

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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Oct 30, 2020 • 1h 1min
#205: Morgen Rochard
Join Marty as he sits down with Morgen Rochard, author of Personal Finance QuickStart Guide, to discuss:
- Personal Finance
- When you should start saving
- How much you should be saving
- How you should be paying down debt
- When can you buy bitcoin?
- Should you speculative attack your debt?
- Keeping tabs of your finances
- much more
Follow Morgen on Twitter
Check out her podcast: Money Owners
Check out her book: Personal Finance QuickStart Guide
Link to student loan advice
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Oct 29, 2020 • 2h 11min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.26
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- FEE FOMO IS REAL
- Cryptocloaks release triton case
- First monthly nodl call
- Travel rule fuckery intensifies
- If you wish to submit a comment
- Statechains for privacy?
- JoinMarket status update
- Marathon announces purchase of 10k AntMiner S-19 Pros
- New round of Ledger user phishing attempts
- Anthony Towns on Taproot activation
- Largest bank in Singapore to launch bitcoin exchange
- JoinMarket v0.7.2
- JoininBox v0.1.13
- BTCPay Server v1.0.5.9
- Lightning Terminal v0.2.0
- Fully Noded Desktop v0.1.96
- Atomic finance launches DLC based bitcoin betting tool
- BlockFi discloses 5% position in GBTC
- Sounds like the NSA is still putting insecure backdoors into our favorite products
- River adds hardware wallet account
- Kucoin hacked bitcoin going through ChipMixer
- Iranian government announces intention to use bitcoin to circumvent import sanctions
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Oct 23, 2020 • 1h 5min
#204: Max Keidun
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Max Keidun from HodlHodl to discuss:
- HodlHodl's new non-custodial loan product
- How lenders and borrowers interact
- How HodlHodl's lending product differs from DeFi
- What stablecoins are available
- Prediction markets
- Liquid
- RGB
- Integration with Blue Wallet
- much more
Follow Max on Twitter
Check out HodlHodl
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Oct 23, 2020 • 1h 52min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.19
This week Mart and Matt discuss:
- two LND vulnerabilities disclosed
- v0.9 and below
- v0.10 and below
- Paypal adds "bitcoin"
- Our boy Paul shills the corn again
- coinbase transparency report
- FinCEN fines custodial bitcoin mixing CEO $60M
- Travel rule white paper & participants
- BTCPay Server v1.0.5.8
- Bisq v1.4.2
- Phoenix v1.4.0
- Breez RC1
- Tails v4.12
- Tor browser v10.0.2
- Raspiblitz v1.6.1
- Sparrow v0.9.6
- Voltage cloud lightning node service launched
- Hodl Hodl adds P2P bitcoin lending support
- BitMEX speeding up KYC process
- Bitcoin hit piece by CNAS
- Thai authorities attempting to block access to telegram
Shoutout to this week's sponsors:
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Oct 19, 2020 • 3h 5min
#203: Dave Collum
Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss:
- Cancel culture
- Modern day journalism
- COVID-19
- Lockdowns
- Vaccines
- The Election
- Censorship
- much more
Follow Dave on Twitter
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Oct 17, 2020 • 1h 13min
#202: Adam Soltys
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Adam Soltys, creator of Coinos.io, to discuss:
- Local ISPs
- Coinos
- Web wallets
- UX
- Security Tradeoffs
- The Lightning Network
- Liquid
- Tokens
- Privacy
- much more
Check out coinos
Follow Adam on Twitter
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Oct 16, 2020 • 1h 20min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.12
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- LND vulnerability
- DOJ launches global push to ban end to end encryption
- OKEx suspends withdrawals
- Taproot merged into Bitcoin Core
- BitMEX cofounder released on $5M bond
- BitMEX hires new compliance officer
- Indian exchanges working together to provide stricter KYC/AML compliance
- Spain potential law forcing full disclosure of bitcoin holdings
- Unchained adds coldcard support
- myNode v0.2.17
- Nodl v0.1.1f
- RTL v0.9.1-beta
- Eclair v0.4.2
- JoinMarket v0.7.1
- Trezor Suite Public Beta
- Electrum v4.0.4
- Stone Ridge $115M bitcoin investment
- Rodolfo the domain hodler
- Fidelity recommends 5% position in bitcoin
- Fidelity privacy panel with Matt
- Marathon announces new 105 Megawatt bitcoin mining op
- BitMEX on the risks of brain wallets
- lnresearch data
- MuSig2 paper
- WORDS September Bitcoin Journal

Oct 13, 2020 • 1h 58min
#201: Whitney Webb
Join Marty as he sits down with Independent Journalist Whitney Webb to discuss:
- Chile
- Operation Warp Speed
- Intelligence Agencies
- Defense contractors
- Big Pharma connections
- History of the CIA
- Operation Dark Winter
- Color Revolutions
- Overcoming the Conspiracy Theorist label
- Epstein as a pawn in a bigger game
- much more
Follow Whitney on Twitter
Check out Whitney's Patreon
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Oct 13, 2020 • 1h 3min
#200: Ansel Linder
Join Marty as he sits down with Ansel Linder to discuss:
- 2015 + 2016 bear market
- Different iterations of altcoins
- Fed Policy
- Is QE inflationary or deflationary
- How does Fed policy affect Bitcoin?
- much more
Follow Ansel on Twitter
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Oct 9, 2020 • 1h 35min
#199: Edward Evenson
Join Marty as he sits down with Edward Evenson, Head of Business Development at Slush Pool / Braiins Systems, to discuss:
- Mining pools
- The race to zero profitability for pools
- Value add services pools provide
- The future of mining pools
- Firmware products
- PPS v. FPPS v. PPLNS
- Cheese
- Wine
- much more
Follow Edward on Twitter
Check out Braiins
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.