Robin Linus
Author of the BitVM whitepaper, which verifies Turing-complete contracts on Bitcoin without a consensus change; a repeat Bitcoin Takeover guest.
The wiki's angle: Linus appears in four episode titles in the show's feed; on S17 E48 he predicted “We're going to get BIP 448, TEMPLATEHASH”.[3][4]
BitVM
The whitepaper on bitvm.org, “BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin” by Robin Linus, is dated 12 December 2023[1]. Its abstract says “BitVM is a computing paradigm to express Turing-complete Bitcoin contracts” and that this “requires no changes to the network's consensus rules”[1]. Computations are not executed on Bitcoin but verified, and a false claim can be met with a fraud proof[1]. The project site calls BitVM the foundation “to bridge BTC to second layers”[2].
On Bitcoin Takeover
The show's feed lists “S15 E13: Robin Linus on BitVM & Permissionless Bitcoin Development”, an S15 E58 episode on shielded client-side validation, “S17 E4: {ideal} BitVM Optimizations” and “S17 E48: Robin Linus in the 1000 BTC Car, Driving to BitDevs Atlanta”[3]. On S17 E48 he said BIP 448 TEMPLATEHASH would “reduce the interactivity requirements of BitVM bridges”[4]. In the same episode he discussed Peter Todd's guess of a 2029 Great Consensus Cleanup[5].
On Bitcoin Takeover
Episodes with Robin Linus as a guest, from the show's feed (bitcoin-takeover.com/audio/feed.xml).
- S17 E48: Robin Linus in the 1000 BTC Car, Driving to BitDevs Atlanta 24 Oct 2026 · ▶ mp3 [archived][7]
- S17 E4: {ideal} BitVM Optimizations (Robin Linus, Liam Eagen, Ying Tong) 24 Jan 2026 · ▶ mp3 [archived][8]
- S15 E58: Liam Eagen, Robin Linus & Jonas Nick on Shielded Client Side Validation & Bitcoin Privacy 10 Oct 2024 · ▶ mp3 [archived][9]
- S15 E13: Robin Linus on BitVM & Permissionless Bitcoin Development 31 Dec 2023 · ▶ mp3 [archived][10]
References
- primaryRobin Linus, “BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin” (whitepaper on bitvm.org, dated 12 Dec 2023) [archived]
- primarybitvm.org, “BitVM - Smarter Bitcoin Contracts” (read 13 Nov 2026) [archived]
- primaryBitcoin Takeover podcast RSS feed, bitcoin-takeover.com/audio/feed.xml (read 13 Nov 2026) [archived]
- episodeS17 E48: Robin Linus — “We're going to get BIP 448, TEMPLATEHASH”▶ listen at 40:26timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- episodeS17 E48: Robin Linus on Peter Todd's guess of a 2029 Great Consensus Cleanup▶ listen at 39:14timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- primaryGitHub profile RobinLinus, read 13 Nov 2026 [archived]
- episodeS17 E48: Robin Linus in the 1000 BTC Car, Driving to BitDevs Atlanta [archived]
- episodeS17 E4: {ideal} BitVM Optimizations (Robin Linus, Liam Eagen, Ying Tong) [archived]
- episodeS15 E58: Liam Eagen, Robin Linus & Jonas Nick on Shielded Client Side Validation & Bitcoin Privacy [archived]
- episodeS15 E13: Robin Linus on BitVM & Permissionless Bitcoin Development [archived]