TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ledger Phishing scams continue and get more sophisticated - Our boy Justin gets funded by Square Crypto - Brian Brooks non answer when asked about potential self custody restrictions - G7 Finance Ministers discuss the need for more bitcoin regulations - Our boy Jake sends out 'canary' tweet - Four Republican Congressmen send letter to Mnunchin defending self cus...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - fresh set of ledger phishing scams sent out - shilling the corn is the cool thing to do now - Our boy paul - Blackrock - Bloomberg - potential rushed self custody restrictions via brian armstrong - CCP was the Plus Token Whale - NYTimes hit piece on coinbase and bitcoin - Bitcoin Beach balls out - BTCPay Server v1.0.6.0 - JoinMarket v0.8.0 - JoininBox v0.1.15 -...

Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Saifedean Ammous, Author of The Bitcoin Standard, The Fiat Standard and Principles of Economics, to discuss: - The Fiat Standard - Principles of Economics - The University system - "The Science" - Lockdown hysteria - Unexpected externalities from lockdowns - much more Follow Saif on Twitter Checkout Saifedean.com and pre-order The Fiat Standard & Principles of E...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coldcard testnet attack - John Newbery and Mike Schmidt launch new bitcoin development initiative - Chainalysis raising $100M at $1B valuation - Microstrategy exploring bitcoin " data products " - Gold funds falling while bitcoin pumps - Bisq v1.5.0 - Bitcoin Wallet Tracker v0.2.0 - Autoloop lightning liquidity - PTLC Proof of Concept from Suredbits - Leo Zhang'...

Join Marty as he sits down with Adam Curry to discuss: - Origins of podcasting - Podcasting 2.0 - Value for Value - Sphinx chat - Streaming payments - Automatic royalties/distributions - Self censorship and advertising - Open publishing and distributed money make sense together - Distrust in media - much more Follow Adam on Twitter Check out Adam's site Check out The Podcasting Index + Podcasting...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - taproot activation hits 55% miner support taprootactivation.com - Second richest Mexican is now a bitcoiner - Senator Lummis on fire - the mooch considering a bitcoin play - Citi likes bitcoin now - Whirlpool CLI v0.10.9 - Electrum v4.0.5 - ThunderHub v0.10.3 - Tails v4.13 - Lend at HodlHodl now available in US - Swan XPUB support - OKEx mining hash rate falls d...

Join Marty as he sits down with Graham Krizek, Founder of Voltage, to discuss: - Graham's Bitcoin journey - Starting Voltage - The Lightning Network + node operators - Necessary infrastructure - Encrypting data in the cloud - Security tradeoffs - Cloud Computing landscape - Centralization risks - much more Follow Graham on Twitter Check out Voltage Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Adam Curry announces lightning powered Podcast 2.0 spec - Ledger Phishing Email analysis - Nodl v0.1.2 - Fully Noded Desktop v0.2.1 - Sparrow v0.9.7 - myNode v0.2.18 - Umbrel v0.2.14 - RTL v0.9.3 - Adam Gibson on wasabi 2.0 - WORDS Bitcoin Journal October 2020 - OKEx could be a CCP play - EU encryption resolution - blockseer KYC mining pool - Nigerian gov blocki...

Join Marty as he sits down with Patrick Dugan to discuss: - Financial regulations - The Bank Secrecy Act - FATF - Money laundering - Cypherpunk v. Financialization - A bifurcated network inevitable? - TradeLayer - Op Codes - much more Follow Patrick on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10...

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Tom Trevethan, CTO of CommerceBlock, to discuss: - Statechains - Mercury Wallet - Trust tradeoffs - Privacy gains - Fee structure - Custodial tradeoff - Use cases - much more Follow Tom on Twitter Checkout Mercury Wallet Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - bitcoin difficulty adjusted down by 16% - This month in bitcoin privacy - Russian Gazprombank likes bitcoin now - Lightning Pool liquidity market - Zeus v0.4.0 - Specter v0.9.1 - Lightning Terminal v0.3.0 - Android Tor Browser v10.0.3 - JoininBox v0.1.14 - FUlly Noded Desktop v0.1.99 - Raspi 400 - Nunchuk multisig - Low bandwidth bitcoin - bitbo.io bitcoin dashb...

Join Marty as he sits down with Ryan Gentry, Business Development at Lightning Labs, to discuss: - Austin, Texas - Ryan's time at Intel - Chip fabs - Proof of Work as an essential component of cryptocurrencies - The Order of Operations necessary to create a truly distributed cryptocurrency - Reading white papers - Will Ethereum scale? - Lightning Pool - Shadow Pools - A LN yield curve - much more...

