Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

Bumbee is the Bitcoin version of content monetization platforms such as Patreon & OnlyFans. It offers lower fees, a better form of money that can't be censored & the promise of fairness. In this episode, Chris (OB_HODL) explains how Bumbee helps creators.

Viktor Vecsei is the COO of IVPN – a VPN service which takes privacy very seriously and also accepts payments via on-chain bitcoin and Lightning. In this episode, Viktor talks about what VPN services do, explains their limitations & compares their offers

Max Keidun is best known as a contributor to HodlHodl and co-organizer of the Baltic Honeybadger conference. But this year in Riga, he announced a new project: DebiFi, a bitcoin lending aggregator which helps take loans & borrow money without custodians.

Max Hampshire is responsible for developer relations at Nym – an internet privacy project which makes use of Chaumian mixnets in order to break the link between data packets. It's one of the most promising projects & definitely one worth learning about.

Kristaps Kaupe (Lord Kristaps) is an open source contributor who works on a handful of Bitcoin projects. Most notably, he is a maintainer of JoinMarket & a contributor to Bitcoin Core, RaspiBolt & SatSale. In this episode, he talks about privacy & more.

On the last day of Baltic Honeybadger 2022, BIP 300 creator and advocate Paul Sztorc joins the show to provide a summary of his two panels on Drivechaina and unpopular Bitcoin opinions. When he doesn't explain technical concepts, Paul makes funny jokes.

This interview is the result of 2 separate recordings which took place in August and October 2022: in the first one, Christian Rootzoll talks about what's new with RaspiBlitz. In the second part, Matthew Croughan joins to talk about integrating NixOS.

Lisa Neigut (@niftynei) works on Lightning network projects at Blockstream. In this interview, she provides some practical advice on running your own Core Lightning node on a home device. Also, she explains what happened to LND lately.

Dr. Maxim Orlovsky is the lead developer of RGB: a layer 3 protocol that's built on top of the Lightning Network which aims to make it easy for anyone to issue tokens, stablecoins & NFTs in a scalable client side-validated way.

During Hackers Congress 2022, after longer than a year of exchanging messages and planning, I finally managed to interview Ben de Waal about his left anarchist political views. Spontaneously, Alexandra Moxin & Karo Zagorus also decided to join.

Labitconf is Bitcoin's own Lollapalooza – this is how Rodolfo Andragnes describes the event that he created. In November 2022, Labitconf celebrates its 10th annual anniversary, with a football world cup-themed return to the home country of Argentina.

Rahim Taghizadegan is an actual Austrian economist who teaches economics in Austria and founded his own university to preserve the tradition – Scholarium. In this episode, he explains the nuances of Bitcoin's cult-like culture & how he sees the future.

This year's Adopting Bitcoin conference from El Salvador will happen thanks to the efforts of Kemal and Noor. In this episode, they explain the progress that the country has made in the year that has passed since it adopted Bitcoin as legal tender.

Amir Taaki joined Bitcoin in late 2010, and is responsible for creating the BIP system, the first alternative Bitcoin client (libbitcoin), and the first privacy-focused wallet (DarkWallet). In this interview, he reflects on the early days of Bitcoin.

Electrum is the most feature-rich Bitcoin wallet, and creator Thomas Voegtlin has been adding improvements to it since 2011. Right now, Thomas is making the Lightning Network accessible with Trampoline nodes that don't need to be online 24/7.

