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Marty and Will Cole sit down to orange pill Bill and Spud from WAR MODE.
WAR MODE: https://warmode.libsyn.com/
0:00 - Intro 0:36 - Here to be orange pilled 4:35 - Don’t F up the money 11:03 - Unchained 12:04 - Early bitcoin and basic value prop 17:07 - Inflation lies 25:09 - How we got to the modern system 31:19 - Zaprite & SOTE 32:52 - Bitcoin’s good for everyone and everything’s good for bitcoin 40:27 - Bitcoin, not blockchain 47:30 - Monetization & Triffin dilemma 50:21 - Mining, energy and the halving 56:52 - Fixing the money 1:00:38 - What miners and nodes do 1:10:42 - Emergent organization and early internet 1:15:01 - Bitcoin storage and risks of bank custody 1:24:32 - Big banks are far more criminal than bitcoin users 1:28:11 - The financial system is a web of lies 1:38:31 - Bitcoin is the white pill, it’s never too late 1:51:19 - F you money beats censorship 1:59:13 - The only winning move is to play 2:07:30 - Volatility - Weimar gold 2:09:11 - Bitcoin lending and regulatory attack 2:16:27 - China ban and Texas energy 2:21:41 - Q 2:23:54 - Divine intervention 2:28:52 - Conspiracy theories 2:34:49 - Freeing the enslaved American people
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The Ten31 crew sit down with Matt Corallo to talk about Google's Willow quantum chip.
0:00 - Disclaimer
0:24 - Matt Corallo addresses the quantum chip scare
34:19 - Expected value calculation in quantum scenario
45:34 - Bitcoin MENA and nation state adoption
56:45 - Bitcoinization of finance
1:02:18 - MSTR
1:11:00 - Yield is a scary word in bitcoin
1:17:35 - 100k milestone
Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q3 2024 monetary base update.
Matthew on Twitter: https://x.com/1basemoney
Porkopolis Economics: https://www.porkopolis.io/
0:00 - Intro
0:36- ATH, 4 currencies left in the way
4:50 - The Trump wave
10:44 - chart - Getting gold/btc on Fed balance sheet
24:20 - Unchained
25:11 - Optimally acquiring strategic reserve
30:38 - Zaprite & SOTE
32:11 - Triffin Dilemma and spending cuts
38:55 - How hard money helps central banks
43:23 - Yield curve/Fed policy mismatch
49:22 - Russian bitcoin
54:26 - Trump's cabinet and Scott Bessent
58:16 - Supercycle?
1:05:51 - Power curve
1:08:55 - Saylor's convertible notes
1:1545 - Base money
1:25:29 - Breton Woods 2.0?
1:42:30 - Fiat money exponential growth
1:46:44 - Job market
1:52:39 - Bitcoin Lindy effect
2:01:00 - Wrap up
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Marty sits down at PubKey with Andrew Hohns to discuss Battery Finance.
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Squawk Box
4:27 - Why Andrew caught onto bitcoin
10:39 - Unchained
11:29 - Saylor’s dematerialization idea
15:45 - Supercharging real estate
25:09 - Zaprite & SOTE
26:42 - Adoptions cycles for borrowers
31:31 - Duration curve
38:24 - Bitcoin will be critical as other assets demonetize
40:50 - Loans result in long term hodl
46:23 - 100k significance & price prediction
54:39 - Custody question
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Marty sits down with Trey Sellers to discuss how Unchained will be moving forward in light of the recent $100k breakthrough.
Trey on Twitter: https://x.com/ts_hodl
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Marty on Tucker and Andrew Hohns on CNBC
3:59 - Guiding hodlers and pioneering collab custody
14:04 - Unchained
14:54 - 100k changes the frame
17:46 - Where does Unchained go next?
21:27 - Zaprite & SOTE
23:00 - Large capital bringing in the supercycle
26:57 - FIRE framework
41:30 - Signature white glove service
47:01 - The bitcoin rabbit hole cascade
49:15 - Lloyd Blankfein on bitcoin in geopolitics
52:43 - Bitcoin credit products
55:00 - Unchained event
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Marty sits down with Miljan Braticevic to discuss Primal 2.0.
Miljan on Primal: https://primal.net/miljan
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Nostr is more than social media
10:04 - Why Nostr is better
20:50 - Bitkey & Coinkite
23:10 - Building Primal with open source ethos
27:52 - Power user functionality
37:08 - Doomscroll algo vs custom feeds
44:53 - Zaprite & SOTE
46:26 - Nostr in the context of Elon’s site
51:23 - Nostr/bitcoin symbiosis and snowball adoption
1:02:00 - Fountain/Primal and how Nostr promotes cooperation
1:07:09 - Why openness will outcompete centralization
1:12:48 - Bitcoiners are the best set of users for Nostr to start on
1:21:10 - What will bring the suddenly moment?
1:26:21 - Get your legend status
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Marty sits down to discuss how Trump may plan to wield bitcoin and an altered Federal Reserve to compete with BRICS.
Mel on Twitter: https://x.com/MelMattison1
Mel's Website: https://www.melmattison.com/
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Scott Bessent
7:42 - History of the Fed
12:59 - Unchained & Coinkite
15:18 - Trump indicates plans to change Fed
29:10 - Zaprite & SOTE
30:43 - Does BRICS need to play both bitcoin and gold?
39:35 - How gold and bitcoin could coexist
43:49 - How will the new policy be implemented?
53:18 - Sparking volatility and spinning the story
1:02:21 - We may be entering a new American Renaissance
1:14:49 - Preparing before the inauguration
1:16:41 - Plugs
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Marty sits down with Matt Cole from Strive to discuss the tidal shift in America driven by bitcoin.
Matt on Twitter: https://x.com/colemacro
Strive: https://strive.com/
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - ESG/DEI disaster isn’t quite over yet
13:52 - Unchained & Coinkite
16:12 - Matt’s background and framing bitcoin for pensions
25:04 - Career risk of missing bitcoin
28:52 - Moving the Overton window and helping clients with bitcoin
33:12 - Zaprite & SOTE
34:45 - Making the most of bitcoin
43:07 - How using bitcoin changes your understanding
48:48 - AI machine payments, regulations and altcoins
56:34 - Trump admin stepping out of America’s way
1:03:21 - America has centuries left
1:13:33 - Wrapup
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The Ten31 team sits down with Rob Hamilton and Becca Rubenfield from AnchorWatch to discuss becoming a Lloyd's of London Coverholder.
0:00 - Disclaimer
0:24 - What Anchorwatch offers
5:26 - Leveraging bitcoin and Miniscript
12:52 - What makes Anchorwatch different
19:43 - More on what Miniscript offers
29:39 -Smart contracts
36:56 - Early Anchorwatch
42:38 - Good UX without compromise
47:31 - Possibilities and future plans
59:59 - Risk appetite at Lloyd’s
1:13:01 - How bitcoin helps the insurance industry
1:22:45 - Wrap up
Marty sits down with Jim Crider to discuss how to talk to your loved ones about bitcoin this upcoming Thanksgiving, as well as how bitcoin is seen in the world of financial planning.
Jim on Twitter: https://x.com/JimCriderTX
Intentional Living FP: https://www.intentionallivingfp.com/
0:00 - Intro
1:55 - How to craft the perfect orange pill
11:24 - Keeping hype low
14:58 - Bitkey & Coinkite
17:18 - Establishing an understanding of money
29:28 - Dangers of social proof
39:57 - SOTE
41:30 - Attitudes toward risk
45:33 - What it’s like as a fin advisor
58:11 - Frankenstein portfolio
1:03:03 - Providing true value as an advisor
1:11:30 - Bitcoin siphoning value from other assets
1:16:31 - High level game theory & Trump’s buddies
1:19:48 - Unfortunate for those who end up too late
1:30:39 - Orange pill quick guide and plugs
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Marty sits down with Tom Luongo to discuss the next steps after Trump's victory in the election.
Tom on Twitter: https://x.com/tfl1728
Tom's Blog: https://tomluongo.me/
0:00 - Intro
1:30 - Trapping Trump in a war as a last resort
9:30 - Bond markets
14:21 - Unchained & Coinkite
16:40 - Treasury Secretary choice
21:06 - Tom’s thesis is playing out
26:20 - What do the next steps look like?
32:31 - Better ways to fund the govt
47:25 - Zaprite & SOTE
48:58 - Trump appointments and foreign policy
58:16 - Gaetz
1:05:02 - Zeitgeist shift
1:20:34 - Authenticity of the new guard
1:29:09- Podcasts are superior
1:35:09 - There’s plenty of work left to do
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Marty sits down with Chad from UATX to discuss bringing the values of the Age of Enlightenment back to education.
Chad on Twitter: https://x.com/chadthevenot
UATX: https://www.uaustin.org/
0:00 - Intro
1:28 - 6th and Congress is the center of the universe
4:09 - The story of UATX
10:26 - Unchained & Coinkite
12:20 - Problems with current education
21:15 - Curriculum for a free society
28:37 - Regulation and Trump regime
32:33 - Zaprite & SOTE
34:06 - Enlightenment values and free discussion
47:37 - Destroy institutions or reform them?
53:14 - Bitcoin endowment
57:25 - Austin’s strength
1:01:52 - Decentralized power
1:08:35 - We’re gonna win
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Marty sits down with Pascal Hügli to discuss the multivariate implications of Donald Trump's White House victory for bitcoin.
Pascal on Twitter: https://x.com/pahueg
0:00 - Intro
1:23 - The European mind can't comprehend Trump victory
10:09 - Prediction markets
25:08 - Unchained & Coinkite
27:02 - Trump's approach to bitcoin
37:08 - SOTE
38:40 - America leading the charge on bitcoin
47:03 - Has hyperbitcoinization been pulled forward?
51:36 - Bitcoin credit products
59:05 - Supercycle?
1:11:53 - Price targets
1:14:51 - Interesting times
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0:00 - Intro
1:34 - Centimillionaire bitcoin allocation
10:20 - ATH & prominent bitcoin-friendly figures
25:28 - Term sheet report
48:13 - Bitcoin Treasury strategy
Marty sits down with Will Tanner to discuss the aftermath of Trump's victory and lessons to be learned from old money families.
Will on Twitter: https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1
American Tribune: https://www.theamericantribune.news/
0:00 - Intro
1:20 - Trump’s victory proving the media obsolete
9:12 - Unsuccessful American color revolution
12:21 - Unchained & Coinkite
14:14 - What’s next and will we get rugged?
18:58 - MAHA is beautiful, socialism is ugly
25:46 - Immigration issues
31:55 - SOTE
33:27 - Lessons from El Salvador
37:09 - Easy money dissolves competence
42:30- Bitcoin
49:09 - Putting generational wealth to work
59:52 - Bill Gates & problems with philanthropy
1:06:44 - The values of the gentleman
1:11:43- Trump's tax plan and the history of the income tax
1:20:44- We’re gonna win with better propaganda
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Marty sits down with Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin to discuss the nefarious plans of Trump's allies.
0:00 - Intro
2:15 - Trump savior narrative
11:31 - Unchained & Coinkite
13:24 - Trump coalition
22:30 - Epstein blackmail on both sides
32:04 - Zaprite & SOTE
33:06 - A new form of intelligence agency
51:49 - Stablecoin CBDCs
1:05:23 - Trump’s policy’s and cabinet appointments
1:14:44 - Politicians learning from bitcoin
1:20:13 - Big pharma and problems with deregulation
1:27:20 - Back to stablecoins
1:48:04 - Justifying crackdowns, Ross and Samurai
1:53:59 - Lightspark tease
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The Ten31 team discusses the monumental 2024 US Presidential Election and what it means for bitcoin moving forward.
0:00 - Intro
0:24 - ETF inflows at ATH
8:27 - How the election affects bitcoin
23:14 - Supercycle debate
34:55 - Companies embracing sound custody
39:39 - Framing advice on allocation
50:35- IBIT and other benchmarks
54:49 - Trump likely to continue debt expansion
Marty sits down with Matt Pines to discuss how Trump may include bitcoin in his policy and the imminent advent of information on UAPs becoming public.
0:00 - Intro
1:34 - ECB and Minneapolis Fed papers
11:12 - Evolution of supranational institutions
18:16 - How US power is different
25:24 - Unchained & Coinkite
27:18 - Trump and his allies
46:20 - Zaprite & SOTE
47:53 - Measured approach to state bitcoin adoption
1:03:49 - We need lateral thinking civil servants
1:16:42 - American infrastructure in the AI arms race
1:26:07 - Positivity and getting shit done
1:32:24 - Defense VCs
1:38:39 - Conflict with China conventions of cyberwarfare
1:49:41 - UAP disclosure
2:15:57 - Layered psyops
2:27:05 - Cults and ideological institutions
2:37:10 - Access and accountability
2:45:17 - Disclosure from other nations
2:53:45 - UAP technology
3:01:12 - The risk posed by widespread doubt
3:05:48 - Conspiracies are common
3:11:53 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Alex Leishman to discuss River's new offering of bitcoin interest on cash.
Alex on Twitter: https://x.com/Leishman
0:00 - Intro
1:29 - Mechanics and implications of bitcoin interest
10:27 - Unchained & Coinkite
12:21 - The road to River as a primary bank
19:27 - Effectiveness of Trump and private spending
32:35 - Zaprite & SOTE
34:08 - Learning from River’s users
38:30 - Proof of reserves
40:56 - Shareholder influence and activist investors
51:39 - Preparing for the bull
56:57 - Adoption time frame for innovations
1:03:01 -Will bitcoin help us skip Mandibles?
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Marty sits down with James Pierog to discuss Bitcoin Prediction Market.
James on Twitter: https://x.com/BillyHongBeats
Bitcoin Prediction Market: https://www.bitcoinprediction.info/
0:00 - Intro
1:38 - Arriving at Bitcoin Prediction Market
12:03 - Comparing to Polymarket and crypto model
16:37 - Unchained & Coinkite
18:31 - Prediction algorithm
21:30 - Predicting and potentially preventing conflicts
30:41 - BOLT12, ecash and DLCs
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39:01 - BPM vs Polymarket UX simplicity
44::36 - Oracle problem and centralization
49:13 - Trust and debt
57:06 - Singapore's authoritarianism unlocked bitcoin for James
1:08:32 - Psychic powers and tools for liberation
1:24:37 - Feather forks and ordinals
1:31:17 - Monetizing art and industry power games
1:38:35 - Adoption inertia and timing
1:43:34 - Native use case and exchange theory of value
1:47:27 - Final thoughts
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Join Marty Bent, John Arnold and Grant Gilliam of Ten31 for the inaugural episode of Bitcoin Alpha.
Ten31: https://ten31.vc/
0:00 - Disclaimer
0:24 - Introductions
9:19 - Comparing underwriting in Bitcoin vs trad banking
13:05 - Minneapolis Fed paper
22:48 - Paul Tudor Jones and Stan Druckenmiller
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39:25 - Bitcoin's dominance over time
56:04 - Bridge/Stripe deal
1:16:37 - Wrapping up
Today, Marty sat down with Ed Butowsky to discuss the real inflation numbers the Fed is hiding from Americans. They cover the cost-of-living increases that the CPI falsely shows by analyzing the Chapwood index. This ranges from higher food prices to higher energy costs. True Inflation data is much higher than most think, affecting all economic data, including real GDP growth.
Ed on Twitter: https://x.com/EdButowsky
Chapwood Index: https://chapwoodindex.com/
0:00 - Intro
1:31 - Cost-of-Living Adjustment
7:17 - Mischaracterization of CPI
10:01 - Fed policy and GDP
15:38 - Unchained & Coinkite
17:31 - Effect of band aid policy and gaslighting
20:07 - Sovereign debt crisis and monetary base
23:39 - Realistic risk estimates for clients
25:26 - Zaprite & SOTE
26:59 - Bitcoin
31:55 - Defaults and dollar weaponization
34:50 - Trump & conservative policy
40:32 - State autonomy and energy renaissance
43:02 - Wrap up
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Marty sits down with James Check to discuss how institutions utilizing bitcoin derivatives will change how bitcoin's price moves.
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James's Newsletter: https://newsletter.checkonchain.com/
0:00 - Intro
1:17 - Explaining chopsolidation and institutional reaction
12:48 - Options and other derivatives
18:54- Unchained
19:45 - A new breed of hodler
27:12 - Zaprite and SOTE
28:44 - Volatility
36:27 - Comparing to previous cycles
42:18 - How would a major crisis affect price?
48:09 - Dispassionate decision-making
51:25 - Will they successfully demonize bitcoin?
58:01 - Institutional alliance and gold
1:09:00 - How high
1:15:00 - James's newsletter
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Marty sits down with Dr. Peter McCullough to discuss the continuing damage from the Covid-19 vaccines.
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0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Catastrophic damage from jabs
4:39 - The censorship continues
6:34 - Can Trump presidency change things?
9:05 - Vaccine religion
14:00 - Unchained, Zaprite & SOTE
16:23 - FDA funded by big pharma
17:51 - Impact on children
21:19 - Bitcoin, defunding the bullshit
23:04 - Tides may be changing
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Marty sits down with Parker Lewis to discuss his new piece on bitcoin's vital function as a unit of exchange.
Parker on Twitter: https://x.com/parkeralewis
Read Parker's article: https://graduallythensuddenly.xyz/exchange-theory-of-value/?ref=tftc.io
0:00 - Intro
1:26 - Money touches everything
11:06 - Exchange theory of value
17:20 - Unchained
18:12 - Exchange is not zero sum
25:12 - Debasement interferes with market communication
33:21 - Zaprite & SOTE
34:54 - Is now the time to switch?
41:59 - Educating Zaprite customers
53:00 - Don’t rug yourself with fiat
57:53 - Bitcoin per unit mindset
1:06:10 - Competitive advantage against the vicious dollar cycle
1:11:34 - Parker’s urgency
1:16:13 - Political influence
1:28:22 - Check out Parker's stuff
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Marty sits down with Courtney Swan to discuss her fight with Kellogg's and the other corporations controlling America's food.
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0:00 - Intro
1:15 - Kellogg's and GRAS
6:50 - Fiat food
10:01 - Obesity and Ozempic
12:41 - Unchained
13:32 - Food Pyramid and farm subsidies
18:52 - MAHA
22:46 - Corporations aren't handling it well
24:49 - Nutrition's effect on the mind
28:56 - Zaprite and SOTE
30:29 - Predatory marketing and parent responsibility
36:29 - Exposing corruption
40:08 - Bitcoin defends you from fiat food
42:06 - Policy change and accountability
48:43 - Bad economic incentives in modern medicine
58:38 - Raw milk, cow farts and other psyops
1:05:13 - Go cancel Kellogg's
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Marty sits down with Leon Wankum to discuss how bitcoin will demonetize real estate.
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0:00 - Intro
0:57 - Leon's background
5:13 - How did the real estate premium develop?
12:15 - Why bitcoin improves real estate
17:54 - Bitkey
18:49 - Higher quality, lower cost
23:52 - Why the macro environment may temper the next bull
26:51 - Bitcoin will threaten real estate business models
34:00 - When should a bitcoiner buy a house?
38:29 - Bitcoin will take over real estate's collateral function
44:52 - First movers and trend setters
54:22 - Bitcoin is easier
59:28 - Real estate will be drained like monarchs in the industrial revolution
1:06:17 - A unique shield against societal collapse
1:13:14 - Plugs
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Marty sits down with Guy Swann to discuss how bitcoin is helping in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
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0:00 - Intro
1:29 - Inept/malicious response to disaster
6:10 - Bitcoin Veterans
11:38 - Destruction and loss
15:35 - Flooding
19:59 - Unchained
20:50 - Absurd resource allocation
30:18 - Zaprite
31:18 - People are 1000x more effective than govt
42:14 - Lethargy in the face of a ticking clock
48:38 - Why rules exist
53:30 - Disaster and conflict rackets
1:00:27 - Ungovernable media and ridicule
1:12:16 - How worldviews change
1:26:29 - Overwhelming innovation
1:32:11 - Why open source AI will win
1:38:34 - Approaching AI practically
1:52:30 - Plugging important stuff
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Marty sits down with Ed Dowd to discuss FEMA looting the treasury, predictions for the election, and the forth turning.
