Security, hacks and scams

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 E41: Vik Sharma on Radar, Arbiter & Vibe Coding the Future of Cake Wallet

Seven months ago, Vik Sharma joined Bitcoin Takeover Podcast and effectively declared the privacy wars over, telling the Monero…

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 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 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 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,…

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 E34: Charlie Lee on MWEB, Financial Privacy & Why Litecoin Dares to Experiment

Charlie Lee explains Litecoin MWEB: confidential transactions, cut-through, peg-outs, Samourai, the SegWit bounty, drivechains…

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 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 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 E22: Eric Voskuil on Libbitcoin & Bitcoin Culture

Eric Voskuil embodies one of the most harmonious combinations of cypherpunk ethos and Austrian economics… with a twist! As the…

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 E3: Hernán Marino on Bitcoin in Argentina & Becoming a Core Dev

Hernán Marino is a software engineer, academic, and Bitcoin enthusiast from Argentina. In this episode, he delves into the impact…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Construire soi-même son Hardware Wallet, Partie I : Construisez votre Trezor One, Model T et BitBox02

Nous vivons l’âge d’or du bricolage DIY. Grâce aux progrès réalisés dans le domaine des microprocesseurs et de leur…

S11 E5: Charlie Lee on Mimble Wimble Extension Blocks (MWEB)

Mimble Wimble and Extension Blocks are two interesting Bitcoin proposals that were heavily discussed by Core developers, but…

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…

Deconstructing Richard Heart’s Lies About Bitcoin

Richard Heart is a pathological liar and his Hex project is a textbook Ponzi. But thanks to his rhetorical skills and knowledge…

Billeteras Hardware DIY, Parte I: Construyendo Tu Propia Billetera Trezor One, Model T y BitBox02

Estamos viviendo en la era dorada del hardware DIY. Gracias a los avances en el microprocesamiento y en la…

Bitcoin Black Friday 2021: Hardware Wallets, VPS Hosting, Panties & NFTs

Though bitcoin itself is on sale during the Black Friday weekend due to a convenient dip, there are still ways for you…

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…

Le vol de 3094 bitcoins qui a conduit à la création du Trezor

Remontons en 2012; il s’agissait d’une époque beaucoup plus insouciante pour les HODLers de bitcoins. En fait, pour être vraiment…

S8 E12: Lixin Liu on the KeyStone Hardware Wallet

It was only 5 episodes ago that Lixin Liu had joined the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast to talk about the Cobo Vault. But…

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 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…

Bitcoin Public Key, Receiving Address, UTXO: What’s the Difference?

Public keys, receiving addresses, and UTXOs are three concepts with which even some of the most seasoned bitcoiners sometimes…

Why Taking the Unpopular Path Makes Bitcoin Successful

Bitcoin does not succeed because it follows all the popular trends and plays the supply and demand game to a specific…

The 3094 Bitcoin Theft Which Led To The Creation of The Trezor

Back in 2012, the times were a lot simpler for bitcoin HODLers. As a matter of fact, it would take another year…

S8 E5: Zach Herbert on the Foundation Devices’ Passport

In a market that seems to be oversaturated with hardware wallets, Foundation Devices CEO Zach Herbert comes with a bold plan: to…

S8 E2: Charles Guillemet on Ledger

Charles Guillemet is the CTO of Ledger and also the creator of the Donjon (the company’s security research department). So in the…

S8 E1: Benma on BitBox02

Benma is one of the people who get very little praise for their work, but do something that makes everybody’s bitcoins more…

4 Billfodl Privacy Tricks for Safer BIP 39 backups

The Billfodl is one of the best devices that you can use to keep your BIP 39 seed phrase/mnemonic in cold storage.…

Hardware Wallet Vulnerabilities & Threat Models

There is no perfect hardware wallet: each one of them has its own vulnerabilities. Consider your threat models.

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…

Ledger Commerce & Marketing Database Gets Leaked

The Ledger Commerce and Marketing database has been leaked. What does this mean for your data and the security of your coins?

S5 E8: Eric Voskuil on Libbitcoin Development, Cryptoeconomics Book & Austrian Economics

Eric Voskuil talks about his breakthroughs with the Libbitcoin project, his new “Cryptoeconomics” book, and his axiomatic view on…

S5 E3: Javier Bastardo on Personal Security & Bitcoin in Venezuela

Venezuelan bitcoiner Javier Bastardo talks about personal security under an authoritarian government & promotes his educational…

S5 E4: Francis Pouliot on Bitcoin Security, P2EP & Why S2F Sucks

Francis Pouliot explains how Pay to End Point (P2EP) works, criticizes S2F & gives advice on Bitcoin security.

Billfodl Faraday Bags Review (Video)

For less $35, Billfodl’s Faraday bag bundle will help you protect your Bitcoin hardware wallets, credit cards, and phone from…

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…

S4 E9: Lixin Liu on the Cobo Vault & Cobo Tablet (Rebranded KeyStone, 2021)

Cobo Vault creator Lixin Liu talks about building a hardware wallet for the Chinese miners and adapting it for Western markets.

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 E7: Peter Todd on Hardware Wallets, Security & Proofmarshall

Does Peter Todd use hardware wallets? Definitely not, and he’ll explain why he dislikes them. But does he offer great security…

S4 E4: BTChip (Nicolas Bacca) on Ledger and Hardware Wallet Innovation

Ledger co-founder and Head of Innovation BTChip (Nicolas Bacca) talks about the elements that make the Ledger products great and…

S4 E3: Lazy Ninja on Hacking Hardware Wallets

Lazy Ninja talks about hacking hardware wallets and how you should protect yourself.

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…