

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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Nov 21, 2019 • 1h 12min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.18
This week Marty & Matt discuss:
- BTCPay vault + BTCPay configurator https://github.com/btcpayserver/BTCPayServer.Vault/releases/tag/Vault%2Fv0.0.3 & https://twitter.com/pavlenex/status/1197465294463283200?s=21
- Five corporate sponsors for BTCPay now - Luna node and wallet of satoshi join https://twitter.com/milessuter/status/1196973452306993152?s=21
- Coinmetrics & BitMex Research launch txstats.com
- Bottlepay launches developer API https://docs.bottle.dev/
- Matt’s first attempt in front of a camera https://jwp.io/s/O54RhCTj
- Donnerlab announces Bitcoin Bounty Hunt FPS game with sats integrated https://twitter.com/donnerlab1/status/1196856002118852611?s=21
- Binance practices responsible UTXO management https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-616/
- @6102bitcoin launches Bitcoin-intro.com
- Upgrade your Trezor T before sending transactions https://blog.trezor.io/details-of-the-multisig-change-address-issue-and-its-mitigation-6370ad73ed2a
- Zap 0.6.0 desktop released https://medium.com/@JimmyMow/announcing-zap-desktop-0-6-0-beta-1724d13ae597
- @mutatrum launches hodl.camp
- How Many Bitcoins Are Permanently Lost? https://coinmetrics.substack.com/p/coin-metrics-state-of-the-network-d2e
- PlusToken scam chainanalysis - https://twitter.com/ergobtc/status/1197496064854634496?s=21
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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.
Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions!
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Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Nov 19, 2019 • 1h 50min
Tales from the Crypt #117: Wiz & m52go
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Wiz and m52go from the Bisq project to discuss:
- The origins of Bisq
- How Bisq works
- Mining
- Why KYC/AML does more harm than good
- Why privacy is important
- The Bisq DAO
- much more
Check out and download Bisq: https://docs.bisq.network/getting-started.html
Follow Wiz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiz
Follow m52go on Twitter: https://twitter.com/m52go
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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.
Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions!
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv
Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Nov 15, 2019 • 1h 17min
Tales from the Crypt #116: Trace Mayer
Join Marty as he sits down with Trace Mayer to discuss:
- Wyoming blockchain legislation
- The institution of the nuclear family
- Bitcoin + freedom
- An update on Bitcoin's 7 network effects
- much more
Follow Trace on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TraceMayer
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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.
Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions!
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv
Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Nov 14, 2019 • 47min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.11
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Update firmware before using coldcard SD card feature to send transactions https://blog.coinkite.com/troublesome-change/
- Unchained Capital announces Caravan multisig GUI https://www.unchained-capital.com/blog/the-caravan-arrives/
- Stratum V2 initial specs released https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/with-stratum-v2-braiins-plans-big-overhaul-in-pooled-bitcoin-mining
- Unknown fund announces $75M bitcoin investment towards privacy https://www.unknown.fund/press-release
- Digital Garage provides third grant to BTCPay Foundation worth $30k https://blog.btcpayserver.org/dg-grant-2019/
- Easily create regtest lightning networks with Polar https://github.com/jamaljsr/polar
- Boltathon 2 online lightning conference announced Dec. 6-8 https://twitter.com/Boltathon/status/1193935341914226689?s=20
- Zap iOS 0.5.0 adds Tor support https://twitter.com/ln_zap/status/1192841623421542401?s=20
- HUT8 quarterly figures https://web.tmxmoney.com/article.php?newsid=5330196128175970&qm_symbol=HUT
- Suspicion-less searches of travelers' devices rule unconstitutional https://www.eff.org/press/releases/federal-court-rules-suspicionless-searches-travelers-phones-and-laptops
- Fed Chair Powell: "The federal budget is on an unsustainable path with high and rising debt." https://twitter.com/breaking911/status/1194689974387576838?s=21
Shoutout to our sponsors:
Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 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.
Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo

