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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 2019.01.21 Jan 25, 2019

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This week Marty and Matt discuss:

- Venezuela - https://twitter.com/btcven

- Post-Soviet LN + Satellite API messages - https://twitter.com/notgrubles/status/1088402776638541827

- Lightning games - https://mailchi.mp/9e176e464777/martys-bent-january-21st-2018-issue-402

- Georgia & Bitfury - https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1088816882872926211

- Taproot article by Aaron van Wirdum - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/taproot-coming-what-it-and-how-it-will-benefit-bitcoin/

- ETF withdrawn - https://twitter.com/gaborgurbacs/status/1088173233722089486

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Tales from the Crypt #56: Chris Dannen Jan 24, 2019

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Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Dannen, co-founder and Partner at Iterative Capital, to discuss a range of topics including the evolution of software development culture, destroying the technostructure, the poison that is mainstream media, and much more.

Follow Chris on Twitter: www.twitter.com/chrisdannen

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

Check out Iterative's thesis: iterative.capital/thesis

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Tales from the Crypt #55: BitcoinTINA aka Rick Flex Jan 18, 2019

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Join Marty on this week's edition of Tales from the Crypt as he sits down with BitcoinTINA aka Rick Flex to discuss how bullish he is, past tech trends and how we may use them to guess how Bitcoin adoption may play out, and much much more. Banger of an episode.

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.14 Jan 18, 2019

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In this episode we discuss:

-ETH 2.0

-Constantinople bug and delay

-LN network analysis

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/01/15/the-growth-of-the-lightning-network-has-been-remarkable-but-theres-a-catch/

-Putin bitcoin rumor

-Wasabi multi-denominations

-ETC was indeed reorged chain wide

-China plans on using great firewall to target nodes https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612749/china-will-now-officially-try-to-extend-its-great-firewall-to-blockchains/

-Grin launch

-Thor from Bitrefill https://www.coindesk.com/new-bitrefill-service-aims-to-make-lightning-payments-easy

-Baakt delayed

-Genesis Trading OTC volume up 50% YoY, https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/genesis-tradings-otc-trading-volume-is-up-50-year-over-year/

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.07 Jan 10, 2019

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This week we discuss:

-Deplatforming +

-ETC 51%

-ETH Constantinople and progPow forks

-10 years since Hal - https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988?lang=en

-Zap POS app https://twitter.com/JackMallers/status/1082778829217808384?s=19

-Gemini ad campaign - https://twitter.com/Gemini/status/1082726902622797825

-Bitcoin mining pools over time, BetterHash - https://coinmetrics.io/mining-pool-mapping/

-Kraken compliance report https://twitter.com/krakenfx/status/1081701788464558080?s=19

-Nodl.it

-Bitmain founders rumored to be stepping down, new CEO inbound

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitmain-to-appoint-new-ceo-as-co-founders-wu-and-zhan-step-aside/

-Norwegian Monero Ransom

-ShapeShift lays off 30% of their team, 37 people

- Bezos Commencement speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBmavNoChZc

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.31 Jan 04, 2019

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On this week's edition of RHR Marty and Matt come to you live from RiseNY to shoot the shit about Bitcoin's first ten years as well as some current events.

Shoutout to our sponsor Blockfi: Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can leverage your BTC today!

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.24 Dec 28, 2018

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This week we discuss:

Trezor + Ledger hacks - wallet.fail - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/researchers-demo-crypto-hardware-wallet-vulnerabilities-at-tech-conference/

Electrum hack - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/hackers-used-a-clever-tactic-to-steal-over-700k-from-users-of-a-popular-bitcoin-wallet/

New Joule version out - Pierre Rochard's node launcher

Indian gov possibly loosening regs - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/indian-government-panel-suggests-possible-rule-change-around-legal-status-of-cryptocurrencies/

Bitcoin Private- https://coinmetrics.io/bitcoin-private/

Facebook + crypto - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-21/facebook-is-said-to-develop-stablecoin-for-whatsapp-transfers

US Government Shutdown

Civil token relaunch

Tuur Demeester's thread on ETH: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1078682801954799617

Bitmain layoffs - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitmain-layoffs-underway-may-impact-up-to-50-of-staff/

