

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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Jul 19, 2019 • 1h 16min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.15
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- This week in Bitcoin - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1150840995808010241?s=19
- Wasabi - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1151882688053334016?s=19
- C-Lightning - https://medium.com/blockstream/new-release-c-lightning-0-7-1-9fca65debeb2
- Binance staking XLM - https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360030727092 - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/947551556546760704?s=19
- ETH on BCH - https://ethresear.ch/t/bitcoin-cash-a-short-term-data-availability-layer-for-ethereum/5735
- Much more
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.
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Jul 16, 2019 • 1h 12min
Tales from the Crypt #85: Paranoid Bull
Join Marty as he sits down with DAL, AKA Paranoid Bull, to discuss his journey through the markets, systemic risk, political risk, the world's current disconnection from reality and how Bitcoin play into it all.
Check out Odin River's mission: https://medium.com/odin-river/odin-river-31ddc131a22
Follow DAL on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paranoidbull
Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent
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 $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

Jul 15, 2019 • 1h 9min
Tales from the Crypt #84: Bull Bitcoin
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Francis Pouliot and BTC Sessions from Bull Bitcoin to discuss the Montreal Bitcoin scene throughout the years, consulting in the "Blockchain" space, SegWit2x, the common mission Bitcoiners have, and much more.
Check out Bull Bitcoin: https://bullbitcoin.com/
Follow Francis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/francispouliot_
Follow BTCSessions on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTCsessions
Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell
Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent
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 $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.

Jul 12, 2019 • 31min
The Trump Tweet Ep: Marty, Matt and Murad Mahmudov
Marty, Matt and Murad breakdown the implications of Donald J. Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Powell's comments on Bitcoin.
Links discussed:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149472282584072192
https://twitter.com/StopAndDecrypt/status/1149703537871355904
https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/1149629984157261825

Jul 11, 2019 • 1h
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.08
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Coldcard
- Nodl update
- Wasabi update
- Samourai 0.99.81 - https://blog.samouraiwallet.com/post/186208584657/introducing-09981-enter-the-dojo
- Miner trying to inflate the supply - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-523/
- History of the DAO hack
- Eclair update - https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/releases/tag/v0.3.1
- Surveillance tech creeps forward https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1148222460724207616
- Much more
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. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.

Jul 9, 2019 • 55min
Tales from the Crypt #83: Aleks Svetski
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Aleksander Svetski, founder of Amber, to discuss his journey to Bitcoin, lessons from trading, lessons from being a door to door salesman, why Bitcoin not Blockchain, putting up with scammers, and much more.
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.
Liking the show and want to contribute? You can do so by going to https://tftc.io/contribute/

Jul 5, 2019 • 1h 6min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Freedom Edition Week of 2019.07.01
This week Marty and Matt sit down on the 4th of July to discuss:
- Bitcoin's revolutionary nature
- Sats App announced by Casa https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-sats-app-with-satsback/
- 300 tickets sold for Bitcoin2020
- LND 0.7 released https://twitter.com/lightning/status/1146107267592445952?s=19
-Zap desktop 0.5 released https://medium.com/@JimmyMow/announcing-zap-desktop-0-5-0-beta-7622672ce582
- Coldcard v2.1.1 update adds dice support https://twitter.com/COLDCARDwallet/status/1146410794315390977?s=19
- US House of Reps Committee of Financial Services asks Facebook to hold off on Libra https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/07.02.2019_-_fb_ltr.pdf
- Cloudflare went down due to faulty upgrade https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/02/a-cloudflare-outage-is-impacting-sites-everywhere/
- Whirlpool desktop 0.7 released with full tor support https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1145998882947682304
- Hong Kong
- Chinese border guards put spyware on phones at Xinjiang border https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/02/chinese-border-guards-surveillance-app-tourists-phones
- Bitcoin as a safe haven in FT https://www.ft.com/content/f7643858-98f8-11e9-9573-ee5cbb98ed36
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.
Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.

Jul 2, 2019 • 1h 48min
Tales from the Crypt #82: Ketominer + Askuwheteau
Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Ketominer and Askuwheteau, the team behind Nodl.it, to discuss how Nodl came to be, their recent partnership with Samourai Wallet, the freedom that Bitcoin enables, potentially moving from hardware to software in the future, the new Raspberry Pi, and much more.
Check out Nodl: https://nodl.it/
Follow Ketominer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ketominer
Follow Askuwheteau on Twitter: https://twitter.com/IAskuwheteau
Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell
Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent
Shoutout to our 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 when you download the app.

Jul 1, 2019 • 1h 53min
Tales from the Crypt #81: Dan Held
Join Marty as he sits down with Dan Held, Co-Founder of Interchange, to discuss his paper on Bitcoin's future security, the importance of sharpening narratives, the false narratives that seem to persist, and much more.
Follow Dan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/danheld
Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent
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 a charity of our choice when you download the app.
Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.

Jun 27, 2019 • 47min
Rabbit Hole Recap LIVE: Week of 2019.06.24
Join Marty and Matt as they are joined by Pierre Rochard, Bitcoin Sign Guy & Francis Pouliot with a special appearance from Paul Sztorc as they discuss:
- FATF Guidelines
- Iranians mining Bitcoin in mosques
- COLDCARD new upgrades
- Libra
- CoinJoining
- Much more…


