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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 PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.12.14
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - no ban yet - sats back and sats the standard on cashapp - Ruffer $744M investment - $1B investment from One River -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#215: BitcoinTINA
Join Marty as he sits down with BitcoinTINA to discuss: - The new ATH - Institutional adoption - How high will Bitcoin go? - Gradually, then suddenly - Cutting…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#214: Ben Kaufman
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Ben Kaufman, unlicensed software developer, to discuss: - Specter Wallet - Crypto Advanced - Making multisig easy -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#213: Jimmy Song
Join Marty as he sits down with Jimmy Song, educator and Co-Author of Thank God For Bitcoin: The Creation, Corruption, and Redemption of Money, to discuss: -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.12.06
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ledger Phishing scams continue and get more sophisticated - Our boy Justin gets funded by Square Crypto - Brian Brooks non…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.30
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - fresh set of ledger phishing scams sent out - shilling the corn is the cool thing to do now - Our boy paul - Blackrock -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#211: Dr. Saifedean Ammous
Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Saifedean Ammous, Author of The Bitcoin Standard, The Fiat Standard and Principles of Economics, to discuss: - The Fiat…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.23
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coldcard testnet attack - John Newbery and Mike Schmidt launch new bitcoin development initiative - Chainalysis raising…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#210: Adam Curry
Join Marty as he sits down with Adam Curry to discuss: - Origins of podcasting - Podcasting 2.0 - Value for Value - Sphinx chat - Streaming payments -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.16
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - taproot activation hits 55% miner support taprootactivation.com - Second richest Mexican is now a bitcoiner - Senator…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#209: Graham Krizek
Join Marty as he sits down with Graham Krizek, Founder of Voltage, to discuss: - Graham's Bitcoin journey - Starting Voltage - The Lightning Network + node…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.09
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Adam Curry announces lightning powered Podcast 2.0 spec - Ledger Phishing Email analysis - Nodl v0.1.2 - Fully Noded…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#208: Patrick Dugan
Join Marty as he sits down with Patrick Dugan to discuss: - Financial regulations - The Bank Secrecy Act - FATF - Money laundering - Cypherpunk v…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#207: Tom Trevethan
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Tom Trevethan, CTO of CommerceBlock, to discuss: - Statechains - Mercury Wallet - Trust tradeoffs - Privacy gains -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.02
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - bitcoin difficulty adjusted down by 16% - This month in bitcoin privacy - Russian Gazprombank likes bitcoin now - Lightning…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#206: Ryan Gentry
Join Marty as he sits down with Ryan Gentry, Business Development at Lightning Labs, to discuss: - Austin, Texas - Ryan's time at Intel - Chip fabs - Proof of…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#205: Morgen Rochard
Join Marty as he sits down with Morgen Rochard, author of Personal Finance QuickStart Guide, to discuss: - Personal Finance - When you should start saving -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.26
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - FEE FOMO IS REAL - Cryptocloaks release triton case - First monthly nodl call - Travel rule fuckery intensifies - If you…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#204: Max Keidun
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Max Keidun from HodlHodl to discuss: - HodlHodl's new non-custodial loan product - How lenders and borrowers interact…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.19
This week Mart and Matt discuss: - two LND vulnerabilities disclosed - v0.9 and below - v0.10 and below - Paypal adds "bitcoin" - Our boy Paul shills the corn…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#203: Dave Collum
Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss: - Cancel culture - Modern day journalism - COVID-19 - Lockdowns - Vaccines - The Election - Censorship…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#202: Adam Soltys
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Adam Soltys, creator of Coinos.io, to discuss: - Local ISPs - Coinos - Web wallets - UX - Security Tradeoffs - The…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.12
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - LND vulnerability - DOJ launches global push to ban end to end encryption - OKEx suspends withdrawals - Taproot merged into…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#201: Whitney Webb
Join Marty as he sits down with Independent Journalist Whitney Webb to discuss: - Chile - Operation Warp Speed - Intelligence Agencies - Defense contractors -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#200: Ansel Linder
Join Marty as he sits down with Ansel Linder to discuss: - 2015 + 2016 bear market - Different iterations of altcoins - Fed Policy - Is QE inflationary or…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#199: Edward Evenson
Join Marty as he sits down with Edward Evenson, Head of Business Development at Slush Pool / Braiins Systems, to discuss: - Mining pools - The race to zero…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.05
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Square buys $50M worth of bitcoin - New Europol report - Travel rule rumors swirl - New DoJ framework - HMRC orders…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#198: Leo Zhang
Join Marty as he sits down with Leo Zhang, Founder of Anicca Research, to discuss: - The Alchemy of Hashpower - Stakeholders within the mining industry - ASICs…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#197: Joost Jager
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Joost Jager, independent Lightning Network developer, to discuss: - Griefing Attacks - Circuit Breaker - Routing on…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.09.28
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - BitMEX hit by CFTC and Department of Justice - KuCoin hacked for $150M - New Zealand tax authority seeking personal info…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#196: Cynthia Lummis
