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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.

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#387: Building Lightning Network Infrastructure with Graham Krizek from Voltage Jan 12, 2023

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Join Marty as he sits down with Graham Krizek to discuss the progress of Voltage over the last 2 years, how the lightning network's doing, and where it's going from here.

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6:47 - Back on the show after 2 years
9:06 - What's Voltage?
14:23 - Witnessing growth of Voltage and LN
17:43 - What have been LN's biggest strides?
19:44 - Could LN fail?
22:50 - VLS
25:17 - Favorite LN implementation?
27:10 - It's not really one network
30:06 - PTLCs
32:38 - There's lot's left new people to do
34:53 - Learning from and educating customers
41:07 - Making liquidity easier
45:09 - Flow and Surge
49:30 - Voltage privacy
50:16 - Competition for Voltage
55:45 - How's bitcoin doing in general?
58:44 - How does a Bitcoin company handle a potential long bear market?
1:01:43 - Conference fatigue
1:02:59 - Emerging markets driving adoption
1:06:53 - AI and value4value
1:10:29 - Will wallets consolidate?
1:11:48 - Future for Voltage
1:17:31 - Parting words

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#386: 3D Printing and CryptoCloaks with Rick V Jan 10, 2023

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Join Marty as he sits down with Rick V to discuss his 3D printed space heater mod for miners, the story of CryptoCloaks, and what it's like running a Bitcoin-based business.

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5:58 - Coffee rip!
8:23 - Questions on 3D printing
15:35 - CryptoCloaks
19:59 - Story of the space heater
23:36 - Temp limits on 3D printed parts
24:46 - What space heater ASICs can do for hash distribution
27:45 - Rick's Bitcoin story
30:43 - Everyone Bitcoiner should have a 3D printer
35:05 - Where 3D printing is going
38:15 - AI
44:22 - Back to CryptoCloaks
50:07 - UK store
51:01 - Word for entrepreneurs
53:47 - Running a bitcoin based business
1:03:16 - Narrative battle
1:10:05 - Ring drones
1:11:43 - What's next for CryptoCloaks
1:13:48 - Plugs
1:14:45 - Mining tangent
1:18:11 - Outro

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#385: 2022: Year In Review with David Collum Jan 08, 2023

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Join Marty as he sits down with David Collum to recap 2022. The discuss Ukraine, the recession, and so much jab shit-talking we didn't even bother putting this on YouTube.

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9:30 - Hocking loogies and snapping necks
13:58 - Rumors that the 3rd jab compromises immunity
17:02 - Brett Weinstein on Rogan
18:20 - Fauci
20:55 - Vax disaster
26:02 - dog
26:07 - Attitudes and responsibility of the medical community
30:45 - Only conclusion left is deliberate malice
36:04 - Australian data on birthrate
38:27 - Sportsball players dying in the field
42:13 - Speak out, get got
44:45 - Azov Regiment, MK Ultra, and Hollywood pedos
56:34 - SBF
1:04:44 - They tried to kill us with Covid
1:06:33- Who's in control and how much control do they have?
1:16:41 - Trans mind sickness
1:26:11 - Trudeau and Castro
1:27:29 - Where's the financial chaos going?
1:39:41 - Gold
1:49:55 - What's up with Japan?
2:00:00 - Inflation
2:09:30 - A story of redonkulous financial degeneracy
2:14:19 - Remember IndyMac?
2:18:28 - If everyone's mad at the start of the recession, what does the bottom look like?
2:21:00 - Talking monetization
2:24:34 - Bitcoin vs gold
2:31:50 - Family dynamics changed by economy
2:35:59 - Mining bitcoin
2:39:32 - Bullish on nuclear
2:44:29 - Marty is a lesbian woman with two children
2:46:06 - dog
2:52:04 - Ukraine
2:55:51 - Moon landing and flat earth
3:00:29 - Dinner time for dog

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#384: Nostr Got 1.4B Sats From Jack Dorsey And Banned From Twitter with jb55 Dec 19, 2022

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Join Marty as he sits down with jb55 to get an update on Nostr, the 14 bitcoin grant from Jack Dorsey, and how the grant will be allocated and the strange moves out of Twitter to box out competitors.

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8:11 - @Jack funded Nostr
12:22 - What is Nostr anyway?
614:25 - How to spin up a Nostr relay
16:18 - State of Nostr
18:27 - How Jack's donation is being used
21:12 - fiatjaf
23:13 - How are people interacting with Nostr?
23:06 - Building clients and the future of Nostr
25:52 - BOLT11 invoicing
29:56 - Delegation
33:25 - Minds social network
34:33 - Things that need work in Nostr
36:06 - Private key scraping
37:33 - Personal Nostr signing devices
39:17 - fiatjaf's monthly bounty
41:32 - Open source community
42:25 - Building Nostr to return to the old internet
49:57 - Three Letter Agencies controlling social media
54:38 - Wrapping up

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#383: Bitcoin: A Work In Progress with Sjors Provoost Dec 16, 2022

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Join Marty as he sits down with Sjors to discuss a million little bitcoin rabbit holes.

