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@TheVladCostea Avatar @TheVladCostea VLAD HOSTS THE BEST PODCAST IN BITCOIN

The Bitcoin Takeover podcast has been gaining popularity, with over XXXXXXX downloads as of November 5th, and recent episodes featuring guests such as @hiokileona and @0xmert_. Zcash has been making headlines due to its recent surge in popularity, surpassing Dogecoin and Cardano in terms of liquidity, and its potential to "flip" XRP. The podcast's host, Vlad, has been discussing Zcash's growth and potential with various guests, including @zooko and @ebfull.

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Social Influence

Social category influence cryptocurrencies #507 finance #4539 technology brands XXXX% gaming XXXX% social networks XXXX% stocks XXXX% travel destinations XXXX% countries XXXX%

Social topic influence bitcoin #204, zcash #15, xmr #4, zec #13, money #1817, devs #47, the first 2.33%, coins #475, culture 2.33%, proof of work XXXX%

Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @nikolagalilei @ffwjbbs51781 @vellegno @protonmail @zashiapp @btctkvr @thedesertlynx @jpmorga70962918 @ghostofmapl @cculianu @vikrantnyc @uglyoldgoat1 @aaronrday @bobsummerwill @mycramp73 @brucefenton @aszepieniec @grok @synergycorpp @butcherballyhoo

Top assets mentioned Bitcoin (BTC) Zcash (ZEC) Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Ethereum (ETH) ZClassic (ZCL) Primecoin (XPM) Litecoin (LTC)

Top Social Posts

Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"After X days of attending Ethereum events in Buenos Aires here are my X takeaways: 1/ privacy is the new big narrative: everyone talks about it everyone agrees that its important everyone wants to add it 2/ zero knowledge proofs are everywhere: rollups snarks you name it. Every project wants to use zkps and aims to accelerate privacy adoption 3/ zcash is the clear winner: all devs and marketers talk about their layer X or service trying to be like zcash. The only problem is that they have the opposite approach where privacy comes after figuring out scaling (while zcash started from strong"
X Link 2025-11-17T19:30Z 23.9K followers, 31.7K engagements

"When ZEC reaches X% of BTCs market cap expect something nice 🫡"
X Link 2025-11-22T20:49Z 23.9K followers, 6609 engagements

"Zookos cypherpunk credentials are topped only by Hal Finney & David Chaum. Hes worked with all the big names on all the significant projects (and wrote the first blog post about Bitcoin in January 2009 then spent the next X years thinking of ways to improve its privacy)"
X Link 2025-11-24T16:34Z 23.9K followers, 5537 engagements

"There are 9128 cryptocurrencies on CoinMarketCap According to the Bitcoin maximalist narrative XXXX% of them are scams That XXX% means that X coins are legit So which of these X are the legit ones"
X Link 2025-11-25T22:33Z 23.9K followers, 10.5K engagements

"Are you a whale who sold a lot of coins and needs a tax write off for this fiscal year Buy my Zcash Ceremony laptop (1/6 used by Peter Todd) then donate it to a computer museum I accept ZEC only for the culture. Also youll have to fly and pick it up in person"
X Link 2025-12-02T19:50Z 23.9K followers, 7597 engagements

"If Zcash succeeds its much more likely that Bitcoin soft forks Zerocash to get base layer privacy But a technical victory which proves that ZK SNARKs are scalable private & inflation proof is not enough. A regulatory victory is also necessary to normalize privacy + avoid market disruptions. A market victory is part of the equation too. Because the tech shouldnt just be great and politically acceptable. It must also have a good record for market demand. So far Zcash is doing a pretty good job in spite of all the haters who dont realize theyre rooting for the failure of the most powerful"
X Link 2025-12-02T22:11Z 23.9K followers, 8192 engagements

"@chinatradeflow Scales better but the privacy is much weaker"
X Link 2025-12-02T23:11Z 23.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Satoshi Nakamoto gave everyone the blueprint to create unstoppable money. Some say that he created the last form of money well ever need but he also supported the creation of BitNames (later Namecoin). The only kind of maximalist Satoshi proved himself to be is Proof of Work and merged mining maxi. He didnt care that much about Austrian economics and the everything divided by XX million coins meme. Satoshi was a cypherpunk who gladly supported different use cases for his tech but wanted a whole galaxy of coins to get secures by the same miners"
X Link 2025-12-03T05:16Z 23.9K followers, 4173 engagements

"Tried Perfect Dark for the first time on the Nintendo Switch N64 emulator ITS SOOOOOO GOOD Once you get used to the weird controls its a lot of fun. I cant imagine how nice this must have been XX years ago. Its up there with DOOM in terms of atmosphere & quality"
X Link 2025-12-03T22:17Z 23.9K followers, XXX engagements

