S15 E47: Justin Bons on Bitcoin's Issues
Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
by Vlad Costea
6d ago
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 ..read more
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S15 E46: Peter Todd on Bitcoin Covenants, Tail Emission, OpenTimestamps & Why Lightning Rocks
Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
by Vlad Costea
1w ago
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 ..read more
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S15 E45: Lucas Ontivero & Turbolay on Wasabi Wallet's Future
Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
by Vlad Costea
2w ago
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 ..read more
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S15 E42: Super Testnet & Shinobi on Bitcoin Projects That Suck
Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
by Vlad Costea
1M ago
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 ..read more
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S15 E41: F/Dev (1440000bytes) on Joinstr & Bitcoin Privacy
Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
by Vlad Costea
1M ago
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 ..read more
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S15 E40: Rijndael on Taproot Wizards & BIP420
Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
by Vlad Costea
2M ago
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 ..read more
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S15 E39: Pete Rizzo on Bitcoin History, Journalism & Culture
Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
by Vlad Costea
2M ago
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 ..read more
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S15 E38: Crypsi on Crypto Art & Cypherpunk Culture
Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
by Vlad Costea
2M ago
Crypsi is the representative of an art collective which expresses its anti-establishment ideas through physical paintings & collages, as well as digitally tokenized ideas. In this episode, he explains why memes are art & why memecoins matter ..read more
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S15 E37: Marek Narozniak on MimbleWimble & Quantum Computing
Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
by Vlad Costea
2M ago
Marek Narozniak is a Polish physicist who works on a MimbleWimble implementation that can get added to Bitcoin via extension blocks to become a privacy layer. He also specializes in quantum computing, and busts some FUD about their threat ..read more
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S15 E36: Eli Ben-Sasson on STARKs, Rollups & Privacy
Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
by Vlad Costea
2M ago
Back in 2014, Eli Ben-Sasson co-authored the Zerocash paper, which proposed a ZK SNARK system that creates anonymous Bitcoin payments. Around the same time, he also spoke about the compression benefits of zero-knowledge proofs – a full Bitcoin node can be synced within seconds just by verifying against a valid proof. More recently, he became interested in STARKs and built a company around this cryptographic breakthrough. If SNARKs require a trusted setup, then STARKs are a major leap towards trust minimization. If Bitcoin activates the OP_CAT soft fork, then this ZK rollup scheme also becomes ..read more
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