TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#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...

#168: Will Cole

08 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 Bi...

#167: Dr. James Todaro

05 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

RHR Week of 2020.06.01

04 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Trezor releases firmware update and bug disclosure - Coinkite blog on the vuln disclosure - BTCPay says new trez...

#166: Karim Helmy

03 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

#165: Cory Klippsten

02 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Cory Klippsten, co-founder and CEO of Swan Bitcoin, to discuss: - Founding Swan - Bitcoin education - Dollar cost aver...

#164: Dave Collum

29 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss everything under the sun. Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats toda...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.05.25

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - trezor and ledger web shop alleged breach - chris belcher coinswap proposal, consider donating - photo-lib libra...

#163: Brandon Quittem

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Brandon Quittem to discuss: - Fungi - Psychedelic mushrooms - Smart networks - Gall's Law - The Fourth Turning - Gener...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.05.18

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Laser Fault Injection attack on Coldcard MK2 - Ledger - Coldcard - BlockFi hacked, user personal in...

#162: Robert Breedlove

19 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Robert Breedlove, Founder & CEO of Parallax Digital, to discuss: - Bitcoin and Zero - How the Church lost power - Why ...

#161: Misir Mahmudov

16 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Misir Mahmudov to discuss: - This Book Will Save You Time - Inflation - How inflation data is manipulated - ...

#160: Brian Harrington

15 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with fellow Bitcoiner Brian Harrington to discuss: - Civil Liberties and the shutdown - Three sides of your balance sheet -...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.05.11

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Coldcard security disclosure - Delphi Digital Halving Report - Quantitative Analysis of Lightning Network Pri...

#159: Jeff Booth

12 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Jeff Booth, Author of The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is Key to an Abundant Future, to discuss: - Tech deflation ...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.05.04

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Paul Tudor Jones announces bitcoin investment - Nodl Dojo adds keysend support and btc-rpc explorer nodl.it - Cas...

#158: Marshall Holbrook

06 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Marshall Holbrook, founder of BitG@s, to discuss: - Marshall's experience with natural gas over the last two decades -...

#157: Ben Prentice + Heavily Armed Clown

05 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Prentice and Heavily Armed Clown to discuss: - WTF happened in 1971?! Follow Ben on Twitter Follow Heavily Armed ...

#156: Matt Ahlborg

01 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Ahlborg, founder of UsefulTulips.org, to discuss: - How the rolling blackouts in Venezuela last year affected bit...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.27

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt as they discuss: - HWI updated to fix new Trezor firmware compatibility issues - Laurent on payjoin and deception tools - M...

#155: Openoms

29 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with developer Openoms to discuss: - How Openoms came to find Bitcoin - Why he started building apps and hardware...

#154: Amiti Uttarwar

28 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Amiti Uttarwar, Bitcoin Core contributor at Xapo, to discuss: - How Amiti came to find Bitcoin - Getting int...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.20

23 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Unchained Capital caravan update inbound - mynode v0.2.03 - SLP Chris Belcher - Upcoming eps with Amiti and O...

#153: Zuby

22 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Zuby, Rapper/Author/Podcaster/Free thinker, to discuss: - How to use Twitter correctly - How people waste time on Twit...

#152: Ben Hunt

21 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Hunt, founder of Epsilon Theory, to discuss: - How institutions have failed us across the board in the wake of cor...

Rabbit Hole Recap Stimulus Package: 2020.04.20

21 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty & Matt as they discuss: - BTCPay Server adds payjoin support - Trezor update breaks HWI support - Cobra and Theymos split ownership of b...

#151: Marshall Long

18 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with long time bitcoiner + miner Marshall Long to discuss: - How Marshall got into Bitcoin mining - Why he only mines Bitco...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.13

16 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty & Matt discuss: - Bryan Bishop releases bitcoin vaults prototype - Ransomware operator now defaults to monero payments - Utreexo exp...

#150: Great American Mining

15 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with two members from the team at Great American Mining, Austin Storms and Tom M, to discuss: - What Great American Mining ...

#149: Steve Barbour

14 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Steve Barbour, founder of Upstream Data, to discuss: - Steve's experience in the Oil & Gas industry before Bitcoin - D...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.06

09 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - 16.5M Americans unemployed - Today's Fed announcements - Dave Portnoy calling the dollar Schrute Bucks - Bisq...

#148: Matt D'Souza

08 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Matt D'Souza from Blockware Solutions to discuss: - Blockware's recent research paper on mining - Running a mining ope...

Rabbit Hole Recap Stimulus Package: 2020.04.06

06 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - CDC finally recommends face coverings - CoolWallet S security flaw - MutantC RPi4 mobile build - Whirlpool C...

#147:Alex Gladstein

03 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty & Matt as they sit down with Alex Gladstein from the Human Rights Foundation to discuss: - Government overreach during the response to COVI...

Rabbit Hole Recap: 2020.03.30

02 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Breez Point of Sale mode added to lightning wallet - LSAT Authentication - Samourai Whirlpool GUI v0.10.1 and CL...

#146: Rodolfo Novak

01 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Rodolfo Novak to have a meandering discussion about: - COVID19 - Droplets v. Vapor - Why you should wear a m...

#145: Roy Sebag

30 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Roy Sebag, Founder of Goldmoney and Menē, to discuss: - The mechanics of paper and physical bullion markets - The his...

#144: Michael Krieger

27 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Krieger, founder of Liberty Blitzkrieg to discuss: - Gold markets - The Empire - Most recent bailout - Great A...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.23

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin and Venezuela - Coinkite Coldpower - Zebedee releases bitcoin gaming SDK explainer video - Tails OS v4....

