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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
TFTC is a podcast hosted by Marty Bent about Bitcoin. Join Marty, Editor in Chief of "the best newsletter in Bitcoin", as he sits down to discuss Bitcoin with interesting people.
Episodes
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#805: Canada Is Speedrunning America's Future with Mike Werry and Mira Metter
Mike Werry and Mira Metter, the filmmakers behind Broken Country, join Marty to break down how Canada went from the strongest middle class in the world to a…
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#804: Bitcoin Is Cheap And Nobody Believes It with Matthew Mežinskis
Bitcoin is sitting near the 8th percentile of its 17-year power trend while sentiment feels like the summer of 2015. Matty Mežinskis of Porkopolis Economics…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastTen31 Timestamp: Spirit of '63
Marty and John Arnold dig into Anthropic's S-1 numbers, Meta's first negative free cash flow quarter in over a decade, and why Treasury Secretary Bessent is…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastTen31 Timestamp: Partly Cloudy
Black Monday never showed up. Marty and John Arnold break down why markets shrugged off the weekend scare, and what the data under the surface is saying about…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#803: The Long End of the Curve Is Breaking with Parker Lewis
Parker Lewis of Zaprite, author of Gradually Then Suddenly, joins Marty Bent to explain why Bitcoin sentiment is at its worst while the macro setup looks…
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#802: The Banks Are Fleecing You with Mel Mattison
Mel Mattison joins Marty to unpack October's market selloff and why it may be the best buying opportunity since the Iran war drawdown. They cover rising…
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#801: Proving What's Real In The Age Of AI with Bryan Jacoutot
Bryan Jacoutot, commercial litigator at Clark Hill, joins Marty Bent to explain how Bitcoin timestamping through OpenTimestamps and SimpleProof can…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastTen31 Timestamp: Liberty, Equality, Insolvency
France's debt problem, Europe moving against Chinese exports, Iran under pressure, and the AI and quantum FUD hitting Bitcoin. Marty and John Arnold go through…
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#800: London Closed The Strait Of Hormuz with Tom Luongo
Tom Luongo returns to break down why the Iran conflict was never really about Iran. Tom argues the war is a lever to dismantle the Eurodollar system and the…
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#799: The Economic Revolution Is Already Here with Susan Kokinda
Susan Kokinda of Promethean Action returns to check in on the Trump economic agenda ten months after her last visit. She breaks down manufacturing job growth…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastTen31 Timestamp: Gilt Trip
Oil flows through the Middle East are back near pre-war levels, but 10 year yields and the MOVE index are telling a different story. 🔗…
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#798: The Roman Playbook for Destroying a Currency with Jeremy Ryan Slate
Jeremy Ryan Slate, host of the Athenian Book Club, traces how Roman emperors debased the denarius from 95% silver to nearly nothing to fund legions and…
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#797: The ColdCard Hack Was Only The Beginning with Erin Redwing
Erin Redwing joins Marty Bent to look back on two brutal months for Bitcoin after the ColdCard entropy vulnerability, AI-driven exploits, and the Hugging Face…
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#796: Own Your Intelligence Stack with Tommy Eastman
Tommy Eastman of Nous Research joins Marty to break down Hermes Agent and why owning your intelligence stack matters. They cover the leap from chatbots to…
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#795: Tokenization Unlocks $900 Trillion in Wealth with Jordi Visser
Jordi Visser joins Marty Bent to break down why AI agents are about to collide with Bitcoin, stablecoins, and tokenization. Visser explains why crypto's…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastTen31 Timestamp: Revenge of the Nerds
Trump tells the AI labs to quit "pacing the frontier" and go full speed ahead against China, while Bitcoin claws back above its 50 week moving average despite…
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#794: Why Inflation Is Designed To Crush You with Gary Brode
Gary Brode joins Marty Bent to break down his month in El Salvador and the new white paper making the case that Bitcoin is officially a currency. They dig into…
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#793: China Is Funding The War On Data Centers with Sam Lyman
Sam Lyman of the Bitcoin Policy Institute joins Marty Bent to break down the collapse of the CLARITY Act, the stablecoin fight dividing community banks and…
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#792: Insurance Companies Are The Next Contagion with Nick Nemeth
Nick Nemeth returns to break down the Mark Walter and Guggenheim insurance scandal, exposing how billions in annuity and life insurance policyholder funds…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#791: The Bitcoin Playbook for Commercial Real Estate Owners & Investors with Chris Drzyzga
