TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

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Tales from the Crypt #71: James O'Beirne May 14, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with James O'Beirne, Bitcoin Core contributor, to discuss his assumeutxo proposal, debt, short-term v. long-term thinking, and what it's like being a permabear.

Checkout the assumeutxo proposal: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/15605

Follow James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesob

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

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Tales from the Crypt #70: Ruben Waterman May 13, 2019

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Join Marty and Matt Odell as they sit down with the one man team behind Bittr, the easiest way to stack sats in Europe. We discuss Ruben's path to Bitcoin, his experience getting a Masters in Blockchain from the University of Nicosia, why he built Bittr, what it's like bootstrapping a company, and much more.

Check out Bittr: https://www.getbittr.com/

Follow Ruben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/watermaniak

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

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Shoutout to our 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 2019.05.06 May 09, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt are joined by Murad Mahmudov from Adaptive Capital to discuss:

- Binance hack

- onlynet=onion in config file - h/t Evan Kaloudis

- TFTC.io launch

- Our Lightning node was stolen https://1ml.com/node/02d419c9af624d0e7a7c90a60b9ffa35f4934973a9d7d3b4175cc3cc28b7ffcde1

- bip-taproot https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip-schnorr/bip-taproot.mediawiki

- Wasabi guide bitcoin-only.com @6102bitcoin https://github.com/6102bitcoin/FAQ/blob/master/wasabi.md

- Honeyminer Mac release

- One entity is responsible for 50% of BCH transactions

- Whirpool

- Andrew Chow on PSBT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6xZSRDXUiU&feature=youtu.be

Shoutout to this week's listener contributor, Pedro. Here's the video he shared https://youtu.be/NO1aDZ6L4NQ?t=1118

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Tales from the Crypt #69: Juthica Chou May 07, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Juthica Chou, Co-Founder and COO of LedgerX, to discuss Bitcoin options, what it was like for LedgerX to navigate the regulatory waters throughout the years, LedgerX's Omni platform, and much more. Learn about futures contracts based on block height, backing into projected price probabilities, and how miners hedge their risk.

Check out LedgerX: https://ledgerx.com/

Follow Juthica on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juthica

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

Shout out to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Download the Cash App today from the App Store or Google Play Store and start #stackingsats

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.29 May 02, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Bitcoin v.0.18.0 released https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-core-0180-release-heres-whats-new/

- Bitfinex spread increases, https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitfinex-plans-to-raise-as-much-as-1-billion-through-an-ieo-shareholder-says/

- Cashapp $65.5M quarterly bitcoin sales

- Amazon Managed Blockchain https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/amazon-made-its-blockchain-service-available-to-the-public/

- #dropgold campaign - dropgold.com

- Ethereum is now money according to ethereum.org

- CoinJoins as a Percentage of All Bitcoin Payments Have Tripled to 4.09% Over the Past Year https://www.longhash.com/news/coinjoins-as-a-percentage-of-all-bitcoin-payments-have-tripled-to-409-over-the-past-year

- Samourai Whirlpool enters mainnet testing phase

- Nine in 10 Americans have heard about bitcoin, Blockchain Capital survey finds https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/nine-in-10-americans-heard-about-bitcoin-survey-finds/

- Fidelity surveys 400 institutional investors, 22% already have exposure, 47% think exposure makes sense: https://medium.com/@FidelityDigitalAssets/new-research-institutional-investments-likely-to-increase-over-next-5-years-729fb1ca3c52

- eTrade joining the party, plans to offer bitcoin trading to its ~5M customers https://twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/1121868559330598912

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Tales from the Crypt #68: Patrick Dugan Apr 30, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Founder and CEO of TradeLayer, Patrick Dugan, to discuss Patrick's run in with pot smoking bandits in Argentina, what he's building on TradeLayer, how decentralized derivatives markets may help drive demand for Bitcoin, the flow of money, and sovereignty in the Information Age.

