

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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Apr 21, 2020 • 1h 33min
Rabbit Hole Recap Stimulus Package: 2020.04.20
Join Marty & Matt as they discuss:
- BTCPay Server adds payjoin support
- Trezor update breaks HWI support
- Cobra and Theymos split ownership of bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org
- Purse.io shuts down
- Breez wallet adds keysend support
- Nodl adds keysend support Nodl OG
- Juggernaut messenger
- Oil markets
- MMT
- much more
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Apr 18, 2020 • 1h 13min
#151: Marshall Long
Join Marty as he sits down with long time bitcoiner + miner Marshall Long to discuss:
- How Marshall got into Bitcoin mining
- Why he only mines Bitcoin now
- Evolution of chips
- Chip fabrication foundries
- Stories of procuring miners in China
- The evolution of culture in China
- The future of Bitcoin mining
- much more
Follow Marshall on Twitter
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Apr 16, 2020 • 1h 14min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.13
This week Marty & Matt discuss:
- Bryan Bishop releases bitcoin vaults prototype
- Ransomware operator now defaults to monero payments
- Utreexo explainer
- Trezor Model T v2.3.0
- Samourai Wallet v0.99.93
- Whirlpool CLI v0.10.5 released
- Apple and Google bluetooth based tracking system integrated at the mobile OS level
- Graphene OS guide
- Protesting is a "non essential activity"
- Masks now required in NYC lol
- Surveillance programs escalate worldwide using coronavirus as an excuse
- Most popular ethereum chain explorer has added a blacklist tool
- Maker foundation lawsuit
- Central banks recommend global stablecoin ban, notable ethereum stakeholders caught off guard but they shouldn't be
- Libra pivots to simple single currency stablecoin model
- 9th anniversary of online poker Black Friday
- Mullvad.net VPN releases mobile wireguard compatible apps
- SLP Rafael Yakobi
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 15, 2020 • 1h 14min
#150: Great American Mining
Join Marty as he sits down with two members from the team at Great American Mining, Austin Storms and Tom M, to discuss:
- What Great American Mining is doing
- The journey and lessons learned along the way
- Different energy sources and how they affect the decisions of mining operations
- Miners biggest problem; finding cheap power at scale
- Austin's journey with Bearbox
- How mining is ruthless capitalism
- Solving problems for oil companies
- The future of mining in North America
- much more
- Check out Great American Mining's one pager (site to be updated soon)
- Follow Austin 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 14, 2020 • 2h 29min
#149: Steve Barbour
Join Marty as he sits down with Steve Barbour, founder of Upstream Data, to discuss:
- Steve's experience in the Oil & Gas industry before Bitcoin
- Difference between an electrical and mechanical engineer
- The problem Bitcoin mining solves for the O&G industry
- Difference between building on the grid and off the grid
- Why Bitcoin is so important
- Building a business slowly
- much more
Follow Steve on Twitter
Check out Upstream Data
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 9, 2020 • 1h 27min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.06
Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- 16.5M Americans unemployed
- Today's Fed announcements
- Dave Portnoy calling the dollar Schrute Bucks
- Bisq security vulnerability
- ACINQ Phoenix v1.3.0 adds Tor support
- BlueWallet v5.3.0
- Samourai Dojo v1.5
- Ronin Dojo v1.4
- All Nodls now support dojo and whirlpool
- Method to provide clearnet access to Tor lightning nodes proposed
- Fold announces sats back visa debit card
- Zane Pocock on the EARN IT Act
- Stephan Livera with Gleb Naumenko on erlay
- Chainalysis CoFounder on WBD
- Shoutout to @jamesbtcbond for setting up his node with electrum
- Rodolfo bitcoin-dev keychain email
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 8, 2020 • 1h 12min
#148: Matt D'Souza
Join Marty as he sits down with Matt D'Souza from Blockware Solutions to discuss:
- Blockware's recent research paper on mining
- Running a mining operation
- How Matt came to realize Bitcoin is King
- The State of the Economy
- Why Bitcoin isn't "backed by nothing"
- much more
Follow Matt 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 6, 2020 • 1h 19min
Rabbit Hole Recap Stimulus Package: 2020.04.06
Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- CDC finally recommends face coverings
- CoolWallet S security flaw
- MutantC RPi4 mobile build
- Whirlpool CLI v0.10.4 released
- Eclair v0.3.4 released
- OC Bitcoin Network talk on samourai wallet and privacy
- Tor Browser v9.0.8 released
- RaspiBlitz v1.5 RC1 adds joinmarket CLI support
- Wasabi Wallet v1.1.11 released
- MyNode v0.2.01
- Janet Yellen wants the Fed to buy stocks
- Japanese family formation
- 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.

Apr 3, 2020 • 1h 33min
#147:Alex Gladstein
Join Marty & Matt as they sit down with Alex Gladstein from the Human Rights Foundation to discuss:
- Government overreach during the response to COVID19
- The capture of the World Health Organization
- Censorship in China as COVID19 was spreading
- The economic impact of forced quarantine
- 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.

Apr 2, 2020 • 1h 34min
Rabbit Hole Recap: 2020.03.30
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Breez Point of Sale mode added to lightning wallet
- LSAT Authentication
- Samourai Whirlpool GUI v0.10.1 and CLI v0.10.3
- MyNode v0.2.0
- Bitmex research bitcoin development funding analysis
- Bitmex renews and increases grant to Bitcoin Core maintainer Michael Ford
- Mulit-location backup scheme spec released by @openoms
- Whirlpool March volume totaled 1523.45 bitcoin
- Multi sig betting with caravan
- Binance makes a distinction between coinjoin and custodial mixers in recent blog post
- Coinkite begins selling power only magnetic usb cables
- Surveillance companies pivot to coronavirus tracking to increase their reach
- UK PM hosts cabinet meeting on Zoom
- StandardNotes.org and meet.jit.si shoutouts
- Calling out pedos
- 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.


