TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Stewart and Ben Carman from Suredbits to discuss: - The Austin scene - Migrations in the US - DLCs - Lessons from DeFi - Taproot activation - Speedy Trial - Coinflip - Milk cattle - much more Check out Suredbits Follow Chris Follow Ben Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and c...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Speedy Trial taproot activation method merged - Comments by greg maxwell - COPA sues CSW - CCI releases first report stating there is minimal "illicit activity" using bitcoin - VanEck "bitcoin" ETF DAPP that does not hold bitcoin directly - btc-rpc-explorer v3.0 - trezor suite beta v21.4.1 - Alleged paxful KYC leak claimed to be fake - Gladstein biweekly column...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - coinbase IPO on april 14th, ticker COIN - NYDIG raises another $100M - African P2P volumes hit new all time highs - Ukrainian civil servants own more than 46k bitcoin - Crypto Council for Innovation announced - Square Crypto grant for mempool.space - Peter Thiel comments on bitcoin and china - Arthur Hayes surrenders - Circle and Polo ordered to provide info on...

Join Marty as he sits down with Untapped Growth (Joel) to discuss: - The Fiat Farming system - Top soil - Roundup in everything - Using cattle for regenerative farming - Creating a cattle ranching/land management co-op - Distributed asynchronous citadel networks - much more Follow Untapped Growth Check out the site Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the prom...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - coldcard physical attack - Kentucky signs bitcoin mining incentives - Strike launches in El Salvador without banking partners - Azteco adds lightning - Goldman to start offering bitcoin exposure to rich clients - Morgan Stanley prepping to add bitcoin exposure to major funds - Brink's first round of dev grants - Gemini provides grant to mempool.space - Specter v...

Join Marty as he sits down with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo to discuss: - Ledn's recent raise - Proof of Reserves - Risk Management - Duration matching - Hyperinflation - Good people succeeding - Bitcoin scaling in layers - Ledn users sending within the platform - The Petro - much more Follow Mauricio on Twitter Check out Ledn Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use t...

Join Marty as he sits down with Bob McElrath to discuss: - NY BitDevs - Mining pools - P2Pool - Braidpool - Making decentralized pools viable - How they may fail - Adversarial thinking - Bob's Bitcoin journey - much more Follow Bob on Twitter Bitcoin Munich Meetup Video Braidpool IRC Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receiv...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Tesla now accepting bitcoin and will hodl - Podcasting 2.0 on breez - Microsoft launches layer 2 decentralized identity on top of bitcoin mainnet - FTX closing $7M per year deal for Miami Heat Arena - Fidelity files for a bitcoin etf - Lolli raises $5M from Serena Williams and her husband - CFTC fines coinbase $6.5M for litecoin bullshit - FATF releases enhanced...

Join Marty as he sits down with David Bailey, founder of BTC Media, to discuss: - How bullish is David? - How high will bitcoin go? - Timing the birth of his children up with bull markets - Bitcoin 2021 events - Bitcoin 2021 location - Bitcoin Magazine content - much more Check out Bitcoin 2021 (Use code "SATOSHI" for 10% off) Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today....

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - FTX negotiating naming rights to miami heat arena https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article249892678.html - miner revenue priced in dollars hits all time high https://twitter.com/_Checkmatey_/status/1370901101403238400 - Kentucky passes tax breaks to bitcoin miners https://www.coindesk.com/kentucky-approves-bills-providing-incentives-fo...

Join Marty as he sits down with Paul Itoi, co-founder of Stakwork and Sphinx Chat, to discuss: - Sphinx chat - Content monetization without ads - Encrypted chat over the Lightning Network - Paying anons around the world - Banking the unbanked - Rearchitecting the Internet using BTC/LN - How BTC/LN can help parents unschool their kids - Bringing back grazing cattle via Sphinx - Training personal AI...

Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Epstein, Author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels , to discuss: - Green energy jobs v. oil jobs - Subsidies driving energy prices higher - Using fraud as a heuristic to question the anti-energy movement - Developing our environment to protect from climate - "Climate catastrophe" - Why not nuclear? - Moralizing energy conversion - Bitcoin and energy - much more...

Join Marty as he sits down with Kelly Lannan, the mind behind Bitcoin Urbanism , to discuss: - Parasitic ideas - How Bitcoin Urbanism came to be - Being a real estate developer - Building materials inflation - How fiat money destroyed city planning - How city codes hamstring builders - Fixing the Fiat Standard one block at a time - Classical architecture making a come back - much more Follow Kelly...

