How to tell if you’re going to hell: Listen to the drum intro of the song “Rosanna” by Toto If it doesn’t make you think of something else, you’re probably fine.

The Bitcoin Takeover podcast is about to celebrate its 7th anniversary Man, it’s been a wild ride! I made this video to give old timers a trip down memory lane. Will also use it as the intro for season 17! Let’s go, more interviews are coming soon!

I hate apps Why does everything need to have an app these days when you can just open a webpage? Every time somebody tells me I need to install a new app, I lose interest. Also because devs forgot how to write elegant code and you end up downloading 200 MB for a supermarket discount code app. What the actual fuck, do I get to play Starcraft in that supermarket app? It’s fucked up, man.

These are the most popular Bitcoin Takeover podcast episodes of 2025 504710 downloads in total Thank you all for listening! Let’s get to 1 million downloads in 2026!

the worst part about my job is that I sit through these wonderful long-form interviews and in only a few hours I learn what took others many years to realize but then I have to deal with people who haven’t learned anything new in a decade and think they’re smart if they use dogma to approach new information it’s depressing, really!

I’ve never touched Microstrategy because it always seemed anti-bitcoin to me But if I was an investor and watched that Saylor interview on WBD I wouldn’t just dumb my MSTR bags I’d short the shit out of that stonk

Bitcoin Takeover podcast downloads in 2025: 504710 Half a million downloads! 😍 (across YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts + Twitter/X) Top 16 most popular episodes: 1. S16 E24 with Vitalik Buterin: 72539 2. S16 E41 with Yonatan Sompolinsky: 64008 3. S16 E51 with Sean Bowe: 21977 4. S16 E29 with Zooko: 17107 5. S16 E45 with Shai Wyborski: 16999 6. S16 E55 with Mert Mumtaz: 14097 7. S16 E34 with Prof. Richard Werner: 12489 8. S16 E40 with Cory Klippsten: 11634 9. S16 E32 with Diego Salazar & Luke of Cypher Stack: 10319 10. S16 E10 with Eric Voskuil & @Big Bad John: 9980 11. S16 E53 with Xenu: 9218 12. S16 E13 with Corbin Fraser: 9072 13. S16 E30 with Peter Rizun: 8620 14. S16 E19 with Daniel Krawisz: 7031 15: S16 E2 with Liam Eagen: 6419 16. S16 E6 with @Super Testnet: 6304 Thank you all for listening!

if you swapped 1 bitcoin for zcash a year ago today you would have 8 bitcoins worth of zcash you could have octupled your bitcoin, but you believed in saylor’s strategy bitcoin maxis are underperforming by fading privacy

if you swapped 1 bitcoin for monero a year ago today you would have 3 bitcoin worth of monero 3x more btc if you’re that kind of maxi how does the church of maximalism, which claims that it’s impossible to outperform bitcoin, explain this market reality?

Okay so if bitcoin maxis are right and there is hidden inflation Much higher than the reported numbers Then nobody investing in indexes such as S&P500 or buying government bonds is making any money Let this sink in: nobody is making any money unless they earn 20%+ every year

17 years ago, at block height 170, Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 bitcoins to Hal Finney This marked the first Bitcoin transaction in history

Post-maximalism learns from the failures of Bitcoin maximalism But also takes a more optimistic approach towards improving the money technology The goal is to avoid the mistakes of the past, then return to the roots of the movement in order to build a better future!

