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 #114: Alpha Zeta Nov 08, 2019

Show notes

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Alpha Zeta to discuss:

- Living through hyperinflation

- Repo operations. Is it QE?

- Why you shouldn't trade Bitcoin

- Stories from Wall Street

- Bitcoin's volatility

- ETF

- HNWI + Bitcoin

- much more

Follow Alpha Zeta on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alphaazeta

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 2019.11.04 Nov 07, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- BTC Citadel workshop #2 Thursday December 5th at 6:30 https://twitter.com/btcCITADEL/status/1191395545656569856?s=20

- FullyNoded https://twitter.com/FullyNoded/status/1192327571486068736?s=20

- BTCPay update https://blog.btcpayserver.org/btcpay-1-0-3-137-released/

- Coldcard firmware 3.0.3 https://blog.coinkite.com/Login-Countdown-and-Nickname/

- Square quarterly results - $149M bitcoin sold, first time buyers double

- Locha mesh trial in Venezuela https://www.coindesk.com/venezuelans-made-lightning-savvy-hardware-to-use-bitcoin-during-blackouts

- Radar Redshift https://twitter.com/radar_ion/status/1191783806077825024?s=20

- EinsteinXchange https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/einstein-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-complaints-1.5347104?cmp=rss

- BullBitcoin to catch a predator https://twitter.com/BullBitcoin_/status/1191830231809576960?s=20

- Wasabi to integrate Bitcoin Core directly https://twitter.com/HillebrandMax/status/1191286955708833792?s=20

- CoinJoin usage chart https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1191038010466426881?s=20

- Chat over Lightning https://twitter.com/joostjgr/status/1190714028626251779?s=20

- Jack Mallers Twitter AMA https://twitter.com/JackMallers/status/1190353245358755840?s=20

- BitMEX leaks 30k passwords https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1190745630316154882?s=20

- NodlOne announced https://shop.nodl.it/en/home/43-71-nodl-one-early-bird.html

- Tether FUD?

- Coinbase adds Tezos staking to consumer facing interface https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1192154927813943296?s=20 & https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/947551556546760704?s=20

- Realt + Uniswap + KYC https://twitter.com/RealTPlatform/status/1191420634196111360?s=20

- Ray Dalio "The World Has Gone Mad and the System is Broken" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/world-has-gone-mad-system-broken-ray-dalio/

- Cash transactions greater than ~$6000 banned in malaysia https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2019/11/07/malaysia-to-impose-cash-transaction-limit-of-rm25000-next-year

- GEDmatch court case precedent could open up millions of DNA records https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/business/dna-database-search-warrant.html

- Russian "sovereign internet" law https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/10/31/russia-new-law-expands-government-control-online

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

Tales from the Crypt #113: Michael Caras AKA The Bitcoin Rabbi Nov 05, 2019

Show notes

Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Caras AKA The Bitcoin Rabbi, Author of Bitcoin Money: A Tale of Bitville Discovering Good Money, to discuss:

- Writing Bitcoin Money

- Michael's journey to Bitcoin

- Charity

- Gold's future

- much more

Check out Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebitcoinrabbi

Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

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

Tales from the Crypt #112: Dhruv Bansal Nov 01, 2019

Show notes

Join Marty as he sits down with Dhruv Bansal, Co-Founder and CSO of Unchained Capital, to discuss:

- Multisig

- Hardware wallets

- SLIP 0039

- Center of Hash

- Bitcoin in space

- Balancing adaptation and conviction

- much more

Shoutout to our sponsor:

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 2019.10.28 Oct 31, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- 11 years of bitcoin https://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/

- #FastForSatoshi

- $1B in fees https://twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1189559688494493697?s=19

- China blockchain pump https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-dissident-sees-dark-warnings-in-chinas-blockchain-push

- Wasabi and Samourai Whirlpool comparison chart https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1189606714250858496?s=19

- Casa Gold 2 of 3 multisig https://blog.keys.casa/basic-multisig-2-of-3-now-with-two-hardware-keys/

- Coinmetrics nonce analysis https://coinmetrics.substack.com/p/coin-metrics-state-of-the-network-04a

- Wired hit piece on sanctions evasion https://www.wired.com/story/cryptocurrency-boom-post-soviet-frontier/

- Cryptosteel capsule hands on [https://twitter.com/cryptosteel/status/1186354407019110400?s=19 & https://twitter.com/JimJones1913/status/1189021491397980160?s=19](https://twitter.com/cryptosteel/status/1186354407019110400?s=19 & https://twitter.com/JimJones1913/status/1189021491397980160?s=19)

- Breez announces Lightning Rod https://medium.com/breez-technology/introducing-lightning-rod-2e0a40d3e44a

- Lightning and privacy https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1186998875854376960?s=19 & https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1187731152318160897?s=19

- c-lightning 0.7.3 released https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v0.7.3

- Donations to Tor will be matched by Mozilla until November 4th https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency

- Coldcard releases full schematics https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-hardware-shared/

- Lebanon institutes ban on cash leaving country https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-protests-economy-dollars-idUSKBN1X60R2 & https://www.coindesk.com/how-lebanons-economic-crisis-highlights-bitcoins-limitations

- Argentina increases capital controls, $200 per month limit https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-28/argentina-tightens-currency-controls-after-fernandez-victory

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

Tales from the Crypt #111: Evan Kaloudis Oct 30, 2019

Show notes

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Evan Kaloudis, Founder of ZeusLN.app, to drink moonshine and discuss:

- Zeus

- State of the Lightning Network

- Gaming

- Why are we doing this?

