

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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May 6, 2022 • 1h 10min
#330: Preventative care with Dr. Mary Caire
Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Mary Caire to discuss the perverse incentives of the pharmaceutical industry.
Follow Dr. Mary Caire on twitter
Learn more about Dr. Mary Caire
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May 5, 2022 • 1h 48min
Rabbit Hole Recap #198: The government spies and lies
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- coinbase launches revamped surveillance product
- SEC doubles size of "crypto assets" unit
- cdc tracked the location of millions of americans without a warrant
- fbi did millions of searches of americans data last year without a warrant
- bitcoin mining council submits letter to EPA
- how women view bitcoin
- mycitadel v1.0
- seed tool v1.0.4
- tor [v0.4.7.7](https://blog.torproject.org/congestion-contrl-047/ - mk4 shipping + new firmware)
- cold card upgrade
- lightning multiplexer
- new lightning only vpn
- voltage podcast index study
- Mexican bitcoin exchange Tauros adds lightning
- currency of last resort by gladstein
- paypal being used to censor speech
- all internet and payment providers ordered to block three streaming sites by federal judge
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May 4, 2022 • 55min
#329: Back to basics with the TFTC Godfather Louis Roberts
Join Marty as he sits down with Louis Roberts to reminisce about the last five years of TFTC.
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Learn more about Tendies
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May 3, 2022 • 1h 27min
#328: The pitfalls of the Fiat Standard with Dr. Saifedean Ammous
Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Saifedean Ammous to discuss the pitfalls of the Fiat Standard.
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Read more about The Fiat Standard
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May 3, 2022 • 1h 31min
#327: Healthcare on a Bitcoin Standard with Andy Schoonover
Join Marty as he sits down with Andy Schoonover, CEO of CrowdHealth, to discuss the problems with the health care system, how CrowdHealth is providing better product, and how bitcoin can fix the health insurance industry.
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Learn more about CrowdHealth
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Apr 28, 2022 • 2h 23min
Rabbit Hole Recap #197: The Disinformation Governance Board is here to tell you how to think
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- ukraine central bank bans bitcoin
- binance and the FSB
- HRF announces five bitcoin in new grants
- central african republic makes bitcoin a legal tender
- bitcoin core v23.0
- btcpay v1.5.0
- fountain podcasts v0.3.16
- braiins farm proxy reduces data [usage](https://braiins.com/blog/why-miners-need-farm-proxies- amboss launches new liquidity market called Magma )
- amboss magma
- synonym launches blocktank LSP
- americans can now pay bills through bitrefill
- bitcoin jungle in costa rica
- Apple Private Relay causes VPN leaks
- farrington: I Finance the Current Thing
- Negative GDP print
- New “Disinformation Governance Board” formed in the US
- German PPI
- Ruble strength / yen weakness
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Apr 25, 2022 • 1h 27min
#326: Understanding Taro with Olaoluwa Osuntokun
Join Marty as he sits down with Olaoluwa Osuntokun AKA @roasbeef, CTO at Lightning Labs, to discuss Taro - Taproot Asset Representation Overlay and what it means for the LNP/BP stack.
Follow Olaoluwa on Twitter
Contribute to his GitHub
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Apr 21, 2022 • 1h 49min
Rabbit Hole Recap #196: Sanctions on Russian bitcoin miners and the escalating energy and food crisis
This week Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- TSMC Raises $3.5 Billion to build facility in Arizona
- Binance Accounts of Russians with over 10K Euros will be closed in 90 days
- Russian Mining Firm Bitriver hit with sanctions
- Compass Mining announces they were using Bitriver for russian hosting and all miners will be shut off and liquidated
- NY Man running Bitcoin ATMS charged with money laundering
- Bitcoin for Local Businesses
- Bitcoin Magazine Partners with Ukranian NBA Players for Humanitarian
Relief
- Flared-Gas Bitcoin Miner Crusoe Energy Raises $350M
- CipherTrace Ransomware Report
- How Bitcoin Miners Were Airlifted From China to the US
- How Democracies Spy on their Citizens
- Yellen walking out of G20 meeting
- Food supply chain under attack
- FBI warns of ransomware attacks targeting US agriculture sector
- Global energy crisis
- Thoughts on Ukraine, The Martyrmade Podcast
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Apr 19, 2022 • 1h 32min
#325: Texas beef and decentralizing the food supply with Texas Slim, Cole Bolton, and Parker Lewis
Join Marty as he sits down with Texas Slim, Cole Bolton and Parker Lewis to discuss the decentralization of our food supply.
Get Tickets to The Beef Initiative Conference
Learn more about The Beef Initiative
Purchase meat from K and C Cattle
Follow Texas Slim on Twitter
Follow Parker Lewis on Twitter
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Apr 18, 2022 • 1h 16min
#324: There is no climate emergency with Tom Nelson
Join Marty as he sits down with Tom Nelson to explain why there is no climate emergency.
Follow Tom Nelson on Twitter
Read everything Tom writes at Tom Nelson and Blogspot
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