Bitcoin Core…

S15 E7: Sergio Demian Lerner on Rootstock, Satoshi’s Bitcoins, Drivechains & More

Sergio Demian Lerner is perhaps the most prolific Bitcoin contributor from Argentina… and certainly one of the most underrated…

S15 E6: John Light, Super Testnet & Alexei Zamyatin on Improving Bitcoin

Bitcoin is still a young project that’s bound for disruption. While the money layer is supposed to never change, the advancements…

S15 E8: Ryan Condron on Bitcoin Mining, Hashrate Markets & Lumerin

Ryan Condron has been mining Bitcoin longer than I have known about Bitcoin. I met him in a hallway in Prague, during…

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…

S14 E6: Mike in Space on STAMPs and Attacking Bitcoin

Mike in Space’s journey into the world of Bitcoin began with his popular show Bitcoin Car Talk, back in 2016. His latest…

Destruindo o FUD do ChatGPT sobre Bitcoin #7: Consumo de Energia

De acordo com o ChatGPT, a quantidade de energia necessária para proteger o Bitcoin é preocupante porque sua rede Proof of Work…

Breaking ChatGPT’s Bitcoin FUD #7: Energy Consumption

According to ChatGPT, the amount of energy that’s required to secure Bitcoin is concerning because the decentralized Proof of…

Breaking ChatGPT’s Bitcoin FUD #8: Mining Centralization

According to ChatGPT, a small number of mining pools control a large portion of the mining power on the Bitcoin network. Such…

S13 E7: Nick Hansen on Luxor, Mining & Ordinals

As of March 2023, Luxor is the 6th largest Bitcoin mining pool – and CEO Nick Hansen appears to be helplessly optimistic…

Comment je suis presque devenu riche en minant Bitcoin sur SlushPool pendant un mois

Quand mon ami AdventureDr m’a proposé de faire tourner un Antminer S9 pendant un mois et de me laisser les récompenses si…

Cómo Casi Me Hago Rico Minando Bitcoin En Slush Pool Durante Un Mes

Cuando mi amigo AdventureDr me ofreció usar un Antminer S9 durante un mes y dejarme quedar con la recompensa a cambio de…

Por Que El Superciclo de Bitcoin Probablemente Ocurrirá

Menos de 6 meses luego de que Elon Musk aparentemente derrumbara el mercado con sus tweets, el precio de bitcoin se encuentra…

How I Almost Got Rich Mining Bitcoin on SlushPool for a Month

When my friend AdventureDr offered to run an Antminer S9 for a month and let me have the rewards in exchange for…

Pourquoi La Théorie Du Supercycle Va Probablement Se Réaliser

Moins de 6 mois après le crash du marché dont la cause fut vraisemblablement les tweets d’Elon Musk, le prix du bitcoin…

Why the Bitcoin Supercycle Is Likely To Happen

Less than 6 months after Elon Musk seemingly crashed the market with his tweets, the price of bitcoin is once again soaring…

BTCTKVR Radio #9: When September Ends

Another month has almost passed and lots of new Bitcoin podcasts have been recorded and broadcast in the meantime. If you haven’t…

S9 E7: Knut Svanholm on Sovereignty & Bitcoin in El Salvador

Knut Svanholm is the kind of bitcoiner who looks for the bullish perspective into every situation. As the author of “Bitcoin…

Bitcoin Takeover Radio #6: Double the Fun!

You know what’s better than a radio stream which includes episodes from some of the most prolific and interesting Bitcoin…

Bitcoin Takeover Radio #5: Bigger, Longer & Looping

As of July 2nd 2021, Bitcoin Takeover Radio has been updated to feature fresh podcasts and new opportunities to learn and earn…

Bitcoin Takeover Radio #4: Listen, Learn & Earn

Bitcoin Takeover Radio returns with fresh podcasts, remixed music, and new opportunities for you to learn and earn. This edition…

Bitcoin in 2021: Principles vs Number Go Up

In retrospect, it was inevitable: the fiat billionaires who added bitcoin to their companies’ balance sheets are not our friends…

On Taking Bitcoin Mining to the Moon… Literally

As humankind becomes an inter-planetary species which embraces the Bitcoin standard, we should seriously consider extending the…

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…

S4 E9: Lixin Liu on the Cobo Vault & Cobo Tablet (Rebranded KeyStone, 2021)

Cobo Vault creator Lixin Liu talks about building a hardware wallet for the Chinese miners and adapting it for Western markets.

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…