

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 1, 2020 • 2h 18min
#146: Rodolfo Novak
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Rodolfo Novak to have a meandering discussion about:
- COVID19
- Droplets v. Vapor
- Why you should wear a mask
- Why people are so willing to cede civil liberties during crises
- Hardware on the horizon from CoinKite
- much more
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Mar 30, 2020 • 1h 38min
#145: Roy Sebag
Join Marty as he sits down with Roy Sebag, Founder of Goldmoney and Menē, to discuss:
- The mechanics of paper and physical bullion markets
- The history of paper gold being used to suppress the price of physical gold
- The Fed has man-in-the-middle attacked US citizens
- Why the Internet isn't decentralized
- Why Sound Money is so important and why bitcoiners and gold holders need to join forces
- The reaction to COVID19. Are we being put in our pods?
- Political framing and mental pods
- The common man
- The importance of unplugging
- What Gen Z thinks
- much more
Follow Roy on Twitter
Check out Goldmoney
Check out Menē
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Mar 27, 2020 • 1h 23min
#144: Michael Krieger
Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Krieger, founder of Liberty Blitzkrieg to discuss:
- Gold markets
- The Empire
- Most recent bailout
- Great Awakening
- Why Michael is still bullish on Bitcoin
- Bitcoin + Oil & Gas Industry
- Un-schooling
- much more
Follow Michael on Twitter
Check out Liberty Blitzkrieg
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Mar 26, 2020 • 1h 13min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.23
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Bitcoin and Venezuela
- Coinkite Coldpower
- Zebedee releases bitcoin gaming SDK explainer video
- Tails OS v4.4.1
- Graphene OS v2020.03.23.22 released
- TFTC Guides: Graphene OS installation
- BTCxZelko on Stephan Livera
- $500M of US stimulus bill dedicated to increased surveillance capabilities
- Disturbing video shows coronavirus phone tracking tool
-Taiwan coronavirus surveillance escalates
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Mar 25, 2020 • 1h 54min
#143: JW Weatherman & Giacomo Zucco
Join Marty as he sits down with JW Weatherman and Giacomo Zucco to discuss:
- Separating people from their State
- Overt v. covert evil empires
- Heuristics one can use to gauge the severity of COVID19
- much more
Follow JW on Twitter
Follow Giacomo on Twitter
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Mar 24, 2020 • 1h 3min
#142: Elisabeth Préfontaine
Join Marty as he sits down with Elisabeth Préfontaine, founder of Octonomics, to discuss:
- Elisabeth's experience in the banking + financial worlds
- Problems with transparency in the traditional financial world
- Bad incentives in the traditional financial system
- Why Bitcoin only?
- How Quebec messed up their opportunity to court bitcoin entrepreneurs
- Defining Bitcoin
- Why bitcoin isn't a security
- PC creep into the boardroom
- much more
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Mar 23, 2020 • 1h 22min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Stimulus Package 2020.03.23
Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- Markets down, bitcoin up
- Sunday futures limit down in 3 mins
- 60 Minutes interview Kashkari "infinite amount of cash"
- Fed announces unlimited QE
- Russian central bank added 400k ounces of gold to its reserves in february
- TFTC.tv guides - Graphene & MyNode
- JoinMarket v0.6.2
- JoinMarket PR for fidelity bonds
- Nodl Dojo v0.0.8
- March Whirlpool volume higher than last 3 months combined
- LN Markets released on mainnet
- CashApp adds option to display in sats
- Magic Internet Gathering bitcoin gaming initiative announced
- HRF deep dive into buying bitcoin anonymously
- DOJ seeks permission to detain people indefinitely without trial
- Israel to go into full lockdown with phone location monitored and Ministry of Health to release new tracking app
- The Chula Vista Police Department to use 4 drones to monitor Coronavirus shutdown
- Nascar virtual races on fs1
- much more
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Mar 19, 2020 • 1h 28min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.16
Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- Macro scene
- Casa open sources node
- Bitcoin Magazine op ed on CoinJoin legality
- BTCPay VR Presentation this Saturday
- US Gov considering location tracking
- Samourai Whirlpool volume set to top January and February volume combined
- Upcoming node guides: tftc.tv and parts list
- Ark Invest bitcoin mining research
- Blockware Solutions bitcoin mining research
- Don't skimp on Micro SDs
- 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.

Mar 17, 2020 • 1h 15min
#141: Charles Marohn
Join Marty as he sits down with Charles Marohn, Author of Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity, to discuss:
- How America has been very wasteful with resources for the last five decades
- The problems with top-down decision making
- Why centralized economies "on the bike" don't work in the long-run
- The morality of Fed policy
- Parallels between modern day America and the Weimar Repulic
- How small towns can start over and stand on their own two feet
- Value per acre
- Creating community
- Bringing design thinking to city building
- Activating unused spaces
- much more
Follow Charles on Twitter
Buy the book
Check out the Strong Towns podcast
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Mar 16, 2020 • 49min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Stimulus Package 2020.03.16
Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- COVID19 + Market reaction
- Fed cuts + repo operations
- MyNode v0.1.97
- 3D Printing in Italy's corona battle
- VR Socratic Meetup
- Jameson Lopp on Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges
- Other stuff
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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