"dont let the zcash logo trademark drama distract you from the fact that zcash has the best privacy tech in the industry its literally a swiss vault in your pocket and its steadily growing to become a serious contender for bitcoins store of value narrative"
X Link 2025-12-04T22:23Z 23.9K followers, 2026 engagements

"@yugoviking Zclassic Pirate Chain Ycash Pick your favorite laggard"
X Link 2025-12-05T12:02Z 23.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@PakoVM Name a book that Knotzis actually read"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:19Z 23.9K followers, XXX engagements

"bad bitcoin books (bitcoin standard thank god for bitcoin infinity / 21m) are an attack on bitcoin change my mind"
X Link 2025-12-05T15:04Z 23.9K followers, 1351 engagements

"@TheDesertLynx Minus the BSV lunacy these guys have distanced themselves too much from the original mission"
X Link 2025-12-06T22:38Z 23.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@lightcoin Yes but it launched on Primecoin initially"
X Link 2025-12-07T20:18Z 23.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@coinjoined If its not Thank God for Bitcoin The Bitcoin Standard or Infinity Divided by XX Million they didnt read it"
X Link 2025-12-07T20:32Z 23.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures In their quest for purity the Knotzis have gone full BSV cc @brian_trollz"
X Link 2025-12-08T06:30Z 23.9K followers, 2063 engagements

"Arbitrary data (aka spam) is the red herring The goal of Knots is to create a precedent for transaction censorship & UTXO confiscation Why Because institutional investors some of which back Ocean pool consider Satoshis coins an existential risk and want to freeze his BTC to effectively prevent him from ever selling. Some of the quantum resistance debates aim for the same goal. But they have lesser credibility due to the unconvincing evidence that quantum computers will be able to crack elliptic curve digital signatures anytime soon. Follow the money"
X Link 2025-12-08T13:06Z 23.9K followers, 3222 engagements

"@brian_trollz Thats literally BSV"
X Link 2025-12-08T18:09Z 23.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@Ffwjbbs51781 At least it has a bunch of OP codes that make it easy to build rollups & sidechains"
X Link 2025-12-09T12:37Z 23.9K followers, XXX engagements

"@GAB_PUBLIC_NET @ProtonMail @zashi_app Where does the money come from Who made the payment No clear evidence"
X Link 2025-12-10T08:38Z 23.9K followers, 1396 engagements

"@GhostofMapl @ProtonMail @zashi_app Paid in bitcoin with non KYC corn = you reveal your UTXO to the receiver"
X Link 2025-12-10T08:41Z 23.9K followers, 1503 engagements

"@XMRDuckets @ProtonMail @zashi_app Proton has no idea where the bitcoin comes from and its not my wallet. Thats the whole point"
X Link 2025-12-10T08:43Z 23.9K followers, XXX engagements

"My interview with @aszepieniec is delayed by 30-45 minutes because someone from the gas company showed up at my door and started doing a checkup The deep state is trying to sabotage the conversation about quantum resistant privacy on a proof of work L1 🤔"
X Link 2025-12-10T10:27Z 23.9K followers, 1347 engagements

"@cculianu Too late Romania imported tens if not hundreds of thousands of workers from Pakistan Nepal & India. Our birthrates are also abysmal went from XX million in 1990 to XX million today. Unfortunately Poland and the Czech Republic are doing a much better job"
X Link 2025-12-10T10:32Z 23.9K followers, XX engagements

"Zcash is such a great companion for Bitcoin payments But it gets so much hate from bitcoiners I dont get it 🤷🏻♂"
X Link 2025-12-11T00:31Z 23.9K followers, 7449 engagements

"No man its open source software trying something that Bitcoin cannot do. Your chartism is peak illiteracy and cope. You cannot truly test something if you detach it from users and markets. And if it underperforms in terms of price maybe it needs more work. But price is the byproduct of the software not the main focus"
X Link 2025-12-11T09:08Z 23.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Most lottery winners end up worse off after a few years. Mostly because they enjoy a lifestyle they cannot sustain or they have bad friends/family members who pressure them into buying stuff or investing in bad businesses (the cousins rap album project the aunts lifelong dream to run a flower store). This lady chose not to ruin her life in any way. Maybe shes not financially responsible and she knows what she would do if she had a lot of cash at her disposal. Shes clearly not the investing type either"
X Link 2025-12-11T11:18Z 23.9K followers, XX engagements

"Privacy Scaling & Quantum Resistance with @aszepieniec (Bitcoin Takeover Podcast S16 E61)"
X Link 2025-12-10T11:10Z 23.9K followers, 7256 engagements

