TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#232: Treasuries, inflation, history lessons, and Bitcoin & energy with Lyn Alden

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Lyn Alden, Founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, to discuss: - Current market environment - Commodities pumping -...

#231: Mining trends, bitcoin liquidity crunch, and money printer go brrr with Mason Jappa & Sam Chwarzynski

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Mason Jappa & Sam Chwarzynski from Blockware Solutions to discuss: - Mining trends - Hosting - Bitcoin as a messaging ...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.15

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Taproot activation timeline released - Dread admins discuss issues with ongoing Tor attack - Jack and Jay Z anno...

#230: Layered Money, Complexity of USD, and a New Financial Stack with Nik Bhatia

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Nik Bhatia, Author of Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and CBDCs, to discuss: - Writing the book - Fed ...

#229: Black Bitcoin Billionaires, Marketing Bitcoin, and Freedom Money with Lamar Wilson

12 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Lamar Wilson to discuss: - Black Bitcoin Billionaires club on Clubhouse - Marketing bitcoin - Empowering individuals w...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.08

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coldcard multisig vulnerability https://nunchuk.medium.com/the-missing-multisig-standard-5b4092e3ea92 - Tesla buys...

#228: UASFs, BIP 148, BIP 91, and Taproot Activation with Matt Corallo

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Corallo to discuss: - The history of SegWit2x - How SegWit actually got activated - BIP 148 - BIP 91 - Preventing...

#227: Mining, energy, central banks of the future and capital allocation with Harry Sudock

05 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Harry Sudock, VP of Strategy at GRIID, to discuss: - Meeting in NYC - Stumbling into the mining industry - The merging...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.01

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Elon playing games - Senator Lummis appointed Senate Banking Committee - Microstrategy Bitcoin Summit - Grayscale...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.01.25

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Wall Street Mayhem - Tor v3 DoS attacks continue - Tighter KYC regs in Netherlands - Marathon buys $150M in bi...

#226: Sovereign default swap markets as a proxy for Bitcoin's fair value with Greg Foss

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with long time credit trader Greg Foss to discuss: - Surfing culture - Greg's experience trading credit markets - Using the...

#225: Whitney Webb

22 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with independent journalist Whitney Webb to discuss: - Solar Winds - Q Anon - Operation Warp Speed - Incoming Secretary of ...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.01.18

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week in Bitcoin Marty and Matt discuss: - bitcoin reorg confusion: BITMEX & Blockstream Explorer & Deribit Dissection & Peter Todd - CSW sues bi...

#224: How to cancel yourself with Michael Krieger

15 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Krieger to discuss: - Cancel yourself before they cancel you - Free and open source software - Censorship - Hi...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.01.11

15 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Tor v3 Onion addresses unreachable after apparent attack on Tor network - Ledger discloses new data leak and step...

#223: Talking Oil, Gas & Bitcoin with @chigrl

13 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Tracy Shuchart (@chigrl) from Hedge Fund Telemetry to discuss: - Oil Markets - Misallocation of capital - PE + O&G - F...

#222: Beefing with the NFL with Jack Mallers

08 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers, Founder and CEO of Strike, to discuss: - Athletes getting paid in sats - Beef with the NFL - b...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.04

07 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - OCC letter on banks using stablecoins - Pro censorship American mining pool gains steam - Iranian mining crack...

#221: DLCs, transaction fees, and PEMDAS with Chris Stewart

06 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Stewart, CEO of Suredbits, to discuss: - An update on DLCs - The US Presidential Election DLCs - Oracle problems...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.12.28

31 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Our boy Russ getting paid in bitcoin using Strike - Mooch's new bitcoin fund slides leak - Indian Gov considerin...

#220: Matt Hill

29 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Hill, co-founder and CEO of Start9 Labs, to discuss: - Founding Start9 Labs - The Embassy - Routing around Apple'...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.12.21

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Ledger database dump - FinCEN adds new KYC requirements for withdrawals - Nigeria is now second biggest Paxfu...

#219: arbedout

23 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with their very good friend arbedout to discuss: - Gurri's Revolt of the Public - Telecommunications networks - ...

#218: Desiree Dickerson, Christian Moss, & Simon Cowell

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Desiree Dickerson, Christian Moss and Simon Cowell to discuss: - Gaming + The Lightning Network - Why dedicated gaming...

#217: Lightswitch Lou's Return

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Louis Roberts AKA Lightswitch Lou, the man who launched TFTC, to discuss: - Everything under the sun Follow Lou on Twi...

#216: Pete Rizzo

18 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Pete Rizzo, Editor at Kraken and Advisor to Bitcoin Magazine, to discuss: - The war over P2SH - Bitcoin's development ...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.12.14

18 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - no ban yet - sats back and sats the standard on cashapp - Ruffer $744M investment - $1B investment from One River...

#215: BitcoinTINA

16 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with BitcoinTINA to discuss: - The new ATH - Institutional adoption - How high will Bitcoin go? - Gradually, then suddenly ...

#214: Ben Kaufman

15 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Ben Kaufman, unlicensed software developer, to discuss: - Specter Wallet - Crypto Advanced - Making multisig...

#213: Jimmy Song

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Jimmy Song, educator and Co-Author of Thank God For Bitcoin: The Creation, Corruption, and Redemption of Money, to dis...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.12.06

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ledger Phishing scams continue and get more sophisticated - Our boy Justin gets funded by Square Crypto - Brian B...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.30

04 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 - Bla...

#211: Dr. Saifedean Ammous

29 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.23

26 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coldcard testnet attack - John Newbery and Mike Schmidt launch new bitcoin development initiative - Chainalysis ra...

#210: Adam Curry

24 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Adam Curry to discuss: - Origins of podcasting - Podcasting 2.0 - Value for Value - Sphinx chat - Streaming payments ...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.16

19 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - taproot activation hits 55% miner support taprootactivation.com - Second richest Mexican is now a bitcoiner - Sen...

#209: Graham Krizek

17 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Graham Krizek, Founder of Voltage, to discuss: - Graham's Bitcoin journey - Starting Voltage - The Lightning Network +...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.09

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Adam Curry announces lightning powered Podcast 2.0 spec - Ledger Phishing Email analysis - Nodl v0.1.2 - Fully ...

#208: Patrick Dugan

10 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Patrick Dugan to discuss: - Financial regulations - The Bank Secrecy Act - FATF - Money laundering - Cypherpunk v. Fi...

#207: Tom Trevethan

06 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Tom Trevethan, CTO of CommerceBlock, to discuss: - Statechains - Mercury Wallet - Trust tradeoffs - Privacy ...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.02

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - bitcoin difficulty adjusted down by 16% - This month in bitcoin privacy - Russian Gazprombank likes bitcoin now ...

#206: Ryan Gentry

04 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 - ...

#205: Morgen Rochard

30 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Morgen Rochard, author of Personal Finance QuickStart Guide, to discuss: - Personal Finance - When you should start sa...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.26

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - FEE FOMO IS REAL - Cryptocloaks release triton case - First monthly nodl call - Travel rule fuckery intensifies ...

#204: Max Keidun

23 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.19

23 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Mart and Matt discuss: - two LND vulnerabilities disclosed - v0.9 and below - v0.10 and below - Paypal adds "bitcoin" - Our boy...

#203: Dave Collum

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss: - Cancel culture - Modern day journalism - COVID-19 - Lockdowns - Vaccines - The Election - Ce...

#202: Adam Soltys

17 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.12

16 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - LND vulnerability - DOJ launches global push to ban end to end encryption - OKEx suspends withdrawals - Taproot...

#201: Whitney Webb

13 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Independent Journalist Whitney Webb to discuss: - Chile - Operation Warp Speed - Intelligence Agencies - Defense contr...

#200: Ansel Linder

13 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Ansel Linder to discuss: - 2015 + 2016 bear market - Different iterations of altcoins - Fed Policy - Is QE inflationar...

#199: Edward Evenson

09 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.10.05

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Square buys $50M worth of bitcoin - New Europol report - Travel rule rumors swirl - New DoJ framework - HMRC ...

#198: Leo Zhang

06 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Leo Zhang, Founder of Anicca Research, to discuss: - The Alchemy of Hashpower - Stakeholders within the mining industr...

#197: Joost Jager

02 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Joost Jager, independent Lightning Network developer, to discuss: - Griefing Attacks - Circuit Breaker - Rou...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.09.28

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - BitMEX hit by CFTC and Department of Justice - KuCoin hacked for $150M - New Zealand tax authority seeking perso...

#196: Cynthia Lummis

30 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 r...

#195: Stephan Kinsella

29 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Stephan Kinsella to discuss: - State's rights - The Lockdowns - The Constitution - The Government v. The State - Bitco...

#194: Junseth

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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? - Min...

#193: Matthew Black

26 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 tra...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.09.21

24 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Lightning node firewall circuitbreaker - Iran power plants making mining moves - Timeline of bitmain power strug...

#192: Christopher Gimmer + Marc Chouinard

23 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Christopher Gimmer and Marc Chouinard, co-founders of Snappa, to discuss: - Bootstrapping v. Raising funds from VCs - ...

#191: Matthew Mežinskis

22 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis of the Crypto Voices Podcast to discuss: - Q2 2020 Global Monetary Base update - Defining Base Moni...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.09.14

17 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Stacking Saylor - Bakkt all time high daily volume - Coin Control in Ledger Live - Square Crypto provides anoth...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.09.07

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - CVE-2018-17145 Bitcoin vulnerability (that has since been patched) disclosed - Flaxman digs specter too - So doe...

#190: Ben Carman

08 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.08.31

03 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - bitblockboom reflections - Trezor/Keepkey passphrase vuln - Trezor security patch - Alleged electrum phishing at...

Rabbit Hole Recap LIVE: Week of 2020.08.27

03 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty, Matt, Justin Moon, Jeff Vandrew, and the audience from BitBlockBoom as they discuss: - CoinJoin wars - Equinor working with Crusoe Energy ...

#189: Fabian Jahr

01 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Fabian Jahr to discuss: - Fabian's year since leaving the Chaincode residency - His OKCoin gr...

#188: Chris Bendiksen

26 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Bendiksen, Head of Research at Coinshares, to discuss: - Consciousness - Time - Mining - Hashrate derivatives - ...

#187: Luke Gromen

24 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.08.17

20 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ongoing bsv dust attack - OXT research alleged wasabi vulnerability - Strike adds cashback - Hash rate hits ATH...

#186: Alex Leishman & Andrew Benson

20 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.08.10

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - numbers run, yams fucked, fees sliced - malicious tor exit node attacks - microstrategy macro strategy - portnoy ...

#185: Lyn Alden

11 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 - T...

#184: Clark Moody

07 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 - W...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.08.03

06 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Tor Project response to "zero day" disclosures - Ledger App Isolation Bypass - disclosure - ledger res...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.07.27

30 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ledger personal info hacked - Chainalysis public dashboard (Use a VPN or Tor) - Murch post on enterprise UTXO ma...

#183: Whitney Webb

29 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Whitney Webb to discuss: - Epstein + Deutschebank - The history of Kroll Associates - The global intelligence communit...

#182: Vijay Boyapati

28 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Vijay Boyapati to discuss: - Tales of moving gold across borders - The Bullish Case for Bitcoin - Austrian Economics -...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.07.20

23 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - More thoughts on samourai postmix address reuse issue from last week - Wasabi blog on twitter hack posted then del...

#181: Zach Herbert

21 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Zach Herbert, Co-founder of Foundation Devices, to discuss: - Zach's experience at Obelisk - Nuance of hardware manufa...

#180: Ethan Vera

17 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Ethan Vera, Hashrate Merchant at Luxor Mining, to discuss: - Mining pools - Their historical lack of transparency - Po...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.07.13

16 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - samourai post mix address reuse disclosure & patch samourai team shinobi - Timing attacks on Lightning Network ...

#179: Kevin Mulcrone

14 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 + ban...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.07.06

09 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Square crypto provides grant to steve myers - IRS is seeking surveillance tools to track lightning network transa...

#178: Jeff Vandrew

08 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

#177: Randy Brito

07 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Randy Brito, Co-Founder of Locha Mesh and Bitcoin Venezuela, to discuss: - Starting Bitcoin Venezuela - Co-founding Lo...

#176: Corey DeAngelis

03 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.06.29

02 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Liquid UTXO expiration incident - Lightning vulnerability: Flood & Loot - HWI v1.1.2 - Electrum v4.0-beta1 ...

#175: Preston Byrne

01 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 -...

#174: Antoine Riard

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Antoine Riard to discuss: - Onboarding millions onto the Lightning Network - BIP 157 - Full n...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.06.22

26 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Waxwing responds to OXTResearch Joinmarket analysis - Gladstein and Elliptic Cofounder debate during messari v...

#173: Mike Peterson from Bitcoin Beach

23 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 Zont...

#172: Garly Leland

22 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Gary Leland, organizer of the BitBlockBoom conference, to discuss: - Growing up on James Island in South Carolina - Su...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.06.15

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Coldcard v3.1.6 firmware - Bisq v1.3.5 - Tallycoin v2 - Automated BIP39 recovery in Electrum - ASIC industr...

#171: Andy Edstrom

16 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 institut...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.06.08

11 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Shiftcrypto makes restructuring public plans to continue support of hardware wallet - Updates on BIP143 hardware ...

#170: Chris Belcher

10 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Chris Belcher, the developer behind JoinMarket and the first CoinSwap implementation, to discuss: - JoinMark...

#169: Alex Bosworth

09 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Bosworth, Lead Infrastructure Developer at Lightning Labs, to discuss: - Why exchanges should use Lightning - Li...