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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
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.05.17
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - our two first $10K candles and it was the same day! - hash rate appears to have dropped - dutch bank no longer requiring…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#253: Local government, building a strong town, and bitcoin on the balance sheet with Mayor Scott Conger
Join Marty as he sits down with the Mayor of Jackson Tennessee, Scott Conger, to discuss: - Being the 3rd Mayor of Jackson in his family - The day to day of…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#252: Content monetization, art, and NFTs with cryptograffiti
Join Marty as he sits down with prolific Bitcoin artist cryptograffiti to discuss: - Using art to convey Bitcoin's revolutionary nature - Content monetization…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#251: Raising children, ransomware attacks, climate narrative, and Bitcoin under attack with Whitney Webb
Join Marty as he sits down with investigative journalist Whitney Webb to discuss: - Raising children as a countercultural act - Ransomeware attacks - Colonial…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.05.10
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - cake wallet vulnerability - hash rate ath - the bitcoin car at indy 500 - elon tweets energy fud - microstrategy stacked…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#250: Q1 Monetary Base Update, inflation, and haters with Matthew Mežinskis
Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss: - The latest global monetary base update - Why the monetary base is a good benchmark for bitcoin…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#249: Indian Point shutdown, electricity prices, Bitcoin 101, and externalities of wind energy w/ Robert Bryce
Join Marty as he sits down with Robert Bryce; author, documentarian, and host of the Power Hungry Podcast, to discuss: - The Indian Point power plant shutdown…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.05.03
This week Marty and Matt discuss: bitcoin core v0.21.1 first taproot signalling period new multisig guide from bitcoinqna thailand in person kyc this month in…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#248: Fragile electrical grids, unreliable energy lobby, nuclear FUD, and common sense with Meredith Angwin
Join Marty as he sits down with Meredith Angwin, author of Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid, to discuss: - The fragility of grids -…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#247: Julian Assange, The Espionage Act, Julian's Defense, and Journalistic Freedom in 2021 with Gabriel Shipton
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Gabriel Shipton, brother of Julian Assange, to discuss: - Julian's ongoing trial - How the US Government is…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.04.26
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - BTCPay Server vulnerability disclosure - JP Morgan bends the knee - Tesla CFO on bitcoin during Q1 earnings - Public video…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#246: The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner, mining profitability models, and hashrate derivatives with Karim Helmy
Join Marty as he sits down with Karim Helmy from Galaxy Digital to discuss: - The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner Pt. II - Modeling future price and profitability -…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#245: Austin, trillions out of thin air, inflation, and a Bitcoin economy with Parker Lewis
Join Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis, Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital, to discuss: - The Austin Bitcoin scene - The Fed opening the…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.04.19
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Venmo adds bitcoin IOU support, no withdrawals - WeWork accepting bitcoin as payment and will hodl - Coin Center responds…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#244: DLCs, DeFi, Taproot activation, and milk cattle with Chris Stewart and Ben Carman
Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Stewart and Ben Carman from Suredbits to discuss: - The Austin scene - Migrations in the US - DLCs - Lessons from DeFi -…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.04.12
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Speedy Trial taproot activation method merged - Comments by greg maxwell - COPA sues CSW - CCI releases first report…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.04.05
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - coinbase IPO on april 14th, ticker COIN - NYDIG raises another $100M - African P2P volumes hit new all time highs -…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#243: Regenerative farming, Fiat food and farming, cattle breeds, and plebs running the world with Untapped Growth
Join Marty as he sits down with Untapped Growth (Joel) to discuss: - The Fiat Farming system - Top soil - Roundup in everything - Using cattle for regenerative…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.03.29
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - coldcard physical attack - Kentucky signs bitcoin mining incentives - Strike launches in El Salvador without banking…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#242: Ledn.io, Proof of Reserves, risk management, hyperinflation, and the Petro with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo
