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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 2019.09.16 Sep 20, 2019

Show notes

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Baltic Honeybadger in Riga - [Day 1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IpZWSWUIVE&feature=youtu.be%3Futm_source%3Ddigg

[Day 2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns_I2LpeAbQ&feature=youtu.be?utm_source=digg

- Reminder that browser extensions can be malicious, act accordingly

- Someone is impersonating Matt on Keybase

- Olympus fiat to lightning https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-574/

- Sparkswap beta launched https://twitter.com/sparkswap/status/1173588374604537856?s=20

- Square Crypto hires 3 new devs Valentine Wallace, Jeffrey Czyz, Arik Sosman, announces funding for BTCPay https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-570/

- Hash rate all time high again - https://bitcoinvisuals.com/chain-hash-rate

- Tor project now using BTCPay - https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency

- Bobby Lee launches horrible product BalletCrypto card that nobody should use

- ColdCard multisig plugin merged into electrum, next official version of should have it ready to go, or just build from official sources today

- Nodl + Samourai edition designs released, preorders soon https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1174200358828163072?s=20

- Bisq adds encrypted chat https://twitter.com/wiz/status/1174104040193413120?s=20

- Repo market / Fed cuts rate / QE4?

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Tales from the Crypt #101: Jack Mallers - Olympus Announcement Sep 19, 2019

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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers to discuss the launch of Olympus, a non-custodial way to buy bitcoin and immediately receive it on the Lightning Network.

Link to Jack's Medium post on the launch: https://medium.com/@JimmyMow/announcing-olympus-lightning-enabled-fiat-ramps-by-zap-1f5349a96ee9

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Tales from the Crypt #100: @arbedout Sep 19, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Odell and a very special guest, arbedout. Arbedout is a Twitter anon who has some incredible views on Bitcoin. Particularly how the nascent "cryptocurrency boom" shares a lot of eerie parallels with market booms throughout history.

The trio polishes off 3/4 of a bottle of Knob Creek while reminiscing on their experiences within the "cryptocurrency boom".

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

Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App.

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Tales from the Crypt #99: Raoul Pal Sep 18, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Raoul Pal, Founder of Real Vision and Global Macro Investor, to discuss:

- Repo markets

- The state of the global financial system

- Demographics

- Behavioral Economics

- Tokenizing income streams

- much more

Follow Raoul on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI

Check out Real Vision: https://www.realvision.com/

Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App.

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Tales from the Crypt #98: Carla Kirk-Cohen Sep 17, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Carla Kirk-Cohen, the last of Chaincode Labs' Summer residents to swing through the studio, to discuss:

- Carla's journey to Bitcoin

- Her passion for the Lightning Network

- Life in South Africa

- Bringing LN to an exchange

- Things that LN enables that weren't possible before

Follow Carla on Twitter: https://twitter.com/actuallyCarlaKC

Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App.

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.09 Sep 13, 2019

Show notes

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Lightning CVE exploited in the wild, lnd 0.7.0 vulnerable, update! https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2019-September/002148.html

- Digg from the dead https://digg.com/channel/bitcoin

- NY payroll company MyPayrollHR exit scam $35M https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/09/ny-payroll-company-vanishes-with-35-million/

- French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire says Libra will not be allowed in the EU https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-libra-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-europe-france-ban-block-latest-a9102171.html

- Premier League Club Watford Bitcoin logo on jerseys due to sportsbet.io sponsorship https://www.watfordfc.com/club/bitcoin-confirmed-new-sleeve-partner

- Keybase airdrops shitcoin, bitcoiners donate to Tor, almost 17000 XLM donated(~$1020) https://stellar.expert/explorer/public/account/GABWGQEQESRX5TKDTPIYJFPKGJDMEW6VLOOLBTIFPJIN7XT6KAFXJQPJ?filter=payments

- Bitcoin as a nonviolent rebellion by Nic Carter https://medium.com/@nic__carter/a-most-peaceful-revolution-8b63b64c203e?sk=c70e2e688cb3c15dfe68f4d2627b1059

- ColdCard firmware update 2.1.4 for multi-sig change outputs https://coldcardwallet.com/docs/upgrade

- Bittr adds xpub support https://twitter.com/GetBittr/status/1172171274791116801?s=19

- Spencer Dinwiddie of NJ Nets is a bitcoiner and is tokenizing his ~$34 million extension https://theathletic.com/1199912/2019/09/12/sources-spencer-dinwiddie-to-convert-his-nba-contract-into-a-secured-digital-investment-heres-what-that-means/

- ECB cuts rates and announces a new round of QE "Negative rates will not provoke the collapse of the financial system" - Draghi https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-12/ecb-cuts-rates-restarts-qe-to-fight-slowdown-as-draghi-era-ends

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Tales from the Crypt #97: Eric Voskuil Sep 11, 2019

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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Eric Voskuil, lead maintainer of the libbitcoin Bitcoin implementation, as they discuss:

- libbitcoin

- Austrian Economics

- Attack vectors

- Eric's experience in the Navy

- How Bitcoin fails

- Dust

- much more

Check out the libbitcoin Wiki: https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki

Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App.

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

Tales from the Crypt #96: Elichai Turkel Sep 09, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Elichai Turkel, recent Summer resident at Chaincode Labs, to discuss:

- Elichai's path to cryptography and Bitcoin

- Schnorr signatures

- Taproot

- Miniscript

- Cryptography

- State of academic papers

- much more

Follow Elichai on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Elichai2

Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent

Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel:

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

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.02 Sep 05, 2019

Show notes

This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Portugal is indeed exempting bitcoin from cap gains treatment: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed-portugal-clarified-its-bitcoin-tax-code-other-nations-should-take-note

- Hash rate all time high - https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-hashrate.html

- LocalBitcoins KYC - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/localbitcoins-new-kyc-rules-raise-privacy-concerns

- SNICKER https://gist.github.com/AdamISZ/2c13fb5819bd469ca318156e2cf25d79

- vaneck & solidx pivot to gbtc like structure rather than ETF for their investment product https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/vaneck-solidx-to-offer-pilot-bitcoin-etf-to-institutional-investors

- Facebook left phone numbers exposed on server, 419 million records leaked: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/

- Google discloses exploit that allowed malicious sites to retrieve iPhone files and location data: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjwne5/malicious-websites-hacked-iphones-for-years

- M5Stack + bitcoin https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-562/

- TFTC Guides: Lightning for beginners with Breez wallet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zhW7ilOjWg&feature=youtu.be

- Bridgefy mesh messaging app being used in hong kong: https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-561/

- Argentina implements capital controls, individuals won't be allowed to acquire or wire abroad more than 10,000 dollars per month - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-02/capital-controls-return-to-argentina-as-macri-fights-to-survive

- Upgrade your lightning nodes, disclosure of vulnerability in 3 weeks https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2019-August/002130.html

- Jack Dorsey Twitter account hijacked due to sim swap + tweets by sms: https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1167628157731651584?s=20

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Tales from the Crypt #95: Gleb Naumenko Sep 04, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Gleb Naumenko to discuss:

- Gleb's experience helping to build an exchange

- Bitcoin usage in Ukraine

- Gleb's work on Erlay

- The Erebus attack

- Movies

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