Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

Rare Scrilla (formerly known as JScrilla) is a hip hop artist, music producer, and on of the most celebrated Bitcoin artists around. In this episode, Scrilla expresses his love for frogs, Bitcoin's Counterparty protocol, and the DJPEPE cards.

Joe Looney and Shawn Leary were there when the first Rare Pepe card was created. And as true scientists, they instantly started contributing with both art and infrastructure. In this episode, they talk about frog memes and the history of Counterparty.

Giacomo Zucco did to Bitcoin maximalism what Elvis Presley has done to rock n roll: he didn't invent it, but he popularized it to the masses. And when Counterparty and Omni are making a comeback while Stacks rises, it is his duty to rate their scamminess.

Harry Halpin is a privacy lover and freedom advocate who embarked on an ambitious journey to create a better Tor, which is actually decentralized and provides incentives. The name of his project is Nym & it makes use of mixnets to prevent traffic analysis. In this episode, Harry Halpin talks about the meaning and scope of privacy in the digital age, why the Nym project accepted a financial grant from the European Commission, why Nym provides better data anonymization than Tor, and how several cypherpunk ideas get rediscovered years later in order to fix contemporary problems.

When I first met Yuval in November 2021, he was working to improve the Wabisabi protocol, trying to make Bitcoin transactions truly private. In this episode, we talks about both the innovations and challenges that we must face to attain fungibility.

Nik Oraevskiy is the CEO & co-founder of Bitcoin Reserve – a European non-custodial Bitcoin exchange which looks into adding all sorts of features & integrations (including Lightning, Liquid, and auto DCA). In this episode, we talk about keeping it real.

Lucas Ontivero is Nopara's first employee at Wasabi wallet. As a matter of fact, when he joined it wasn't even called Wasabi: the first name was Hidden Wallet. In this episode, Lucas talks about Bitcoin privacy research & the Wabisabi CoinJoin protocol.

Juan Galt is a Bitcoin journalist and consultant who decided to go full-time Rare Pepe scientist. He sees historical value in Bitcoin (Counterparty) NFTs & also considers that we're witnessing the dawn of a new asset class. But is it really this bullish? This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro, Wasabi wallet, and Bitcoin Reserve. If you'd like to diversity your bitcoin portfolio into gold, make your BTC transactions more private, and also buy more bitcoin in Europe, then you'll definitely enjoy the musical ads!

Chris DeRose joins the Bitcoin Takeover podcast for the 3rd time to talk about how he has been right all along about Counterparty, why he's never selling his Rare Pepes, and to which extent web 3 is a scam. Watch out for the rare DEROSEHEAD NFT cards!

If you spend more than 10 minutes in the Bitcoin Counterparty NFT realm, you're gonna hear about Spells of Genesis, Rare Pepes & SaruTobi. Well, this episode's guests are the OGs who created them & envisioned using blockchain assets as video game items. Christian Moss, Shaban Shaame, and Koji Higashi (enumerated in order of appearance) talk about creating some of the first NFT series on Counterparty and pioneering video game assets before Ubisoft, Square Enix and Konami made it cool. This episode is sponsored by Vaultoro (the place where you buy gold with bitcoin), Wasabi wallet (the best desktop privacy wallet) and Bitcoin Reserve (the exchange were Europeans buy their BTC). Time stamps: 00:00 – Introductions 11:33 – Spells of Genesis cards have always had monetary value 12:44 – How Christian lost the Nakamoto Card to Shaban 18:18 – Rare Pepes used to be considered expensive at $10 20:20 – The rising Bitcoin fees have stalled Counterparty NFT expansion 22:15 – Why Spells of Genesis stayed on Bitcoin 24:55 – Why Counterparty is different from ICO protocols and chains, but still got attacked and received hate from the Bitcoin community 28:30 – Pieter Wuille’s criticism of Counterparty 31:00 – Counterparty used to have the best wallets and user interfaces 34:08 – What changed about Counterparty when Ethereum’s ERC20 tokens launched? 36:26 – Spells of Genesis and Rare Pepes depict moments from Bitcoin history 41:20 – The Bitcoin blockchain only stores tokens and their related data, not jpegs or gifs 44:00 – NFTs vs ICOs (nobody ever collected ICOs) 49:30 – Counterparty assets need to be high-value 52:56 – Not your node, not your NFTs 59:30 – Will NFT valuation crash? 01:07:15 – Views on FakeRares 01:15:28 – What makes an NFT valuable? 01:18:30 – Computer-generated NFTs aren’t very interesting 01:20:30 – Jordan Peterson, frogs, and Pepes 01:21:20 – Why Rare Pepes failed on Ethereum 01:22:20 – NFTs used to be called just “tokens” 01:23:30 – Rare Pepes reflect a lot of our pop culture 01:25:15 – Satoshi’s Games minting NFTs on Liquid 01:28:00 – RGB on Lightning? 01:36:30 – Are you really spamming the Bitcoin network if you’re paying your fair fee? 01:42:10 – Royalties for your NFTs 01:48:46 – NFTs in video games 01:53:20 – Video gamers hate NFTs because they boil the oceans