TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Join Marty as he sits down with James O'Beirne to discuss the OP_VAULT proposal, the way Bitcoin Core is governed, and some bearish vibes. Follow James on Twitter 6:23 - Opening riff 9:45 - OP_VAULT 12:18 - Origins of covenants 16:02 - Further iterations and designing the best vault 21:18 - Explaining vaults 25:36 - UTXO batching 27:32 - Use cases 32:29 - Ideal UX 37:03 - Feedback on the opcode 42:22 - Zooming out on implications 43:47 - Back to mailing list feedback 45:48 - When is the BIP coming? 48:09 - Bitcoin core governance 55:55 - Bitcoin ossification 59:32 - How should governance change? 1:06:43 - New blood in Core project 1:10:04 - Bearish vibes 1:16:51 - Is there room for project managers? 1:20:13 - Supporting new developers 1:29:53 - Bearish again 1:32:17 - Back to OP_VAULT 1:37:30 - Plugs and closing riff Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital River TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

Join Marty as he sits down with Graham Krizek to discuss the progress of Voltage over the last 2 years, how the lightning network's doing, and where it's going from here. Follow Graham on Twitter Check out Voltage 6:47 - Back on the show after 2 years 9:06 - What's Voltage? 14:23 - Witnessing growth of Voltage and LN 17:43 - What have been LN's biggest strides? 19:44 - Could LN fail? 22:50 - VLS 25:17 - Favorite LN implementation? 27:10 - It's not really one network 30:06 - PTLCs 32:38 - There's lot's left new people to do 34:53 - Learning from and educating customers 41:07 - Making liquidity easier 45:09 - Flow and Surge 49:30 - Voltage privacy 50:16 - Competition for Voltage 55:45 - How's bitcoin doing in general? 58:44 - How does a Bitcoin company handle a potential long bear market? 1:01:43 - Conference fatigue 1:02:59 - Emerging markets driving adoption 1:06:53 - AI and value4value 1:10:29 - Will wallets consolidate? 1:11:48 - Future for Voltage 1:17:31 - Parting words Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital River CrowdHealth TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

Join Marty as he sits down with Rick V to discuss his 3D printed space heater mod for miners, the story of CryptoCloaks, and what it's like running a Bitcoin-based business. CryptoCloaks on Twitter CryptoCloaks Website 5:58 - Coffee rip! 8:23 - Questions on 3D printing 15:35 - CryptoCloaks 19:59 - Story of the space heater 23:36 - Temp limits on 3D printed parts 24:46 - What space heater ASICs can do for hash distribution 27:45 - Rick's Bitcoin story 30:43 - Everyone Bitcoiner should have a 3D printer 35:05 - Where 3D printing is going 38:15 - AI 44:22 - Back to CryptoCloaks 50:07 - UK store 51:01 - Word for entrepreneurs 53:47 - Running a bitcoin based business 1:03:16 - Narrative battle 1:10:05 - Ring drones 1:11:43 - What's next for CryptoCloaks 1:13:48 - Plugs 1:14:45 - Mining tangent 1:18:11 - Outro Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital River TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

Join Marty as he sits down with David Collum to recap 2022. The discuss Ukraine, the recession, and so much jab shit-talking we didn't even bother putting this on YouTube. Follow David on Twitter 9:30 - Hocking loogies and snapping necks 13:58 - Rumors that the 3rd jab compromises immunity 17:02 - Brett Weinstein on Rogan 18:20 - Fauci 20:55 - Vax disaster 26:02 - dog 26:07 - Attitudes and responsibility of the medical community 30:45 - Only conclusion left is deliberate malice 36:04 - Australian data on birthrate 38:27 - Sportsball players dying in the field 42:13 - Speak out, get got 44:45 - Azov Regiment, MK Ultra, and Hollywood pedos 56:34 - SBF 1:04:44 - They tried to kill us with Covid 1:06:33- Who's in control and how much control do they have? 1:16:41 - Trans mind sickness 1:26:11 - Trudeau and Castro 1:27:29 - Where's the financial chaos going? 1:39:41 - Gold 1:49:55 - What's up with Japan? 2:00:00 - Inflation 2:09:30 - A story of redonkulous financial degeneracy 2:14:19 - Remember IndyMac? 2:18:28 - If everyone's mad at the start of the recession, what does the bottom look like? 2:21:00 - Talking monetization 2:24:34 - Bitcoin vs gold 2:31:50 - Family dynamics changed by economy 2:35:59 - Mining bitcoin 2:39:32 - Bullish on nuclear 2:44:29 - Marty is a lesbian woman with two children 2:46:06 - dog 2:52:04 - Ukraine 2:55:51 - Moon landing and flat earth 3:00:29 - Dinner time for dog Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital River CrowdHealth TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

Join Marty as he sits down with jb55 to get an update on Nostr, the 14 bitcoin grant from Jack Dorsey, and how the grant will be allocated and the strange moves out of Twitter to box out competitors. Follow jb55 on Twitter Check out Damus 8:11 - @Jack funded Nostr 12:22 - What is Nostr anyway? 614:25 - How to spin up a Nostr relay 16:18 - State of Nostr 18:27 - How Jack's donation is being used 21:12 - fiatjaf 23:13 - How are people interacting with Nostr? 23:06 - Building clients and the future of Nostr 25:52 - BOLT11 invoicing 29:56 - Delegation 33:25 - Minds social network 34:33 - Things that need work in Nostr 36:06 - Private key scraping 37:33 - Personal Nostr signing devices 39:17 - fiatjaf's monthly bounty 41:32 - Open source community 42:25 - Building Nostr to return to the old internet 49:57 - Three Letter Agencies controlling social media 54:38 - Wrapping up Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins CrowdHealth Upstream Data TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

