

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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Feb 11, 2022 • 2h 21min
Rabbit Hole Recap #186: High inflation, beautiful honking and rising taxes on miners
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- married couple arrested and 96K bitcoin seized over 2016 bitfinex hack
- canadian protests bitcoin fundraiser over 15 bitcoin
- KPMG Canada adds bitcoin to treasury
- Russia shares bitcoin regulation plan
- bitcoin design guide v2 launched
- Kazakhstan floats 500% tax increase on bitcoin miners
- EARN IT Bill proposed to scan all online messages
- sensei lightning node implementation released
- cypherpunkpay v1.0.13
- lnd v0.4.2-beta
- electrs v0.9.5
- lnbits v0.6.0
- btcpayserver v1.4.4
- umbrel v0.4.14
- blixt v0.4.1
- galoy v0.1.9
- mercury wallet v0.6.2
- hexa wallet v2.0.69
- whirlpool v0.10.13
- valkyrie bitcoin miners etf launches with ticker WGMI
- deventralized social media project bluesky announces independent Public Benefit LLC and board members
- kraken funding full time bitcoin rust maintainer
- Bitcoin is funding Ukraine defense
- fountain podcaster wallet launched
- opennode raises $20M, now valued at $220M
- binance buys a stake in forbes
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Feb 9, 2022 • 1h 14min
#304: Bitcoin and Energy with Max Gagliardi
Join Marty as he sits down with Max Gagliardi, host of Talk.Energy, to discuss the state of Bitcoin and energy.
Follow Max Gagliardi on Twitter
Check out his podcast Talk.Energy
Learn more about Ancova Digital
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Feb 8, 2022 • 2h 36min
#303: Falling down the WEF rabbit hole with Jesse Matchey
Join Marty as he sits down with retired Army Blackhawk Pilot Jesse Matchey to discuss the WEF rabbit hole.
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Feb 4, 2022 • 2h 26min
#302: The state of our food supply with Texas Slim and Cole Bolton
Join Marty as he sits down with Texas Slim, founder of The Beef Initiative, and Cole Bolton, founder of K&C Cattle Co, to discuss the state of the food supply.
Follow Texas Slim on Twitter
Follow Beef Initiative on Twitter
Learn more about the Beef Initiative
Visit K&C Cattle Co
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Feb 3, 2022 • 2h 4min
Rabbit Hole Recap #185: Currency crises, cold weather, and good bitcoin mining tax news
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- canadian truckers gofundme suspended "under review"
- sparrow, bluewallet, and trezor remove AOPP support
- why AOPP is a risk
- Biden considering executive order against bitcoin
- Congressman Davidson supports financial privacy
- bill introduced to make bitcoin a legal tender in arizona
- IRS signals retreat on block reward taxation
- Kraken launches proof of reserves tool
- Fulcrum electrum server much more performant than electrs or electrumx
- Saylor and Dorsey keynote
- BTCPay Server v1.4.2
- Mempool v2.3.1
- Sparrow Wallet v1.5.6
- Specter Desktop v1.8.1
- BlueWallet v6.2.18
- Eclair v0.7.0
- Umbrel v0.4.13
- Mercury Wallet v0.6.0
- Zap Android v0.5.5-beta
- Nix bitcoin v0.0.64
- proposal to remove memo's from lightning invoices
- ben's bytes dev mommy blog
- trezor has disabled web wallet, users must now use trezor suite
- FTX valued at $32B
- Shopify founder joins coinbase board
- surveillance firm ciphertrace uses honeypots
- impervious browser to launch at bitcoin 2022
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Jan 31, 2022 • 3h 13min
#301: A Check-in with Dave Collum
Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss the state of the world.
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Read Dave Collum 2021 Year in Review: The Rise of Centralized Healthcare
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Jan 28, 2022 • 2h 27min
#300: Doomer optimism with Tucker Max
Join Marty as he sits down with Tucker Max to discuss doomer optimism and Bitcoin.
Follow Tucker on Twitter
Find out more about Tucker at TuckerMax.com
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Jan 27, 2022 • 2h 22min
Rabbit Hole Recap #184: The IRS wants your face and the Treasury hates you
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - new bill would allow US Treasury to prohibit any transaction without public notice or input
- robinhood starts rollout of bitcoin withdrawals
- coldcard MK4 presales open
- bitcoin mining difficulty hits new all time high
- Phoenix v1.4.20
- Bisq v1.8.2
- Zap v0.7.6-beta
- Joininbox v0.6.6
- BTCPay Server v1.4.0
- nix-bitcoin v0.0.63
- Sphinx Relay v2.2.5
- Lightning Terminal v0.6.2-alpha
- satoshi energy raises 60 bitcoin with focus on bitcoin mining infrastructure
- IRS begins requiring selfies for some services using third party company
- puerto rico tax breaks for outsiders stirs outrage
- free four day passes to Bitcoin 2022 for contributors of 30 open source projects
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Jan 27, 2022 • 2h 5min
#299: North American mining (pools) with Alex Brammer
Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Brammer from Luxor Mining to discuss the state of North American Bitcoin mining.
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Follow Luxor Mining on Twitter
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Jan 22, 2022 • 1h 34min
#298: Is it a BLIP or a BOLT with Lisa Neigut
Join Marty as he sits down with Lisa Neigut to discuss everything going on with the Lightning Network.
Follow Lisa on Twitter
Follow Base58 on Twitter
Learn Bitcoin from the world’s best bitcoin education company at Base58
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