Bitcoin Knots vs Core v30: Part 6 with Tone Vays, Jimmy Song, and Giacomo Zucco
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Tone Vays and Jimmy Song continue their series of interviews examining the current tensions between Bitcoin Knots and Bitcoin Core. Because Tone is only releasing this series as streaming video on X and YouTube, "The Bitcoin Game" podcast feed was revived to host this interview series for people who prefer a low-bandwidth audio podcast to consume this long-form content. This is Part 6 of the series, this time featuring Giacomo Zucco. The interview was recorded on November 13, 2025, in a side room at the Bitcoin Historico event in El Salvador.
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Bitcoin Knots vs Core v30: Part 5 with Tone Vays, Jimmy Song, and Knut Svanholm
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Tone Vays and Jimmy Song continue their series of interviews examining the current tensions between Bitcoin Knots and Bitcoin Core. Because Tone is only releasing this series as streaming video on X and YouTube, "The Bitcoin Game" podcast feed was revived to host this interview series for people who prefer a low-bandwidth audio podcast to consume this long-form content. This is Part 5 of the series, this time featuring Knut Svanholm. The interview was recorded on November 12, 2025, in a side room at the Bitcoin Historico event in El Salvador. The beginning of the recording has been edited to...
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Bitcoin Knots vs Core v30: Part 4 with Tone Vays, Jimmy Song, and Murch
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Tone Vays and Jimmy Song continue their series of interviews examining the current tensions between Bitcoin Knots and Bitcoin Core. Because Tone is only releasing this series as streaming video on X and YouTube, "The Bitcoin Game" podcast feed was revived to host this interview series for people who prefer a low-bandwidth audio podcast to consume this long-form content. This is Part 4 of the series, featuring Bitcoin Core contributor Murch. The interview was recorded on November 7, 2025.
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Bitcoin Knots vs Core v30: Part 3 with Tone Vays, Jimmy Song, and Bob Burnett
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Tone Vays came out of retirement as a content creator to host a new series of interviews focusing on the current tensions between Bitcoin Knots and Bitcoin Core. Together with Jimmy Song, he is speaking with a wide range of well-known Bitcoiners on all sides of the debate to help users understand what is at stake. Since Tone didn't set up an audio RSS feed for this series, and a lot of people prefer a low-bandwidth podcast over streaming video on YouTube or X, I brought this podcast feed out of retirement to make the audio easily available. This is Part 3 of the series, featuring Bob Burnett...
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Bitcoin Knots vs Core v30: Part 2 with Tone Vays, Jimmy Song, Luke Dashjr, and BitcoinMechanic
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Tone Vays came out of retirement as a content creator to host a new series of interviews focusing on the current tensions between Bitcoin Knots and Bitcoin Core. Together with Jimmy Song, he is speaking with a wide range of well-known Bitcoiners on all sides of the debate to help users understand what is at stake. Since Tone didn't set up an audio RSS feed for this series, and a lot of people prefer a low-bandwidth podcast over streaming video on YouTube or X, I brought this podcast feed out of retirement to make the audio easily available. This is Part 2 of the series, featuring Luke Dashjr...
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Bitcoin Knots vs Core v30: Part 1 with Tone Vays, Adam Back, and Jimmy Song
The Bitcoin Game
Tone Vays came out of retirement as a content creator to host a new series of interviews focusing on the current tensions between Bitcoin Knots and Bitcoin Core. Together with Jimmy Song, he is speaking with a wide range of well-known Bitcoiners on all sides of the debate to help users understand what is at stake. Since Tone didn't set up an audio RSS feed for this series, and a lot of people prefer a low-bandwidth podcast over streaming video on YouTube or X, I brought this podcast feed out of retirement to make the audio easily available. This is Part 1 of the series, featuring Adam Back....
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The Bitcoin Game #76: Andrew "Cybergibbons" Tierney
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Welcome to episode 76 of The Bitcoin Game, sponsored by eToro. Andrew Tierney, otherwise known online as Cybergibbons, hacks everything from oil rigs to Cryptocurrency hardware wallets. We conducted this interview a bit before COVID-19 took over the planet, back when we were more worried about malware than going to the grocery store without an N95 mask. Andrew and I discuss hacking hardware wallets, IoT devices, home routers, his day job as a hacker for hire, and other stuff too.