Join Marty as he sits down with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo to discuss: - Ledn's recent raise - Proof of Reserves - Risk Management - Duration matching -…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#241: Mining pools, Braidpool, resistance to attacks, adversarial thinking, and dev funding with Bob McElrath
Join Marty as he sits down with Bob McElrath to discuss: - NY BitDevs - Mining pools - P2Pool - Braidpool - Making decentralized pools viable - How they may…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2021.03.22
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Tesla now accepting bitcoin and will hodl - Podcasting 2.0 on breez - Microsoft launches layer 2 decentralized identity on…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#240: Bullishness, timing births with bull cycles, Bitcoin 2021, and the youths with David Bailey
Join Marty as he sits down with David Bailey, founder of BTC Media, to discuss: - How bullish is David? - How high will bitcoin go? - Timing the birth of his…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.03.15
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - FTX negotiating naming rights to miami heat arena…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#239: Sphinx Chat, encrypted chat over LN, banking the unbanked, and rearchitecting the Internet with Paul Itoi
Join Marty as he sits down with Paul Itoi, co-founder of Stakwork and Sphinx Chat, to discuss: - Sphinx chat - Content monetization without ads - Encrypted…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#238: Green energy jobs fraud, unreliable renewables, climate catastrophe, and controllable electricity with Alex Epstein
Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Epstein, Author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, to discuss: - Green energy jobs v. oil jobs - Subsidies driving energy…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#237: Bitcoin Urbanism, Parasitic ideas, real world inflation, the suburban mistake and building Strong Towns with Kelly Lannan
Join Marty as he sits down with Kelly Lannan, the mind behind Bitcoin Urbanism, to discuss: - Parasitic ideas - How Bitcoin Urbanism came to be - Being a real…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#236: Occupy Wall Street, independent media, being a stock broker in the 80s, flaneuring, and NYC comedy with Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert
Join Marty as he sits down with Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert to discuss: - Occupy Wall Street - Wall Street in the 80s - Independent media - Propaganda and…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.03.08
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Norwegian energy giant Aker forms bitcoin unit Seetee - New Taproot Activation Method proposed "Speedy Trial" - Malicious…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#235: The history of taxes, taxes under a Bitcoin Standard, and gold v. bitcoin with Dominic Frisby
Join Marty as he sits down with Dominic Frisby to discuss: - Daylight Robbery - The history of taxes - The future of taxes under a Bitcoin Standard - The State…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#234: OPEC, the Shale industry, common sense, and bitcoin as a settlement currency with Anas Alhajji
Join Marty as he sits down with Anas Alhajji to discuss: - OPEC dynamics - The politics of oil and gas - The history of the shale industry - Common sense -…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.03.01
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - bottlepay flagging samourai whirlpool coinjoin deposits - bitstamp flagging wasabi coinjoin usage post withdrawal - I2P…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#233: Raising money in 2020, hashrate derivative products, why no hashrate growth?, and off-grid mining with Nick Hansen
Join Marty as he sits down with Nick Hansen, co-founder and CEO of Luxor Mining, to discuss: - Raising money in 2020 - Building as the price of bitcoin crashed…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.22
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Taproot LOT OF LOTS - BitPay Sanctions Violations - Bitfinex and Tether settle with NY AG without admitting fault -…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#232: Treasuries, inflation, history lessons, and Bitcoin & energy with Lyn Alden
Join Marty as he sits down with Lyn Alden, Founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, to discuss: - Current market environment - Commodities pumping - Rates…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#231: Mining trends, bitcoin liquidity crunch, and money printer go brrr with Mason Jappa & Sam Chwarzynski
Join Marty as he sits down with Mason Jappa & Sam Chwarzynski from Blockware Solutions to discuss: - Mining trends - Hosting - Bitcoin as a messaging protocol…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.15
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Taproot activation timeline released - Dread admins discuss issues with ongoing Tor attack - Jack and Jay Z announce 500…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#230: Layered Money, Complexity of USD, and a New Financial Stack with Nik Bhatia
Join Marty as he sits down with Nik Bhatia, Author of Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and CBDCs, to discuss: - Writing the book - Fed money…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#229: Black Bitcoin Billionaires, Marketing Bitcoin, and Freedom Money with Lamar Wilson