Ed on Twitter: https://x.com/DowdEdward
0:00 - Intro
1:17 - Approaching an inflection point
7:08 - Exploiting climate disasters
15:40 - Unchained
16:31 - Election probabilities & Trump victory scenario
27:21 - CBDCs and Fed printing
32:10 - Zaprite
33:10 - Real estate and VCs
39:13 - Elite Theory & Trump’s capabilities upon victory
43:06 - Covid jab impact
50:55 - Fourth turning
1:01:00 - Solutions and hope
1:05:42 - Economic illiteracy in policy
1:08:47 - Truth to power
1:11:34 - Deflation prediction
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Marty sits down with Sam Moffett to discuss regenerative farming and marketing direct to consumer.
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0:00 - Intro
1:19 - Shirttail origin
8:51 - High quality food and grass finishing
13:57 - Regenerative farming accessibility
17:57 - Unchained
18:43 - Inception of Local Pastures
22:02 - Location/Strong Towns
27:28 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
29:05 - Dealing with inflation
34:57 - The fragmented community approach
39:57 - Regen farming data/methods
45:16 - Consumer push for quality nutrition
55:29 - Challenges to expanding the model
1:01:34 - Merits of the farmer lifestyle
1:10:20 - Bitcoin
1:14:31 - Is the average person becoming more health aware?
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Marty sits down with Dylan LeClair to discuss the effectiveness MicroStrategy's bitcoin treasury model.
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0:00 - Intro
1:19 - Price cycles and election outcomes
6:49 - Rate cut
10:27 - Unchained
11:12 - China
14:49 - Leveraging for more bitcoin
22:06 - First mover advantage
29:23 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
31:00 - How cash flow affects the strategy
33:47 - Impact on price
39:30 - MetaPlanet's journey
46:33 - Importance of timing
54:28 - Shareholder obligation
1:01:26 - Yuppie elites
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1:16:57 - Bitcoin's come further than Crypto
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Marty sits down with Tom Luongo to the implications of a second attempt on Trump's life.
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0:00 - Intro
1:50 - Storms
6:15 - 2nd assassination attempt and Iran story
9:20 - Europe and Britain want war
14:29 - Parallels to WW1
19:36 - Blinken, Israel and Ukraine
26:09 - Q4 will mark change
27:41 - River & Unchained
28:57 - Trump's probably all in
32:51 - Biden
38:03 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
39:41 - Kamala and fake polls
45:29 - What things look like after a Trump victory
51:29 - Optics fumbles
54:30 - Choke Point 2.0
1:05:43 - State banks and SOFR
1:13:02 - Bitcoin and BRICS gold
1:16:23 - Acceleration signals desperation
1:21:43 - Implications of the rate cut
1:30:48 - Architects of Choke Point 2.0
1:32:32 - Ending notes
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Marty sits down with Caitlin Long to discuss how Elizabeth Warren and crew kicked off financial panic by targeting crypto banks.
Caitlin on Twitter: https://x.com/CaitlinLong_
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Paul Clement amicus brief: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca10.88322/gov.uscourts.ca10.88322.10011074966.0.pdf
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0:00 - Intro
1:39 - Overview on the Silvergate situation
6:13 - First highlight from the document
10:23 - Recap on Silvergate from the beginning
15:50 - River & Unchained
17:05 - Why crypto banks are targeted
22:35 - Stories from the legal frontline
25:17 - Architects of Choke Point 2.0 and the damage they caused
39:11 - Will justice be served?
45:29 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
47:06 - Crypto was the target and taxpayers felt the pain
54:51 - Political possibilities
1:03:34 - Pushing back on state overreach
1:13:46 - Clearing the way for mining
1:16:49 - The banks can't handle bitcoin
1:20:25 - Get the word out
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Marty sits down with Jessy Gilger from Unchained's Sound Advisory to discuss long-term financial planning for bitcoiners.
Jessy on Twitter: https://x.com/idahohodl
Sound Advisory: https://www.thesoundadvisory.com/
0:00 - Intro
1:36 - The need for Sound Advisory
9:27 - Traditional assets lose to bitcoin
11:52 - Volatility
13:44 - River & Unchained
14:59 - Tax strategy for bitcoiners
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26:20 - Trump’s tariff plan
28:45 - Bitcoin fixes charity
34:18 - Tax planning with clients
36:29 - Common mistakes
40:35 - Fixing mistakes
44:56 - Coinbase
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56:55 - Orange pilling skeptical clients and other RIAs
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Marty sits down with Chris Martz to discuss falsehoods and data manipulation surrounding climate change.
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CFACT: https://www.cfact.org/
0:00 - Intro
1:32 - Chris’s background
5:28 - “97% of experts”
15:42 - River & Unchained
16:57 - Feedback loops
21:58 - Incentives for certain conclusions
26:65 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
28:33 - How Smokey Bear’s plan backfired
32:14 - Hurricane data
37:32 - Improvements in data collection tech
41:53 - Insurance propaganda
47:22 - Things are largely better
57:13 - Environmentalism beyond carbon panic
1:03:04 - Urban heat island effect and measurement foolishness
1:15:44 - Does the narrative serve an agenda
1:26:41 - Are people catching on?
1:31:12 - How it’s going for Chris
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Marty sits down with OpnState to discuss the growing power of unelected supranational regulatory bodies.
OpnState on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1v6z4srj4ktch4f3ee9ze2zp7ml4n9rshttmntpamfed0nvpev5fszzuq49
0:00 - Intro
1:41 - OpnState’s background
6:23 - The influence of standard-setting bodies
12:11 - FATF
16:55 - River & Unchained
18:11 - Bank Secrecy Act - Power further removed from citizens
27:06 - Public-private partnership - effectiveness of aml is questionable
35:01 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
36:39 - Circumnavigating due process - Sanction lists - total control
49:10 - Malice/incompetence - System meant to incentivize altruists attracts snakes
57:04 - Knowledge asymmetry with govt - The power of FOIA - go send a FOI request
1:12:54 - Voter responsibility
1:20:25 - Political power cares about you - FOI strategy
1:25:15 - Open source regulation
1:46:54 - Simple choices, big change
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Marty sits down with Anthony Constantino to discuss Sticker Mule, the dehumanization of Trump supporters, and poisonous social media.
Anthony on Twitter: https://x.com/ac132
0:00 - Intro
1:22 - The story of Sticker Mule
8:27 - Manufacturing in the US
13:41 - Media control during Covid
16:09 - River & Bitkey
17:25 - 2020 was an alien world
20:14 - Demonization of Trump and his supporters
24:29 - Impotent cancellation
28:00 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Bitkey
29:37 - Bringing civility back
32:24 - Assumptions and narrative vs real people
34:08 - Trump haters punching down
37:15 - Failure of ESG and "woke capitalism"
41:55 - Sticker Mule's plans
45:50 - A earlier era's perspective on social media
50:48 - Sticker Mule's structure and principles
55:00 - Advice for starting a business
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0:00 - Intro
1:28 - Is the bear over?
11:19 - Bitcoin-backed credit market
19:21 - River & Unchained
20:37 - Ukraine bonds vs Unchained loans
30:11 - Why Unchained loans work
37:45 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
39:22 - Predicting capital markets
54:39 - Swaying minds with a good track record
1:07:05 - Venture fund perspective, Fold IPO
1:13:13 - Bitcoin vs stablecoin strategies
1:34:36 - OpenSats and HRF
1:44:13 - Plugging the Bitcoin Lunch
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Marty sits down with John Cullen to discuss the smoke and mirrors surrounding the Trump assassination attempt as well as the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.
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John on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@iamjohncullen
0:00 - Intro
1:26 - John's background and the Vegas shooting
7:47 - Multiple shooters at Trump rally
12:17 - River & Unchained
13:33 - Drones
23:14 - The rifle stock
28:37 - 400 yards
32:02 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
33:39 - Back to the drone
41:47 - Vegas shooting Saudi connections
52:08 - Jared and Ivanka, monarchy drama
1:01:28 - Who is behind Trump shooting
1:08:53 - Field hospitals for meteor armageddon
1:14:33 - Final points
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Marty sits down with Will Reeves to discuss the progress of Fold and how they've withstood and harnessed the bear markets.
Will on Twitter: https://x.com/wlrvs
Fold App: https://use.foldapp.com/
0:00 - Intro
1:25 - Reflecting on the years
8:00 - How Fold made it
14:59 - River & Unchained
16:15 - Harnessing the bear market
27:15 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
28:53 - Fold users
33:39 - Leading the way with new strategies
44:30 - Focusing on bitcoin
51:53 - Ten31
1:00:28 - Succeeding by operating with integrity
1:13:20 - Come a long way, long way to go
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Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q2 2024 Monetary Base Update.
Matthew on Twitter: https://x.com/1basemoney
Porkopolis: https://www.porkopolis.io/topmoney/
0:00 - Intro
1:25 - Baltic Honey Badger
5:37 - Introducing the update
8:23 - Inflation vs deflation
22:02 - River & Unchained
23:18 - Money printing and GDP
27:28 - Bitcoin status
38:54 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
40:31 - CAGR
48:14 - Corporate treasuries
52:55 - State treasuries
1:12:52 - Massie’s plan and political hopium
1:20:24 - Austrian econ popularity
1:27:21 - Unrealized cap gains
1:33:34 - Red scare and the state of Europe
1:41:32 - Optimism
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Marty sits down with Obi Nwosu to discuss the launch of the launch of the Fedi app.
Obi on Twitter: https://x.com/obi
Fedi: https://www.fedi.xyz/
0:00 - Intro
1:27 - Launch euphoria
4:40 - Fedi’s purpose
9:06 - Fedi devs
12:20 - River & Unchained
13:36 - Interoperability and unleashed chat
17:24 - Individual community needs
25:03 - What Fedi replaces
31:21 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
32:59 - How to improve and expand
39:38 - Flipping perspective on money
49:41 - Stability pools
55:48 - Sapping power from fiat system
1:02:31 - Managing expectations - What’s next
1:08:08 - Open source announcement
1:13:25 - Running on a bitcoin standard
1:18:25 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Dave Collum to discuss inflation, the election and the twisted networks influencing politics and entertainment.
Dave on Twitter: https://x.com/DavidBCollum
0:00 - Intro
1:09 - Truflation is BS
9:18 - Hardware collateralized debt
11:08 - Deflation and money supply
14:13 - River & Unchained
16:06 - Yen carry trade and US buybacks
19:36 - Compounding valuations
25:32 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
27:38 - Narrative control and war drums
34:04 - Kamala’s campaign
40:19 - The assassination memory hole
43:47 - Elon
48:51 - Propaganda whirlwind
59:54 - Dark and disturbing networks
1:23:05 - Free speech
1:29:51 - Trump’s second term
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Marty sits down with Peruvian Bull to discuss what's being done by the Bank of Japan.
Peruvian Bull on Twitter: https://x.com/peruvian_bull
Peruvian Bull on Substack: https://dollarendgame.substack.com/
0:00 - Intro
1:02 - Yen carry trade backdrop
15:47 - River and Unchained
17:03 - Market caught off guard
20:10 - Liquidity alarm bell
27:01 - Current status
33:41 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
35:19 - What do central bank counterparties do?
44:12 - Treasury demand
48:55 - Predicting the timeline
51:34 - Good for bitcoin
56:50 - How to prepare
1:03:36 - Fourth turning
1:10:06 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Preston Pysh to discuss further spiraling of the debt crisis and how bitcoin can help.
Preston on Twitter: https://x.com/PrestonPysh
Preston on Nostr: https://primal.net/preston
0:00 - Intro
1:10 - Treasury auctions and stablecoins
11:06 - Potentially solving the debt problem
23:31 - River & Unchained
24:47 - Bank of Japan
26:22 - Accelerating toward the election
29:18 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
30:55 - Global M2 and liquidity alarm bell
50:15 - Bitcoin corporate treasuries
44:10 - Creating a soft landing
47:50 - Bitcoiners gaining influence
57:23 - How far does this cycle go?
1:04:27 - Vote with your node
1:10:52 - The handout mindset
1:13:44 - Optimism
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Marty sits down with Pete Quinones to discuss the potential of "Little Tech" to influence America.
Pete on Twitter: https://x.com/PeterRQuinones
0:00 - Intro
1:23 - Energy and tech
5:39 - Explaining elite theory
21:36 - River and Unchained
22:51 - Kamala propaganda
30:14 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
32:16 - Technological warfare
39:38 - Communism and liberalism
45:29 - Rule of law and capitalist ideology
1:00:20 - Expanding your mindset
1:05:02 - Thanks Elon
1:10:18 - Is war coming?
1:18:18 - How much will Little Tech fix?
1:25:51 - Overton window
1:32:28 - Let not perfect be the enemy of good
1:39:26 - Domestic manufacturing
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Marty sits down with Saifedean Ammous to discuss the Israel/Gaza conflict from the perspective of property rights.
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Saifedean's Website: https://saifedean.com/
0:00 - Intro
1:13 - Infringement of Palestinian property rights
8:00 - Israel’s solution is extermination
13:23 - River & Unchained
14:39 - Religious justification of cruelty
26:29 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
28:06 - Christian Zionism
35:42 - US is a puppet state
55:14 - Can Bitcoin defund the empire?
1:00:27 - They use every crisis to manipulate
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Marty sits down with Tom Luongo to go over the consequences of the failed attempt on Donald Trump's life.
Tom on Twitter: https://x.com/TFL1728
Tom's website: https://tomluongo.me/
0:00 - Intro
1:12 - PayPal Mafia
9:31 - River & Unchained
10:46 - The assassination attempt fractured the timeline
14:39 - Everyone knew
26:35 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
28:12 - Divine intervention
32:43 - Working with consequences
35:33 - What happens next and will they try again?
47:21 - Jamie Dimon and economic plans
53:27 - Open source and AI
57:30 - Perspective of decades
1:01:18 - UK and France
1:05:52 - Jab justice and Trump’s cabinet
1:15:42 - Trump and bitcoin
1:21:14 - They came at the king and they missed
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Marty sits down with Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin to discuss the partnership of the private tech sector with the surveillance state.
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0:00 - Intro
1:34 - Trump shooting and media aftermath
10:10 - River & Unchained
11:26 - JD Vance and Palantir
24:10 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
25:48 - Trump’s image & public/private partnership
49:19 - Controlled media
1:04:42 - Using Bitcoin for evil
1:09:58 - Nostr, ecash & stables
1:27:13- Framing bitcoin as money
1:36:27 - All things are used to justify surveillance
1:54:59 - Law enforcement
2:01:00 - Stop complying, solve from the ground up
2:12:50 - Keep calm against the emotional manipulation
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Marty sits down with Eric Semler to discuss why Semler Scientific chose to store their value in bitcoin.
Semler Scientific: https://www.semlerscientific.com/
0:00 - Intro
1:43 - Bill Walton
4:16 - TCS Capital and post dotcom
10:39 - River & Unchained
11:55 - Parallel between late 90s and today
16:24 - Journey to bitcoin
23:52 - Themes that lead to shorting the best assets
32:20 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
33:57 - Bitcoin’s relative upside potential
35:56 - Bitcoin as treasury asset
42:15 - Board members need more skin in the game
50:36 - Future of bitcoin
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Marty sits down with Jason Mikula to discuss fintech, Synapse, Banking as a Service, and the general state of banking.
Jason on Twitter: https://x.com/mikulaja
Jason's Substack: https://fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/
0:00 - Intro
1:42 - Background on the Synapse case
12:19 - River & Unchained
13:35 - Who is at fault?
20:10 - FBO account structure
24:36 - Impact on end users
30:54 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
32:32 - Unclear resolution and stain on fintech
41:18 - Can small banks compete?
49:46 - SVB and the state of the banking system
57:00 - Are we seeing Chokepoint 2.0?
1:03:58 - Plugs
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Marty sits down with Svetski to discuss his book The Bushido of Bitcoin.
Svetski on Twitter: https://x.com/SvetskiWrites
Bushido of Bitcoin: http://www.bushidoofbitcoin.com/
0:00 - Intro
1:52 - It’s time to do more than complain
9:23 - Core virtues
18:02 - River & Unchained
19:18 - Justice
24:51 - Unbalanced femininity
31:06 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
32:43 - Energetic leaders
39:40 - Courage
42:31 - A structure to last the hard times
50:41 - Responsibility
56:36 - Low time preference
1:02:37 - Beauty and truth
1:09:46 - Physically rebuilding America
1:17:03 - Forging alliances
1:21:11 - A new heroic age
1:26:04 - Satlantis
1:33:25 - Satlantis walkthrough
1:39:06 - Layered technology
1:44:41 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Pierre Rochard and Allen Farrington to discuss their follow up to Pierre's Speculative Attack article.
Pierre on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinPierre
Allen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/allenf32
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Speculative Attack: 10 years later
7:24 - Shorting fiat
12:39 - River & Unchained
13:55 - Spec attack season 2
17:41 - Education
22:56 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
24:34 - Alternatives to rebalancing
32:21 - Should institutions prioritize bitcoin?
35:38 - Speculative defense
43:49 - State bitcoin
1:01:40 - Inflation lies
1:08:27 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Mel Mattison to discuss his book Quoz and the late-stage fiat breakdown.
Mel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelMattison1
Quoz: https://www.melmattison.com/quoz
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Mel’s background
5:34 - Timing the late-fiat breakdown
10:13 - River & Unchained
11:29 - Central bank history
17:00 - Central banks are obsolete
23:55 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
25:33 - The Fed is scrambling, false yield curve
32:25 - Why bitcoin and metals will succeed
37:33 - Was this always the plan?
42:35 - Can we make this the last cycle?
46:38 - Supranational financial entities
56:11 - Luongo’s inter-cabal squabble
1:02:50 - Events between here and endgame
1:18:22 - Puppetmasters
1:26:33 - How to weather the storm
1:33:24 - Plugs
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Back in March, Marty sat down with Andrew Myers to discuss Satoshi Energy.
Andrew on Twitter: https://x.com/acmyers
Satoshi Energy: https://satoshienergy.com/
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - How regulation harms the energy industry
12:08 - River and Bitkey
13:30 - Mining solves the fragility of centralized power
21:00 - Bitcoin strategies for energy companies
26:37 - Direct payment for energy
34:26 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
36:03 - Determining optimal power mix
44:10 - What miners need to know about power companies
50:13 - Batteries
57:02 - Regulatory attacks
1:00:32 - Sound leadership
1:07:02- Psyops and lists
1:10:11 - We’re gonna win
1:13:15 - Texit
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Marty sits down with Peter St. Onge to discuss Trump's rumored plan to replace income tax with tariffs.
Peter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/profstonge
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - El Salvador
4:23 - Vibe shift
12:26 - River & Unchained
13:42 - Mass immigration and nationalism
17:51 - Trump’s rumored tariff plan
24:49 - Media and education
29:18 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
30:56 - Countering lies
38:10 - Headwinds for next election
45:40 - Dedollarization
50:42 - Has the melt up already started
1:00:27 - Feeling the inflation
1:06:42 - Bitcoin and Trump
1:14:02 - We’re gonna win
1:16:44 - Presidential debate
1:21:35 - Back to tariffs and taxes
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Marty sits down with Chris Buskirk to discuss the destruction wrought by ESG and moving forward with positive vision.
Chris on Twitter: https://x.com/thechrisbuskirk
1789 Capital: https://x.com/1789Capital
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Start - ESG destroys innovation
3:53 - Conservative vibe shift
8:38 - River & Unchained
09:54 - Positive vision
15:58 - Positive vision specifics
24:24 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
26:01 - Broken money
28:39 - Electric cars
31:20 - What DC does to good people
35:31 - Take the white pill and think big
41:40 - What regulation did to capital allocation
45:49 - Generational groups and the remnant
51:37 - Energy
55:24 - Exploring causes
1:02:21 - Stranded gas
1:05:53 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with James Check to discuss bitcoin cash and carry.
James on Twitter: https://x.com/_Checkmatey_
Checkonchain: https://charts.checkonchain.com/
Newsletter: https://newsletter.checkonchain.com/
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Exposition
8:45 - Aussie ETF and in-kind withdrawal
12:04 - River & Unchained
13:20 - What Jim Bianco is missing
21:18 - Who is making the trade
26:03 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
27:40 - Coinbase
30:36 - Realized capital
39:19 - Don’t whale watch
41:59 - Engineering and on-chain analysis
49:09 - Checkonchain analysis framework
55:11 - Wall Street using the data
57:10 - What would disprove the model?