After having had enough from the authoritarians, longtime bitcoiner Bruce Fenton has decided to take matters into his own hands and run for the US Senate to represent New Hampshire. In this interview, he explains why & gives us an insight of his platform. Special thanks to Vaultoro and Wasabi wallet for sponsoring the show! Time stamps: 00:46 – Intro 02:04 – Bruce Fenton selling 85 BTC to finance his campaign 03:31 – Why Bruce Fenton is different 05:35 – Is Bruce Fenton a constitutionalist? 07:38 – Freedom is what made America great 10:26 – Did Bruce Fenton get any support from mainstream politicians? 12:56 – Have bitcoiners given up on politics? 16:00 – Divisive issues raise more money, at the expense of nuance 20:00 – A national divorce? 23:30 – “Bowling Alone” by Robert D. Putnam and division 33:00 – Fighting for freedom vs taking freedom for granted 36:26 – The Founding Fathers of the USA were very young 40:00 – Safety vs freedom 41:40 – On China and authoritarianism 46:02 – Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness 48:10 – Is Bitcoin a big part of Bruce Fenton’s campaign? 51:45 – Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin would be bitcoiners if they lived today. Hamilton would have done ICOs and DeFi 55:30 – Carrying a copy of the Constitution during the campaign 56:40 – Both Bitcoin and the US Constitution are hard to change 01:03:30 – How the US Government is attacking Bitcoin 01:08:14 – Should Bitcoin become legal tender in the USA? 01:14:50 – What can Bruce Fenton do for the people of New Hampshire? 01:16:00 – Breaking the record for the longest filibuster 01:18:10 – Bringing people together 01:20:50 – What can a state do to nullify federal overreach? 01:21:55 – How does Bruce Fenton rank in the polls? 01:27:20 – Donating $17.76 01:29:30 – Is everything really good for Bitcoin? 01:33:00 – Freedom is like a muscle, you gotta train it

Recently, Peter Todd published a mathematical paper to explain how tail emission could work om Bitcoin. In this episode, he gets to explain why he thinks inflation is necessary to secure the Bitcoin network as the mining rewards get halved every 4 years.

As the CEO of Bitrefill, Sergej Kotliar has been offering a steady, predictable, reliable & seemingly-boring service for 7 years. However, Bitrefill is anything but boring: these days, the gift card company is trying to save the bankers & make NBA shoes!

Pavol Rusnak (Stick) is one of the most prolific contributors in the Bitcoin space. Since creating the Trezor hardware wallet with his friend Slush, he worked tirelessly to create open source standards that make using BTC more secure and private.

Joseph Tetek (SatsJoseph) is a well-known Bitcoin educator, author, and content producer from the Czech Republic. In this episode, he talks about his work at Satoshi Labs, some upcoming Trezor projects, and what it's like to promote Bitcoin in Czech.

Sodomak is a cryptoanarchist who formerly worked as the CTO of Paralelni Polis in Prague. In this interview, he talks about the philosophical values of Paralelni Polis, the cafe's origins, and how it provides Bitcoin education to every customer.

CommerceBlock CEO Nicholas Gregory is one of the engineering masterminds behind Mercury Wallet: a Bitcoin wallet which makes use of Statechains and provides privacy via CoinSwaps. In this interview, Nicholas talks about making bitcoin work as money.

Initially, extension blocks & Mimble Wimble were Bitcoin proposals for scalability & privacy. But now that Litecoin married the two with MWEB via soft fork, Charlie Lee explains if & how we can have this solution type of solution added into Bitcoin.

In the heart of Budapest, there is this shrine of Bitcoin culture where you can taste the poison of strong liquors, boost your energy level with a copy, and pay your bill with BTC. In this episode, I interview Bitcoin Bar co-owner Adam.

Lipa is a Swiss-made open source project which aims to provide an easy way for small businesses (restaurants, bars, clubs) to accept bitcoin payments via Lightning network. In this episode, co-founders Adrian, Patrick, and Bastian explain how Lipa works.

Bleskomat is an open source project which aims to create a universally accessible Bitcoin ATM that swaps your dirty fiat currency for BTC via Lightning network. In this episode, co-founders Karliatto and Chill explain how their ATM works.

This season premiere is all about promoting the ethos of free open source software. Pavlenex and Kykks from BTCPay Server, accompanied by Mempool.space mastermind Soft Simon talk about their work and advice newcomers about the challenges of Bitcoin FOSS.

