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Tales from the Crypt #83: Aleks Svetski Jul 09, 2019

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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Aleksander Svetski, founder of Amber, to discuss his journey to Bitcoin, lessons from trading, lessons from being a door to door salesman, why Bitcoin not Blockchain, putting up with scammers, and much more.

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Freedom Edition Week of 2019.07.01 Jul 05, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt sit down on the 4th of July to discuss:

- Bitcoin's revolutionary nature

- Sats App announced by Casa https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-sats-app-with-satsback/

- 300 tickets sold for Bitcoin2020

- LND 0.7 released https://twitter.com/lightning/status/1146107267592445952?s=19

-Zap desktop 0.5 released https://medium.com/@JimmyMow/announcing-zap-desktop-0-5-0-beta-7622672ce582

- Coldcard v2.1.1 update adds dice support https://twitter.com/COLDCARDwallet/status/1146410794315390977?s=19

- US House of Reps Committee of Financial Services asks Facebook to hold off on Libra https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/07.02.2019_-_fb_ltr.pdf

- Cloudflare went down due to faulty upgrade https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/02/a-cloudflare-outage-is-impacting-sites-everywhere/

- Whirlpool desktop 0.7 released with full tor support https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1145998882947682304

- Hong Kong

- Chinese border guards put spyware on phones at Xinjiang border https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/02/chinese-border-guards-surveillance-app-tourists-phones

- Bitcoin as a safe haven in FT https://www.ft.com/content/f7643858-98f8-11e9-9573-ee5cbb98ed36

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Tales from the Crypt #82: Ketominer + Askuwheteau Jul 02, 2019

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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Ketominer and Askuwheteau, the team behind Nodl.it, to discuss how Nodl came to be, their recent partnership with Samourai Wallet, the freedom that Bitcoin enables, potentially moving from hardware to software in the future, the new Raspberry Pi, and much more.

Check out Nodl: https://nodl.it/

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Tales from the Crypt #81: Dan Held Jul 01, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Dan Held, Co-Founder of Interchange, to discuss his paper on Bitcoin's future security, the importance of sharpening narratives, the false narratives that seem to persist, and much more.

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Rabbit Hole Recap LIVE: Week of 2019.06.24 Jun 27, 2019

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Join Marty and Matt as they are joined by Pierre Rochard, Bitcoin Sign Guy & Francis Pouliot with a special appearance from Paul Sztorc as they discuss:

- FATF Guidelines

- Iranians mining Bitcoin in mosques

- COLDCARD new upgrades

- Libra

- CoinJoining

- Much more…

Rabbit Hole Cap: Week of 2019.06.17 Jun 19, 2019

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This week Marty & Matt discuss:

- Libra https://libra.org/en-US/

- Cash App deposits go live, fund cash card with bitcoin https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-507/

- Whirlpool public beta release https://github.com/Samourai-Wallet/Whirlpool

-Binance to block US citizens

-Lightning labs mobile app release https://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2019/06/19/mobile-app.html

- Firefox vulnerability update to 67.0.3 ASAP https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/18/18684272/firefox-zero-day-flaw-browser-attacks-crypto-patch

- Cellebrite states they can crack current all popular phones with physical access https://t.co/WHsaDxzoXz?amp=1

- Hashrate ATH

- dcabtc.com tool by @JohnCantrell97

- US vs Russia cyber cold war escalates https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/us/politics/trump-cyber-russia-grid.html

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Tales from the Crypt #80: Andrew Poelstra Jun 18, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Andrew Poelstra, Head of Research at Blockstream, to discuss Cryptography, how small of a field it is, how it's culture compares to Bitcoin's development culture, Taproot, MuSig, MiniSketch, Schnorr signatures, and much much more.

Checkout Andrew's work: https://github.com/apoelstra

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

Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App.

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Tales from the Crypt #79: John Carvalho Jun 14, 2019

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Join Marty + Matt as they sit down with John Carvalho, CCO of Bitrefill, to discuss his history in Bitcoin, all the dope stuff Bitrefill is working on, Bitcoin's fungibility, Bitcoin culture, and much much more.

Checkout Bitrefill: https://www.bitrefill.com/

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Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App.

Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.06.10 Jun 13, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Proposed ban on Bitcoin in India

- Home mining https://twitter.com/Karnickleon/status/1138906263230828544?s=19

- Nodl + Samourai collab https://twitter.com/stephanlivera/status/1138048466075054080?s=19

- Global Mesh Labs https://twitter.com/stephanlivera/status/1138048466075054080?s=19

- Zap on Android https://twitter.com/stephanlivera/status/1138048466075054080?s=19

- Hong Kong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBl05xNq_AU

- Italy https://twitter.com/Schuldensuehner/status/1138709519184175104

- Will O'Beirne's new Joule upgrade https://medium.com/@wbobeirne/introducing-joule-allowances-2b08bec75e3a

Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App.

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Tales from the Crypt #78: Lawrence Nahum Jun 11, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Lawrence Nahum, Founder of GreenAddress + Chief Architect at Blockstream, to discuss approaching Bitcoin development, the history of GreenAddress, what he's working on at Blockstream, helping to make it so everyone can run a node with ABCore, and much more.

Checkout GreenAddress' GitHub and contribute to ABCore if you can: https://github.com/greenaddress

Follow Lawrence on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LarryBitcoin

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

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