Bitcoin's History | Who Is Satoshi? | Epstein's Involvement | BlockSize Wars | Kurt Wuckert Jr.

Bitcoin's History | Who Is Satoshi? | Epstein's Involvement | BlockSize Wars | Kurt Wuckert Jr.

From The Bitcoin Broadcast by Vincent Hunt

June 23, 2026 · 1h 3m · Season 2 · Episode 23

About this episode

A deep-dive conversation with Bitcoin historian Kurt Wuckert Jr. about the history, ideology, and future of Bitcoin.

This episode is a deep-dive conversation with Bitcoin historian Kurt Wuckert Jr. covering the history, ideology, and future of Bitcoin. It starts with Kurt’s origin story in the early days of Bitcoin, then moves into the technical and political battles around block size, scalability, and decentralization. They also get into Satoshi Nakamoto’s writings, the evolution of Bitcoin’s original capabilities, and Kurt’s view that Bitcoin could have powered far more of today’s crypto ecosystem if those features had remained intact.A big part of the episode is Kurt’s contrarian take on Bitcoin history: he argues that many “new” crypto ideas were already possible on Bitcoin, discusses the block size wars from a big-block perspective, and explains why he thinks Bitcoin should be more useful for everyday payments. The conversation also touches on the Epstein/Blockstream/MIT funding controversy and Kurt’s long-running attempt to understand who Satoshi was and why that identity has become such a sensitive subject. The episode closes with a forward-looking discussion about Bitcoin’s future, mining economics, and the possibility of scaling Bitcoin for far more real-world use.Follow Me on X…

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Host: Vincent Hunt

Guest: Kurt Wuckert Jr.

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Organizations: Blockstream, MIT

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