Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
On the Bitcoin Takeover podcast you're going to hear the builders and innovators who make the Bitcoin project valuable. It's thanks to their work that the BTC price goes up, and it's their efforts that convince large investors that Bitcoin is the future of money. Here you will find the projects and ideas that will radically improve Bitcoin in the future, presented by the creators and innovators themselves. Time to learn!
Episodes
August 1, 2025 • 117 mins
Alephium is one of the most interesting Proof of Work projects, which aims to build secure smart contracts & fast DeFi on a mineable base layer which minimizes electricity consumption. Maud Bannwart & Cheng Wang explain how all of this works.
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July 24, 2025 • 84 mins
Hunter Beast is the author of BIP 360: a proposal that seeks to provide quantum resistance to Bitcoin, to prevent powerful computer builders from brute forcing arbitrary addresses to steal the funds.
But is the quantum threat real? Does the number of qubits really make a difference when the quantum computer is general purpose? Shouldn't other industries outside of Bitcoin, especially governments and banks, be worried about the fr...
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July 19, 2025 • 117 mins
Prof. Richard Werner, one of the world's most famous economists, is best known for writing "Princes of the Yen" and penning the term "quantitative easing" in the 1990s while working at the Bank of Japan.
Today, he is a big advocate for small local banks and a believer in the power of Bitcoin. In this episode, he talks about recent events in economics, ranging from the Big Beautiful Bill in the US and all the way to CBDCs and Bitco...
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July 9, 2025 • 89 mins
Liz Steininger is the CEO of Least Authority: a company which specializes in auditing open source software since 2014. Originally founded by Zooko Wilcox, Least Authority has conducted more than 100 security audits in the space. Some of the best known contractors who requested an expert review include the Ethereum Foundation, the Electric Coin Company, Metamask, the KeyStone hardware wallet, and Avalanche.
Least Authority also bui...
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Diego Salazar & Luke Szramowski are working to build Cypher Space: a privacy & sovereignty company. In this episode, they compare + rate the privacy of Bitcoin, Monero, Zcash, Firo, Mimble Wimble (Litecoin, Grin), Zano & Beam.
Time stamps:
(00:00:59) Introducing Diego Salazar & Luke Szramowski
(00:02:04) Tribalism and Privacy Protocols in Crypto
(00:03:55) Why Privacy Matters & Personal Motivations
(00:04:58) Diego’s Background ...
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June 27, 2025 • 202 mins
Andrew Camilleri, better known as Kukks, is one of the most prolific contributors to BTCPay Server & an advocate for using bitcoin as money. Recently, he started building Bitcoin Layer 2 applications for Ark Labs & believes in conservative improvements.
Time stamps:
(00:00:49) Introduction & Andrew’s Background
(00:01:46) Getting Into Bitcoin & Altcoin Integrations
(00:03:02) Focusing on Bitcoin & Monero Plugin
(00:04:04) BTCPay ...
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June 14, 2025 • 323 mins
Peter Rizun is the chief scientist at Bitcoin Unlimited: a software client that aims to scale Bitcoin with big blocks, while also empowering regular users to run nodes. In this episode, we talk about what went wrong during the block size wars & his research in scaling hardware.
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00:01:15 — Introducing Peter Rizun
00:03:32 — Early Block Size Debates and Satoshi’s Vision
00:07:45 — Block Size Limit History and Miner So...
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June 4, 2025 • 366 mins
Zooko has been thinking about building decentralized Chaumian ecash since the mid 1990s. When Bitcoin came out, he was the first cypherpunk to write a blog post about it. And today, he's honoring Satoshi's last wish of researching ZK proofs with Zcash.
Time stamps:
Introducing Zooko (00:00:55)
Early Cypherpunk and Digital Cash Days (00:03:18)
Cypherpunk vs. Cryptography Mailing List (00:03:52)
Discovering Digital Cash and Chaum’s...
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May 31, 2025 • 81 mins
In a predominantly Proof of Stake world, The Proof of Work Alliance emerges as a champion of research & education among Proof of Work miners. Fractal Bitcoin's Charles Chong & Spencer Yang, plus Bitmars' ASIC Queen Summer Meng tell us how it all works.
Time stamps:
Introducing Charles, Summer & Spencer (00:00:50)
Overview of the PoW Alliance (00:01:43)
Challenges in Launching PoW Projects (00:02:32)
Formation of the PoW Alliance (...
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May 26, 2025 • 148 mins
David Seroy works at Alpen Labs: the company which aims to bring an extended suite of financial applications to Bitcoin via ZK (Zero Knowledge) rollups. In this episode, we talk about the ideological divide in Bitcoin between builders & moonbois.
