I think I heard most of these .
What’s your secret to being so calm on your pod and in social media ?
The secret is remembering that all of this is software yet most people treat it like it’s some sort of sacred discovery 😂
Most downloaded Bitcoin Takeover podcast episodes of 2024 (according to Spotify & Apple Podcasts):
1. Justin Bons (s15 e47)
2. Orkun Kilic (s15 e18)
3. Roger Ver (s15 e26)
4. Aaron Day (s15 e32)
5. Deadalnix (s15 e28)
6. Charlie Lee (s15 e34)
7. nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 (s15 e21)
8. nostr:npub1vtlqystr2056cqvuy8uehq5g757362029krqv5axw6gdw37kunkq7ajrhd (s15 e31)
9. nostr:npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm (s15 e52)
10. Adam Soltys (s15 e27)
11. Murch (s15 e50)
12. nostr:npub1pww7030g95nv9ptfpgfu69jpfxj6pm33xxueztsupwekce45wx4sm6en60 (s15 e54)
13. nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp (s15 e66)
14. John Carvalho (s15 e23) https://video.nostr.build/2c733286a3d77ca13e1bfdbcffaea4f6e733701ab1b3dcd3c2ffeb2299168f47.mp4
What’s funny about the meme is that no super smart early bitcoiner uses non-open source devices like the Coldcard.
It’s just Rodolfo, his cronies, and a bunch of newbs who fell for the marketing.
Ask developers & OGs what they use: they will either say Bitcoin Core/Electrum/Mycelium or if they use hardware wallets at all it’s an old Trezor that’s 100% open source and still works a decade later (unlike Coldcards, which are unreliable and have a new model update every year).
In S15 E70 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, legendary Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik also mentions his favorite scaling and privacy tech.
Listen to the interview on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Poecasts, Fountain & more!
https://www.youtube.com/live/no_Nj-MX53w?si=75HsHZfloAwtUlW2 https://video.nostr.build/a4b91a1abba21d5190d39b3ea416e12e8e781fbdccf63e508968929a4af26054.mp4
kind reminder that bitcoin was meant to be spent
even the coins that you own are called utxos: unspent transaction outputs
don’t get psyoped into never improving your life, especially if you’ve made satisfactory gains
our lives are short, don’t forget to enjoy your time 
Thank you sir, hope you got something nice for yourself too!
Get inside one sometime, you will understand.
Did you listen to my recent interview with Jeff Garzik?
He talks about his contributions to Bitcoin, why he believes bridges are the future, and how Hemi works.
He's an absolute legend, check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/live/no_Nj-MX53w?si=-Hffz1ywkPfAphpk https://video.nostr.build/cfabb23040e322474fd5baf2e1d439d9bfc9e62f64523514a9637e6643b63090.mp4
bought the lexus es 300h for 0.3 bitcoin
took it home for christmas, my family was in awe. couldn’t believe that the guy who used to live in mom’s basement can now afford this kind of car
been hodling for almost 8 years, when i started 0.3 btc was around $850
patience pays off 
a lot of people wished me happy holidays
i purposely and explicitly wished them back a merry christmas
(in romania, a country that’s 90%+ christian)
i’ve never lost a single coin from a hot wallet
but i’ve lost coins doing more sophisticated setups involving nodes, hardware wallets, and advanced backup systems
edge wallet unlocks with your phone pin/apple face id
there’s a lesson to be learned here about simplicity
i only have 1 podcast episode left to publish this year and i want to save it for january 3rd – when the bitcoin network turns 16 😱
until then, who else would you like to hear on the show?
tag them below 👇🏻 
it’s been over a decade since the sidechain whitepaper got published
today, bitcoin only has a federation (liquid) and a sidechain with a trusted setup that uses hsm’s (rootstock).
no proper two-way peg sidechain, only compromises
can we at least get bip 300?
Sure, there’s a lot of useful stuff. Monero and Zcash are leading the way.
Litecoin added MWEB for extra privacy + scalability
Smaller projects are experimenting with different types of cryptography
It’s an exciting world out there!