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: Week of 2020.03.02 Mar 05, 2020

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Coronavirus + Fed Rate Cut

- Whirlpool volume PAMPING

- VR Presentation by Adam Gibson on PayJoin

- Nodl updated with new RTL

- myNode updated with Dojo support

- Casa adds Coldcard support

- BlueWallet adds Coldcard support

- BlockFi flagging wasabi deposits

- Square Crypto announces two new grants

- India Supreme Court strikes down bitcoin banking ban

- South Korea passes amendment formalizing bitcoin regulation

- Germany deems bitcoin a financial instrument

- New York Power Plant mining $50K worth of bitcoin per day

- Coinbase tested facial recognition software Clearview AI

- EARN IT Act to be introduced in US Congress

Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

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#137: Chris Stewart & Nadav Kohen Mar 04, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Stewart and Nadav Kohen from Suredbits to discuss:

- Dairy farming + life in Iowa

- The inception of Suredbits

- Building products to take Bitcoin to the masses

- The Lightning Network

- Key management on the Lightning Network

- Node fallbacks + redundancy

- Discreet Log Contracts

- Oracles

- BitDevs Chicago

- much more

Follow Chris on Twitter

Follow Nadav on Twitter

Check out Suredbits

Peep the DLC blog series

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 you download the app.

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.24 Feb 27, 2020

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Trace fall from Grace

- FullyNoded corrections - consider donating here

- @6102bitcoin infographics on taint, chainalysis, and blacklisting

- Zebedee releases developer SDK

- Whirlpool usage second monthly ATH in a row

- Whirlpool mobile released

- Casa bitcoin inheritance solution released

- Coldcard v3.1.1

- Square reports growing bitcoin volume

- Square teases option to display in sats and auto buys

- Suredbits Discreet Log Contracts Demo

- Nodl Day - March 24th in SF

- Wifi flaw exposed billions of devices

- lol progpow

- Macro and Coronavirus

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 you download the app.

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

#136: Paul Sztorc Feb 25, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Paul Sztorc, the man behind Drivechains and Bitcoin Hivemind, to discuss:

- Proof of Work v. Proof of Stake

- Bitcoin's fee market

- How it may develop in the future

- Is Bitcoin our only shot?

- Drivechains

- Why people don't like Drivechains

- Why their concerns are valid + invalid

- Bitcoin Hivemind

- much more

Follow Paul on Twitter

Check out his blog

Check out Drivechains

Check out Bitcoin Hivemind

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 you download the app.

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.17 Feb 20, 2020

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Bisq v1.2.6 adds support for L-BTC

- Bisq volume up 2.6x YoY

- Zeus v0.2.1

- RTL v0.6.5

- c-lightning v0.8.1

- ColdCard firmware v3.1.0 adds support for HSM mode called [ckbunker](https://coldcardwallet.com/docs/upgrade & http://ckbunker.com/)

- Fully Noded 2 released on testflight

- BTCSessions mynodebtc.com build your own node walkthrough video

- Microsoft ION distributed identity project

- OpenNode fiat integration

- Peter Thiel backed Layer1 begins mining operation in West Texas

- What Constant Surveillance Does to Your Brain

- hardware wallet threat modeling

- DoD systems (DISA) compromised, PII taken

- Bitcoin's fifth largest hourly price drop in history

- FTX election markets

- Thought Police in New Zealand

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 you download the app.

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

#135: Leigh Cuen Feb 19, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Leigh Cuen, Senior Reporter at CoinDesk, to discuss:

- Leigh's journey to covering this beat

- Competing narratives in the cryptocurrency world

- Bitcoin v. Ethereum

- How people are using each

- How each project is approaching adoption

- The state of media

- VC funded media incentives

- Independent content creation

- much more

Follow Leigh on Twitter

Check out Leigh's reporting on CoinDesk

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 you download the app.

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.10 Feb 13, 2020

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Dropbit CEO arrested for running a centralized mixing service called Helix and a dark market search engine called Grams

- Self payments lightning privacy proposal

- Coldcard releases PSBT Faker tool for testing

- Tor Browser v9.0.5

- Tails v4.3

- Wasabi implements Apple Code Sign

- Escher App demos paying any lightning invoice with your connected bank account

- Liquid support on Bisq goes live

- Anon submits Taproot critique to mailing list

- Chainalysis has been paid over $10M by US gov agencies

- A world without bitcoin thought experiment by Alex Gladstein

- US Federal Budget Proposal Mentions More Cryptocurrency regulation and enforcement

- Trump admin to introduce new FinCEN requirements

- Redditor posts IRS audit request

- If US Marshals never sold seized bitcoin they would currently be worth over $1.8B

- Casa releases home defense primer

- CNBC clip

- Coronavirus Close Contact app

- CIA owned encryption company facilitated global spying for decades

- The Chinese Gov allegedly hacked Equifax

- Yandex facial recognition tool

- FTX launches US elections futures markets for top 6 candidates

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 you download the app.

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

#134: Jack Mallers Feb 11, 2020

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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers to discuss:

- LN Strike

- Lessons learned while building Zap + Olympus

- Lightning Privacy

- Lightning for exchanges

- much more

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 you download the app.

#133: Whit Gibbs Feb 08, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Whit Gibbs, Co-Founder and CEO of Hashr8OS, to discuss:

- Whit buying the 2017 top

- Why he decided to focus on mining

- Mining hardware + energy dynamics

- What's going to happen after the halving?

- Is the US turning into the USSR?

- Social credit

- much more

Follow Whit 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 you download the app.

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.03 Feb 06, 2020

Show notes

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Casa will no longer sell nodes, gold package reduced to $10 per month

- Wasabi removes fixed fee address

- Samourai Whirlpool usage hits monthly all time high

- Proof Wallet tool released by @hodlwave

- Eclair v0.3.3

- BTCPay Server v1.0.4.156

- Blockstream Green v3.3.3

- BitMex Research estimates 28% of channels are private, 12% of total capacity

- Lolli requiring bank account linked to withdraw bitcoin rewards for some users

- Lightning Labs raised $10M Series A round and launches lighting loop beta

- ColdCard teases new HSM mode

- ShiftCrypto releases results of new tamper evident packaging alpha test

- Zoomers fighting back against Instagram tracking

- Bitcoin citadel workshop in SF before bitcoin2020

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 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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