Time stamps:
Introduction to the Episode (00:00:56)
Background on Alpine Labs (00:02:08)
The Concept of ZK Rollups (00:05:00)
Comparing Alpen Labs with Drivechains (00:08:04)
Concerns Ab...
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May 21, 2025 • 108 mins
Mark Edge is a libertarian radio veteran best known for co-hosting Free Talk Radio: a show that's responsible for helping lots of OGs discover Bitcoin. In this episode, he explains why his co-host Ian Freeman is unfairly imprisoned and needs our help.
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May 18, 2025 • 92 mins
Chandra Duggirala & George Burke are co-founders of Portal: an ambitious project which aims to replace centralized exchanges with atomic swaps across chains. By using technologies like BitScaler, Portal OS & RAFA AI, Portal is a serious contender.
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Time stamps:
Introducing Chandra & George (00:01:02)
Portal's Mission (00:02:26)
Trust Minimization Explained (00:03:32)
Evolution of Portal's Technology (00:04:55)
Bit S...
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May 2, 2025 • 182 mins
Vitalik Buterin is the creator of Ethereum, but he's also a true Bitcoin maximalist. In this episode, Vitalik tells his story as a bitcoiner, explains why he built Ethereum, and makes use of his knowledge to predict the future of the two networks.
Time stamps:
Introducing Vitalik (00:01:00)
Vitalik's Early Involvement with Bitcoin (00:02:22)
Writing for Bitcoin Weekly (00:03:01)
Bitcoin's Early Fees and Transaction Model...
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May 1, 2025 • 145 mins
James O'Beirne is a Bitcoin developer who's not afraid to support unpopular improvement proposals: recently, he spoke about increasing the block size on the stage of OP_NEXT. He also works on CTV & CSFS, and tends to favor technical data over clout.
Time stamps: 00:00:52 - Introducing James O'Beirne
00:02:00 - James O'Beirne's Current Bitcoin Core Contributions (CTV/CSFS)
00:02:55 - Shared Motivations and Concerns About Bitcoin ...
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April 29, 2025 • 127 mins
J-Dog is the former maintainer of Bitcoin's Counterparty protocol – a role which he fulfilled for about 8 years. Under his stewardship, XCP witnessed the creation of legendary collections such as Spells of Genesis, Rare Pepes, and Fake Rares – even my Bitcoin Heads and Leftist Tears were created when he was the lead developer and he provided some useful advice.
Today, J-Dog builds the FreeWallet.io Counterparty wallet and the Toke...
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April 21, 2025 • 65 mins
Filip Baturan is the CEO of Tanari – a decentralized finance application suite that's built on top of Citrea. With it, bitcoiners can enjoy the features and user experience from banking applications such as Revolut... but within a self-custodial and sovereign environment, where the user sets the rules.
The discussion centers around Tanari's vision to make Bitcoin more useful and replace the current financial system, contrasting i...
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April 18, 2025 • 95 mins
Felix Billbert is the Chief Maximalist at Wave Space: a European company which specializes in making bitcoin easy to spend. They offer a Visa debit card, a swapping service for BTC/EUR pair, Lightning network support... all of which is wrapped inside a non-custodial environment.
The conversation explores the challenges of building a Bitcoin business in Europe, particularly navigating regulations like MiCA. Felix explains how Wave ...
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April 16, 2025 • 249 mins
In 2014, Daniel Krawisz was one of the most prolific Bitcoin writers: he published some excellent articles with the Nakamoto Institute, and most of them are still relevant. Today, he prefers BSV and believes that Craig Wright is Satoshi. What changed?
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00:00:50 - Introducing Daniel Krawisz
00:02:40 - Bitcoin Takeover
00:05:30 - Scaling Bitcoin
00:09:30 - Soft Forks vs. Hard Forks
00:14:10 - Running a...
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April 14, 2025 • 220 mins
Privacy has had a couple of rough years: companies & protocols shut down, developers got arrested, governments issued new regulations... regardless, Rockstar Dev & Max Hillebrand join the show to discuss privacy & open source tools for sovereignty.
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April 11, 2025 • 443 mins
Ben Arc is the creator of LNBits: a modular Lightning network wallet which, after 5 years of development, has just launched version 1. To celebrate this remarkable milestone, ”the CEO of Nostr” joins the show to talk about everything interesting in Bitcoin.
Time stamps:
00:00:53 - Introducing Ben Arc
00:01:08 - Ben Arc and LNBits V1
00:02:23 - LNBits beta version and V1 release
00:02:36 - Amir Taaki's Post-Syria Experience...
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