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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.

Copyright: © Marty Bent

Latest Episodes:

#183: Whitney Webb Jul 29, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Whitney Webb to discuss:

- Epstein + Deutschebank

- The history of Kroll Associates

- The global intelligence community

- Private intelligence companies

- The blending of the State + Big Tech

- Human trafficking

- NGOs as a front for trafficking

- The 2020 Election and potential shenanigans

- 9/11

- Why Whitney covers these stories

- much more

Follow Whitney on Twitter

Check out Whitney's Patreon

Check out Unlimited Hangout

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.

#182: Vijay Boyapati Jul 28, 2020

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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 riots

- Jevons Paradox

- Bitcoin is in its embryo-tic stage

- much more

Follow Vijay on Twitter

Check out The Bullish Case for Bitcoin

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: Week of 2020.07.20 Jul 23, 2020

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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

- OXTResearch analysis of twitter hacker's wasabi usage

- Major exchanges working on a KYC data sharing agreement to satisfy demands from FATF

- BitMEX provides $50K grant to Jeremy Rubin

- US Banks can now custody bitcoin

- Utreexo demonstration release

- RaspiBlitz v1.6 release candidate 3 add IP2TOR

- Eye of Satoshi v0.1.0

- Aaron Van Wirdum on Taproot activation

- Testing and improving asmap

- myNode Stack by bitcoinqna

- Samourai Stack by bitcoinqna

- Great threads from @dannydiekroeger

- EFF Atlas of Surveillance

- CIA can launch offensive cyber attacks more easily now

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.

Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.

#181: Zach Herbert Jul 21, 2020

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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 in China v. US

- Tradeoffs made by the predominant hardware wallets

- Why airgapping is important

- The Passport

- QR code standards and statelessness

- How Bitcoin incentivizes open hardware

- The importance of making hardware locally

- Future products from Foundation Devices

- much more

Follow Zach on Twitter

Follow Foundation Devices on Twitter

Checkout Foundation Devices' site

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.

#180: Ethan Vera Jul 17, 2020

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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 negotiations

- ASIC hardware lifecycles and their effect on decentralization

- Market making for hashrate futures + their effect on transparency

- Profit switching between chains

- Whitelisted pools

- Hashrateindex.com

- much more

Follow Ethan on Twitter

Check out Luxor Mining

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: Week of 2020.07.13 Jul 16, 2020

Show notes

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- samourai post mix address reuse disclosure & patch

samourai team
shinobi

- Timing attacks on Lightning Network

- Twitter hacked

- difficulty hits new ATH

- taproot activation

- coinbase selling surveillance software to Secret Service and [IRS](https://www.theblockcrypto.com/amp/post/71261/coinbase-is-selling-blockchain-analytics-software-to-the-us-secret-service & https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/71890/irs-coinbase-blockchain-analytics)

- Zap Desktop v07.0 & v0.7.1

- Zeus v0.3.0

- Bisq v1.3.6

- BTCPay Server v1.0.5.3

- Specter v0.5.5

- Ronin Dojo v1.5

- Samourai Dojo v1.7.0

- Tallycoin v2.1

- blockchain dot com wallet fingerprinting analysis of marketshare

- Bitcoin Mining Hashrate and Power Analysis

- Zap raises $3.5M

- Paradigm provides funding to Anthony Towns

- List of ongoing dev funding by @polylunar_

- Animated QR code demo by Blockchain Commons

- Russian Activists using bitcoin

- Microsoft and the police state

- Mitre Corp surveillance programs

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.

Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.

#179: Kevin Mulcrone Jul 14, 2020

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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 America

- Building Lily Wallet

- Lily's plans for the future

- Live music + blue grass

- much more

Follow Kevin on Twitter

Checkout his website

Checkout Lily Wallet

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: Week of 2020.07.06 Jul 09, 2020

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Square crypto provides grant to steve myers

- IRS is seeking surveillance tools to track lightning network transactions

- Coldcard 101 by bitcoinqna

- Coldcard guides by kisbitcoin

- myNode v0.2.11

- Samourai Whirlpool CLI v0.10.7

- Electrum v4.0.2

- Eclair v0.4.1

- RTL v0.8.0

- Raspiblitz v1.6 RC2

- @getumbrel teases new dedicated node software suite

- UK FCA bitcoin research report

- hardmoneyfilm.com

- Iran gives bitcoin miners one month to register with the state

- Venezuelan military seize 315 ASICs

- PSBT signing in fully noded

- PSBT Toolkit by benthecarman

- Coincenter bitcoin privacy explainer

- Crowdfunded distributed bitcoin awareness project

- Coinbase trying to IPO

- Signal downloads surge in HK as new draconian laws go into effect

- USDC blacklists address with $100k USD

- Tether has blacklisted $5.5 million in USDT this year

- Marty's favorite app Tiktok pumps doge

- Boltz Channel Creation Swap

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.

Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.

#178: Jeff Vandrew Jul 08, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Jeff Vandrew, Founder of The KeyKeeper IRA, to discuss:

- COVID-19

- The government's reaction to the virus

- Masks as a way to isolate

- The media and COVID19 data

- Herd immunity

- The bubbling Cultural Revolution

- The professional managerial class

- Elite overproduction

- Why this is all a class issue

- MMT

- much more

Follow Jeff on Twitter

Reading materials that Jeff mentioned:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/20/reed-d20.html

http://communia.blog/why-are-stocks-going-up-when-everything-is-going-awry/

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/peter-turchin-how-elite-overproduction-and-lawyer-glut-could-ruin-the-u-s

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.

#177: Randy Brito Jul 07, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Randy Brito, Co-Founder of Locha Mesh and Bitcoin Venezuela, to discuss:

- Starting Bitcoin Venezuela

- Co-founding Locha Mesh

- The importance of mesh networks

- How mesh networks have been used in Venezuela

- How to incentivize individuals to use mesh networks

- The Turpial device

- Bitcoin as a tool to find individual happiness

- Getting funding

- much more

Follow Randy on Twitter

Check out Locha Mesh

Check out to Bitcoin Venezuela

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