Join Marty as he sits down with Cynthia Lummis, the Rebulican Nominee for the U.S. Senate out of Wyoming, to discuss: - Cynthia's platform of fiscal…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#195: Stephan Kinsella
Join Marty as he sits down with Stephan Kinsella to discuss: - State's rights - The Lockdowns - The Constitution - The Government v. The State - Bitcoin didn't…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#194: Junseth
Join Marty as he sits down with the affable Junseth to discuss: - America's Culture War - Are we in a Civil War? - When did the Civil War start? - Miners are…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#193: Matthew Black
Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Black, co-founder of Atomic Finance, to discuss: - Building on Ethereum - Ethereum's limitations - ETH 2.0 transition -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.09.21
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Lightning node firewall circuitbreaker - Iran power plants making mining moves - Timeline of bitmain power struggle - Bisq…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#192: Christopher Gimmer + Marc Chouinard
Join Marty as he sits down with Christopher Gimmer and Marc Chouinard, co-founders of Snappa, to discuss: - Bootstrapping v. Raising funds from VCs - Building…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#191: Matthew Mežinskis
Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis of the Crypto Voices Podcast to discuss: - Q2 2020 Global Monetary Base update - Defining Base Monies - Where…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.09.14
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Stacking Saylor - Bakkt all time high daily volume - Coin Control in Ledger Live - Square Crypto provides another $100K…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.09.07
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - CVE-2018-17145 Bitcoin vulnerability (that has since been patched) disclosed - Flaxman digs specter too - So does Ketan -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#190: Ben Carman
Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Carman from Suredbits to discuss: - Ben's transition from Bernie Bro to Libertarian - Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs) - An…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.08.31
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - bitblockboom reflections - Trezor/Keepkey passphrase vuln - Trezor security patch - Alleged electrum phishing attack - This…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap LIVE: Week of 2020.08.27
Join Marty, Matt, Justin Moon, Jeff Vandrew, and the audience from BitBlockBoom as they discuss: - CoinJoin wars - Equinor working with Crusoe Energy -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#189: Fabian Jahr
Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Fabian Jahr to discuss: - Fabian's year since leaving the Chaincode residency - His OKCoin grant - The…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#188: Chris Bendiksen
Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Bendiksen, Head of Research at Coinshares, to discuss: - Consciousness - Time - Mining - Hashrate derivatives -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#187: Luke Gromen
Join Marty as he sits down with Luke Gromen, founder of Forrest for the Trees research firm, to discuss: - The Dollar as a rubber band ruler - The Fed's…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.08.17
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ongoing bsv dust attack - OXT research alleged wasabi vulnerability - Strike adds cashback - Hash rate hits ATH then floods…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#186: Alex Leishman & Andrew Benson
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Alex Leishman and Andrew Benson, co-founders of River Financial, to discuss: - Starting a company with your cousin -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.08.10
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - numbers run, yams fucked, fees sliced - malicious tor exit node attacks - microstrategy macro strategy - portnoy and…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#185: Lyn Alden
Join Marty as he sits down with Lyn Alden, founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, to discuss: - QE's affect on inequality - The Triffin Dilemma - The double…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#184: Clark Moody
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Clark Moody, data don, to discuss: - The early days of bitcoin data - Making a dashboard of bitcoin data - What…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.08.03
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Tor Project response to "zero day" disclosures - Ledger App Isolation Bypass - disclosure - ledger response - 17 year old…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.07.27
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ledger personal info hacked - Chainalysis public dashboard (Use a VPN or Tor) - Murch post on enterprise UTXO management -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#183: Whitney Webb
Join Marty as he sits down with Whitney Webb to discuss: - Epstein + Deutschebank - The history of Kroll Associates - The global intelligence community -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#182: Vijay Boyapati
Join Marty as he sits down with Vijay Boyapati to discuss: - Tales of moving gold across borders - The Bullish Case for Bitcoin - Austrian Economics - The…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.07.20
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - More thoughts on samourai postmix address reuse issue from last week - Wasabi blog on twitter hack posted then deleted -…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#181: Zach Herbert
Join Marty as he sits down with Zach Herbert, Co-founder of Foundation Devices, to discuss: - Zach's experience at Obelisk - Nuance of hardware manufacturing…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#180: Ethan Vera
Join Marty as he sits down with Ethan Vera, Hashrate Merchant at Luxor Mining, to discuss: - Mining pools - Their historical lack of transparency - Pool fee…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.07.13
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - samourai post mix address reuse disclosure & patch samourai team shinobi - Timing attacks on Lightning Network - Twitter…
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast#179: Kevin Mulcrone
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Kevin Mulcrone, founder of Lily Wallet, to discuss: - Free Banking Systems of the past - The Civil War + banking in…
TFTC: A Bitcoin PodcastRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.07.06
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Square crypto provides grant to steve myers - IRS is seeking surveillance tools to track lightning network transactions -…