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# NVK Podcast Appearances Mapped (2018-2026)
## Direct NVK Interviews & Appearances
### 2026
- **June 20, 2026** - TFTC #760: The State Is Farming You with NVK
- **March 9, 2026** - Münzweg (German Bitcoin podcast) - Bitcoin Realtalk (mit Robin Linus)
### 2025
- **November 15, 2025** - Münzweg #203 Bitcoin ist vegetarisch
- **July 19, 2025** - Pleb UnderGround - Bitcoin Is Now Wallstreets Money Printer! (with Pierre Rochard)
- **July 9, 2025** - The Investor's Podcast BTC242: Bitcoin Core Vs. Knots w/ NVK
- **April 3, 2025** - Simply Bitcoin - $5.9T GIANT Launches NEW Bitcoin Retirement Product! (NVK guest)
- **May 22, 2025** - Nodesignal-Talk E231 - Specter DIY (mentions NVK)
### 2024
- **December 17, 2024** - The Robin Seyr Podcast - Why ALL ASSETS Will Go To 0 Against Bitcoin
- **November 6, 2024** - The Investor's Podcast BTC207: Bitcoin, AI, Nostr, and Hardware Manufacturing w/ NVK
- **September 4, 2024** - Ungovernable Misfits - Cold Storage Beef | The Confab 07: Zach Herbert (discusses NVK/reproducible builds)
- **August 21, 2024** - Stephan Livera SLP599 - Bitcoin Hardware Security Panel - NVK, Craig Raw, Rearden, Salvatoshi, AddBTC
- **June 28, 2024** - Rabbit Hole Recap #311: JULIAN ASSANGE FREE AT LAST (mentions Cold Card MK4 updates)
- **April 4, 2024** - Rabbit Hole Recap #299: GET ON THE BITCOIN TRAIN
- **February 8, 2024** - Rabbit Hole Recap #291: THE BANK RUNS CONTINUE (mentions NVK)
- **January 17, 2024** - The Investor's Podcast BTC165: Bitcoin's 2024 Technical Overview w/ NVK
### 2023
- **December 7, 2023** - Citadel Dispatch CD115: Nostr Adoption with Miljan (mentions NVK)
- **August 29, 2023** - Citadel Dispatch CD108: Bitcoin Dev Education and BTC++ (mentions NVK reproducible builds)
- **August 26, 2023** - Nodesignal-Talk E137 - Running a node is not enough (mentions NVK)
- **July 18, 2023** - Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell - How to Set Up Cold Storage with ColdCard (featuring BTC Sessions explaining NVK's product)
- **June 22, 2023** - Rabbit Hole Recap #258: You Can't Trust Prime Trust
- **April 22, 2023** - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Good Morning Bitcoin - KYC Is The Illicit Activity w/ Shinobi
- **January 12, 2023** - Rabbit Hole Recap #235: Party Rip at Bitcoin Park in Nashville (NVK present)
### 2022
- **November 27, 2022** - Ungovernable Misfits - Bitcoin monthly 0021 (mentions Trezor/hardware wallets)
- **October 7, 2022** - Rabbit Hole Recap #221: KYC/AML is Putting People in Danger (Cold Card MK4 v5.0.7)
- **October 4, 2022** - **Stephan Livera SLP418 - NVK Tapsigner: Bitcoin Hardware for the Masses?** ⭐
- **August 1, 2022** - Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend - B.J. Novak (unrelated)
- **July 18, 2022** - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Cold Card Wallets w/NVK ⭐
- **May 2, 2022** - Stephan Livera SLP372 - Sergej Kotliar (mentions NVK terminology)
- **April 26, 2022** - Stephan Livera SLP368 - BitcoinQNA - Bitcoin Seed Tool (mentions NVK/Cold Card)
- **April 1, 2022** - TFTC Rabbit Hole Recap #193: The unjust laws are on the rise
- **March 16, 2022** - **TFTC #315: The return of NVK** ⭐
- **February 23, 2022** - **The Investor's Podcast BTC066: Creating Bitcoin Products and Infrastructure w/ NVK** ⭐
- **February 4, 2022** - Stephan Livera SLP346 - Nicolas Burtey (mentions Cold Card/NVK)
- **January 30, 2022** - **Stephan Livera SLP344 - NVK - Coldcard Mk4, Tapsigner, Satscard** ⭐
### 2021
- **November 24, 2021** - This Week in Startups E1332 - Turner Novak (unrelated name match)
- **November 16, 2021** - Once Bitten! #210 - @BTCsessions (discusses hardware wallets)
- **November 12, 2021** - TFTC Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.11.08 (mentions NVK's BitcoinBlackFriday.org)
- **October 10, 2021** - **Lunaticoin L123.B - Is Coldcard Open Source? con Rodolfo Novak** ⭐ (Spanish)
- **September 16, 2021** - TFTC Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2021.09.13
- **September 7, 2021** - Citadel Dispatch CD37: building software from source code (mentions NVK's Bitcoinbinary.org)
- **April 1, 2021** - TFTC Rabbit Hole Recap (firmware 4.0.1 vulnerability)
- **March 29, 2021** - Rabbit Hole Recap - Week of 2021.03.29 (firmware 4.0.1 announcement) ⭐
- **February 10, 2021** - **Citadel Dispatch CD8: Corporate FOMO, BIPs, and Taproot with @futurepaul and @nvk** ⭐
- **January 21, 2021** - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - How to Store Your Bitcoin w/ Douglas Bakkum (mentions RNG, for comparison)
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### 2020
- **November 4, 2020** - TFTC #206: Ryan Gentry
- **October 29, 2020** - TFTC Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.26
- **October 22, 2020** - **Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Rodolfo Novak: Why Corporate Bitcoin Treasuries Help Us All** ⭐
- **November 24, 2020** - Bitcoin Magazine Podcast - Securing Bitcoin With Zach Herbert (discusses hardware wallet RNG)
- **August 25, 2020** - Ungovernable Misfits EP41 with Bitcoin Q+A (Lightning)
- **August 16, 2020** - **Ungovernable Misfits EP39 - Bitcoin podcast with Rodolfo Novak** ⭐
- **June 22, 2020** - TFTC #172: Garly Leland
- **April 1, 2020** - **TFTC #146: Rodolfo Novak** ⭐
- **March 24, 2020** - TFTC #142: Elisabeth Préfontaine
- **February 13, 2020** - Bitcoin & Markets E200 - Tron: The Real ETH2.0 on Bitcoin
- **January 10, 2020** - Trading Bitcoin: Happy New Year Everyone!