1:00:25 - Profit/loss ratio
1:04:40 - Time off, Will the cycles continue?
1:11:58 - Price prediction
1:15:39 - Managing generational wealth
1:20:04 - Bitcoin in bad economic times
1:28:15 - Bitcoin improving politics and energy
1:35:13 - Wrapping with plugs
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Marty sits down with George Manolov to discuss how Bitcoin changed the game for Botev Plovdiv FC.
George's Website: https://georgemanolov.com/
Botev Polvdiv: https://botevplovdiv.bg/en
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - First involvement with Botev Plovdiv - Cut fuckup
7:06 - Starting a bitcoin plan for the club
13:38 - River & Unchained
14:54 - Communicating reasons for bitcoin
22:34 - Fanbase reception
27:40 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
29:17 - Challenges of a sports business
34:56 - Bitcoin financial plan
41:05 - Bulgaria
47:20 - El Salvador
58:50 - Sound money mindset
1:02:26 - The players
1:10:11 - Plugs
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Marty sits down with Matthew Pines to discuss how America is falling behind in the new multi polar world.
Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthew_pines
Bitcoin Policy Institute: https://www.btcpolicy.org/
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Bitcoin in politics
5:09 - Pitching Bitcoin to policy makers
12:14 - River & Unchained
13:30 - BRICS
24:52 - Is US govt asleep at the wheel?
37:26 - Current system isn’t as permanent as it appears
46:04 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
47:41 - Private sector finding a way out
57:48 - Expecting the big moment tomorrow
1:03:45 - AI
1:15:58 - US needs long term plans
1:29:58 - State/non state power is shifting
1:51:14 - Bitcoin is out best strategic option
1:56:19 - WWIII
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Marty sits down with Ian Carroll to discuss the series of connections one makes once orange pilled.
Ian on Twitter: https://x.com/Cancelcloco
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Trump and Fauci
10:57 - Intel agencies
14:22 - River & Unchained
15:38 - People are being forced to notice
19:17 - Optimism
22:17 - Evil masterminds and incompetents
29:38 - Ian’s research and perspective
33:30 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
35:07 - Currency wars
39:52 - Fix the money, fix the world
48:32 - Wallets, not ballots
51:31 - Strong towns and local business
54:37 - Poisonous food/healthcare loop
58:07 - Fiat standard
1:01:21 - The system is learning too
1:04:02 - Sound money mindset
1:11:18 - Pod 2.0 and Nostr
1:15:48 - Censorship resistance
1:19:54 - We’re so early
1:24:03 - Unrealized bank losses
1:28:29 - Truth For The Commoner
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Marty sits down with Rod Roudi to discuss bitcoin meetups, entrepreneurship, leveraging your time, and more.
Rod on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitkite
Bitcoin Park:; https://bitcoinpark.com/
POD256: https://twitter.com/pod256
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Opening riff
6:45 - Tennessee Bitcoin
14:24 - River & Unchained
15:40 - Grassroots adoption
20:11 - Bitcoin Brainstorm
26:29 - Best way for number to go up
35:36 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
37:14 - Doomscrolling
41:29 - Leveraging time
51:20 - Delegation and scheduling
1:06:08 - More meetups, more podcasts
1:11:31 - TFTC rewards
1:15:48 - Incorporating alpha
1:21:55 - Home screen apps
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Marty sits down with Cathie Wood to discuss bitcoin in the context of historic trends and convergent technology.
Cathie on Twitter: https://x.com/cathiedwood
Bitcoin Brainstorm: https://www.youtube.com/@ARKInvest2015
Bitcoin Monthly: https://www.ark-invest.com/the-bitcoin-monthly/
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Bitcoin’s monetization compared to past trends
3:59 - Sovereign bitcoin funds
9:35 - River & Unchained
10:50 - Why is bitcoin outpacing gold
14:55 - Sharpe ratio convinces institutional investors
17:26 - Elections and consumer sentiment
25:56 - Inflation and money velocity
32:35 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
34:12 - Is the level of chaos unprecedented?
39:18 - AI and bitcoin
43:12 - Internet money
46:09 - Energy narratives
50:23 - Converging technologies
57:43 - Ark ETF and bitcoin dev support
1:06:24 - Plugs
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Marty sits down with Michael Goldstein to discuss the Nakamoto Institute, timeless ideas, and bitcoin rhetoric.
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Michael on Twitter: https://x.com/bitstein
Michael on Nostr: https://primal.net/bitstein
Nakamoto Institute: http://nakamotoinstitute.org/
Nakamoto Institute on Twitter: https://x.com/NakamotoInst
Nakamoto Institute on Nostr: https://primal.net/sni
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Nakamoto Institute origins
5:42 - Timeless ideas
12:08 - River & Unchained
13:24 - Popularity drivers for Austrian econ
22:26 - Distractions from bitcoin as money
27:39 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
29:16 - Framing fiat’s weakness
36:28 - Art of Bitcoin Rhetoric
43:11 - Don’t let haters dictate terms
50:08 - “Trust in human institutions”
1:01:29 - The power of effective messaging
1:19:40 - Highlighting solutions
1:25:19 - Advertisements and algorithms
1:33:35 - Nakamoto Institute revitalization
2:00:06 - Ossification discourse
2:08:40 - Telethon brainstorm and plugs
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Marty sits down with Dustin Kittle to discuss how the Farm Credit Administration is destroying the family farm.
Dustin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dustinkittle
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - The farm credit system
9:28 - River & Unchained
10:44 - Dustin’s situation and the lenders’ liquidity crisis
20:51 - The people responsible?
26:19 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
27:56 - Motivations and goals
33:15 - Ruthless tactics
39:51 - FCA’s integral role
48:26 - Last stand of the farmers
55:46 - Educating consumers and supporting farmers
1:01:19 - Herding us toward hyper-centralized food
1:08:44 - Next steps
1:12:09 - Wrapping on a monologue
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Marty sits down with Sam and Michael from Wavlake to discuss the magic of concerts and how Ticketbot can help loosen Live Nation's grip on the industry.
Sam on Twitter: https://x.com/sammeans
Michael on Twitter: https://x.com/rheedio
Wavlake: https://wavlake.com/
Wavlake app: https://app.wavlake.com/
0:00 - Intro
0:50- Opening riff
3:58 - Kendrick vs Drake
10:56 - River & Unchained
12:12 - Stories about music
33:11 - Gradually, Then Suddenly & Zaprite
34:48 - The Live Nation problem
48:06 - Ticketbot
1:05:53 - Nostr’s pace of progress
1:22:06 - Overlooked elements of Nostr
1:29:23 - Come to Nashville!
1:33:23 - Wrapping on best concert
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Marty sits down once again with Matthew Mežinskis for the Q1 2024 monetary base update.
Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/1basemoney
0:50 - Power law trend is trending
5:42 - Govt attacking bitcoin
11:47 - Sponsors 1
13:02 - US debt and inflation
24:27 - Monetary base vs hard assets
34:05 - Top 5 currencies
37:06 - M3
45:58 - Outside money
52:17 - Sponsors 2
53:54 - Monetized debt and MMT
1:05:57 - Late stage central planning
1:10:06 - Bitcoin free banking
1:13:51 - Bitcoin price chart
1:23:37 - Bitcoin network and fee market
1:30:28 - Antpool
1:39:56 - MineOne and nationalization of hash
1:50:23 - ASIC commodification
1:54:29 - Nukes and tyranny
2:04:23 - Last chart
2:08:28 - Final thoughts
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Tom Luongo returns once again to discuss geopolitics.
Tom on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TFL1728
Tom's Website: https://tomluongo.me/
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Larry Fink
6:18 - Sovereigntists vs Davos
14:00 - Sponsors 1
15:16 - Powell’s domestic concerns
18:39 - Bank of Japan
25:22 - Gold
30:00 - Tether
34:40 - Tom’s hivemind
36:31 - Sponsors 2
38:08 - KYC
44:31 - Yuval Harari clip
49:23 - The cracks are showing
58:32 - Sound money
1:06:30 - Oil
1:15:35 - Throw out the spreadsheet
1:21:42 - Israel parallels with Russia
1:29:26 - Recognizing manipulation
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Marty sits down with Parker Lewis to discuss how fiat money corrupts the structure of the US government and how bitcoin fixes this.
Parker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/parkeralewis
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Welcome back to Tales From The Fridge
1:49 - US/Japan swap line
7:32 - Dollar is undermining the US
10:14 - Sponsors 1
11:30 - Framing bitcoin and the dollar correctly
17:37 - Importance of America’s government structure
26:59 - Hamilton describing the slippery slope
34:46 - Self-funding uniparty
41:44 - Sponsors 2
43:21 - Owning the frame
52:43 - How bitcoin decentralizes power
1:03:07 - Sticking to truth
1:14:00 - Final message
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Marty sits down with Dhruv, Ryan and Allen to discuss their new article on decentralizing the internet with Bitcoin.
Dhruv on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhruvbansal
Ryan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RyanTheGentry
Allen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/allenf32
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Adding context
9:47 - Layer Zero
17:15 - Difficulty adjustment
23:32 - Layer One
32:42 - Layer Two - Lightning
43:31 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
44:10 - High layers improve low layers
50:40 - Unlocking the potential of lightning
55:40 - Design methodology
1:00:50 - Ordinals, out-of-band transactions
1:06:25 - Nostr
1:12:20 - Sphinx chat
1:17:24 - Ethereum’s backwards priorities
1:19:49 - AI interaction with bitcoin
1:25:09 - Unforseeable use cases
1:36:23 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Carliño to discuss the events that led to Simple Proof and bitcoin being used to verify Guatemala's election.
Carliño on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carlostoriello
Digital Witness: https://digitalwitness.io
Find Carliño on Nostr: npub14advhxua8w78gl2z7q8c4s20htxkzq4cu5mhj34ep0puf7smyqzszrd7qq
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Riffing
9:24 - Poverty is the enemy
15:57 - Getting OFAC listed and discovering bitcoin
24:03 - Austrian influence and the state of Guatemala
29:21 - Events leading to Simple Proof
42:31 - Simple Proof in practice
49:09 - Utilizing Stakwork
54:39 - Mitigating bias
1:00:05 - After the election
1:09:04 - Funneling gamified auditors to bitcoin
1:14:09 - Next elections and implementing in American counties
1:26:05 - Election statistics, bleep the thing
1:31:39 - Reciepts of truth
1:39:18 - Darkest before the dawn
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Marty sits down with Matt Corallo to discuss the Antpool situation and how the centralization issue can be solved.
Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBlueMatt
0:00 - Intro
1:27 - The pool problem
14:42 - Miners haven’t switched
22:04 - Miner priorities
27:38 - Taking action
40:11 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
40:50 - Addressing bias
42:59 - Is switching difficult?
46:14 - Nuclear option if someone takes control
51:30 - Solutions
1:00:51 - Complacency
1:06:40 - Go test StratumV2
1:09:48 - Bitcoin success percentage and wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Matthew Lysiak to discuss his new book, Fiat Food.
Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewlysiak
Buy Fiat Food: https://academy.saifedean.com/product/fiat-food-hardcover/
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Mass shootings and mental illness
9:58 - Origins of Fiat Food and The Saif House
15:04 - 7th Day Adventists and Kellogg
19:37 - How 1971 corrupted science
32:06 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
32:45 - Legacy media distortion
42:21 - Environmental guilt
48:48 - Heart health psyop and food pyramid
1:00:21 - Friends of the money printer
1:06:25 - Covid and food as methods of control
1:20:35 - Media defection
1:27:39 - Modern obesity
1:31:12 - Reception of the book
1:37:24 - Book plug
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Marty sits down with Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin to discuss the latest methods employed by the digital panopticon.
Whitney on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_whitneywebb
Mark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/markgoodw_in
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Explaining the article
13:33 - Satellogic
17:41 - Private/public cabal
26:51 - Steve Mnuchin
38:40 - Highlighting the public/private smokescreen
48:06 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
48:45 - RSK
57:34 - Carbon dictatorship
1:20:41 - Stablecoin mafia
1:36:08 - Preventing bitcoin’s corruption
1:50:40 - Bitcoin ethos whitepill
2:01:51 - Fear tactics and censorship
2:14:12 - Final thoughts
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Marty sits down with Ben Braddock to discuss everything from micro to macro.
Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen
IM—1776: https://im1776.com/
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - MS-13
8:13 - El Salvador and rule of law
12:47 - Media control and narrative shifts
30:51 - Covid lockdown’s financial motives
36:35 - Places to escape to
41:11 - Inflation is exhausting
52:37 - MAID and spiritual starvation
55:25 - They’re not sending their best
1:02:16 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
1:02:56 - Manosphere and nationalism
1:14:54 - Connecting over distance
1:22:35 - Cities and aesthetics
1:34:10 - Environmentalism
1:42:12 - IM—1776 and journalism
1:48:46 - Politicians
1:58:03 - Austin
2:06:41 - California water cycle
2:12:39 - Energy/mining
1:18:31 - Competency crisis and price system interference
2:36:47 - Eclipse and final thoughts
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Marty sits down with Andrew Hohns to discuss how Bitcoin changes the world of finance.
https://www.unicefusa.org/about-unicef-usa/leadership/national-board-directors/andrew-hohns
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Andrew’s background
19:30 - Discovering bitcoin
25:44 - Alloying bitcoin with credit
34:49 - Positive impact of Bitcoin’s unique use cases
49:18 - Debt crisis
58:15 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
58:54 - High/low time preference
1:04:32 - Applying bitcoin to financing
1:12:49 - Inflation
1:29:16 - Americans should embrace their bitcoin advantage
1:45:46 - Wrapping on Bitcoin Jawn
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Marty sits down with Anjan Katta and Tristan Scott to discuss the Daylight computer.
Anjan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnjanKatta
Tristan Scott: https://twitter.com/bitcoinand_beef
Daylight: https://daylightcomputer.com/
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Light and temperature
16:31 - Honesty
21:57 - Wisdom
25:56 - Creating Daylight
32:12 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
32:52 - Hardware has more impact than software
41:44 - Don’t start a hardware company
47:02 - Getting the screen made
59:10 - Fiat culture
1:06:42 - How Daylight succeeds
1:17:41 - Amusing Ourselves To Death
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Marty sits down with Anas Alhajji to discuss the many facets of the global conflict over energy.
Anas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/anasalhajji
Anas's Website: https://www.anasalhajji.com/
Daily Energy Report: https://afalhajji.substack.com/
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Strategic petroleum reserves
20:30 - LNG
40:04 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
40:43 - Media portrayal and OPEC+ view of Russia
48:32 - Red Sea
59:12 - Venezuela and Guyana
1:08:31 - Media narrative battles
1:13:07 - Predictions
1:19:16 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with P.D. Mangan to discuss metabolic health, the consequences of easy fixes, fiat food, and more.
P.D. Mangan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mangan150
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Metabolic health
10:41 - Workout intensity
16:03 - Ozempic
23:27 - Hunger and eating patterns
28:56 - Meat myths, studies, and unhealthy experts
35:43 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
36:22 - Advice and misconceptions
46:00 - Chronic disease and fiat food
58:13 - A health crisis is expensive
1:02:37 - Years gained/lost
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Marty sits down with Jeff Smith to discuss the state of ranching and the agriculture industry.
Colorado Craft Beef: https://coloradocraftbeef.com/
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Bitcoin and ranching
13:37 - Starting Colorado Craft Beef
23:41 - Regulatory risk
29:04 - Taking care of the land
33:23 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
34:02 - Scaling in competition with large corps
39:00 - Orange pilling
55:34 - Weaponized fiat and food
1:00:34 - Competency crisis
1:12:32 - Yummy steaks
1:18:30 - Back to scaling
1:27:43 - Perspective and hope
1:32:59 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with NVK to discuss Coinkite, AI, tradeoffs in bitcoin, and more.
NVK on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Signing devices and the Coldcard Q
13:13 - ETFs vs self custody
17:38 - SIM swaps and AI fakes
23:59 - Meatspace KYC
26:55 - AI tools, Unleashed.chat
32:04 - AI and bitcoin for businesses
42:18 - How AI will impact the world
50:14 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
50:52 - What will our children need to know?
55:10 - Covenants
1:03:10 - Tradeoffs of bitcoin scaling layers
1:13:45 - Bitcoin’s multiple value props
1:17:29 - Nostr
1:25:26 - Pace of adoption
1:36:44 - Keynesian lies
1:40:09 - Commie Canada
1:50:25 - We’re winning because they can’t meme
1:55:13 - Coinkite stuff
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Marty sits down with the Tuur, Kelly and Austin after the Bitcoin Urbanism panel for an extended chat about fiat real estate, walkable cities, beautiful architecture, and more.
Tuur on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester
Kelly on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ktlannan
Austin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AustinTunnell
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Introducing guests
14:03 - Fiat real estate and centralized planning
22:48 - Environment and psychology
34:33 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
35:12 - Efficiency can be bad for your health
44:15 - Real estate is a shitcoin
55:14 - Social breakdown and families
58:48 - Suburbs becoming slums
1:02:52 - Municipal infrastructure
1:07:43 - Community
1:17:09 - Definancializing real estate
1:22:43 - Sustainability
1:28:55 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Andrew Gutmann to discuss his Substack article on the link between fiat money and woke ideology.
Andrew's website: https://andrewgutmann.com/
Andrew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewGutmann
Andrew's Substack article: https://andrewgutmann.substack.com/p/how-woke-took-over-america
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Andrew’s background
11:30 - Andrew’s Substack piece
17:54 - Commercial banks and the Fed
21:34 - How fiat causes wealth disparity
28:30 - Turning the tide
31:40 - Gradually, Then Suddely
32:19 - Point of no return
34:57 - Bitcoin and energy
41:17 - Educational institutions
49:31 - Competency crisis
51:57 - Homeschooling
54:13 - Powell
59:20 - Hyperinflation
1:01:04 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Kevin McKernan to discuss covid jabs and how Bitcoin can be leveraged to incentivize and improve peer review.
Kevin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan
Kevin's Substack: https://anandamide.substack.com/
Kevin's Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Kg5gDtmSg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Kg5gDtmSg
The Indoctrinated Brain: https://www.amazon.com/Indoctrinated-Brain-Successfully-Global-Freedom/dp/1510778365
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Capitol Hill presentation
15:08 - P2P review and publication
19:43 - Hiding SV40 DNA
28:00 - Gene therapy
34:04 - Industry saving face
42:47 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
43:26 - Bitcoin and the timechain
57:24 - Incentivizing high quality peer review
1:07:56 - Bitcoin parallels biology
1:13:43 - Medical community catching on
1:18:50 - Reactions to Capitol Hill message
1:24:20 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Dr. Brooke Miller to discuss the damage of mRNA vaccines, the media's attacks on rural America, and scaling local food and health models.
Dr Miller on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Brookemillermd
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Vaccine data
15:58 - Nefarious intentions
21:47 - Media attacking ranchers
27:11 - mRNA food
31:56 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
32:34 - Counter attack
37:18 - Freedom money
45:10 - Rural America
50:06 - Local food
53:09 - Scaling and centralization
1:01:21 - Momentum against the rulers
1:05:47 - We’re on a list
1:12:24 - Orange pilling politicians
1:15:16 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Pierre Rochard to discuss the mining industry's response to the EIA registry.
Pierre on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinPierre
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - AI tools
18:11 - AI competing with Bitcoin for energy
26:05 - EIA registry
1:02:20 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
1:02:59 - Liz’s goals
1:08:23 - Environmentalism
1:15:48- Nat gas and context for renewables
1:31:24 - Current market and speculative attack
1:43:28 - Good time to be a bitcoiner
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Marty sits down with Axel Raven to discuss the the root causes of the competency crisis in fiat currency.
Axel on Twitter https://twitter.com/FinancialPhys
Axel's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@financialphysics7541
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Competency crisis and essential work
22:09 - Sound money
30:05 - Time and the purpose of money
36:35 - Keynesian trickery
46:28 - Real estate and northern weather
50:38 - Trucking
1:04:44 - Automation fantasies
1:09:37 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
1:10:16 - Technial debt
1:16:36 - Nuclear
1:21:44 - Fiat delusion and scrooges
1:32:16 - Bitcoin replacing the dollar
1:38:57 - Truth For The Commoner
1:46:27 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Tuur Demeester the bull run, the mindsets that perpetuate controlling regimes, AI, and more.
