TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers to discuss: - LN Strike - Lessons learned while building Zap + Olympus - Lightning Privacy - Lightning for exchanges - much more 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 you download the app .

Join Marty as he sits down with Whit Gibbs, Co-Founder and CEO of Hashr8OS, to discuss: - Whit buying the 2017 top - Why he decided to focus on mining - Mining hardware + energy dynamics - What's going to happen after the halving? - Is the US turning into the USSR? - Social credit - much more Follow Whit on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the prom...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Casa will no longer sell nodes, gold package reduced to $10 per month - Wasabi removes fixed fee address - Samourai Whirlpool usage hits monthly all time high - Proof Wallet tool released by @hodlwave - Eclair v0.3.3 - BTCPay Server v1.0.4.156 - Blockstream Green v3.3.3 - BitMex Research estimates 28% of channels are private, 12% of total capacity - Lolli requir...

Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss: - US Professors working for China? - Coronavirus - ZeroHedge Twitter ban - A little bit of Bitcoin - The concept Frontier Justice - If not me, then who? - Immunology - Fatherhood - 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 contr...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coronavirus - Payswap privacy proposal - Knapsack privacy proposal - Paxos flags account that used wasabi for previous withdrawals - 6102bitcoin on CoinJoin flagging - Cryptocurrency Indicators of Suspicion (CIOS) Working Group aka Project Participate - KYCP.org update - Bitcoin obsoletes all other money - New Chaincode podcast - Casa teases coldcard support for...

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Matt Corallo and Val Wallace from the Square Crypto team to discuss: - How Val came to work on LN - How the Square Crypto team honed in on a Lightning Development Kit - What a Lightning Development Kit would do for developers building on LN - Having a team able to focus on a singular open source project - Are we pawns? - Bitcoin fee elasticity - Dev fundin...

Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Jeremy Rubin to discuss: - MIT Digital Currency Initiative - Airdrops - OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (BIP 119) - POWSWAP - Dev funding - Scaling - much more Follow Jeremy on Twitter Check out BIP 119 Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo co...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ronin Dojo v1.2 - txCast: Randomised Bitcoin (testnet) transaction broadcasting to break timing analysis - MyNode v0.1.80 - lnd v0.9-beta - Zeus v0.2.0 - BTCPay Vault - Liquid support coming to Bisq with next update - Exchange cold storage analysis - Square Crypto announces lightning development kit - Square files bitcoin related US Patent - LightNite game map a...

Join Marty as he sits down with Barstool Sports' Chief Foreign Correspondent, The Wonton Don AKA Donnie Does, to discuss: - Why Donnie decided to move to Shanghai - What life in China is like - Why he started creating content - Alipay + WeChat - Social Credit - Life of the Chinese middle class - much more Follow Donnie on Twitter Subscribe to his YouTube Channel Follow on Instagram Shoutout to our...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - RIP T amas Blummer - Tor Browser 9.0.4 - Zeus v0.2.0-rc1 : Android APK + Dev Signature - Instant VPS powered by lightning - Liquid support on BTCPayserver - Kashmir internet shutdown 170+ days now - BitMEX Research shows more lightning usage than expected - Samourai Wallet announces OXT Research - FBI tries to set encryption backdoor precedent once again - Coinc...

Join Marty as he sits down with Jamal James, creator of Polar - a productivity tool for Lightning Network developers, to discuss: - Building Polar - Jamal starting and running a successful business for 15+ years - How he originally got into Bitcoin - Deciding to build for Bitcoin + LN - Building for application devs - Why Bitcoin is inevitable - much more Follow Jamal on Twitter Check out Polar Sh...

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Andrew Chow, Bitcoin Core Contributor and Engineer at Blockstream, to discuss: - How Andrew found bitcoin in high school - What life was like before the Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBT) standard - Why PSBT is important - Working on Bitcoin Core's Hardware Wallet Interface - CoinJoins - Coin selection - Hardware wallets - Video games - much more...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - River financial only 8 states - https://sphinx.chat/ - Samourai whirlpool dynamics, whirlpool CLI 0.10.2 released - Clark Moody adds sats per dollar and lightning Tor stats to his dashboard - zeus beta2 released, c-lightning support and iOS - Polar v0.2.0 released, c-lightning support added - RTL releases a major UX upgrade - lnd v0.9.0-beta-rc1 released with mu...