Rare Scrilla (formerly known as JScrilla) is a hip hop artist, music producer, and on of the most celebrated Bitcoin artists around. In this episode, Scrilla expresses his love for frogs, Bitcoin's Counterparty protocol, and the DJPEPE cards.

Joe Looney and Shawn Leary were there when the first Rare Pepe card was created. And as true scientists, they instantly started contributing with both art and infrastructure. In this episode, they talk about frog memes and the history of Counterparty.

Giacomo Zucco did to Bitcoin maximalism what Elvis Presley has done to rock n roll: he didn't invent it, but he popularized it to the masses. And when Counterparty and Omni are making a comeback while Stacks rises, it is his duty to rate their scamminess.

Harry Halpin is a privacy lover and freedom advocate who embarked on an ambitious journey to create a better Tor, which is actually decentralized and provides incentives. The name of his project is Nym & it makes use of mixnets to prevent traffic analysis. In this episode, Harry Halpin talks about the meaning and scope of privacy in the digital age, why the Nym project accepted a financial grant from the European Commission, why Nym provides better data anonymization than Tor, and how several cypherpunk ideas get rediscovered years later in order to fix contemporary problems.

When I first met Yuval in November 2021, he was working to improve the Wabisabi protocol, trying to make Bitcoin transactions truly private. In this episode, we talks about both the innovations and challenges that we must face to attain fungibility.

Nik Oraevskiy is the CEO & co-founder of Bitcoin Reserve – a European non-custodial Bitcoin exchange which looks into adding all sorts of features & integrations (including Lightning, Liquid, and auto DCA). In this episode, we talk about keeping it real.

Lucas Ontivero is Nopara's first employee at Wasabi wallet. As a matter of fact, when he joined it wasn't even called Wasabi: the first name was Hidden Wallet. In this episode, Lucas talks about Bitcoin privacy research & the Wabisabi CoinJoin protocol.

Juan Galt is a Bitcoin journalist and consultant who decided to go full-time Rare Pepe scientist. He sees historical value in Bitcoin (Counterparty) NFTs & also considers that we're witnessing the dawn of a new asset class. But is it really this bullish? This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro, Wasabi wallet, and Bitcoin Reserve. If you'd like to diversity your bitcoin portfolio into gold, make your BTC transactions more private, and also buy more bitcoin in Europe, then you'll definitely enjoy the musical ads!

Chris DeRose joins the Bitcoin Takeover podcast for the 3rd time to talk about how he has been right all along about Counterparty, why he's never selling his Rare Pepes, and to which extent web 3 is a scam. Watch out for the rare DEROSEHEAD NFT cards!

If you spend more than 10 minutes in the Bitcoin Counterparty NFT realm, you're gonna hear about Spells of Genesis, Rare Pepes & SaruTobi. Well, this episode's guests are the OGs who created them & envisioned using blockchain assets as video game items. Christian Moss, Shaban Shaame, and Koji Higashi (enumerated in order of appearance) talk about creating some of the first NFT series on Counterparty and pioneering video game assets before Ubisoft, Square Enix and Konami made it cool. This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro (the place where you buy gold with bitcoin), Wasabi wallet (the best desktop privacy wallet) and Bitcoin Reserve (the exchange were Europeans buy their BTC). Time stamps: 00:00 – Introductions 11:33 – Spells of Genesis cards have always had monetary value 12:44 – How Christian lost the Nakamoto Card to Shaban 18:18 – Rare Pepes used to be considered expensive at $10 20:20 – The rising Bitcoin fees have stalled Counterparty NFT expansion 22:15 – Why Spells of Genesis stayed on Bitcoin 24:55 – Why Counterparty is different from ICO protocols and chains, but still got attacked and received hate from the Bitcoin community 28:30 – Pieter Wuille’s criticism of Counterparty 31:00 – Counterparty used to have the best wallets and user interfaces 34:08 – What changed about Counterparty when Ethereum’s ERC20 tokens launched? 36:26 – Spells of Genesis and Rare Pepes depict moments from Bitcoin history 41:20 – The Bitcoin blockchain only stores tokens and their related data, not jpegs or gifs 44:00 – NFTs vs ICOs (nobody ever collected ICOs) 49:30 – Counterparty assets need to be high-value 52:56 – Not your node, not your NFTs 59:30 – Will NFT valuation crash? 01:07:15 – Views on FakeRares 01:15:28 – What makes an NFT valuable? 01:18:30 – Computer-generated NFTs aren’t very interesting 01:20:30 – Jordan Peterson, frogs, and Pepes 01:21:20 – Why Rare Pepes failed on Ethereum 01:22:20 – NFTs used to be called just “tokens” 01:23:30 – Rare Pepes reflect a lot of our pop culture 01:25:15 – Satoshi’s Games minting NFTs on Liquid 01:28:00 – RGB on Lightning? 01:36:30 – Are you really spamming the Bitcoin network if you’re paying your fair fee? 01:42:10 – Royalties for your NFTs 01:48:46 – NFTs in video games 01:53:20 – Video gamers hate NFTs because they boil the oceans

