Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

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!

360 episodes Bitcoin Takeover Podcast Updated 2026-08-28
360 episodes in Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
2026-08-26

S1 E2 Remastered: John Carvalho on Bitcoin Politics

Recorded in January 2019 and published alongside the rest of the Bitcoin…
2026-08-25

S1 E1 Remastered: Donald McIntyre on Bitcoin, The Teachings of Tim May &…

Donald Hugh McIntyre passed in 2025, but is remembered as one of the mos…
2026-08-23

S17 E39: Kurt Wuckert Jr. on BSV & Big Block Bitcoin

Kurt Wuckert Jr. is best known for his work at Gorilla Pool and CoinGeek…
2026-08-18

S17 E38: Keagan McClelland (Keags) on Lightning Metrics, Covenants, Cons…

Keagan McClellan (Keags) co-founded Start9 Labs, worked on Sapio with Je…
2026-08-13

S17 E37: Paul Sztorc on the eCash Three Stage Launch, Free Coins & 12 Dr…

n August 2026, eCash (ECX) comes out in its alpha phase: leading up to a…
2026-08-10

S17 E36: Yonatan Sompolinsky on Kaspa Covenants, DAGKnight & Coordinatio…

I met Yonatan Sompolinsky in Romania during his summer holiday, so we de…
2026-08-01

S17 E35: Vinny Lingham on Bitcoin Post-Maximalism, Scaling Regrets & Say…

Vinny Lingham is a Bitcoin OG who pioneered gift card payments in 2012 w…
2026-07-30

S17 E34: Cory Klippsten on Bitcoin Cafe, Swan & Big Bitcoin

Cory Klippsten is the CEO of Swan Bitcoin, the promoter and former advis…
2026-07-27

S17 E33: Joël Valenzuela on Being Unbanked with Private Digital Cash

Ever since he first received his first bitcoin in 2013, Joël Valenzuela …
2026-07-22

S17 E32: Perry E. Metzger on Bitcoin in 2008, Cypherpunk Culture & AI Op…

S17 E32: Perry E. Metzger on Bitcoin in 2008, Cypherpunk Culture & AI Op…
2026-07-02

S17 E31: Alex Waltz Reveals Bitcoin's First Miner

Alex Waltz is a prominent Bitcoin historian and film maker, who speciali…
2026-06-28

S17 E30: Martin Matejka on Firefish, BTC-backed Loans & Bitcoin's Purpos…

Martin Matejka is the CEO of Firefish, a company which offers a platform…
2026-06-20

S17 E29: Grafton Clark on Vibe Coding, Privacy & Bitcoin Culture

Grafton Clark is best known in the Bitcoin world for his work at Satoshi…
2026-06-13

S16 E28: Josh Swihart on Zcash & ZODL

Josh Swihart is the founder of ZODL: the Zcash Open Development Lab. Bas…
2026-06-01

S17 E27: Kieran Mesquka on Railgun & Building Privacy

Kieran Mesquka is a contributor to privacy projects, best known for his …
2026-05-27

S17 E26: Steve Thurmond, Calin Culianu & The Phenomenal Big Blockers

Almost 9 years since the big split of the Bitcoin community, it's time t…
2026-05-19

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 …
2026-05-15

S17 E24: Zach Herbert on AI & Hardware Wallets

Zach Herbert is the CEO of Foundation, a company which specializes in bu…
2026-05-10

S17 E23: Hunter Beast & Mark Karpelès on Bitcoin's Quantum Upgrade

Hunter Beast is the author of BIP360, the most popular proposal to add q…
2026-05-06

S17 E22: Jeremy Rubin on CTV, Char & Building on Bitcoin

Jeremy Rubin is the author of BIP 119 (OP_CTV, Check Template Verify) an…
2026-04-24

S17 E21: Paul Sztorc Hard Forks Bitcoin to Launch Ecash with Drivechains…

After 15 years of being a Bitcoin-only maximalist and about a decade of …
2026-04-24

S17 E20: Talking Privacy with Amir Taaki, Harry Halpin & Christopher Cia…

Amir Taaki is one of the first Bitcoin developers to join the project an…
2026-04-18

S17 E19: Deadalnix (Amaury Séchet) on Forking Bitcoin & Ecash

Amaury Séchet is the developer who forked Bitcoin in August 2017 to crea…
2026-04-12

S17 E18: Dr. K (Karl Kreder) on Quai & Scaling Proof of Work

Karl Kreder, better known as Dr. K, is the architect of the Quai network…