S17 E46: Livestream from Tabconf 8, Part 1 (feat. Paul Sztorc, Andre Beganski, Alex Lewin, Janusz, Christopher Allen, Will & Michael Tidwell)

Live from TABConf 8 in Atlanta: Paul Sztorc demos a quantum-resistant soft fork, Christopher Allen on Blockchain Commons, Michael Tidwell on TABConf, plus Andre Beganski, Alex Lewin, Janusz and Will on their work in the space. Recorded on Wednesday, October 14th 2026.

Time stamps:

0:00 Stream warm-up 1:55 Welcome to Bitcoin Takeover at TABConf 8 with Paul Sztorc 2:30 CUSF 2 demo: quantum-resistant signatures, OP_VAULT, OP_CTV & OP_CAT 4:30 Sweeping coins into a quantum-resistant UTXO with BitWindow 5:05 Why miners will never run it 5:52 Is quantum FUD? Pascal's Wager & Saylor 7:50 Bitcoin's overconfidence & the competition 8:41 How altcoins took Bitcoin's use cases 10:17 Greg Maxwell & the belief in Bitcoin's infallibility 11:39 Camera dies, webcam to the rescue 12:30 eCash hard fork: free coins later this month 13:08 Soft forks are opt-in, ignorable & reversible 14:35 Kafkaesque: will soft forks become mandatory? 16:01 Live questions: claiming eCash & does Saylor self-custody? 16:46 Mike Belshe, BitGo & custodians 17:48 The war on crypto, PGP & Enigma 18:44 How to claim your eCash coins 19:13 Liquidity pools instead of paying for exchange listings 21:37 Shinobi walks by & the Coldcard trophy 21:50 Paul leaves for the Town Hall 22:34 Spotting Christopher Allen & sponsor thanks 24:14 André Beganski joins: from Decrypt to MARA Foundation 25:25 Decrypt, The Block & trade publications 25:57 DL News & DeFi Llama 26:49 Blockworks' offer & Supply Shock 27:43 BTCTKVR: Forks! magazine 28:10 The Ledger magazine & sourdough bakers 29:43 Going independent: Bitcoin Magazine vs Bitcoin Takeover 30:30 Storytellers vs AI 32:13 Original reporting & journalism as a public good 33:54 Sponsors & transparency 34:36 Camera battery woes & how to follow André 35:50 Orange Rock sponsor break 37:55 Alex Lewin joins: Finite & private AI 38:47 Fedi, Blockspaces & NCR 39:28 Atlanta, BitDevs & Capture the Bitcoin 40:14 Janusz joins: Zark = Zcash + Spark 41:38 Private AI meets private money 43:35 Privacy as an ingredient for liberty 44:03 Fungibility & a universal currency 45:21 Why Zcash-style privacy and not Monero? 47:05 Shielded pools vs ring signatures 49:44 Scaling privacy: Tachyon vs FCMP++ 51:18 The first inning of privacy research 53:56 A bearish year: what still makes you bullish? 56:23 AI will make Bitcoin better, not worse 57:46 Why aren't you at the TABConf funeral? 58:50 The hallway track & why showing up matters 1:00:48 AI psychosis & conferences 1:01:36 Coffee, tobacco & AI as a productivity drug 1:03:08 Forks magazine handout 1:03:46 Atlanta's BeltLine 1:04:52 Favorite conferences: Bitcoin++ & Nashville 1:06:12 The Town Hall & the Tabbies 1:06:47 Paul has spoken at all eight TABConfs 1:07:43 Favorite fork? Bitcoin vs Zcash 1:09:22 The Orchard bug & a coordinated soft fork 1:11:29 Only Bitcoin is stubborn enough to invent witness encryption 1:11:59 Two hard forks this year: Luke's coin & eCash 1:12:40 Fork strategy: don't touch cold storage 1:13:43 Zcash as a BIP 300 drivechain 1:14:52 If Bitcoin goes to zero 1:16:13 Christopher Allen joins 1:17:40 Randomness warnings & VeriSign security reviews 1:19:32 LetheKit & dice entropy 1:20:00 Don't rely on any single key: multisig, MuSig & FROST 1:21:00 Wallet companies & the Coldcard victims 1:22:34 Coinkite, open source & closing the code 1:24:15 No single points of failure, compromise or denial 1:25:08 How Coldcard treated security researchers 1:26:36 Bug bounties in the age of LLMs 1:27:51 Cypherpunks who embraced Bitcoin 1:28:45 Netscape, SSL 2 & the RSAREF license 1:30:18 Writing the SSL 3 reference implementation & TLS 1.0 1:30:47 DigiCash & David Chaum 1:31:29 Certicom, micro-currencies & the Merkle patent 1:32:03 Schnorr patents & ECDSA 1:33:10 secp256r1 suspicions vs secp256k1 1:35:44 Discovering Bitcoin in 2013 1:36:08 UTXOs to revoke X.509 certificates 1:37:08 Decentralized identifiers & DPKI 1:37:37 Paul Sztorc returns: Rebooting the Web of Trust 1:38:32 Namecoin 1:38:59 Christopher's beef: key reuse in Ethereum & Nostr 1:40:30 BIP 32 & one key pair per identity 1:41:19 Christopher promises a part two 1:42:46 Paul introduces Will: 21 days before the midterms 1:43:35 Will on six privacy prisoners 1:43:59 Larry Harmon & Ian Freeman 1:44:45 Roman Sterlingov & Bitcoin Fog 1:47:32 Roman Storm & Tornado Cash 1:48:19 Samourai: Keonne Rodriguez & William Hill 1:50:59 The judge switch & the plea deals 1:54:25 The pardon campaign 1:55:42 Aaron Day's StarkFreedom PAC 1:58:52 Michael Tidwell joins 1:59:42 The Tabbies 2:01:29 Why TABConf 8 is the last one 2:02:01 Death by a thousand cuts 2:03:51 My first TABConf & thanking the sponsors 2:05:27 eCash: the calmest hard fork in memory 2:07:16 Will miners steal from drivechains? 2:08:15 TABConf debates: BTC vs BCH vs BSV 2:09:06 Monero, Dash & bringing people into the fold 2:09:51 Amanda B. Johnson & DarkCoin at the monthly meetup 2:11:55 No-shill policy during the ICO craze 2:12:50 Paul Sztorc's TABConf debates & Peter Todd 2:14:08 How TABConf got scammed in 2019 2:17:58 Greg Maxwell, Nick Szabo & who never came 2:19:45 Why the obituary happened a day early 2:20:31 Forks magazine 2:21:20 Top highlights: hardcore trivia & the standing ovation 2:23:40 What will Michael do with his eCash? 2:24:00 Kill Tidwell: Bitcoin comedy 2:25:12 Matt Odell never came 2:26:13 The first Bitcoin car & Rassah's plane 2:27:36 Atlanta lore: Jeff Garzik, Stephen Pair & BitPay 2:29:42 Bitcoin is not my religion 2:31:01 Favorite fork: Taproot 2:32:45 I like all the hard forks 2:35:24 Diversifying into airdrops: the most irrational VC 2:38:47 Goodbye Michael & wrap-up