S17 E43: Mike Belshe on BitGo, Quantum & Clarity
Mike Belshe does not do many interviews. Which makes it much more of an honor to have him on my show for…
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Quantum computing and Bitcoin
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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 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 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 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.…
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,…
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 E37: Marek Narozniak on MimbleWimble, Grin & Why Quantum Computers Won't Steal Your Bitcoin (Yet)
Marek Narozniak explains MimbleWimble, Grin's privacy and scalability, a possible Bitcoin extension block, and why quantum…
S15 E36: Eli Ben-Sasson on STARKs, Rollups & Privacy
Eli Ben-Sasson of StarkWare explains STARKs vs SNARKs, OP_CAT, quantum risk, Zcash's UX problem and why Bitcoin could scale 1000x…
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…
Breaking Chat GPT’s Bitcoin FUD #4: Security Vulnerabilities
According to Chat GPT, the increasing popularity of Bitcoin attracts hackers and other malicious actors. But what can these…
