

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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Jan 20, 2020 • 1h 44min
Tales from the Crypt #129: The Wonton Don
Join Marty as he sits down with Barstool Sports' Chief Foreign Correspondent, The Wonton Don AKA Donnie Does, to discuss:
- Why Donnie decided to move to Shanghai
- What life in China is like
- Why he started creating content
- Alipay + WeChat
- Social Credit
- Life of the Chinese middle class
- much more
Follow Donnie on Twitter
Subscribe to his YouTube Channel
Follow on Instagram
Shoutout to our sponsor:
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Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Jan 17, 2020 • 1h 1min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.13
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- RIP Tamas Blummer
- Tor Browser 9.0.4
- Zeus v0.2.0-rc1 : Android APK + Dev Signature
- Instant VPS powered by lightning
- Liquid support on BTCPayserver
- Kashmir internet shutdown 170+ days now
- BitMEX Research shows more lightning usage than expected
- Samourai Wallet announces OXT Research
- FBI tries to set encryption backdoor precedent once again
- Coincenter reintroduces bill to add tax exemption for small purchases
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.
GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies

Jan 16, 2020 • 1h 57min
Tales from the Crypt #128: Jamal James
Join Marty as he sits down with Jamal James, creator of Polar - a productivity tool for Lightning Network developers, to discuss:
- Building Polar
- Jamal starting and running a successful business for 15+ years
- How he originally got into Bitcoin
- Deciding to build for Bitcoin + LN
- Building for application devs
- Why Bitcoin is inevitable
- much more
Follow Jamal on Twitter
Check out Polar
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/

Jan 13, 2020 • 1h 31min
Tales from the Crypt #127: Andrew Chow
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Andrew Chow, Bitcoin Core Contributor and Engineer at Blockstream, to discuss:
- How Andrew found bitcoin in high school
- What life was like before the Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBT) standard
- Why PSBT is important
- Working on Bitcoin Core's Hardware Wallet Interface
- CoinJoins
- Coin selection
- Hardware wallets
- Video games
- much more
Follow Andrew on Twitter
Follow Andrew on GitHub
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/

Jan 9, 2020 • 1h 1min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.06
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- River financial only 8 states
- https://sphinx.chat/
- Samourai whirlpool dynamics, whirlpool CLI 0.10.2 released
- Clark Moody adds sats per dollar and lightning Tor stats to his dashboard
- zeus beta2 released, c-lightning support and iOS
- Polar v0.2.0 released, c-lightning support added
- RTL releases a major UX upgrade
- lnd v0.9.0-beta-rc1 released with multi-path payment support
- South Korean government committee recommends adding bitcoin product to national exchange
- Neil Woodfine on how to keep bitcoin running in offline environments: video, slides, & thread
- Tessercube PGP on mobile, recommended by @coinsureNZ
- Kraken releases yearly government request transparency report
- Cloud extraction report by privacy international
- Russian state energy company courting bitcoin mining ops
- Elaine makes the case for censorship resistant money
- Video of gold accumulation over the last 20 years overlayed with bitcoin market cap
- Debrief creative video by @CreativeLandRun mentions Marty
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.
GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies

Jan 8, 2020 • 2h 19min
Tales from the Crypt #126: Jeff Vandrew
Join Marty as he sits down with Jeff Vandrew, founder of the Keykeeper IRA, to discuss:
- Jeff's essay on Post-Capitalism
- Distributism
- Marxism
- Social Democracy
- Socialism
- Localism
- Externalities
- much more
Follow Jeff 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
Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Jan 3, 2020 • 3h 10min
Tales from the Crypt #125: Alexander Leishman
Join Marty as he sits down with Alexander Leishman, Co-Founder of River Financial, to discuss:
- Building River
- Being a Bitcoin-only business
- Dollar Cost Averaging
- Complex systems
- Bitcoin and American values
- KYC/AML hypocrisy
- much more
Follow Alexander on Twitter
Check out River Financial
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/

Jan 2, 2020 • 1h 14min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.30
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Bitcoin's first 11 years
- NthKey: use your iPhone as part of a multisig setup
- Nodl Dojo first impressions
- Samourai Whirlpool 0.10.0 released
- MyNode adds whirlpool support, dojo coming soon
- Satreon: a non custodial lightning network powered alternative to Patreon
- Metal seed storage reviews
- Introducing A Framework for Privacy in eCommerce via Bitcoin
- Difficulties with verifiable open hardware
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.
GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies

Dec 27, 2019 • 60min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.23
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- BitBox02 brute force vulnerability disclosed, update to firmware V5.0.0 asap (h/t @freedomisntsafe)
- BLW on Android adds support for hosted channels
- Argentina local bitcoins volume hits ATHs amid further capital controls
- As expected CSW makes excuses ahead of "tulip trust" access date
- Ethereum Co-Founder Jeffrey Wilcke dumps $11.5M worth of ETH from premine
- The Venezuelan Petro update
- HK Police freeze $9M raised by activists via Spark Alliance
- Popular chat app ToTok removed from app store due to concerns it is a UAE spy tool
- US gov issues warning to service members asking them not to use DNA testing services
- @dergigi releases 21 Lessons book
- Kiara Bickers (@kiarabickers) releases Bitcoin Clarity book
- Proof of Keys next week
- John Newbery thread
- German gold capital controls
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.
GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies

Dec 23, 2019 • 2h 11min
Tales from the Crypt #124: Dave Collum
Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum, Professor of Organic Chemistry at Cornell University, to discuss:
- Climate Change
- Bitcoin
- Jeffrey Epstein
- Inflation
- The Fed
- much more
Follow Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum
Check out Dave's 2019 Year in Review
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/


