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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!

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1:51:48

S15 E58: Liam Eagen, Robin Linus & Jonas Nick on...

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/10/10

Liam Eagen (Alpen Labs), Robin Linus (Zero Sync, BitVM) & Jonas Nick (Blockstream, Taproot) talk about their groundbreaking research paper about Shielded Client-Side Validation – a new way to bring privacy & scalability to Bitcoin. –––––––––––––––––––––––––– Time stamps: Introduction (00:00:51) What is Client-Side Validation? (00:02:09) Trade-offs in Client-Side Validation (00:04:20) Comparison with Existing Protocols (00:05:18) On-chain Throughput and Privacy (00:09:21) Connecting Bitcoin

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32:51

S15 E57: Orkun Kilic on Citrea, ZK Rollups & Building...

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/10/03

Just a few days after launching the Citrea testnet, Orkun Kilic joins the Bitcoin Takeover podcast to talk about his team's approach to building zero-knowledge proofs and the ambition to create a BTC-only economy around it.Time stamps: Rollups vs. Sidechains (00:02:02) The Need for Rollups in Bitcoin (00:04:18) Citrea's Unique Approach (00:06:29) Building a Generic Virtual Machine (00:08:08) Citrea as the First ZK Rollup on Bitcoin (00:09:10) Comparison with Other Projects (00:09:56) Use

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51:10

S15 E56: Prof. Richard Werner on Bitcoin, CBDCs &...

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/09/26

Prof. Richard Werner is best known for proposing quantitative easing while working at the Bank of Japan in the 1990s, and then predicting the 2008 financial crisis. Today, he is a fan of Bitcoin and small community banks.

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2:58:03

S15 E55: Jake Yokom-Piatt & Phoenix Green on Bitcoin,...

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/09/21

Decred is one of the oldest & most respectable altcoin projects around, which today has base layer privacy by default, a very stable Lightning Network implementation & an excellent DEX. Jake Yokom-Piatt & Phoenix Green explain how it all works.

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3:05:26

S15 E54: Kruw on Bitcoin Privacy, Blockchain Analysis...

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/09/14

Kruw runs the most successful Wasabi wallet 2.0 coordinator and is the kind of privacy advocate who actually builds. In this episode, he talks about continuing Wasabi, the shortcomings of Samourai & how blockchain analysis works.Time stamps: Introduction (00:00:39) Recap of Wasabi Wallet Discussions (00:01:33) Samourai Wallet's Decentralization Announcement (00:02:28) Challenges Faced by Privacy Projects (00:03:56) Shift in Bitcoin Culture (00:04:40) Impact of Regulatory Pressures

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57:57

S15 E53: Charlie Shrem on Bitcoin

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/09/07

Charlie Shrem, best known for being the co-founder & CEO of BitInstant, is still an optimistic bitcoiner. In this episode, he comments on the block size wars, shares his thoughts on ongoing development & promotes his upcoming book about his journey.Time stamps: Introducing Charlie Shrem (00:00:23) How This Interview Happened (00:01:51) The Block Size Wars (00:02:41) 2014 Marked the End of an Era (00:05:16) Bitcoin Community Dynamics and Changes (00:06:55) Technical and Political Challenges

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45:58

S15 E52: Ben Arc on the Future of Lightning, Bitcoin...

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/08/29

Ben Arc is the creator of LNBits, as well as one of the founding fathers of the Nostr social media protocol. In this episode, he reflects on the state of development in Bitcoin and why he is still bullish on the Lightning Network!Time stamps: Introducing Ben (00:00:23) LNBits Contributors and Collaborators (00:01:41) Scaling Challenges of Lightning Network (00:05:01) Bidirectional Payment Channels (00:06:06) Need for Development in Lightning Network (00:07:22) Skepticism Towards Trusted Third

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1:09:58

S15 E51: Mike Carson on Impervious & Spaces Domains...