Theo Goodman is a man of many talents: he writes, records, and produces music videos about Bitcoin, he draws frog memes, and also gives talks at conferences. Theo was one of the earliest Rare Pepe scientists. In this episode, he shares his wisdom. Season 10 of the Bitcoin Takeover Podcast is sponsored by Vaultoro (the gold and bitcoin exchange), Wasabi wallet (the best Bitcoin privacy wallet you can use), and Bitcoin Reserve (European BTC exchange by bitcoiners and for bitcoiners). Check them out if you want to support the show. 8:38 – Theo’s Bitcoin art-themed shows on World Crypto Network 9:50 – Bitcoin memes against Reddit censorship 25:44 – The Counterparty burn address and XCP genesis 31:30 – Does Counterparty help Bitcoin become more of a free speech computer network? 37:33 – NFTs getting traded just like shitcoins 41:38 – Why Ethereum sucks 46:33 – Bitcoin will outlive us, and therefore Counterparty is the vinyl of NFTs 54:30 – Counterparty NFT transactions pay for Bitcoin’s security budget 01:08:50 – How Counterparty can get censored 01:11:50 – Mercury wallet is really cool 01:14:32 – RGB on Lightning is a more scalable Counterparty 01:15:40 – The jpeg or gif from the NFT doesn’t get uploaded to the blockchain 01:17:31 – The token is the art 01:23:10 – Why didn’t Counterparty NFTs take off at first? 01:29:24 – Why is Pepe so important for the community? 01:31:14 – ICOs vs NFTs 01:34:09 – Where should Counterparty go from here? 01:36:20 – Theo’s “Economics” and “I am Satoshi” hit songs 01:36:58 – Music NFTs? 01:38:00 – Naming assets on Counterparty 01:39:50 – If the answer is 42, then what is the question? 01:40:14 – Theo’s dance moves and rareness 01:41:00 – Rare Pepes vs Fake Rares 01:49:25 – NFT NYC and Rare Pepes 01:50:30 – Are Rare Pepes alt-right? 01:52:00 – Dan Dark Pill feeling salty about not having access to the Pepes he created

