Lonely this Christmas Eve? Listen to this interview with @moonsettler and you will feel smarter… but not necessarily better 😅 https://www.youtube.com/live/C1Il2Tvte5U?si=8EhIizUW3UcT_p66

Will interview @moonsettler in about 5 hours We’ll talk about BIP119 (OP_CTV) and how we failed to improve Bitcoin Got any comments or questions? Join the livestream!

Upcoming Bitcoin Takeover podcast episodes: S16 E65 with @moonsettler – tomorrow afternoon CET S16 E66 with Bruce Fenton – after Christmas S16 E67 with Amir Taaki – new year marathon livestream Are you ready?

Listening to Bitcoin Uncensored episodes from 2016 Chris & Junseth argue that if these blockchain devs were any good, they would be working for Bitcoin Core 10 years later, some of the best devs from “blockchain” want to bring their work to Bitcoin. But Core won’t activate any OP codes to let them bring their users to the mother ship.

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Where can I find Billy the male prostitute? You know, the gay escort featured on Bitcoin Uncensored in 2016, who was using bitcoin for everything. Would be interesting to interview him 10 years later, see how he’s doing. Maybe Borack the escort Uber driver too, he was fun.

All I want for Christmas is 1 million podcast downloads I’m already half way there, but I still need your help Over the last 12 months, I’ve recorded interviews with some of the most prominent people in Bitcoin Help me by listening to 1 episode of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast & sharing it with your friends With a little luck, we’ll get there 😇

My interview with David Bailey is now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & more Check it out if you want to understand what’s up with NAKA, how Bitcoin Magazine is doing & what he thinks about the 4 year market cycle.

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right now, the bitcoin market seems to be immune to good news but very reactive to bad news two years ago, we would say that etfs will take us to a million dollars that never happened and is even less likely to happen now bitcoin needs a narrative change and some upgrades

What kind of news would immediately take bitcoin to $150k?

I keep thinking about the Bob Dylan lyric “but to live outside the law, you must be honest” Does it imply that the intervention of the law makes people dishonest, as everyone is trying to lie and cheat for their own gain? Or is it about honesty in a state of nature, where the absence of any central authority makes everyone more vulnerable and willing to collaborate to survive? This is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night 😅

A few months ago I was on a flight and I noticed that a teenager was wearing a “Lizzy McAlpine on tour” hoodie I said to myself “oh, that’s what cool kids are listening to these days” and wrote down the artist’s name on my phone Forgot about it until last night when I was reading my notes. Then I searched for some songs on YouTube and was blown away! As it turns out, Lizzy McAlpine is an incredible singer-songwriter who sort of reminds me of Joni Mitchell in the early 1970s (the “Blue” album). I had no expectations, so I was pleasantly surprised. Would definitely listen to a full album or check out a concert.

the true bear market is the friends we lost along the way some of whom became suits others who lost their mind because of jpegs but most of them lost focus and forgot why they came here in the first place the time for healing begins now!

I really want to interview more Bitcoin devs working on interesting projects It’s just that all I see in my feed is Knotzi vs Coretard drama And I don’t know where I can find new ideas What’s the most revolutionary proposal you’ve seen lately?

I was a bitcoiner back in 2004 When I was playing MMORPGs with friends Buying in-game items from each other with cash Dealing with scammers who were pretending to help you level up your character if you gave them your password, but would steal your items. Joining guilds, fighting silly tribal wars knowing anyone could easily be on the other side but we’re here because of some friends. The only difference is that we never aimed to overthrow banking with in-game gold. And we actually had much more fun, there was a true feeling of brotherhood and friendship.

So when the EU leaks everyone’s bitcoin holdings next year Which country is the safest against $5 wrench attacks, SWATing, having your family members kidnapped for ransom, and/or being kidnapped yourself? It sure isn’t France, the country of the ECB president 🤔

What is the Bitcoin maximalist reaction to the fact that the European Union wants all citizens to declare all the coins they hold in self-custody? The boating accident? A casual HFSP in between the steak lunch and the steak dinner? How about acknowledging that you were wrong and the purity virtue signaling and the NGU greed kept millions of people away from privacy projects and DeFi and now every user who humbly stacked sats on the most compliant podcaster-endorsed KYC exchange out there and withdrew to the hardware wallet they bought under their name using their home or office address is just one bureaucratic LLM query away from becoming a criminal if he doesn’t disclose every little UTXO? Bitcoin has no untraceable kind of privacy. Your LSP can leak all the data about your activity to the government. Your favorite custodial Lightning wallet can rug you on demand. Running your own Lightning node will most likely make you lose a lot of money and doesn’t scale anyway. While you were jerking off to price charts, the regulators caught up. Now they want your name and your wallet addresses on a list that will definitely get leaked in the future. No privacy, no hope for the future, your hard-earned coins will most likely enrich some EU bureaucrat. You got duped, anon. Thank you for playing!

Total Bitcoin Takeover podcast Season 16 downloads (up until December 5th 2025): 471271 Almost half a million! Thank you all for listening!

Arbitrary data (aka “spam”) is the red herring The goal of Knots is to create a precedent for transaction censorship & UTXO confiscation Why? Because institutional investors, some of which back Ocean pool, consider Satoshi’s coins an existential risk and want to freeze his BTC to effectively prevent him from ever selling. Some of the quantum resistance debates aim for the same goal. But they have lesser credibility due to the unconvincing evidence that quantum computers will be able to crack elliptic curve digital signatures anytime soon. Follow the money.

The block size wars were a mistake All of this development energy should have taken place on one Bitcoin