TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

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#170: Chris Belcher Jun 10, 2020

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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Chris Belcher, the developer behind JoinMarket and the first CoinSwap implementation, to discuss:

- JoinMarket

- Fidelity Bonds

- Chain analysis heuristics

- Chris' CoinSwap design

- A "privacy threshold"

- Why CoinSwaps are > CoinJoins

- much more

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#169: Alex Bosworth Jun 09, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Bosworth, Lead Infrastructure Developer at Lightning Labs, to discuss:

- Why exchanges should use Lightning

- Lightning as a tool that can thwart spam

- Managing a Lightning routing node

- The nuance of payment channels

- Lightning Loop

- Lighting's evolution with the fee market

- Creating standards for Lighting

- Lighting + privacy

- much more

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#168: Will Cole Jun 08, 2020

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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Will Cole, Chief Product Officer at Unchained Capital, to discuss:

- Will's work in Wyoming that benefits Bitcoin

- Wyoming as a Citadel haven

- Working at Stack Overflow

- Bitcoin Stack Exchange

- Joining Unchained Capital

- Working on collaborative custody products

- Caravan Version 2

- Hermit

- Future bitcoin products

- much more

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#167: Dr. James Todaro Jun 05, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. James Todaro, founder of Medicine Uncensored and Managing Partner at Blocktown Capital, to discuss:

- Dr. Todaro's research on hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19

- The media backlash he's experienced

- The censorship he and others have experienced

- Debunking the recent study in The Lancet that claimed that hydrochloroquine increased chances of death

- The shady company behind the study

- Perverse incentives in the medical industry

- The World Health Organization

- Medicine Uncensored

- much more

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RHR Week of 2020.06.01 Jun 04, 2020

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Trezor releases firmware update and bug disclosure

- Coinkite blog on the vuln disclosure

- BTCPay says new trezor firmware breaks support

- ShiftCrypto announces they are no longer working on their node product

- ShiftCrypto liquidation goes unmentioned

- Bitcoin Core v0.20.0 released

- Square Crypto's sixth bitcoin development grant

- Bitmex parent company provides $100k development grant to Gleb Naumenko

- Will Cole's mother in law is running for Senate in Wyoming

- Chainalysis Webinar Archive Dump

- Unconfirmed Europol Wasabi Wallet Report leaked

- Time-Dilation attacks on the Lightning Network

- 3M+ bitcoin currently being held on exchanges

- OXT Research: Joinmarket Report

- Coinsquare private user data stolen due to rogue employee

- Tor Browser v9.5 adds human readable addresses

- Signal adds photo blur feature

- 6102 on SLP

- Matt + Alex Gladstein

- TFTC Bingo

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#166: Karim Helmy Jun 03, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Karim Helmy, data scientist at Coinmetrics, to discuss:

- What's a nonce?

- What we can learn from nonce distribution data

- Mining hardware evolution

- Getting into Bitcoin in 2017

- Bitcoin as black market money

- Hash rate indices from Coinmetrics

- Viability of DeFi

- much more

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#165: Cory Klippsten Jun 02, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Cory Klippsten, co-founder and CEO of Swan Bitcoin, to discuss:

- Founding Swan

- Bitcoin education

- Dollar cost averaging

- Cory's experience with tech startups + consulting

- Bitcoiner Ventures

- much more

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#164: Dave Collum May 29, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss everything under the sun.

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.05.25 May 28, 2020

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- trezor and ledger web shop alleged breach

- chris belcher coinswap proposal, consider donating

- photo-lib libray for building react-native bitcoin wallets

- use bitcoin core with electrum directly using Bitcoin Wallet Tracker plugin

- blockstream green desktop

- okcoin provides $100k grant to btcpay server

- michael ford on bitcoin core security

- 8GB RasPi 4

- StrandHogg 2.0 Android Vuln

- raspiblitz quick thoughts

- no more fee fomo

- hong kong

- spacex + nasa collab

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#163: Brandon Quittem May 26, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Brandon Quittem to discuss:

- Fungi

- Psychedelic mushrooms

- Smart networks

- Gall's Law

- The Fourth Turning

- Generational archetypes

- Learning what hard work is while young

- much more

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