Bitcoin and DeFi certainly don't sound like they belong in the same sentence. But cypherpunk Eric Martindale, accompanied by community builder and Silicon Valley BTC meetup organizer George Burke, are creating Portal: DeFi on Bitcoin layer 3. This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro, Wasabi Wallet, and Bitcoin Reserve. They're some of the finest, most useful, and most principled companies in the space, so you better check them out. Time stamps: 01:39 – The Silicon Valley Bitcoin meet-up (which George Burke currently organizes) 02:58 – DeFi on Bitcoin’s layer 2 06:05 – What does Bitcoin maximalism actually mean? 10:22 – Why are layers necessary in Bitcoin development and why was Portal built on Lightning as opposed to Liquid? 14:20 – What is a layer 3 and why is Portal one? 21:32 – How Portal is using layer 3 and the ability to post orders 40:25 – Bitcoin privacy really matters 50:25 – Being lazy with privacy also makes governments lazy with their CBDCs 1:04:16 – Why it’s hard to find Bitcoin Core developers 01:07:30 – Eric Martindale’s “Privacy First” principle 01:11:30 – Why buying a pre-built node reintroduces trust in a trust-minimized system 1:15:45 – RISC V boards for Bitcoin nodes 1:20:53 – Eric Martindale is like a younger David Chaum 1:21:30 – What is the ELI5 explanation for Portal? 1:22:50 – What is Portal’s monetization model?

Satoshi Sound is a co-producer of the Bitcoin & Friends animated show. Having joined the Bitcoin space in 2013, he is also involved in mining and has a background in gold. In this episode, we talk about all of these topics and give away some spoilers. This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro (gold and bitcoin exchange) and Wasabi (privacy-centered BTC wallet). Time stamps: 03:30 – Toxicity and principle 05:30 – The voluntary spirit, purity of intentions and consistency of advocacy among bitcoiners 08:14 – Satoshi Sound’s Bitcoin journey from 2014 and until today 11:30 – The Bitcoin-only story arc of the Bitcoin and Friends show 12:30 – The Bitcoin OG mentality and low-time preference 16:15 – Working for Peter Schiff and why Bitcoin is superior to gold 18:55 – Pricing bitcoin in gold? 25:00 – Can Bitcoin ETFs suppress the price? 31:57 – Gold custody vs BTC custody 33:00 – Turning Shamir shares into BIP39 backups for extra security 35:44 – Multisig in the era of travel restrictions and lockdowns 38:01 – The drawbacks of Shamir Secret Sharing and custodial multisigs 41:30 – Shamir on top of multisig keys? 45:10 – Bitcoin and Friends collaborating with Cobra? 48:04 – Lessons learned from producing the first season of Bitcoin and Friends 53:35 – Did Satoshi Sound do any voices in the Bitcoin and Friends show? 55:29 – Extra characters being written into the show 59:10 – Who is the villain in Bitcoin and Friends? 01:02:20 – Slight spoiler about the Mitalik character 01:05:20 – Mining BTC with a Butterfly Labs ASIC and GPUs back in 2013 01:07:15 – Mining Bitcoin with wasted natural gas (Permian Mining) 01:11:50 – How can you follow Satoshi Sound?

When he began researching Bitcoin, David St-Onge decided to purchase and read some of the most popular books on the topic. In this interview, he rates the one that he liked the most and makes recommendations about where you should begin your journey. This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro (the exchange where you only trade with honest money) and Wasabi (the bitcoin wallet that's optimized to protect your network-level and transaction privacy). Time stamps: 0:00 Intro 1:41 Presentation 3:48 David’s book reading frenzy 7:49 Mastering Blockchain 11:58 Tokenomics 14:29 Stray Dog visits 15:08 Tokenomics (continued) 16:00 Mastering Bitcoin 19:16 David’s motivations to write his book 20:51 Programming Bitcoin 22:43 The Bitcoin Standard 23:40 What has government done to our money ? 25:15 Layered Money 26:20 The Bitcoin Standard (continued) 28:55 What has government done to our money ? (continued) 30:52 The Bitcoin Money Book 33:58 How David met his publisher 36:08 The little Bitcoin Book 42:41 21 Lessons 45:45 Inventing Bitcoin 50:05 The book of Satoshi 55:10 Why Buy Bitcoin 57:36 The Price of Tomorrow 1:04:02 Books about Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe 1:08:46 The Lessons Of History 1:11:11 Sovereignty through mathematics 1:16:22 The short list 1:16:52 Tout sur Bitcoin (The short list) 1:18:17 Inventing Bitcoin (The short list) 1:18:46 Layered Money (The short list) 1:20:32 The Price of Tomorrow (The short list) 1:20:55 Future reading 1:21:45 The zero interest trap 1:24:30 Thoughts on Bitcoin courses 1:28:45 When did David decide to write his book ? 1:32:55 Where you can buy David’s book? 1:34:35 Bitcoin Twitter 1:35:44 How would David rate Vlad's BTCTKVR magazine ? 1:39:23 Layered Money (rating) 1:39:59 Conclusion 1:47:17 The Hidden book (The Blocksize War)

