Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

S17 E14: Kristian Csepcsar on Braiins & The History of Bitcoin Mining

2026-03-20

Kristian Csepcsar is the Chief Propaganda Officer at Braiins: the first Bitcoin mining pool and also the oldest Bitcoin company in existence. In this episode, he talks about the role that Braiins plays in the Bitcoin world (inside and outside of mining).

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 200 MB - Duration: 1:42:23m (260 kbps 44100 Hz)

S17 E13: Charlie Spears on Blockspace, Bitcoin Culture & OP_NEXT

2026-03-17

Charlie Spears is the co-founder of Blockspace Media and a long-time bitcoiner who's been organizing local meetups for longer than a decade. In this episode, we talk about the rise of AI & everything wrong with the contemporary Bitcoin culture.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 178 MB - Duration: 2:03:47m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S17 E12: Ray Youssef on Fighting for the Global South

2026-03-07

Recently, NoOnes founder and now-former CEO Ray Youssef got arrested in Mexico and was sent to the US for trial. His crime? Trying to bring financial freedom to the global south. Oh, the guts on this guy!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 193 MB - Duration: 2:14:32m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S17 E11: John Carvalho on Bitcoin Depression, Bitkit & Pubky

2026-03-05

John Carvalho is the CEO of Synonym: the company behind the Bitkit wallet and the Pubky social tagging protocol. In this episode, he talks about the progress he's made with his products and what he thinks about the most recent events in Bitcoin.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 268 MB - Duration: 3:06:41m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S17 E10: Mark Karpelès on Mt. Gox, 79956 Bitcoins & Chief P*ssy

2026-03-01

Mark Karpelès is the former CEO of Mt. Gox, the defunct Bitcoin exchange. Recently, he requested the Bitcoin community to hard fork the chain in order to recover 79956 BTC that was stolen from his exchange. In this episode, he explains all about it.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 78 MB - Duration: 2:30:11m (697 kbps 48000 Hz)

S17 E9: Cameron Robertson on Burner & Bitcoin in 2010

2026-02-27

Cameron Robertson first discovered Bitcoin in 2009, after reading a post on hacker website Slashdot. About a year later, he started mining and mingling with other Bitcoin enthusiasts in the Silicon Valley area. More recently, he created the Burner card.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 227 MB - Duration: 1:56:39m (259 kbps 44100 Hz)

S17 E8: Riccardo Spagni on Bitcoin, Monero & Privacy

2026-02-17

Between 2014 and 2019, Riccardo Spagni (aka Fluffy Pony) led the development and engineering efforts of the Monero privacy. But he's also been a prominent bitcoiner since 2011, who did mining and supported e-commerce. So what would he change about BTC?

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 66 MB - Duration: 2:04:48m (712 kbps 44100 Hz)

S17 E7: Colin Harper on Bitcoin Mining, Epstein E-mails & Journalism

2026-02-04

Colin Harper is a veteran journalist who has been writing Bitcoin-related articles since 2017. Currently, he co-hosts the Blockspace Podcast and specializes in topics related to Bitcoin mining. Recently, he also read the BTC-relevant Epstein e-mails.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 117 MB - Duration: 1:21:29m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S17 E6: Vik Sharma on Ending Wars Among Privacy Coins

2026-01-31

Cake Wallet is now the Swiss Army knife for privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies — a description that should be an oxymoron. CEO Vik Sharma joins the show in order to explain how the project went from only supporting Monero to doing so much more.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 156 MB - Duration: 1:48:25m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)

S17 E5: Paul Sztorc on Bitcoin Derangements

2026-01-29

Over the last 6 months, Paul Sztorc has compiled an impressive list of inconsistencies and significant losses from the Bitcoin maximalist camp. He referred to them as ”derangements” and we cover most of them in this brutally honest wakeup call.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 346 MB - Duration: 4:00:39m (192 kbps 44100 Hz)