"I read somewhere that the X algos are now programmed to diminish the reach of any post that uses crypto-related language So if youre saying GM NGMI to the moon HODL HFSP NGU and other stupid memes youre effectively placed in an echo chamber where normies cant ever see it Time to change the entire vocabulary or the space find new words and expressions to describe the most common situations. Then create backups. And backups of backups. Constantly find new ways to cut through. The fact that we are stuck in an echo chamber also affects the low amount of information that normies get therefore the"
X Link 2025-12-11T11:33Z 23.9K followers, 3744 engagements

"Ok so if Zcash pays the FCMP++ dev to do his work Are we gonna call it ZCMP++ or ZECMP++"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:45Z 23.9K followers, 3916 engagements

"As it turns out moneristas arent broke I mean why would they be The XMR price doubled this year Theyre just cheap enough to ignore the fact that their FMCP++ dev needs funding to complete the work. Fun fact: if miners cared they could give XXX block rewards to fund it"
X Link 2025-12-13T12:28Z 23.9K followers, 3056 engagements

"Bitcoin is such a shitshow these days If the market (miners L2s investors) switched to Bitcoin Cash I wouldnt feel angry or sad at all. We sort of deserve it for building a culture pf complacency is stagnation where the only improvements are hacky workarounds. But the world needs usable internet money. Not banker-friendly digital collectibles"
X Link 2025-12-09T12:16Z 23.9K followers, 7955 engagements

"Monero bros: yeah bro were gonna activate FCMP++ and have the best privacy ever bro its coming bro Monero bros when they have to pay the devs to build FCMP++: @vikrantnyc donates XX of the XX XMR raised others complain its too much money Cheap bastards lol"
X Link 2025-12-12T15:04Z 23.9K followers, 34.4K engagements

"@BawdyAnarchist_ @xenumonero @vikrantnyc @grok Its been XX days and the community only raised XX XMR for the most important upgrade in the history of the project XX XMR comes from Vik one from me BuT wE fUnDeD tHiS bOoK"
X Link 2025-12-12T18:48Z 23.9K followers, XXX engagements

"What is the Bitcoin maximalist reaction to the fact that the European Union wants all citizens to declare all the coins they hold in self-custody The boating accident A casual HFSP in between the steak lunch and the steak dinner How about acknowledging that you were wrong and the purity virtue signaling and the NGU greed kept millions of people away from privacy projects and DeFi and now every user who humbly stacked sats on the most compliant podcaster-endorsed KYC exchange out there and withdrew to the hardware wallet they bought under their name using their home or office address is just"
X Link 2025-12-13T18:27Z 23.9K followers, 3661 engagements

"Bitcoin Cash tried to scale on-chain but ironically did a much better job preparing for layer 2s thanks to the OP codes it enabled So if Citrea Alpen or Starkware ever decide to also launch on BCH theyre gonna get much better performance. Hell even Lightning would work better"
X Link 2025-12-07T20:24Z 23.9K followers, 5125 engagements

"@Synergycorpp @ProtonMail @zashi_app You dont understand how this works. NEAR Intents received shielded ZEC that may or may not even come from my own wallet. There is no on-chain footprint for that. NEAR doesnt know where the ZEC comes from or how much of it was in the senders wallet"
X Link 2025-12-12T14:47Z 23.9K followers, XX engagements

"Interesting altcoins that test + refine ideas first proposed for Bitcoin: Zcash: Zerocash soft fork proposed for BTC in 2014 Litecoin: MimbleWimble Extension Block soft fork proposed by Andrew Poelstra for BTC in 2016 Monero: ring signatures Confidential Transactions Dandelion++ Bulletproofs all of which were proposed individually for Bitcoin Decred: CoinJoin by default smaller blocks & stable Lightning Network Bitcoin Cash: dynamic block size OP_CAT + a bunch of restored OP codes from the Satoshi era (AND OR XOR DIV MOD MUL LSHIFT RSHIFT) What else"
X Link 2025-12-06T21:24Z 23.9K followers, 7987 engagements

"The block size wars were a mistake All of this development energy should have taken place on one Bitcoin"
X Link 2025-12-06T22:25Z 23.9K followers, 15K engagements

"@BtcCuracao @ProtonMail @zashi_app No its @NEARProtocol"
X Link 2025-12-10T19:19Z 23.9K followers, XXX engagements