Join Marty as he sits down with Lamar Wilson to discuss: - Black Bitcoin Billionaires club on Clubhouse - Marketing bitcoin - Empowering individuals with…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.08
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coldcard multisig vulnerability https://nunchuk.medium.com/the-missing-multisig-standard-5b4092e3ea92 - Tesla buys $1.5B…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#228: UASFs, BIP 148, BIP 91, and Taproot Activation with Matt Corallo
Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Corallo to discuss: - The history of SegWit2x - How SegWit actually got activated - BIP 148 - BIP 91 - Preventing a split…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#227: Mining, energy, central banks of the future and capital allocation with Harry Sudock
Join Marty as he sits down with Harry Sudock, VP of Strategy at GRIID, to discuss: - Meeting in NYC - Stumbling into the mining industry - The merging of the…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.01
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Elon playing games - Senator Lummis appointed Senate Banking Committee - Microstrategy Bitcoin Summit - Grayscale GBTC…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.01.25
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Wall Street Mayhem - Tor v3 DoS attacks continue - Tighter KYC regs in Netherlands - Marathon buys $150M in bitcoin -…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#226: Sovereign default swap markets as a proxy for Bitcoin's fair value with Greg Foss
Join Marty as he sits down with long time credit trader Greg Foss to discuss: - Surfing culture - Greg's experience trading credit markets - Using the CDS…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#225: Whitney Webb
Join Marty as he sits down with independent journalist Whitney Webb to discuss: - Solar Winds - Q Anon - Operation Warp Speed - Incoming Secretary of State -…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.01.18
This week in Bitcoin Marty and Matt discuss: - bitcoin reorg confusion: BITMEX & Blockstream Explorer & Deribit Dissection & Peter Todd - CSW sues bitcoin.org…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#224: How to cancel yourself with Michael Krieger
Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Krieger to discuss: - Cancel yourself before they cancel you - Free and open source software - Censorship - History -…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.01.11
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Tor v3 Onion addresses unreachable after apparent attack on Tor network - Ledger discloses new data leak and steps they are…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#223: Talking Oil, Gas & Bitcoin with @chigrl
Join Marty as he sits down with Tracy Shuchart (@chigrl) from Hedge Fund Telemetry to discuss: - Oil Markets - Misallocation of capital - PE + O&G - Fragile…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#222: Beefing with the NFL with Jack Mallers
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers, Founder and CEO of Strike, to discuss: - Athletes getting paid in sats - Beef with the NFL - bitcoin…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.04
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - OCC letter on banks using stablecoins - Pro censorship American mining pool gains steam - Iranian mining crackdown - Strike…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#221: DLCs, transaction fees, and PEMDAS with Chris Stewart
Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Stewart, CEO of Suredbits, to discuss: - An update on DLCs - The US Presidential Election DLCs - Oracle problems and…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.12.28
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Our boy Russ getting paid in bitcoin using Strike - Mooch's new bitcoin fund slides leak - Indian Gov considering 18% tax…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#220: Matt Hill
Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Hill, co-founder and CEO of Start9 Labs, to discuss: - Founding Start9 Labs - The Embassy - Routing around Apple's App…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.12.21
Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Ledger database dump - FinCEN adds new KYC requirements for withdrawals - Nigeria is now second biggest Paxful bitcoin…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#219: arbedout
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with their very good friend arbedout to discuss: - Gurri's Revolt of the Public - Telecommunications networks -…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#218: Desiree Dickerson, Christian Moss, & Simon Cowell
Join Marty as he sits down with Desiree Dickerson, Christian Moss and Simon Cowell to discuss: - Gaming + The Lightning Network - Why dedicated gaming tokens…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#217: Lightswitch Lou's Return
Join Marty as he sits down with Louis Roberts AKA Lightswitch Lou, the man who launched TFTC, to discuss: - Everything under the sun Follow Lou on Twitter…
- TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
#216: Pete Rizzo
Join Marty as he sits down with Pete Rizzo, Editor at Kraken and Advisor to Bitcoin Magazine, to discuss: - The war over P2SH - Bitcoin's development culture -…