Rollups and zero-knowledge proofs

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…

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 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 E4: {ideal} on BitVM Optimizations (Robin Linus, Liam Eagen, Ying Tong Lai)

On January 19th 2026, the Bitcoin development world was taken by storm: Ideal Group, aka {ideal}, launched Argo with a 2000x…

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 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 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 E49: Edan Yago on BitcoinOS, Permaware & Scaling Bitcoin with ZK Rollups

Edan Yago explains BitcoinOS, BitSNARK and the first ZK proof verified on Bitcoin mainnet, why rollups beat sidechains, and why…

S15 E48: Paul Puey on Edge Wallet, the Four Layers of Privacy & Why Bitcoin's Layer 1 Might Die

Edge Wallet CEO Paul Puey on self-custody exchanges, Monero view keys, the four layers of crypto privacy, Lightning's limits, and…

S15 E42: Super Testnet & Shinobi on Bitcoin Projects That Suck

Super Testnet & Shinobi roast Taproot marketing, LND incentives, Wasabi CoinJoin gaps, Nostr key management, SeedSigner…

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 E19: Alexei Zamyatin on Build on Bitcoin & Layer 2s

Alexei Zamyatin is a (recovering) academic cryptographer who co-founded the Build on Bitcoin project – an initiative which…

S15 E18: Orkun Kılıç on Citrea, The First ZK Rollups on Bitcoin

Orkun Kılıç is a Turkish developer who co-founded Chainway Labs – a team of coders that tries to bring ZK rollups to…

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 E5: Edan Yago on Sovryn, Bitcoin DeFi & Challenging the Orthodoxy

Edan Yago is a core contributor to the Sovryn project: a decentralized finance (DeFi) layer that’s built on top of Bitcoin’s…

S15 E13: Robin Linus on BitVM & Permissionless Bitcoin Development

Robin Linus on BitVM, trust-minimized Bitcoin bridges, ZeroSync and zkCoins, and why Bitcoin development does not have to wait…

Preview: Bitcoin Takeover Podcast Season 15

Season 15 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast marks two significant milestones: the 5th anniversary of the show, as well as the 200th…

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…