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 2019.12.02 Dec 05, 2019

Show notes

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Bakkt weekly volume all time high

- Bakkt ceo Kelly Loeffler tapped as new Georgia senator

- The second Boltathon online lightning conference this weekend, tickets are 800k sats

- easypaysy bitcoin accounts proposal

- On The Brink podcast with former head of Circle OTC desk Dan Matuszewski

- Bitfinex adds lightning deposits and withdrawals

- A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack by Lucas Nuzzi

- TFTC with Matt Ahlborg

- Interesting reddit discussion about Confidential Transactions

- Wasabi v1.1.10 RC1 released - go test it and earn sats

- Badass BTCPay cleats by Russel Okung

- Great Fold commercial by @bvbtc and @content_noir

- BottlePay chat sats launched

- Tails 4.1 released

- Binance launches no fee Tezos staking undercutting all noncustodial options

- Tron backed Poloniex flexes on DGB founder

- OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY

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.

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Tales from the Crypt #120: Matt Ahlborg Dec 03, 2019

Show notes

Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Ahlborg, Data Scientist and Founder of Usefultulips.org, to discuss:

- Why Matt is interested in P2P trading specifically

- How Bitcoin is being used around the world

- Developing the Usage Per Economic (Online) Person metric

- What it's like cold calling a P2P trader

- Why are people using Bitcoin?

- What Matt plans to do in the future

- much more

Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MattAhlborg

Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

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.

Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions!

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv

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

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.25 Nov 29, 2019

Show notes

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Bitcoin Core 0.19.0 released - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-core-0-19-0-released-heres-whats-new

- ColdCard firmware 3.0.5 released

- Bakkt daily volume - https://twitter.com/BakktBot/status/1200417914744135680?s=20

- Bitmex research analyzes IBD - https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoins-initial-block-download/

- Telegram's Durov issues scathing statement - https://t.me/durov/109

- Two great pieces from Coindesk's Leigh Cuen https://www.coindesk.com/global-protests-reveal-bitcoins-limitations - https://www.coindesk.com/lebanese-bitcoiners-show-how-to-talk-about-crypto-at-thanksgiving

- Nigerians + Bitcoin - https://medium.com/dlabvc/paxful-is-the-most-important-bitcoin-company-you-arent-paying-attention-to-4e699db0c5ca

- Great presentation by Alex Gladstein - https://vimeo.com/375118500

- Venezuelans using RuneScape for additional income - https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2019/11/21/venezuelas-paper-currency-is-worthless-so-its-people-seek-virtual-gold

- South Korean exchange UPbit allegedly hacked: https://etherscan.io/address/0xa09871AEadF4994Ca12f5c0b6056BBd1d343c029

- Eric Wall write up of "stablecoins" - https://medium.com/human-rights-foundation-hrf/privacy-and-cryptocurrency-part-iv-stablecoins-for-human-rights-blacklists-and-traceability-6d74ee17c25d

- DMVs are selling your info https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjekz/the-california-dmv-is-making-dollar50m-a-year-selling-drivers-personal-information

- Jameson Lopp’s IBD research https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-node-performance-sync-tests/

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.

Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo!

Tales from the Crypt #119: Chris Arnade Nov 26, 2019

Show notes

Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Arnade, Author of Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America, to discuss:

- Traveling through back row America

- Cognitive hubs and spatial redistribution

- Trading on Wall Street

- Connecting with "the other"

- Retribution as politics

- The importance of community

- much more

Follow Chris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade

Pick up Dignity: https://www.amazon.com/Dignity-Seeking-Respect-Back-America/dp/0525534733

Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv

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

Tales from the Crypt #118: Will Reeves Nov 22, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Will Reeves, Founder of Fold, to discuss:

- How Fold has grown from an app that allowed users to purchase pizza via LN to something much bigger