Chris Drzyzga, commercial real estate broker and investor, returns to break down his new Bitcoin playbook for CRE owners and operators. Marty and Chris dig…
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#790: MMR Vaccines Are Deadlier Than Measles with Nic Hulscher
Nicolas Hulscher returns to unpack Pennsylvania's fabricated measles deaths, a federal RICO lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics, and new CDC…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastTen31 Timestamp: Growth Mindset
A white hat hacker just moved 4,000 bitcoin out of Blockstream's Liquid sidechain, and while that story unfolds, the G20 quietly made "growth" the only word…
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#789: Stablecoins Are Replacing the Petrodollar with Michael Every
Michael Every breaks down the reverse perestroika thesis reshaping macro and geopolitics in 2026. Marty and Michael cover the Iran war, Russia-Ukraine…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastTen31 Timestamp: Druck and Disorderly
The Treasury declared economic D-Day on Iran the same week traffic through the Strait of Hormuz jumped 400% and Trump announced a deal for 65 billion barrels…
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#788: Rebuilding The High Trust Society with Johann Kurtz
Johann Kurtz returns to TFTC to explain why young people are broke despite rising real wages and falling unemployment. Kurtz and Marty Bent break down the…
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#787: Why The Housing Market Is Rigged To Fail with Melody Wright
Melody Wright returns to unpack a housing market collapse accelerating faster than 2008. Foreclosure referrals are spiking 150% month over month, FHA…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#786: The Offshore Dollar Is Being Dismantled with Matt Dines
Matt Dines returns to break down a week of escalating monetary chaos. Scott Bessent doubles the Treasury buyback limit to $4 billion, Stanley Druckenmiller…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastTen31 Timestamp: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Buyback
The Treasury just signaled it will do whatever it takes to hold the long end together, and Bitcoin ripped toward $80,000 about 45 minutes after the headline…
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#785: You Are Your Own Single Point Of Failure with Alex Bergeron
Alex Bergeron of Ark Labs joins Marty Bent to unpack the Coldcard exploit, the Boltz shutdown, and what AI-driven attacks mean for Bitcoin self-custody…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#784: The Billionaire Playbook with Chase Koch
Chase Koch joins Marty Bent to break down principle-based management, the operating system behind Koch Industries' 86 years and 9,000x growth. Chase explains…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastTen31 Timestamp: Dog Days
Marty and John dig into the Groundhog Day situation in the Strait of Hormuz, why neither side looks desperate to deal, and what rising Treasury yields with…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#783: Trump Is Throwing The Midterms with Mark Mitchell
Former Rasmussen pollster Mark Mitchell breaks down why Trump’s Iran pivot is tanking his populist coalition ahead of the 2026 midterms. The Honest Poll…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#782: Fiat Food Is Destroying America with Will Harris
Will Harris of White Oak Pastures joins TFTC to break down why industrial agriculture is failing farmers, consumers, and the environment. He explains how…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#781: The Truth About Fauci with Jessica Rose
Jessica Rose unpacks the Proximal Origin cover-up, Fauci’s leaked emails, and the rush to hide lab origins before the mRNA rollout. She breaks down Slack…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#780: Dissecting The Coldcard Hack with Alex Thorn
Alex Thorn joins Marty to break down the Coldcard vulnerability draining Bitcoin wallets across multiple attack waves. Galaxy Research traces stolen on-chain…
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#779: SPR Releases Fix Nothing with Anas Alhajji
Energy economist Anas Alhajji breaks down the Iran war's impact on global oil markets, Hormuz shipping risks, and diesel shortages driving inflation. He…
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#778: Give Your Agent a Bitcoin Wallet with Vinny
Marty sits down with developer Vinny to explore why AI agents, open source models, and permissionless protocols are converging into a new agentic economy. They…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast777: Coldcard Is Compromised with James O'Beirne
James O'Beirne joins Marty to break down the critical Coldcard RNG vulnerability affecting devices produced after 2021. They discuss how insufficient entropy…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#776: Yields Must Rise, Fed Must Hike with Michael Howell
Michael Howell joins TFTC to break down why the Fed is trapped by rising bond yields and surging nominal GDP, forcing a return to rate hikes despite market…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastTen31 Timestamp: Closed Straits and Open Models
