

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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Aug 11, 2020 • 1h 6min
#185: Lyn Alden
Join Marty as he sits down with Lyn Alden, founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, to discuss:
- QE's affect on inequality
- The Triffin Dilemma
- The double edged sword of the reserve currency of the world
- Inflation metrics
- Why Lyn is interested in Bitcoin
- How the world would look different on a Bitcoin Standard
- much more
Follow Lyn on Twitter
Check out the article we discussed
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Aug 7, 2020 • 1h 16min
#184: Clark Moody
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Clark Moody, data don, to discuss:
- The early days of bitcoin data
- Making a dashboard of bitcoin data
- What bitcoin data can tell you
- The polarization in America
- Secession
- How easy money leads to more lawyers and laws
- Will Marxism come to America?
- An optimistic path forward
- much more
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Check out Clark's dashboard
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Aug 6, 2020 • 1h 28min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.08.03
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Tor Project response to "zero day" disclosures
- Ledger App Isolation Bypass
- disclosure
- ledger response
- 17 year old arrested for twitter hack
- Threat of KYC bitcoinmagazine panel
- RoninDojo on OC Bitcoin Network
- Bitcoin Core v0.20.1
- RTL v0.8.3-beta
- ACINQ Phoenix v1.3.2
- c-lightning v0.9.0
- RaspiBlitz v1.6
- nix-bitcoin v0.0.12
- BlueWallet v5.5.2
- BlueWallet Desktop Alpha
- Specter v0.6.0
- Wasabi v1.1.12
- ColdCard v3.1.8
- Lily Wallet Update tease
- Trezor Model T v2.3.2 and Model one v1.9.2
- Lightning Labs terminal
- Rudefox Burrow
- This Month in Bitcoin Privacy
- WORDS July Bitcoin Journal
- Using HodlHodl by bitcoinqna
- HRF three new grants
- OKCoin funds Marco Falke
- Cashapp going moon bound
- Casa offers non custodial bitcoin buys
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Jul 30, 2020 • 1h 32min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.07.27
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Ledger personal info hacked
- Chainalysis public dashboard (Use a VPN or Tor)
- Murch post on enterprise UTXO management
- Alchemy of Hashpower
- Minsc scripting language
- softfork activations breakdown
- myNode v0.2.12
- Tor Browser v9.5.3
- Fidelity bitcoin investment thesis
- Bakkt ATH volume
- CME ATH open interest
- Support bitcoin devs
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.
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Jul 29, 2020 • 1h 32min
#183: Whitney Webb
Join Marty as he sits down with Whitney Webb to discuss:
- Epstein + Deutschebank
- The history of Kroll Associates
- The global intelligence community
- Private intelligence companies
- The blending of the State + Big Tech
- Human trafficking
- NGOs as a front for trafficking
- The 2020 Election and potential shenanigans
- 9/11
- Why Whitney covers these stories
- much more
Follow Whitney on Twitter
Check out Whitney's Patreon
Check out Unlimited Hangout
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.

Jul 28, 2020 • 1h 4min
#182: Vijay Boyapati
Join Marty as he sits down with Vijay Boyapati to discuss:
- Tales of moving gold across borders
- The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
- Austrian Economics
- The riots
- Jevons Paradox
- Bitcoin is in its embryo-tic stage
- much more
Follow Vijay on Twitter
Check out The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
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.

Jul 23, 2020 • 1h 52min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.07.20
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- More thoughts on samourai postmix address reuse issue from last week
- Wasabi blog on twitter hack posted then deleted
- OXTResearch analysis of twitter hacker's wasabi usage
- Major exchanges working on a KYC data sharing agreement to satisfy demands from FATF
- BitMEX provides $50K grant to Jeremy Rubin
- US Banks can now custody bitcoin
- Utreexo demonstration release
- RaspiBlitz v1.6 release candidate 3 add IP2TOR
- Eye of Satoshi v0.1.0
- Aaron Van Wirdum on Taproot activation
- Testing and improving asmap
- myNode Stack by bitcoinqna
- Samourai Stack by bitcoinqna
- Great threads from @dannydiekroeger
- EFF Atlas of Surveillance
- CIA can launch offensive cyber attacks more easily now
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.
Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.

Jul 21, 2020 • 1h 54min
#181: Zach Herbert
Join Marty as he sits down with Zach Herbert, Co-founder of Foundation Devices, to discuss:
- Zach's experience at Obelisk
- Nuance of hardware manufacturing in China v. US
- Tradeoffs made by the predominant hardware wallets
- Why airgapping is important
- The Passport
- QR code standards and statelessness
- How Bitcoin incentivizes open hardware
- The importance of making hardware locally
- Future products from Foundation Devices
- much more
Follow Zach on Twitter
Follow Foundation Devices on Twitter
Checkout Foundation Devices' site
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.

Jul 17, 2020 • 1h 33min
#180: Ethan Vera
Join Marty as he sits down with Ethan Vera, Hashrate Merchant at Luxor Mining, to discuss:
- Mining pools
- Their historical lack of transparency
- Pool fee negotiations
- ASIC hardware lifecycles and their effect on decentralization
- Market making for hashrate futures + their effect on transparency
- Profit switching between chains
- Whitelisted pools
- Hashrateindex.com
- much more
Follow Ethan on Twitter
Check out Luxor Mining
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.

Jul 16, 2020 • 1h 56min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.07.13
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- samourai post mix address reuse disclosure & patch
samourai team
shinobi
- Timing attacks on Lightning Network
- Twitter hacked
- difficulty hits new ATH
- taproot activation
- coinbase selling surveillance software to Secret Service and [IRS](https://www.theblockcrypto.com/amp/post/71261/coinbase-is-selling-blockchain-analytics-software-to-the-us-secret-service & https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/71890/irs-coinbase-blockchain-analytics)
- Zap Desktop v07.0 & v0.7.1
- Zeus v0.3.0
- Bisq v1.3.6
- BTCPay Server v1.0.5.3
- Specter v0.5.5
- Ronin Dojo v1.5
- Samourai Dojo v1.7.0
- Tallycoin v2.1
- blockchain dot com wallet fingerprinting analysis of marketshare
- Bitcoin Mining Hashrate and Power Analysis
- Zap raises $3.5M
- Paradigm provides funding to Anthony Towns
- List of ongoing dev funding by @polylunar_
- Animated QR code demo by Blockchain Commons
- Russian Activists using bitcoin
- Microsoft and the police state
- Mitre Corp surveillance programs
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.
Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.