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/08/22

Mike Carson is the CEO of Impervious (and Friendster): a Bitcoin-native ZK proof-native protocol which allows for scalable domain registrations on the Bitcoin blockchain. In this episode, he explains how & why he decided to disrupt ICANN.Time stamps: Introduction to the Podcast (00:00:41) Importance of Digital Identity (00:02:44) Overview of Spaces (00:05:25) Development of Spaces (00:06:38) Historical Context of Domain Names (00:08:38) Challenges with Namecoin (00:10:02) Censorship and

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2:23:33

S15 E50: Murch on Popular Bitcoin Myths

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/08/15

Murch is a Bitcoin Core contributor, best known for his engineering work at Chaincode Labs & his prolific answers on Bitcoin's Stack Exchange page. In this episode, he breaks myths about ordinals, OP_CAT, Drivechains, 0conf, ossification & more!

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1:22:55

S15 E49: Edan Yago on BitcoinOS, Permaware & Scaling...

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/08/13

Edan Yago is the co-author of BitcoinOS: the first Zero Knowledge proof system to get verified on Bitcoin's main net. BitcoinOS is a significant breakthrough, as it endows Bitcoin with extended financial features without the need for a soft fork.

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1:55:31

S15 E48: Paul Puey on Edge Wallet & Privacy

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/08/09

Paul Puey is the CEO & co-founder of Edge Wallet: a light mobile wallet which is optimized for privacy features. In this episode, we talk about the philosophy behind Edge, how one should analyze privacy features & the various layers of Bitcoin privacy.

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4:37:39

S15 E47: Justin Bons on Bitcoin's Issues

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/07/20

Justin Bons is one of the most popular Bitcoin critics on Twitter. As a fan of new technologies, he believes that sharding and other scaling techniques will save the trilemma and bring uncompromising decentralization. Is it really so?

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51:58

S15 E46: Peter Todd on Bitcoin Covenants, Tail...

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/07/19

Peter Todd is known for being brutally honest: so when it comes to topics such as covenant soft forks, monetary inflation, Bitcoin scaling & privacy, he won't hold back from being critical while expressing his love for the Lightning network

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1:31:21

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

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/07/06

What's next for Wasabi Wallet after ZK Snacks shut down the biggest CoinJoin coordinator? Lucas Ontivero & Turbolay, the two developers who still maintain the code, are positive that the project will grow even bigger than before! So when is 3.0 coming?

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3:40:16

S15 E44: Chris DeRose on Bitcoin Uncensored (feat....

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/06/27

Bitcoin Uncensored cohost Chris DeRose makes his fourth appearance on the Bitcoin Takeover podcast! This time around, he dislikes the English language, hates materialism, and wouldn't even accept a free Supra! Three former BU guests join the reunion.

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1:14:31

S15 E43: Sergio Demian Lerner on BitVMX, Rootstock &...

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/06/22

Sergio Demian Lerner is the architect of Rootstock, Bitcoin's first sidechain. Recently, he became interested in BitVM as an instrument to create trust-minimized sidechains. So he optimized the design & created BitVMX!

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1:09:51

S15 E42: Super Testnet & Shinobi on Bitcoin Projects...

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/06/20

What are the Bitcoin projects that suck? In this episode, Super Testnet & Shinobi point out to lots of suboptimal features in CoinJoins, Lightning Network, Nostr, BitVM, and Bitcoin development itself. It's fun, it's educational & it's brutally honest!

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1:53:44

S15 E41: F/Dev (1440000bytes) on Joinstr & Bitcoin...

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/06/05

F/Dev, also known as 1440000bytes or simply "Floppy", is an open source developer best known for his work on Joinstr: a CoinJoin implementation for Electrum wallet. In this episode, he talks about Bitcoin privacy & his new job at LayerTwo Labs.

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1:46:51

S15 E40: Rijndael on Taproot Wizards & BIP420

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/05/31

Rijndael is the CTO of Taproot Wizards – a group of bitcoiners who want to make Bitcoin magical. In this interview, he talks about why OP_CAT matters and what kind of features we should expect to see in Bitcoin once a covenant soft fork gets activated.

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1:53:28

S15 E39: Pete Rizzo on Bitcoin History, Journalism &...

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast ·

2024/05/29

Pete Rizzo is a veteran Bitcoin journalist who still remembers the time when Bitcoin & crypto were the same undivided community. In this episode, he talks about why Bitcoin history matters & how he approaches journalism.

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