While remastering episodes from my podcast, I realized that the sponsors of 2019-2022 are mostly dead BottlePay? Dead. LXMI? Dead. Vaultoro? Dead. Wasabi wallet? Sort of dead. Would any serious Bitcoin company or project be interested in replacing their ad slots? My main criterion is being sure that you’ll still be around in a few years because I really don’t want to remaster again 😂

After 7 years, Bitcoin Takeover podcast is having its own scaling debate Over the last few months, some of you guys reported uptime issues with my website and RSS feed Upon further investigation, I discovered that the server CPU gets overloaded sometimes So I contacted my host today, will try to migrate to a server that can deal with the increasing demand Sorry for the inconvenience, I just didn’t expect to grow this fast 😍 Subscribe, everything is getting better: https://bitcoin-takeover.com/audio

Tonight I’ve started the process of remastering my entire podcast catalogue When I first started in 2019, I didn’t know too much about sound engineering (I was using too much reverb & mastering in headphones) and I also had entry level equipment 7 years later, I have much better technology and I can make every interview shine. I will also take advantage of this opportunity to fill my backlog: write a blog post about each and every interview, add individual Spotify graphics for every episode, upload YouTube videos of all the interviews that never made it there. If I do 1 episode/day (very unlikely due to traveling to conferences), I should complete the work in 1 year. But maybe in 18 months I will have everything ready and up to the standard that I’ve come to expect these days. Sometime next year, I want to also release the podcast in physical format for the big fans who also want to collect the content. Kind of like a DVD release with bonuses, except that it will probably be a 2 TB hard drive 😅 Anyway, it feels exciting to rediscover my older work. I cringe myself a little bit when I hear myself speak… but this only means that I improved over the years. Will post more updates as I continue the process. Today I did S1 E1 with the late Donald McIntyre, God bless his soul.

Vlad, how can you be so right about so many Bitcoin topics? Well, I’m glad you asked. I have 3 simple principles: 1. I look up to the builders, the visionaries & the guys I consider smarter than me. Not those who have been historically right, not the narrative gatekeepers. The guys who want Bitcoin to do everything and have a plan to make it happen. 2. I don’t care about what the others think. The high priests of the church of maximalism, the plebs, the pseudo celebrities like Max Keiser and the consensus craftsmen like Greg Maxwell or Mr. Hodl. I do my own thing without caring about public perception or whatever. 3. I always assume that I might be wrong and prepare accordingly. You can call me out for not having enough conviction, I don’t care. I’m here to breathe fresh air, not smell brainfarts in the same room philosophizing about their purity. This means sometimes I have to leave the room and take a look (and a sniff) from outside.

Man, I was so right It feels good to he vindicated

One important lesson that everyone has to learn eventually is that free markets are more efficient than human politics You can spend years trying to convince others that an idea is great They won’t change their mind until the market validates your thesis So you’re better off trying something new than waiting for everyone else to agree with you If you fail, you can apologize later But if you succeed, you can change the world around you regardless of what your critics think

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A BIP110 altcoin is worthless What does it bring to the market that Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash & Zcash don’t already have? Well, virtue signaling. What is the value of virtue signaling? As some guys are about to find out, zero. The free market doesn’t care about feelings, concerns & broken solutions for made up problems You either provide something useful or else you enter the crypto graveyard

If you’re a true Bitcoin maximalist, spend $100 of your stash to study Bitcoin’s competition Buy some Zcash, try shielded pools & spend it via NEAR Intents Buy some Monero, mine sone with your CPU, learn how the subaddress system works & buy something on XMR Bazaar Buy some Ethereum, try Uniswap & create your first contract Buy some Litecoin, try MWEB and then spend it at a merchant Buy some Decred, see why their implementation of Lightning is more stable Buy some Bitcoin Cash, play with CashFusion, CashTokens & see what you can do with the covenants If you’re a true maximalist, you must think in terms of maximizing: bringing all the popular use cases to the network in which you are emotionally and financially most invested Learn from other projects, then try to figure out how it can work on Bitcoin You don’t need to buy more than $10 of each coin, consider this your education budget Once you learn more, you will become a more valuable community member in Bitcoin. Not a cheerleader, but someone who can compare and think for himself.

There has never been a more fun time to be a shitcoiner

BIP110 was just thw recruitment ritual for an altcoin Everyone who engaged with Knots fans in good faith misunderstood the purpose of the movement The goal was never to have efficient filters or follow the BIP process They searched for the most radicalized plebs, boosted their platform, made them part of the fork Now the sunk cost fallacy is kicking in and some folks have their reputations tied to the performance of the new fork At least Paul is honest about his intentions to create a Bitcoin competitor Luke is a snake 🐍

Luke-jr’s strategy for luring maxis towards an altcoin should be studied He most likely knew where this is heading all along, but wanted to look like a pure hearted warrior in the eyes of his followers > I am here to save Bitcoin, mine with my pool > do you hate spam too? Run my Core fork > everyone who doesn’t run Knots is a pedophile > I came up with the solution to stop ordinals, it’s a soft fork > activate this soft fork at this date, we cannot lose. The miners don’t have a choice but to join us > those who didn’t join us are attacking bitcoin > we are the true bitcoin, everyone else is promoting a spam chain > on no, we are in a minority and the fork is getting crushed. But we cannot lose because we are the real bitcoin and everyone else is an attacker > we were not ready to become an altcoin, bear with me for another month as we change the mining algorithm > what do you mean we failed? Just wait, you will see how we defeat the forces of evil probably this time next month: > this is the real bitcoin that you can mine with your start9 node. What do you mean you’re not happy with $1 per coin on the only one exchange where we’re supported? This is what bitcoin was like back in the day too > hey look, now we have our own wallets, github repo, ticker & logo. What do you mean this is an altcoin? It’s the real bitcoin, don’t let the Epstein island visitors & pedo spammers lie to you!