#143: JW Weatherman & Giacomo Zucco

25 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with JW Weatherman and Giacomo Zucco to discuss: - Separating people from their State - Overt v. covert evil empires - Heur...

#142: Elisabeth Préfontaine

24 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Elisabeth Préfontaine, founder of Octonomics, to discuss: - Elisabeth's experience in the banking + financial worlds ...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Stimulus Package 2020.03.23

23 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Markets down, bitcoin up - Sunday futures limit down in 3 mins - 60 Minutes interview Kashkari "infinite amoun...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.16

19 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Macro scene - Casa open sources node - Bitcoin Magazine op ed on CoinJoin legality - BTCPay VR Presentation t...

#141: Charles Marohn

17 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Charles Marohn, Author of Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity, to discuss: - How America...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Stimulus Package 2020.03.16

16 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - COVID19 + Market reaction - Fed cuts + repo operations - MyNode v0.1.97 - 3D Printing in Italy's corona battle...

#140: Kyle Bass & Parker Lewis

12 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he hops on a call with Kyle Bass and Parker Lewis to discuss: - Recent market chaos - The Fed's response up to this point and what they ...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.09

12 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - macro and price talk - mining death spiral FUD - Bitcoin Core v0.19.1 - bluewallet node issue - payjoin support ...

#139: George Gammon

10 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with George Gammon to discuss: - Why George started his YouTube channel - The Oil Wars - Was Russia's move over the weekend...

#138: BitcoinTINA "The Perfect Storm"

06 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with BitcoinTINA to discuss how the macro factors lining up in the world right now are a perfect storm for Bitcoin in the m...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.02

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coronavirus + Fed Rate Cut - Whirlpool volume PAMPING - VR Presentation by Adam Gibson on PayJoin - Nodl updated ...

#137: Chris Stewart & Nadav Kohen

04 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Stewart and Nadav Kohen from Suredbits to discuss: - Dairy farming + life in Iowa - The inception of Suredbits -...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.24

27 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Trace fall from Grace - FullyNoded corrections - consider donating here - @6102bitcoin infographics on taint, chai...

#136: Paul Sztorc

25 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Paul Sztorc, the man behind Drivechains and Bitcoin Hivemind, to discuss: - Proof of Work v. Proof of Stake - Bitcoin'...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.17

20 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bisq v1.2.6 adds support for L-BTC - Bisq volume up 2.6x YoY - Zeus v0.2.1 - RTL v0.6.5 - c-lightning v0.8.1 ...

#135: Leigh Cuen

19 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Leigh Cuen, Senior Reporter at CoinDesk, to discuss: - Leigh's journey to covering this beat - Competing narratives in...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.10

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Dropbit CEO arrested for running a centralized mixing service called Helix and a dark market search engine called ...

#134: Jack Mallers

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers to discuss: - LN Strike - Lessons learned while building Zap + Olympus - Lightning Privacy - Li...

#133: Whit Gibbs

08 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.03

06 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Casa will no longer sell nodes, gold package reduced to $10 per month - Wasabi removes fixed fee address - Samou...

Tales from the Crypt #132: Dave Collum

04 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss: - US Professors working for China? - Coronavirus - ZeroHedge Twitter ban - A little bit of Bi...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.27

30 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coronavirus - Payswap privacy proposal - Knapsack privacy proposal - Paxos flags account that used wasabi for pr...

Tales from the Crypt #131: Matt Corallo + Valentine Wallace

27 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Tales from the Crypt #130: Jeremy Rubin

24 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Jeremy Rubin to discuss: - MIT Digital Currency Initiative - Airdrops - OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIF...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.20

23 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ronin Dojo v1.2 - txCast: Randomised Bitcoin (testnet) transaction broadcasting to break timing analysis - MyNod...

Tales from the Crypt #129: The Wonton Don

20 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.13

17 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - RIP Tamas Blummer - Tor Browser 9.0.4 - Zeus v0.2.0-rc1 : Android APK + Dev Signature - Instant VPS powered by l...

Tales from the Crypt #128: Jamal James

16 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Jamal James, creator of Polar - a productivity tool for Lightning Network developers, to discuss: - Building Polar - J...

Tales from the Crypt #127: Andrew Chow

13 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.06

09 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - River financial only 8 states - https://sphinx.chat/ - Samourai whirlpool dynamics, whirlpool CLI 0.10.2 released ...

Tales from the Crypt #126: Jeff Vandrew

08 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Jeff Vandrew, founder of the Keykeeper IRA, to discuss: - Jeff's essay on Post-Capitalism - Distributism - Marxism - S...

Tales from the Crypt #125: Alexander Leishman

03 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Alexander Leishman, Co-Founder of River Financial, to discuss: - Building River - Being a Bitcoin-only business - Doll...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.30

02 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 - S...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.23

27 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - BitBox02 brute force vulnerability disclosed, update to firmware V5.0.0 asap (h/t @freedomisntsafe) - BLW on An...

Tales from the Crypt #124: Dave Collum

23 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum, Professor of Organic Chemistry at Cornell University, to discuss: - Climate Change - Bitcoin - Jeffrey Ep...

Tales from the Crypt #123: Bitcoin Sign Guy on Urbit

20 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 ov...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.16

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bottle Pay shuts down rather than implement KYC per upcoming AMLD5 regulation - Binance Singapore allegedly flagg...

Tales from the Crypt #122: Parker Lewis

15 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 -...

Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.09

12 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Honeyminer acting sketchy - not your keys, not your coins - Jill Carlson on censorship resistance - Coinjoin usag...

Tales from the Crypt #121: Hector Rosekrans

11 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...