

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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Oct 30, 2019 • 1h 57min
Tales from the Crypt #111: Evan Kaloudis
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Evan Kaloudis, Founder of ZeusLN.app, to drink moonshine and discuss:
- Zeus
- State of the Lightning Network
- Gaming
- Why are we doing this?
- Security attack vectors to be aware of
- Much more
Follow Evan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/evankaloudis
Check out Zeus
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 $5 and contribute $5 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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Oct 25, 2019 • 45min
Tales from the Crypt #110: Saifedean Ammous
Join Marty as he sits down with Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard, to discuss:
- Academia
- Bitcoinization might not play out how you think
- The collective "We"
- Building his Economics course
- much more
Check out Saif's website and academy - https://saifedean.com/
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 $5 and contribute $5 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:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtdbWsnfA08KhSUO4amVLaQ?view_as=subscriber
Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Oct 24, 2019 • 1h 8min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.21
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Layer1 mining https://fortune.com/2019/10/15/what-is-bitcoin-mining-layer1-peter-thiel-crypto-investment/
- Bakkt hits ATH volume yesterdayhttps://twitter.com/BakktBot/status/1187356577143107584?s=20
- Tails 4.0 https://twitter.com/Tails_live/status/1186660581446733826?s=20
- Nodl Dojo kill switch https://twitter.com/nodl_it/status/1186652356554964994?s=20
- Cryptosteel Capsule https://cryptosteel.com
- Zebedee and SatoshisGames - zebedee.io & lightnite.io
- Zap updates for iOS and desktop [https://twitter.com/ln_zap/status/1186666607990497280?s=20 & https://twitter.com/ln_zap/status/1187071191342817282?s=20](https://twitter.com/lnzap/status/1186666607990497280?s=20 & https://twitter.com/lnzap/status/1187071191342817282?s=20)
- Bisq update v1.2, make sure you complete all trades/disputes/offers before upgrading https://twitter.com/bisq_network/status/1186237315598950400?s=20
- ACINQ announces new mobile lightning wallet called Phoenix https://twitter.com/acinq_co/status/1185129586482388992?s=20
- Iterative Capital announces Escher Hub bitcoin on/off ramp http://iterative.capital/introducing-escher-hub-making-every-foss-wallet-a-cheap-and-fast-way-to-transact-bitcoin/
- Bittr teases Lightning support with Nodl partnership https://twitter.com/GetBittr/status/1186317300313530370?s=20
- FullyNoded iOS app (@fullynoded) allows you to connect to your own full node through Tor and use it with Coldcard PSBTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqKEPpSky2g
- Tracking the PlusToken whale through Wasabi by @ergobtc https://medium.com/@ErgoBTC/tracking-the-plustoken-whale-attempted-bitcoin-laundering-and-its-impact-on-wasabi-wallet-787c0d240192
- Samourai wallet releases anon set tool https://medium.com/samourai-wallet/diving-head-first-into-whirlpool-anonymity-sets-4156a54b0bc7
- NordVPN private keys leaked https://twitter.com/hexdefined/status/1185864801261477891?s=20
Much more
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

Oct 22, 2019 • 2h 45min
Tales from the Crypt #109: Justin Moon
Join Marty as he sits down to catch up with Justin Moon. They discuss:
- Building Buidl Bootcamp
- Mooniversity
- BitBoy
- Junction
- Wallets
- Redundancy
- Much more
Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App.
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 $5 and contribute $5 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:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtdbWsnfA08KhSUO4amVLaQ?view_as=subscriber
Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Oct 17, 2019 • 1h 12min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.14
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Casa node concerns https://blog.keys.casa/addressing-security-concerns-about-casa-node/
- Realvision with Saifedean https://www.realvision.com/tv/shows/interviews/videos/gold-the-bitcoin-standard?source_collection=07157a6eedda4e78b9dcada0c3bc76c0
- Trezor + Unchained Slip0039 implementation https://blog.trezor.io/open-source-standards-unchained-slip-0039-for-individuals-and-groups-cae3e9573410
- Child porn ring brought down https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/chainalysis-doj-welcome-to-video-shutdown
- Oxford English Dictionary adds sats
- Blockstream Green Wallet adds integrated Tor support https://twitter.com/BlockstreamHelp/status/1184176681260584960?s=19
- LND 0.8.0 released https://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2019/10/15/lnd-v0.8.html
- Casa covenant inheritance planning https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-casa-covenant-bitcoin-inheritance-service-and-protocol/
- Nodl team begins moving everything behind Tor https://twitter.com/nodl_it/status/1184110287424610305?s=19
- Tor releases new version of OnionShare https://blog.torproject.org/new-version-onionshare-makes-it-easy-anyone-publish-anonymous-uncensorable-websites-0
- Electrum announces their own lightning implementation
- Coldcard Mk3 begins shipping
- Rep Warren Davidson on Noded https://twitter.com/NodedPodcast/status/1182490088464408577?s=19
- Protests around the world
Shoutout to our 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 $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. If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral. Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated.
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:
https://www.youtube.com/tftc21