Tuur on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester
Adamant Research: https://adamantresearch.com/
0:00 - Intro
5:07 - Tuur is bullish
12:08 - Public is catching on to money printing
17:01 - Effect of newbie influx
22:57 - Regulatory and centralization risk
29:04 - Totalitarian regimes
41:06 - Belgium and helpless mindset
51:32 - AI and information accessibility
1:00:55 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
1:01:34 - How high are we going?
1:18:14 - Building, form and function
1:32:13 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Ben Hart to discuss his recent viral popularity, victim culture, and the hope Bitcoin brings for the future.
Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenHart_Freedom
0:00 - Intro
6:21 - Ben’s daughter
16:46 - Discovering Bitcoin
19:36 - Dartmouth Review
24:38 - Big tech and intelligence agencies
33:22 - College brainwashing
44:23 - Victim narrative and immigration
52:25 - Fiat culture
56:06 - Energy, mining and decentralization
1:01:11 - Sound money and military industrial complex
1:08:39 - Optics and adoption
1:27:18 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q4 2023 monetary base update.
6:25 - Cloward-Piven and immigration
30:22 - Top currencies
38:45 - Inflation rates
46:59 - NZ bankers go mask off
54:14 - Fedwire vs Bitcoin
1:17:14 - Power trend line
1:26:53 - Does the ETF change things?
1:29:43 - “All assets” chart
1:35:23 - Federal debt
1:48:25 - Building the roads
1:52:21 - Russia
2:07:05 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Lyudmyla Kozlovska and Bota Jardemalie to discuss activism against the EU regulators' attacks on Bitcoin.
- PoW submission to the EU regulators (example of testimonials we want to collect from bitcoin miners and those who socially benefit from it): https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/724499,defend-pow-submission-to-esma/
- EU AML submission: https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/723329,submission-to-fatf-tools-to-prevent-abuse-of-aml-cft-laws/
-Submission to FinCen US: https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/724918,submission-to-fincen-us-digital-asset-aml-act/
- Site / Support OD Foundation: https://en.odfoundation.eu/how-can-you-help/
- LN to donate in Bitcoin and support our advocacy work in the EU and US:
- Lyudmyla on X: @LyudaKozlovska
- Bota on X: @jardemalie
0:00 - Intro
8:00 - EU attacks on Bitcoin
18:58 - Abuse of KYC/AML
25:10 - Confronting regulators about their consequences
37:45 - Timeline on preventing EU action
41:15 - What can be done
47:52 - What does the success of Bitcoin look like
50:11 - What it’s like when they come for you
52:50 - The laws are more draconian and less effective
58:04 - Narrative war
1:02:31 - Complacency
1:07:39 - Dealing with the stress
1:12:55 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Jamie McAvity from Cormint to talk about Bitcoin mining and energy.
Jamie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesmcavity
Cormint: https://cormint.com/
0:00 - Intro
7:38 - 50k and Ready Player One
13:16 - Assertions of Chinese grid attack
23:06 - Working with the wind tax credit issue
36:44 - Renewable grid drawbacks and risks
44:17 - The right mix of energy sources
47:53 - Germany decommissioning and energy politics
1:00:23 - Bitcoiners running nuclear
1:06:11 - Halving
1:11:52 - ASIC innovation
1:31:04 - Mining fees
1:34:28 - BitMEX
1:38:07 - Gamestop
1:40:41 - Cormint
1:47:01 - Energy/finance integration
1:52:25 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Harry Sudock to discuss Griid's Nasdaq listing, Harry joining Ten31 as an advisor, and talk about the mining industry as a whole.
Harry on Twitter: https://twitter.com/harry_sudock
Griid: https://griid.com/
0:00 - Intro
7:26 - Big week for Griid
11:21 - State of the mining industry
15:46 - Industrial adoption
19:43 - Demand response
23:46 - Energy FUD from the parasitic class
31:44 - Future of mining
36:06 - Technical innovation
37:27 - ASIC manufacturers
45:02 - Halvening
51:59 - Political influence and pencil making
58:27 - ETF and stocks
1:02:54 - Ten31 advisor
1:08:56 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Jason Brett to discuss the EIA action to surveil Bitcoin miners and its wider implications.
Jason on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RegulatoryJason
Bitcoin Policy Institute: https://www.btcpolicy.org/
0:00 - Intro
6:17 - Overview on “emergency” survey
15:03 - Clearly an overt state attack
21:45 - Fighting back
30:21 - Upcoming months
32:30 - Energy industry and policy
39:29 - Failure of ESG
46:31 - Making political progress
52:20 - Federal vs State
58:12 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Lt. Col Matthew Lohmeier to discuss how politics and DEI are dividing and weakening the US military, and how the silent majority can speak up and resist.
Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthewlohmeier
Matt's website: https://matthewlohmeier.com/
0:00 - Intro
6:45 - Politics dividing the military
15:57 - Military of the best
22:28 - DEI harms those it “protects”
27:00 - US weakening is rapid and likely intentional
40:15 - What’s making us stronger?
47:12 - First steps to mending
54:18 - Call to the silent majority
50:03 - Money and incentives
1:02:15 - Define your values
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Marty sits down with Sean McDonnell from Salt of the Earth to discuss the myriad stories that led to the founding of his company.
Sean on Twitter: https://twitter.com/seanfmcdonnell
Salt of the Earth: https://drinksote.com/tftc
0:00 - Intro
6:32 - Lacrosse
15:59 - Groupon
23:23 - Giving up the party life
27:11 - Skiing story
32:51 - Coding bootcamp
38:06 - Bitcoin
43:01 - Bukele’s war room
52:24 - Starting Salt of the Earth
1:02:50 - Electrolytes
1:14:24 - Jack Dorsey story
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Marty sits down with Aaron van Wirdum to discuss his new book The Genesis Book.
Aaron on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AaronvanW
The Genesis Book: http://thegenesisbook.com/
0:00 - Intro
6:32 - Storytime with Marty
13:00 - Genesis book
16:15 - Where does Bitcoin’s history begin?
19:43 - Cypherpunk history
27:50 - Who are the OGs?
31:05 - Precursor projects and culture
35:53 - Hashcash, BitGold, B-Money
43:11 - Demand for privacy tech
52:18 - Whitepaper and genesis block
1:00:06 - Cypherpunks today
1:03:52 - Timing and Chaum
1:09:51 - Free banking, extropians, AI
1:20:01 - Pitching the book
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Marty sits down with John Arnold to discuss his article on Bitcoin's total addressable market.
John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnArnoldTen31
John's Article: https://ten31.vc/insights/tam
0:00 - Intro
7:06 - The real John Arnold
10:26 - John’s background
23:10 - Total addressable market
29:31 - Tech stock returns
34:42 - Best time to jump in
44:04 - Why Bitcoin is eating the world
52:01 - Financial services
1:03:06 - Consumer applications
1:09:06 - Replacing the incumbent system
1:21:48 - Venture capital not recognizing
1:29:57 - Ten31 network
1:35:07 - Bitcoin is fun
1:40:45 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Dave Collum to discuss everything from child trafficking to Roth IRAs to lacrosse.
Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum
0:00 - Intro
6:17 - Child trafficking
22:17 - Immigrant flooding
32:13 - Crime syndicates and technocracy
40:47 - Darkness
49:11 - J6
59:29 - Ukraine
1:03:36 - Hope and changing winds
1:10:24 - Election
1:14:24 - State independence
1:18:39 - ETF
1:27:39 - Inflation and correctional
1:53:30 - Geopolitical status
2:02:17 - Great minds
2:09:30 - Tangents
2:24:04- Roth IRAs
2:32:39 - What to do without Bitcoin
2:41:26 - Family
3:05:44 - Lacrosse
3:26:53 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Eric Yakes to discuss his piece written for Axiom, federated mints, and the newly approved Bitcoin ETF.
Eric on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericyakes
Axiom article: https://www.axiombtc.capital/banks
Eric's book: https://yakes.io/book/
0:00 - Intro
6:40 - Can we really have banks without bankers?
12:44 - Tradeoffs
16:10 - Fedimints
23:48 - Federated model cost/benefit
35:23 - Implementing incentives
42:08 - Fedi in the future
45:53 - Speculating on possibilities
51:35 - Mint distribution and crossing chasms
59:23 - Ark
1:07:57 - Spoiling final thoughts
1:11:31 - Multi-institution custody
1:15:03 - ETF
1:22:59 - Falling empire
1:25:46 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Chris Hume to discuss the recent raid of Amos Miller and the encroachment of the state on all parts of life.
Chris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrishume1689
The Lancaster Patriot: https://www.thelancasterpatriot.com/
Lancaster Patriot on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheLanPatriot
0:00 - Intro
6:17 - Amos Miller raided
10:42 - State dislikes independent communities
14:28 - The problem of positive law
19:01 - The state removes your choices
24:59 - “Raw” milk and choosing for yourself
29:00 - Forgoing convenience
32:01 - Those who enable tyranny
40:02 - Money printing gives the state leverage
48:47 - Statism vs Christianity
1:00:52 - Pushing back
1:04:45 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin to discuss their new piece on Farmington and the digital dollar.
Unlimited Hangout Article: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2023/12/investigative-reports/unmasking-farmington-ftx-fluent-finance-and-the-coming-digital-dollar/
Whitney on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_whitneywebb
Mark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/markgoodw_in
0:00 - Intro
6:17 - Exposition on Farmington and Fluent Finance
12:47 - Stablecoins
21:18 - Transitioning to CBDC
35:30 - Crisis as pretense for surveillance and war
53:59 - Digital ID
1:04:02 - Powell’s not your pal
1:07:37 - Figuring out the de facto CBDC
1:13:41 - Manufactured consent psyops
1:18:46 - National figureheads
1:28:56 - Social media warzone
1:37:04 - Preventing Bitcoin co-opting
1:49:13 - They’ll profile and surveil everyone
1:59:05 - Fighting AI-controlled life
2:25:37 - Building alternatives
2:34:50 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Dhruv Bansal to discuss his article on the foundational ideas of Bitcoin, as well as an in-depth conversation about AI.
Dhruv on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhruvbansal
Dhruv's article: https://tftc.io/satoshi-nakamoto-unchained/
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Marty sits down with Parker Lewis to discuss his new book Gradually, Then Suddenly, and highlight Bitcoin in the framing of the financial crisis of 2008.
Parker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/parkeralewis
Get the book: https://thesaifhouse.com/
0:00 - Intro
7:07 - Liz Warren and CBDCs
16:55 - 2008 crisis still echoes
22:17 - Marty’s experience of the crisis
29:00 - Metting people where they are
35:27 - Satoshi was keyed in
38:29 - It’s personal for everyone
53:01 - Bitcoin, not Blockchain
57:41 - Bitcoin is not for criminals
59:28 - Dollar is not patriotic
1:07:50 - Sound money is freedom
1:13:49 - Bitcoin in future crises
1:22:59 - How much will they print next time?
1:26:08 - Replacing an unfathomable behemoth
1:38:10 - Can’t stop the signal
1:44:11 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q3 2023 Monetary Base Update
Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/1basemoney
0:00 - Intro
6:17 - Marty’s late
8:35 - Bitcoin power curve
25:28 - Top 5 currencies
30:35 - Bitcoin vs currencies
34:11 - Dollar’s relative strength growing
38:48 - Network update
44:49 - Sovereign mining and pool censorship
52:18 - Why money must be kept decentralized
1:01:45 - ETF Trojan horse
1:03:45 - Argentina
1:27:22 - European security
1:30:16 - Defense startups
1:37:34 - Texit
1:43:07 - Deterrence and cold war history
2:02:31 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Fred Krueger to discuss the upcoming Bitcoin ETF and the impact of institutional money entering Bitcoin.
Fred on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dotkrueger
0:00 - Intro
6:01 - The scale of ETFs
13:35 - The pace of incoming money
20:48 - Perspective of an ETF buyer
28:16 - Will the ETF change the cycles?
36:33 - Bitcoin improving payments
40:13 - Financial degradation
47:06 - Inflation from the perspective of the wealthy
51:39 - Apathy towards Bitcoin
1:00:56 - Older generations hold the wealth
1:12:14 - Bull vibes will return with ETF
1:17:19 - ETFs will have the largest stacks
1:29:14 - Playing it safe
1:35:57 - Fred represents the majority
1:38:11 - Block size and other dev issues
1:42:14 - Money printer go brrr
1:46:55 - Likely date for the ETF
1:49:22 - How Fred got into Bitcoin
1:53:57 - The Anti-SBF event
2:02:02 - ETF is inevitable
2:03:55 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Kane McGukin to discuss the changing geopolitical landscape.
Kane on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kanemcgukin
0:00 - Intro
5:29 - Kane’s background
9:26 - China’s geopolitical standing
28:01 - Hyperconnected world changes things
33:22 - Transitional state
38:50 - Messianic money
42:00 - Weaponized dollar
48:56 - What should America do?
54:31 - Teaching values and skills
1:05:58 - Propaganda and tinfoil
1:11:01 - Optimism
1:17:50 - Wrapping up
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Lou turns the questions on Marty to find out how businesses can embrace Bitcoin.
0:00 - Intro
7:20 - Why are we here?
13:29 - What is Fanatics?
19:54 - FanCash should be Bitcoin
29:58 - Introducing Bitcoin through rewards
33:04 - Chargebacks and international onboarding
37:29 - Bitcoin is can enable better UX flow
41:39 - NFTs don’t work
48:30 - New media monetization models
53:26 - Protection from censorship
58:36 - Trust still required
1:02:17 - Saving your business in a recession
1:05:21 - Debrief, comment your suggestions!
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Marty sits down with Will Cole to discuss his new writing on the five invariant elements of product management and how to build an effective strategy for your company.
Will on Twitter: https://twitter.com/willcole
0:00 - Intro
6:17 - Marty is sleepy
11:07 - Stories behind Will’s writing
19:10 - Invariants and levels of abstraction
30:25 - Why a product manager exists
33:57 - Think, then do
36:30 - Running through the invariants and strategy doc
42:41 - Timeline
46:55 - Minimizing meetings with good writing
48:53 - Iterating vs incrementing
56:44 - Who has better and worse product management?
1:00:24 - Managing growth
1:08:48 - Cmon Marty write the doc
1:12:46 - Design patterns
1:16:41 - BIPs
1:22:15 - Staying on the cutting edge
1:24:25 - Come and PM for Bitcoin companies
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Marty sits down with Matt from Unchained to discuss key networks and setting new industry standards for Bitcoin custody.
0:00 - Intro
6:17 - Matt’s backstory (go birds)
12:56 - Challenges overcome at Unchained
19:43 - The role of keys in Bitcoin
21:53 - Preparing for the next bull
23:42 - Misconceptions about keys
26:41 - UX gaps
29:18 - Structures built on key networks
34:15 - Countering bad optics for regulators
37:29 - Predictions
42:27 - Recognition of multisig
47:59 - ETFs and Coinbase
54:41 - Multi-jurisdiction
58:07 - Blinded xpubs and deepfakes
1:05:56 - Incoming developments in Bitcoin
1:08:48 - Are you an ordinals enjoyer?
1:11:32 - MPC vs multisig
1:17:52 - Shitcoin cycles
1:21:43 - Here for tech or money?
1:26:26 - Saving Philly
1:34:02 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Aleks Svetski to discuss Spirit of Satoshi, the Bitcoin-focused AI project, as well as the upcoming edition of the Bitcoin Times.
Svetski on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SvetskiWrites
Spirit of Satoshi: https://www.spiritofsatoshi.ai/
Bitcoin Times: https://bitcointimes.io/
0:00 - Intro
6:52 - Riffing
9:53 - What is Spirit of Satoshi?
18:12 - AGI
24:04 - Closed/open source AI
33:38 - Building your own language model
41:04 - AI’s opinions are based on its master
45:02 - Data cleanliness and hallucination
52:58 - 1000 minds vs the Borg
58:59 - A wealth of data
1:03:54 - Biden’s AI executive order
1:05:26 - AI agents and Bitcoin
1:12:23 - ASICs
1:16:36 - Energy
1:21:09 - Bitcoin Times Energy Edition, ESG
1:32:16 - Bitcoin is energy
1:39:29 - Conquering mindset
1:49:21 - Wrapping up
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Peter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/profstonge
0:00 - Intro
6:46 - Bitcoin banning attempts and govt incompetence
15:12 - EVs
17:23 - Treasury auction and hyperinflation events
33:08 - Sovereign debt
37:15 - Swiss banks liquidity crisis
42:44 - The internet is bank run jet fuel
46:29 - Milei and dollarization of Argentina
50:04 - Fiat is always doomed
53:36 - “Far right” labels
1:00:16 - 2024 election
1:03:39 - The stakes are real
1:09:14 - White pill
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Marty sits down with Andy Schoonover to discuss CrowdHealth's new Lightning wallet integration, as well as how CrowdHealth has been doing in the last year.
Andy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SchoonoverAndy
CrowdHealth: https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/tftc
0:00 - Intro
7:23 - It’s been a year
14:22 - Doctors are excited
18:22 - The government owns the system
22:29 - Insurance is impersonal
28:23 - Bitcoin and LN
34:13 - Bitcoin doctors
42:49 - What’s the catch?
48:29 - How many people does it take for change?
51:22 - Relationship with employers
55:28 - Metabolic health and strong communities
1:04:09 - Defectors from the corrupt system
1:08:21 - Spreading knowledge
1:13:01 - CrowdHealth profitability
1:15:50 - CH’s relationship with TFTC
1:20:23 - Press the hard button
1:24:21 - We’re gonna win
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Marty sits down with Mike Benz, the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online to discuss digital censorship, corporate control, prosecution of uncooperative politicians, and more.
Mike on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber
FFO website: https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/
0:00 - Intro
6:17 - Censorship Industrial Complex
13:06 - Turning point in 2016
15:08 - Twitter files and wrongspeak terminology
22:44 - NGO participation
26:07 - Corporate control
32:30 - Russian gas
37:15 - Biden laptop
43:09 - Justice Department can kill you
48:40 - Destabilization ops
53:07 - End goal of control
57:33 - Methods of resistance
1:01:11 - Monetary censorship and Bitcoin
1:04:11 - We’re gonna win
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Marty sits down with Lord Miles to talk about his time in Taliban custody and his plans for further adventures.
Lord Miles on Twitter: https://twitter.com/real_lord_miles
Miles's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LordMiles
0:00 - Intro
6:03 - How Miles was betrayed
11:18 - 8 month detainment (holiday)
22:32 - End of detainment and Taliban misconceptions
30:23 - Govts and dealing with money
35:14 - Lovely holiday locations
38:01 - Nashville shooter
40:59 - Gold mine
48:27 - Wankers and grifters
54:55 - Next holidays
1:07:23 - BBQ, raw milk and baldmaxxing
1:20:18 - Living for adventure and harassing the system
1:26:04 - Plugs
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Marty sits down with Tom Nelson to discuss the ongoing failure of climate change narratives energy policy to correspond with reality.
Tom's links: https://t.co/h5ODvIBeWA
0:00 - Intro
6:43 - Riffing on Dave Collum and hurricanes
11:08 - Narratives are failing
18:17 - Charlie Munger
21:07 - AI
23:44 - DC and climate policy
26:34 - Nuclear
30:32 - ESG and mining
33:41 - Green energy kills
42:32 - Hydrocarbons bring life
50:31 - Those who would control you
54:27 - Bitcoin
56:53 - War
59:21 - Podcasting, censorship, and finding new allies
1:09:41 - Go get yourself called a racist
1:19:24 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Drew and AJ from Cathedra to discuss how things have been going in the mining industry.
Cathedra: https://cathedra.com/
0:00 - Intro
5:04 - New York
11:23 - Current doomer status
14:36 - Lessons learned since last bull run
26:24 - Decisions made in 2022
34:20 - Underclocking and maintaining mining efficiency
39:16 - Evaluing mining businesses by hashprice
43:31 - Educating energy providers
48:25 - Cathedra firmware
52:07 - Shifting the bottleneck away from ASICs
58:20 - AI
1:06:46 - Geographic dispersion of hash
1:12:59 - Rising rates and ETFs
1:25:20 - Halvening prediction
1:35:05 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with EJ Antoni to discuss the disastrous policies of the Federal Reserve.
