TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#453: From Barstool to Mash with Louis Roberts

Oct 17, 2023

Marty sits down with Lightswitch Lou to talk about Mash and its integration with the new TFTC website. Topics discussed include the incumbent monetization models, enabling interaction features, controlling your own flow of funds, convincing other publishers, lightning compared to advertising a decade ago, Barstool, death of the old model, chicken and egg of Bitcoin adoption, saving the world with Bitcoin, politicians being nuts, war, rising from ashes of the American empire and AI.

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A Casual Conversation on Bitcoin, Nicotine, and Transitioning into VC

Being Operators: Approaches and Sunday Family Meals

Bitcoin Industry Engagement and ICO Skepticism

10:32 • 19min

The Platform-like Experience of Mash

29:07 • 18min

Proving platform value and monetization strategies

Hard Work, Fixing the Money System, and Bitcoin Progress

53:35 • 18min

Chicken and Egg Problem in Bitcoin Industry

01:11:26 • 7min

Educating Non-Bitcoiners and the Potential for Better Ads

01:18:54 • 2min

Marketing, Engineering, and Wild YouTubers

01:20:39 • 10min

Thoughts on Working in Politics and Plans for Involvement

01:30:09 • 16min

Comparing Safety and Security in Different Areas

01:46:04 • 2min

The Impending Threat of World War III

01:47:44 • 11min

The Role of Bitcoin in the American Empire

01:58:21 • 5min

Discovery in Law, World War III, and Abundance of Resources

02:03:06 • 2min

Incentivizing the Productive Class and Monetizing Creators Outside of Walled Garden Platforms

02:04:50 • 3min