Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Kurt Wuckert Jr. is best known for his work at Gorilla Pool and CoinGeek. In this interview, he explains why BSV formed from BCH, what are the biggest differences between the two versions of big block Bitcoin, and why he believes he found Satoshi Nakamoto.
Time stamps:
02:02 – Who is Kurt Wuckert Jr? Print shop, 2012, and the making of a big blocker
02:47 – The OP_RETURN reduction that killed his tokenization project
04:08 – The Hodlonaut photo controversy in Oslo: Kurt's side of the story
07:42 – Vlad on the fallout: friendship, slander, and psychological damage
10:01 – The handshake Hodlonaut refused, and Kurt's public apology
12:43 – The irony: Hodlonaut now sounds like a 2016 big blocker
14:33 – Dan Kaminsky's 2011 gigabyte block slides and the prehistory of big blocks
16:26 – Andrew DeSantis, world computer ideas before Vitalik
17:53 – Why Mike Hearn was Kurt's first big block influence
19:54 – BIP 101, 102, 103: when block size increases were not controversial
23:26 – Gavin's 8 GB by 2036 plan and Jeff Garzik's modest 2 MB
26:03 – Lightning, Liquid, and the great migration of activity to other chains
29:43 – Vlad's Raspberry Pi Lightning node confession and the 133 MB white paper math
31:22 – Jack Dorsey and the lightning bank thesis
32:59 – BTC at 55% of market cap but nowhere near that share of transactions
33:22 – Tether on Tron, the maximalist blind spot, and the Tetheral Reserve
36:19 – IShowSpeed in Nigeria: USDT accepted, Visa and Apple Pay declined
38:16 – Chat question: what if Michael Saylor called to pivot to BSV?
41:04 – Saylor's anti-development tweets and the perfectionism trap
42:17 – SPV debates, coffee double spends, and engineering for perfection
45:04 – Why Bitcoin Core devs do not stack: the electrician's dumb house principle
47:41 – The 2018 inflation bug disclosed honorably by a BCH developer
49:03 – The DDoS attacks on Bitcoin XT nodes
49:38 – Why Vlad wants to interview Mike Hearn and the Resolution of the Bitcoin Experiment
51:58 – Microsoft, Dell, Steam, Expedia: the merchant adoption Bitcoin lost
53:04 – WBTC's 120,000 BTC vs Lightning and friends at 5,000
53:49 – Sponsors: Braiins Hashpower, Cake Wallet, SideShift, OrangeRock, Ecash
1:00:18 – Kurt on drivechains and Paul Sztorc: the most rational response to small blocks
1:04:16 – The BCH/BSV split: what actually happened in November 2018
1:08:48 – Rolling checkpoints, rented hash rate, and the night of the fork
1:12:26 – Where Kurt was when the chain split: the somber livestream
1:17:27 – Kurt's coin strategy: the Satoshi index of unsplit UTXOs
1:21:50 – The Binance delisting wave and Paolo Ardoino's price discovery defense
1:24:57 – Who actually invests and builds in BSV: Calvin Ayre, Tokenovate, Gorilla Pool
1:32:21 – Kurt's presentation to one of the world's biggest banks
1:33:45 – What BSV can do that BCH cannot: restored opcodes and unbounded script
1:37:44 – Satoshi's disabled opcodes and the 2010 value overflow bug
1:39:56 – The poker client and eBay-style marketplace in Bitcoin v0.1
1:42:28 – BCH's ABLA, CashTokens, and the governance difference
1:48:19 – The Monero codebase stored on BSV
1:48:45 – The DAR and Blacklist Manager hard forks: confiscation as a feature?
1:51:43 – CZ's aborted Binance rollback and the precedent problem
1:56:13 – Reading the white paper's immutability clause against DAR
2:04:35 – Could courts actually abuse DAR? Vlad's dormant-coins nightmare scenario
2:09:13 – The Craig Wright verdict as proof the system works
2:12:36 – Does Kurt still think Craig Wright is Satoshi?
2:16:16 – Dave Kleiman, the Drive Wipe Fallacy paper, and the Satoshi writing style
2:24:08 – The key slices, Uyen Nguyen, and the missing thumb drives
2:28:30 – Vlad's counter: the California IP address in Hal Finney's logs
2:32:40 – Bitcoin as an American project: Jefferson vs Hamilton
2:36:12 – Hodlonaut replies mid-show and calls Vlad an idiot
2:37:09 – The thought experiment: if Craig is Satoshi, why sue the developers?
2:45:37 – The Arnhem 2017 speech: when Craig tried to build bridges
2:51:36 – Craig's neurodivergence, impostor syndrome, and the villain arc
3:00:03 – The Gavin Andresen signing ceremony and the bamboozle confession
3:05:38 – The rental Lamborghini, the claimed addresses, and the pattern of bending truth
3:13:11 – Ryan X Charles and the post-COPA denunciations
3:14:44 – Can BSV exist without Craig Wright?
3:20:04 – BitVM: Craig's Turing completeness claim vindicated by others
3:21:24 – The giveaway reveal: Kurt's number is 40
3:23:04 – Would Kurt work on anything else if BSV died?
3:25:26 – Monero, fungibility, and the historian job offer
3:27:23 – OPL.dev, Bitcoin Schema, Sigma Identity, and digital sovereignty
3:29:41 – The Smashing Pumpkins truce and the Arthur van Pelt obsession
3:32:40 – The Epstein money vindication and the Emin Gün Sirer apology
3:36:52 – Vlad's promise: uploading this episode to the BSV blockchain and Twetch
3:38:40 – The Mike Hearn introduction request
Kurt Wuckert Jr. is best known for his work at Gorilla Pool and CoinGeek. In this interview, he explains why BSV formed from BCH, what are the biggest differences between the two versions of big block Bitcoin, and why he believes he found Satoshi Nakamoto.
