TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coldcard multisig vulnerability https://nunchuk.medium.com/the-missing-multisig-standard-5b4092e3ea92 - Tesla buys $1.5B worth of bitcoin https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459021004599/tsla-10k_20201231.htm - Bitcoin Hash Rate New ATH - Samourai Wallet v0.99.96c https://docs.samourai.io/en/wallet/releases#v09996c - Nunchuk v0.9.7 http...

Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Corallo to discuss: - The history of SegWit2x - How SegWit actually got activated - BIP 148 - BIP 91 - Preventing a split - Fork futures - Lessons learned - UASF as a nuclear option - Taproot activation - BIP 8 (True/False) - Why precedents matter - LDK update - much more Follow Matt on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats tod...

Join Marty as he sits down with Harry Sudock, VP of Strategy at GRIID, to discuss: - Meeting in NYC - Stumbling into the mining industry - The merging of the bitcoin mining and energy industries - Energy delivery problems - Grid stabilization - Central banks of the future - Efficient capital allocation under a Bitcoin Standard - much more Follow Harry on Twitter Check out GRIID Shoutout to this we...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Elon playing games - Senator Lummis appointed Senate Banking Committee - Microstrategy Bitcoin Summit - Grayscale GBTC premium goes negative for first time - California pension fund goes HAM on RIOT - Darknet markets hit new ATH revenue according to chainalysis - Matrix Chat Client Element removed - Zeus v0.5.0- beta1 - Bisq v1.5.5 - Hexa Wallet v1.4.2 - Phoenix...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Wall Street Mayhem - Tor v3 DoS attacks continue - Tighter KYC regs in Netherlands - Marathon buys $150M in bitcoin - Sparrow Wallet v1.0.0 - Tails v4.15 - Fully Noded v0.2.11 - GrapheneOS web installer - Grayscale donates $1M to coincenter, matching up to another $1M - Navalny donation address receives almost 4 bitcoin since he was jailed addy - Mining pool cen...

Join Marty as he sits down with long time credit trader Greg Foss to discuss: - Surfing culture - Greg's experience trading credit markets - Using the CDS market for sovereign bonds as a way to calculate Bitcoin's fair value - Systemic risk in the financial system - Counter-party risk - Bitcoin and the energy industry - much more Follow Greg on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. S...

Join Marty as he sits down with independent journalist Whitney Webb to discuss: - Solar Winds - Q Anon - Operation Warp Speed - Incoming Secretary of State - WEF's Great Reset - Independent Journalism - Opting out - much more Follow Whitney on Twitter Check out Unlimited Hangout Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10...

This week in Bitcoin Marty and Matt discuss: - bitcoin reorg confusion: BITMEX & Blockstream Explorer & Deribit Dissection & Peter Todd - CSW sues bitcoin.org and bitcoincore.org over whitepaper copyright - Energy usage FUD smacks marty in the face on twitter - Mining in the arctic circle - Iranian gov seizing ASICs - Blue Wallet v6.0.3 - c-lightning v0.9.3 - Bitcoin Dev Kit v0.3.0 - Blackrock ent...

Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Krieger to discuss: - Cancel yourself before they cancel you - Free and open source software - Censorship - History - Bitcoin as a way to exit - The illegitimacy of the expert class - Localism - The education system - much more Check out Michael's latest article Cancel Yourself and sign up for his newsletter after reading Follow Michael on Twitter Shoutout t...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Tor v3 Onion addresses unreachable after apparent attack on Tor network - Ledger discloses new data leak and steps they are taking to mitigate issues going forward - Analysis of Solar Winds attack - HRF provides grants to Specter and Lot49 - Lagarde attacks bitcoin - Bitcoin Core v0.21.0 - BlueWallet v6.0.2 - BTCPay Server v1.0.6.5 - RaspiBlitz v1.6.3 - Sparrow...

Join Marty as he sits down with Tracy Shuchart ( @chigrl ) from Hedge Fund Telemetry to discuss: - Oil Markets - Misallocation of capital - PE + O&G - Fragile supply chains - Rare Earth metals - Bitcoin mining with flare gas - Energy producers are the central banks of the future - much more Follow Tracy on Twitter Check out Hedge Fund Telemetry Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #st...