Consensys layoffs - https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/20/18150036/consensys-layoffs-employees-pending-startup-ethereum

GMO exiting mining biz - https://ir.gmo.jp/en/pdf/irlibrary/gmo_disclose_info20181225_e.pdf

Difficulty leveling off - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitcoins-mining-difficulty-drops-another-9-but-hash-rate-picks-up/

7-month trading volume highs - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitcoin-and-ethereum-weekly-trading-volume-reached-7-month-highs/

Highest single day trade vol for tether - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/exchange-volume-for-tether-sees-all-time-high/

Civic takedown - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2018/12/21/civics-token-illustrates-why-companies-masquerading-tokens-will-fail/

Iterative Capital NYC Event - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bitcoin-10-year-anniversary-live-w-marty-bent-aaron-lammer-jay-kang-tickets-51666739609

Shoutout to this week's sponsor, BlockFi. Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can avoid selling BTC or help start that side project you always wanted by leveraging your BTC holdings!

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.17 Dec 19, 2018

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This week Matt and Marty Discuss: RIP Tim May Minisketch - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/synching-data-between-bitcoin-nodes-about-get-easier/ & https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1075460072786935808 Blockstream satellite - https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2018/12/17/who-needs-verizon-blockstream-broadcasts-entire-bitcoin-blockchain-from-space/#548f7bc75a80 Unchained Capital Dust analysis - https://blog.unchained-capital.com/bitcoin-data-science-pt-3-dust-thermodynamics-615dd51f49 Basis - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2018/12/12/stablecoin-project-basis-is-shutting-down-and-returning-the-majority-of-capital-raised-to-investors/ Coinbase - https://blog.coinbase.com/ethereum-tokens-dai-dai-golem-gnt-maker-mkr-and-zilliqa-zil-are-launching-on-coinbase-3065eeb42d5b & https://blog.coinbase.com/direct-crypto-conversions-on-coinbase-e458af083c62 & https://medium.com/hydro-protocol/why-we-are-forking-0x-97dc48ee0426 & https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-continues-to-explore-support-for-new-digital-assets-92ba4ab7f465 Tether - https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-12-18/crypto-mystery-clues-suggest-tether-has-the-billions-it-promised ETH Constantinople fork - https://www.coindesk.com/block-7080000-ethereum-developers-propose-activation-point-for-next-hard-fork Gazprombank - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/one-of-russias-largest-state-owned-banks-is-developing-crypto-banking-services-for-institutional-clients/ Japanese tax law - https://www.coindesk.com/japanese-lawmaker-proposes-4-changes-to-ease-crypto-tax-burden Rumor Bitmain IPO not happening The Patreon War Mulvaney a Bitcoiner - https://twitter.com/ObsoleteDogma/status/810957268950859780 - Samourai Dojo - https://samouraiwallet.com/dojo -Mining in Iran - https://www.coindesk.com/cheap-power-lures-crypto-miners-to-iran-but-its-not-as-easy-as-it-sounds Thanks to our Sponsors: BlockFi: Sign up at blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to get $25 in free crypto added to customer collateral for loans under $10k or $50 in free crypto added to customer collateral for loans over $10k. Applying takes less than 2 minutes. Tallyco.in/BTC_Spot/ - Head over to http://tallyco.in and raise funds with some of that unstoppable, censorship-resistant, magic internet money today!

Tales from the Crypt #54: Yassine Elmandjra Dec 18, 2018

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Join Marty as he sits down with Yassine Elmandjra, Crypto Analyst at ARK Invest, to discuss Yassine's insanely low time preference decisions post-college, Bitcoin mining, how Bitcoin changes you, and much more. Follow Yassine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/yassineARK Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent

Tales from the Crypt #53: Matthew Mežinskis Dec 11, 2018

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Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis, co-host of the Crypto Voices podcast, to discuss Base Money, Free Banking, how Bitcoin plays into these concepts, and much more. Follow Crypto Voice on Twitter: www.twitter.com/crypto_voices Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Thank you to our sponsor BlockFi! Go to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to get $25 of free crypto collateral for loans under $10k and $50 of free crypto collateral for loans above $10k!

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