

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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Dec 23, 2020 • 3h 38min
#219: arbedout
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with their very good friend arbedout to discuss:
- Gurri's Revolt of the Public
- Telecommunications networks
- Deflationary v. Inflationary currencies
- MMT vs Bitcoin in context of Hirschmann's Exit, Voice and Loyalty
- Great American Mining, energy, and Bitcoin
- much more
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Dec 22, 2020 • 1h 16min
#218: Desiree Dickerson, Christian Moss, & Simon Cowell
Join Marty as he sits down with Desiree Dickerson, Christian Moss and Simon Cowell to discuss:
- Gaming + The Lightning Network
- Why dedicated gaming tokens don't make sense
- Zebedee's SDK
- MintGox
- Getting pro gamers into LN enabled gaming
- Gaming culture these days
- The Upcoming MintGox tournament on December 27th
- Our favorite games
- much more
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Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Dec 22, 2020 • 2h 12min
#217: Lightswitch Lou's Return
Join Marty as he sits down with Louis Roberts AKA Lightswitch Lou, the man who launched TFTC, to discuss:
- Everything under the sun
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Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Dec 18, 2020 • 1h 55min
#216: Pete Rizzo
Join Marty as he sits down with Pete Rizzo, Editor at Kraken and Advisor to Bitcoin Magazine, to discuss:
- The war over P2SH
- Bitcoin's development culture
- Are Bitcoin's properties inherent or emergent?
- Bitcoin v. Ethereum
- Journalism
- Bias
- Objectivity
- much more
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Read The Battle For P2SH
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Dec 18, 2020 • 1h 54min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.12.14
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- no ban yet
- sats back and sats the standard on cashapp
- Ruffer $744M investment
- $1B investment from One River
- Guggenheim's Minerd drops a casual $400k price prediction
- UK FCA allows temp approvals
- Kraken to add lightning early next year
- MTGox claims speculation
- BTCPay Server v1.0.6.3
- myNode v0.2.20
- TailsOS v4.14
- ACINQ Phoenix v1.4.4
- ACINQ iOS wallet enters testing
- Electrum v4.0.8
- BlueWallet v6.6.0
- Compromising airgapped machines
- OXT Research Kucoin Report
- JoinMarket guide
- 10 ways to lose your bitcoin
- Coinbase going public
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Dec 16, 2020 • 1h 10min
#215: BitcoinTINA
Join Marty as he sits down with BitcoinTINA to discuss:
- The new ATH
- Institutional adoption
- How high will Bitcoin go?
- Gradually, then suddenly
- Cutting losses v. taking profits
- Gold's fate
- The importance of running a node
- The market will bend the knee
- Holding in a bull market v. holding in a bear market
- much more
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Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Dec 15, 2020 • 1h 13min
#214: Ben Kaufman
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Ben Kaufman, unlicensed software developer, to discuss:
- Specter Wallet
- Crypto Advanced
- Making multisig easy
- Making connecting to a full node easy
- PSBT
- QR Codes
- HWI
- Hardware
- Zoomers
- much more
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Check out Specter Wallet
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Dec 11, 2020 • 1h 46min
#213: Jimmy Song
Join Marty as he sits down with Jimmy Song, educator and Co-Author of Thank God For Bitcoin: The Creation, Corruption, and Redemption of Money, to discuss:
- Sound Money as a moral imperative
- How easy money corrupts society
- The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil
- Serving money or God
- Positivism v. Natural Rights
- Jesus flipping the table and kicking out the moneychangers
- much more
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Buy the book
Check out Jimmy's podcast
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.

Dec 11, 2020 • 1h 48min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.12.06
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Ledger Phishing scams continue and get more sophisticated
- Our boy Justin gets funded by Square Crypto
- Brian Brooks non answer when asked about potential self custody restrictions
- G7 Finance Ministers discuss the need for more bitcoin regulations
- Our boy Jake sends out 'canary' tweet
- Four Republican Congressmen send letter to Mnunchin defending self custody
- French Finance Ministry to enact stricter bitcoin regs
- Elliptic releases press release associating bitcoin privacy wallets with criminal intent
- Mass Mutual buys $100M worth of bitcoin
- Microstrategy borrowing money to buy more bitcoin
- c-lightning v0.9.2
- RoninDojo v1.8.0
- Specter v0.10.4
- Zap Android v0.3.6
- Sparrow Wallet v0.9.9
- Ledger Live adds easy bitcoin core full node support
- Bullish yearly survey from Blockchain Capital
- First multi-transaction CoinSwap test by Chris Belcher
- Lightning Network deanonymization paper
- BTC-e Operator sentenced to 5 years
- The Battle for P2SH
- Bitcoin Dissidents Editorial
- BTC Mag drops Top 21 in 2020 list:
- Moxie on Rogan then mobilecoin launch
- Tutanota ordered to break encryption
Shoutout to this week's sponsors:
Unchained Capital. Check out their white glove vault concierge service. Use the code TFTC and receive $50 off that package.
Cash App. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.

Dec 4, 2020 • 2h 26min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.30
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- fresh set of ledger phishing scams sent out
- shilling the corn is the cool thing to do now
- Our boy paul
- Blackrock
- Bloomberg
- potential rushed self custody restrictions via brian armstrong
- CCP was the Plus Token Whale
- NYTimes hit piece on coinbase and bitcoin
- Bitcoin Beach balls out
- BTCPay Server v1.0.6.0
- JoinMarket v0.8.0
- JoininBox v0.1.15
- RaspiBlitz v1.6.2
- MyNode v0.2.19
- Sparrow Wallet v0.9.8
- Nunchuk v0.9.3
- Samourai Wallet v0.99.96
- BlueWallet v5.6.7
- PSBT Toolkit v0.1.2
- New version of nthKey
- Specter DIY now offered prebuilt
- Guggenheim fund may invest in bitcoin
- AllianceBernstein like bitcoin now
- BitMEX hires heavy hitter German CEO
- OTC volumes hit new records
- This Month in Bitcoin Privacy
- Brink announces first fellow, Gloria Zhao
- Gemini announces bitcoin development "Opportunity Fund"
much more
Shoutout to this week's sponsors:
Unchained Capital
Cash App