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:

Tales from the Crypt #132: Dave Collum Feb 04, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss:

- US Professors working for China?

- Coronavirus

- ZeroHedge Twitter ban

- A little bit of Bitcoin

- The concept Frontier Justice

- If not me, then who?

- Immunology

- Fatherhood

- much more

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Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.27 Jan 30, 2020

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Coronavirus

- Payswap privacy proposal

- Knapsack privacy proposal

- Paxos flags account that used wasabi for previous withdrawals

- 6102bitcoin on CoinJoin flagging

- Cryptocurrency Indicators of Suspicion (CIOS) Working Group aka Project Participate

- KYCP.org update

- Bitcoin obsoletes all other money

- New Chaincode podcast

- Casa teases coldcard support for multisig service

- 28% of lightning channels are likely private

- BIP BIP Hooray

- Protonmail and VPN blocked in Russia

- Track internet censorship in real time

- Contribute to open map data, win bitcoin

- Wawa PoS malware compromises 30M+ customer credit cards

- Avast AV has been harvesting and selling user data

- Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers

- BCH mining tax proposal

- Lightning torch privacy PSA

- LN Strike

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.

Tales from the Crypt #131: Matt Corallo + Valentine Wallace Jan 27, 2020

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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Matt Corallo and Val Wallace from the Square Crypto team to discuss:

- How Val came to work on LN

- How the Square Crypto team honed in on a Lightning Development Kit

- What a Lightning Development Kit would do for developers building on LN

- Having a team able to focus on a singular open source project

- Are we pawns?

- Bitcoin fee elasticity

- Dev funding

- Stratum v2

- Matt gives an updated probability of Bitcoin's success

- much more

Check out the LDK announcement

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Follow Val on Twitter

Shoutout to our sponsor:

Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

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Tales from the Crypt #130: Jeremy Rubin Jan 24, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Jeremy Rubin to discuss:

- MIT Digital Currency Initiative

- Airdrops

- OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (BIP 119)

- POWSWAP

- Dev funding

- Scaling

- much more

Follow Jeremy on Twitter

Check out BIP 119

Shoutout to our sponsor:

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Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.20 Jan 23, 2020

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Ronin Dojo v1.2

- txCast: Randomised Bitcoin (testnet) transaction broadcasting to break timing analysis

- MyNode v0.1.80

- lnd v0.9-beta

- Zeus v0.2.0

- BTCPay Vault

- Liquid support coming to Bisq with next update

- Exchange cold storage analysis

- Square Crypto announces lightning development kit

- Square files bitcoin related US Patent

- LightNite game map and other details released

- Apple iCloud backups are essentially a backdoor to phone data

- ECB paper on central bank digital currencies highlights negative interest rates, helicopter money, and more seignorage

- Clearview app face recognition app uses 3B+ photos scraped from millions of public facing websites

- Pentagon accounting debacle

- Bezos gets pwnd by the Saudis

- 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.

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

Tales from the Crypt #129: The Wonton Don Jan 20, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Barstool Sports' Chief Foreign Correspondent, The Wonton Don AKA Donnie Does, to discuss:

- Why Donnie decided to move to Shanghai

- What life in China is like

- Why he started creating content

- Alipay + WeChat

- Social Credit

- Life of the Chinese middle class

- much more

Follow Donnie on Twitter

Subscribe to his YouTube Channel

Follow on Instagram

Shoutout to our sponsor:

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Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.13 Jan 17, 2020

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- RIP Tamas Blummer

- Tor Browser 9.0.4

- Zeus v0.2.0-rc1 : Android APK + Dev Signature

- Instant VPS powered by lightning

- Liquid support on BTCPayserver

- Kashmir internet shutdown 170+ days now

- BitMEX Research shows more lightning usage than expected

- Samourai Wallet announces OXT Research

- FBI tries to set encryption backdoor precedent once again

- Coincenter reintroduces bill to add tax exemption for small purchases

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 checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.

GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies

Tales from the Crypt #128: Jamal James Jan 16, 2020

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Join Marty as he sits down with Jamal James, creator of Polar - a productivity tool for Lightning Network developers, to discuss:

- Building Polar

- Jamal starting and running a successful business for 15+ years

- How he originally got into Bitcoin

- Deciding to build for Bitcoin + LN

- Building for application devs

- Why Bitcoin is inevitable

- much more

Follow Jamal on Twitter

Check out Polar

Shoutout to our sponsor:

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv

Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Tales from the Crypt #127: Andrew Chow Jan 13, 2020

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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Andrew Chow, Bitcoin Core Contributor and Engineer at Blockstream, to discuss:

- How Andrew found bitcoin in high school

- What life was like before the Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBT) standard

- Why PSBT is important

- Working on Bitcoin Core's Hardware Wallet Interface

- CoinJoins

- Coin selection

- Hardware wallets

- Video games

- much more

Follow Andrew on Twitter

Follow Andrew on GitHub

Shoutout to our sponsor:

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv

Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.06 Jan 09, 2020

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- River financial only 8 states

- https://sphinx.chat/

- Samourai whirlpool dynamics, whirlpool CLI 0.10.2 released

- Clark Moody adds sats per dollar and lightning Tor stats to his dashboard

- zeus beta2 released, c-lightning support and iOS

- Polar v0.2.0 released, c-lightning support added

- RTL releases a major UX upgrade

- lnd v0.9.0-beta-rc1 released with multi-path payment support

- South Korean government committee recommends adding bitcoin product to national exchange

- Neil Woodfine on how to keep bitcoin running in offline environments: video, slides, & thread

- Tessercube PGP on mobile, recommended by @coinsureNZ

- Kraken releases yearly government request transparency report

- Cloud extraction report by privacy international

- Russian state energy company courting bitcoin mining ops

- Elaine makes the case for censorship resistant money

- Video of gold accumulation over the last 20 years overlayed with bitcoin market cap

- Debrief creative video by @CreativeLandRun mentions Marty

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 checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.

GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies

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