"Do people still send shielded notes to each other Its been a while since I received one u1h2p35vaudr35vunmawtfr9eke96p9t6nuywzzkfqkls4l5rg7e59j3cunz4ku6sfma9xyqdsvnjpv555crmkhl2xaenktse6fextgrklx58s6d0jwl6matxq4gh5ywj92lrrr3tcke3htyaygs5mla9zymk7lml2c2sj5qz9u59gk3k0"
X Link 2025-12-11T21:34Z 23.9K followers, 2083 engagements

"@Synergycorpp @ProtonMail @zashi_app bc1qk2jhefqnzw5d8xjqy88xjy7e604tdtsykafr6a"
X Link 2025-12-12T12:55Z 23.9K followers, XX engagements

"@AnarchyWcrypto @XBToshi Okay tag the biggest privacy advocates on the internet. Lets see if they prefer XMR. How about @Snowden Oh you want someone not associated with Zcash Try @naomibrockwell she runs the biggest privacy YouTube channel. Maybe @valkenburgh of Coin Center can chime in too"
X Link 2025-12-13T10:57Z 23.9K followers, XX engagements

"@VictorMoneroXMR @MuroGEO Vik took it from X to XX XMR But @zookos tweet took it from XX to 125+"
X Link 2025-12-13T13:28Z 23.9K followers, XX engagements

"@rogue_blocker That makes absolutely no sense everyones UTXOs are on a permanent public ledger and thats exactly where exchanges let their users withdraw their funds"
X Link 2025-12-13T22:27Z 23.9K followers, XX engagements

"@LadyAuro_ @Mojang @Minecraft @Microsoft Just bought another copy of Minecraft just to spite you"
X Link 2025-12-12T17:55Z 23.9K followers, 4529 engagements

"Bitcoin Takeover podcast in December 2025: S16 E61 on Wednesday Dec 10th XX PM CET: @aszepieniec on ZK STARKs privacy scaling & @NeptuneCash S16 E62 on Friday Dec 12th TBA: @zano_project co-founders S16 E63 on Tuesday Dec 16th X PM CET: @AbdelStark on building @StarkWareLtd magic Confirmed: New Years eve livestream with @lunardragon420 Awaiting confirmation: @brucefenton @DavidFBailey @socrates1024"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:37Z 23.9K followers, 3842 engagements

"Just paid for X years of @ProtonMail Unlimited using shielded Zcash Wait but arent the Proton guys a bunch of toxic bitcoin maximalists How is this even possible Well Im glad you asked: @zashi_app has a pay feature that effectively swaps your shielded ZEC for BTC ETH stablecoins and lots of other crypto assets. So basically you pay with your shielded ZEC and Proton Mail receives BTC from a wallet that isnt even yours. This is what real DeFi looks like"
X Link 2025-12-10T01:11Z 23.9K followers, 151.4K engagements

"@realcouri @Mojang @Minecraft @Microsoft I never bought any Minecraft games. But now I will add some to my collection just to spite you. Thanks"
X Link 2025-12-12T10:57Z 23.9K followers, 33.5K engagements

"oUr ReSoUrCeS aRe LiMiTeD Dont you have like a big community of thousands of people that could easily chip in like XXX XMR each Wait there arent 1200 Monero users willing to donate $XXX each in a year they all got rich Not even XXX to send $XXX each Fuck"
X Link 2025-12-12T15:08Z 23.9K followers, 2178 engagements

"@vikrantnyc All miners agree to give XX% to devs Otherwise theyd fork off or switch to mining something else"
X Link 2025-12-12T17:18Z 23.9K followers, 1041 engagements

"It came to my attention that Monero bros are so cheap they cant even raise XXX XMR to pay the FCMP++ dev So I sent X XMR which is more than the average Monero bro who LARPs about FCMP++ will ever give Except that I dont own any XMR so I sent shielded ZEC to @FixedFloat I encourage my fellow ZEC friends to do the same show these cheap LARPs that FCMP++ will get built with Zcash money"
X Link 2025-12-12T17:33Z 23.9K followers, 51.7K engagements

"I dont care if I never get invited to MoneroTopia or MoneroKon again FCMP++ is the most significant upgrade in the history of the Monero project And if I have to be the villain in order to get you guys to pay your dev I will call out your broke asses until that XXX XMR gets raised Because you are a bunch of virtue signaling clowns who wouldnt chip in to support the tech you otherwise brag about like its already built While your projects biggest enemy has a money printer and entire armies of soldiers willing to kill on command XXX fucking XMR. Basically XXX mining rewards. You cant even spare"
X Link 2025-12-13T16:50Z 23.9K followers, 5921 engagements

"Whenever I interact with Monero bros online I have to constantly remind myself that these guys are into drugs And lower my expectations accordingly"
X Link 2025-12-14T01:16Z 23.9K followers, 1068 engagements