TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

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#233: Raising money in 2020, hashrate derivative products, why no hashrate growth?, and off-grid mining with Nick Hansen Mar 03, 2021

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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

- Hashrate derivative tokens

- Why a miner would sell hash

- Why a retail investor would buy a hash rate token

- Why isn't hash rate keeping up with price

- Mining off grid

- much more

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.22 Feb 26, 2021

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Taproot LOT OF LOTS

- BitPay Sanctions Violations

- Bitfinex and Tether settle with NY AG without admitting fault

- MicroStrategy bought another ~19.5k bitcoin for a ~$1.03B, they now hold 90.5k bitcoin

- Square quarterly earnings

- Coinbase discloses number ahead of Nasdaq listing

- Teleport Transactions CoinSwap implementation

- Arthur Hayes emerges

- Specter v1.2.0

- Onion Share v2.3

- RTL v0.10.1

- Hexa Wallet v1.4.5

- Samourai Dojo v1.9.0

- MyNode v0.2.27

- Sparrow Wallet v1.2.0

- Blockstream Green adds encryption to wallet metadata

- River raised $17.3M

- BottlePay raised $15.5M

- Can Governments Stop Bitcoin?

- BitMEX provides third grant for Michael Ford

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#232: Treasuries, inflation, history lessons, and Bitcoin & energy with Lyn Alden Feb 24, 2021

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Join Marty as he sits down with Lyn Alden, Founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, to discuss:

- Current market environment

- Commodities pumping

- Rates jumping

- Repo markets

- Inflation

- Historical inflationary event

- Bitcoin + energy arbitrage

- much more

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#231: Mining trends, bitcoin liquidity crunch, and money printer go brrr with Mason Jappa & Sam Chwarzynski Feb 19, 2021

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Join Marty as he sits down with Mason Jappa & Sam Chwarzynski from Blockware Solutions to discuss:

- Mining trends

- Hosting

- Bitcoin as a messaging protocol

- The bitcoin liquidity crunch

- The macro factors lining up for bitcoin

- Bitcoin the messaging network

- Protecting against onerous regulations

- much more

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.15 Feb 18, 2021

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Taproot activation timeline released

- Dread admins discuss issues with ongoing Tor attack

- Jack and Jay Z announce 500 bitcoin development endowment

- Canadian Bitcoin ETF gets green light

- BlackRock "dabbling" in bitcoin

- BlueWallet v6.0.5

- Zap Android v0.4.0-beta

- JoininBox v0.2.0

- Umbrel v0.3.3

- Wasabi Wallet v1.1.12.4

- BIP47 v3 draft spec released

- Bitcoin Storage Guide by Sparrow Wallet Team

- Ministry of Nodes Ubuntu Node Box Guide

- Osprey Bitcoin Trust (OBTC), a challenger to Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC)

- Myanmar internet cut multiple times as military curfew continues

- Matt + Scaramucci

- Texas energy debacle

- Bitcoin is the #6 base money in the world

- much more

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#230: Layered Money, Complexity of USD, and a New Financial Stack with Nik Bhatia Feb 16, 2021

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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 printing

- History of layered money systems

- Different reserves

- How complicated the current USD reserve system is

- A new financial stack emanating from nonces

- much more

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#229: Black Bitcoin Billionaires, Marketing Bitcoin, and Freedom Money with Lamar Wilson Feb 12, 2021

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Join Marty as he sits down with Lamar Wilson to discuss:

- Black Bitcoin Billionaires club on Clubhouse

- Marketing bitcoin

- Empowering individuals with bitcoin

- Bringing back strong families

- Getting people off zero on their way to becoming satoshi millionaires

- much more

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.08 Feb 11, 2021

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Coldcard multisig vulnerability https://nunchuk.medium.com/the-missing-multisig-standard-5b4092e3ea92

- Tesla buys $1.5B worth of bitcoin https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459021004599/tsla-10k_20201231.htm

- Bitcoin Hash Rate New ATH

- Samourai Wallet v0.99.96c https://docs.samourai.io/en/wallet/releases#v09996c

- Nunchuk v0.9.7 https://nunchuk.medium.com/nunchuk-0-9-7-6b74b3848c3d

- Joinmarket v0.8.1 https://github.com/joinmarket-org/joinmarket-clientserver/releases/tag/v0.8.1

- Sparrow v1.1.0 https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.1.0

- Twitter CFO says they are considering bitcoin purchase https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/1359501275650547714

- SEC Commish says they are ready for a bitcoin ETF https://www.coindesk.com/peirce-sec-coindesk-tv

- Sending large files with blockstream satellite https://medium.com/blockstream/orbital-data-freighting-with-blockstream-satellite-2b9cde6aa79e

- Saylor Academy launches free bitcoin course http://sylr.org/BTC4E

- Gladstein + Reason Video https://twitter.com/reason/status/1357756578787708931

- Arthur Hayes Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-bitcoin-billionaire-arthur-hayes

- Castle Island new $50M bitcoin VC fund https://medium.com/castle-island-ventures/castle-island-ventures-ii-and-the-road-ahead-e1dfffe72d8f

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#228: UASFs, BIP 148, BIP 91, and Taproot Activation with Matt Corallo Feb 10, 2021

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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

- Fork futures

- Lessons learned

- UASF as a nuclear option

- Taproot activation

- BIP 8 (True/False)

- Why precedents matter

- LDK update

- much more

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#227: Mining, energy, central banks of the future and capital allocation with Harry Sudock Feb 05, 2021

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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 bitcoin mining and energy industries

- Energy delivery problems

- Grid stabilization

- Central banks of the future

- Efficient capital allocation under a Bitcoin Standard

- much more

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