For most of his life, Max Hilleband has been an avid reader of Austrian Economics. So when the El Salvador bitcoin adoption as legal tender was announced, he couldn't help but express his perspective on the praxeological & human action implications. This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro and Wasabi wallet. Time stamps: 1:40 – Intro 3:20 – The Austrian School of Economics 04:05 – Why the left-right dichotomy doesn’t make much sense 05:03 – What’s the deal with praxeology and what does it have to do with El Salvador? 10:18 – When is a country ready to adopt bitcoin? 15:00 – Denominating products and services in bitcoin 19:40 – Every country is pretty bad, but some are worse than others 20:05 – Democracy vs monarchy 36:02 – All previous forms of government have failed 40:00 – Choice, opting-out, and opportunity cost 44:50 – First reactions to El Salvador’s decision to adopt bitcoin as legal tender 51:30 – The short-term opportunity costs of adopting bitcoin in El Salvador 57:00 – The unforeseen consequences of adopting bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador 01:00:00 – Bitcoin revolution vs French Revolution vs American Revolution vs the Bolshevik Revolution 01:05:00 – After bitcoin wins, what’s next? 01:08:30 – Opting out by voting with your feet 01:14:20 – How can we consider and individual’s choices to be truly free in a world where everyone is trying to influence us? 01:23:30 – Keeping Bitcoin censorship-resistant with home mining 01:28:00 – Recommendations for computer operating systems (Qubes, Tails, Debian, Nix Bitcoin) 01:31:20 – NixOS vs Nix Bitcoin 02:32:20 – Reflexive behavior in relation to praxeology 01:39:00 – Schumpeter’s story 01:42:00 – Shitcoiners returning to bitcoin 01:44:00 – We never really had an altcoin (alternative to bitcoin) 01:45:25 – Sidechains & BIP 300 (Drivechains)

In this episode, Kenichi Kurimoto & Hitomi Moriyama talk about the useful Bitcoin Lightning tools that Nayuta builds, and also comment on contemporary issues which range from monetary inflation in Japan to Bitcoin nodes and layer 3 applications.

While most Bitcoin podcast interviews feature people who agree on almost every topic, this discussion with Knut Svanholm feels much more like a debate where we have opposing views. We talk about El Salvador, the state of sovereignty & why BTC is bullish. Sponsored by Vaultoro & Wasabi Wallet. Time stamps: 4:20 – Why did Knut Svanholm stick around the Bitcoin space? 7:20 – Bitcoin conferences are the new rockstar tours 9:55 – Opinions on “The Sovereign Individual” by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg 15:47 – The free will paradox 17:30 – Bitcoin as financial atheism 19:00 – Faith in verification 20:15 – Linux and open source 23:30 – Bitcoin privacy 26:08 – Financial incentives vs ideology 28:33 – Karen culture and Chainalysis 35:00 – Stockholm syndrome and the brilliance of George Orwell 38:13 – The El Salvador situation 58:50 – Elon Musk, Michael Saylor, and corporations getting involved in Bitcoin 01:01:50 – Mining from home and altruism 01:12:23 – Miners, Taproot, and SegWit activation 01:19:55 – Bitcoin’s J-shaped price action and S-shaped user adoption 01:23:54 – Why we’re still in the early days of Bitcoin 01:28:00 – The issue of fake bitcoins that can create inflation on Revolut, PayPal & eToro 01:31:45 – Day trading is like the poker boom 01:32:20 – People quitting their jobs because of the bitcoin bull run 01:34:30 – HODLing vs trading 01:36:00 – Bitcoin and the environment 01:43:00 – Bitcoin memes and reality 01:47:20 – Inflation is coming 01:48:45 – Yearly lows are more interesting than all-time highs 01:49:30 – Lightning is readier than ever 01:55:50 – Bits vs sats 01:57:00 – The mempool is empty again in 2021 01:59:54 – Peter Schiff is always the bottom indicator 02:03:57 – If you’re a Karen and want to speak to the manager of Bitcoin, where do you go? 02:06:30 – Knut’s next book 02:08:58 – Is Bitcoin libertarian? 02:13:00 – Starship Troopers, Robocop and other films that Hodlonaut also loves 02:14:50 – Roko’s basilisk and the Honey Badger Basilisk 02:17:09 – Why we need more Bitcoin podcasts 02:21:05 – Bitcoin, Christianity and atheism 02:23:00 – Why podcasts are better than television and radio 02:25:00 – How and why limits can be helpful and productive 02:27:05 – Interviewing Chris DeRose and keeping up with him 02:32:00 – Debating Roger Ver? 02:34:20 – Shitcoinery at the Bitcoin 2021 conference 02:36:00 – Shitcoins today are basically Bitcoin sidechains 02:37:50 – Stablecoins are oxymorons, altcoins are no real alternatives 02:39:00 – There’s a lot of method acting in Ethereum 02:41:00 – Zooko is most likely still a hardcore bitcoiner 02:43:00 – Vitalik, the Magic Flute and opera 02:47:50 – Fame 02:49:53 – People want to be loved, just like Charles Foster Kane 02:52:00 – Why kids and inheritance matter 02:56:00 – The flaws of education in Sweden 03:08:05 – Social democracy in Sweden

