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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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S45 · E17
September 30 · 2 hr 56 min
S17 E45: Talking Tari with Naveen Jain, Fox & Marguerite de Courcelle
After seven years of being in development, Tari finally launched in 2025. Why did it take so long and how many of the initial promises were delivered? Naveen Jain, Mr. Fox & Marguerite de Courcelle join the show to offer their best answers.
S17 · E44
September 25 · 4 hr 27 min
S17 E44: Marc De Mesel on Early Bitcoin Investing & Polygamy
Marc De Mesel talks about on selling BTC for Bitcoin Cash in 2017, funding BCH devs for years, why BCH failed despite being the best big block version of Bitcoin, what's in his privacy coin basket, his Tesla investment & having multiple girlfriends.
S1 · E4
September 24 · 1 hr 58 min
S1 E4 Remastered: Omar Faridi on Bitcoin in Pakistan, Brain Drain & the Case for Moderate Thinking
The 2019 conversation with fellow crypto journalist colleague Omar Faridi is now remastered: featuring Bitcoin in Pakistan, the Petro scam, brain drain economics, and why nothing is absolutely good or bad.
S17 · E43
September 16 · 2 hr 38 min
S17 E43: Mike Belshe on BitGo, Quantum & Clarity
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe returns after 20 months to discuss the Clarity Act, BitGo's IPO and retail launch, quantum-resistant wallets, AI code auditing, and what changed since we last spoke in S16 E1.
S17 · E42
September 12 · 4 hr
S17 E42: Bob Summerwill on Ethereum Classic & Bitcoin's Fork Season
Ethereum Classic veteran Bob Summerwill retells the DAO hack from inside the Foundation, explains why forks are features, and shares advice for Paul Sztorc's ecash launch, plus FIFA stories and lost ETH.
S1 · E3
September 7 · 1 hr 35 min
S1 E3 Remastered: Zack Voell on Bitcoin & Politics
The January 2019 Zack Voell crossover (he was hosting The Coin Pod) is now remastered: featuring opt-in money, gridlock as a feature, FDR's gold grab, Russia rumors & dating as a Bitcoiner in NYC. The audio has been enhanced too!
S17 · E41
September 1 · 1 hr 23 min
S17 E41: Vik Sharma on Radar, Arbiter & Vibe Coding the Future of Cake Wallet
Vik Sharma is best known as the CEO of Cake Wallet. But lately, he's built two new projects: a Signal fork with BTC tipping called Radar, and a perpetual trading app named Arbiter. In this episode, he explains how the AI revolution speeds up development.
S17 · E40
August 29 · 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
August 26 · 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
August 25 · 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.

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