I got nothing but positive feedback on the 8-hour Bitcoin Cash podcast episode What is wrong with this community, where’s the toxicity? https://www.youtube.com/live/SJkwCaQLRuc?is=0jgQ6fkoKbb5a7F6

2025: paper bitcoin summer 2026: ???

What is the most exciting thing in Bitcoin right now?

Would you watch this vampire movie? 🍿

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My personal brand is that I’m just being myself, I don’t even know what a personal brand means and at this point I’m too afraid to ask

Love you too, Slovenia & Serbia ❤️ Thank you for listening to Bitcoin Takeover podcast!

Zcash is pumping Encrypted Bitcoin A much better store of value when shielded The Bitcoin we could have had since 2014 if the community activated Zerocash How does the Bitcoin community respond to the privacy hype wave? “Oh, here’s Silent Payments!” The same thing DarkWallet came up with in 2013. The same thing Samourai Wallet had as PayNyms. The same thing you already have in Cake Wallet alongside PayJoins. Basically a nice UX for receiver privacy. Something Satoshi already solved and described in chapter 10 of the whitepaper: generate a new address for every incoming transaction. But hey, now it’s available in Sparrow wallet. Which only 200 nerds actually use. Electrum too! Blue Wallet is working on it! Yet it solves nothing: the amounts are still visible, the sender is still visible, the receiver can still reveal his addresses by mistake. Fucking retards.

I’m on diet and won’t be eating pizza this year But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t grab a slice 🍕

What is 2026’s equivalent to buying 2 pizzas for 10000 bitcoin?

I have friends* who got psyoped into believing that using Bitcoin is evil They only use it to open Lightning channels or consolidate UTXOs, but feel deeply ashamed of it every time Which is fine and dandy, except that Lightning & Liquid don’t pay the miners And the miners can one day decide to break the L2s for being incompatible with the network’s incentives We’ve entered the 2nd half of the 2020s, but bitcoiners still worship solutions from the 2010s that were just good enough for a while but never completely solved the scaling problem *I still consider them my friends, even if they insult me in ways I would never do to anyone

Man, 1% optimizations can be really exhausting Even when you’re vibe coding them It’s so frustrating to try to add something small, but break something else in the process Then backtrack Holy fuck now I have so much more respect for old school programmers who typed every line of code and somehow made everything work

As a creator, I work on many projects and come up with new ideas every day So I get a little bit jealous when I see people who only ever complete 1 project and then spend years marketing & milking it Wish I could be like that too. But I keep evolving and growing. By the time I complete a project, I discover something new and already know what I want to do next. It’s what I do with my podcast: after I do an interview, I learn something new that I want to explore. Which might get a little bit confusing for the audience. Because I don’t have a concept-oriented brand and I no longer wave tribal flags. I just follow what I think is interesting and try to learn for myself. The fact that there are people who appreciate my work fills my heart with joy. Because I know how difficult it is to keep up with me and sometimes I get lost myself 😅

Bitcoin Takeover podcast is not for midwits It’s for people aspiring to learn something new and willing to do something great Go listen to Peter McCormack if you want reassurance that you’re fine never learning Go listen to Breedlove if you want to feel smart learning nothing but intellectual masturbation Go listen to Bankless if you want to get governed harder and secretly have a pegging fetish Bitcoin Takeover attracts the best listeners, not the most numerous.

The reason I stuck around in the Bitcoin is that I read Nick Szabo’s essays on trust minimization, God protocols & smart contracts The reason why I’m still around during an era of institutional trust maximization and little to no cypherpunk innovation is that I’m stupid

Which notification do you check first?

I didn’t take AI too seriously until I discovered Claude I was mostly using Grok or ChatGPT to do research But what Claude does for coding is absolutely amazing. Now anyone can build a webpage of app from scratch, with the proficiency of an experienced software engineer & actually good guidance all the way through Now everyone can verify code and build applications, smart contracts, wallets, and everything you can use and repurpose from existing open source repositories! So now anyone with enough patience can make significant contributions to make the online world a better place Learning by doing will also help you grow immensely, as you discover stuff you preciously never thought about But the best teacher is the debugging and refinement phase. Claude will get you to a satisfactory 90% result in a matter of minutes – but the remaining 10% can take days to pull off… and this is when most of the learning takes place! Now you have no excuse to not dig up your own notebook with ideas and see which one you still want to build. Become the internet entrepreneur you’ve always wanted. Build a social network like the old MySpace. Create a tailored community forum. Build a better page for your business. Replace Wordpress with something that you build from scratch for your own needs. Claude is as smart as you are, essentially: so if you are able to describe specifically what you want, he will be able to get you there. It’s like having an engineer best friend who actually tells you what is a good idea and what you should probably not be tried from the get-go. Truly amazing! And the best part is that qwen (an open source model you can run on your computer) is about 90% as good as Claude! Man, I haven’t felt this excited about spending all day in front of my computer for years. I wake up wanting to pick up from where I left off, start more projects that I can manage and learn a lot in the process! Over the last 3 months, I’ve learned much more than 4 years of computer science classes taught me in high school.

I think Zooko is by far the most misunderstood person in Bitcoin But a top 10 bitcoiner by contributions to both cryptography & internet money tech that’s 100% BTC-compatible More bitcoiners should study his work: the smartest ones are already trying to bring Zcash to Bitcoin https://www.youtube.com/live/Vs2gTXzqe4Q?is=M5LiSoq1d1ygoi1X