TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - More thoughts on samourai postmix address reuse issue from last week - Wasabi blog on twitter hack posted then deleted - OXTResearch analysis of twitter hacker's wasabi usage - Major exchanges working on a KYC data sharing agreement to satisfy demands from FATF - BitMEX provides $50K grant to Jeremy Rubin - US Banks can now custody bitcoin - Utreexo demonstratio...

Join Marty as he sits down with Zach Herbert, Co-founder of Foundation Devices , to discuss: - Zach's experience at Obelisk - Nuance of hardware manufacturing in China v. US - Tradeoffs made by the predominant hardware wallets - Why airgapping is important - The Passport - QR code standards and statelessness - How Bitcoin incentivizes open hardware - The importance of making hardware locally - Fut...

Join Marty as he sits down with Ethan Vera, Hashrate Merchant at Luxor Mining, to discuss: - Mining pools - Their historical lack of transparency - Pool fee negotiations - ASIC hardware lifecycles and their effect on decentralization - Market making for hashrate futures + their effect on transparency - Profit switching between chains - Whitelisted pools - Hashrateindex.com - much more Follow Ethan...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - samourai post mix address reuse disclosure & patch samourai team shinobi - Timing attacks on Lightning Network - Twitter hacked - difficulty hits new ATH - taproot activation - coinbase selling surveillance software to Secret Service and [IRS](https://www.theblockcrypto.com/amp/post/71261/coinbase-is-selling-blockchain-analytics-software-to-the-us-secret-service...

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Kevin Mulcrone, founder of Lily Wallet, to discuss: - Free Banking Systems of the past - The Civil War + banking in America - Building Lily Wallet - Lily's plans for the future - Live music + blue grass - much more Follow Kevin on Twitter Checkout his website Checkout Lily Wallet Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use th...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Square crypto provides grant to steve myers - IRS is seeking surveillance tools to track lightning network transactions - Coldcard 101 by bitcoinqna - Coldcard guides by kisbitcoin - myNode v0.2.11 - Samourai Whirlpool CLI v0.10.7 - Electrum v4.0.2 - Eclair v0.4.1 - RTL v0.8.0 - Raspiblitz v1.6 RC2 - @getumbrel teases new dedicated node software suite - UK FCA b...

Join Marty as he sits down with Jeff Vandrew, Founder of The KeyKeeper IRA , to discuss: - COVID-19 - The government's reaction to the virus - Masks as a way to isolate - The media and COVID19 data - Herd immunity - The bubbling Cultural Revolution - The professional managerial class - Elite overproduction - Why this is all a class issue - MMT - much more Follow Jeff on Twitter Reading materials t...

Join Marty as he sits down with Randy Brito, Co-Founder of Locha Mesh and Bitcoin Venezuela, to discuss: - Starting Bitcoin Venezuela - Co-founding Locha Mesh - The importance of mesh networks - How mesh networks have been used in Venezuela - How to incentivize individuals to use mesh networks - The Turpial device - Bitcoin as a tool to find individual happiness - Getting funding - much more Follo...

Join Marty as he sits down with Corey DeAngelis, Director of School Choice at the Reason Foundation, to discuss: - The push to ban homeschooling from some Harvard professors - Why their reasoning for trying to ban homeschooling is flawed - School choice as a civil liberty - Myths about homeschooling and socialization - Myths about school funding decreasing - much more Follow Corey on Twitter Shout...

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Liquid UTXO expiration incident - Lightning vulnerability: Flood & Loot - HWI v1.1.2 - Electrum v4.0-beta1 - BTCPay server v1.0.5.0 - Zeus v0.3.0-rc1 - Polar v1.0.1 - Blue Wallet v5.4.4 - Joinmarket v0.6.3.1 - Tails v4.8 - Tor Browser v9.5.1 - Fully Noded updated adds easy wallet recovery mode - Australia tax letters - This month in bitcoin privacy by Janine...

Join Marty as he sits down with Preston Byrne, Partner at Anderson Kill, to discuss: - Why the law is slow - Freedom of speech - Coordinated rioting - How scalable are societies? - Speech on social media platforms - Deplatforming - Bitcoin as free speech - Mining pools as an attack vector - much more Follow Preston on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. U...

Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Antoine Riard to discuss: - Onboarding millions onto the Lightning Network - BIP 157 - Full nodes - Bitcoin Core wallet refactoring - AltNet - Time-dilation attacks on the LN - CoinPool - Schnorr + Taproot - much more Find Antoine on the bitcoin-dev mailing list and in IRC Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today...

