

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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May 24, 2019 • 1h 28min
Tales from the Crypt #74: Andrew Torba
Join Marty as he sits down with Andrew Torba, Founder and CEO of Gab.com, to discuss what it's like to be de-platformed, the Silicon Valley "cognoscenti", building more resilient communication tools, the fight for Free Speech, forking open source software as a business model for Gab, the normalization of deviant values, and much more.
Check out Gab: https://gab.com/
Follow Gab on Twitter: https://twitter.com/getongab
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Shoutout to this week's sponsor:
Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

May 23, 2019 • 1h
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.20
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Who would you want to tweet about Bitcoin?
- LN node update https://1ml.com/node/02d419c9af624d0e7a7c90a60b9ffa35f4934973a9d7d3b4175cc3cc28b7ffcde1
- SIM Swaps https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-most-expensive-lesson-of-my-life-details-of-sim-port-hack-35de11517124
-lncast.com launch
- 60 Minutes https://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/HaKmux455gSICzgSiGqzyUPIfGhuxnTG/bitcoin-s-wild-ride/
- $8 trillion hidden around the world and Elizabeth Warren wants to tax it https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-23/the-wealth-detective-who-finds-the-hidden-money-of-the-super-rich
- BestMixer shutdown: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/dutch-authorities-shut-down-bestmixer/
- CoinCenter - Non-custodial cryptocurrency mixer developers are not subject to U.S. regulation. - https://coincenter.org/link/non-custodial-cryptocurrency-mixer-developers-are-not-subject-to-u-s-regulation
- Bull Bitcoin starts mixing user funds: https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1131309370900402178?s=19
- Kraken equity offering at 4B valuation, $1000 min: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/kraken-is-offering-itself-to-customers-in-chunks-as-small-as-1000-for-its-fundraising-round/
- Bitfinex LEO token: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitfinex-to-start-trading-its-exchange-token-leo-on-may-20/
- Polo/Circle blocks tokens from US customers, lays off 30 employees https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/poloniex-continues-to-advocate-for-better-crypto-regulation-as-it-goes-on-a-delisting-spree-in-the-us/ https://twitter.com/jerallaire/status/1130912877991333891?s=19
Shoutout to this week's listener contributor @mdotbit (https://twitter.com/mdotbit)
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.
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.

May 21, 2019 • 1h 31min
Tales from the Crypt #73: Jan Čapek + Pavel Moravec
Join Marty as he sits down with Jan Čapek and Pavel Moravec, Co-CEOs of Slush Pool & Braiins, to discuss their backgrounds, Slush Pool's history, what they're building with BraiinsOS, the nature of reorgs, BetterHash, the dream of a shared foundry, mining futures markets, and much more.
Checkout Slush Pool: https://slushpool.com/
Checkout Braiins: https://braiins-os.org/
Follow Jan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/janbraiins
Follow Pavel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mor_pav
Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent
Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

May 20, 2019 • 1h 33min
Tales from the Crypt #72: Jeff Vandrew
Join Marty as he sits down with Jeff Vandrew, Attorney-CPA-Coder, to discuss Distributism, self-custody Bitcoin IRAs, maintaing BTCPayServer's Python implementation, rent seeking, relearning to code, and much more.
Check out Jeff's work: https://vandrew.com/bitcoin/
Follow Jeff on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vandrewattycpa
Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent
Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

May 16, 2019 • 50min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.13
This week Marty and Matt are joined by Bitcoin Sign Guy to discuss a bunch of stuff.
Thank you to this week's sponsors.
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.
Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

May 14, 2019 • 1h 50min
Tales from the Crypt #71: James O'Beirne
Join Marty as he sits down with James O'Beirne, Bitcoin Core contributor, to discuss his assumeutxo proposal, debt, short-term v. long-term thinking, and what it's like being a permabear.
Checkout the assumeutxo proposal: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/15605
Follow James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesob
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.

May 13, 2019 • 1h 30min
Tales from the Crypt #70: Ruben Waterman
Join Marty and Matt Odell as they sit down with the one man team behind Bittr, the easiest way to stack sats in Europe. We discuss Ruben's path to Bitcoin, his experience getting a Masters in Blockchain from the University of Nicosia, why he built Bittr, what it's like bootstrapping a company, and much more.
Check out Bittr: https://www.getbittr.com/
Follow Ruben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/watermaniak
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.

May 9, 2019 • 1h 16min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.06
This week Marty and Matt are joined by Murad Mahmudov from Adaptive Capital to discuss:
- Binance hack
- onlynet=onion in config file - h/t Evan Kaloudis
- TFTC.io launch
- Our Lightning node was stolen https://1ml.com/node/02d419c9af624d0e7a7c90a60b9ffa35f4934973a9d7d3b4175cc3cc28b7ffcde1
- bip-taproot https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip-schnorr/bip-taproot.mediawiki
- Wasabi guide bitcoin-only.com @6102bitcoin https://github.com/6102bitcoin/FAQ/blob/master/wasabi.md
- Honeyminer Mac release
- One entity is responsible for 50% of BCH transactions
- Whirpool
- Andrew Chow on PSBT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6xZSRDXUiU&feature=youtu.be
Shoutout to this week's listener contributor, Pedro. Here's the video he shared https://youtu.be/NO1aDZ6L4NQ?t=1118
Thank you to this week's sponsors.
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.
Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.

May 7, 2019 • 42min
Tales from the Crypt #69: Juthica Chou
Join Marty as he sits down with Juthica Chou, Co-Founder and COO of LedgerX, to discuss Bitcoin options, what it was like for LedgerX to navigate the regulatory waters throughout the years, LedgerX's Omni platform, and much more. Learn about futures contracts based on block height, backing into projected price probabilities, and how miners hedge their risk.
Check out LedgerX: https://ledgerx.com/
Follow Juthica on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juthica
Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent
Shout out to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Download the Cash App today from the App Store or Google Play Store and start #stackingsats

May 2, 2019 • 1h 6min
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.29
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Bitcoin v.0.18.0 released https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-core-0180-release-heres-whats-new/
- Bitfinex spread increases, https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitfinex-plans-to-raise-as-much-as-1-billion-through-an-ieo-shareholder-says/
- Cashapp $65.5M quarterly bitcoin sales
- Amazon Managed Blockchain https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/amazon-made-its-blockchain-service-available-to-the-public/
- #dropgold campaign - dropgold.com
- Ethereum is now money according to ethereum.org
- CoinJoins as a Percentage of All Bitcoin Payments Have Tripled to 4.09% Over the Past Year https://www.longhash.com/news/coinjoins-as-a-percentage-of-all-bitcoin-payments-have-tripled-to-409-over-the-past-year
- Samourai Whirlpool enters mainnet testing phase
- Nine in 10 Americans have heard about bitcoin, Blockchain Capital survey finds https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/nine-in-10-americans-heard-about-bitcoin-survey-finds/
- Fidelity surveys 400 institutional investors, 22% already have exposure, 47% think exposure makes sense: https://medium.com/@FidelityDigitalAssets/new-research-institutional-investments-likely-to-increase-over-next-5-years-729fb1ca3c52
- eTrade joining the party, plans to offer bitcoin trading to its ~5M customers https://twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/1121868559330598912
Shoutout to this week's sponsors:
Cash App, head over to the Apple App Store or Google Play and download it today to start #stackingsats
Unchained Capital, check out Unchained's 2-of-3 multisig vaults product today and get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin. https://www.unchained-capital.com/vaults/?utm_source=MartyBentNewsletter


