TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - BitMEX hit by CFTC and Department of Justice - KuCoin hacked for $150M - New Zealand tax authority seeking personal info from local exchanges - Chainalysis and Integra FEC receive IRS contracts for lightning and monero tracing - Pierre adds bounties to BitcoinACKs.com - September privacy newsletter by Janine - Murchandamus joins Chaincode - RoninDojo v1.7.0 - Sp...

Join Marty as he sits down with Cynthia Lummis, the Rebulican Nominee for the U.S. Senate out of Wyoming, to discuss: - Cynthia's platform of fiscal responsibility - Cynthia's experience Wyoming's state Treasurer - How Bitcoin can help with fiscal responsibility - How Bitcoin can help pensions - How Bitcoin can help the energy sector - How Bitcoin embodies the ideals America was founded on - The w...

Join Marty as he sits down with Stephan Kinsella to discuss: - State's rights - The Lockdowns - The Constitution - The Government v. The State - Bitcoin didn't ask for permission - Are leftists insane? - Should you vote? - Smart contracts - much more Follow Stephan on Twitter Check out stephankinsella.com Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "s...

Join Marty as he sits down with the affable Junseth to discuss: - America's Culture War - Are we in a Civil War? - When did the Civil War start? - Miners are Energy Pirates - How mining companies should manage their balance sheets - Art - Digital Art - NFTs - Literature - much more Follow Junseth on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code:...

Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Black, co-founder of Atomic Finance, to discuss: - Building on Ethereum - Ethereum's limitations - ETH 2.0 transition - DeFi on Ethereum, is it legit? - Non-custodial DeFi on Bitcoin? - Bitcoin + DLCs - much more Follow Matthew on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Lightning node firewall circuitbreaker - Iran power plants making mining moves - Timeline of bitmain power struggle - Bisq v1.3.9 - BlueWallet v5.5.9 - Tails v4.11 - nix-bitcoin v0.0.17 - Dojo v1.8.0 released - Specter v0.8.0 - Smartcard support for Specter DIY HWW - Square Crypto $100k grant to btcpay server and launches a proper portal for their work squarecry...

Join Marty as he sits down with Christopher Gimmer and Marc Chouinard, co-founders of Snappa , to discuss: - Bootstrapping v. Raising funds from VCs - Building many businesses and failing - The decision to add Bitcoin to Snappa's balance sheet - Why it's easier to move cash to Bitcoin as a small biz v. publicly traded companies - Small business self-custody via multisig - Asking, "What is money?"...

Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis of the Crypto Voices Podcast to discuss: - Q2 2020 Global Monetary Base update - Defining Base Monies - Where Bitcoin stands as a base money - Current growth rate of base monies - Claims on base monies - Claims on bitcoin - Proof of Reserves - History of Communism in the 20th century - How people rioting in the US are misguided - What's going on in...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Stacking Saylor - Bakkt all time high daily volume - Coin Control in Ledger Live - Square Crypto provides another $100K grant to btcpay - Sparrow Wallet Guide by bitcoinqna - Roy from Breeze on MPP and Wumbo - c-lightning v0.9.1 - Electrum v4.0.3 - BlueWallet v5.5.8 - Kraken is a bank now - Anicca Research - The Alchemy of Hashpower Pt. II - FATF Report on Red F...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - CVE-2018-17145 Bitcoin vulnerability (that has since been patched) disclosed - Flaxman digs specter too - So does Ketan - Bitcoinqna NO KYC homepage - Chainalysis Global Crypto Adoption - Belarus non profit using bitcoin - Square launches Crypto Open Patent Alliance - Umbrel v0.2.9 - Rudefox Burrow v0.0.5 - Ledger Status on liquidity farming - Freak questions an...

Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Carman from Suredbits to discuss: - Ben's transition from Bernie Bro to Libertarian - Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs) - An Oracle's role in DLCs - Are decentralized Oracles possible? - DLCs onchain v. on the Lightning Network - Stock-to-flow thoughts - much more Follow Ben on Twitter Check out Suredbits Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsa...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - bitblockboom reflections - Trezor/Keepkey passphrase vuln - Trezor security patch - Alleged electrum phishing attack - This Month in Bitcoin Privacy - Looming Russian mining crackdown - Bithumb exchange seized in South Korea - Coincenter cools rumors about escalating regulatory measures - Empire market exit scam - Alphabay dispute moderator gets 11 years in pris...

