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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 E29: Grafton Clark on Vibe Coding, Privacy & Bitcoin Culture

Some podcast episodes are about a product, a protocol, or a company. This one is about a feeling: the feeling that the…

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…

Decentralized Online Marketplace Protocol (DOMP): Enabling Trustless Marketplaces

● Abstract ● Introduction ● Background ○ Bitcoin and the Lightning Network ○ Nostr Protocol ● Anti-Spam Measures ● Defined Event…

S15 E45: Lucas Ontivero & Turbolay on Wasabi Wallet's Future

Lucas Ontivero & Turbolay on Wasabi after zkSNACKs: community coordinators, WabiSabi, unfuckable CoinJoin, daemon integrations &…

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 E20: Bastien & Baudoin on Satochip, Satodime, Seedkeeper & Bitcoin Self-Custody

With the power of smart card security technology, Satochip offers an affordable way to self-custody your bitcoins, turn them into…

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…

S14 E20: Lea Petrasova on Vexl & Why P2P Bitcoin Exchanges Matter

Vexl is the new kid on the SatoshiLabs block – and Lea Petrasova is the proud CEO and main advocate of this…

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 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…

What would you tell Satoshi Nakamoto if you could time travel?

If you could go back in time to meet Satoshi Nakamoto while he was still developing Bitcoin, what would you tell him?…

S14 E3: Matej Zak on Trezor’s New Hardware

As the new CEO of Trezor, Matej Zak takes on the responsibility to expand and optimize a Bitcoin security empire. Trezor, the…

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…

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…

S13 E8: Emzy on Mempool.space, Running Electrum Servers & Bitcoin Jobs

Emzy is a well-known and respected server infrastructure provider, best known for his involvement in the Electrum and the…

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…

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 E9: Christian Rootzoll & Matthew Croughan on RaspiBlitz + NixOS

Christian Rootzoll is the creator and lead developer of the RaspiBlitz project – an operating system for the RaspBerry Pi which…

The French Edition of the BTCTKVR Magazine Is Now Open Source!

When I first announced the BTCTKVR magazine in July 2021, I knew that its destiny was to become an open source project.…

Construire soi-même son Hardware Wallet, Partie II 

Construisez votre propre PiTrezor, Specter DIY, SeedSigner et Bowser Wallet Il existe deux principales catégories de hardware…

S11 E1: Pavlenex & Kukks on BTCPay Server, Soft Simon on Mempool

BTCPay Server and Mempool.space are two of my favorite Bitcoin projects. They’re uncompromisingly open source, they have great…

Why Square’s Block Hardware Wallet Is Going to Suck

In March 2022, we’ve received two major updates from Square’s hardware wallet project – which is still in development under the…

5 raisons pour lesquelles vous devriez faire tourner votre nœud Bitcoin sur un Raspberry Pi 4

Les nœuds Bitcoin sont les validateurs du réseau : ils s’assurent que les mineurs restent honnêtes et ils permettent aux…

Foundation Devices’ Passport Sells First 1000 Units, Drops Price

On November 11th 2021, Boston security start-up Foundation Devices has announced the successful sale of its first 1000 Passport…

The BTCTKVR Magazine Is Now Open Sourced on GitHub

The time has come for the BTCTKVR magazine project to take its final step towards open sourceness. For months, it has been…

Review: Trezor Suite

After being in development for roughly 2 years, Trezor Suite was finally launched to the public on July 14th 2021. The…

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…

5 Reasons You Should Run Your Bitcoin Node on a Raspberry Pi 4

Bitcoin nodes are the network’s validators: they keep miners honest and they also allow users to verify their own transactions…

S8 Special: Max Hillebrand on Wasabi Wallet, Hardware Wallets, Privacy & Anarchy

Wasabi works great with almost every hardware wallet on the market – and Max Hillebrand is the man who is responsible for…

S8 E11: Stepan Snigirev on Specter DIY & Free Open Source Software

Stepan Snigirev is the creator of Specter, a project which spawned one of the most popular software wallets for multisig setups…

S8 E10: SeedSigner on DIY Hardware Wallets

Mr. SeedSigner, a pseudonymous bitcoiner who insists to be known by the name of the project he actively develops, is a grateful…

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…

S8 E8: Slush on Trezor and Tropic Square

When he doesn’t break Satoshi’s expectations about how mining will work and doesn’t work on perfecting the world’s first Bitcoin…

S8 E7: Lixin Liu on Cobo Vault Hardware Wallet (Rebranded as KeyStone, 2021)

In February 2020, Lixin Liu joined the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast to announce a second generation and consumer-friendly version of…

Why Bitcoin Free Open Source Software Matters

Why are bitcoiners so obsessed with free open source software? And what’s wrong with open source licenses which restrict…

S8 E4: Lawrence Nahum on Blockstream’s Jade

In January 2021, Blockstream has taken the Bitcoin world by surprise by announcing the Jade hardware wallet – a device which…

S8 E3: Erik Voorhees on KeepKey, Open Source & Self Custody

Erik Voorhees has been involved in the Bitcoin space for almost a decade. Which means that, depending on the moment when you…

GRAY Announces CORAZON: A Fashionable Line of Trezor Hardware Wallets

Trezor hardware wallets have always been fashionable. When the Trezor One became the first Bitcoin hardware wallet to hit the…

Learn About Bitcoin (FAQ)

Bitcoin is a stateless, open source, decentralized, permissionless, uncensorable, and unconfiscatable internet currency. What do…

Why Trezor Is (Still) King

How can the 6 year-old Trezor hardware wallet still be the standard in Bitcoin security? The secret is in open source software…

S4 E8: Slush on Trezor Hardware Wallets and Security Innovation

Slush, creator of the world’s first mining pool and co-designer of the first ever hardware wallet, talks about Trezor devices and…

S4 E2: ShiftCrypto’s Douglas Bakkum & Jonas Schnelli on the BitBox02 Hardware Wallet

Douglas Bakkum & Jonas Schnelli talk about the BitBox02 hardware wallet and their mission at ShiftCrypto.

S4 E1: ShapeShift COO Jon on the KeepKey Hardware Wallet

Season 4 of the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast is all about hardware wallet makers and the people who break them. Therefore, the next…