Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

Bitcoin Takeover is the oral history of Bitcoin, told by the people who made it and those still fighting over what it becomes. Since 2019, host Vlad Costea has recorded long, unscripted conversations with the builders, pioneers, heretics, and occasional villains of the Bitcoin world. The man who ran Mt. Gox explains how the coins actually disappeared. A founder under federal indictment makes his case. Satoshi's first collaborator remembers what 2009 was really like. And the researchers behind zero knowledge proofs, covenants, sidechains, and the Lightning Network argue about what comes next. Past guests include Vitalik Buterin, Phil Zimmermann, Zooko, Adam Back, Mark Karpelès, Roger Ver, Martti Malmi, Charlie Shrem, and 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!