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:

#176: Corey DeAngelis Jul 03, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Corey DeAngelis, Director of School Choice at the Reason Foundation, to discuss:

- The push to ban homeschooling from some Harvard professors

- Why their reasoning for trying to ban homeschooling is flawed

- School choice as a civil liberty

- Myths about homeschooling and socialization

- Myths about school funding decreasing

- much more

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.06.29 Jul 02, 2020

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Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

- Liquid UTXO expiration incident

- Lightning vulnerability: Flood & Loot

- HWI v1.1.2

- Electrum v4.0-beta1

- BTCPay server v1.0.5.0

- Zeus v0.3.0-rc1

- Polar v1.0.1

- Blue Wallet v5.4.4

- Joinmarket v0.6.3.1

- Tails v4.8

- Tor Browser v9.5.1

- Fully Noded updated adds easy wallet recovery mode

- Australia tax letters

- This month in bitcoin privacy by Janine

- Words bitcoin journal

- Using postal orders with bisq by @heady_wook

- New coldcard bags

- Chinese ASIC manufacturer Ebang IPO - ticker EBON

- OCBTCN MyNode Special

- Fake gold in China

- Three Gorges Dam

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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#175: Preston Byrne Jul 01, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Preston Byrne, Partner at Anderson Kill, to discuss:

- Why the law is slow

- Freedom of speech

- Coordinated rioting

- How scalable are societies?

- Speech on social media platforms

- Deplatforming

- Bitcoin as free speech

- Mining pools as an attack vector

- much more

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#174: Antoine Riard Jun 29, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Antoine Riard to discuss:

- Onboarding millions onto the Lightning Network

- BIP 157

- Full nodes

- Bitcoin Core wallet refactoring

- AltNet

- Time-dilation attacks on the LN

- CoinPool

- Schnorr + Taproot

- much more

Find Antoine on the bitcoin-dev mailing list and in IRC

Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.06.22 Jun 26, 2020

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Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

- Waxwing responds to OXTResearch Joinmarket analysis

- Gladstein and Elliptic Cofounder debate during messari virtual conference

- Venezuelan government is now using btcpay server for passport applications

- Glupteba malware uses bitcoin for communication

- Mobile wallet comparison by bitcoinqna

- Bitcoin Wallet Tracker v0.1.4

- Electrum v4.0-beta

- Lily Wallet multisig beta wallet for coldcard users

- Guide for using LND with dojo by dammkewl

- Gladstein bitcoin and human rights video

- Square Crypto design initiative and grants

- Kraken grant to btcpay server for $150,000

- Sci-Hub accepts bitcoin donations because paypal blocked them

- Paypal/Venmo may start offering bitcoin purchases

- Bitmain power struggle continues

- NY Bitlicense gets a little less shitty

- Oracle BlueKai corporate surveillance data leaks

- The US Senate has a new anti-encryption bill

- FBI used social media to arrest protesters/looters

- Facebook and the FBI hacked Tails OS yet never disclosed the vulnerability used

- IRS bought location data to try to find suspects

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.

#173: Mike Peterson from Bitcoin Beach Jun 23, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Mike Peterson from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador to discuss:

- Why Mike started giving out Bitcoin in El Zonte

- Creating a bitcoin circular economy

- Using Lightning to achieve this goal

- Educating individuals about bitcoin

- Airdrops, do they work?

- Price volatility

- Custodial v. non-custodial

- Interesting externalities from the experiment

- The youths understand Bitcoin more innately

- much more

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Checkout the BitBlockBoom Conference use the promo code "RHR"

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.

#172: Garly Leland Jun 22, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Gary Leland, organizer of the BitBlockBoom conference, to discuss:

- Growing up on James Island in South Carolina

- Surfing

- The development of cable TV

- Early days of podcasting

- BitBlockBoom

- much more

Follow Gary on Twitter

Checkout the BitBlockBoom Conference use the promo code "RHR"

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 2020.06.15 Jun 18, 2020

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Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:

- Coldcard v3.1.6 firmware

- Bisq v1.3.5

- Tallycoin v2

- Automated BIP39 recovery in Electrum

- ASIC industry breakdown by bitmexresearch

- Blockstream Esplora now bundles in a custom version of electrs

- PR to split the bitcoin core GUI

- bitcoinqna releases explainer on coinjoin toxic change and dedicated full node comparison [chart](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19071 and https://www.bitcoinqna.com/nodecompare)

- Bitmex and OKCoin provide grant to Amiti Uttarwar

- River Financial raises $5.7M

- John Cantrell breaks Alistair Milne's engagement buying scheme

- Rajarshi Maitra explains his journey contributing to bitcoin core

- KYCnot.me website launches

- a discussion about open source software

- Consensys partnering with major exchanges to help them stake ETH + Matt's thread

- Zoom will offer end to end encryption to all users

- Capitalism doesn't exists

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.

#171: Andy Edstrom Jun 16, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Andy Edstrom, author of Why Buy Bitcoin, to discuss:

- Why Andy decided to write a book

- Pitching bitcoin to institutional investors

- How Bitcoin's monetary theory differs from the monetary theory that dominated the 20th century

- Inflation

- Bitcoin's correlation to other asset classes

- Why pay taxes?

- much more

Follow Andy on Twitter

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 2020.06.08 Jun 11, 2020

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Shiftcrypto makes restructuring public plans to continue support of hardware wallet

- Updates on BIP143 hardware wallet vuln disclosed last week

- BIP85 support coming to coldcard

- Zeus v0.3.0-beta1 adds c-lightning Spark and LNDhub support

- electrum persoanl server v0.2.1.1

- Coinbase is selling surveillance software to the IRS and DEA

- Using ASICs to stack sats without KYC

- Bisq guide by @bitcoinQ_A

- List of no kyc P2P services

- HRF starts privacy focused bitcoin dev grant program with $50K grant to Chris Belcher as first recipient

- Microsoft's decentralized ID protocol moves to bitcoin mainnet

- CoinPool privacy and scaling proposal released

- Three Arrows Capital discloses 6.25% ownership of GBTC shares

- China OTC crackdown

- Brave browser ref link autocomplete

- Pentagon War Game ZBellion

- Signal blog on their core principles and design philosophy

- Stephan has IAMTHECHARACTER on pod

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.

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