Marty and John dig into the Houthis blocking the Bab el Mandeb strait, oil whipsawing on peace headlines, and why Lloyd's of London pulling war coverage…
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#775: Private Credit Is The Next Bomb with Dave Collum & Rudy Havenstein
Dave Collum and Rudy Havenstein join Marty Bent to dissect the medical industrial complex, SNRI and statin dangers, and the total collapse of trust in…
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#774: Quarterly Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis
Bitcoin analyst Matthew Mezinskis joins the show to defend the power law model against recent criticism, arguing the curve remains intact and Bitcoin is…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#773: Open Source AI Is Non-Negotiable with Conner Brown
Conner Brown from the Bitcoin Policy Institute joins to break down AI and Bitcoin policy moving through Washington. We cover Taiwan’s legislative push for…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastTen31 Timestamp: When Donald Met Kimi
Marty's back on the shore house porch just as the Middle East flares up again. Marty and John dig into WTI and Brent back in the 80s, the SPR hitting 43 days…
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#772: Bitcoin Is The Peaceful Revolution with Average Gary
Average Gary joins TFTC to unpack why veterans are flocking to Bitcoin, how military skills map to mining and self-custody, and what open-source firmware like…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#771: Why AI Demand Won’t Collapse with Mel Mattison
Mel Mattison joins Marty to dissect AI’s impact on memory chips, the hyperscaler debt cycle, and the Fed’s rate outlook under Chairman Warsh. The conversation…
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#770: The Western Canon Belongs To Your Child with Chapter House
Josh and Hannah Centers join Marty to discuss Chapter House, their publishing company reviving classic books for homeschooling families. They break down the…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastTen31 Timestamp: You Gotta MOVE
The Iran deal is dead again, ships are getting hit in the Gulf, and the ten year is back above four point five five. Marty and John sort through the latest…
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#769: Freedom Money In Your Private Chat with Vik Sharɱa & Seth For Privacy
Marty Bent talks with Seth For Privacy and Vik from Cake Wallet about Radar, a new Signal fork that adds self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning payments to private…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#768: DAC8 Is A Kidnapping Factory with Francis Pouliot
Marty sits down with Francis Pouliot to discuss Bull Bitcoin's legal fight against DAC8 and MiCA in France, the dangers of FATF-driven surveillance regimes…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastTen31 Timestamp: The American Century (?)
The guys kick off the Fourth of July week by arguing that high agency culture is still America's edge, then dive into why AI is officially too big to fail…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#767: The First Bitcoin Miner with Alex Waltz
Marty sits down with Alex Waltz to discuss his forensic investigation into Bitcoin's first seventy-two hours, which uncovers that Satoshi Nakamoto likely ran…
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#766: Gold and Bitcoin Are Your Survival Kit with Porter Stansberry
Marty sits down with Porter Stansbury to discuss the looming 2029 financial crisis, the erosion of federalism, and why gold, Bitcoin and timber may be the only…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#765: The Bitcoin Home Mining Playbook with Exergy
Marty sits down with Tyler Stevens and Dylan Seib to discuss their playbook for integrating Bitcoin miners into home and commercial heating systems, monetizing…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastTen31 Timestamp: DRAM Rules Everything Around Me
The Iran deal is back on again and off again, but oil is not buying it. Marty and John sift through the weekend headline chaos to focus on what actually…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#764: Revenge Of The Blue Collars with Peter St. Onge
Marty sits down with economist Peter St. Onge to discuss the AI bubble's remaining runway of real earnings, the coming renaissance for blue collar workers…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#763: The Everything Bubble Is Ending with Nick Nemeth
Marty sits down with Nick Nemeth to discuss the rot at the core of private credit and insurance, why layered leverage from sovereign wealth funds to BDCs is…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#762: July 2026 Is The Portal with Erin Redwing
Marty sits down with Bitcoin astrologer Erin Redwing to discuss the once-in-6,000-year planetary alignment arriving in July 2026, why AI and surveillance are…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastTen31 Timestamp: Bitcoin and the Red Queen
The Iran deal looked like a breakthrough until both sides started spinning it within the hour, but oil kept falling and the dollar stayed bid anyway. Marty and…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#761: Miners Own The Power Gold Rush with Brandon Bailey
Marty sits down with Brandon Bailey to discuss the convergence of Bitcoin mining and AI compute infrastructure, why energized power portfolios are the most…