Time stamps:
02:02 – Who is Kurt Wuckert Jr? Print shop, 2012, and the making of a big blocker
02:47 – The OP_RETURN reduction that killed his tokenization project
04:08 – The Hodlonaut photo controversy in Oslo: Kurt's side of the story
07:42 – Vlad on the fallout: friendship, slander, and psychological damage
10:01 – The handshake Hodlonaut refused, and Kurt's public apology
12:43 – The irony: Hodlonaut now sounds like a 2016 big blocker
14:33 – Dan Kaminsky's 2011 gigabyte block slides and the prehistory of big blocks
16:26 – Andrew DeSantis, world computer ideas before Vitalik
17:53 – Why Mike Hearn was Kurt's first big block influence
19:54 – BIP 101, 102, 103: when block size increases were not controversial
23:26 – Gavin's 8 GB by 2036 plan and Jeff Garzik's modest 2 MB
26:03 – Lightning, Liquid, and the great migration of activity to other chains
29:43 – Vlad's Raspberry Pi Lightning node confession and the 133 MB white paper math
31:22 – Jack Dorsey and the lightning bank thesis
32:59 – BTC at 55% of market cap but nowhere near that share of transactions
33:22 – Tether on Tron, the maximalist blind spot, and the Tetheral Reserve
36:19 – IShowSpeed in Nigeria: USDT accepted, Visa and Apple Pay declined
38:16 – Chat question: what if Michael Saylor called to pivot to BSV?
41:04 – Saylor's anti-development tweets and the perfectionism trap
42:17 – SPV debates, coffee double spends, and engineering for perfection
45:04 – Why Bitcoin Core devs do not stack: the electrician's dumb house principle
47:41 – The 2018 inflation bug disclosed honorably by a BCH developer
49:03 – The DDoS attacks on Bitcoin XT nodes
49:38 – Why Vlad wants to interview Mike Hearn and the Resolution of the Bitcoin Experiment
51:58 – Microsoft, Dell, Steam, Expedia: the merchant adoption Bitcoin lost
53:04 – WBTC's 120,000 BTC vs Lightning and friends at 5,000
53:49 – Sponsors: Braiins Hashpower, Cake Wallet, SideShift, OrangeRock, Ecash
1:00:18 – Kurt on drivechains and Paul Sztorc: the most rational response to small blocks
1:04:16 – The BCH/BSV split: what actually happened in November 2018
1:08:48 – Rolling checkpoints, rented hash rate, and the night of the fork
1:12:26 – Where Kurt was when the chain split: the somber livestream
1:17:27 – Kurt's coin strategy: the Satoshi index of unsplit UTXOs
1:21:50 – The Binance delisting wave and Paolo Ardoino's price discovery defense
1:24:57 – Who actually invests and builds in BSV: Calvin Ayre, Tokenovate, Gorilla Pool
1:32:21 – Kurt's presentation to one of the world's biggest banks
1:33:45 – What BSV can do that BCH cannot: restored opcodes and unbounded script
1:37:44 – Satoshi's disabled opcodes and the 2010 value overflow bug
1:39:56 – The poker client and eBay-style marketplace in Bitcoin v0.1
1:42:28 – BCH's ABLA, CashTokens, and the governance difference
1:48:19 – The Monero codebase stored on BSV
1:48:45 – The DAR and Blacklist Manager hard forks: confiscation as a feature?
1:51:43 – CZ's aborted Binance rollback and the precedent problem
1:56:13 – Reading the white paper's immutability clause against DAR
2:04:35 – Could courts actually abuse DAR? Vlad's dormant-coins nightmare scenario
2:09:13 – The Craig Wright verdict as proof the system works
2:12:36 – Does Kurt still think Craig Wright is Satoshi?
2:16:16 – Dave Kleiman, the Drive Wipe Fallacy paper, and the Satoshi writing style
2:24:08 – The key slices, Uyen Nguyen, and the missing thumb drives
2:28:30 – Vlad's counter: the California IP address in Hal Finney's logs
2:32:40 – Bitcoin as an American project: Jefferson vs Hamilton
2:36:12 – Hodlonaut replies mid-show and calls Vlad an idiot
2:37:09 – The thought experiment: if Craig is Satoshi, why sue the developers?
2:45:37 – The Arnhem 2017 speech: when Craig tried to build bridges
2:51:36 – Craig's neurodivergence, impostor syndrome, and the villain arc
3:00:03 – The Gavin Andresen signing ceremony and the bamboozle confession
3:05:38 – The rental Lamborghini, the claimed addresses, and the pattern of bending truth
3:13:11 – Ryan X Charles and the post-COPA denunciations
3:14:44 – Can BSV exist without Craig Wright?
3:20:04 – BitVM: Craig's Turing completeness claim vindicated by others
3:21:24 – The giveaway reveal: Kurt's number is 40
3:23:04 – Would Kurt work on anything else if BSV died?
3:25:26 – Monero, fungibility, and the historian job offer
3:27:23 – OPL.dev, Bitcoin Schema, Sigma Identity, and digital sovereignty
3:29:41 – The Smashing Pumpkins truce and the Arthur van Pelt obsession
3:32:40 – The Epstein money vindication and the Emin Gün Sirer apology
3:36:52 – Vlad's promise: uploading this episode to the BSV blockchain and Twetch
3:38:40 – The Mike Hearn introduction request