Join Marty as he sits down with Morgen Rochard, author of Personal Finance QuickStart Guide , to discuss: - Personal Finance - When you should start saving - How much you should be saving - How you should be paying down debt - When can you buy bitcoin? - Should you speculative attack your debt? - Keeping tabs of your finances - much more Follow Morgen on Twitter Check out her podcast: Money Owners...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - FEE FOMO IS REAL - Cryptocloaks release triton case - First monthly nodl call - Travel rule fuckery intensifies - If you wish to submit a comment - Statechains for privacy ? - JoinMarket status update - Marathon announces purchase of 10k AntMiner S-19 Pros - New round of Ledger user phishing attempts - Anthony Towns on Taproot activation - Largest bank in Singap...

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Max Keidun from HodlHodl to discuss: - HodlHodl's new non-custodial loan product - How lenders and borrowers interact - How HodlHodl's lending product differs from DeFi - What stablecoins are available - Prediction markets - Liquid - RGB - Integration with Blue Wallet - much more Follow Max on Twitter Check out HodlHodl Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Ca...

This week Mart and Matt discuss: - two LND vulnerabilities disclosed - v0.9 and below - v0.10 and below - Paypal adds " bitcoin " - Our boy Paul shills the corn again - coinbase transparency report - FinCEN fines custodial bitcoin mixing CEO $60M - Travel rule white paper & participants - BTCPay Server v1.0.5.8 - Bisq v1.4.2 - Phoenix v1.4.0 - Breez RC1 - Tails v4.12 - Tor browser v10.0.2 - Raspib...

Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss: - Cancel culture - Modern day journalism - COVID-19 - Lockdowns - Vaccines - The Election - Censorship - much more Follow Dave 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 and Matt as they sit down with Adam Soltys, creator of Coinos.io, to discuss: - Local ISPs - Coinos - Web wallets - UX - Security Tradeoffs - The Lightning Network - Liquid - Tokens - Privacy - much more Check out coinos Follow Adam 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 OW...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - LND vulnerability - DOJ launches global push to ban end to end encryption - OKEx suspends withdrawals - Taproot merged into Bitcoin Core - BitMEX cofounder released on $5M bond - BitMEX hires new compliance officer - Indian exchanges working together to provide stricter KYC/AML compliance - Spain potential law forcing full disclosure of bitcoin holdings - Unchai...

Join Marty as he sits down with Independent Journalist Whitney Webb to discuss: - Chile - Operation Warp Speed - Intelligence Agencies - Defense contractors - Big Pharma connections - History of the CIA - Operation Dark Winter - Color Revolutions - Overcoming the Conspiracy Theorist label - Epstein as a pawn in a bigger game - much more Follow Whitney on Twitter Check out Whitney's Patreon Shoutou...

Join Marty as he sits down with Ansel Linder to discuss: - 2015 + 2016 bear market - Different iterations of altcoins - Fed Policy - Is QE inflationary or deflationary - How does Fed policy affect Bitcoin? - much more Follow Ansel 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 w...

Join Marty as he sits down with Edward Evenson, Head of Business Development at Slush Pool / Braiins Systems, to discuss: - Mining pools - The race to zero profitability for pools - Value add services pools provide - The future of mining pools - Firmware products - PPS v. FPPS v. PPLNS - Cheese - Wine - much more Follow Edward on Twitter Check out Braiins Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Square buys $50M worth of bitcoin - New Europol report - Travel rule rumors swirl - New DoJ framework - HMRC orders coinbase to hand over customer records - Chainalysis hits Mex with high risk warning - BitMEX leadership changes - bitcoinprivacy.guide - Schnorr summary by suredbits - specter v0.8.1 - bitcoin wallet tracker v0.1.5 - blockstream green desktop v0.0...

Join Marty as he sits down with Leo Zhang, Founder of Anicca Research , to discuss: - The Alchemy of Hashpower - Stakeholders within the mining industry - ASICs as physical options on bitcoin - Bitmain's struggles - MicroBT - Hashrate derivatives - The US and China - Family - much more Follow Leo on Twitter Check out The Alchemy of Hashpower Pt. I Check out The Alchemy of Hashpower Pt. II Shoutout...

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Joost Jager, independent Lightning Network developer, to discuss: - Griefing Attacks - Circuit Breaker - Routing on Lightning - Multi-Path Payments + Wumbo - Public v. Private channel capacity - Whatsat - Multiple implementations and how they interact - much more Follow Joost on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today....