If you’ve spent the last 9 years studying Bitcoin and becoming a maximalist Now is the best time to learn about post-maximalism Because we’ve always been told that Bitcoin would add all the interesting features from altcoins Then all the builders got demoralized and pushed away by a culture that values price action much more than strengthening the fundamentals. Bitcoin didn’t get CTV or OP_CAT. Bitcoin didn’t become more fungible via Zerocash or MWEB. Bitcoin didn’t get smart contracts. Bitcoin didn’t even add a couple of OP codes to support the work of layer 2 builders. The technology is out there. It’s been tested for many years on testnets and signets. It’s been tested on altcoins that never broke. It’s been tested on Liquid and Bitcoin Cash. But somewhere along the way we became so complacent about Bitcoin that we forgot what it’s supposed to do! In the meantime, Bitcoin has become less useful and more technologically stagnant… while the altcoins became more useful and technologically divergent from the lazy forks of 2013. Altcoins are no longer Bitcoin with a few changes. They are complete rewrites of the Bitcoin design. They pursue use cases instead of trying to build market narratives. Some altcoins have the best privacy for financial transactions. Other altcoins have figured out scaling without bloating. There are altcoins that work as bona fide Bitcoin sidechains, processing more BTC than Lightning, Liquid, Rootstock & every other Bitcoin layer combined. Post-maximalism is about finding these gems, using their tech and advocating for it to come to Bitcoin. Because Bitcoin doesn’t have a technological or talent problem: it has a cultural problem, in which users mindlessly dismiss everything else as a shitcoin while the project’s dominance on the market has lowered to 57%. If the tech that can improve Bitcoin is in high demand, then Bitcoin devs are much more likely to try to bring it to the mother of all blockchains. But if the tech is disrespected and doomed to get used by fragmented communities, it will never reach its full potential. Bitcoin needs privacy to become a fungible currency. Bitcoin needs to scale to onboard anyone who needs to use it. Bitcoin needs to incorporate features from our broken financial system, in order to become able to replace banks entirely. These goals will not get accomplished if the prevailing ideology doesn’t get replaced. Bitcoin needs a new philosophy to meet the needs of the protocol and also enable exploration of new ideas without fear of excommunication and stigma. Post-maximalism is it. We either build a robust Bitcoin that can do anything and challenge the status quo. Or else we accept that multiple networks can accomplish different goals that serve the Bitcoin ecosystem. Regardless of the outcome, we aim to create a better financial system which is able to support parallel economies and offer an alternative to the CBDC world. Post-maximalism is optimistic. Post-maximalism is productive. Post-maximalism is the answer to a culture that nurtures complacency and punishes experimentation. Post-maximalism is what Bitcoin maximalism should have been all along, if the community members were honest and never became greedy. But Bitcoin needs a new dominant ideology. And I hope post-maximalism is gonna be it!

We could be building great businesses, creating jobs, and adding a lot of value to civilization But it’s much more profitable to buy magic internet money and sell it for the kind of profits that a company could never bring. Even Donald Trump would have been much wealthier if he invested everything in S&P500 instead of building any of his real estate projects. The incentives are fucked. But one must choose to build something meaningful and create value. I guess it’s always been this way.

I’ve just listened to an AI-generated podcast about The Beatles Very informative, I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt like I’ve learned something new Bitcoin maximalist podcasts don’t stand a chance, they’re so predictable you can have them replaced with AI super easily.

2018: I lost my coins in a boating accident 2026: I lost my coins after Bitcoin Core v30 deleted my wallet file

Season 16 was a blast! 65 episodes featuring some of the smartest people in Bitcoin. Here’s a short recap featuring 7 of the guests: Mike Belshe, Vitalik Buterin, Zooko, Paul Sztorc, Sean Bowe, Mert Mumtaz & Yonatan Sompolinsky! Season 17 is gonna be even better! Subscribe to Bitcoin Takeover!

About 6 months ago I met a fellow Bitcoin podcaster who told me he’s really sorry that I stopped doing my show after the Roger Ver interview I replied “are you kidding? I’m doing better than ever!” He looked perplexed. But #SpotifyWrapped agrees, I had an amazing year!

Running a full node used to be considered the safest and most conservative way to hold and manage your coins. But thanks to the recent Bitcoin Core fuckup, even Ledger looks super safe in comparison 🥲 If only they adopted BIP39, this file deletion wouldn’t be a big deal.