TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - taproot activates successfully at block 609732 - muun wallet adds taproot support - SEC rejects VanEck spot bitcoin etf - Perth Heat baseball team adopts the bitcoin standard - crypto dot com spends $700M to rename Staples Center for 20 years - tether announces new subsidiary 'Synonym' to bring tokens and other features to lightning - Senators Wyden and Lummis submit bill to restrict bitcoin tax reporting rules in infrastructure bill - Senator Cruz submits bill to repeal bitcoin portion of infrastructure bill - IRS expects billions of dollars worth of 'crypto' seizures next year - btcpayserver v1.3.5 - lnd v0.14.0-beta - mercury wallet v0.4.51 - simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.18 - immortan v0.5.6 - fully noded v0.2.30 - umbrel v0.4.8 - hexa wallet v2.0.2 - ledger live desktop v2.35.1 - bitcoin banking for communities - reason minidoc on environmental impact of bitcoin Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins - Daniel's thread Compass Mining

Join Marty as he sits back down with Whitney Webb to discuss: - The plan to securitize the natural world - Why a botched vaccine passport rollout is important - The looming food and energy shortages - How to reach both sides of the political aisle - The plan to monopolize the extraction of rare earth metals - Bankers taking over governments - much more Follow Whitney on Twitter Support her work Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins - Daniel's thread Compass Mining

Join Marty as he sits down with John Carvalho to discuss Synonym's emergence from stealth mode. - Why did he build Synonym - What is it? - Building reputation systems - Tokens on Lightning - Slashtags - Building truly unstoppable apps - much more Check out Synonym Follow Synonym on Twitter Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins - Daniel's thread Compass Mining

Join Marty as he sits down with Justin Rhedrick, author of From Bars to Bitcoin, to discuss: - How a high time preference decision landed Justin in prison - The prison economy - Getting out of prison and diving into Bitcoin - Teaching people about low time preference - How Bitcoin has changed Justin's life - How to explain Bitcoin - much more Follow Justin on Twitter Check out From Bars to Bitcoin Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins Compass Mining

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - taproot activates in two days (block 709632) - new bitcoin all time high - miami to airdrop bitcoin to residents - complaints about compass mining - btcpayserver v1.3.4 - specter desktop v1.7.1 - mercury wallet v0.4.48 - lnd v0.13.4-beta - umbrel v0.4.7 - nix bitcoin v0.0.58 - bitcoinblackfriday.org - robinhood data breach impacts 7 million customers Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins Compass Mining

Join Marty as he sits down with Justin Rezvani, founder of Zion, to discuss: - Surviving brain surgery - A new lease on life - Founding and selling an influencer marketing company by 27 - Building a social media app on the Lightning Network - Pushing the Lightning Network to its limits - Forking the Sphinx codebase - The ills of the advertising industry - much more Follow Justin on Twitter Check out Zion Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins Compass Mining

Join Marty as he sits down with Texas Slim, founder of the Texas Beef Initiative, to discuss: - Texas history - How Monsanto ruined our food - Monocropping - The Texas Beef Initiative - Regenerative farming - How the Regime is trying to make us nutritionally bankrupt - much more Check out the Texas Beef Initiative Substack Follow Texas Slim on Twitter Check out the Oshi App Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins Compass Mining

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - lightning channel jamming research - largest bank in australia to add bitcoin payments - Miami mayor to take next paycheck in bitcoin, NYC mayor elect to take first three paychecks in bitcoin - aaron rodgers to get paid in bitcoin - Navajo Nation mining bitcoin - african bitcoin startup chipper cash raises $150M - mercury wallet v0.4.45 - btcpayserver v1.3.1 - electrs v0.9.2 - nix-bitcoin v0.0.57 - sparrow wallet v1.5.2 - rust lightning v0.0.103 - c-lightning v0.10.2 - wasabi wallet v1.1.13.0 - phoenix v1.4.19 - nth key v1.0.6 - hexa wallet v2.0.0 - compass mining doubles capacity with new deal - facebook dumping face recognition Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins Compass Mining

Join Marty as he sits down with Alexander Leishman, CEO & CEO of River Financial, to discuss: - River adding mining services - What does the future of bitcoin exchanges look like? - The Metaverse - The physical world - The TSA - Federal travel mandates - Population domination - The CIA - Engaging in politics; how to do it - much more Follow Alex on Twitter Check out River Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins Compass Mining

Join Marty as he sits down with John Carvalho to discuss: - John's Chinese mining theory - Is bitcoin divisible? - The UTXO set - The Lightning Network - Public mining companies - Holding your own keys - much more Follow John on Twitter Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins Compass Mining