Wasabi Wallet

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…

S15 E59: David Burkett on MWEB, Litecoin Privacy & Why Drivechains Need a Use Case

David Burkett, the developer who built MWEB for Litecoin, explains MimbleWimble, stealth addresses, peg-out leaks, Grin's decline…

S15 E55: Jake Yocom-Piatt & Phoenix Green on Decred, Bison Wallet & the Trouble With Proof of Work

Decred co-founder Jake Yocom-Piatt and Phoenix Green on hybrid consensus, the mining cartel they voted out, Bison Wallet swaps…

S15 E54: Kruw on Running a Wasabi Coordinator, Blockchain Analysis & the Myths of Bitcoin Privacy

Kruw runs Wasabi's biggest coinjoin coordinator for zero fees. He explains how blockchain analysis works, Samourai's double…

S15 E45: Lucas Ontivero & Turbolay on Wasabi Wallet's Future

Lucas Ontivero & Turbolay on Wasabi after zkSNACKs: community coordinators, WabiSabi, unfuckable CoinJoin, daemon integrations &…

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 E41: F/Dev (1440000bytes) on Joinstr, CoinJoin & Bitcoin Privacy

F/Dev (1440000bytes / Floppy) on Joinstr, Nostr-coordinated CoinJoin for Electrum, LayerTwo Labs, Lightning limits, eCash…

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 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 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 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…

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 E1: Max Hillebrand & Lando Rothbardian on Wasabi’s New “Buy Anything” Button

With the launch of version 2.0.5, Wasabi wallet now includes a “Buy Anything” button. Though it might sound banal, what it does…

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 E5: Ben Arc on LNBits and Nostr

Ben Arc is the creator of LNBits: a modular Lightning wallet which empowers users to pick their desired features (presented as…

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…

S14 E8: Fadi Barbàra on DMix & Bitcoin Privacy

Fadi Barbàra is a cryptography researcher from the University of Turin who came up with the DMix protocol: an interesting…

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 E6: Mike in Space on STAMPs and Attacking Bitcoin

Mike in Space’s journey into the world of Bitcoin began with his popular show Bitcoin Car Talk, back in 2016. His latest…

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…

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…

S13 E2: Nopara73 on Wasabi Wallet’s Beginnings and Future

First launched in October 2018, Wasabi wallet has certainly elevated the standard for Bitcoin privacy. Mostly developed by…

S12 E17: Max Hillebrand on Wasabi Wallet’s Development Roadmap

The year 2022 was extremely eventful for Wasabi. On March 13th, they published a controversial tweet about refusing certain UTXOs…

What is HuntingSats?

The hunt for orange January is on, as Wasabi wallet and 12 other partners launch HuntingSats – a bona fide treasure hunt…

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…

Preview: BTCTKVR Podcast Season 10

The Bitcoin Takeover Podcast keeps on keeping it real with season 10. This time around, we have 16 guests whose topics of…

Los beneficios de Privacidad de Taproot

[Esta es una traducción de un artículo que Vlad Costea publicó en el blog Wasabi Wallet] El soft fork de Taproot en…

BTCTKVR Radio #9: When September Ends

Another month has almost passed and lots of new Bitcoin podcasts have been recorded and broadcast in the meantime. If you haven’t…

S9 E9: Max hillebrand on Praxeology, Human Action & El Salvador

Before getting into Bitcoin, Max Hillebrand was an avid reader of Austrian Economics. He went through all the major schools of…

BTCTKVR Radio #7: The Show Must Go On!

After a two-week break (it’s always two weeks in Bitcoin, isn’t it?), it’s time for the Bitcoin Takeover Radio to resume its…

Bitcoin Takeover Radio #6: Double the Fun!

You know what’s better than a radio stream which includes episodes from some of the most prolific and interesting Bitcoin…

S8 Special: Max Hillebrand on Wasabi Wallet, Hardware Wallets, Privacy & Anarchy

Wasabi works great with almost every hardware wallet on the market – and Max Hillebrand is the man who is responsible for…

Bitcoin Takeover Radio #3: Fresh Podcasts, New Music

Another week has passed and more original Bitcoin content has been created. This playlist gathers some of the finest works and…

Bitcoin Takeover Radio #2: More Music, More Podcasts

After a successful launch, it’s time to get better. Some of you have asked me to add more music in between podcast…

Bitcoin Takeover Radio #1: The Genesis Rock

On May 12th 2021, 8 PM CET, at the estimated block height of 683307, Bitcoin Takeover Radio is going live on YouTube…

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…

Top 7 Bitcoin Wallet Developers Of 2020

Bitcoin wallets are an essential part of financial sovereignty. In a nutshell, they are the interface which helps us interact…

S6 E6: Max Hillebrand on Bitcoin Privacy Advocacy & Wasabi Wallet

Privacy advocate Max Hillebrand talks about online privacy, Wasabi Wallet, the upcoming Wabisabi & his fight against Big Brother.

BitcoinIsSafe.com – Keeping Bitcoin Software Clean When Anti-Virus Programs Are Dirty

BitcoinIsSafe.com is targeting anti-virus false positives to defend legitimate Bitcoin wallets.

S5 E6: Nopara73 on Wasabi Wallet, P2EP, Samourai & Bitcoin Privacy

Nopara73 explains the origins of P2EP (Pay to End Point) and how it all works, but also gives security and privacy…