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The Bitcoin Game #75: 2014 Interview with Dr. Jochen "Johoe" Hoenicke
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Welcome to The Bitcoin Game, sponsored by eToro. I'm Rob Mitchell. One of my favorite old interviews is an exclusive with Dr. Jochen "Johoe" Hoenicke, the 2014 Bitcoin Hero. He rescued insecure Bitcoin from Blockchain.info wallets. A bit after this 2014 interview, Johoe responsibly published a side-channel attack on a TREZOR, which led to Satoshi Labs hiring him. Enjoy my first "rebroadcast" to celebrate 75, the only audio interview with Johoe that I'm aware of. Full show notes & links at TheBitcoinGame.com
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The Bitcoin Game #74: David Jevans of CipherTrace
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Welcome to episode 74 of The Bitcoin Game, sponsored by eToro.
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The Bitcoin Game #73: Tim Pastoor, P2P Identity
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Tim Pastoor has been focused on peer-to-peer identity and reputation systems for the past five years, supporting Martti Malmi's work in the space (Martti was the first coder to work with Satoshi on Bitcoin). Twitter's Jack Dorsey recently got tons of attention promoting the goal of decentralized social media, and P2P identity may well be the base layer for such projects. Please check the full show notes with links at TheBitcoinGame.com.
info_outlineWelcome to episode 71 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell.
I met Brian Lockhart while having lunch at Bitcoin 2019 this summer. Brian recently joined the team at Casa, which happened to have just released details on the Node 2. So this seemed like the perfect time to have Brian as a guest.
I learned a lot from Brian, including how Bitcoin got on his radar (hint: it's the tech), his five-year Bitcoin Rip Van Winkle experience, and the Casa Node 2. We even review some recently highlighted security trade-offs with the Node, as well as my own case of Lightning fever.
If you've ever wanted to know more about Brian Lockhart or the Casa Node, this episode is for you!
LINKS
Brian on Twitter
https://twitter.com/BrianLockhart
Casa on Twitter
https://twitter.com/casahodl
Casa
https://keys.casa
Bitcoin 2019
https://www.bitcoin2019conference.com/bitcoin-2019
BitBlockBoom!
https://bitblockboom.com
Latin American Bitcoin Conference
https://www.labitconf.com
Quant
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financialcareers/08/quants-quantitative-analyst.asp
Black–Scholes Model
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes_model
Trace Mayer on Stephan Livera Podcast
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/115
Microsoft Xbox
https://www.xbox.com
Bitcoin White Paper
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Tableau Software
https://www.tableau.com
Altcoin
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/guides/what-altcoin
Ethereum
https://www.ethereum.org
Seattle Bitcoin Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/seabtc
ICO
https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-ico
Lightning Network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network
Michael Flaxman on The Bitcoin Game
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-70-michael-flaxman-securing-bitcoin
Bryan Bishop on Stephan Livera Podcast
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/108
Casa Keymaster
https://keys.casa/keymaster
Casa Node 2
https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-casa-node-2
Casa Gold
https://blog.keys.casa/casa-gold-membership-overview-casa-node
Nodl
https://www.nodl.it
Lightning in a Box
https://lightninginabox.co
RaspiBlitz
https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz
My Node
http://mynodebtc.com
BTCPay
https://btcpayserver.org
Electrum
https://electrum.org
Block Explorer
https://wiki.trezor.io/Blockchain_explorer
Addressing Security Concerns about Casa Node
https://blog.keys.casa/addressing-security-concerns-about-casa-node/
Electrum Will Support Lightning Payments (coded in Python)
https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-590 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5192855.0
Lightning Labs
https://lightning.engineering
Lightning Network Trust Torch
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/lightning-torchs-bitcoin-payment-is-running-a-worldwide-marathon
Zap Wallet
https://zap.jackmallers.com
Casa Sats App
https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-sats-app-with-satsback
What are “Sats”?
https://cryptocurrencyfacts.com/what-are-sats
Peter Todd on The Bitcoin Game
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-34-bitcoin-core-dev-peter-todd
Dr. Adam Back on The Bitcoin Game (Part 1)
https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-59-dr-adam-back
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CREDITS
All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by Rob Mitchell, or from a jam.
All music in this episode was created by me, or is from jamming with Mike Coleman and Steve Lunn.
The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.
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