Thanks to the marvels of digital audio editing, I present you the uncompromising version of my interview with Chris DeRose. The sound quality is better & I've also restored some previously lost parts of our dialogue. Bitcoin Uncensored fans will love it! Originally sponsored by Vaultoro and the donations of Evan Rose and Vake. In the meantime, Wasabi wallet has joined the party. Time stamps: 01:43 – Hello party people! 04:45 – Trigger warning and Derose’s laws 05:30 – How is Chris Derose’s doing these days and how does his shitcoin basket perform? 09:12 – Using bitcoin as a unit of account 12:00 – We’re living in weird economic times 13:27 – Hope vs clarity 13:40 – What can you do with BTC? 14:46 – Will Chris DeRose make a comeback tour? Does he still have his Pepe cash? 15:22 – Ladyboys, S&P 500 20:18 – What happened to Murad? 21:00 – Is Chris DeRose coming back to Twitter? 26:23 – What does Chris DeRose predict is going to happen to Bitcoin in the next 6 months? 29:50 – Why is Bitcoin not decentralized enough? 32:20 – Decentralization in Chris DeRose’s definition 37:06 – How can Bitcoin replace the dollar without blending in first? 41:12 – Does the average bitcoiner want Bitcoin to be more decentralized? 44:34 – The US-centric comprehension of Bitcoin and rationalizing decentralization 52:58 – ASICs and decentralization 57:26 – Hard forking Bitcoin 1:01:47 – The one true Bitcoin 1:15:10 – User verification and who controls Bitcoin 1:19:30 – Decentralization is people doing stuff 1:22:00 – The Bitcoin totem 1:26:10 – Chris DeRose overanalyzing 1:31:41 – Hot takes vs critical thinking 1:41:30 – Lord of the Flies and the weird nature of the left-right political divide 1:46:50 – Why Chris DeRose still loves America 1:50:15 – What is on Chris DeRose’s reading list these days? 1:52:44 – History and the complimentary ideological extremes 1:57:34 – The internet will demoralize all the religions, ideologies and languages 2:00:36 – The religion of science 2:05:15 – Why did Chris DeRose get into Bitcoin? 2:08:25 – Did Chris DeRose get involved in e-gold, ecash, liberty dollar, or any other precursor of Bitcoin? 2:12:21 – Silk Road and demoralisation 2:16:20 – Mainstream financial institutions are demoralizing themselves 2:17:05 – Is Bitcoin still libertarian? 2:21:30 – Michael Saylor becoming way too influential 2:26:47 – Bitcoin will eat the world 2:33:00 – People who program silicon vs people who program carbon 2:35:07 – Developers vs marketers 2:41:20 – Objective money, gold and bitcoin 2:48:35 – Chris DeRose on the Lightning Network 2:51:41 – Offering confidence in Bitcoin to podcast listeners 2:57:40 – Arguing is a favor that we offer to society 2:59:30 – Contention in American society 3:02:50 – Connotation vs denotation 3:06:00 – The pollution of language 3:08:50 – Newsspeak in 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World 3:10:53 – The cat didn’t read the book on being a cat, but somehow humans do it 3:11:59 – We don’t go to school for education, but for obedience 3:15:11 – 50-page libertarians and 1000-page libertarians 3:16:30 – Bitcoin meetups used to be Socratic seminars, now they’re sermons 3:17:55 – Chris DeRose’s Florida meet-up 3:20:07 – Bitcoin might just be like Star Wars: commercially successful but spiritually bankrupt 3:21:58 – Michael Saylor is the textbook spook 3:24:30 – You get paid to leave in this space 3:27:02 – Asserting geographic independence 3:30:26 – The contention is with the medium, not the content 3:31:28 – S9 E2 teaser

Ben Arc likes to call himself an anarchist. Yet unlike most bitcoiners, he doesn't subscribe to the anarcho-capitalist school of thought. Instead, he belongs to the original Proudhon left-wing tradition and Hegelian dialectics. This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro and Wasabi Wallet. More info, time stamps, and other details: https://bitcoin-takeover.com/s9-e6-ben-arc-on-anarchisms-left-wing-origins/

Start9 Labs CEO Matt Hill explains why it's important to manage your entire digital sovereignty with simple yet powerful open source software. Embassy OS, a Raspberry Pi operating system, offers a Bitcoin & Lightning node, plus other useful applications. This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro and Wasabi wallet. More details and interview time stamps: https://bitcoin-takeover.com/s4-e5-matt-hill-on-the-philosophy-of-sovereignty/

In his attempt to create prediction markets to fix our democracies, Paul Sztorc has decided to also spend some time trying to expand Bitcoin's sidechain layers with his BIP 300 Drivechain proposal. In this episode, he explains how & why he wants to do it. This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro & Wasabi wallet. More details and timestamps: https://bitcoin-takeover.com/s9-e4-paul-sztorc-on-the-philosophy-of-drivechains-and-prediction-markets/

What is anarcho-capitalism? Is it really an evil corporate environment? Who builds the roads and how will people resolve disputes in the absence of a central government? Joshua Scigala imagines a world that's based on peace & free markets. This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro and Wasabi wallet. More info and time stamps: https://bitcoin-takeover.com/s9-e3-joshua-scigala-on-the-philosophy-of-anarcho-capitalism-voluntaryism/

Vlad Zamfir is known as an independent thinker who is often perceived as dangerously blasphemous by his critics. In this episode, we talk about the philosophy of absurdism, CBDCs, privacy, immutability, code is law, and Nick Szabo's legacy. This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro and Wasabi wallet. More info and time stamps: https://bitcoin-takeover.com/s9-e2-vlad-zamfir-on-the-philosophy-of-absurdism-szabos-law/