

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
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.
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Apr 7, 2023 • 1h 40min
#410: The Fed Is Trying To Bring Down The European Banks with Tom Luongo
Join Marty as he sits down with Tom Luongo to discuss the role the banking crisis plays in the inter-cabal squabble.
Tom Luongo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TFL1728
Tom's website: https://tomluongo.me/
8:14 - What the hell is going on?
13:08 - Communicating ideas
20:04 - Intentions of the Fed and big American banks
31:39 - Europe in trouble as rates raise
38:41 - Pivot to BRICS
42:20 - FIMA
47:52 - Keeping a finger on the pulse
51:03 - Multi-vector attack on America
55:36 - Trump's indictment and the need for trust
58:37 - Tom's take on Bitcoin
1:02:01 - Stablecoins
1:04:48 - Can the Fed fix what they've created?
1:15:17 - Shaping reality with headlines
1:17:08 - Credit where credit is due
1:20:03 - The Fed on Bitcoin and crypto
1:25:06 - Congealed energy
1:28:51 - Keep your eggs in more baskets
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Apr 5, 2023 • 2h 38min
#409: Talking Value 4 Value with the Podfather Adam Curry
Join Marty as he sits down with Adam Curry to discuss Podcasting 2.0, Value 4 Value, Bitcoin, energy, culture, and much more.
Adam Curry on Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamcurry
No Agenda Show: https://www.noagendashow.net/
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8:57 - Opening Riff
14:51 - Information Freedom
18:57 - Bitcoin responsibility and remembering your keys
24:19 - Patriot Act 2.0 and thinking local
28:25 - Mining and energy
38:30 - Trans politics and transhumanism
52:41 - Nostr
55:50 - v4v
1:08:43 - Joe Rogan
1:13:23 - Go make children
1:15:50 - Modern dating
1:18:08 - Comedy mothership
1:21:22 - Elon, CBDCs and AI
1:33:27 - Habla
1:36:00 - Self hosting and running nodes
1:38:56 - v4v electric boogaloo
1:46:29 - Thank God for Bitcoin
1:54:59 - No Agenda
1:58:59 - These timestamps took a lot of condensing
2:00:11 - Drugs, digital and pharmaceutical
2:08:05 - v4v thunderdome
2:29:12 - Truth For The Commoner
2:30:56 - Meetups
2:30:58 - We're gonna win
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Mar 27, 2023 • 1h 31min
#408: The Truth About Renewable Energy with Brian Gitt
Join Marty as he sits down with Brian Gitt to discuss the flawed ideological approach behind ESG mandates and renewable energies.
Brian Gitt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianGitt
Brian's website: https://briangitt.com/
5:23 - California emissions and electric cars
14:08 - Material supply for EVs
16:21 - California's oil hypocrisy
21:15 - EGS mandates don't preserve environment or help human life
27:06 - Nuclear safety
32:48 - Small modular reactors
48:52 - Wind and solar subsidies
52:52 - Ranting on batteries
55:08 - Unreliable and inefficient renewables
1:04:05 - Top down ideological policy
1:09:27 - Regulations are the root of the problem
1:14:11 - Questioning beliefs and educating
1:19:25 - Money and energy are the backbone
1:25:23 - Speaking out
1:29:56 - Plugs, wrapping up
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Mar 23, 2023 • 2h 9min
#407: FedNow is not a CBDC with Matthew Mežinskis
Sitting down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q4 2022 Monetary Base update, the banking crisis, CBDCs, and more
Follow Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crypto_voices
9:14 - Q4 update, just in time for Q1
13:32 - Bitcoin price
22:29 - The results of raising interest
24:42 - Bond duration risk
32:30 - QE5
34:40 - Choke Point 2.0
38:14 - Balaji's price prediction
46:53 - FedNow
55:04 - CDBC destroying big banks
1:00:09 - US state rights
1:05:21 - Flaring natural gas
1:11:00 - Blood in the water, Bitcoin is the way out
1:19:18 - Custodia Bank
1:27:17 - Black markets and civil disobedience
1:31:09 - Monetary base
1:39:09 - Back to CBDCs
1:45:33 - Bitcoin's rank in monetary base
1:47:22 - We're gonna win
1:59:39 - Gold and Silver
2:06:19 - Wrapping up
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Mar 20, 2023 • 1h 21min
#406: Debt-Based Colonialism and Structural Adjustment with Alex Gladstein
Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Gladstein to discuss how the IMF and World Bank harness debt to funnel resources from poor nations to rich ones.
Alex's article on Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/imf-world-bank-repress-poor-countries
Alex's Essays: https://alexgladstein.com/
Alex Gladstein at HRF: https://hrf.org/team/alex-gladstein/
5:26 - In town for SXSW talking about CFA franc
10:06 - Colonial exploitation
17:21 - Transfer of control of energy
19:51 - Outsourcing the cost
28:24 - The unrecorded losses
36:38 - Structural Adjustment
42:36 - What it could look like without the current system
49:32 - Double standard
52:51 - Bitcoin fixes this
1:01:13 - No political solution
1:04:16 - Odious debt
1:10:10 - Biological effect of wage deflation
1:12:30 - Bitcoin fixes this - again
1:20:00 - Wrapping up
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Mar 18, 2023 • 1h 35min
#405: The Biden Laptop Report with Garrett Ziegler
Sitting down with Garrett Ziegler to discuss the Biden laptop.
