TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - bitcoin hash drops amid chinese crackdown - gbtc redemptions hurting bitcoin demand - the b word initiative - lnd v0.13.0-beta - specter diy v1.5.5 - rust lightning v0.0.98 - joinmarket v0.8.3 - joininbox v0.5.0 - bluewallet v6.1.6 - lightning terminal v0.5.0-alpha - sparrow wallet v1.4.2 - umbrel v0.3.13 - microstrategy buys more bitcoin - british FCA cracking...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - taproot upgrade has locked in, activation expected in november - Criminals mailing ledger customers compromised hardware wallets - US Bitcoin Mining Council formally launches - NY Electricians' union successfully fights bitcoin mining ban - G7 leaders say ransomware is a priority - Ukrainian raids arrest six tied to CLOP ransomware - Biden and Putin meet for fou...

Join Marty as he sits down with Chase Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Impervious.ai , to discuss: - Building a VPN that leverages Lightning Network routing nodes - Data transfer and user privacy on the Internet - Building an API that allows individuals to build privacy preserving apps that leverage Lightning - The second iteration of the Internet - Node management - much more Follow Chase on Twitte...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - El Salvador declares bitcoin legal tender - Legal tender move pissed off IMF - VOLCANO MINING - DOJ seizes 63.7 bitcoin connected to Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack - Global bank regulators propose burdensome bitcoin capital rule - White House advisor disclosures million dollar bitcoin position - Blockstream and Square announce solar mining initiative - Squa...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Moon bouncing transactions - Ross Ulbricht's interview - Green coins - Kevin O'Leary gets heckled - Censorship - Bitcoin Design Guide - Indy 500 - Mining in gas fields - Much more 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 when you download the app....

Join Marty as he sits down with Untapped Growth to discuss: - ESG - Is it moral? - Can it be leveraged to speculative attack the fiat standard? - How can Bitcoin lead to better culture - Seeking objective truth - much more Follow Untapped Growth on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to...

Join Marty as he sits down with Desiree Dickerson of Lightning Labs and Mint Gox + Christian Moss and Michael Tidwell of ZEBEEDEE to discuss: - Update of the CSGO ZEBEEDEE Infuse integration - How users have tried to stack by gaming the system - Moderating sat farming - New slang around stacking sats - How the Lightning Network technical infrastructure is looking - New games on the horizon - Kids...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Chinese government bitcoin mining ban rumors - US based "bitcoin mining council" - texas bitcoin law - Ray dalio owns bitcoin - carl icahn considering bitcoin investment - four month bitcoin mining ban in iran - specter diy v1.5.4 - blue wallet v6.1.4 - lnd sidecar channels - bitcoin indy car - gladstein on the humanitarian and environmental case for bitcoin Sho...

Join Marty as he sits down with the legend Dave Collum to discuss: - Fauci - Climate change - Lockdowns - The Fed - Inflation - Skydiving - much more 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 when you download the app . Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending p...

Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Ellen Wald, author of Saudi, Inc., to discuss: - The unspoken tradeoffs of green energy - The Colonial Pipeline situation - Ransomeware - The ESG movement - Is bitcoin a commodity? - Saudi Inc. - much more Follow Ellen on Twitter Pick up Saudi, Inc. Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to recei...

Join Marty as he sits down with pro surfer Bethany Hamilton and Adam Dirks to discuss: - Bitcoin 101 - Inflation - Hyperinflation rhyming - much more Follow Bethany on Twitter Check out Bethany's website 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 when you download the app . Lend at Hod...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - our two first $10K candles and it was the same day! - hash rate appears to have dropped - dutch bank no longer requiring withdrawal address verification - cross browser tracking vulnerability - chaos at freenode - libsecp256k1 improvements have sped up bitcoin core validation by 7% - darkside says servers and bitcoin seized, all decryption keys to be released -...

Join Marty as he sits down with the Mayor of Jackson Tennessee, Scott Conger, to discuss: - Being the 3rd Mayor of Jackson in his family - The day to day of leading a small city - How Mayor Conger approaches taxes for the city - How Mayor Conger became interested in bitcoin - Bitcoin's role in local government - Local v. Federal government - "If not me, then who?" - much more Follow Mayor Conger o...

