TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

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Tales from the Crypt #61: Jack Dorsey Mar 04, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, to discuss how Jack came to experiment with Bitcoin, the parallels he sees between Twitter and Bitcoin, dealing with pseudonymity on Twitter, how Bitcoin curbs the State, education in the Information Age, what it's like to be a part of the Casa node club, and much more.

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.25 Mar 01, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

-Casa new product lineup https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/02/28/casa-is-dramatically-shifting-its-business-and-its-kicking-off-with-two-new-products/

-Facebook coin FUD https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/technology/cryptocurrency-facebook-telegram.html

-Venezuela bitcoin article https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/venezuela-bitcoin-inflation-cryptocurrencies.html#click=https://t.co/P8hxu1vqni

-Square sold 10k BTC in Q4 2018 https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/02/27/square-sold-over-166m-worth-of-bitcoin-in-2018/

-Coinomi spellcheck bug https://medium.com/coinomi/official-statement-on-spell-check-findings-547ca348676b

-Trezor and Ledger update reminders

-Samourai Whirlpool in testing phases, running on nodl.it

-Wasabi, try it out free shill

- www.twitter.com/@tweet_stamp is pretty cool, uses OpenTimestamps

-Torpedo vulnerable https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/24/new-4g-5g-security-flaws/

-New privacy wiki up by Chris Belcher https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Privacy

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Tales from the Crypt #60: Misir Mahmudov Feb 26, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin researcher Misir Mahmudov to discuss many topics including Bitcoin as Time, Bitcoin's amorality, Bitcoin's incentives, and family values.

Follow Misir on Twitter: www.twitter.com/misir_mahmudov

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

Thanks to this week's sponsor, BlockFi! Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can avoid selling your BTC today!

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.18 Feb 21, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

-Galaxy S10 Bitcoin wallet confirmed

https://bitcoinist.com/samsung-galaxy-s10-bitcoin-wallet/

-Jack activates tippin.me

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1098324828182831104

-Coinbase acquires chain analysis company

https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1098275229556768768

-Elon Ark Invest pod

https://twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1097905577831862272

-Coinmama KYC breach 450k customer affected

https://twitter.com/bitentrepreneur/status/1096549320302776320

-IMF NIRP Blog post

https://blogs.imf.org/2019/02/05/cashing-in-how-to-make-negative-interest-rates-work/

Thanks to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer!

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Tales from the Crypt #59: Eric Spano Feb 20, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Eric Spano, Founder of bylls.com, to discuss building a product with little understanding of code, enterprise blockchain consulting, Bitcoin service provider UX, and much more.

Follow Eric on Twitter: www.twitter.com.espano_

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

Peep the Nielsen Norman Group's 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/

Visit www.bylls.com

Tales from the Crypt #58: André Neves Feb 19, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with André Neves, Co-Founder and Co-CTO of Koala Studio, to discuss everything from BTC/LN adoption via gaming, what it's like to live in the UAE, the Surveillance State, and much more.

Follow André on Twitter: www.twitter.com/andreneves

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

Check out Koala Studio: koalastud.io

Thanks to our sponsors:

BlockFi, head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can avoid selling your BTC this tax season.

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.11 Feb 14, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

-Tippin.me extension

-Lolli extension

-Spacebit.live

-Venezuela ATH LocalBitcoins volume - 2454 Bitcoin / 8.95 million USD

https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/VES/BTC

-Bitcoin Ham radio

https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1095354354289135617

-Full nodes, block size, offline transactions, 65% of 4000 said no full node

-JPM shitcoin

-Bitdevs

https://www.meetup.com/BitDevsNYC/events/258566808/

-Wasabi update

-Coin Center on cash + privacy

https://coincenter.org/entry/the-case-for-electronic-cash

Shout out to this week's sponsors:

Lolli, head over to www.lolli.com/ref/tftc and start earning Bitcoin when you shop on the net today!

Honeyminer, head over to www.honeyminer.com/labs to check out their new Linux compatible software. Or head to stackingsats.com to pump our ref link.

Tales from the Crypt #57: Alex Adelman Feb 13, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Adelman, Co-Founder and CEO of Lolli, to discuss developers building for developers, the retail landscape, building a consumer facing product with a BTC component, and much more.

Follow Alex on Twitter: www.twitter.com/alexadelman

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

Thanks to our sponsor BlockFi! Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can use your bitcoin as collateral to get USD loans in minutes!

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.04 Feb 08, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Matt handing off the LN torch to @jack

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1092891165966229509

- Matt Ahlborg's LocalBitcoins analysis and new metric

https://medium.com/@mattahlborg/nuanced-analysis-of-localbitcoins-data-suggests-bitcoin-is-working-as-satoshi-intended-d8b04d3ac7b2

- Koala Studio Lightning Chess

https://koalastud.io/

- Blockstream Proof of Reserve

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/blockstream-open-sources-development-its-proof-reserves-tool/

- ZCash inflation vulnerability disclosed

https://z.cash/blog/zcash-counterfeiting-vulnerability-successfully-remediated/

- Abra releases new equities exposure product

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/abra-users-can-now-buy-stocks-and-etfs-using-bitcoin/

Shoutout to our sponsors:

BlockFi, head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt and learn how you can avoid selling your BTC today!

Honeyminer, peep www.honeyminer.com/labs to see the new Honeyminer Max implementation for Linux users. Or www.stackingsats.com to pump our ref link.

21Lectures, go to www.21lectures.com and learn more about their Bitcoin developer classes!

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.28 Jan 31, 2019

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This week we are joined by Murad Mahmudov to discuss a litany of topics. Had a bunch of topics planned but didn't get to all of them. A lot of tangents.

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