Join Marty as he sits down with Jeff Vandrew, founder of the Keykeeper IRA , to discuss: - Jeff's essay on Post-Capitalism - Distributism - Marxism - Social Democracy - Socialism - Localism - Externalities - much more Follow Jeff on Twitter Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: " stac...

Join Marty as he sits down with Alexander Leishman, Co-Founder of River Financial , to discuss: - Building River - Being a Bitcoin-only business - Dollar Cost Averaging - Complex systems - Bitcoin and American values - KYC/AML hypocrisy - much more Follow Alexander on Twitter Check out River Financial Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin's first 11 years - NthKey: use your iPhone as part of a multisig setup - Nodl Dojo first impressions - Samourai Whirlpool 0.10.0 released - MyNode adds whirlpool support, dojo coming soon - Satreon: a non custodial lightning network powered alternative to Patreon - Metal seed storage reviews - Introducing A Framework for Privacy in eCommerce via Bitcoin...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - BitBox02 brute force vulnerability disclosed , update to firmware V5.0.0 asap (h/t @freedomisntsafe) - BLW on Android adds support for hosted channels - Argentina local bitcoins volume hits ATHs amid further capital controls - As expected CSW makes excuses ahead of "tulip trust" access date - Ethereum Co-Founder Jeffrey Wilcke dumps $11.5M worth of ETH from prem...

Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum, Professor of Organic Chemistry at Cornell University, to discuss: - Climate Change - Bitcoin - Jeffrey Epstein - Inflation - The Fed - much more Follow Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum Check out Dave's 2019 Year in Review Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #sta...

Join Marty as he sits down with Urbit ambassador to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Sign Guy, to discuss: - Urbit Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: " stackingsats " to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contrib...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bottle Pay shuts down rather than implement KYC per upcoming AMLD5 regulation - Binance Singapore allegedly flagging accounts that CoinJoin after withdrawal - Phoenix lightning wallet by ACINQ launches on Android - c-lightning 0.8.0 released - Wasabi Wallet V1.1.10 released - Coldcard firmware 3.0.6 released - Ronin UI for Samourai Dojo - Trace Mayer on CoinJoin...

Join Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis to discuss: - What is QE? - The Fed's balance sheet over the last decade - Unwinding the balance sheet - Repo market madness - Source of the repo liquidity crunch - Moving forward - much more Follow Parker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/parkeralewis Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download ca...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Honeyminer acting sketchy - not your keys, not your coins - Jill Carlson on censorship resistance - Coinjoin usage Wasabi & Samourai chart - SquareCrypto gives grant to a nym - ZmnSCPxj - RIP CryptoDeleted - Exchange tokens are centralized and high risk - Malicious relays on the [Tor network](https://medium.com/@nusenu/the-growing-problem-of-malicious-relays-on-...

Join Marty as he sits down with Hector Rosekrans, Navy veteran and bitcoiner, to discuss: - Being a Surface Warfare Officer - How the Navy teaches you to think - How Bitcoin may be better at spreading democracy than military might - Self custody'ing your own data - Bitcoin and the Constitution - Nuclear deescalation via Bitcoin mining - How should States lean in to Bitcoin? - much more Follow Hect...

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bakkt weekly volume all time high - Bakkt ceo Kelly Loeffler tapped as new Georgia senator - The second Boltathon online lightning conference this weekend, tickets are 800k sats - easypaysy bitcoin accounts proposal - On The Brink podcast with former head of Circle OTC desk Dan Matuszewski - Bitfinex adds lightning deposits and withdrawals - A Look at Innovation...

Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Ahlborg, Data Scientist and Founder of Usefultulips.org, to discuss: - Why Matt is interested in P2P trading specifically - How Bitcoin is being used around the world - Developing the Usage Per Economic (Online) Person metric - What it's like cold calling a P2P trader - Why are people using Bitcoin? - What Matt plans to do in the future - much more Follow Matt...