

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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May 7, 2020 • 2h 3min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.05.04
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Paul Tudor Jones announces bitcoin investment
- Nodl Dojo adds keysend support and btc-rpc explorer nodl.it
- CashApp quarterly bitcoin sales ATH
- CoinKite announces BlockClock Mini and steel backup [plates](http://blockclockmini.com/ & https://blog.coinkite.com/seedplate-backup/)
- Foundation Devices announces intention to build new hardware wallet in US
- Blockstream satellite v2
- BlueWallet v5.3.5
- c-lightning v0.8.2
- eclair v0.4
- the perpetual one way peg
- Lebanon and bitcoin
- Zoom buys keybase
- Duterte shutsdown major news network in the Phillipines
- Marty's Bent RSS
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.

May 6, 2020 • 50min
#158: Marshall Holbrook
Join Marty as he sits down with Marshall Holbrook, founder of BitG@s, to discuss:
- Marshall's experience with natural gas over the last two decades
- How natural gas gets delivered to the grid
- The decrease in nat gas prices
- Using Bitcoin mining to get more money for his gas
- The design of a bitcoin mining shed on a nat gas field
- Mining with S9s
- Trying to convince other nat gas producers to get into mining
- much more
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.

May 5, 2020 • 1h 9min
#157: Ben Prentice + Heavily Armed Clown
Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Prentice and Heavily Armed Clown to discuss:
- WTF happened in 1971?!
Follow Ben on Twitter
Follow Heavily Armed Clown 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 you download the app.

May 1, 2020 • 1h 7min
#156: Matt Ahlborg
Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Ahlborg, founder of UsefulTulips.org, to discuss:
- How the rolling blackouts in Venezuela last year affected bitcoin trading in LatAm + the US
- How Venezuelan's are using bitcoin as a rail to move money
- Why we've seen an increase in bitcoin exchange volume in Argentina
- Argentina's history of capital controls
- Cuevas
- Do individuals using bitcoin in LatAm believe in its long-term viability as a digital money?
- Increased bitcoin exchange volume in Kenya
- Bitcoin usage in India
- much more
Follow Matt on Twitter
Check out UsefulTulips
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 you download the app.

Apr 30, 2020 • 2h 9min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.27
This week Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- HWI updated to fix new Trezor firmware compatibility issues
- Laurent on payjoin and deception tools
- Ministry of Nodes RoninDojo video
- Argentina bitcoin usage by Matt Ahlborg
- Kenyan P2P bitcoin volume hits ATHs
- CardCoins sponsoring core developer
- BTCPay Server v1.0.4.2
- ColdCard Kitchen
- OXT Research Report on North Korean cybercrime group
- ColdCard v3.1.3 firmware
- LND v0.10-beta
- Learn using comics with Amiti
- Dressing for the surveillance age
- CryptoCloaks Honey Badger hidden box
- Harvard authoritarians + NIH funding of research on the virus
- Lebanese Banking crisis
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 you download the app.
Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.

Apr 29, 2020 • 1h 28min
#155: Openoms
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with developer Openoms to discuss:
- How Openoms came to find Bitcoin
- Why he started building apps and hardware products for bitcoiners
- JoininBox
- JoinMarket
- Fidelity Bonds
- Privacy on Lightning
- Broadcast transactions privately
- much more
Follow Openoms 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 you download the app.

Apr 28, 2020 • 1h 10min
#154: Amiti Uttarwar
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Amiti Uttarwar, Bitcoin Core contributor at Xapo, to discuss:
- How Amiti came to find Bitcoin
- Getting into Bitcoin Core development
- Learning C++
- Amiti's work on rebroadcasting
- Protecting privacy at the P2P level
- Nuance of mempools
- Current state of Bitcoin
- much more
Follow Amiti on Twitter
Check out her post, Onboarding to Bitcoin Core
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 you download the app.

Apr 23, 2020 • 1h 28min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.20
Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- Unchained Capital caravan update inbound
- mynode v0.2.03
- SLP Chris Belcher
- Upcoming eps with Amiti and Openoms
- YouTube taking down any content not in line with WHO
- Should we reopen the economy?
- much more
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 you download the app.
Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.

Apr 22, 2020 • 1h 3min
#153: Zuby
Join Marty as he sits down with Zuby, Rapper/Author/Podcaster/Free thinker, to discuss:
- How to use Twitter correctly
- How people waste time on Twitter with hate
- Why you shouldn't let people you've never met dictate your happiness
- People losing their own humanity
- Only you control your success
- Bitcoin and why it may have limited upside
- The importance of healthy living
- much more
Follow Zuby on Twitter
Check out Zubymusic.com
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 you download the app.

Apr 21, 2020 • 51min
#152: Ben Hunt
Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Hunt, founder of Epsilon Theory, to discuss:
- How institutions have failed us across the board in the wake of coronavirus
- Why we need to burn it the f*ck down
- How we can create grass roots movements to turn away from our failing institutions
- Ben's work with frontlineheroes.com
- Why we probably won't have a 'V' shaped recovery
- much more
Follow Ben on Twitter
Check out Frontline Heroes
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 you download the app.


