ZK Rollups on Bitcoin: Trustless Scaling, Real UX, No Base-Layer Change
The August 05, 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Source features David Seroy explaining how zero-knowledge (ZK) rollups can scale Bitcoin without base-layer changes.
Privacy
Analysis of Bitcoin privacy practices, wallet models, surveillance risks, and emerging techniques for stronger on-chain and network-level privacy.
The Criminalization of Privacy and Bitcoin’s Legal Future
The August 07, 2025 episode of Bitcoin Magazine podcast features Peter Van Valkenburgh analyzing the Tornado Cash guilty verdict against Roman Storm. He explains how the court’s expansive definition of money transmission contradicts FinCEN’s 2019 guidance and undermines due process.
Balancing Bitcoin’s Cultural Roots with Financialization Pressures
The July 21, 2025 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Thomas Pacchia examining how Bitcoin’s increasing integration with corporate treasuries, ETFs, and Wall Street narratives could erode its founding ethos of privacy, self-sovereignty, and “freedom money.”
One-Click Federated Custody with Fedimint 0.7
The April 24, 2025 episode of the Stephan Livera Podcast features Fedimint creators Eric Sirion and Joschi explaining how version 0.7 slashes deployment friction through Iroh networking, LNURL support, and a single-binary release.
Freedom‑Money or Regulated Asset? Bitcoin’s Next Decade
The April 22 2025 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Matt Odell warning that Bitcoin could become a regulated asset class unless privacy‑first adoption keeps pace with ETFs and stablecoins.
CBDCs or Bitcoin: Choosing Monetary Sovereignty
The April 19 2025 episode of The Bitcoin Edge with Paula features Israeli journalist Efrat Fenigson, who dissects central‑bank digital‑currency (CBDC) plans and contrasts them with Bitcoin’s self‑custody model.
Bitcoin’s Transition: Scarcity, Security & Systemic Shifts
March 23, 2025’s episode of Robin Seyr Podcast with Fractal Encrypt examines Bitcoin’s impending supply scarcity post-2032, focusing on network security, self-custody, and evolving economic models.