Oct 15, 2019 • 52min
Tales from the Crypt #108: Jared Dillian
Join Marty as he sits down with Jared Dillian, Founder & Editor of The Daily Dirtnap newsletter, to discuss:
- Jared's reformed skepticism of Bitcoin
- Bitcoin v. Gold
- What happens if we End The Fed?
- Millenial investing
- much more
Follow Jared on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailydirtnap
Check out The Daily Dirtnap: https://www.dailydirtnap.com/
Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App.
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 $5 and contribute $5 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:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtdbWsnfA08KhSUO4amVLaQ?view_as=subscriber
Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Oct 11, 2019 • 2h 26min
Tales from the Crypt #107: American Hodl
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with American Hodl to wax poetic about everything.
Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App.
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 $5 and contribute $5 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:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtdbWsnfA08KhSUO4amVLaQ?view_as=subscriber
Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Oct 10, 2019 • 1h 2min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.07
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Real Vision upcoming show with Saif
- Coldcard adds offline address explorer with new update thanks to @hodlwave https://blog.coinkite.com/address-explorer/
- Zap Android app update https://twitter.com/ln_zap/status/1181618068096724994?s=20
- Upcoming Zap desktop update to include node pubkey signing https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-588/
- New KYCP update - kycp.org
- https://mempool.observer/monitor/ by @0xB10C
- Nodl Samourai announced - https://shop.nodl.it/en/home/38-nodl-samourai-edition.html
- Casa Node 2 announced - https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-casa-node-2/
- ACINQ raises $8M in series A - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/acinq-startup-behind-eclair-lightning-implementation-raises-8m
- Tor removes ~800 old relays - https://www.zdnet.com/article/tor-project-removes-13-5-of-current-servers-for-running-eol-versions/
- Adobe and others cut off Venezuelan users from cloud services - https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20904030/adobe-venezuela-photoshop-behance-us-sanctions
- Multiple corporations bend the knee to China - https://ibb.co/album/eSSKDv
- Hong Kong Free Press switches to BTCPay - https://twitter.com/HongKongFP/status/1182196845511987200?s=20
- City of Miami to vote on 30 year contract for cameras and flood sensors on light poles to private company with no data protection https://twitter.com/TooMuchMe/status/1181947359753904130?s=20
- Surveillance partnerships with Amazon's Ring door cameras -https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2019-10-07-open-letter-calling-on-elected-officials-to-stop/
- Bitcoin2020 tickets for $50, Szabo is keynote - https://www.bitcoin2020conference.com/
Cash App. 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 to check out their collaborative custody and loan products as well as their open source contributions.
Bull Bitcoin. Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada.
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!
Check out www.youtube.com/tftc21

Oct 8, 2019 • 1h 9min
Tales from the Crypt #106: Aleks Svetski
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Aleks Svetski, founder of Amber, to discuss:
- The latest Amber updates
- Building out a product road map and prioritizing
- Citadels
- Separation of money and state
- Hypothetical paths to a post-bitcoinization world
- much more
Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App.
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 $5 and contribute $5 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:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtdbWsnfA08KhSUO4amVLaQ?view_as=subscriber
Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/

Oct 4, 2019 • 1h 22min
Tales from the Crypt #105: Travis Kling
Join Marty as he sits down with Travis Kling, CIO of Ikigai Asset Management, to discuss:
- Travis' journey to bitcoin
- Failed narratives/frameworks of years past
- How the current system is gamed
- Timing
- Much more
Follow Travis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Travis_Kling
Check out Ikigai: https://www.ikigai.fund
Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App.
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 $5 and contribute $5 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:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtdbWsnfA08KhSUO4amVLaQ?view_as=subscriber
Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/


