TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

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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.

Latest Episodes:

Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.07.12 Jul 15, 2021

Show notes

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- bitmex dev grant program accepting applications

- bluewallet mobile focused lightning implementation powered by LDK

- trezor suite app officially launches

- bluewallet v6.1.9

- rust lightning v0.0.99

- nix-bitcoin v0.0.47

- zeus v0.5.2

- fully noded 0.2.18

- sparrow wallet v1.4.3

- mint mobile data breach

- powell on capitol hill

- unrest around the world

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HodlHodl. Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com

Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.

#263: The Bitcoin Mining Council and ESG with Michael Saylor, Darin Feinstein, and Austin Storms Jul 14, 2021

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Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Saylor, Darin Feinstein, and Austin Storms to have a discussion about the Bitcoin Mining Council and the ESG movement.

Follow Michael on Twitter

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Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.

Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com

Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io

Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.

#262: Clean water, a prodigal son's journey, and the Bitcoin Water Trust with Scott Harrison Jul 09, 2021

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Join Marty as he sits down with Scott Harrison, Founder and CEO of Charity: Water, to discuss:

- A prodigal son's journey

- Nightclub life

- Hitting rock bottom

- Turning to a life of charity

- Volunteering in Liberia

- Starting Charity: Water

- How Charity: Water brings clean drinking water to those who desperately need it

- Running a charity that allocates funds appropriately

- The Bitcoin Water Trust

- much more

Follow Scott on Twitter

Think about contributing to the Bitcoin Water Trust

Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.

Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.07.05 Jul 09, 2021

Show notes

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- specter windows vulnerability was a false alarm

- bisq discloses substantial privacy vulnerability

- former cftc chair advocates for a bitcoin etf

- casa client drugged by tinder date in attempted bitcoin theft

- kaspersky password manager was generating insecure passwords

- bybit adding kyc

- fincen hires a "chief digital currency advisor" with justice department experience

- EU parliament approves mass surveillance of private communications

- samourai wallet v0.99.96i released

- mempool v2.2.0 released

- new feature allows you to coinjoin directly to cold storage using whirlpool

- brenntag paid a 70 bitcoin ransom to darkside in may

- nuclear powered mining op in south carolina

- hydropower mining op in new york

- this month in bitcoin privacy

- bitcoin and the american idea by gladstein

- diverter on freedom

Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

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#261: The CCP's 100-year anniversary, the geographic distribution of hashrate, and capacity constraints in North America with Edward Evenson Jul 02, 2021

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Join Marty as he sits down with Edward Evenson, Director of Business Development at Braiins, to discuss:

- The great hashrate migrations

- What Chinese miners are looking for in co-location partners

- The 100 year anniversary of the CCP and its significance

- Will mining return to China?

- How well is hashrate being distributed as a product of this migration?

- Braiins update

- much more

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Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.

Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.06.28 Jul 01, 2021

Show notes

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- windows version of specter desktop v1.4.6 included a virus

- largest downward difficulty adjustment in bitcoin history expected tomorrow

- athena to install 1500 bitcoin atms in el salvador

- bisq v1.7.0

- cwtch beta released

- strike adds buy and hold support

- proposal for federated blind lightning mints

- niftynei on dual funded channels and privacy

- iranian government exempts 30 mining operators amid moratorium

- binance adds travel rule tool from ciphertrace

- nearly all 700M linkedin users exposed in API compromise

Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

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#260: The Great Mining Migration, the market for ASICs, and the near term future of hashrate with Leo Zhang Jun 30, 2021

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Join Marty as he sits down with Leo Zhang, founder of Anicca Research, to discuss:

- Is this mining ban real?

- How are Chinese miners reacting?

- The dynamics of communication between the Chinese and Western mining industries

- How will this migration affect hashrate in the short and medium term?

- What does this mean for the market for ASICS?

- What does capacity in the US look like right now?

- Hashrate derivatives

- much more

Follow Leo on Twitter

Check out Anicca Research

Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.

Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.06.21 Jun 25, 2021

Show notes

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- bitcoin hash drops amid chinese crackdown

- gbtc redemptions hurting bitcoin demand

- the b word initiative

- lnd v0.13.0-beta

- specter diy v1.5.5

- rust lightning v0.0.98

- joinmarket v0.8.3

- joininbox v0.5.0

- bluewallet v6.1.6

- lightning terminal v0.5.0-alpha

- sparrow wallet v1.4.2

- umbrel v0.3.13

- microstrategy buys more bitcoin

- british FCA cracking down

- iran seizes miners

- pysa ransomware targets education organizations

- gladstein on monetary colonialism

- mccormack interviews president of el salvador

Shoutout to our sponsors:

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Unchained Capital

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Braiins

Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.06.14 Jun 17, 2021

Show notes

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- taproot upgrade has locked in, activation expected in november

- Criminals mailing ledger customers compromised hardware wallets

- US Bitcoin Mining Council formally launches

- NY Electricians' union successfully fights bitcoin mining ban

- G7 leaders say ransomware is a priority

- Ukrainian raids arrest six tied to CLOP ransomware

- Biden and Putin meet for four hours with US threatening "cyber response" to ransomware

- US Dems form "cryptocurrency working group"

- Microstrategy keeps buying bitcoin

- Microstrategy considering stock sale

- Swiss broker Relai raises $2.7M

- FastBitcoins now available in Australia

- Russell Okung's letter to the Nigerian government as local support for bitcoin increases

- Bitcoin Beach article in business week

- New guide from econoalchemist on coldcard + sparrow

Shoutout to our sponsors:

Cash App

Unchained Capital

HodlHodl

Braiins

#259: Bitcoin layer 3, empowering dissidents, and the power of the Lightning Network with Chase Perkins Jun 15, 2021

Show notes

Join Marty as he sits down with Chase Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Impervious.ai, to discuss:

- Building a VPN that leverages Lightning Network routing nodes

- Data transfer and user privacy on the Internet

- Building an API that allows individuals to build privacy preserving apps that leverage Lightning

- The second iteration of the Internet

- Node management

- much more

Follow Chase on Twitter

Check out Impervious

Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.

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