SegWit

S17 E44: Marc De Mesel on the Bitcoin Cash Bet, the Privacy Coin Basket & the Price of Conviction

There is a particular kind of person the Bitcoin Cash community produced in its glory years, and Marc De Mesel is the…

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…

Bitcoin Forks, Described by Dorks

A collection of Bitcoin Takeover podcast quotes about soft forks, hard forks, Bitcoin Cash, SegWit, Taproot, Drivechains, BIP110…

Bitcoin: All the Hard Forks and Soft Forks

This article describes every consensus upgrade Bitcoin has ever switched on without splitting its ledger. It is also the opening…

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 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 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…

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 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 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 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 E14: Nicolas Dorier on BTCPay, NBitcoin, TumbleBit & Coding Bitcoin in C#

Nicolas Dorier on how SegWit2x pushed him to build BTCPay Server, plus NBitcoin, TumbleBit, NBXplorer and his book on programming…

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…

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…

Comic Strip: Bitcoin Eating Popcorn #2 (Scaling Debate Edition)

Over the years, Bitcoin has undergone numerous centralizing attacks. The idea of increasing the block size to enable more…

Dear Barely Sociable, here’s why Adam Back isn’t Satoshi Nakamoto (Video)

Barely Sociable is wrong about Adam Back being Satoshi Nakamoto. So I’m gathering all evidence in a video and a written criticism…