- Building a distributed team

- Building on a protocol that is changing and evolving

- Bridging the gap between non-technical users and cypherpunks

- The switch from ad tech to surveillance tech

- California wine

- much more

Follow Will on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wlrvs

Check out Fold: https://foldapp.com/

Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv

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

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.18 Nov 21, 2019

Show notes

This week Marty & Matt discuss:

- BTCPay vault + BTCPay configurator https://github.com/btcpayserver/BTCPayServer.Vault/releases/tag/Vault%2Fv0.0.3 & https://twitter.com/pavlenex/status/1197465294463283200?s=21

- Five corporate sponsors for BTCPay now - Luna node and wallet of satoshi join https://twitter.com/milessuter/status/1196973452306993152?s=21

- Coinmetrics & BitMex Research launch txstats.com

- Bottlepay launches developer API https://docs.bottle.dev/

- Matt’s first attempt in front of a camera https://jwp.io/s/O54RhCTj

- Donnerlab announces Bitcoin Bounty Hunt FPS game with sats integrated https://twitter.com/donnerlab1/status/1196856002118852611?s=21

- Binance practices responsible UTXO management https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-616/

- @6102bitcoin launches Bitcoin-intro.com

- Upgrade your Trezor T before sending transactions https://blog.trezor.io/details-of-the-multisig-change-address-issue-and-its-mitigation-6370ad73ed2a

- Zap 0.6.0 desktop released https://medium.com/@JimmyMow/announcing-zap-desktop-0-6-0-beta-1724d13ae597

- @mutatrum launches hodl.camp

- How Many Bitcoins Are Permanently Lost? https://coinmetrics.substack.com/p/coin-metrics-state-of-the-network-d2e

- PlusToken scam chainanalysis - https://twitter.com/ergobtc/status/1197496064854634496?s=21

Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv

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

Tales from the Crypt #117: Wiz & m52go Nov 19, 2019

Show notes

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Wiz and m52go from the Bisq project to discuss:

- The origins of Bisq

- How Bisq works

- Mining

- Why KYC/AML does more harm than good

- Why privacy is important

- The Bisq DAO

- much more

Check out and download Bisq: https://docs.bisq.network/getting-started.html

Follow Wiz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiz

Follow m52go on Twitter: https://twitter.com/m52go

Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv

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

Tales from the Crypt #116: Trace Mayer Nov 15, 2019

Show notes

Join Marty as he sits down with Trace Mayer to discuss:

- Wyoming blockchain legislation

- The institution of the nuclear family

- Bitcoin + freedom

- An update on Bitcoin's 7 network effects

- much more

Follow Trace on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TraceMayer

Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv

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

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.11 Nov 14, 2019

Show notes

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Update firmware before using coldcard SD card feature to send transactions https://blog.coinkite.com/troublesome-change/

- Unchained Capital announces Caravan multisig GUI https://www.unchained-capital.com/blog/the-caravan-arrives/

- Stratum V2 initial specs released https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/with-stratum-v2-braiins-plans-big-overhaul-in-pooled-bitcoin-mining

- Unknown fund announces $75M bitcoin investment towards privacy https://www.unknown.fund/press-release

- Digital Garage provides third grant to BTCPay Foundation worth $30k https://blog.btcpayserver.org/dg-grant-2019/

- Easily create regtest lightning networks with Polar https://github.com/jamaljsr/polar

- Boltathon 2 online lightning conference announced Dec. 6-8 https://twitter.com/Boltathon/status/1193935341914226689?s=20

- Zap iOS 0.5.0 adds Tor support https://twitter.com/ln_zap/status/1192841623421542401?s=20

- HUT8 quarterly figures https://web.tmxmoney.com/article.php?newsid=5330196128175970&qm_symbol=HUT

- Suspicion-less searches of travelers' devices rule unconstitutional https://www.eff.org/press/releases/federal-court-rules-suspicionless-searches-travelers-phones-and-laptops

- Fed Chair Powell: "The federal budget is on an unsustainable path with high and rising debt." https://twitter.com/breaking911/status/1194689974387576838?s=21

Shoutout to our sponsors:

Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 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.

Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo