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…
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…
Bitcoin Gold: One GPU, One Vote
Want to learn more about Bitcoin UTXO forks? Read the previous articles on Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV. And if you want…
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…
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 E36: Yonatan Sompolinsky on Kaspa Covenants, DAGKnight & Coordination Markets
Yonatan Sompolinsky came to Europe for a reason he would only describe on record as a secretive meeting of DAGKnight magicians…
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 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 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 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 E3: Zano Devs on Private Tokenization
Andrey Sabelnikov and Valeriy Pisarkov are the most important devs involved in the Zano project. The former is a co-founder who…
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 E60: Andrey Sabelnikov & Pavel Nikienkov on Zano, the CryptoNote Wars & Private Proof of Stake
Zano co-founders Andrey Sabelnikov & Pavel Nikienkov on private tokens, hybrid proof of stake, the Bytecoin vs Monero feud and…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
Vlad Costea on Bitcoin Maximalism (PoW Summit, Prague, September 2023)
Bitcoin maximalism is one of the most interesting ideologies of our time. It emerged sometime in the first half of the 2010s,…
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…
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 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…
S9 E2: Vlad Zamfir on The Philosophy of Absurdism & Szabo’s Law
When I first tweeted about having interviewed Vlad Zamfir on a Bitcoin podcast, the reactions ranged from skepticism to outright…
Bitcoin Is Not Slow – It’s Highly Secure
When critics say that Bitcoin is “slow”, it’s good to remind them that security is much more important in decentralized networks…
