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Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
Vlad Costea
309 episodes
20 hours ago
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!
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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!
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Episodes (20/309)
Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E55: Mert Mumtaz on Zcash, Privacy & Zillions
Mert Mumtaz, otherwise known as a Solana developer and supporter, recently emerged as one of the most popular advocates of Zcash and privacy. In this episode, he tells us all about his journey from Bitcoin to Solana and why he chose ZEC.
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20 hours ago
1 hour 30 minutes 18 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E54: Slava Zhygulin & Ros on Stroom Network, Bitcoin Staking
The Stroom Network presents an interesting proposition: staking your bitcoin on the Lightning network, and earning yield from the transaction fees that routing nodes are collecting. To better explain how this system works, Slava and Ros join the show!
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3 days ago
1 hour 35 minutes 41 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E53: Xenu on Bitcoin Culture & Moreno vs Zcash
Xenu is the anti-moonboy: someone who is deeply dedicated to promoting digital money as something that you use for the purchase goods & services, and a black market connoisseur. In this episode, we talk about Bitcoin & tackle the Moreno vs Zcash debate.
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1 week ago
4 hours 18 minutes 45 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E52: Paul Sztorc on Bitcoin's Culture Wars
While the Bitcoin Core v30 vs Knots debate went on, Paul Sztorc was hard at work building the Drivechains software. However, this doesn't meant that he doesn't have any opinions about the recent events and their greater significance.
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1 week ago
1 hour 48 minutes 29 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E51: Sean Bowe on Bitcoin, Zcash & Scaling Privacy with Tachyon
Sean Bowe is a cryptographer and engineer who is best known for revolutionizing Zcash. After cooperating to fix the inflation bug in the first version of the network, he built Halo to remove the trusted setup too. Today, he works on Tachyon to scale ZEC.
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2 weeks ago
3 hours 39 minutes 34 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E50: Ray Youssef on Why Paxful's Terminated
On October 1st 2025, Paxful announced the decision to "wind down operations" and blamed the "misconduct" of co-founder Ray Youssef for the company's trajectory. But Ray Youssef had already moved on since 2023, building NoOnes.
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3 weeks ago
1 hour 46 minutes 2 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E49: Jay Berg on Bitcoin, SidePit & Maximalism
Jay Berg joined Bitcoin in 2010 and became the first person to tweet about BTCUSD when the price hit a new high of $12. In this episode, he talks about why most Bitcoiners are wrong in their recent filter debate and how SidePit aims to fix trading.
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3 weeks ago
4 hours 15 minutes 4 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E48: Christopher Smith on Quantus, Bitcoin & Quantum Resistance
Christopher Smith (aka Yuvi Lightman, or Ganesha1024 on Soundcloud) is the founder of the Quantus network: an mbitious quantum-zk blockchain which he proudly built with his team in just 6 months, with a budget of $500k. A truly ambitious polymath.
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4 weeks ago
2 hours 46 minutes 35 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E47: Max Hillebrand on White Noise & Private Messaging on Nostr
Max Hillebrand makes his 8th appearance on the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast in order to talk about his latest project: White Noise, a private messaging application for Nostr. We also talk about Core v30 vs Knots, Bitcoin layer 2s & other bull market topics.
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1 month ago
4 hours 2 minutes 36 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E46: Val Venis on Bitcoin, Liberty & Wrestling
Back in 2013, former WWE Intercontinental Champion Val Venis bought 24 bitcoins for $80 each. Today, he is a big advocate for freedom, privacy, and the right to benefit from the product of your own labor without extortion.
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1 month ago
4 hours 32 minutes 43 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E45: Shai Wyborski on Bitcoin, Kaspa & Proof of Work Research
Shai Wyborski is one of the three co-authors of the GHOSTDAG paper, and a man who takes pride in his independent thinking and divergent approach to research. As a PhD in quantum cryptography, he's got lots of knowledge to share.
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1 month ago
8 hours 28 minutes 56 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E44: Abdel on ZK STARKs & Bitcoin Maximalism
Abdel is a Starkware engineer who, over the last 7 years, went from building EIP 1559 on Ethereum to becoming a Bitcoin maximalist who wants ZK STARKs to happen. In this episode, we talk about his journey & some of Bitcoin's cultural issues.
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1 month ago
3 hours 18 minutes 37 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E43: Vikrant Sharma on Cake Wallet, Bitcoin & Privacy
Vikrant Sharma, better known as Vik, is the CEO and founder of Cake Wallet: the first Bitcoin wallet to support both Silent Payments and PayJoins. In this episode, we talk about the wallet's Monero roots & what is next in terms of features.
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1 month ago
1 hour 48 minutes 49 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E42: Michael Tidwell on Bitcoin Drama & Tabconf
Michael Tidwell is the organizer of Tabconf, the longest running Bitcoin technical conference which takes place every year in Atlanta. In this episode, we talk about Bitcoin drama & use a fun roulette game to figure out who's guilty of it.
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1 month ago
2 hours 36 minutes 50 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E41: Yonatan Sompolinsky on Bitcoin, Kaspa & Proof of Work
Yonatan Sompolinsky is an academic in the field of computer science, best known for his work on the GHOST protocol (Greedy Heaviest Observed Subtree, which was cited in the Ethereum whitepaper) and the way he applied his research to create Kaspa.
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2 months ago
7 hours 35 minutes 17 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E40: Cory Klippsten on Bitcoin Culture & Maximalism
Cory Klippsten is the CEO of Swan Bitcoin and has a long history in both traditional finance and the Bitcoin space. In this two-part episode, he talks about why Bitcoin is winning and how the culture around it has changed.
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2 months ago
2 hours 22 minutes 21 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E39: Karl Kreder (Dr. K) on Scaling Proof of Work, Bitcoin & Quai
Karl Kreder, better known as Dr. K, is best known in the space for researching the use of merged-mined subnets to scale Proof of Work in 2018 – a concept which led to the launch of the Quai Network, which introduced Proof of Entropy Minima (PoEM).
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2 months ago
6 hours 17 minutes 29 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E38: Bitcoin Payments in 2025 with Sergej Kotliar & Matt Ahlborg
Sergej Kotliar is the CEO of Bitrefill, while Matt Ahlborg recently created PPQ.AI to enable millions of users to experience LLMs without expensive subscriptions. But how are bitcoin payments doing? In this episode, they present their latest stats.
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2 months ago
1 hour 54 minutes 49 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E37: Andrew Poelstra on Simplicity, Bitcoin Smart Contracts & Upgrades
Simplicity, a scripting language so simple that it can fit on a t-shirt, has finally launched on Liquid after a decade of development. Andrew Poelstra, who works as director of research at Blockstream, explains how it works & why it's good for Bitcoin.
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3 months ago
1 hour 38 minutes 53 seconds

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
S16 E36: Maud Bannwart & Cheng Wang on Alephium, Proof of Less Work & Bitcoin
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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3 months ago
1 hour 57 minutes 33 seconds

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!