Regulation, law and lawsuits

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 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…

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…

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 E35: Vinny Lingham on Bitcoin Post-Maximalism, Scaling Regrets & Saylor’s Endgame

Vinny Lingham found Bitcoin in 2012 for the most unglamorous reason imaginable: chargebacks. His gift card company Gyft was…

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 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 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 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 E12: Ray Youssef on the Mexico Arrest & Life After NoOnes

Ray Youssef does not do quiet exits. In his telling, he walked out of Monerotopia in Mexico after giving a Malcolm X…

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.…

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…

S15 E32: Aaron Day on CBDCs vs Bitcoin, Digital Tyranny & Parallel Economies

Aaron Day on CBDCs as programmable surveillance money, Project Hamilton, ETF confiscation risk, and why he wants parallel…

S15 E24: Bryan Bishop on BIPs, Webcash & Biohacking

Bryan Bishop first heard about Bitcoin from the cryptography mailing list in January 2009 – but instead of quickly downloading…

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 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…

Breaking ChatGPT’s BitcoinFUD #1 – Vietare Bitcoin

Quando ho chiesto a Chat GPT, che opera sotto la giurisdizione dei governi, di fornirmi un elenco delle prime 10 grandi minacce…

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 E17: Rodolfo Andragnes on Labitconf 2023 & Argentinian Elections

In times of hyperinflation and political uncertainty, the 11th annual edition of Labitconf makes the bold decision to have a…

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 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…

Bitcoin vs Inteligența Artificială #1: Despre guvernele care vor reglementa sau interzice Bitcoin

Când i-am cerut programului de inteligență artificială ChatGPT să îmi ofere o listă cu 10 dintre cele mai mari amenințări la…

Breaking ChatGPT’s Bitcoin FUD #1: Government Regulation

When I asked Chat GPT to provide a list of top 10 biggest threats to the Bitcoin project, the concept of regulations…

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 E6: Ben Arc on Anarchism’s Left-Wing Origins

Ben Arc is one of the very few bitcoiners who openly adhere to the left-wing socialist ideology. In a space that’s dominated…

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…

How The Private Sector Is Helping Governments Regulate Bitcoin

If your government came up with a device that listens to you 24/7, tracks your exact location, and keeps logs of all…

Companies Can’t Wait to Buy Your Bitcoins To Opt-out from Inflation & Taxation

Bitcoin has finally gotten to the point where companies truly understand its value proposition and the political context provides…

S6 E4: Justin Wales on Bitcoin Law, Free Speech, Regulation & Taxes

Justin Wales is a Bitcoin lawyer at Carlton Fields and you’ll probably never meet a cooler attorney. In this episode we talk…

S1 E10: Alena Vranova on Bitcoin and Fairer Politics

Rockstar business developer and strategist Alena Vranova talks about how Bitcoin can improve politics and international finance.