### 2019
- **December 27, 2019** - Trading Bitcoin: Still Consolidating at $7.1k... Bullish
- **August 28, 2019** - Stephan Livera SLP103 - Charles Guillemet - Hardware Wallet Security (Ledger Donjon, explains TRNG)
- **August 27, 2019** - **TFTC #93: Rodolfo Novak** ⭐
- **August 24, 2019** - **Stephan Livera SLP101 - Rodolfo Novak - Coldcard by Coinkite** ⭐
- **August 19, 2019** - TFTC Rabbit Hole Recap LIVE w/ Pierre Rochard & Michael Goldstein
- **March 27, 2019** - **Stephan Livera SLP62 - Rodolfo Novak - Keeping Bitcoin Cypherpunk** ⭐ (Key TRNG quote)
### 2018
- **July 11, 2018** - Trading Bitcoin: Bitcoin Brief - Swiss Exchange, CBOE ETF, ICO's Die Quick
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## ⭐ Key Episodes for Investigation
### Primary Sources (NVK Direct)
1. **SLP62 (March 27, 2019)** - "TRNG better than dice" quote
2. **SLP418 (Oct 4, 2022)** - "We don't YOLO" + libngu discussion
3. **SLP344 (Jan 30, 2022)** - Mark IV, NFC features
4. **TFTC #315 (March 16, 2022)** - "The return of NVK"
5. **Ungovernable EP39 (Aug 16, 2020)** - Early Cold Card discussion
6. **Bitcoin Magazine (Oct 22, 2020)** - Corporate Bitcoin treasuries
7. **Lunaticoin (Oct 10, 2021)** - "Is Coldcard Open Source?" (Spanish, could be revealing)
### Critical Timeline Episodes
8. **Rabbit Hole Recap (March 29, 2021)** - Firmware 4.0.1 "self-discovered vulnerability"
9. **Citadel Dispatch CD8 (Feb 10, 2021)** - Just before firmware 4.0 release
10. **Citadel Dispatch CD37 (Sept 7, 2021)** - Bitcoinbinary.org launch
### Recent Analysis (2026)
11. **TFTC #760 (June 20, 2026)** - Post-vulnerability disclosure
12. **Simply Bitcoin EP 1561 (Aug 3, 2026)** - Timeline breakdown
13. **UNGOVERNABLE Freedom Tech Friday 50 (Aug 1, 2026)** - Deep technical analysis
14. **Citadel Dispatch (Aug 3, 2026)** - "Catastrophic Coldcard Bug"
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## DocHex / Peter / Doc Search Results
**Finding:** Very limited podcast appearances for "DocHex" or "Peter" in the Bitcoin hardware wallet context within the Jamie corpus.
**Possible mentions:**
- Stephan Livera SLP101 (Aug 24, 2019) mentions "Peter, well, DocSachs on Twitter and NVK" in context of Libre hardware design
- The name may be referenced as "@DocHex" on Twitter/Nostr but rarely spoken aloud in podcasts
- May have been primarily a GitHub contributor rather than podcast guest
**Recommendation:**
- Check GitHub commits for libngu repository (if public)
- Search Twitter/Nostr for "@DocHex" or "@switck" mentions
- Look for yasmarang references on developer forums/mailing lists
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## Outside Corpus - Potential Appearances to Check
These may exist but weren't indexed in Jamie (yet):
### YouTube/Video
- Bitcoin 2021 Miami conference talks
- BTC++ developer conferences
- Baltic Honeybadger appearances
- Adopting Bitcoin El Salvador
### Other Podcasts (may not be in corpus)
- What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack
- Bitcoin Fundamentals
- Bitcoin Rapid Fire
- Bitcoin Takeover
- Swan Signal
### Regional/Language
- Lunaticoin (Spanish) - Oct 2021 episode on "Is Coldcard Open Source?" could be very revealing
- German Bitcoin podcasts (Nodesignal, Münzweg) - several appearances
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## Search Strategy Recommendations
For outside-corpus investigation:
1. **YouTube Search:**
- "NVK coldcard" + date filters (2020-2021)
- "Rodolfo Novak firmware 4"
- "NVK GPL license"
2. **Twitter/Nostr:**
- @nvk threads from Feb-April 2021
- @DocHex or @switck mentions
- yasmarang GitHub profile
3. **Reddit:**
- r/Bitcoin posts by NVK
- r/coldcard subreddit (if exists)
- Posts about firmware 4.0 release
4. **GitHub:**
- coldcard-firmware commits (March 2021)
- libngu repository (if public)
- Contributor: switck/yasmarang
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**Report compiled:** 2026-08-04
**Total episodes found in Jamie corpus:** 40+
**Direct NVK interviews:** ~15
**Episodes mentioning NVK/Coldcard:** ~25
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