Nov 12, 2019 • 1h 7min
Tales from the Crypt #115: Dan Tapiero
Join Marty as he sits down with Dan Tapiero, Founder of DTAP Capital and Gold Bullion International, to discuss:
- Ray Dalio's recent note
- Dan's views on the current macro landscape
- Why Bitcoin is already established
- Why it's hard for institutional investors to approach
- Bitcoin + The American Revoultion
- Critical thinking
- much more
Follow Dan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DTAPCAP
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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.
Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions!
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv
Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Nov 8, 2019 • 1h 14min
Tales from the Crypt #114: Alpha Zeta
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Alpha Zeta to discuss:
- Living through hyperinflation
- Repo operations. Is it QE?
- Why you shouldn't trade Bitcoin
- Stories from Wall Street
- Bitcoin's volatility
- ETF
- HNWI + Bitcoin
- much more
Follow Alpha Zeta on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alphaazeta
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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.
Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions!
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv
Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Nov 7, 2019 • 1h 39min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.04
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- BTC Citadel workshop #2 Thursday December 5th at 6:30 https://twitter.com/btcCITADEL/status/1191395545656569856?s=20
- FullyNoded https://twitter.com/FullyNoded/status/1192327571486068736?s=20
- BTCPay update https://blog.btcpayserver.org/btcpay-1-0-3-137-released/
- Coldcard firmware 3.0.3 https://blog.coinkite.com/Login-Countdown-and-Nickname/
- Square quarterly results - $149M bitcoin sold, first time buyers double
- Locha mesh trial in Venezuela https://www.coindesk.com/venezuelans-made-lightning-savvy-hardware-to-use-bitcoin-during-blackouts
- Radar Redshift https://twitter.com/radar_ion/status/1191783806077825024?s=20
- EinsteinXchange https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/einstein-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-complaints-1.5347104?cmp=rss
- BullBitcoin to catch a predator https://twitter.com/BullBitcoin_/status/1191830231809576960?s=20
- Wasabi to integrate Bitcoin Core directly https://twitter.com/HillebrandMax/status/1191286955708833792?s=20
- CoinJoin usage chart https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1191038010466426881?s=20
- Chat over Lightning https://twitter.com/joostjgr/status/1190714028626251779?s=20
- Jack Mallers Twitter AMA https://twitter.com/JackMallers/status/1190353245358755840?s=20
- BitMEX leaks 30k passwords https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1190745630316154882?s=20
- NodlOne announced https://shop.nodl.it/en/home/43-71-nodl-one-early-bird.html
- Tether FUD?
- Coinbase adds Tezos staking to consumer facing interface https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1192154927813943296?s=20 & https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/947551556546760704?s=20
- Realt + Uniswap + KYC https://twitter.com/RealTPlatform/status/1191420634196111360?s=20
- Ray Dalio "The World Has Gone Mad and the System is Broken" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/world-has-gone-mad-system-broken-ray-dalio/
- Cash transactions greater than ~$6000 banned in malaysia https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2019/11/07/malaysia-to-impose-cash-transaction-limit-of-rm25000-next-year
- GEDmatch court case precedent could open up millions of DNA records https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/business/dna-database-search-warrant.html
- Russian "sovereign internet" law https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/10/31/russia-new-law-expands-government-control-online
Shoutout to our sponsors:
Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 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.
Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo

Nov 5, 2019 • 1h 25min
Tales from the Crypt #113: Michael Caras AKA The Bitcoin Rabbi
Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Caras AKA The Bitcoin Rabbi, Author of Bitcoin Money: A Tale of Bitville Discovering Good Money, to discuss:
- Writing Bitcoin Money
- Michael's journey to Bitcoin
- Charity
- Gold's future
- much more
Check out Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebitcoinrabbi
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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.
Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions!
Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv
Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Nov 1, 2019 • 1h 30min
Tales from the Crypt #112: Dhruv Bansal
Join Marty as he sits down with Dhruv Bansal, Co-Founder and CSO of Unchained Capital, to discuss:
- Multisig
- Hardware wallets
- SLIP 0039
- Center of Hash
- Bitcoin in space
- Balancing adaptation and conviction
- much more
Shoutout to our sponsor:
Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

Oct 31, 2019 • 1h 17min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.28
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- 11 years of bitcoin https://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/
- #FastForSatoshi
- $1B in fees https://twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1189559688494493697?s=19
- China blockchain pump https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-dissident-sees-dark-warnings-in-chinas-blockchain-push
- Wasabi and Samourai Whirlpool comparison chart https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1189606714250858496?s=19
- Casa Gold 2 of 3 multisig https://blog.keys.casa/basic-multisig-2-of-3-now-with-two-hardware-keys/
- Coinmetrics nonce analysis https://coinmetrics.substack.com/p/coin-metrics-state-of-the-network-04a
- Wired hit piece on sanctions evasion https://www.wired.com/story/cryptocurrency-boom-post-soviet-frontier/
- Cryptosteel capsule hands on [https://twitter.com/cryptosteel/status/1186354407019110400?s=19 & https://twitter.com/JimJones1913/status/1189021491397980160?s=19](https://twitter.com/cryptosteel/status/1186354407019110400?s=19 & https://twitter.com/JimJones1913/status/1189021491397980160?s=19)
- Breez announces Lightning Rod https://medium.com/breez-technology/introducing-lightning-rod-2e0a40d3e44a
- Lightning and privacy https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1186998875854376960?s=19 & https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1187731152318160897?s=19
- c-lightning 0.7.3 released https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v0.7.3
- Donations to Tor will be matched by Mozilla until November 4th https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency
- Coldcard releases full schematics https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-hardware-shared/
- Lebanon institutes ban on cash leaving country https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-protests-economy-dollars-idUSKBN1X60R2 & https://www.coindesk.com/how-lebanons-economic-crisis-highlights-bitcoins-limitations
- Argentina increases capital controls, $200 per month limit https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-28/argentina-tightens-currency-controls-after-fernandez-victory
Shoutout to our sponsors:
Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 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.
Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo


