TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Sean Milmoe, co-founder and CFO of 360 Energy, discusses his transition from working at Blackstone financing conventional oil and gas businesses as well as wind and solar projects to building a bitcoin mining services company, why a combination of Fed money printing and the unsustainability of energy economics led him to bitcoin, what parallels exist between underwriting bitcoin mining sites and c...

Marty sits down with Edward Dowd to discuss the Federal Reserve's rate cuts, an impending housing and stock market crisis driven by the end of illegal immigration-fueled economic stimulus, the collapse of subprime auto lender Tri-Color, COVID vaccine injuries continuing to impact the economy, and how the recent assassination has diverted attention from accountability efforts. Ed Dowd on Twitter: h...

Marty sits down with Melody Wright to discuss the brewing housing crisis, rising mortgage distress, and why she believes real estate speculation has created an unsustainable bubble that threatens younger generations. Melody Wright on Twitter: https://x.com/m3_melody Melody Wright on Substack: https://substack.com/@m3melody Melody Wright on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@m3_melody STACK SATS hat...

Jimmy Song, author of Programming Bitcoin, discusses the importance of more miners participating directly in the peer-to-peer network and the risks of bitcoin mining pool centralization, including how centralization in mining pools could enable censorship of bitcoin transactions and how it might also enable changes to the network’s rules that would otherwise be far more difficult, ranging from sce...

Marty sits down with Tom Luongo to discuss America's potential turning point following recent political violence, the strategy behind Trump's methodical approach to draining the swamp, and why the 30-year mortgage market could be the key to rebuilding middle-class wealth. Tom on Twitter: https://x.com/TFL1728 Tom’s Website: https://tomluongo.me/ STACK SATS hat: https://tftcmerch.io/ Our newsletter...

Marty sits down with Will to discuss the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk and its potential political ramifications, Bitcoin's evolving mainstream acceptance, Zaprite's new ticketing platform, and the integration of AI tools in software development. Will on Twitter: https://x.com/willcole Zaprite: https://zaprite.com/ STACK SATS hat: https://tftcmerch.io/ Our newsletter: https://www.tftc.io/bi...

Marty sits down with Peter Alexander, an American consultant who has lived in China for 30 years, to discuss why the US fundamentally misunderstands Chinese culture and strategy, how America's supply chain dependency has eliminated its negotiating leverage, and what both countries need to do to avoid a destructive economic confrontation. Peter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-alexand...

Brad Cuddy, Director–Energy Operations at Cholla, Inc., discusses the benefits that bitcoin mining is actively providing to the ERCOT grid, why deregulation and real-time pricing in ERCOT is creating a unique opportunity for bitcoin mining to innovate in Texas, how bitcoin miners compare to AI datacenters from a load perspective, and why bitcoin load and batteries are complementary tools to help b...

Marty sits down with Jessica Rose, an immunologist and data analyst, to discuss her five years of research into VAERS data showing alarming safety signals from COVID vaccines, including DNA contamination, systemic adverse events, and the institutional suppression of critical vaccine safety information. Read the paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08916934.2025.2551517 STACK SATS ha...

Marty sits down with Mel Mattison to discuss his bullish predictions for 2025, the merging of Treasury and Fed policy, China's gold accumulation strategy, and why he believes we're heading toward lower interest rates, higher asset prices, and a potential economic boom despite various geopolitical tensions. Mel on Twitter: https://x.com/MelMattison1 Mel’s website: https://www.melmattison.com/ 0:00...

Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss Bitcoin's power law growth model, why current price action remains on trend despite community concerns, and the long-term implications of network adoption versus traditional financial system dynamics. Matthew on Twitter: https://x.com/1basemoney Porkopolis: https://www.porkopolis.io/ STACK SATS hat: https://tftcmerch.io/ Our newsletter: https://www...

Pierre Rochard, CEO of the Bitcoin Bond Company, discusses the functional importance of bitcoin’s difficulty target and adjustment, how it works at a technical and practical level, and why it is relevant collectively to the energy consumed by the bitcoin network, transaction finality and the issuance schedule of bitcoin’s fixed supply. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/bitcoin-magazine-launches-bitc...

Marty sits down with Tyler Stevens, CEO of Exergy, to discuss how Bitcoin mining heat can revolutionize residential heating systems by replacing expensive propane and heating oil while generating cryptocurrency rebates and massively distributing hashrate. Tyler on Twitter: https://x.com/tylerkstevens Exergy: https://exergyheat.com/ STACK SATS hat: https://tftcmerch.io/ Our newsletter: https://www....

Mark Artymko, President and Co-Founder of Ocean, discusses his nearly two decade career in the power industry as an electrical engineer, how Ocean is helping to reverse the trend of bitcoin mining pool centralization, what the key differences are between Ocean and more traditional mining pools and why bitcoin miners more directly controlling their own hash rate is important to bitcoin decentraliza...

Marty sits down with Michael Howell to discuss the Fed's predicament at Jackson Hole, global liquidity cycles, the structural shift toward collateral-dependent lending, and how mounting debt refinancing pressures alongside AI capital expenditures are creating conditions that favor monetary inflation hedges like Bitcoin and gold. CrossBorder Capital on Twitter: https://x.com/crossbordercap STACK SA...

Marty sits down with Miljan Braticevic to discuss the growing importance of open protocols like Nostr in the face of increasing censorship and authoritarian pressures, the unique advantages of decentralized social networks over closed platforms, and how Primal is building tools to enable content creators to monetize high-signal long-form content while maintaining user sovereignty. Miljan on Nostr:...

Trump publicly humiliates Fed Chair Powell on live television, demanding lower interest rates while criticizing Federal Reserve building renovations. The administration continues consolidating Fed-Treasury power as Trump calls for Lisa Cook's resignation and nominates Stephen Myron to the Fed Board. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve plans remain uncertain despite Scott Bessent's conflicting statements abo...

Phil Geiger discusses the economic incentives of the bitcoin network, why there is (and always will be) an incentive for someone to profitably sell power to the network, what mechanisms make bitcoin unique as the only demand for power in the world that removes counterparty risk and how the non-negotiable nature of bitcoin’s fixed supply enables it all. https://www.unchained.com/blog/21-million-is-...

Marty sits down with Tuur Demeester to discuss his updated Adamant Capital report that revises his bullish Bitcoin thesis given new developments like ETFs, treasury companies, nation-state adoption, and persistent inflation while exploring why this cycle may be fundamentally different with longer duration and higher price targets. Tuur on Twitter: https://x.com/TuurDemeester Download the report: h...

Marty sits down with Ali Webb and Carlos Flores from Forager to discuss how they're using Bitcoin-backed funding to enable independent filmmakers to create original content without traditional studio interference or investor pressure. Forager + Whitepaper on Twitter: https://x.com/Forager_tv https://x.com/whtppr_studio Personal Handles: https://x.com/cmfe2510 https://x.com/AliWebb07 Websites: http...

Chris Alfano, co-founder and CEO of 360 Energy, discusses his firm’s strategy as a service company in oil & gas fields, how bitcoin mining is helping to unlock oil production while reducing an environmental liability and how bitcoin is allowing owners and operators with stranded natural gas to monetize an energy asset that would otherwise be wasted or under-utilized.

Marty sits down with Dave Collum and Rudy Havenstein to discuss the merger of the Fed and Treasury, real inflation rates versus official statistics, housing market dysfunction, the Epstein scandal cover-up, government corruption, surveillance state expansion, and the systemic breakdown of American institutions. Dave Collum on Twitter: https://x.com/DavidBCollum Rudy Havenstein on Twitter: https://...

Marty sits down with Rod Roudi to discuss the unprecedented opportunities for entrepreneurs in the current AI-powered landscape, the convergence of Bitcoin, AI, and energy technologies, and how Bitcoin Park is creating unique experiences while maintaining the cypherpunk ethos amid the "paper Bitcoin summer" trend. Rod on Twitter: https://x.com/bitkite Imagine If: https://bitcoinpark.com/imagineif...

Marty sits down with Andrew Poelstra from Blockstream to discuss the launch of Simplicity on Liquid mainnet, a formally specified programming language that enables smart contracts with mathematical guarantees of safety and predictable execution costs, representing nearly a decade of development to bring secure, expressive scripting capabilities to Bitcoin-based systems. Blockstream: https://blocks...

Rob Warren, the Head of Research and Education at Bitcoin Park and author of The Bitcoin Miner’s Almanac, discusses the role of bitcoin miners within the bitcoin network, how bitcoin miners help solve problems within energy systems and why bitcoin is most likely to proliferate and drive innovation where there is waste or under utilization of energy assets.