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Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

Vlad Costea

Bitcoin Takeover tells the oral history of many OGs and builders such as Roger Ver, Martti Malmi, Vitalik Buterin, Charlie Shrem, as well as hundreds of developers, entrepreneurs, and troublemakers whose work shaped the world's first decentralized money. This is not a show about price predictions or recycled talking points. It is about the technology, the history, the scandals, and the ideas that will decide Bitcoin's future. Seven years and 350+ episodes, with one rule that never changed: the guest did something notable, and the host did the reading. Time to learn!

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S17 · E40
Saturday · 1 hr 23 min
S17 E40: Richard Werner & Amir Taaki on Economics, CBDCs & Cypherpunk Tech
Prof. Richard Werner is one of the best known economists in the world. Amir Taaki is one of the most famous cryptographers and cypherpunks of his generation. Together, they join forces to defeat centra planning & stop the rise of CBDCs.
S1 · E2
Wednesday · 1 hr 50 min
S1 E2 Remastered: John Carvalho on Bitcoin Politics
Recorded in January 2019 and published alongside the rest of the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast Season 1 episodes in February 2019, this interview with John Carvalho is one of the show's early hits and a statement that this project is seriously taking over.
S1 · E1
Tuesday · 2 hr 11 min
S1 E1 Remastered: Donald McIntyre on Bitcoin, The Teachings of Tim May & Nick Szabo, and the History of Money
Donald Hugh McIntyre passed in 2025, but is remembered as one of the most insightful polymaths... while his blog Etherplan lives on. The episode came out in the first week of February 2019, ran two hours, and set the genetic code for Bitcoin Takeover.
S17 · E39
August 23 · 3 hr 39 min
S17 E39: Kurt Wuckert Jr. on BSV & Big Block Bitcoin
Kurt Wuckert Jr. is best known for his work at Gorilla Pool and CoinGeek. In this interview, he explains why BSV formed from BCH, what are the biggest differences between the two versions of big block Bitcoin, and why he believes he found Satoshi Nakamoto
S17 · E38
August 17 · 2 hr 40 min
S17 E38: Keagan McClelland (Keags) on Lightning Metrics, Covenants, Consensus Politics & Verifying Bitcoin
Keags co-founded Start9 Labs, worked on Sapio with Jeremy Rubin at Judica during the CTV saga, spent time at Lightning Labs maintaining LND, and is now building BTC Verified, a formal specification and verification project for Bitcoin's consensus rules.
S17 · E37
August 13 · 28 min
S17 E37: Paul Sztorc on the eCash Three Stage Launch, Free Coins & 12 Drivechains
Paul Sztorc joins the podcast for the 11th time, to talk about the 3-stage launch schedule for the eCash Bitcoin fork. He also mentions how users can try the drivechains today and how they can earn some free ECX ahead of launch on October 31st 2026.
S17 · E36
August 10 · 2 hr 44 min
S17 E36: Yonatan Sompolinsky on Kaspa Covenants, DAGKnight & Coordination Markets
I met Yonatan Sompolinsky in Romania during his summer holiday, so we decided to do a roadtrip interview about covenants, the state of Kaspa development, why intents are more interesting than smart contracts & stag hunts.
S17 · E35
August 1 · 1 hr 25 min
S17 E35: Vinny Lingham on Bitcoin Post-Maximalism, Scaling Regrets & Saylor's Endgame
Vinny Lingham is a Bitcoin OG who pioneered gift card payments in 2012 with Gyft, served on the board of the Bitcoin Foundation, spearheaded blockchain identity verification with CIvic & in more recent years moved on to managing risk with Praxos Capital.
S17 · E34
July 30 · 1 hr 15 min
S17 E34: Cory Klippsten on Bitcoin Cafe, Swan & Big Bitcoin
Cory Klippsten is the CEO of Swan Bitcoin, the promoter and former adviser of the Sequans BTC treasury, and also a big advocate for bitcoin-only maximalism. In this episode, we catch up on what's been going on over the last year in Bitcoin.
