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S16 E51: Sean Bowe on Bitcoin, Zcash & Scaling Privacy with Tachyon
Season 16 Episode 51
Sean Bowe is a cryptographer and engineer who is best known for revolutionizing Zcash. After cooperating to fix the inflation bug in the first versio…
11 months ago
S16 E50: Ray Youssef on Why Paxful's Terminated
Season 16 Episode 50
On October 1st 2025, Paxful announced the decision to "wind down operations" and blamed the "misconduct" of co-founder Ray Youssef for the company's …
11 months ago
S16 E49: Jay Berg on Bitcoin, SidePit & Maximalism
Season 16 Episode 49
Jay Berg joined Bitcoin in 2010 and became the first person to tweet about BTCUSD when the price hit a new high of $12. In this episode, he talks ab…
11 months, 1 week ago
S16 E48: Christopher Smith on Quantus, Bitcoin & Quantum Resistance
Season 16 Episode 48
Christopher Smith (aka Yuvi Lightman, aka Ganesha 1024) is the founder of the Quantus network: an mbitious quantum-zk blockchain which he proudly bui…
11 months, 1 week ago
S16 E47: Max Hillebrand on White Noise & Private Messaging on Nostr
Season 16 Episode 47
Max Hillebrand makes his 8th appearance on the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast in order to talk about his latest project: White Noise, a private messaging a…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
S16 E46: Val Venis on Bitcoin, Liberty & Wrestling
Season 16 Episode 46
Back in 2013, former WWE Intercontinental Champion Val Venis bought 24 bitcoins for $80 each. Today, he is a big advocate for freedom, privacy, and t…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
S16 E45: Shai Wyborski on Bitcoin, Kaspa & Proof of Work Research
Season 16 Episode 45
Shai Wyborski is one of the three co-authors of the GHOSTDAG paper, and a man who takes pride in his independent thinking and divergent approach to r…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
S16 E44: Abdel on ZK STARKs & Bitcoin Maximalism
Season 16 Episode 44
Abdel is a Starkware engineer who, over the last 7 years, went from building EIP 1559 on Ethereum to becoming a Bitcoin maximalist who wants ZK STARK…
1 year ago
S16 E43: Vikrant Sharma on Cake Wallet, Bitcoin & Privacy
Season 16 Episode 41
Vikrant Sharma, better known as Vik, is the CEO and founder of Cake Wallet: the first Bitcoin wallet to support both Silent Payments and PayJoins. In…
1 year ago
S16 E42: Michael Tidwell on Bitcoin Drama & Tabconf
Season 16 Episode 42
Michael Tidwell is the organizer of Tabconf, the longest running Bitcoin technical conference which takes place every year in Atlanta. In this episod…
1 year ago