TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.06.03 Jun 06, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Rooftop RHR in SF - code "tftc25"

- First 100 person CoinJoin https://blockstream.info/tx/e4a789d16a24a6643dfee06e018ad27648b896daae6a3577ae0f4eddcc4d9174

- 6102 Bitcoin hodl privacy leak overview https://github.com/6102bitcoin/FAQ/blob/master/hodl-privacy.md

- Ring cameras creeping https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/amazons-helping-police-build-a-surveillance-network-with-ring-doorbells/

- SEC files suit against Kik https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/06/05/skeptics-lens-not-defending-crypto-anymore/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2019/comp-pr2019-87.pdf

- Initial rollout of LN Watchtowers https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/watchtowers-are-coming-lightning#click=https://t.co/5VuAHhvsoq

- Samourai Dojo open sourced and released https://blog.samouraiwallet.com/post/185312260292/introducing-samourai-dojo-10-open-source-and/

- Utreexo proposal https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/611.pdf

- "Buy" stocks and ETFs with bitcoin using Abra in 150+ countries (not US) https://twitter.com/AbraGlobal/status/1133697009381138434?s=19

- Statechains https://medium.com/@RubenSomsen/statechains-non-custodial-off-chain-bitcoin-transfer-1ae4845a4a39

- Weird YouTube AI https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/1135529605530411008

- Fed to cut rates? https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-499/

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Tales from the Crypt #77: David Bailey Jun 05, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with David Bailey, CEO of BTC Media, to discuss the early days of Bitcoin, how BTC Media came to be, the state of discourse around Bitcoin, how people are underestimating Bitcoin's TAM, and much more.

Follow David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidfbailey

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

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Tales from the Crypt #76: Alex Gladstein May 31, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation and the Oslo Freedom Forum, to discuss how Alex ended up at the HRF, how authoritarian regimes use digital panopticons to control their subjects, why Bitcoin is such an important project, and why we can't mess it up.

Checkout Alex's speech from MCC: https://youtu.be/CyieujRFk3g?t=13786

Follow Alex on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gladstein

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.27 May 30, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Wasabi update: https://wasabiwallet.io/

- Erlay proposal, https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-May/016994.html

- New bitcoin ATH in Argentinian peso

- 4.1 billion people living under authoritarian regimes according to Oslo Freedom Forum

- Proposed FATF regulations - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-492/

- defendcrypto.org

- Facebook

- Bitrefill + ACINQ 1 BTC channel - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-494/

- Trade Wars

- Taxi medallions

Shoutout to the MIB Chad Index Funds

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Tales from the Crypt #75: Jack Mallers May 28, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Jack Mallers to discuss Zap, potential futures markets for Bitcoin miners, upgrades to the Lightning Network, cannabis, and much more.

Check out Zap: https://zap.jackmallers.com/

Follow Jack on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackMallers

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

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Tales from the Crypt #74: Andrew Torba May 24, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Andrew Torba, Founder and CEO of Gab.com, to discuss what it's like to be de-platformed, the Silicon Valley "cognoscenti", building more resilient communication tools, the fight for Free Speech, forking open source software as a business model for Gab, the normalization of deviant values, and much more.

Check out Gab: https://gab.com/

Follow Gab on Twitter: https://twitter.com/getongab

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.20 May 23, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Who would you want to tweet about Bitcoin?

- LN node update https://1ml.com/node/02d419c9af624d0e7a7c90a60b9ffa35f4934973a9d7d3b4175cc3cc28b7ffcde1

- SIM Swaps https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-most-expensive-lesson-of-my-life-details-of-sim-port-hack-35de11517124

-lncast.com launch

- 60 Minutes https://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/HaKmux455gSICzgSiGqzyUPIfGhuxnTG/bitcoin-s-wild-ride/

- $8 trillion hidden around the world and Elizabeth Warren wants to tax it https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-23/the-wealth-detective-who-finds-the-hidden-money-of-the-super-rich

- BestMixer shutdown: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/dutch-authorities-shut-down-bestmixer/

- CoinCenter - Non-custodial cryptocurrency mixer developers are not subject to U.S. regulation. - https://coincenter.org/link/non-custodial-cryptocurrency-mixer-developers-are-not-subject-to-u-s-regulation

- Bull Bitcoin starts mixing user funds: https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1131309370900402178?s=19

- Kraken equity offering at 4B valuation, $1000 min: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/kraken-is-offering-itself-to-customers-in-chunks-as-small-as-1000-for-its-fundraising-round/

- Bitfinex LEO token: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitfinex-to-start-trading-its-exchange-token-leo-on-may-20/

- Polo/Circle blocks tokens from US customers, lays off 30 employees https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/poloniex-continues-to-advocate-for-better-crypto-regulation-as-it-goes-on-a-delisting-spree-in-the-us/ https://twitter.com/jerallaire/status/1130912877991333891?s=19

Shoutout to this week's listener contributor @mdotbit (https://twitter.com/mdotbit)

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Tales from the Crypt #73: Jan Čapek + Pavel Moravec May 21, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Jan Čapek and Pavel Moravec, Co-CEOs of Slush Pool & Braiins, to discuss their backgrounds, Slush Pool's history, what they're building with BraiinsOS, the nature of reorgs, BetterHash, the dream of a shared foundry, mining futures markets, and much more.

Checkout Slush Pool: https://slushpool.com/

Checkout Braiins: https://braiins-os.org/

Follow Jan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/janbraiins

Follow Pavel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mor_pav

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

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Tales from the Crypt #72: Jeff Vandrew May 20, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Jeff Vandrew, Attorney-CPA-Coder, to discuss Distributism, self-custody Bitcoin IRAs, maintaing BTCPayServer's Python implementation, rent seeking, relearning to code, and much more.

Check out Jeff's work: https://vandrew.com/bitcoin/

Follow Jeff on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vandrewattycpa

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

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.13 May 16, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt are joined by Bitcoin Sign Guy to discuss a bunch of stuff.

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