- Security attack vectors to be aware of

- Much more

Follow Evan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/evankaloudis

Check out Zeus

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 $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv

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

Tales from the Crypt #110: Saifedean Ammous Oct 25, 2019

Show notes

Join Marty as he sits down with Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard, to discuss:

- Academia

- Bitcoinization might not play out how you think

- The collective "We"

- Building his Economics course

- much more

Check out Saif's website and academy - https://saifedean.com/

Shoutout to this week's sponsors.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtdbWsnfA08KhSUO4amVLaQ?view_as=subscriber

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

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.21 Oct 24, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Layer1 mining https://fortune.com/2019/10/15/what-is-bitcoin-mining-layer1-peter-thiel-crypto-investment/

- Bakkt hits ATH volume yesterdayhttps://twitter.com/BakktBot/status/1187356577143107584?s=20

- Tails 4.0 https://twitter.com/Tails_live/status/1186660581446733826?s=20

- Nodl Dojo kill switch https://twitter.com/nodl_it/status/1186652356554964994?s=20

- Cryptosteel Capsule https://cryptosteel.com

- Zebedee and SatoshisGames - zebedee.io & lightnite.io

- Zap updates for iOS and desktop [https://twitter.com/ln_zap/status/1186666607990497280?s=20 & https://twitter.com/ln_zap/status/1187071191342817282?s=20](https://twitter.com/lnzap/status/1186666607990497280?s=20 & https://twitter.com/lnzap/status/1187071191342817282?s=20)

- Bisq update v1.2, make sure you complete all trades/disputes/offers before upgrading https://twitter.com/bisq_network/status/1186237315598950400?s=20

- ACINQ announces new mobile lightning wallet called Phoenix https://twitter.com/acinq_co/status/1185129586482388992?s=20

- Iterative Capital announces Escher Hub bitcoin on/off ramp http://iterative.capital/introducing-escher-hub-making-every-foss-wallet-a-cheap-and-fast-way-to-transact-bitcoin/

- Bittr teases Lightning support with Nodl partnership https://twitter.com/GetBittr/status/1186317300313530370?s=20

- FullyNoded iOS app (@fullynoded) allows you to connect to your own full node through Tor and use it with Coldcard PSBTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqKEPpSky2g

- Tracking the PlusToken whale through Wasabi by @ergobtc https://medium.com/@ErgoBTC/tracking-the-plustoken-whale-attempted-bitcoin-laundering-and-its-impact-on-wasabi-wallet-787c0d240192

- Samourai wallet releases anon set tool https://medium.com/samourai-wallet/diving-head-first-into-whirlpool-anonymity-sets-4156a54b0bc7

- NordVPN private keys leaked https://twitter.com/hexdefined/status/1185864801261477891?s=20

Much more

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

Tales from the Crypt #109: Justin Moon Oct 22, 2019

Show notes

Join Marty as he sits down to catch up with Justin Moon. They discuss:

- Building Buidl Bootcamp

- Mooniversity

- BitBoy

- Junction

- Wallets

- Redundancy

- Much more

Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtdbWsnfA08KhSUO4amVLaQ?view_as=subscriber

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

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.14 Oct 17, 2019

Show notes

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Casa node concerns https://blog.keys.casa/addressing-security-concerns-about-casa-node/

- Realvision with Saifedean https://www.realvision.com/tv/shows/interviews/videos/gold-the-bitcoin-standard?source_collection=07157a6eedda4e78b9dcada0c3bc76c0

- Trezor + Unchained Slip0039 implementation https://blog.trezor.io/open-source-standards-unchained-slip-0039-for-individuals-and-groups-cae3e9573410

- Child porn ring brought down https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/chainalysis-doj-welcome-to-video-shutdown

- Oxford English Dictionary adds sats

- Blockstream Green Wallet adds integrated Tor support https://twitter.com/BlockstreamHelp/status/1184176681260584960?s=19

- LND 0.8.0 released https://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2019/10/15/lnd-v0.8.html

- Casa covenant inheritance planning https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-casa-covenant-bitcoin-inheritance-service-and-protocol/

- Nodl team begins moving everything behind Tor https://twitter.com/nodl_it/status/1184110287424610305?s=19

- Tor releases new version of OnionShare https://blog.torproject.org/new-version-onionshare-makes-it-easy-anyone-publish-anonymous-uncensorable-websites-0

- Electrum announces their own lightning implementation

- Coldcard Mk3 begins shipping

- Rep Warren Davidson on Noded https://twitter.com/NodedPodcast/status/1182490088464408577?s=19

- Protests around the world

Shoutout to our sponsors:

Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral. Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated.

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