Follow Marco Polo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarcoPolo501c3
5:26 - Investigating the Biden family
14:53 - Firsthand sources
17:20 - Foreign interests
26:54 - Hunter the political whore
29:31 - Not a democrat/republican issue
34:58 - Legal action against the laptop shop
38:45 - Fake info
41:41 - Plausibility of forgetting the laptop
45:06 - Laundering money through Ukraine VC
48:51 - Joe is the main story
52:28 - IPhone backup
56:33 - What are intentions of the agencies?
58:23 - Joe's dementia
1:01:24 - What can be done
1:05:05 - What Americans should take away
1:07:55 - Secret daughters
1:09:52 - Gerontocracy
1:15:36 - Hope for the future
1:18:16 - International trade
1:22:46 - Climate nonsense
1:26:06 - Truth For The Commoner
1:31:42 - Garrett won't apologize
1:34:24 - Wrap up/plugs
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Mar 15, 2023 • 1h 19min
#404: Thinking Beyond the Crowd with Konstantin Kisin
Join Marty as he sits down with Konstantin Kisin to discuss woke culture, covid hysteria, comedy, Ukraine, and more.
Follow Konstantin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin
Check out Triggernometry https://www.youtube.com/c/Triggerpod
6:06 - Thinking beyond the crowd
9:08 - The democratic response to Covid
14:57 - The next few years will shape the next half century
20:05 - Flaws in Bitcoin
27:13 - Escaping the Current Thing dichotomy
32:24 - Generational differences
36:51 - Calming the urgency to assess
45:51 - Comedy
49:41 - State of the UK
51:21 - People are tiring of woke culture
52:54 - Ukraine
1:04:54 - Baltic history
1:09:00 - Hong Kong
1:11:13 - Dangers of nihilism
1:16:21 - Plugs and wrapping up
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Mar 13, 2023 • 1h 29min
#403: Dissecting the Banking Crisis with Parker Lewis
Join Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis to break down the causes of the banking crisis from first principles.
Follow Parker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/parkeralewis
9:15 - Is it happening?
11:40 - The Fed caused bank failures, not crypto
19:15 - SVB balance sheet
24:49 - History of bank cash assets
30:07 - How QE is done without QE
38:51 - The cycles accelerate every time
44:52 - The system is built for moral hazard
49:39 - Trust in traditional money is failing
57:06 - Will Bitcoin be blamed?
1:00:54 - Bitcoiners shouldn't waste their time
1:03:42 - Bitcoin's most important next steps
1:09:57 - Bitcoin Takeover
1:13:34 - Bitcoin is more important than ever
1:18:12 - QE5 is here
1:23:13 - Wrapping up
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Mar 10, 2023 • 1h 23min
#402: The Fed Is Losing Money with Lyn Alden
Join Marty as he sits down with Lyn Alden to discuss the state of the Federal Reserve and inflation.
Follow Lyn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact
7:12 - The myth of inflation and unemployment
13:39 - The problem with CPI as a metric
21:59 - Does the US have the fiscal capability to handle Fed policy?
26:04 - Nations abandoning USD reserve
31:30 - Bitcoin not yet big enough to settle international trade
34:07 - Lyn's view on current bitcoin
38:03 - Fedi pools and other centralizing factors
41:06 - Emerging markets driving adoption
44:44 - Supply side issues
47:38 - Fed unprofitable
51:39 - Glimmers of hope
55:52 - Will energy policy change?
1:08:58 - War drums
1:13:30 - Highlighting the solutions through Bitcoin
1:15:41 - Fed blindspots
1:20:16 - Wrapping up, plugs
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Mar 8, 2023 • 2h 4min
#401: Inflation Hitting The Real Estate Market and Bitcoin Urbanism with Kelly Lannan
Join Marty as he sits down with Kelly Lannan to discuss the condition of infrastructure and the real estate market during this period of inflation, as well as Bitcoin Urbanism.
Follow Kelly on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ktlannan
9:55 - Riffing on infrastructure
17:18 - Current condition of real estate
22:43 - Marty asks question, are we in the eye of the storm?
27:04 - New home buyers are screwed
32:44 - Stopping the cycle with bitcoin
35:51 - Inflation is real, believe your lying eyes
45:42 - Debt slavery
49:03 - No man's land
50:46 - Hyperinflation looks near
56:57 - Diverting attention
1:01:18 - Bitcoin Urbanism
1:13:59 - Real estate is a shitcoin
1:16:14 - Strong Towns
1:19:08 - 15 Minute Cities
1:30:06 - The state of digital tech masks how bad it is
1:38:08 - California's decline
1:45:19 - Bitcoin fixes this
1:51:26 - Building on bitcoin
1:56:22 - Bullish vibes, plugs, wrapping up
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