Join Marty as he sits down with prolific Bitcoin artist cryptograffiti to discuss: - Using art to convey Bitcoin's revolutionary nature - Content monetization under a Bitcoin Standard - Why NFTs are so popular - Is art subjective or is there objective beauty? - Cutting out middle men - Artists working directly with collectors - much more Follow cryptograffiti on Twitter Check out his art Shoutout...

Join Marty as he sits down with investigative journalist Whitney Webb to discuss: - Raising children as a countercultural act - Ransomeware attacks - Colonial Pipeline spill cover up - Elon Musk - Bill Gates - Central Bank Digital Currencies - AI - Bitcoin as a tool to fight back - Citadels - much more Follow Whitney on Twitter Support her at UnlimitedHangout.com

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - cake wallet vulnerability - hash rate ath - the bitcoin car at indy 500 - elon tweets energy fud - microstrategy stacked more - recent CPI numbers released - us gov probes binance - gbtc discount hits record low of 20% - fully noded v0.2.17 - bluewallet v6.1.2 - lightning network privacy analysis - analysis of darkside ransomware group - colonial pipeline allege...

Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss: - The latest global monetary base update - Why the monetary base is a good benchmark for bitcoin - Bitcoin is the 6th largest base money (ex-gold) in the world - Defining assets and liabilities on the Fed's balance sheet - Why Japan matters - Communism creep - Bitcoin and a free banking system - Academic economists and bitcoin - much mo...

Join Marty as he sits down with Robert Bryce; author, documentarian, and host of the Power Hungry Podcast, to discuss: - The Indian Point power plant shutdown - Energy mix - Subsidies leading to capital misallocation - Bitcoin's value prop - The externalities that come with wind turbines - Land use and green energy - much more Follow Robert on Twitter Check out Robert's latest book, A Question of...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: bitcoin core v0.21.1 first taproot signalling period new multisig guide from bitcoinqna thailand in person kyc this month in bitcoin privacy bluewallet v6.1.0 umbrel v03.10 phoenix v1.4.11 F2pool hashrate from outside china Dual-funded LN channel on mainnet MARA virtue signaling Iranian Central Bank cucking too Miningpool.observer NY State wants to ban mining Bitc...

Join Marty as he sits down with Meredith Angwin, author of Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid , to discuss: - The fragility of grids - Misconceptions around electric grids - Energy mix - What's happening in Texas and California? - Why nuclear is important - How data is manipulated to push special interests - How we can fix our grids Follow Meredith on Twitter Pick up Shor...

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Gabriel Shipton, brother of Julian Assange, to discuss: - Julian's ongoing trial - How the US Government is wrongfully persecuting Julian - The bogus rape charges lobbed against Julian - The US Government's Espionage charges - Journalism in 2021 - Why Julian's case is very important for the future of journalism - How to support Julian's defense fund - much...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - BTCPay Server vulnerability disclosure - JP Morgan bends the knee - Tesla CFO on bitcoin during Q1 earnings - Public video game publisher Nexon buys 1717 bitcoin - Chiefs veteran tight end Sean Culkin converting entire salary to bitcoin - Second bitcoin exchange goes down in Turkey - Turkish gov using it as an excuse to regulate further - Bitcoin Fog custodial b...

Join Marty as he sits down with Karim Helmy from Galaxy Digital to discuss: - The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner Pt. II - Modeling future price and profitability - Helping miners make better business decisions - The ASIC crunch - Future research topics - much more Follow Karim on Twitter Check out The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner Pt. II Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today...

Join Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis, Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital, to discuss: - The Austin Bitcoin scene - The Fed opening the spigots - Systemic credit risk - Fiscal spending enabled by the Fed - Capital allocation under a Bitcoin Standard - Sam Houston - much more Follow Parker on Twitter Check out Unchained Capital Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Venmo adds bitcoin IOU support, no withdrawals - WeWork accepting bitcoin as payment and will hodl - Coin Center responds strongly against FATF - Turkish Gov attempting bitcoin payments ban - Turkish bitcoin exhange Thodex apparent exit scam - OKEx adds lightning support - Cashapp raises withdrawal minimum to 100K sats frok 10K sats - Bitcoin Core v0.21.1 RC 1 T...