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Vlad Costea

Romania

Bitcoin Writer at Freelance

Owner and Content Creator at Bitcoin Takeover

Owner and Content Creator at Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

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  • 3 weeks ago | bitcoin-takeover.com | Vlad Costea

    Marko Tarman started mining Bitcoin in 2012 and hasn’t stopped hashing ever since. He’s witnessed the transition from graphics cards to FPGAs and then ASICs, he’s seen many companies and pools come and go, but ultimately he was there to observe the quick evolution from hobbyist mining to big business.

  • 1 month ago | bitcoin-takeover.com | Vlad Costea

    Use your ← → (arrow) keys to browseAdam Krellenstein is one of the 3 co-founders of Counterparty: a metaprotocol that launched in January 2014 in order to tokenize real world assets on Bitcoin. It makes use of OP_RETURN transactions in order to send small pieces of data which designate the existence of a specific token that has specific characteristics such as supply, description, name, and other metadata.

  • 1 month ago | bitcoin-takeover.com | Vlad Costea

    “I supported it [BCH] before Roger” – explains Corbin Fraser about 12 minutes into the interview, in an attempt to debunk the myth that Roger Ver might have created Bitcoin Cash. But the block size wars, sometimes referred to as the Scaling Wars, was an unfortunate event that took place between brothers who couldn’t agree on the way to go forward.

  • 1 month ago | bitcoin-takeover.com | Vlad Costea

    Saunter (@StackingSaunter on Twitter) is a popular European bitcoiner who’s in charge of design and user experience improvements at Alby Wallet. As a Lightning network enthusiast, he frequently travels around the world to join the communities where paying with BTC is part of daily life – and throughout our conversation, Saunter mentions his experiences in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and El Salvador. This episode also features a live demo of the latest version of Alby wallet from February 2025.

  • 1 month ago | bitcoin-takeover.com | Vlad Costea

    Layer Two Labs CEO Paul Sztorc begins his defense of Roger Ver in a characteristically funny and somewhat self-deprecating fashion: “Well, I just wanted to throw my hat in the ring, you know. Free Roger! I think that, it’s true that, Roger hired me away from where I was working at Yale.

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10 Apr 25

Today in Bitcoin: @lnbits comes out of beta by launching v1, after 5 years of development @BtcpayServer launches multisig feature If you listened to Bitcoin Takeover podcast S16 E17 + S16 E18, then you already know about these.

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10 Apr 25

Been thinking about the nihilism of the argument “Even if we double the block size, Bitcoin still doesn’t scale. You won’t be able to include billions of transactions, so it’s pointless to increase the capacity” Well, yeah but you enable twice as many people to onboard L2s in

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9 Apr 25

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