Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

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Time and time again, we see get confirmation that the traders are clueless The best traders are capable of manipulating the market sentiment & narrative for their own gain. The worst traders believe in their own TA astrology. But the winners are always the value investors who understand fundamentals.

In 6 hours I will interview Curtis Green He’s currently fundraising to get a pardon from the Trump presidency to regain his civil rights If you want to ask him questions, you will have to donate to his cause. He’s got some incredible Silk Road stories to tell, get ready! https://youtube.com/live/zokF5izqteA?feature=share

You don’t want to miss my interview with Curtis Green Going live in 19 hours (8 PM CET/2 PM EST) OGs know him as Chronicpain and Flush The rest of the world respects his Bitcoin OG credentials But now he seeks a presidential pardon from Trump! Why? Find out in S16 E59 👇🏻 https://youtube.com/live/zokF5izqteA?feature=share https://video.nostr.build/8153956986baecbf798fb62a3887824dcef15fcd52724b9a630006f2bf6bb490.mp4

2017: bitcoiners are fighting, ethereum rises 2025: bitcoiners are fighting, zcash rises

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On Saturday I will interview a true OG: He loves poker He served as Silk Road admin He mined bitcoin and later zcash Had his coins stolen by corrupt feds DPR allegedly wanted to have him killed Now he wants to get pardoned by Trump His name is Curtis Green. Stay tuned!

It feels good to know that the information I’ve given to my podcast listeners over the last year has potentially made them rich!

Complacency never leads to positive outcomes. Don't surround yourself with complacent people. Don't invest in projects or companies whose culture promotes complacency. And most importantly: don’t allow yourself to become complacent.

So you want another bitcoin civil war to which the market reacts positively? Like hey guys, it's so cool that you can't agree on anything and you're not improving Bitcoin in any meaningful way. Take my money, I want to invest more of it in this. The future of money should look exactly like this: a bunch of nerds divided into "Knotzis" and "Coretards". Now that's an interesting way of wasting my life savings!

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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.