A fan of my podcast made a YouTube channel on which he posts short clips from various interviews With only 36 subscribers, he gets more views on some clips. This is how I know that YouTube is shadowbanning my account and content 🙃

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A BIP to rename Bitcoin Knots to Bitcoin Nuts Who’s working on this?

To all my zidelined bitcoin friends who watch the Zcash charts in disbelief: All of this energy, enthusiasm and capital could have been on Bitcoin. It can still come to Bitcoin if we add privacy with the Zerocash soft fork 🫡

17 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto made his first post on the Metzdowd cryptography mailing list – hosted by Perry Metzger, a cypherpunk who wanted to keep cryptography conversations politics-free Satoshi called his thread “Bitcoin P2P Ecash Paper” and it contained what we know today as the Bitcoin Whitepaper. Pic source: “Bitcoin: Year One” by my girlfriend Annie

Bitcoin Takeover podcast listeners shouldn’t be surprised by the recent Zcash pump 🛡️Oct 30, 2024: S15 E62 feat. Josh Swihart & Nuttycomb ZEC price: $36 🛡️June 3, 2025: S16 E29 feat. Zooko ZEC price: $54 🛡️July 2, 2025: S16 E32 feat. Cypher Stack ZEC price: $39 🛡️Oct 9, 2025: S16 E51 feat. Sean Bowe ZEC price: $200 You’ve had all the information you needed to grab some cheap ZEC. And I would like to congratulate those of you who seized the opportunity 🫡

I understand that more people are paying attention to Zcash now So let me say this again: Zcash is basically Bitcoin with the latest version of the Zerocash protocol, which was proposed for Bitcoin in 2013 and took over a decade to refine. The biggest challenge, and the reason why Zcash didn’t really take off since launching in 2016, was user experience and the scalability of ZK SNARKs. You see, Zcash started from having the state of the art privacy. Then backtracked to make it usable on everyday devices. Until a couple of years ago, it was technically impossible to even have shielded Zcash transactions on a mobile wallet – due to the computation requirements and the hardware you needed to run the software on. But now there’s Zashi and Edge Wallet and hopefully many more wallets that make it easy to send and receive shielded transactions on the go. Thanks to these optimizations, Zcash is finally ready for mass adoption. It finally became what it was supposed to be in 2016 when it launched as an altcoin. This is why this bull market is different and the chartists are wrong when they compare with past performance. They don’t know the technical details and the history of the project. They don’t understand that real adoption is happening via DeFi integrations, with users swapping into shielded ZEC to break the link between their trades. The future is also bright, with Tachyon scaling the protocol to billions of users without any privacy tradeoffs. Shielded assets are on the roadmap too. Zcash is the best research team in all of crypto. Started out with something purely theoretical (Zero Knowledge proofs) and made them practical. Refined their code to the point that it can be mass adopted. And through this journey, remained 100% compatible with Bitcoin – which means that even today, Bitcoin can just soft fork the latest version of the Zcash protocol. Thanks to Zcash Bitcoin currently has ZK rollups (Citrea, Alpen), shielded client side validation, ZK coins, and the Zside drivechain. Thanks to Zcash, Ethereum could build Tornado Cash, Railgun, ZK STARKs & all sorts of rollups. Of course, it’s the price that makes more people pay attention. But the problem is that these folks don’t have the proper context and didn’t spend more than 10 minutes doing some research about what Zcash is and what it does. Some may say that Zcash is overvalued and finds itself in a bubble today. I disagree: Zcash is the most influential privacy project in the space and deserves to be a top 10 crypto coin. It’s much more useful than Ripple, Cardano & Dogecoin combined. It’s more ambitious in scope than Monero and Litecoin. And I believe it’s only getting started. If you’re new here, I strongly recommend that you listen to my interviews with Zooko and Sean Bowe – if anything, spend a few hours of your time to learn about what you’re investing in before you put any money into this project. This goes way beyond speculation and NGU fantasies. It’s about the future that we want for this space and how we wish Bitcoin turned out to be.

Gold bugs, 2013: Bitcoin is a bubble, there is no technological innovation there, buy gold or watch your nerd money go to 0. Bitcoiners, 2025: Zcash is a bubble, there is no technological innovation there, stack sats or watch your nerd money go to 0.

It’s nice to see that even the most closed-minded of the toxic Bitcoin conservatives are now paying attention to Zcash They might be negative about it now, but once they figure out how far this project has made it, maybe they’ll want to soft fork the latest version of Zerocash on Bitcoin 🙃

Pick your future: 1/ 21 million bitcoins with no privacy and institutional scaling for the masses. The price goes up against other assets, the store of value narrative works, but holders have no privacy and their government can confiscate the wealth. 2/ 500 million coins on 10 different networks that offer various features with different tradeoffs. Swapping between them is as easy as transferring credit between bank accounts, and the free market decides what the demand for this existing supply is (and therefore the price). Privacy, contracts, scalability are all possible on different chains, but 50% of all capital is still in bitcoin.

Been keeping my Bitcoin Core v30 node online 24/7 just to spite the knotzis who seem to obsess over metrics and stats. Pro tip: if your node is online 24/7 but doesn’t send or receive transactions, it’s useless. The miners, the exchanges & the business accepting BTC run 24/7 nodes already. You’re not adding any value to the network if you just stay online. But if you care about live stats, sure. It looks nice when more nodes are online. The important question is: why?

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There will only ever be 151 pokémons 1 true monotheistic religion 9 planets in the solar system 118 chemical elements in the periodic table 21 million coins for the entire monetary system Further research is a shitcoin and must be stopped at all costs.

If the most zealous of saylorite “there is no second best” toxic bitcoin maximalists actually took the time to study bitcoin history instead of getting “educated” by moronic high priests they would be investing in at least 5 altcoins that advance bitcoin research.

Something that I do when editing my podcasts is to add a noise filter plugin that removes the breathing sounds I can’t stand hearing the sounds of breathing or chewing – not even my own So when you’re listening to the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, breathes sound like pauses.

Last year when I interviewed @Peter Todd I’ve asked him to name 3 cryptocurrencies that are not scams Surprisingly, in spite of his history with Zcash as one of the biggest early critics, he named Zcash Which is why I went home and bought more ZEC at $40 😍

Had a dream about OP_RETURN size in Bitcoin 😂 So I woke up and checked to see if the fighting is over now that Bitcoin Core v30 is out and nothing catastrophic happened My God, these guys just won’t let go. They daydream about their CSAM and extreme situations where people get arrested. Let it go already!

The cover of BitcoinMagazine in July 2013 vs today “Zerocoin: Bitcoin Privacy Perfected” vs Michael Saylor playing chess Cypherpunks vs suits The Bitcoin that went from 0 to $1000 in 4 years vs the Bitcoin that went from $10k to $125k in 5 years Which side are you on?

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