TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Join Marty as he sits down with Gary Leland, organizer of the BitBlockBoom conference, to discuss: - Growing up on James Island in South Carolina - Surfing - The development of cable TV - Early days of podcasting - BitBlockBoom - much more Follow Gary on Twitter Checkout the BitBlockBoom Conference use the promo code "RHR" 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.

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Coldcard v3.1.6 firmware - Bisq v1.3.5 - Tallycoin v2 - Automated BIP39 recovery in Electrum - ASIC industry breakdown by bitmexresearch - Blockstream Esplora now bundles in a custom version of electrs - PR to split the bitcoin core GUI - bitcoinqna releases explainer on coinjoin toxic change and dedicated full node comparison [chart](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19071 and https://www.bitcoinqna.com/nodecompare) - Bitmex and OKCoin provide grant to Amiti Uttarwar - River Financial raises $5.7M - John Cantrell breaks Alistair Milne's engagement buying scheme - Rajarshi Maitra explains his journey contributing to bitcoin core - KYCnot.me website launches - a discussion about open source software - Consensys partnering with major exchanges to help them stake ETH + Matt's thread - Zoom will offer end to end encryption to all users - Capitalism doesn't exists 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.

Join Marty as he sits down with Andy Edstrom, author of Why Buy Bitcoin, to discuss: - Why Andy decided to write a book - Pitching bitcoin to institutional investors - How Bitcoin's monetary theory differs from the monetary theory that dominated the 20th century - Inflation - Bitcoin's correlation to other asset classes - Why pay taxes? - much more Follow Andy 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.

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Shiftcrypto makes restructuring public plans to continue support of hardware wallet - Updates on BIP143 hardware wallet vuln disclosed last week - BIP85 support coming to coldcard - Zeus v0.3.0-beta1 adds c-lightning Spark and LNDhub support - electrum persoanl server v0.2.1.1 - Coinbase is selling surveillance software to the IRS and DEA - Using ASICs to stack sats without KYC - Bisq guide by @bitcoinQ_A - List of no kyc P2P services - HRF starts privacy focused bitcoin dev grant program with $50K grant to Chris Belcher as first recipient - Microsoft's decentralized ID protocol moves to bitcoin mainnet - CoinPool privacy and scaling proposal released - Three Arrows Capital discloses 6.25% ownership of GBTC shares - China OTC crackdown - Brave browser ref link autocomplete - Pentagon War Game ZBellion - Signal blog on their core principles and design philosophy - Stephan has IAMTHECHARACTER on pod 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.

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Chris Belcher, the developer behind JoinMarket and the first CoinSwap implementation, to discuss: - JoinMarket - Fidelity Bonds - Chain analysis heuristics - Chris' CoinSwap design - A "privacy threshold" - Why CoinSwaps are > CoinJoins - much more Follow Chris on Twitter Support Chris' work on a CoinSwap implementation here 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.

Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Bosworth, Lead Infrastructure Developer at Lightning Labs, to discuss: - Why exchanges should use Lightning - Lightning as a tool that can thwart spam - Managing a Lightning routing node - The nuance of payment channels - Lightning Loop - Lighting's evolution with the fee market - Creating standards for Lighting - Lighting + privacy - much more Follow Alex on Twitter Check out Lightning Labs 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.

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Will Cole, Chief Product Officer at Unchained Capital, to discuss: - Will's work in Wyoming that benefits Bitcoin - Wyoming as a Citadel haven - Working at Stack Overflow - Bitcoin Stack Exchange - Joining Unchained Capital - Working on collaborative custody products - Caravan Version 2 - Hermit - Future bitcoin products - much more Follow Will 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. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.

Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. James Todaro, founder of Medicine Uncensored and Managing Partner at Blocktown Capital, to discuss: - Dr. Todaro's research on hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 - The media backlash he's experienced - The censorship he and others have experienced - Debunking the recent study in The Lancet that claimed that hydrochloroquine increased chances of death - The shady company behind the study - Perverse incentives in the medical industry - The World Health Organization - Medicine Uncensored - much more Follow Dr. Todaro on Twitter Checkout the newsletter we discussed 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.

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Trezor releases firmware update and bug disclosure - Coinkite blog on the vuln disclosure - BTCPay says new trezor firmware breaks support - ShiftCrypto announces they are no longer working on their node product - ShiftCrypto liquidation goes unmentioned - Bitcoin Core v0.20.0 released - Square Crypto's sixth bitcoin development grant - Bitmex parent company provides $100k development grant to Gleb Naumenko - Will Cole's mother in law is running for Senate in Wyoming - Chainalysis Webinar Archive Dump - Unconfirmed Europol Wasabi Wallet Report leaked - Time-Dilation attacks on the Lightning Network - 3M+ bitcoin currently being held on exchanges - OXT Research: Joinmarket Report - Coinsquare private user data stolen due to rogue employee - Tor Browser v9.5 adds human readable addresses - Signal adds photo blur feature - 6102 on SLP - Matt + Alex Gladstein - TFTC Bingo 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.

Join Marty as he sits down with Karim Helmy, data scientist at Coinmetrics, to discuss: - What's a nonce? - What we can learn from nonce distribution data - Mining hardware evolution - Getting into Bitcoin in 2017 - Bitcoin as black market money - Hash rate indices from Coinmetrics - Viability of DeFi - much more Follow Karim on Twitter Checkout the newsletter we discussed 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.