Join Marty as he sits down with Sjors to discuss a million little bitcoin rabbit holes. Follow Sjors on Twitter Check out the Sjors's book 7:00 - A wild Sjors appears in Austin! 10:08 - Senator Warren's DAAML bill 13:46 - Miners could start self censoring 20:24 - Forced labour 22:28 - Who interested in passing DAAML? 24:09 - Warren's terminology of "money transmission" 25:25 - Can this kill Bitcoin? 30:30 - State of Bitcoin development 33:08 - Utreexo and the growing blockchain 39:44 - Erlay 46:39 - Back to Utreexo and blockchain growth 50:44 - Foreshadowing a new blocksize war 55:10 - Building Bitcoin with future humanity in mind 58:06 - Bitcoin full node is a ship of Theseus 1:01:25 - Sjors backstory: Physics and Ducks 1:04:52 - Sjors backstory: Gold and Bitcoin 1:08:07 - Javascript dependency circus 1:09:07 - Geeks project 1:16:44 - Defending your node 1:20:07 - Separating wallets from nodes 1:25:28 - Miniscript 1:31:39 - How's Taproot doing? 1:34:27 - Are devs spread too thin? 1:36:09 - Bitcoin: A Work In Progress 1:41:59 - AI writers 1:46:44 - What happened with bitcoin core v0.24.0 1:47:39 - Checkpoints 1:52:36 - Bitcoin's upcoming 14th birthday 1:53:39 - Regulatory attacks 1:58:25 - Circular economy helps with privacy 1:59:48 - Countries switching to bitcoin 2:04:04 - Blocked by Taleb 2:05:28 - Ending Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins CrowdHealth TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

Join Marty as he sits down with Jesse to discuss the shitcoin mindset, the core value of Bitcoin, and the financial debasement that threatens us. Follow Jesse on Twitter 9:15 - Nyms and names 10:10 - Unlearning shitcoinery 16:53 - Copying digital scarcity devalues it 21:28 - Crypto is becoming more scammy over time 28:54 - The crypto cult leaders 32:18 - Why yuppies can't grok bitcoin 38:36 - Crypto feeds off of early internet mindset 44:51 - Resisting inflation with hard money 52:50 - Digital revolution of value 55:10 - Progression of better money 1:03:58 - The degeneration of fiat world 1:12:10 - The progression of America's debasement of money 1:20:33 - Past the financial event horizon 1:30:53 - Weak men in hard times 1:33:09 - The peaceful revolution 1:36:56 - Take ownership 1:43:51 - Is the contagion still contagious? 1:49:29 - Plugs Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins Upstream Data TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

Join Marty as he sits back down with Matthew Mežinskis of Porkopolis Economics to discuss the Q2 2022 monetary base update. Follow Matthew Mežinskis on Twitter Read everything discussed at: Porkopolis Economics 5:54 - Criminal charges against member of Swiss government 12:35 - Damages from vaccination 16:35 - German military confirms jab worsens health 18:51 - Connection to WEF and Davos 22:57 - The state of Switzerland 27:38 - Opinion on Bitcoin 34:06 - Pascal's history 37:20 - African governments 40:28 - Christine Lagarde 42:05 - Ukraine 49:42 - What happens next in finance 54:40 - Jab is about control 1:00:54 - Call to action Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins Upstream Data TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

Join Marty as he sits down with Pascal Najadi to discuss bringing criminal charges against a member of the Swiss government for damage done by vaccine mandates. They also dive into the vaccine's connection to the WEF's desire for control and the importance of finding peace in Ukraine. 5:54 - Criminal charges against member of Swiss government 12:35 - Damages from vaccination 16:35 - German military confirms jab worsens health 18:51 - Connection to WEF and Davos 22:57 - The state of Switzerland 27:38 - Opinion on Bitcoin 34:06 - Pascal's history 37:20 - African governments 40:28 - Christine Lagarde 42:05 - Ukraine 49:42 - What happens next in finance 54:40 - Jab is about control 1:00:54 - Call to action Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins CrowdHealth TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast

Join Marty as he sits down with Sam Abbassi to discuss building Hoseki, the potential austerity of a hyperbitcoinized world, and weird brain stuff. Follow Sam on Twitter Check out Hoseki 6:29 - Sam's crypto origin story 11:14 - Concussions and neuroscience 19:06 - Encountering crypto degeneracy and getting orange pilled 25:24 - Working at Fidelity 35:21 - Marty's writing history 41:01 - AI 44:02 - Are we better off than in medieval times? 47:50 - An austere orange pilled Earth 52:57 - What are the problems in a bitcoin standard? 1:04:53 - Hoseki 1:18:14 - Developing a web of trust in third world countries 1:21:12 - Fiat world 1:26:48 - Proof of reserves 1:38:36 - National divorce 1:43:45 - Feds shouldn't be romanticized 1:46:34 - Last words Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital Braiins HodlHodl CrowdHealth TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel Website Twitter Instagram Follow Marty Bent: Twitter Newsletter Podcast