EJ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RealEJAntoni
0:00 - Intro
5:48 - Explaining Fed losses
22:16 - Has the Fed lost control?
26:25 - What is the result of total failure?
32:38 - Can higher-for-longer solve the problem?
37:16 - Recession indicators
42:04 - Protecting yourself financially
50:48 - Weimar style hyperinflation
54:21 - Weaponization of the dollar
57:23 - Bitcoin
1:00:24 - Wrapping
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Marty sits down once again with Whitney Webb to discuss the conflict in the Levant and how the bankers intend to use AI to control your life.
Whitney's links: https://linktr.ee/whitneywebb
Articles:
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Marty sits down with Michael Tanguma and Jesse Meyers from Onramp as well as Mitch Kochman from BitGo to discuss their new partnership.
Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MTanguma
Jesse on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Croesus_BTC
Mitch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mitch_kochman
Onramp: https://onrampbitcoin.com/
BitGo: https://www.bitgo.com/
0:00 - Intro
5:04 - How’s The Last Trade going?
10:06 - OnRamp/BitGo partnership
23:35 - The importance of multi-institution
29:18 - What convinces key agents?
36:53 - The next stage of Bitcoin’s adoption
40:36 - Trillion Dollar Wallets and other fun ideas
45:03 - Bitcoin is for everyone
49:11 - State attacks and multi-jurisdiction
1:01:43 - Adoption, education, ETFs
1:19:05 - Marty backstory
1:22:04 - Mitch backstory and BitGo
1:26:15 - Bitcoin is the spirit of revolution
1:28:56 - Wrapping
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Marty sits down with Lightswitch Lou to talk about Mash and its integration with the new TFTC website.
Louis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Buddyloveless
0:00 - Intro
5:28 - Riffing
15:37 - Mash and the new TFTC site
24:26 - Incumbent monetization models
29:06 - Enabling interaction features
31:58 - Controlling your own flow of funds
39:27 - Ending the subscription model
47:22 - Convincing other publishers
50:29 - Verifying humanity
54:51 - Lightning compared to advertising a decade ago
1:00:39 - Barstool
1:03:24 - Death of the old model
1:06:27 - Riffing after an interruption
1:11:26 - Chicken and egg of Bitcoin adoption
1:17:39 - Demo-ing donations
1:19:33 - We’re gonna win
1:25:42 - Twitter and Nostr
1:29:30 - Riffing
1:32:56 - New site launch
1:36:08 - Saving the world with Bitcoin
1:40:30 - Politicians are nuts
1:48:21 - War
1:58:35 - Rising from ashes of the American empire
2:01:27 - AI
2:03:26 - Ending riff
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Marty sits down with John Magill, founder of Zaprite, to discuss the current state of Ireland, what's changed for Zaprite in the last year, and what to build next.
John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/john_zaprite
Zaprite: https://zaprite.com/
0:00 - Intro
5:04 - Irish shitcoinery and true Bitcoiners
9:51 - Irish government
18:39 - Irish economy
25:26 - Erasing Irish culture
32:35 - Strong communities and fiat world
38:42 - Merchant adoption
48:56 - Update on Zaprite, onboarding Will and Parker
54:44 - What to build next
1:12:04 - Bullish vibes
1:17:16 - Returning to roots
1:20:56 - Conferences and meetups
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Marty sits down with Steve and Daniel to discuss UTXOracle, a way to estimate Bitcoin's price using nothing but node data.
Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveSimple
Daniel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanielLHinton
Check out UTXOracle and other data visualization: https://utxo.live/
0:00 - Intro
6:41 - Steve and Daniel’s background
10:59 - Explaining UTXOs
13:34 - Visualizing data
20:46 - Effect of Bitcoin ATMs on patterns
25:24 - How to infer price from UTXO data
35:27 - Usefulness as an oracle
45:28 - Possibility of price per block
46:41 - Human action, opportunities and attack vectors
53:26 - Effect of ordinals
55:49 - UTXO mismanagement
1:02:37 - Spending old coins
1:06:51 - Taproot changes and far future problems
1:18:20 - Fun new concepts
1:27:43 - Run the numbers yourself
1:32:58 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Théo Mogenet to discuss his piece written for Axiom on the financialization of Bitcoin.
Théo's Twitter: https://twitter.com/theomogenet
Théo's Substack: https://substack.com/@theomogenet
0:00 - Intro
7:00 - Théo’s background
11:06 - Explaining money market funds
16:46 - UK Gilt duration mismatch
22:32 - US bank failures
25:08 - Weaponization of monetary system
39:41 - How Bitcoin fixes this
49:26 - Bitcoin’s increasing demand
52:47 - Through the lens of monetary policy
55:28 - Perpetual markets
1:00:46 - DLCs for futures contracts
1:07:55 - Acquiring liquidity for DLCs
1:18:24 - Nascent companies
1:23:52 - Inciting hyperbitcoinization
1:29:12 - What drives further adoption?
1:40:47 - Théo’s upcoming writing
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Marty sits down with Jessica Solce to discuss her new documentary following the story of Cody Wilson.
Find the film here: https://www.deathathletic.com/
Jessica on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessicasolce
0:00 - Intro
6:27 - Stumbling into cypherpunk docs
11:24 - Dealing with scandals
16:12 - Death Athletes
22:44 - The process of following Cody
24:04 - Fighting digital tyrrany
28:14 - Apathy
32:39 - Free information
40:11 - Dealing with courts of law and social media
45:37 - JStark
49:38 - Corporate control
1:01:13 - Aesthetics and the film industry
1:07:57 - AI
1:11:21 - Plugs + wrap up
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Marty sits down with Godfrey Bloom to discuss the corruption of the world by central banks and the countermeasures the common man must take.
0:00 - Intro
6:43 - How govts have been corrupted
16:09 - Is mobilization of the common man imminent?
18:40 - Central banks are the unknown cause
24:56 - Removing yourself from the system
27:12 - New Keynesians
29:59 - Bitcoin and gold
34:46 - More on UK provenance law
38:09 - Lawful cancelation dissidents
43:58 - Civil war and states asserting autonomy
46:42 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Sam Husseini to discuss his journalistic history and findings surrounding Covid and modification of pathogens.
Find Sam on Substack: http://husseini.substack.com/
0:00 - Intro
5:36 - Sam’s body of work
8:20 - Covid’s parallels to anthrax attacks
15:08 - Wuhan lab obscurement
22:56 - Biowarfare is unique
26:02 - USAID funding of the lab
30:44 - The gaslighting is highly effective
40:54 - Those in control have no benevolent intentions
44:02 - Disappointment in RFK
46:02 - Bird flu modification
48:21 - Actionable items
50:17 - Censorship
56:38 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Matt Corallo to discuss the state of the Lightning Network.
Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBlueMatt
6:38 - Hot mics, soft forks
13:34 - Should we focus on what we have?
18:27 - Core dev burnout
24:58 - State of Bitcoin adoption
35:23 - The year of LDK
40:46 - Stablecoins and AI
46:44 - Where should the focus be?
52:42 - LSPs and improving LN UX
59:21 - Crypto impatience
1:05:26 - Using lightning every day
1:07:02 - Regulations
1:21:01 - Bitcoin and Crypto have different regulatory concerns
1:23:34 - AI and energy
1:27:31 - Is LN a panacea?
1:35:54 - How is LN success defined?
1:38:35 - PTLCs
1:43:46 - Bitcoin’s success probability
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Marty sits down with Ryan MacLeod to discuss the benefits of nuclear power in contrast to its reputation and how it can synergize with Bitcoin.
Ryan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NuclearBitcoinr
6:12 - Riffing
7:46 - Texas demand scare
13:57 - Best source for stable energy
20:11 - Reputation of nuclear power
31:39 - If the end were nigh, we’d need nuclear
33:40 - Cost of capital and SMRs
36:53 - SMR and mining impact on grids
41:05- Bitcoin can ease problems with nuclear
44:37 - Nuclear looking good
53:15 - Germany’s idiotic policies
55:09 - Uranium supply
58:01 - Nuclear future
1:02:01 - Does the nuclear industry recognize Bitcoin?
1:07:09 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Jimmy Song to discuss his new book Fiat Ruins Everything.
Jimmy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimmysong
Crowdfund page for Jimmy's new book: https://fiatruinseverything.com/
0:00 - Intro
5:38 - Writing with ChatGPT
10:59 - Degeneracy hazards
12:54 - Jimmy’s book and writing process
20:39 - Structuring a book
23:36 - Fiat’s influence on individuals with corps
30:28 - Strong families and low time pref life
35:01 - Fiat world built on ossification
44:19 - No stores of value, can’t buy a house
50:15 - Reality takes hold, how long till it breaks?
59:38 - How to explain to people when it breaks?
1:03:03 - How do individuals protect themselves?
1:11:02 - Rent seeking more harmful than welfare
1:14:40 - Wide and narrow gate, drivechains
1:26:45 - Plugging the book
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Marty sits down again with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q2 2023 Monetary Base update.
Follow along the charts here: https://twitter.com/1basemoney/status/1696117186236989686
Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/1basemoney
6:05 - eNaira and CBDCs
26:08 - Top 5 currencies
32:30 - Compound annual growth rate
36:06 - FHLB exposure
42:27 - Inflation is impacting people
45:08 - Bitcoin chart
56:49 - Scandinavian physical currency
59:17 - US federal debt
1:15:08 - Canary in the coal mine
1:23:30 - Nations using Bitcoin and BRICS gold
1:40:02 - Optimal outcome
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Marty sits down again with Michael Tanguma and Andy Thompson from Bitcoin Talent Co to talk about launching Flex.
Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MTanguma
Andy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theandytee/
Flex landing page: https://www.bitcointalent.co/flex
5:30 - Welcome back, Bitcoin Talent Co.
8:37 - Flex supply side market
13:39 - Interest on both sides
20:50 - Hiring missteps
25:01 - Hi Trevor!
25:58 - Further mistakes
31:23 - Misallocation of resources
34:56 - Acting with urgency
36:50 - Opportunity for efficiency increasing
41:55 - Talent competition at global level
43:29 - Expanding and iterating
51:02 - Plugs and wrap up
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Marty sits down with Rob Hamilton to discuss Anchorwatch and keeping focus on Miniscript and maximizing its potential.
Rob on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rob1Ham
Anchorwatch: https://www.anchorwatch.com/about
5:30 - Ninja Launch
7:43 - Bluechecks
13:31 - Content models
18:18 - Drivechains and OP_VAULT
22:58 - Miniscript
27:07 - Stepping back on Miniscript
33:50 - Balancing complexity at Anchorwatch
36:17 - Bitcoin risk products
42:52 - Anchorwatch policy construction
47:15 - UX
51:58 - Impatience
55:17 - Get your hands dirty
59:31 - Edge cases
1:06:22 - MPC
1:18:54 - Upgrades with unknown unknowns
1:27:34 - Bullish
1:32:43 - Bitcoin in macro
1:39:59 - Urgency
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Marty sits down with Anas Alhajji to discuss energy markets, climate change regulation and subsidies, and whether de-dollarization will push nations toward Bitcoin.
Anas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/anasalhajji
Anas on Substack: https://anasalhajjieoa.substack.com/
5:30 - India and UAE oil trade
13:27 - COP 28 and climate change excuses
27:46 - Climate change religion
31:05 - Dishonest numbers
37:05 - Shale oil underperforming
42:02 - “Green” energy can only win by force
48:11 - Why we Bitcoin
49:46 - Near future energy market
56:16 - Impact of subsidies
58:59 - Immigration and Climate arguments don’t mix
1:03:48 - Dollar shortage and Bitcoin
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Marty sits down with Thomas Pacchia for a chat before the pubkey mining meetup.
Thomas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tpacchia
Pubkey: https://pubkey.bar/
5:30 - Is DeFi borked?
11:13 - Blockspace scarcity
21:56 - Will shitcoin cycles continue?
28:42 - No soft landing
32:01 - Large scale investors
42:27 - Mining meetup
53:06 - What drives hashrate growth from here?
58:18 - Treasury management
1:00:55 - Pool monetization
1:09:51 - Scammers and hamsters
1:12:48 - NYC Bitcoin makes Marty bullish
1:23:05 - Memes and NFTs
1:28:58 - Derailment and riffing
1:36:29 - Bitcoin conferences and new Pubkey locations
1:44:08 - Hex and hardware wallets
1:46:58 - Reminiscing from our prison cells in 2030
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Marty sits down with Tuur Demeester to discuss the factors pushing Bitcoin forward in its cycle.
Tuur on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester
0:00 - Intro
5:30 - Aliens
11:35 - Bitcoin cycles
18:04 - Is the next cycle different?
20:21 - Will crypto stay dead?
24:12 - Old ideas, new ideas, and startups
33:44 - Regulatory landscape
38:27 - Financial “innovations” from crypto
42:31 - Bitcoin politics
46:29 - Implications of decentralized custody
54:23 - Multiple fronts of chaos
1:02:04 - How far can inflation go?
1:10:04 - Bitcoin is the escape hatch
1:12:13 - Nation state adoption
1:15:29 - Next bull market
1:26:29 - Fedimints and AI
1:34:38 - Bullish on Texas
1:47:28 - We’re gonna win
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Marty sits down with Dave Collum and Rudy Havenstein and tries to keep Marty Jones under control.
Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum
Rudy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RudyHavenstein
5:30 - Bants
11:41 - Background
27:20 - Banking crisis lull
33:12 - Media collapse and Twitter
48:43 - Evil rulers
1:15:10 - Corporate press and those they hate
1:22:35 - Younger generations
1:30:21 - Forth turning and inflation
1:58:20 - CBDCs vs Bitcoin
2:03:49 - Final words from Rudy
2:05:39 - Rabbit holes on rabbit holes
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Marty sits down with Tony Cai and Matt Black from Atomic Finance to discuss returns on Bitcoin, DLCs, and the future of Bitcoin's scaling.
Tony on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TonyCai_
Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthewjablack
Atomic Finance: https://atomic.finance/
5:30 - Atomic Finance origins
15:44 - What’s wrong with defi?
21:15 - Explaining DLCs
25:26 - How Atomic uses DLCs
28:39 - Risks
34:13 - Atomic’s oracle
37:39 - State of DLCs and lightning
44:51 - Plans for Atomic
47:46 - Ethereum’s centralization
50:26 - Order of operations in Bitcoin adoption
54:04 - Scaling Bitcoin and ossification
1:04:59 - Staking reputation on BIPs
1:14:28 - A lot at stake
1:21:00 - Wrapping
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Marty sits down with Kody Low to discuss Fedimints, Lightning, and how they can be applied to power AI tools.
Kody on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kodylow
Check out Fedi: https://www.fedi.xyz/
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0:00 - Intro
5:30 - Marty Barbell Bender
7:10 - Kody’s background, every Bitcoiner a dev
13:59 - What layer is Fedi?
19:38 - Explaining Fedimint
25:43 - What do Fedimints fix about lightning?
30:23 - Expanding on federation
34:46 - Scaling Bitcoin for the world
38:56 - Federated operating system
49:23 - How it works for guardians
57:57 - Privacy
1:00:41 - Synth dollar trading
1:11:18 - AI/Lightning intersection
1:20:33 - L402 and M2M payments
1:35:53 - Lightning’s headstart on crypto
1:38:24 - Avoiding Bitcoin’s volitility with Fedi
1:41:02 - Bitcoin is the best money
1:49:10 - Pushing AI companies to Lightning
1:52:02 - Answer the call, freaks
1:55:25 - Privacy and gpu hosting
2:05:27 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Allen Farrington from Axiom to discuss his perspective on capital allocation and how it is affected by Bitcoin.
Allen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/allenf32
Allen on Medium: https://allenfarrington.medium.com/
5:30 - Introducing Axiom
9:43 - Cost of capital
14:26 - Debt is not universally bad
16:59 - Capital as a tool
18:51 - The goal of capital allocation
22:13 - Affecting individual savings
26:06 - Capital flowchart and long term thinking
37:18 - Bitcoin doesn’t allow fiat games
44:47 - Bitcoin mining illustrating the point
58:09 - Impact of lightning’s instant settlement
1:06:26 - Building a long term company
1:14:46 - Temperance during the boom
1:18:46 - Liquid BTC
1:27:28 - Axiom and further upcoming writing
1:41:04 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Jose Lemus from Ibex to discuss integrating the lightning network with businesses, barriers to adoption, cross-border payments, and more.
Jose on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jllemus
Ibex: https://www.poweredbyibex.io/
5:30 - Bitcoin Park riffing
7:37 - What’s up at Ibex?
22:24 - Impact of instant settlement
26:21 - Lightning Network, AI, Internet of Things
34:07 - What’s taking adoption so long?
36:49 - Bitcoin’s unique combination of properties
45:57 - Burden of compliance
49:45 - Fiat is the money of force
52:44 - KYC is the illicit activity
1:02:38 - Mexico partnership
1:03:44 - The purpose of financial products
1:12:36 - Bitcoin is a tween
1:17:30 - Don’t get distracted by bull markets
1:29:14 - Marty’s excited about energy and AI
1:35:36 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Ed Dowd to discuss jab injuries, RFK Jr, the peak of clown world extending ever upward, and more.
Ed Dowd on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DowdEdward
8:33 - The clown world peak keeps rising
15:41 - RFK Jr and the jab injury event horizon
25:17 - Distractions
29:00 - Debt event horizon has already passed
33:26 - Trust in the system degrading
37:05 - Bitcoin
38:42 - The CIA disapproves
38:53- Broken money and psyops
45:46 - Individual state power
49:29 - Three Letter Agencies don’t want this heard
54:31 - Hard times before good times
56:37 - Strong families
1:03:50 - Final note on RFK Jr
1:07:12 - I am Spartacus
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Marty sits down with Dan Gould to discuss Payjoin Dev Kit, how coinjoins protect privacy, and the experience of developing on Bitcoin.
Dan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitgould
Payjoin Dev Kit: https://payjoindevkit.org/
9:16 - Dan’s history
14:39 - Explaining CoinJoins
21:36 - How Payjoin reduces dox threat and reduces fees
35:09 - TURN servers
39:49 - How are PSBTs involved in Payjoin
42:45 - How coin selection is determined
36:30 - Separating PDK from BDK
50:03 - Completing BDK
53:38 - Payjoin’s role going forward
57:54 - Chain surveillance and prosecuting CoinJoins
1:03:51 - Right to privacy
1:08:18 - Multi receiver PayJoin
1:09:42 - Less frustration on Bitcoin development
1:15:18 - Will Bitcoin reach sufficient ossification?
1:18:25 - Plugs and wrapping
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Marty sits down with Sam Wouters to discuss Bitcoin's rate of adoption for cross-border payments.
Sam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SDWouters
Sam's report on River blog: https://blog.river.com/bitcoin-vs-the-156-trillion-global-payments-industry/
0:00 - Intro
2:30 - Finding bitcoin through Runescape
9:22 - New educational resources in Bitcoin
13:27 - Diving into Sam’s report
17:51 - Structure of the report
21:39 - Chapter 1: Cross-border payments industry
31:53 - Comparing Bitcoin and internet adoption
41:37 - Remittance education
48:31 - Getting into charts on remittance volume
56:18 - Chapter 2: Global bitcoin adoption
1:07:58 - Motivation for adoption
1:13:39 - Chapter 3: Cross-border Bitcoin payments
1:23:13 - What makes bitcoin better for remittance
1:26:28 - Lightning services
1:30:26 - Bitcoin for payments
1:33:32 - Google search traffic for Bitcoin
1:39:17 - B2C
1:44:35 - Chapter 4: Growing cross-border Bitcoin payments
1:51:36 - Adoption funnel
1:55:33 - Marty tries to quote himself before wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Luke Gromen to discuss inflation catching up with the world.
Luke on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LukeGromen
0:00 - Intro
6:33 - UK inflation
11:02 - American banking crisis lull
18:12 - Structural problems in energy
25:56 - Liquidity issues with massive bank accounts
31:33 - Debt ceiling
33:13 - Retirement and target date funds
40:18 The Ukraine distraction
45:54 - Collapse in skilled labor and infrastructure
50:41 - Taking on troubled times
54:55 - Bitcoin’s interaction with energy
57:05 - Landing on the wrong side of stagflation
59:19 - Bitcoin eliminates banking BS
1:01:34 - Treasury bond duration risk
1:06:22 - 40 year bull market over, gold and Bitcoin win
1:13:51 - Wrapping
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Marty sits down with Townsend Lansing to discuss BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF.