Join Marty, Matt, Justin Moon, Jeff Vandrew, and the audience from BitBlockBoom as they discuss: - CoinJoin wars - Equinor working with Crusoe Energy - Coinbase users told by California that they should hold their keys - Tax laws - much more Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained Capital. Check out their white glove vault concierge service that will take you from zero to secure multisig setup in no t...

Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Fabian Jahr to discuss: - Fabian's year since leaving the Chaincode residency - His OKCoin grant - The importance of code review - An optimal review:PR ratio for devs - Signet - gettxoutsetinfo and Supply Gate - PR Review Club - How to best fund devs - much more Follow Fabian on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stac...

Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Bendiksen, Head of Research at Coinshares, to discuss: - Consciousness - Time - Mining - Hashrate derivatives - Asynchronous time + Proof of Work - TOOL - Free will - Education - Bitcoin's benefits to a portfolio - Energy consumption - much more Follow Chris on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "...

Join Marty as he sits down with Luke Gromen, founder of Forrest for the Trees research firm, to discuss: - The Dollar as a rubber band ruler - The Fed's catch-22 - Bankruptcy via inflation - Debt/GDP - Apolitical alternatives to the Dollar - Money + energy - much more Follow Luke on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ongoing bsv dust attack - OXT research alleged wasabi vulnerability - Strike adds cashback - Hash rate hits ATH then floods in Sichuan - Tor statement on recent exit node attacks - Tor proposal for possible DoS mitigations - cypherpunklabs.com allows you to easily fund Tor nodes - BitMEX adding KYC - Specter v0.6.1 - myNode v0.2.14 - Zeus v0.3.1 - BTCPay Server...

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Alex Leishman and Andrew Benson, co-founders of River Financial, to discuss: - Starting a company with your cousin - Expanding River to 30 states - River's foray into Hawaii - Hawaii's regulatory history with Bitcoin - Onboarding and educating high net worth individuals - Building out River's software stack - Thoughts on chain surveillance companies - Inte...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - numbers run, yams fucked, fees sliced - malicious tor exit node attacks - microstrategy macro strategy - portnoy and winklevii - whirlpool and postmix spending FAQ - bisq v1.3.7 - psbt toolkit v0.1.1 - c-lightning v0.9.0-1 - nodl dojo and one v0.1.1d - Fully Noded v0.1.68 - ledger nano s and nano x firmware updates - Full datasheet for the secure chip used by Co...

Join Marty as he sits down with Lyn Alden, founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, to discuss: - QE's affect on inequality - The Triffin Dilemma - The double edged sword of the reserve currency of the world - Inflation metrics - Why Lyn is interested in Bitcoin - How the world would look different on a Bitcoin Standard - much more Follow Lyn on Twitter Check out the article we discussed Shoutout...

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Clark Moody, data don , to discuss: - The early days of bitcoin data - Making a dashboard of bitcoin data - What bitcoin data can tell you - The polarization in America - Secession - How easy money leads to more lawyers and laws - Will Marxism come to America? - An optimistic path forward - much more Follow Clark on Twitter Check out Clark's dashboard Shou...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Tor Project response to "zero day" disclosures - Ledger App Isolation Bypass - disclosure - ledger response - 17 year old arrested for twitter hack - Threat of KYC bitcoinmagazine panel - RoninDojo on OC Bitcoin Network - Bitcoin Core v0.20.1 - RTL v0.8.3-beta - ACINQ Phoenix v1.3.2 - c-lightning v0.9.0 - RaspiBlitz v1.6 - nix-bitcoin v0.0.12 - BlueWallet v5.5.2...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ledger personal info hacked - Chainalysis public dashboard (Use a VPN or Tor) - Murch post on enterprise UTXO management - Alchemy of Hashpower - Minsc scripting language - softfork activations breakdown - myNode v0.2.12 - Tor Browser v9.5.3 - Fidelity bitcoin investment thesis - Bakkt ATH volume - CME ATH open interest - Support bitcoin devs Shoutout to this we...

Join Marty as he sits down with Whitney Webb to discuss: - Epstein + Deutschebank - The history of Kroll Associates - The global intelligence community - Private intelligence companies - The blending of the State + Big Tech - Human trafficking - NGOs as a front for trafficking - The 2020 Election and potential shenanigans - 9/11 - Why Whitney covers these stories - much more Follow Whitney on Twit...

Join Marty as he sits down with Vijay Boyapati to discuss: - Tales of moving gold across borders - The Bullish Case for Bitcoin - Austrian Economics - The riots - Jevons Paradox - Bitcoin is in its embryo-tic stage - much more Follow Vijay on Twitter Check out The Bullish Case for Bitcoin Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to r...