TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Join Marty as he sits down with Leigh Cuen, Senior Reporter at CoinDesk, to discuss: - Leigh's journey to covering this beat - Competing narratives in the cryptocurrency world - Bitcoin v. Ethereum - How people are using each - How each project is approaching adoption - The state of media - VC funded media incentives - Independent content creation - much more Follow Leigh on Twitter Check out Leigh's reporting on CoinDesk 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.

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Dropbit CEO arrested for running a centralized mixing service called Helix and a dark market search engine called Grams - Self payments lightning privacy proposal - Coldcard releases PSBT Faker tool for testing - Tor Browser v9.0.5 - Tails v4.3 - Wasabi implements Apple Code Sign - Escher App demos paying any lightning invoice with your connected bank account - Liquid support on Bisq goes live - Anon submits Taproot critique to mailing list - Chainalysis has been paid over $10M by US gov agencies - A world without bitcoin thought experiment by Alex Gladstein - US Federal Budget Proposal Mentions More Cryptocurrency regulation and enforcement - Trump admin to introduce new FinCEN requirements - Redditor posts IRS audit request - If US Marshals never sold seized bitcoin they would currently be worth over $1.8B - Casa releases home defense primer - CNBC clip - Coronavirus Close Contact app - CIA owned encryption company facilitated global spying for decades - The Chinese Gov allegedly hacked Equifax - Yandex facial recognition tool - FTX launches US elections futures markets for top 6 candidates 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.

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers to discuss: - LN Strike - Lessons learned while building Zap + Olympus - Lightning Privacy - Lightning for exchanges - 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.

Join Marty as he sits down with Whit Gibbs, Co-Founder and CEO of Hashr8OS, to discuss: - Whit buying the 2017 top - Why he decided to focus on mining - Mining hardware + energy dynamics - What's going to happen after the halving? - Is the US turning into the USSR? - Social credit - much more Follow Whit 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.

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Casa will no longer sell nodes, gold package reduced to $10 per month - Wasabi removes fixed fee address - Samourai Whirlpool usage hits monthly all time high - Proof Wallet tool released by @hodlwave - Eclair v0.3.3 - BTCPay Server v1.0.4.156 - Blockstream Green v3.3.3 - BitMex Research estimates 28% of channels are private, 12% of total capacity - Lolli requiring bank account linked to withdraw bitcoin rewards for some users - Lightning Labs raised $10M Series A round and launches lighting loop beta - ColdCard teases new HSM mode - ShiftCrypto releases results of new tamper evident packaging alpha test - Zoomers fighting back against Instagram tracking - Bitcoin citadel workshop in SF before bitcoin2020 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.

Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss: - US Professors working for China? - Coronavirus - ZeroHedge Twitter ban - A little bit of Bitcoin - The concept Frontier Justice - If not me, then who? - Immunology - Fatherhood - much more Follow Dave 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.

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coronavirus - Payswap privacy proposal - Knapsack privacy proposal - Paxos flags account that used wasabi for previous withdrawals - 6102bitcoin on CoinJoin flagging - Cryptocurrency Indicators of Suspicion (CIOS) Working Group aka Project Participate - KYCP.org update - Bitcoin obsoletes all other money - New Chaincode podcast - Casa teases coldcard support for multisig service - 28% of lightning channels are likely private - BIP BIP Hooray - Protonmail and VPN blocked in Russia - Track internet censorship in real time - Contribute to open map data, win bitcoin - Wawa PoS malware compromises 30M+ customer credit cards - Avast AV has been harvesting and selling user data - Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers - BCH mining tax proposal - Lightning torch privacy PSA - LN Strike 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.

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Matt Corallo and Val Wallace from the Square Crypto team to discuss: - How Val came to work on LN - How the Square Crypto team honed in on a Lightning Development Kit - What a Lightning Development Kit would do for developers building on LN - Having a team able to focus on a singular open source project - Are we pawns? - Bitcoin fee elasticity - Dev funding - Stratum v2 - Matt gives an updated probability of Bitcoin's success - much more Check out the LDK announcement Follow Matt on Twitter Follow Val on Twitter Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv

Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Jeremy Rubin to discuss: - MIT Digital Currency Initiative - Airdrops - OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (BIP 119) - POWSWAP - Dev funding - Scaling - much more Follow Jeremy on Twitter Check out BIP 119 Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ronin Dojo v1.2 - txCast: Randomised Bitcoin (testnet) transaction broadcasting to break timing analysis - MyNode v0.1.80 - lnd v0.9-beta - Zeus v0.2.0 - BTCPay Vault - Liquid support coming to Bisq with next update - Exchange cold storage analysis - Square Crypto announces lightning development kit - Square files bitcoin related US Patent - LightNite game map and other details released - Apple iCloud backups are essentially a backdoor to phone data - ECB paper on central bank digital currencies highlights negative interest rates, helicopter money, and more seignorage - Clearview app face recognition app uses 3B+ photos scraped from millions of public facing websites - Pentagon accounting debacle - Bezos gets pwnd by the Saudis - 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 checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.