S17 · E33
July 26 · 4 hr 51 min
S17 E33: Joël Valenzuela on Being Unbanked with Private Digital Cash
Ever since he first received his first bitcoin in 2013, Joël Valenzuela has been on a quest to use free market electronic cash to pay for everything. Today, he is still unbanked and looking for ways to make instant payments without a bank account.
S17 · E32
July 22 · 1 hr 53 min
S17 E32: Perry E. Metzger on Bitcoin in 2008, Cypherpunk Culture & AI Optimism
In October 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper on the Metzdowd cryptography mailing list: where the founder and moderator is Perry E. Metzger! In this episode, we talk about cypherpunk culture, Bitcoin memories & AI optimism.
S17 · E31
July 2 · 4 hr 6 min
S17 E31: Alex Waltz Reveals Bitcoin's First Miner
Alex Waltz recently launched the ”First Bitcoin Miner” project in order to question whether or not Hal Finney truly was the second mining node on the Bitcoin network. In this episode, we talk about Bitcoin history, art & film making.
S17 · E30
June 27 · 1 hr 28 min
S17 E30: Martin Matejka on Firefish, BTC-backed Loans & Bitcoin's Purpose
Martin Matejka is the CEO of Firefish, a company which offers a platform where BTC holders can connect with fiat borrowers in order to achieve the ”never sell your bitcoin” status. In this episode, we talk about how these BTC-backed loans work & more.
S17 · E29
June 19 · 2 hr 12 min
S17 E29: Grafton Clark on Vibe Coding, Privacy & Bitcoin Culture
Grafton Clark is best known in the Bitcoin world for his work at Satoshi Labs and Vexl. Recently, upon discovering vibe coding, he became excited about building everything that he can imagine. Hope this interview will inspire you to build something too!
S17 · E28
June 13 · 1 hr 54 min
S16 E28: Josh Swihart on Zcash & ZODL
Josh Swihart is the founder of ZODL: the Zcash Open Development Lab. Basically a for profit reincarnation of the old Electric Coin Company, which inherited the dev teams and projects. In this episode, Josh explains what's going on with Zcash in 2026.
S17 · E27
June 1 · 1 hr 42 min
S17 E27: Kieran Mesquka on Railgun & Building Privacy
Kieran Mesquka is a contributor to privacy projects, best known for his work on Railgun for Ethereum. He is also an advocate for freedom-maximizing technologies and a connoisseur of Zero Knowledge privacy. In this episode, we tackle privacy topics.
S17 · E26
May 27 · 8 hr 14 min
S17 E26: Steve Thurmond, Calin Culianu & The Phenomenal Big Blockers
Almost 9 years since the big split of the Bitcoin community, it's time to learn more about how the Bitcoin Cash chain developed. Calin Culianu, Steve Thurmond & an entire roster of BCH builders & advocates join the show to tell their stories.
S17 · E25
May 19 · 1 hr 24 min
S17 E25: Milan De Reede on Nano GPT, AI & Vibe Coding
Milan De Reede is the co-founder of Nano GPT: a service that allows you to access all the premium (as well as free) AI models from the same interface, as you pay with bitcoin. In this episode, we talk about the power of vibe coding.
S17 · E24
May 15 · 2 hr 36 min
S17 E24: Zach Herbert on AI & Hardware Wallets
Zach Herbert is the CEO of Foundation, the company that recently shipped the Passport Prime hardware wallet: a device that's focused on being the all-in-one security tool for Bitcoin, two-factor authentication, encrypted storage & password management.
S17 · E23
May 10 · 1 hr 4 min
S17 E23: Hunter Beast & Mark Karpelès on Bitcoin's Quantum Upgrade
Hunter Beast is the author of BIP360, the most popular proposal to add quantum resistant signatures to Bitcoin. Mark Karpelès is the former CEO of Mt. Gox and the creator of Tiban wallet. In this episode, they talk about the looming quantum threat.

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