

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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Sep 22, 2020 • 1h 30min
#191: Matthew Mežinskis
Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis of the Crypto Voices Podcast to discuss:
- Q2 2020 Global Monetary Base update
- Defining Base Monies
- Where Bitcoin stands as a base money
- Current growth rate of base monies
- Claims on base monies
- Claims on bitcoin
- Proof of Reserves
- History of Communism in the 20th century
- How people rioting in the US are misguided
- What's going on in Belarus right now (podcast link)
- much more
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Check out Crypto Voices
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Sep 17, 2020 • 1h 22min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.09.14
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Stacking Saylor
- Bakkt all time high daily volume
- Coin Control in Ledger Live
- Square Crypto provides another $100K grant to btcpay
- Sparrow Wallet Guide by bitcoinqna
- Roy from Breeze on MPP and Wumbo
- c-lightning v0.9.1
- Electrum v4.0.3
- BlueWallet v5.5.8
- Kraken is a bank now
- Anicca Research - The Alchemy of Hashpower Pt. II
- FATF Report on Red Flags
- Is creeping KYC a threat to bitcoin?
- Chinese Nationals allegedly attack more than 100 companies
- Chinese database of 2.4M foreigners leaks
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Sep 10, 2020 • 1h 57min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.09.07
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- CVE-2018-17145 Bitcoin vulnerability (that has since been patched) disclosed
- Flaxman digs specter too
- So does Ketan
- Bitcoinqna NO KYC homepage
- Chainalysis Global Crypto Adoption
- Belarus non profit using bitcoin
- Square launches Crypto Open Patent Alliance
- Umbrel v0.2.9
- Rudefox Burrow v0.0.5
- Ledger Status on liquidity farming
- Freak questions answered
- much more
Shoutout to our sponsors:
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Sep 8, 2020 • 1h 5min
#190: Ben Carman
Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Carman from Suredbits to discuss:
- Ben's transition from Bernie Bro to Libertarian
- Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs)
- An Oracle's role in DLCs
- Are decentralized Oracles possible?
- DLCs onchain v. on the Lightning Network
- Stock-to-flow thoughts
- much more
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Check out Suredbits
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Sep 3, 2020 • 1h 29min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.08.31
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- bitblockboom reflections
- Trezor/Keepkey passphrase vuln
- Trezor security patch
- Alleged electrum phishing attack
- This Month in Bitcoin Privacy
- Looming Russian mining crackdown
- Bithumb exchange seized in South Korea
- Coincenter cools rumors about escalating regulatory measures
- Empire market exit scam
- Alphabay dispute moderator gets 11 years in prison
- Chainalysis Latin America analysis
- Specter v0.7.0
- Sparrow Wallet v0.9.2
- Umbrel v0.2.6
Shoutout to our sponsors:
Unchained Capital. Check out their white glove vault concierge service that will take you from zero to secure multisig setup in no time. Use the code TFTC and receive $50 off that package that includes 2 Trezor Model Ts and $1,000 in your vault.
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Sep 3, 2020 • 1h 14min
Rabbit Hole Recap LIVE: Week of 2020.08.27
Join Marty, Matt, Justin Moon, Jeff Vandrew, and the audience from BitBlockBoom as they discuss:
- CoinJoin wars
- Equinor working with Crusoe Energy
- Coinbase users told by California that they should hold their keys
- Tax laws
- much more
Shoutout to our sponsors:
Unchained Capital. Check out their white glove vault concierge service that will take you from zero to secure multisig setup in no time. Use the code TFTC and receive $50 off that package that includes 2 Trezor Model Ts and $1,000 in your vault.
Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.

Sep 1, 2020 • 1h 23min
#189: Fabian Jahr
Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Fabian Jahr to discuss:
- Fabian's year since leaving the Chaincode residency
- His OKCoin grant
- The importance of code review
- An optimal review:PR ratio for devs
- Signet
- gettxoutsetinfo and Supply Gate
- PR Review Club
- How to best fund devs
- much more
Follow Fabian on Twitter
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Aug 26, 2020 • 2h 20min
#188: Chris Bendiksen
Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Bendiksen, Head of Research at Coinshares, to discuss:
- Consciousness
- Time
- Mining
- Hashrate derivatives
- Asynchronous time + Proof of Work
- TOOL
- Free will
- Education
- Bitcoin's benefits to a portfolio
- Energy consumption
- much more
Follow Chris on Twitter
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.

Aug 24, 2020 • 1h 3min
#187: Luke Gromen
Join Marty as he sits down with Luke Gromen, founder of Forrest for the Trees research firm, to discuss:
- The Dollar as a rubber band ruler
- The Fed's catch-22
- Bankruptcy via inflation
- Debt/GDP
- Apolitical alternatives to the Dollar
- Money + energy
- much more
Follow Luke on Twitter
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.

Aug 20, 2020 • 1h 30min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.08.17
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Ongoing bsv dust attack
- OXT research alleged wasabi vulnerability
- Strike adds cashback
- Hash rate hits ATH then floods in Sichuan
- Tor statement on recent exit node attacks
- Tor proposal for possible DoS mitigations
- cypherpunklabs.com allows you to easily fund Tor nodes
- BitMEX adding KYC
- Specter v0.6.1
- myNode v0.2.14
- Zeus v0.3.1
- BTCPay Server v1.0.5.5
- Lily Wallet v1.0.0
- lnd v0.11-beta
- Schnorr explainer series by suredbits
- Raspiblitz on bitcoinmagazine stream
- Lancium sues Layer 1
- BlockFi raises $50M, rumored valuation of $400M
- Cryptovoices monetary base update
Shoutout to our sponsors:
Unchained Capital. Check out their white glove vault concierge service that will take you from zero to secure multisig setup in no time. Use the code TFTC and receive $50 off that package that includes 2 Trezor Model Ts and $1,000 in your vault.
Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.