Townsend on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TownsendLansing
0:00 - Intro
8:40 - Inflation hitting the UK
11:07 - Introducing Townsend, Blackrock ETF
19:10 - SEC approval
25:23 - APA
26:46 - How Bitcoin market could be affected
29:28 - People becoming aware of crypto risk
31:23 - How the grantor trust works
35:50 - ETF liquidity
42:12 - Bitcoin’s better security
45:30 - Will bitcoin financial products be treated differently?
48:05 - Approval is unlikely
49:52 - Bitcoin’s impact on finance
51:13 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with John Titus to discuss the liquidity crisis caused by the Fed.
John's Substack: https://bestevidence.substack.com/
Best Evidence on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@BestEvidence
5:30 - Killer whales and banks lacking liquidity
16:13 - The Fed is at the center
21:01 - Coordinated consolidation effort
26:28- The strength of cash
33:57 - John’s origin story
39:09 - Fix the money, fix the world
42:20 - Dollar endgame
45:06 - John on Bitcoin
49:38 - The system is run by those who hate you
52:54 - Life expectancy decline
55:35 - Tyranny thrives in the fear of resistance
58:39 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Austin Mitchell, Lisa Scott, and Alan Schroeder from Synota to discuss bringing energy providers over to Bitcoin and LN. Synota on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Synota_
6:35 - Meet Synota
14:05 - Payment settlement struggles for utilites
16:56 - How Synota integrates
23:47 - Financing possibilities
26:20 - Utilities grokking bitcoin
34:07 - Effects of decentralizing the grid
45:22 - The team’s orange pilling
49:41 - Mining industry is maturing
55:56 - Efficiency impact of instant payments
1:01:11 - Mining permanent funds
1:05:03 - Issues building on lightning
1:10:57 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Balaji Srinivasan for the longest episode of TFTC yet, going in depth on the nature of the incoming fiat crisis.
Balaji on Twitter: https://twitter.com/balajis
6:13 - How does the debt ceiling contribute to the fiat crisis?
9:48 - Reality check
21:38 - History is running in reverse
25:09 - The unipolar moment is over
38:05 - America is 3 tribes
44:42 - Democracy has 4 definitions
55:33 - India adopting pragmatic democracy
59:08 - China won’t go away
1:07:03 - USSA
1:36:11 - How America gets its strength back
1:43:16 - Dollar nationalists, social media politics
1:53:20 - It’s not one nation, it’s two parties with verbal footsoldiers
2:07:15 - The Gray tribe
2:35:47 - Blue losing media control
2:39:46 - Recap, Blue’s remaining power
2:45:48 - The tribal filter on the banking situation
3:01:36 - The declining US empire
3:13:13 - Blue America’s infrastructure highlights
3:16:40 - Exiting through Bitcoin
3:20:18 - We’ve lost our moon shoes
3:22:24 - The writing’s on the wall and states have incentive to exit early
3:42:53 - People robbed by cantillon cities are likely to get mad
3:48:13 - Fed now is a CBDC no matter what they say
4:05:15 - Civil unrest precursors
4:08:24 - Hiding insolvency
4:11:13 - History mirroring
4:17:04 - Reflecting on a long show, doling white pills
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8:12 - Baltic hockey
17:17 - Debt ceiling bye bye
22:55 - New basemoney drop!
36:19 - Bitcoin base vs top fiat, reverse repo
49:41 - Bank failures
1:01:54 - Treasury markets
1:05:34 - Fannie & Freddie debt numbers
1:09:32 - Balaji says FedNow is a CBDC
1:17:02 - Sidebar on children
1:18:19 - Back on topic, centralization will continue
1:23:45 - Sovereign sat and gold stacking
1:34:41 - Quick stats
1:35:56 - Full reserve in Texas
1:45:37 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Matt Dines from Build to discuss the retirement landscape and how to handle a large scale transition to Bitcoin as a primary store of value.
Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BuildCIO
Check out Build: https://buildbitcoin.com/
8:17 - What’s happening to retirement funds
11:49 - Balance sheets of the American household
26:23 - History of retirement accounts
30:30 - The post-Covid financial landscape
34:52 - Retirement account participation
46:14 - Legislation isn’t the answer
50:09 - Primary residence ownership and mortgage backed securities
55:39 - Target Date Funds
1:01:28 - US bond market selloff
1:09:45 - Near-dated TDF vs inflation
1:13:12 - Investment/retirement industry isn’t keeping up
1:17:59 - Bridging the gap to Bitcoin with Build
1:32:15 - Bitcoin lending
1:46:36 - Unchained
1:53:57 - Explaining the mindset
2:02:31 - The flywheel of truth
2:08:12 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with James Poulos to discuss the tyranny of the digital age.
James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamespoulos
Human Forever: https://canonic.xyz/books/1YV9yExbmJ9mgBXNM81TouJuDtqxH2PpL
6:00 - Rising transhumanism
12:37 - Defining the humanity we fight for
19:54 - Breaking people apart
29:14 - False gods
34:23 - Fighting on the digital level
38:39 - Changing the tide
47:50 - The moment of humility
50:31 - Return to traditional family
56:55 - Focusing attention
58:26 - Being human is better
1:00:44 - Judging yourself first
1:02:55 - Sloth
1:12:04 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Dr. Michael Rectenwald to discuss the The Great Reset, stakeholder capitalism, CBDCs, and asserting autonomy against a neo-feudal future.
Michael's website: https://www.michaelrectenwald.com/
Michael's Mises presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGg9j-qCNt0
8:07 - Michael’s presentation on Great Reset
10:29 - Stakeholder capitalism
14:15 - ESG leads to corporate rule
18:32 - Mock the rulers
20:23 - Neo-techno-feudalism while infrastructure breaks
24:03 - Refusing CBDCs, Bitcoin and gold
27:21 - Bitcoiners at Mises and Bitcoin FUD
29:45 - The lies are being noticed
32:28 - Control through social credit and social perception
36:55 - The letter agencies cause the problems they claim to solve
38:04 - Asserting autonomy
44:37 - Bank failures will be the CBDC trigger
46:42 - Defending against ideological onslaught
51:05 - Fighting evil
54:20 - Wrapping up, plugs
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Marty sits down with Lyle Pratt, founder and CEO of Vida, to talk about what he's building. Lyle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lylepratt Check out Vida: https://vida.page/
12:48 - What’s Vida?
16:56 - Lyle’s history
20:51 - Telecom architecture and using bitcoin to solve problems
27:57 - New tools like AI, Nostr, and LN
32:30 - Current state of lightning
33:46 - Vida demo with some difficulties
35:45 - Monetizing your attention
37:41 - The Vida team
44:56 - Vida can be a better Restream
50:44 - Lightning adoption is a bright light in a dark future
1:01:12 - Future Nostr integration
1:05:28 - Leveraging AI
1:10:29 - Explaining LLMs
1:16:46 - Living in interesting times
1:27:20 - Resource demands of AI
1:31:03 - Thank God For Bitcoin
1:36:31 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Obi Nwosu to talk about the origins of Fedi, an explaination of Fedimints, antifragile freedom technology.
Obi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/obi
Fedi: https://www.fedi.xyz/
8:26 - Austin’s a nice place
12:32 - Comparing the beginnings of Coinfloor and Fedi
22:00 - Explaining Fedi
34:19 - Applications made possible by Fedi
40:59 - Fedi ambassadors
46:20 - The freedom made possible by Fedi
53:12 - Fedipools and off-grid mining
57:38 - The antifragile nature of Bitcoin
1:07:36 - Has the mission gotten more urgent?
1:13:53 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Peter St Onge to discuss the all aspects of the impending economic strife and why there's plenty of hope on the other end.
Peter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/profstonge
Peter's Substack: https://stonge.substack.com/
Heritage Foundation: https://www.heritage.org/
Mises Institue: https://mises.org/
9:27 - Starting with Modern Monetary Theory
14:54 - Fed policy heading off a cliff
24:39 - Approaching the debt ceiling and unemployment
33:28 - A whitepilled take on imminent collapse
39:57 - They pushed too far too early
44:53 - Hidden purpose behind the lies
55:45 - What happens without the state
59:43 - What the state has devoured and destroyed
1:09:29 - BS Environment policy and cronyism
1:14:45 - Bitcoin adoption and the convolution if banks
1:26:00 - Full/fractional reserve banking
1:35:48 - When will the US default?
1:42:44 - Energy nonsense and mocking the rulers
1:55:28 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Lee Slusher for a sober analysis of the war.
Lee on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeeBTConsulting
Lee's Substack:https://deepdivewithleeslusher.substack.com/
Lee's website: http://lee-bt.com/
6:24- Lee’s background
9:43 - War in Ukraine and possible outcomes
16:30 - History leading up to current war
21:13 - Derussification
24:02 - Comparing Ukranian and Russian military
31:43 - Western intervention
38:38 - War’s role in economic crisis and US election
43:23 - Afghanistan
50:04 - If we fight Russia and lose
55:01 - US and EU need to solve their own problems
1:04:16 - How do we get back on the right track
1:11:55 - Taiwan
1:26:37 - Realistic evaluation
1:32:51 - Wrapping up, plugs
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Marty sits down again with Whitney Webb to discuss failing banks funneling toward JP Morgan and how CBDCs are leading to a transhumanist future.
Whitney on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_whitneywebb
Whitney's Website: https://unlimitedhangout.com/
9:17 - Ninja launch
12:11 - Banks failing and consolidating
19:02 - Story of Jamie Dimon
26:38 - Reexamining 2008
31:10 - CBDCs, biometrics and control
40:11 - JP Morgan, Wexner and Crown
44:59 - WSJ callout
50:36 - Noam Chomsky
54:55 - Are people waking up?
1:07:16 - Satan and transhumanism
1:22:18 - Google and Disney
1:28:12 - Whitney's talk at Bitcoin Miami
1:32:02 - Nobody's saving you
1:35:49 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Steve Barbour before the first Nakamoto Forum debate to talk about energy, mining, and replacing the US Dollar.
Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SGBarbour
Upstream Data: https://blog.upstreamdata.ca/
7:30 - Bitcoin dev conflict of interest
19:18 - Bitcoin reaching maturity
21:01 - Russian mining
25:37 - Fiat IOUs
28:30 - The state of US mining
34:25 - Will "Coal" Cole
38:09 - Upstream's progress since Steve's last pod
47:06 - Hydro is better for portability
55:31 - New design
59:53 - Is coal the future?
1:04:48 - Hydrocarbons debate
1:08:33 - Lizard men
1:10:57 - Mock the rulers
1:19:03 - Fiat dying
1:25:01 - Wrapping up
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Marty sits down with Peruvian Bull to discuss how the world will move away from the USD reserve.
Peruvian Bull on Twitter: https://twitter.com/peruvian_bull
Check out Dollar Endgame: https://thedollarendgame.com/
12:01 - Starting out writing on Reddit
17:48 - Is the dollar currently in its endgame?
23:02 - Weaponizing dollar against Russia hurt US
25:19 - Past the debt event horizon
33:45 - Bitcoin reserve
36:21 - Will BRICS BUCS gain traction?
41:06 - A great opportunity for bitcoiners
44:01 - Nations missing the Bitcoin bus
49:40 - Converting individuals to Bitcoin
52:02 - Why Latin America understands intuitively
55:43 - SUPERSTONK
58:42 - Suffering in the streets
1:00:51 - Price post-hyperbitcoinization
1:03:57 - Societal impact of hyperbitcoinization
1:10:24 - The next 3 months
1:17:01 - technical difficulties
1:17:59 - Dollar losing network effect
1:21:42 - Plugs
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Marty sits down with Charles Mayfield to talk about Keto Con, the wonders of pig biology, and the destruction of food and agriculture wrought by corporations and legislation.
Charles on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrChuckFit
Farrow: https://farrow.life/
11:01 - Marty field tested the skin food
12:20 - Keto Con
16:58 - Epic Dermis
20:59 - Why Farrow
24:34 - Pigs
34:05 - Untrustworthy institutions
41:10 - Poison in the livestock
45:43 - Insidious legislature
51:01 - Looking at more accurate health markers
1:00:26 - Big Pharma and Big Ag
1:05:57- Resisting mRNA food
1:10:31 - Life insurance story
1:12:15 - Instilling urgency
1:16:40 - Symbiosis
1:22:56 - Blackpill/Whitepill
1:29:58 - Mock the rulers
1:33:52 - 3 years of madness
1:40:47 - Health is wealth
1:43:43 - Big week for Farrow
1:47:46 - Marty is a glowing god of goodness
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Marty sits down with Michael Koss and Dr. Joel Wallskog for a discussion of injuries from the Covid-19 shot, React19, and the Dartmouth College roundtable.
Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mkoss126
Joel on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/WallskogJoel
React19 roundtable at Dartmouth: https://react19.org/DartC19/
9:47 - Michael's background - Dartmouth roundtable
18:30 - Joel's background - React19
27:34 - Politicization of the jab
29:25 - Doubling down on bad decisions
32:13 - Justice for crimes against humanity
35:29 - Regulators' lost credibility
42:15 - Incompetence or malice?
49:47 - Fixing incentives
56:55 - Bringing it back to bitcoin
1:03:50 - Speaking to the silent majority
1:12:17 - Wrapping up
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0:00 - Intro
5:26 - Marty's chair is stolen
7:11 - OnRamp's use case and problems to solve
14:28 - Legal structure of OnRamp
19:30 - Difficulty in educating on self custody
31:10 - Decentralized control
41:55 - How will OnRamp's launch impact the market?
51:59 - The adoption curve
55:01 - Qualified custodians vs collaborative custody
1:00:36 - A new industry model
1:10:16 - OnRamp's educational mission
1:20:20 - OnRamp's content platform and new podcast
1:26:27 - Plugs
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8:14 - What the hell is going on?
13:08 - Communicating ideas
20:04 - Intentions of the Fed and big American banks
31:39 - Europe in trouble as rates raise
38:41 - Pivot to BRICS
42:20 - FIMA
47:52 - Keeping a finger on the pulse
51:03 - Multi-vector attack on America
55:36 - Trump's indictment and the need for trust
58:37 - Tom's take on Bitcoin
1:02:01 - Stablecoins
1:04:48 - Can the Fed fix what they've created?
1:15:17 - Shaping reality with headlines
1:17:08 - Credit where credit is due
1:20:03 - The Fed on Bitcoin and crypto
1:25:06 - Congealed energy
1:28:51 - Keep your eggs in more baskets
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Pod
8:57 - Opening Riff
14:51 - Information Freedom
18:57 - Bitcoin responsibility and remembering your keys
24:19 - Patriot Act 2.0 and thinking local
28:25 - Mining and energy
38:30 - Trans politics and transhumanism
52:41 - Nostr
55:50 - v4v
1:08:43 - Joe Rogan
1:13:23 - Go make children
1:15:50 - Modern dating
1:18:08 - Comedy mothership
1:21:22 - Elon, CBDCs and AI
1:33:27 - Habla
1:36:00 - Self hosting and running nodes
1:38:56 - v4v electric boogaloo
1:46:29 - Thank God for Bitcoin
1:54:59 - No Agenda
1:58:59 - These timestamps took a lot of condensing
2:00:11 - Drugs, digital and pharmaceutical
2:08:05 - v4v thunderdome
2:29:12 - Truth For The Commoner
2:30:56 - Meetups
2:30:58 - We're gonna win
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5:23 - California emissions and electric cars
14:08 - Material supply for EVs
16:21 - California's oil hypocrisy
21:15 - EGS mandates don't preserve environment or help human life
27:06 - Nuclear safety
32:48 - Small modular reactors
48:52 - Wind and solar subsidies
52:52 - Ranting on batteries
55:08 - Unreliable and inefficient renewables
1:04:05 - Top down ideological policy
1:09:27 - Regulations are the root of the problem
1:14:11 - Questioning beliefs and educating
1:19:25 - Money and energy are the backbone
1:25:23 - Speaking out
1:29:56 - Plugs, wrapping up
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9:14 - Q4 update, just in time for Q1
13:32 - Bitcoin price
22:29 - The results of raising interest
24:42 - Bond duration risk
32:30 - QE5
34:40 - Choke Point 2.0
38:14 - Balaji's price prediction
46:53 - FedNow
55:04 - CDBC destroying big banks
1:00:09 - US state rights
1:05:21 - Flaring natural gas
1:11:00 - Blood in the water, Bitcoin is the way out
1:19:18 - Custodia Bank
1:27:17 - Black markets and civil disobedience
1:31:09 - Monetary base
1:39:09 - Back to CBDCs
1:45:33 - Bitcoin's rank in monetary base
1:47:22 - We're gonna win
1:59:39 - Gold and Silver
2:06:19 - Wrapping up
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5:26 - In town for SXSW talking about CFA franc
10:06 - Colonial exploitation
17:21 - Transfer of control of energy
19:51 - Outsourcing the cost
28:24 - The unrecorded losses
36:38 - Structural Adjustment
42:36 - What it could look like without the current system
49:32 - Double standard
52:51 - Bitcoin fixes this
1:01:13 - No political solution
1:04:16 - Odious debt
1:10:10 - Biological effect of wage deflation
1:12:30 - Bitcoin fixes this - again
1:20:00 - Wrapping up
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Sitting down with Garrett Ziegler to discuss the Biden laptop.
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5:26 - Investigating the Biden family
14:53 - Firsthand sources
17:20 - Foreign interests
26:54 - Hunter the political whore
29:31 - Not a democrat/republican issue
34:58 - Legal action against the laptop shop
38:45 - Fake info
41:41 - Plausibility of forgetting the laptop
45:06 - Laundering money through Ukraine VC
48:51 - Joe is the main story
52:28 - IPhone backup
56:33 - What are intentions of the agencies?
58:23 - Joe's dementia
1:01:24 - What can be done
1:05:05 - What Americans should take away
1:07:55 - Secret daughters
1:09:52 - Gerontocracy
1:15:36 - Hope for the future
1:18:16 - International trade
1:22:46 - Climate nonsense
1:26:06 - Truth For The Commoner
1:31:42 - Garrett won't apologize
1:34:24 - Wrap up/plugs
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6:06 - Thinking beyond the crowd
9:08 - The democratic response to Covid
14:57 - The next few years will shape the next half century
20:05 - Flaws in Bitcoin
27:13 - Escaping the Current Thing dichotomy
32:24 - Generational differences
36:51 - Calming the urgency to assess
45:51 - Comedy
49:41 - State of the UK
51:21 - People are tiring of woke culture
52:54 - Ukraine
1:04:54 - Baltic history
1:09:00 - Hong Kong
1:11:13 - Dangers of nihilism
1:16:21 - Plugs and wrapping up
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9:15 - Is it happening?
11:40 - The Fed caused bank failures, not crypto
19:15 - SVB balance sheet
24:49 - History of bank cash assets
30:07 - How QE is done without QE
38:51 - The cycles accelerate every time
44:52 - The system is built for moral hazard
49:39 - Trust in traditional money is failing
57:06 - Will Bitcoin be blamed?
1:00:54 - Bitcoiners shouldn't waste their time
1:03:42 - Bitcoin's most important next steps
1:09:57 - Bitcoin Takeover
1:13:34 - Bitcoin is more important than ever
1:18:12 - QE5 is here
1:23:13 - Wrapping up
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7:12 - The myth of inflation and unemployment
13:39 - The problem with CPI as a metric
21:59 - Does the US have the fiscal capability to handle Fed policy?
26:04 - Nations abandoning USD reserve
31:30 - Bitcoin not yet big enough to settle international trade
34:07 - Lyn's view on current bitcoin
38:03 - Fedi pools and other centralizing factors
41:06 - Emerging markets driving adoption
44:44 - Supply side issues
47:38 - Fed unprofitable
51:39 - Glimmers of hope
55:52 - Will energy policy change?
1:08:58 - War drums
1:13:30 - Highlighting the solutions through Bitcoin
1:15:41 - Fed blindspots
1:20:16 - Wrapping up, plugs
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9:55 - Riffing on infrastructure
17:18 - Current condition of real estate
22:43 - Marty asks question, are we in the eye of the storm?