Check out TradeLayer: http://tradelayer.org/

Follow Patrick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/duganist

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

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.22 Apr 26, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Bitfinex gets sued - https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=vIexA1b0spKOnK_PLUS_ZUGTJ3A==&system=prod - https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/356

- Erisx and TdAmeritrade - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/04/24/erisx-is-testing-its-new-crypto-exchange-and-tdameritrade-is-one-firm-looking-to-link-up-with-the-market/

- Ledger Windows phishing attack - https://twitter.com/Ledger/status/1121439219086495745?s=20

- Wasabi update - https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/releases - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1121203954145222662?s=20

- Lightning Labs releases Beta Neutrino Lightning App for desktop - https://twitter.com/lightning/status/1120735863225237506?s=20

- assumutxo proposal by James O'Beirne - https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/04/09/

- Satoshi's Treasure update - tinyurl.com/dpravengers

- Samsung invests 2.9M into Ledger - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/samsung-invests-2-9-million-in-ledger/

- Gemini integrates SegWit fully - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/gemini-wallet-now-fully-supports-segwit-protocol/

- Bitmain rumored to be abandoning BCH - https://twitter.com/btcking555/status/1121699148523352064

- Casa privacy campaign + tor update - https://blog.keys.casa/casa-privacy-and-data-protection-policy/

- finalmessage.io

- Run a tor relay node! - https://blog.torproject.org/new-guide-running-tor-relay

Shoutout to this week's sponsor, 21Lectures! If you're looking to learn how to build on top of Bitcoin and LN check out 21Lectures.com today!

Tales from the Crypt #67: Nik Bhatia Apr 23, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Nik Bhatia, who has pushed forward the theory of Lightning Network Reference Rates, to discuss a range of topics including reference rates in the traditional financial sector, LNRR, Bitcoin + Real Estate escrow, Nik's experience producing rap albums and much more.

Check out Nik's writing on LNRR:

https://medium.com/@timevalueofbtc

Follow Nik on Twitter: www.twitter.com/timevalueofbtc

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

Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital! Sign up for their multisig vault product today by using the link below and receive a free three-month subscription to Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin.

https://www.unchained-capital.com/vaults/?utm_source=MartyBentNewsletter

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.15 Apr 18, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Satoshi's Treasure https://satoshistreasure.xyz/ & https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeawYh0POJhlKjaUM4Gor240vH_yVN9Urni7VjPYlh4Z5rlRA/viewform?usp=sf_link

- Reports from CoinMetrics and TradeBlock dispute Reuters $100M whale story - https://tradeblock.com/blog/analyzing-the-bitcoin-price-surge-in-april and https://twitter.com/coinmetrics/status/1118603910522994688?s=20

- Wasabi Wallet hardware wallet support in testing - https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/blob/master/WalletWasabi.Documentation/Guides/20190416HardwareWalletTestingGuide.md

- lLND 0.6.0 - static channel backup --- release notes: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases --- Channel backup guide: https://wiki.ion.radar.tech/lightning-technology/research/static-channel-backups

- Lightning Powernode Launcher will default to Tor https://twitter.com/pierre_rochard/status/1117567495680950272?s=20

- Nodl update- https://1ml.com/node/0331f80652fb840239df8dc99205792bba2e559a05469915804c08420230e23c7c

- hodlnaut BTCPay fundraiser - https://weareallhodlonaut.com/

- US Sanction Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua - https://www.npr.org/2019/04/18/714552854/trump-administration-announces-measures-against-cuba-venezuela-and-nicaragua

- Proof of Solvency piece - https://medium.com/@nic__carter/how-to-scale-bitcoin-without-changing-a-thing-bc4750dd16c7 & https://blog.coinfloor.co.uk/post/183567327051/provable-solvency-report-60-march-2019

- paywall.link and lightningscratchcard.io

Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Check out their 2-of-3 multisig vault service today! https://www.unchained-capital.com/vaults/?utm_source=MartyBentNewsletter

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.08 Apr 12, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Julian Assange https://mailchi.mp/5a9e133f8318/martys-bent-april-11th-2018-issue-460

- HODL guide https://github.com/DriftwoodPalace/guides

- Multisig scenarios

- Coinbase https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/04/10/coinbase-launches-crypto-to-fiat-debit-card-in-the-uk-filling-gap-left-by-shift-shutdown/

- LND 0.6.0 release https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases

- Zap 0.4.1 release https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases

- Managing a Lightning Node https://1ml.com/node/02d419c9af624d0e7a7c90a60b9ffa35f4934973a9d7d3b4175cc3cc28b7ffcde1

- Binance https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/binance-teams-up-with-ciphertrace-to-up-the-exchanges-compliance-procedures/

- Energy waste https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1116340276463714305

- China bans Bitcoin https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cryptocurrency/china-says-it-wants-to-eliminate-bitcoin-mining-idUSKCN1RL0C4

Shout out to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Check out their 2-of3 multisig vaults today! https://www.unchained-capital.com/vaults/?utm_source=MartyBentNewsletter

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