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers, Founder and CEO of Strike, to discuss: - Athletes getting paid in sats - Beef with the NFL - bitcoin the hard asset - Bitcoin the Network - Strike global - Routing around with Bitcoin - State of the Lightning Network - much more Follow Jack on Twitter Check out Strike Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - OCC letter on banks using stablecoins - Pro censorship American mining pool gains steam - Iranian mining crackdown - Strike Global - Blockstream Jade - Bitcoin Core v0.21.0 RC5 - Fully Noded v0.2.8 - Specter v1.0.0 - Braiins acquires remaining stake in Slush Pool from Slush - Coindesk buys tradeblock - Anthony Towns on 2021 - Bitcoin Explained by BJ Dweck - Sile...

Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Stewart, CEO of Suredbits, to discuss: - An update on DLCs - The US Presidential Election DLCs - Oracle problems and solutions - DLCFDs - Stablecoins - Transaction fees - Is Ethereum beating Bitcoin? - PEMDAS - much more 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: - Our boy Russ getting paid in bitcoin using Strike - Mooch's new bitcoin fund slides leak - Indian Gov considering 18% tax on bitcoin trading - US Treasury hits BitGo with sanctions violations on their non custodial wallet - Bisq v1.5.3 - Umbrel App Store - VanEck refiles ETF - This Month in Bitcoin Privacy - SolarWinds attack Shoutout to this week's sponsors: Un...

Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Hill, co-founder and CEO of Start9 Labs, to discuss: - Founding Start9 Labs - The Embassy - Routing around Apple's App Store - Why personal hardware is an imperative moving forward - Self-sovereign surveillance - Making all of this easy - much more Follow Matt on Twitter Check out Start9 Labs' Embassy Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackings...

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Ledger database dump - FinCEN adds new KYC requirements for withdrawals - Nigeria is now second biggest Paxful bitcoin market after the US - Bitmain civil war escalates - Microstrategy recent purchases complete - BlueWallet v6.0.1 - Eclair v0.5.0 - Caravan adds PSBT support - Discreet Log Contract for Difference - Ripple gets hit by SEC - Bitcoin DevKit Shout...

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with their very good friend arbedout to discuss: - Gurri's Revolt of the Public - Telecommunications networks - Deflationary v. Inflationary currencies - MMT vs Bitcoin in context of Hirschmann's Exit, Voice and Loyalty - Great American Mining, energy, and Bitcoin - much more Follow arbedout on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stacking...

Join Marty as he sits down with Desiree Dickerson, Christian Moss and Simon Cowell to discuss: - Gaming + The Lightning Network - Why dedicated gaming tokens don't make sense - Zebedee's SDK - MintGox - Getting pro gamers into LN enabled gaming - Gaming culture these days - The Upcoming MintGox tournament on December 27th - Our favorite games - much more Follow Des on Twitter Follow Christian on T...

Join Marty as he sits down with Louis Roberts AKA Lightswitch Lou, the man who launched TFTC, to discuss: - Everything under the sun Follow Lou 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 OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app .

Join Marty as he sits down with Pete Rizzo, Editor at Kraken and Advisor to Bitcoin Magazine, to discuss: - The war over P2SH - Bitcoin's development culture - Are Bitcoin's properties inherent or emergent? - Bitcoin v. Ethereum - Journalism - Bias - Objectivity - much more Follow Pete on Twitter Read The Battle For P2SH Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use th...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - no ban yet - sats back and sats the standard on cashapp - Ruffer $744M investment - $1B investment from One River - Guggenheim's Minerd drops a casual $400k price prediction - UK FCA allows temp approvals - Kraken to add lightning early next year - MTGox claims speculation - BTCPay Server v1.0.6.3 - myNode v0.2.20 - TailsOS v4.14 - ACINQ Phoenix v1.4.4 - ACINQ i...

Join Marty as he sits down with BitcoinTINA to discuss: - The new ATH - Institutional adoption - How high will Bitcoin go? - Gradually, then suddenly - Cutting losses v. taking profits - Gold's fate - The importance of running a node - The market will bend the knee - Holding in a bull market v. holding in a bear market - much more Follow BitcoinTINA on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cas...

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Ben Kaufman, unlicensed software developer, to discuss: - Specter Wallet - Crypto Advanced - Making multisig easy - Making connecting to a full node easy - PSBT - QR Codes - HWI - Hardware - Zoomers - much more Follow Ben on Twitter Check out Specter Wallet Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stacking...

Join Marty as he sits down with Jimmy Song, educator and Co-Author of Thank God For Bitcoin: The Creation, Corruption, and Redemption of Money, to discuss: - Sound Money as a moral imperative - How easy money corrupts society - The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil - Serving money or God - Positivism v. Natural Rights - Jesus flipping the table and kicking out the moneychangers - much...