27:04 - New home buyers are screwed
32:44 - Stopping the cycle with bitcoin
35:51 - Inflation is real, believe your lying eyes
45:42 - Debt slavery
49:03 - No man's land
50:46 - Hyperinflation looks near
56:57 - Diverting attention
1:01:18 - Bitcoin Urbanism
1:13:59 - Real estate is a shitcoin
1:16:14 - Strong Towns
1:19:08 - 15 Minute Cities
1:30:06 - The state of digital tech masks how bad it is
1:38:08 - California's decline
1:45:19 - Bitcoin fixes this
1:51:26 - Building on bitcoin
1:56:22 - Bullish vibes, plugs, wrapping up
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0:00 - Intro
5:37 - Divine Synchronicity
12:57 - Children are artillery against degenerate culture
20:58 - Broken money
27:03 - Debt slavery
31:30 - Threats to mining
35:39 - Future of Texas
38:19 - Ed Dowd's theory
42:33 - Awakening NPCs
51:48 - Blackpilled on leaders
54:35 - Whitepilled on Bitcoin
59:49 - Streaming sats
1:06:31 - Censorship resistance
1:13:44 - We're gonna win
1:20:35 - Who are we up against?
1:34:58 - Spreading the word
1:41:16 - Don't be a coomer
1:43:29 - Energy humiliation
1:48:11 - Carbon
1:54:37 - Nuclear
2:00:35 - Beef Initiative
2:01:51 - Wrapping up
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7:38 - Great American Mining: Origins
18:24 - The state of off grid mining
22:17 - Designing for diverse domains
24:01 - Deadly details
31:09 - Pioneer challenges
34:57 - Applying bitcoin and mining everywhere
39:52 - Cathedra research on over/underclocking
48:29 - How heat affects chips
53:34 - Finding the sweet spot
56:47 - The future of mining and energy
1:12:55 - Changing the ASIC market
1:19:40 - Bullish vibes, creating an engineering renaissance
1:31:27 - Wrapping up
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5:43- The beginning of Replit
13:46 - Replit's utility
15:34 - Replit's goals
22:03 - The marriage of bounties, bitcoin and AI
29:09 - Stakwork
31:37 - Is AI a Pandora's Box?
41:09 - AI impact on workforce
44:55 - Incoming social changes
53:01 - Bitcoin is hope, the way out must be built
58:17 - What's needed to drive bitcoin adoption?
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8:40 - Nostr's improved a lot
17:16 - The business opportunity of Nostr
19:46 - What makes a good relay?
24:15 - Nostr+LN is the real web 3.0
34:30 - Myles's background
37:35 - Proof of Stake is bad for the soul
44:28 - Finding LN
50:35 - Kollider
1:07:42 - Ordinals
1:18:37 - Bullish on lightning
1:35:46 - Nostr wishlist
1:42:53 - Wrapping up
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6:52 - Andy's background
11:00 - Bitcoin's intellectual capital bottleneck
14:55 - Reaching out for talent
20:14 - Understanding bitcoiners offers an edge
23:06 - Education
27:42 - Recruiters are the first laid off
29:46 - Recruiting pains in rapidly growing companies
32:09 - Back to education
36:25 - Crediting contributors
40:24 - Addressing concerns of bitcoin being too niche
44:15 - Everyone's going to need bitcoin knowledge
49:10 - BTCo just launched, what's next?
51:22 - The design bounty
52:56 - Comparison to jobs boards and general recruitment industry
59:38 - Common blunders in recruiting
1:05:25 - HEY YOU! Get a bitcoin job!
1:07:01 - Final thoughts
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6:31 - Broad explanation of microbiomes
11:11 - Observations during Covid
17:17 - Jabs kill microbiome
21:16 - Trusting compliant messengers over dissonant doctors
28:47 - Humanity medically shot itself in the foot
31:13 - How to regrow (and technical hiccups)
33:14 - Freedom and truth
40:06 - Keeping your body healthy
46:43 - Wrapping up, plugs
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5:22 - The time for wandering is over
8:08 - Defining friendship
12:06 - The bonds of warrior cultures
15:29 - Bushido of Bitcoin
17:58 - The impact of schooling
23:11 - Quality over quantity, the value of restraint
30:13 - Moral corruption
40:35 - The Bitcoin Times vol. 5: The Austrian Edition
48:47 - Next edition: Energy
54:40 - Climate LARPing and "sustainable" energy
1:05:53 - Order and entropy
1:08:24 - The Twitter hazard
1:10:51 - Narrowing focus
1:16:33 - How to sell running a node
1:23:52 - Plugs
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6:14 - Technical issues right out the gate
8:04 - Artist monetization struggles
11:43 - Wavlake explained
15:02 - The publishing company model
19:48 - V4V audience interaction
21:56 - V4V artist profit
25:01 - Other models to integrate
29:17 - Building a music index
33:17 - Changing the artist mindset
38:34 - Podcasts vs music
43:50 - Orange pilling through music
46:38 - Nostr
57:41 - Artists are sick of the current model
1:03:07 - Playing the slow game
1:06:50 - Wavlake causing incentive change
1:10:56 - Using V4V to improve recommendations
1:13:16 - Future of LN
1:17:20 - V4V boosts are growing in general
1:22:54 - Lightning store
1:28:15 - Plugs and final thoughts
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6:10 - VPN convention
10:42 - VPNs explained
16:23 - VPN traps
19:23 - TOR
23:10 - Running your own VPN
26:30 - Vetting VPN services
35:23 - Wireguard
39:28 - Paying for a VPN privately
42:09 - LN privacy and Monero
45:33 - Fedimint
53:14 - Viktor's story, don't be a coomer
1:05:55 - Attacks on IVPN
1:07:59 - How the current internet makes VPNs necessary
1:12:22 - Expanding IVPN
1:17:34 - State attack vectors on VPNs
1:22:50 - Final thoughts
1:26:02 - Plugs
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5:10 - Update on findings in the last 10 months
10:29 - The censorship is obvious now
12:29 - What is the censorship hiding?
15:26 - Continuous jabs seem to only make things worse
17:43 - Making peace after the social conflict
20:50 - Collapsing workforce
23:37 - The deaths are getting conspicuous
28:42 - The system may be preparing for a takeover
33:05 - Bitcoin and its psyop impersonators
35:40 - Hedge fund
38:05 - Opportunities for entrepreneurs
40:04 - Everyone's on medication
45:29 - Will the NPCs ever catch on?
48:36 - Will the country start to fragment?
51:31 - Energy disaster
54:50 - Final thoughts
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8:02 - Opening riff
11:54 - Intro to Farrow
16:58 - Why lard
20:16 - Making the first Farrow cream
24:35 - Science behind animal based skin products
26:32 - Sunburns and sunscreen
36:00 - Why is skincare important?
38:05 - Perils of mainstream skincare
43:23 - Fossil fuels
47:38 - Regenerative farming
54:30 - Ignoring the nature of complex systems
1:01:44 - Scalability of regenerative farming
1:04:13 - Red tape
1:12:30 - Vilification of healthy food
1:17:53 - Seed oil origins
1:23:01 - The power of marketing
1:24:39 The call of nature
1:26:26 - Catching on to the lies
1:31:44 - Humans have the power to reverse their destruction
1:33:41 - Allan Savory
1:37:13 - Fixing the money
1:41:12 - More mechanics of regen farming
1:48:43 - Respecting the animal
1:51:30 - Plugs
1:53:57 - Adaptability
1:57:34 - Wrapping up
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5:11 - Why Virunga?
11:51 - Importance of energy for improving human life
13:57 - Setting the scene
20:45 - Involvement of a Belgian Prince
25:46 - Jobs provided by the hydroelectric plant
27:55 - The Bitcoin mine
30:32 - Risk of violent threats to the Bitcoin mine
38:02- The lives in Africa improved by Bitcoin
39:53 - How the Virunga mine improves Bitcoin's image
44:38 - Disagreements on the value of regulation
47:51 - Fix the money, fix the world
51:17 - Plugs and wrapping up
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6:23 - Opening riff
9:45 - OP_VAULT
12:18 - Origins of covenants
16:02 - Further iterations and designing the best vault
21:18 - Explaining vaults
25:36 - UTXO batching
27:32 - Use cases
32:29 - Ideal UX
37:03 - Feedback on the opcode
42:22 - Zooming out on implications
43:47 - Back to mailing list feedback
45:48 - When is the BIP coming?
48:09 - Bitcoin core governance
55:55 - Bitcoin ossification
59:32 - How should governance change?
1:06:43 - New blood in Core project
1:10:04 - Bearish vibes
1:16:51 - Is there room for project managers?
1:20:13 - Supporting new developers
1:29:53 - Bearish again
1:32:17 - Back to OP_VAULT
1:37:30 - Plugs and closing riff
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6:47 - Back on the show after 2 years
9:06 - What's Voltage?
14:23 - Witnessing growth of Voltage and LN
17:43 - What have been LN's biggest strides?
19:44 - Could LN fail?
22:50 - VLS
25:17 - Favorite LN implementation?
27:10 - It's not really one network
30:06 - PTLCs
32:38 - There's lot's left new people to do
34:53 - Learning from and educating customers
41:07 - Making liquidity easier
45:09 - Flow and Surge
49:30 - Voltage privacy
50:16 - Competition for Voltage
55:45 - How's bitcoin doing in general?
58:44 - How does a Bitcoin company handle a potential long bear market?
1:01:43 - Conference fatigue
1:02:59 - Emerging markets driving adoption
1:06:53 - AI and value4value
1:10:29 - Will wallets consolidate?
1:11:48 - Future for Voltage
1:17:31 - Parting words
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5:58 - Coffee rip!
8:23 - Questions on 3D printing
15:35 - CryptoCloaks
19:59 - Story of the space heater
23:36 - Temp limits on 3D printed parts
24:46 - What space heater ASICs can do for hash distribution
27:45 - Rick's Bitcoin story
30:43 - Everyone Bitcoiner should have a 3D printer
35:05 - Where 3D printing is going
38:15 - AI
44:22 - Back to CryptoCloaks
50:07 - UK store
51:01 - Word for entrepreneurs
53:47 - Running a bitcoin based business
1:03:16 - Narrative battle
1:10:05 - Ring drones
1:11:43 - What's next for CryptoCloaks
1:13:48 - Plugs
1:14:45 - Mining tangent
1:18:11 - Outro
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2:09:30 - A story of redonkulous financial degeneracy
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2:31:50 - Family dynamics changed by economy
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2:44:29 - Marty is a lesbian woman with two children
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2:52:04 - Ukraine
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39:17 - fiatjaf's monthly bounty
41:32 - Open source community
42:25 - Building Nostr to return to the old internet
49:57 - Three Letter Agencies controlling social media
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13:46 - Miners could start self censoring
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24:09 - Warren's terminology of "money transmission"
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40:28 - Christine Lagarde
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- canaan revenues increased by 237%
- cambridge numbers are flawed
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- summer of bitcoin mentorship program gets over 20K applicants
- bitcoin education initiative launches in 40 high schools in Argentina
- coincorner releases Bolt Card, a lightning payment card
- Brink funds Michael Ford
- BitMEX extends Gleb Naumenko's grant
- a guide for bitcoin open source grant seekers
- Ministry of Nodes Bitcoin Node Box Guide 2022
- bitcoin seed tool v1.0.5
- sparrow wallet v1.6.4
- gloria zhao releases package relay proposal
- pieter wuille on private authentication protocols
- new stablecoin backed by coldcards
- this month in bitcoin privacy
- fiatjaf on lightning penalty transactions
- adopting bitcoin 2022 announced
- mccormack releases film about el salvador
- how bitcoin should be upgraded in the future
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- Former lead of Facebook's shitcoin project launches lightning project https://www.lightspark.com
- SBF buys 7.6% stake in Robinhood https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/12/ftx-ceo-sam-bankman-fried-buys-56m-position-in-robinhood/
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- coinbase $309B volume Q1, $430M loss
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- conversation with rusty on his proposal on dispatch
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- grayscale privately met with SEC trying to get GBTC approved as an etf
- costa rica declares national emergency over ransomware attacks
- CD64: BIP119, CTV, and the bitcoin development process with @rusty_twit and @brian_trollz
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- fbi did millions of searches of americans data last year without a warrant
- bitcoin mining council submits letter to EPA
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- Mexican bitcoin exchange Tauros adds lightning
- currency of last resort by gladstein
- paypal being used to censor speech
- all internet and payment providers ordered to block three streaming sites by federal judge
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- HRF announces five bitcoin in new grants
- central african republic makes bitcoin a legal tender
- bitcoin core v23.0
- btcpay v1.5.0
- fountain podcasts v0.3.16
- braiins farm proxy reduces data usage
- amboss magma
- synonym launches blocktank LSP
- americans can now pay bills through bitrefill
- bitcoin jungle in costa rica
- Apple Private Relay causes VPN leaks
- farrington: I Finance the Current Thing
- Negative GDP print
- New “Disinformation Governance Board” formed in the US
- German PPI
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This week Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- TSMC Raises $3.5 Billion to build facility in Arizona
- Binance Accounts of Russians with over 10K Euros will be closed in 90 days
- Russian Mining Firm Bitriver hit with sanctions
- Compass Mining announces they were using Bitriver for russian hosting and all miners will be shut off and liquidated
- NY Man running Bitcoin ATMS charged with money laundering
- Bitcoin for Local Businesses
- Bitcoin Magazine Partners with Ukranian NBA Players for Humanitarian
- Flared-Gas Bitcoin Miner Crusoe Energy Raises $350M
- CipherTrace Ransomware Report
- How Bitcoin Miners Were Airlifted From China to the US
- How Democracies Spy on their Citizens
- Yellen walking out of G20 meeting
- Food supply chain under attack
- FBI warns of ransomware attacks targeting US agriculture sector
- Global energy crisis
- Thoughts on Ukraine, The Martyrmade Podcast
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Official US inflation number hits 8.5%, 40 year high
- Sri Lanka declares bankruptcy
- Eth Dev sentenced to over 5 years in jail for sanctions violation
- Strike to bring lightning to merchants
- Robinhood enables withdrawals and adds lightning support
- Bitpay adds lightning support
- Janet Yellen explains bitcoin
- CNBC on bitcoin helping refugees with cross border payments
- New bitcoin seed tool
- New Zoltan piece
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- EU Parliament votes for more bitcoin surveillance and restrictions
- mempool space launches new mining dashboard
- kraken adds lightning support
- new hub for bitcoin bounties
- c-lightning changes name to core lightning
- bitmex bank purchase falls through
- nix-bitcoin launches security fund
- chrome vulnerability update asap
- gitlab vulnerability update asap
- standard sats proposal
- joinmarket webui v0.0.5
- sparrow wallet v1.6.3
- btcpay server v1.4.8 fixes shopify bug
- specter v1.9.0 adds extensions
- how the freedom convoy could have used bitcoin privately
- wasabi blacklisting update
- zbd streamer
- strategic partnership between ten31 and seetee
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Join Marty as he sits down with Super Testnet.
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Join Marty as he sits down with journalist Michael Tracey to discuss the current corporate press coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war and what the "adults in the room" are pushing for.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- hubspot data leak impacted 30 cryptocurrency companies including nydig, swan, and blockfi
- if you were affected by hubspot compromise read this thread
- exxon expands bitcoin mining pilot to four countries
- russia open to selling natural gas for bitcoin, gold, and non dollar fiat
- thailand announces bitcoin payments ban
- wasabi ceo says censorship decision and chain surveillance partnership was voluntary
- alby v.17.0 adds keysend support
- sparrow wallet v1.6.2 adds full bip47 support
- PR to add support for BIP47 to BDK
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Join Marty as he sits down with Mike Umbro.
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This week Marty and Matt are discussing:
- Unchained Data Leak
- Arthur Hayes. Energy Cancelled
- Stratum V2
- Wasabi doing chain surveillance
- Kazakhstan Mining Equipment / Did not ban proof of work
- Block releases hardware wallet info
- UK Bitcoin ATMs forcing shutdown
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Join Marty as he sits down with CK, Pete Rizzo and Dylan LeClair from Bitcoin Magazine to talk about Bitcoin 2022 and building BTC Media into what it is today.
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Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Gladstein to discuss how America has funded its wars over the last 70 years.
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Join Marty as he sits down with Luke Gromen to discuss the global sovereign debt bubble that has been building for a century and why it may be beginning to pop.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- biden executive order is a nothing burger
- 600K azteco locations in Nigeria, azteco locations in Canada
- ukraine buys military gear with cryptocurrencies directly
- warren crafts bill targeting cryptocurrency in russia sanctions
- coinbase on their compliance and surveillance protocol
- ftx on their compliance and surveillance protocol
- senators look to lock down russias gold reserves
- credit suisse "bretton woods II"
- new initiative to roll out mesh nets in ukraine
- bisq v1.8.4
- twitter adds native Tor support
- foundation devices teases new hardware and app
- bitmex cofounder sam reed pleads guilty to bank secrecy violation
- Bitcoin and U.S. National Security: An Assessment of Bitcoin as a Strategic Opportunity for the United States
- bitcoin and cuban embargo
- secret surveillance program collects americans money transfer data
- ministry of nodes: starting your bitcoin journey
- Cathedra shareholder letter
- odell coindesk interview on privacy
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Join Marty as he sits back down with Lawrence Lepard and discuss surging commodities prices, de-dollarization and bitcoin.
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Join Marty as he sits back down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q4 2021 monetary base update and the macro landscape.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- how bitcoin helped a Ukraine refugee escape
- powell mentions need for more bitcoin regs due to sanction
- biden admin asking crypto exchanges to help ensure russians are not breaking sanctions
- visa and mastercard block russian banks from networks
- rust bip47 library
- robosats p2p exchange
- bitmex founders plead guilty, $10M fine, 6-12 months prison, each
- zeus v0.6.0
- sparrow v1.6.0
- raspiblitz v1.7.2
- umbrel v0.4.15
- block reports $1.96B bitcoin sales last quarter
- intel's new asic expected to be cheaper and 15% more efficient than S19 Pro
- this month in bitcoin privacy
- war funding by gladstein
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Join Marty as he sits down with London Paul to discuss what is happening in the world right now. Are sanctions effective? What led us to this situation? Is de-dollarization accelerating?
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Russia Ukraine Conflict
- Canada Protest
- Marty on Tucker Carlson
- Wasabi Wallet De-mix
- "Okay So Your Bank Account Is Frozen" Starter Pack
- Lightning Labs
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Join Marty as he sits down with Mark Jeftovic to discuss Bitcoin, tyranny in Canada, and becoming un-cancelable.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Canada uses "emergency powers" to target bank accounts, bitcoin, funding, and insurance of protestors
- Bitcoin protest fundraiser voluntarily shuts down while they determine best way to distribute funds
- Canadian RCMP issues blacklist notice for bitcoin addresses connected to protest
- Apple patches zero day exploit, update your devices
- Biden expected to issue an executive order related to bitcoin regulation next week
- US Gov seizes $7B held by Afghan Central Bank
- secret unapproved cia data collection program exposed
- UN negotiating new "cybercrime" treaty
- GRIID, Argo, and Block to be first customers of intel mining chip
- ConocoPhillips selling previously flared nat gas to bitcoin miners
- Congressman Davidson introduces bill to protect private bitcoin usage
- more info on bitfinex hack investigation released
- proposed US bill targets el salvadors bitcoin adoption
- fbi to form new bitcoin surveillance and seizure focused unit
- btcpayserver v.1.4.5:
- bitcoin-s v1.9.0:
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- thoughts on cashapps lightning user flow
- satsxsw hackathon announced, march 12th and 13th
- fidelity launches bitcoin ETP in Europe, ticker FBTC
- swan launches bitcoin canon education portal
- coldcard announces $25K bounty for a react native nfc implementation
- blockfi agrees to pay $100M fine to SEC
- open source dashboard for asic prices
Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Woods, a career long physician who had was fired for prescribing medicine.
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Join Marty as he sits down with Josh Mandel, Republican Senate Candidate out of Ohio, to discuss Bitcoin, populism, and the inner workings of Ohio politics.
