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 56 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. I met Peter Kroll at a Bitcoin conference about a year ago. When I asked Peter what his involvement was with Bitcoin, he told me he created the original Bitcoin paper wallet at BitAddress.org. I was pretty impressed, having used his tool often! Peter had kept it a secret that he was behind BitAddress.org until late 2014, and even since then, he's kept a pretty low profile. We cover a ton of topics in this exclusive interview, including Peter's introduction to Bitcoin, his paper wallet system, Bitcoin's division, and much more.
EPISODE LINKS
The First Bitcoin Paper Wallet
https://BitAddress.org
Peter's SlashDot introduction to Bitcoin
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/19/0149234/mint-it-yourself-with-a-browser-based-bitcoin-miner
Curaçao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curaçao
Peter "PointBiz" Kroll on BitcoinTalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=17857
First BitAddress.org thread on BitcoinTalk
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43496
BitcoinTalk BitAddress.org art contest posted by Mike "Casascius" Caldwellhttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=92969
BitAddress.org on GitHub
https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org
BitAddress Changelog
https://www.bitaddress.org/CHANGELOG.txt.asc
Entropy (Hackaday article)
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/02/what-is-entropy-and-how-do-i-get-more-of-it
BitcoinJS
https://github.com/bitcoinjs/bitcoinjs-lib
Tom Wu's JSBN Library
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~tjw/jsbn/
Live USB Linux
https://www.linuxliveusb.com
BitKey (bootable USB image for cold wallets)
https://bitkey.io
Tails
https://tails.boum.org
Canton Becker's Bitcoin Paper Wallet
https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com
Ian Coleman’s BIP39 Mnemonic Converter Tool
https://iancoleman.io/bip39/
Coldlar (new hardware wallet)
https://www.coldlar.com
Coinbin (offline transaction signing library, uses QR codes)
https://coinb.in
My interview with Jochen “Johoe” Hoenicke, who discovered Android RNG issues related to insecure Bitcoin wallets https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-7-bitcoin-hero-jochen-aka-johoe
Estonia - National ID Card RNG Flaw
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/09/security_flaw_i.html
Generating private keys with dice
http://kiararobles.com/blog/generating-private-keys-with-bitcoin-dice.html
Monero
https://getmonero.org
Decred
https://www.decred.org
The Future Of Bitcoin - Peter Kroll asks Craig Wright some questions @ 1:15:50
https://youtu.be/v1_gxvx_QGo?t=1h15m50s
Counterparty
https://counterparty.io
ERC20
https://support.exodus.io/article/108-what-is-an-erc20-token-and-does-exodus-support-it
Peter Kroll - Private Key Custody - Crypto Mexico - Ethereum Devcon 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idLaVk-3pDk
Peter on Twitter
https://twitter.com/pointbiz1
Peter on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/user/pointbiz
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Inforwars • Maxim • Inc. • Vice • RT • Bitcoin Magazine • VentureBeat
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Here are some tipping addresses (Lightning tipping, coming soon!)
Bitcoin (Segwit) tipping address:
3AYvXZseExRn3Dum8z9tFUk9jtQK6KMU4g
Litecoin tipping address:
MCszxWfm4y4Ke39vJZLXwULLRgVmBfJy8z
Bitcoin Cash tipping address:
1EXYkuuQ49uEioTpHY4ZY99edJczbUqQfu
Ethereum tipping address:
0xB8b169192A74746050806671710aeB72F01F6ED1
CREDITS
All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by Rob Mitchell.
The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos.
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