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7:00 - A wild Sjors appears in Austin!
10:08 - Senator Warren's DAAML bill
13:46 - Miners could start self censoring
20:24 - Forced labour
22:28 - Who interested in passing DAAML?
24:09 - Warren's terminology of "money transmission"
25:25 - Can this kill Bitcoin?
30:30 - State of Bitcoin development
33:08 - Utreexo and the growing blockchain
39:44 - Erlay
46:39 - Back to Utreexo and blockchain growth
50:44 - Foreshadowing a new blocksize war
55:10 - Building Bitcoin with future humanity in mind
58:06 - Bitcoin full node is a ship of Theseus
1:01:25 - Sjors backstory: Physics and Ducks
1:04:52 - Sjors backstory: Gold and Bitcoin
1:08:07 - Javascript dependency circus
1:09:07 - Geeks project
1:16:44 - Defending your node
1:20:07 - Separating wallets from nodes
1:25:28 - Miniscript
1:31:39 - How's Taproot doing?
1:34:27 - Are devs spread too thin?
1:36:09 - Bitcoin: A Work In Progress
1:41:59 - AI writers
1:46:44 - What happened with bitcoin core v0.24.0
1:47:39 - Checkpoints
1:52:36 - Bitcoin's upcoming 14th birthday
1:53:39 - Regulatory attacks
1:58:25 - Circular economy helps with privacy
1:59:48 - Countries switching to bitcoin
2:04:04 - Blocked by Taleb
2:05:28 - Ending

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#382: The Dematerialization of Money with Jesse Myers Dec 14, 2022

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Join Marty as he sits down with Jesse to discuss the shitcoin mindset, the core value of Bitcoin, and the financial debasement that threatens us.

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9:15 - Nyms and names
10:10 - Unlearning shitcoinery
16:53 - Copying digital scarcity devalues it
21:28 - Crypto is becoming more scammy over time
28:54 - The crypto cult leaders
32:18 - Why yuppies can't grok bitcoin
38:36 - Crypto feeds off of early internet mindset
44:51 - Resisting inflation with hard money
52:50 - Digital revolution of value
55:10 - Progression of better money
1:03:58 - The degeneration of fiat world
1:12:10 - The progression of America's debasement of money
1:20:33 - Past the financial event horizon
1:30:53 - Weak men in hard times
1:33:09 - The peaceful revolution
1:36:56 - Take ownership
1:43:51 - Is the contagion still contagious?
1:49:29 - Plugs

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#381: Q3 2022 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis Dec 07, 2022

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Join Marty as he sits back down with Matthew Mežinskis of Porkopolis Economics to discuss the Q2 2022 monetary base update.

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5:54 - Criminal charges against member of Swiss government
12:35 - Damages from vaccination
16:35 - German military confirms jab worsens health
18:51 - Connection to WEF and Davos
22:57 - The state of Switzerland
27:38 - Opinion on Bitcoin
34:06 - Pascal's history
37:20 - African governments
40:28 - Christine Lagarde
42:05 - Ukraine
49:42 - What happens next in finance
54:40 - Jab is about control
1:00:54 - Call to action

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#380: The Swiss Government Lied About Jabs with Pascal Najadi Dec 06, 2022

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Join Marty as he sits down with Pascal Najadi to discuss bringing criminal charges against a member of the Swiss government for damage done by vaccine mandates. They also dive into the vaccine's connection to the WEF's desire for control and the importance of finding peace in Ukraine.

5:54 - Criminal charges against member of Swiss government
12:35 - Damages from vaccination
16:35 - German military confirms jab worsens health
18:51 - Connection to WEF and Davos
22:57 - The state of Switzerland
27:38 - Opinion on Bitcoin
34:06 - Pascal's history
37:20 - African governments
40:28 - Christine Lagarde
42:05 - Ukraine
49:42 - What happens next in finance
54:40 - Jab is about control
1:00:54 - Call to action

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#379: From Neuroscience to Bitcoin Proof of Reserves with Sam Abbassi Dec 05, 2022

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Join Marty as he sits down with Sam Abbassi to discuss building Hoseki, the potential austerity of a hyperbitcoinized world, and weird brain stuff.

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6:29 - Sam's crypto origin story
11:14 - Concussions and neuroscience
19:06 - Encountering crypto degeneracy and getting orange pilled
25:24 - Working at Fidelity
35:21 - Marty's writing history
41:01 - AI
44:02 - Are we better off than in medieval times?
47:50 - An austere orange pilled Earth
52:57 - What are the problems in a bitcoin standard?
1:04:53 - Hoseki
1:18:14 - Developing a web of trust in third world countries
1:21:12 - Fiat world
1:26:48 - Proof of reserves
1:38:36 - National divorce
1:43:45 - Feds shouldn't be romanticized
1:46:34 - Last words

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#378: Building a Billion Dollar Payments Company with Ryan Breslow Dec 02, 2022

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Join Marty as he sits down with Ryan Breslow to discuss Bolt, Love, and the AI Singularity.

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6:48 - Stanford Bitcoin Group

11:21 - Building Bolt

15:08 - Pain points in Bolt

17:25 - Making API for merchants

21:15 - Engaging with VCs as a founder

26:46 - What value to look for in an investor

28:36 - Bitcoin companies are long term game

31:38 - Bolt started as a Bitcoin wallet

35:27 - Optimism

43:03 - AI art and the singularity

47:13 - Getting addicted to tech

53:17 - Ryan's new venture, Love

1:02:25 - Final words of wisdom

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