Join Marty as he sits down with Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert to discuss: - Occupy Wall Street - Wall Street in the 80s - Independent media - Propaganda and gaslighting - Bitcoin as an anti-war movement - Comedy in NYC in the 70s & 80s - much more Follow Max on Twitter Follow Stacy on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" t...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Norwegian energy giant Aker forms bitcoin unit Seetee - New Taproot Activation Method proposed "Speedy Trial" - Malicious backdoored version of electrum wallet - Whirlpool GUI v0.10.3 - Samourai Wallet v0.99.96e - Zeus v0.5.0 - JoinMarket v0.8.2 - JoininBox v0.3.0 - Coldcard v4.0.0-beta - Sparrow v1.3.0 - BTCPay Server v1.0.7.0 - NYDIG $200 million growth round...

Join Marty as he sits down with Dominic Frisby to discuss: - Daylight Robbery - The history of taxes - The future of taxes under a Bitcoin Standard - The State as a coercive evil force - Gold v. Bitcoin - much more Follow Dominic on Twitter Check out Daylight Robbery Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contrib...

Join Marty as he sits down with Anas Alhajji to discuss: - OPEC dynamics - The politics of oil and gas - The history of the shale industry - Common sense - Bitcoin as a settlement currency for oil trade - much more Follow Anas on Twitter Subscribe to GAMcast Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 t...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - bottlepay flagging samourai whirlpool coinjoin deposits - bitstamp flagging wasabi coinjoin usage post withdrawal - I2P network support merged into bitcoin core - Regtest demo of zcash based bitcoin sidechain - Arthur Hayes negotiating surrender agreement - Umbrel v0.3.6 - BlueWallet v6.0.6 - Whirlpool CLI v0.10.10 - Eclair v0.5.1 - Lightning Terminal v0.4.1 - B...

Join Marty as he sits down with Nick Hansen, co-founder and CEO of Luxor Mining, to discuss: - Raising money in 2020 - Building as the price of bitcoin crashed - Hashrate derivative tokens - Why a miner would sell hash - Why a retail investor would buy a hash rate token - Why isn't hash rate keeping up with price - Mining off grid - much more Follow Nick on Twitter Check out Luxor Mining Shoutout...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Taproot LOT OF LOTS - BitPay Sanctions Violations - Bitfinex and Tether settle with NY AG without admitting fault - MicroStrategy bought another ~19.5k bitcoin for a ~$1.03B, they now hold 90.5k bitcoin - Square quarterly earnings - Coinbase discloses number ahead of Nasdaq listing - Teleport Transactions CoinSwap implementation - Arthur Hayes emerges - Specter...

Join Marty as he sits down with Lyn Alden, Founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy , to discuss: - Current market environment - Commodities pumping - Rates jumping - Repo markets - Inflation - Historical inflationary event - Bitcoin + energy arbitrage - much more Follow Lyn on Twitter Check out Lyn's website Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code...

Join Marty as he sits down with Mason Jappa & Sam Chwarzynski from Blockware Solutions to discuss: - Mining trends - Hosting - Bitcoin as a messaging protocol - The bitcoin liquidity crunch - The macro factors lining up for bitcoin - Bitcoin the messaging network - Protecting against onerous regulations - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the prom...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Taproot activation timeline released - Dread admins discuss issues with ongoing Tor attack - Jack and Jay Z announce 500 bitcoin development endowment - Canadian Bitcoin ETF gets green light - BlackRock "dabbling" in bitcoin - BlueWallet v6.0.5 - Zap Android v0.4.0-beta - JoininBox v0.2.0 - Umbrel v0.3.3 - Wasabi Wallet v1.1.12.4 - BIP47 v3 draft spec released -...

Join Marty as he sits down with Nik Bhatia, Author of Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and CBDCs , to discuss: - Writing the book - Fed money printing - History of layered money systems - Different reserves - How complicated the current USD reserve system is - A new financial stack emanating from nonces - much more Follow Nik on Twitter Buy Layered Money today Shoutout to this week'...

Join Marty as he sits down with Lamar Wilson to discuss: - Black Bitcoin Billionaires club on Clubhouse - Marketing bitcoin - Empowering individuals with bitcoin - Bringing back strong families - Getting people off zero on their way to becoming satoshi millionaires - much more Follow Lamar on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stacki...