This was a long one... 7 hours!

There were some parts that were interesting as he was working on Bitcoin very early. One of the main points he likes to rant on is that Bitcoin has a leadership problem. Core has been corrupt for a long time and there's no one accountable for anyting. He want's a bunch of L2's so that people can build secure sidechains on Bitcoin.

I thought Amir was pretty hypocritical and you can tell he's been away from Bitcoin for a long time. Some examples were that he said Monero is great for funding a militia, while later saying ring signatures are broken. He talks of creating "darkfi" to create true anonymity and censorship resistant while not being able to comment on whether there will be a token (of course there will be!).

Sadly Vlad might have been a bit star struck to push back a bit when he's criticizing Bitcoin or nostr. The last year The Bitcoin Takeover pod has become a bit of a sh$tcoin show.

Anyway, there were some interesting stories about Peter Todd and Luke Dashir.