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Waxwing responds to OXTResearch Joinmarket analysis - Gladstein and Elliptic Cofounder debate during messari virtual conference - Venezuelan government is now using btcpay server for passport applications - Glupteba malware uses bitcoin for communication - Mobile wallet comparison by bitcoinqna - Bitcoin Wallet Tracker v0.1.4 - Electrum v4.0-beta - Lily Walle...

Join Marty as he sits down with Mike Peterson from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador to discuss: - Why Mike started giving out Bitcoin in El Zonte - Creating a bitcoin circular economy - Using Lightning to achieve this goal - Educating individuals about bitcoin - Airdrops, do they work? - Price volatility - Custodial v. non-custodial - Interesting externalities from the experiment - The youth...

Join Marty as he sits down with Gary Leland, organizer of the BitBlockBoom conference, to discuss: - Growing up on James Island in South Carolina - Surfing - The development of cable TV - Early days of podcasting - BitBlockBoom - much more Follow Gary on Twitter Checkout the BitBlockBoom Conference use the promo code "RHR" Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use...

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Coldcard v3.1.6 firmware - Bisq v1.3.5 - Tallycoin v2 - Automated BIP39 recovery in Electrum - ASIC industry breakdown by bitmexresearch - Blockstream Esplora now bundles in a custom version of electrs - PR to split the bitcoin core GUI - bitcoinqna releases explainer on coinjoin toxic change and dedicated full node comparison [chart](https://github.com/bitco...

Join Marty as he sits down with Andy Edstrom, author of Why Buy Bitcoin , to discuss: - Why Andy decided to write a book - Pitching bitcoin to institutional investors - How Bitcoin's monetary theory differs from the monetary theory that dominated the 20th century - Inflation - Bitcoin's correlation to other asset classes - Why pay taxes? - much more Follow Andy on Twitter Shoutout to this week's s...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Shiftcrypto makes restructuring public plans to continue support of hardware wallet - Updates on BIP143 hardware wallet vuln disclosed last week - BIP85 support coming to coldcard - Zeus v0.3.0-beta1 adds c-lightning Spark and LNDhub support - electrum persoanl server v0.2.1.1 - Coinbase is selling surveillance software to the IRS and DEA - Using ASICs to stack...

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Chris Belcher, the developer behind JoinMarket and the first CoinSwap implementation, to discuss: - JoinMarket - Fidelity Bonds - Chain analysis heuristics - Chris' CoinSwap design - A "privacy threshold" - Why CoinSwaps are > CoinJoins - much more Follow Chris on Twitter Support Chris' work on a CoinSwap implementation here Shoutout to this week's sponsor...

Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Bosworth, Lead Infrastructure Developer at Lightning Labs, to discuss: - Why exchanges should use Lightning - Lightning as a tool that can thwart spam - Managing a Lightning routing node - The nuance of payment channels - Lightning Loop - Lighting's evolution with the fee market - Creating standards for Lighting - Lighting + privacy - much more Follow Alex on T...

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Will Cole, Chief Product Officer at Unchained Capital, to discuss: - Will's work in Wyoming that benefits Bitcoin - Wyoming as a Citadel haven - Working at Stack Overflow - Bitcoin Stack Exchange - Joining Unchained Capital - Working on collaborative custody products - Caravan Version 2 - Hermit - Future bitcoin products - much more Follow Will on Twitter...

Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. James Todaro, founder of Medicine Uncensored and Managing Partner at Blocktown Capital, to discuss: - Dr. Todaro's research on hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 - The media backlash he's experienced - The censorship he and others have experienced - Debunking the recent study in The Lancet that claimed that hydrochloroquine increased chances of death...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Trezor releases firmware update and bug disclosure - Coinkite blog on the vuln disclosure - BTCPay says new trezor firmware breaks support - ShiftCrypto announces they are no longer working on their node product - ShiftCrypto liquidation goes unmentioned - Bitcoin Core v0.20.0 released - Square Crypto's sixth bitcoin development grant - Bitmex parent company pro...

Join Marty as he sits down with Karim Helmy, data scientist at Coinmetrics , to discuss: - What's a nonce? - What we can learn from nonce distribution data - Mining hardware evolution - Getting into Bitcoin in 2017 - Bitcoin as black market money - Hash rate indices from Coinmetrics - Viability of DeFi - much more Follow Karim on Twitter Checkout the newsletter we discussed Shoutout to this week's...

Join Marty as he sits down with Cory Klippsten, co-founder and CEO of Swan Bitcoin , to discuss: - Founding Swan - Bitcoin education - Dollar cost averaging - Cory's experience with tech startups + consulting - Bitcoiner Ventures - much more Follow Cory on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute...