SideShift

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 E45: Talking Tari & Privacy with Naveen Jain, Mr. Fox & Marguerite de Courcelle

There are projects in this space that are famous for what they shipped. Tari used to be famous for what it has…

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…

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 E40: Amir Taaki & Prof. Richard Werner on Decentralization, Community Banks & the Coming CBDC Panopticon

(Recorded live at Mallorca Blockchain Days in front of an audience, this episode is a crossover between the conference’s final…

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 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 E37: Paul Sztorc on the eCash Three Stage Launch, Free Coins & 12 Drivechains

Paul Sztorc now holds the record for the most appearances on this show: eleven. Nobody else has come close, and nobody else…

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 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 E16: Summer Meng on Bitmars, Selling Bitcoin ASICs & Heating Your Home with Miners

There is a reason people call Summer Meng the ASIC Queen. If you want the latest Bitmain hardware anywhere in Europe or…

S17 E15: Danny Plainview & Chad Master on OP_NET, Smart Contracts on Bitcoin L1 & the Great Stablecoin Unlock

Editor’s note: this conversation was recorded in late March 2026, in the days surrounding OP_NET’s mainnet activation. The…

S17 E14: Kristian Csepcsar on the History of Bitcoin Mining, Braiins Hashpower & the Centralization Nobody Talks About

Editor’s note: this conversation was recorded in person at the undisclosed Braiins office in Prague, most likely in March 2026…

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 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 E2: Tyler Spalding on Bitcoin Payments, Altcoins & Bears

In January 2026, Tyler Spalding came to Romania to visit the Bear Sanctuary in Zărnești, Brașov. So I took advantage of the…

S16 E16: Andreas Brekken on SideShift & Bitcoin Neutrality

Andreas Brekken is the co-founder and CEO of SideShift, as well as the owner of the Shitcoin.com media company. In this episode,…

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…