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Join Marty as he sits down with Aleks Svetski to discuss the parallels between fire, bitcoin and teleportation.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- married couple arrested and 96K bitcoin seized over 2016 bitfinex hack
- canadian protests bitcoin fundraiser over 15 bitcoin
- KPMG Canada adds bitcoin to treasury
- Russia shares bitcoin regulation plan
- bitcoin design guide v2 launched
- Kazakhstan floats 500% tax increase on bitcoin miners
- EARN IT Bill proposed to scan all online messages
- sensei lightning node implementation released
- cypherpunkpay v1.0.13
- lnd v0.4.2-beta
- electrs v0.9.5
- lnbits v0.6.0
- btcpayserver v1.4.4
- umbrel v0.4.14
- blixt v0.4.1
- galoy v0.1.9
- mercury wallet v0.6.2
- hexa wallet v2.0.69
- whirlpool v0.10.13
- valkyrie bitcoin miners etf launches with ticker WGMI
- deventralized social media project bluesky announces independent Public Benefit LLC and board members
- kraken funding full time bitcoin rust maintainer
- Bitcoin is funding Ukraine defense
- fountain podcaster wallet launched
- opennode raises $20M, now valued at $220M
- binance buys a stake in forbes
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Join Marty as he sits down with Max Gagliardi, host of Talk.Energy, to discuss the state of Bitcoin and energy.
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Join Marty as he sits down with retired Army Blackhawk Pilot Jesse Matchey to discuss the WEF rabbit hole.
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Join Marty as he sits down with Texas Slim, founder of The Beef Initiative, and Cole Bolton, founder of K&C Cattle Co, to discuss the state of the food supply.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- canadian truckers gofundme suspended "under review"
- sparrow, bluewallet, and trezor remove AOPP support
- why AOPP is a risk
- Biden considering executive order against bitcoin
- Congressman Davidson supports financial privacy
- bill introduced to make bitcoin a legal tender in arizona
- IRS signals retreat on block reward taxation
- Kraken launches proof of reserves tool
- Fulcrum electrum server much more performant than electrs or electrumx
- Saylor and Dorsey keynote
- BTCPay Server v1.4.2
- Mempool v2.3.1
- Sparrow Wallet v1.5.6
- Specter Desktop v1.8.1
- BlueWallet v6.2.18
- Eclair v0.7.0
- Umbrel v0.4.13
- Mercury Wallet v0.6.0
- Zap Android v0.5.5-beta
- Nix bitcoin v0.0.64
- proposal to remove memo's from lightning invoices
- ben's bytes dev mommy blog
- trezor has disabled web wallet, users must now use trezor suite
- FTX valued at $32B
- Shopify founder joins coinbase board
- surveillance firm ciphertrace uses honeypots
- impervious browser to launch at bitcoin 2022
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Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss the state of the world.
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Join Marty as he sits down with Tucker Max to discuss doomer optimism and Bitcoin.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss: - new bill would allow US Treasury to prohibit any transaction without public notice or input
- robinhood starts rollout of bitcoin withdrawals
- coldcard MK4 presales open
- bitcoin mining difficulty hits new all time high
- Phoenix v1.4.20
- Bisq v1.8.2
- Zap v0.7.6-beta
- Joininbox v0.6.6
- BTCPay Server v1.4.0
- nix-bitcoin v0.0.63
- Sphinx Relay v2.2.5
- Lightning Terminal v0.6.2-alpha
- satoshi energy raises 60 bitcoin with focus on bitcoin mining infrastructure
- IRS begins requiring selfies for some services using third party company
- puerto rico tax breaks for outsiders stirs outrage
- free four day passes to Bitcoin 2022 for contributors of 30 open source projects
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Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Brammer from Luxor Mining to discuss the state of North American Bitcoin mining.
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Join Marty as he sits down with Lisa Neigut to discuss everything going on with the Lightning Network.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Intel to announce new bitcoin ASIC in feb
- GRIID has signed a deal with Intel for their ASICs
- BitMEX to acquire 268 year old German Bank
- Taproot funds burned
- mempool v2.3.0
- mercury wallet v0.5.9
- onionshare v2.5
- simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.27
- lightning pool v0.5.4-alpha
- umbrel v0.4.11
- tdex v1.2.4
- El Salvador Gov is using pegasus spyware against journalists
- Bukele meets withs Erdogan
- UK Gov planning publicity campaign against encrypted communication
- Ethiopia should turn to bitcoin
- Congressional Hearing on Bitcoin
- btcpolicy.org fact sheet focused on the hearing
- Citadel Dispatch will no longer be on TFTC podcast feed going forward, search Citadel Dispatch in your favorite podcast app
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Join Marty as he sits down with AJ Scalia and Drew Armstrong from Cathedra Bitcoin to discuss the Bitcoin mining world.
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Join Marty as he sits down with Erik Cason to discuss Messianic Bitcoin and other cosmic topics.
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Join Marty as he sits down with Jordan Schachtel, an Independent Journalist and founder of The Dossier on Substack, to discuss going against the mainstream narrative in 2022.
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This week Marty and Matt:
- inflation running rampant Marty Bent,
- Argentina rolling 12-month inflation
- Turks diving in
- Legal defense fund
- Strike in Argentina
- Bill Miller is bullish
- Kazakhstan update
- electrs v0.9.4
- bluewallet v6.2.16
- mercury wallet v0.5.6
- tdex v1.2.2
- foundation passport v1.0.8
- hexa wallet v2.0.67
- samourai wallet v0.99.98b
- fidelity bullishness
- Rep Emmer no CBDC
- ESG is a plague
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Join Marty as he sits down with Christopher Allen and Wolf McNally to discuss Gordian principles and standardization of Bitcoin software.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- internet access cut in kazakhstan in response to massive protests, 12% of hash rate disconnected
- HRF announces new round of grants
- proposal for privacy preserving reusable taproot addresses
- electrs v0.9.4
- bluewallet v6.2.16
- mercury wallet v0.5.6
- tdex v1.2.2
- foundation passport v1.0.8
- hexa wallet v2.0.67
- samourai wallet v0.99.98b
- gigi on value for value
- electrum server performance analysis
- bitcoin circular economies
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Join Marty as he sits down with Avik Roy, President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, to discuss:
- Think tanks
- Energy policy and its affect on lower income individuals
- Education
- Healthcare
- The looming US Fiscal Crisis
- Why Bitcoin is an imperative for America moving forward
- Educating DC about the opportunities Bitcoin provides
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Patriots QB Mac Jones gifts bitcoin to offensive line
- Iran halts bitcoin mining until March 6th
- Log4j fix released
- RTL v0.12.0
- samourai wallet v0.99.98
- mercury wallet v0.5.3
- casa keyfest jan 5-7
- ronindojo tanto released
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Mike Brock, lead at TBD, to discuss:
- What "is" and what "ought" to be
- Mike's history at Block
- How bitcoin got integrated at Cash App
- How TBD came to be
- Creating a decentralized system with limited trust in tbDEX
- Creating bitcoin on-ramps for people is a massive hurdle right now
- Is tbDEX transitional?
- much more
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Happy Holidays from Marty and Matt. Enjoy this end of year holiday chop special of Rabbit Hole Recap from 2021.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- SEC delays Bitwise and Grayscale spot ETF proposals
- Underground bitcoin mining is thriving in China
- HRF, Strike, Opensats announce three lightning focused
- Opensats receives approval to operate as tax deductible 501c3
- BTCPay Server v1.3.7
- Rust Lightning v0.0.104
- lnbits v0.4.0
- Specter DIY v1.6.2
- Mercury Wallet v0.5.1
- Simple Bitcoin Wallet v2.4.24
- Hexa Wallet v2.0.65
- Blockstream sponsors mempool project
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Jack announces independent board to run BTrust initiative funded with 500 bitcoin donation from him and Jay-Z to fund bitcoin development in Africa and India
- nonprofit "Sats Center" launches to educate regulators on bitcoin
- Surveillance company "Chainalysis" launches lightning network product
- Coinbase received 5562 law enforcement requests the first three quarters of this year
- Payment Pools proposal
- Mercury v0.4.65
- Sparrow v1.5.5
- Bisq v1.8.0
- BlueWallet v6.2.15
- Caravan v0.3.13
- Zap desktop v0.7.5-beta
- Umbrel v0.4.10
- Galoy Raises $3M
- Ledn raises $70M valued at $540M
- NYDIG raises $1B valued at $7B
- white house inflation comments
- Kollider LN analysis
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Join Marty as he sits back down with Texas Slim to discuss:
- The Beef Initiative
- Low time preference
- Small towns in Texas
- Seed oils
- Processing plants
- Fertilizer
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Swan adds taproot support and api, no longer supporting ny
- Major swiss tech company ceo runs surveillance operation
- Malicious actor appears to be attacking Tor
- Sparrow Wallet v1.5.3
- Mercury Wallet v0.4.62
- btc-rpc-explorer v3.3.0
- Zap android v0.5.4-beta
- Lightning Terminal v0.6.1-alpha
- Lightning Pool v0.5.3-alpha
- Elements v0.21.0.1
- Private home mining using a VPN guide
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- The acceleration of the Great Reset
- Why nothing makes any logical sense
- The emergence of internment camps
- The Marxist creep into schooling
- Mesh networks
- Why we wouldn't want to be the state right now
- Ten pieces of advice to inoculate yourself from the madness
- much more
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- square changes name to block
- square crypto changes name to spiral
- ledger adds support for psbts, multisig, and taproot
- microstrategy buys 7002 bitcoin
- silent link adds support for US burner phone number esims
- lnd v0.14.1-beta
- mercury wallet v0.4.56
- joinmarket v0.9.4
- bluewallet v6.2.13
- specter desktop v1.7.2
- umbrel v0.4.9
- passport v1.0.8-beta
- hexa wallet v2.0.5
- simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.22
- immortan v0.5.7
- bitcoin dev kit v0.14.0
- nix-bitcoin v0.0.59
- joininbox v0.6.4
- nodlito formally announced
- this month in bitcoin privacy
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- The growth of the global monetary base in Q3 2021
- Bitcoin is the sixth largest base money in the world
- Bitcoin should surpass the Great British Pound around $68,000
- The history of the Bank of England
- Lack of transparency from central banks
- Growing tyranny around the world
- Lessons from history
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Patricia, a designer focused on bringing better experiences to Bitcoin, to discuss:
- Designing in an open source environment
- How bad design can turn people away
- Observing how users interact in ways one doesn't expect
- How to gather feedback on open source software design
- A call to action for new designers
- Bitcoin provides a wide open slate to bring design innovation to market
- Skating
- much more
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- el salvador announces bitcoin city and a bitcoin bond
- US 'pauses' relations with el salvador
- OBJ to convert his entire yearly salary to bitcoin
- samsung to build $17B chip factory in texas
- fold partners with pokemon go creator niantic
- lnd v0.14.0-beta
- electrs v0.9.3
- btcpayserver v1.3.6
- mercury wallet v0.4.53
- simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.19
- seedsigner v0.4.5
- btcpayserver v1.3.6
- sphinx relay v2.2.2
- ledger live desktop v2.35.2
- lnd v0.14.0 is not compatible with other implementations
- gemini sponsors fanquake
- how to verify dice rolls on seedsigner
- compact block filters deep dive
- amazon does not want you to have privacy
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- EmbassyOS v0.3.0
- Lessons learned from v0.1.0 and v0.2.0
- Focusing on onboarding younger people
- Personal AI
- Philosophy
- Nihilism v. Optimism
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- taproot activates successfully at block 609732
- muun wallet adds taproot support
- SEC rejects VanEck spot bitcoin etf
- Perth Heat baseball team adopts the bitcoin standard
- crypto dot com spends $700M to rename Staples Center for 20 years
- tether announces new subsidiary 'Synonym' to bring tokens and other features to lightning
- Senators Wyden and Lummis submit bill to restrict bitcoin tax reporting rules in infrastructure bill
- Senator Cruz submits bill to repeal bitcoin portion of infrastructure bill
- IRS expects billions of dollars worth of 'crypto' seizures next year
- btcpayserver v1.3.5
- lnd v0.14.0-beta
- mercury wallet v0.4.51
- simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.18
- immortan v0.5.6
- fully noded v0.2.30
- umbrel v0.4.8
- hexa wallet v2.0.2
- ledger live desktop v2.35.1
- bitcoin banking for communities
- reason minidoc on environmental impact of bitcoin
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Join Marty as he sits back down with Whitney Webb to discuss:
- The plan to securitize the natural world
- Why a botched vaccine passport rollout is important
- The looming food and energy shortages
- How to reach both sides of the political aisle
- The plan to monopolize the extraction of rare earth metals
- Bankers taking over governments
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with John Carvalho to discuss Synonym's emergence from stealth mode.
- Why did he build Synonym
- What is it?
- Building reputation systems
- Tokens on Lightning
- Slashtags
- Building truly unstoppable apps
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Justin Rhedrick, author of From Bars to Bitcoin, to discuss:
- How a high time preference decision landed Justin in prison
- The prison economy
- Getting out of prison and diving into Bitcoin
- Teaching people about low time preference
- How Bitcoin has changed Justin's life
- How to explain Bitcoin
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- taproot activates in two days (block 709632)
- new bitcoin all time high
- miami to airdrop bitcoin to residents
- complaints about compass mining
- btcpayserver v1.3.4
- specter desktop v1.7.1
- mercury wallet v0.4.48
- lnd v0.13.4-beta
- umbrel v0.4.7
- nix bitcoin v0.0.58
- robinhood data breach impacts 7 million customers
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Join Marty as he sits down with Justin Rezvani, founder of Zion, to discuss:
- Surviving brain surgery
- A new lease on life
- Founding and selling an influencer marketing company by 27
- Building a social media app on the Lightning Network
- Pushing the Lightning Network to its limits
- Forking the Sphinx codebase
- The ills of the advertising industry
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Texas Slim, founder of the Texas Beef Initiative, to discuss:
- Texas history
- How Monsanto ruined our food
- Monocropping
- The Texas Beef Initiative
- Regenerative farming
- How the Regime is trying to make us nutritionally bankrupt
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- lightning channel jamming research
- largest bank in australia to add bitcoin payments
- Miami mayor to take next paycheck in bitcoin, NYC mayor elect to take first three paychecks in bitcoin
- aaron rodgers to get paid in bitcoin
- Navajo Nation mining bitcoin
- african bitcoin startup chipper cash raises $150M
- mercury wallet v0.4.45
- btcpayserver v1.3.1
- electrs v0.9.2
- nix-bitcoin v0.0.57
- sparrow wallet v1.5.2
- rust lightning v0.0.103
- c-lightning v0.10.2
- wasabi wallet v1.1.13.0
- phoenix v1.4.19
- nth key v1.0.6
- hexa wallet v2.0.0
- compass mining doubles capacity with new deal
- facebook dumping face recognition
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Join Marty as he sits down with Alexander Leishman, CEO & CEO of River Financial, to discuss:
- River adding mining services
- What does the future of bitcoin exchanges look like?
- The Metaverse
- The physical world
- The TSA
- Federal travel mandates
- Population domination
- The CIA
- Engaging in politics; how to do it
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with John Carvalho to discuss:
- John's Chinese mining theory
- Is bitcoin divisible?
- The UTXO set
- The Lightning Network
- Public mining companies
- Holding your own keys
- much more
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Marty and Matt sit down with their good friend @arbedout to discuss:
- Joining Unchained Capital
- Writing a book
- Has Lightning been attacked?
- Is Tor reliable?
- Is Bitcoin sufficiently robust without robust alternative transaction relay networks?
- How are we going to transition from HTLCs to PTLCs
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- FATF releases updated guidance
- el salvador now holds 1120 bitcoin
- river launches hosted mining service
- blockstream sponsors minimint
- btcpay v1.3.0
- sparrow v1.5.2
- nix-bitcoin v0.0.55
- specter diy v1.6.1
- joininbox v0.6.3
- simple bitcoin wallet v2.2.17
- umbrel v0.4.6
- immortan v0.3.6
- bisq v1.7.5
- BlueWallet v6.2.12
- voltage releases Flow, an easy to use interface for Lightning Pool
- umbrel raises $3M in seed round
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Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Stewart, founder of Suredbits, to discuss:
- Recording podcasts with our grandmothers
- Avoiding oblivion in the Digital Age
- Chicago crime
- Necessary police reform
- DLCs
- AJ Towns' Taproot + PTLC proposal
- Will there be a fee market?
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Kaufman, Chief Conspiracy Theorist at Clown World Today, to discuss:
- The madness of the last 18-monhts
- Logical inconsistencies around COVID medical advice
- The power of propaganda
- Vaccine passports
- How to push back
- Using humor to highlight absurdities
- much more
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This week Marty, Matt, and @arbedout recorded live from the Unchained Capital offices in Austin, Texas and discussed:
- bitcoin hits new all time high
- first bitcoin ETF launches
- hacker steals identification info of every argentinian via government database
- Jonas Schnelli steps down from role as bitcoin core maintainer
- worldcoin launches
- electrs v0.9.1
- rust-lightning v0.0.102
- specter-desktop v1.7.0
- elements v0.21.0
- nthkey v1.0.5
- joinmarket v0.9.3
- joininbox v0.6.2
- fully noded v0.2.28
simple bitcoin wallet v2.2.15.1
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Join Marty as he sits down with Investment Manager Larry Lepard to discuss:
- How the government and central banks have manipulated gold
- Slowly coming to understand Bitcoin
- Why fiat is bad for the environment
- Why bitcoin is virtuous
- What is the upside potential?
- Sound money advocates are the Remnant
- much more
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Join Marty as he sits down with Jose Lemus, Juan Pablo Lemus, & Estaban de la Peña; the IBEX Mercado founding team, to discuss:
- Why they built the exchange
- International banking restrictions in Guatemala
- How they ended up with their non-custodial model
- Communicating with regulators
- Avoiding having to KYC kids
- Banking the unbanked
- Bitcoin's perfect incentives
- much more
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Join Marty as he sits down with Kuppy, Founder and CIO of Praetorian Capital and the man behind the Adventures in Capitalism blog, to discuss:
- Supply chain disaster
- Government incompetence
- What lies ahead
- Energy markets
- Bitcoin
- Why Kuppy is very bullish on Uranium
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- US Gov asks chipmakers for client data
- US takes top mining spot
- eclair v0.6.2
- umbrel v0.4.4
- bluewallet v6.2.10
- raspiblitz v1.7.1
- immortan v0.3.5
- sparrow v1.5.1
- nix-bitcoin v0.0.53
- lightning terminal v0.5.2-alpha
- Gladstein on the early cypherpunks and adam back
- antpool blocks mainland chinese users
- jstark documentary
- aj towns taproot + ptlc proposal
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Join Marty as he sits down with Steve Barbour, founder and CEO of Upstream Data, to discuss:
- Canada during COVID
- Mouth breathing regulations
- Building products for home miners
- Oil and gas companies mining bitcoin
- Are we reaching a tipping point?
- much more
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- hackers compromise 6000 coinbase accounts due to 2FA flaw
- liquid network downtime and hard fork
- lightning network vulnerability disclosure
- el salvador starts mining with volcano energy
- Binance hires two former IRS investigators
- bluewallet v6.2.9
- electrs v0.9.0
- lnd v0.13.3-beta
- umbrel v0.4.3
- joinmarket v0.9.2
- joininbox v0.6.1
- sparrow wallet v1.5.1
- eclair v0.6.2
- analysis of ransomware payments
- 30 countries launch ransomware initiative
- U.S. Justice Dept launches new initiatives on cryptocurrencies
- this month in bitcoin privacy
- https://oslofreedomforum.com
- https://oslofreedomforum.com/bitcoin-academy-off2021
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Join Marty as he sits down with Ross Kennedy, founder of Fortis Analysis, to discuss:
- The global supply chain issues
- How the California ports work
- Why there is no easy fix
- How Ross thinks we can fix the problem
- Our over dependence on Southeast Asia
- Woes of the Cold War mentality + USD reserve status
- Bitcoin as an extension of Natural Rights
- much more
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Check out his Substack
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- bitcoin.org compromised
- missouri mayor to give all residents $1K worth of bitcoin
- three new iOS zero day exploits
- african bitcoin exchange Yellow Card raises $15M in investment
- Samourai supports Tor Foundation with $50K donation
- President Biden and Treasury Secretary Yellen express support of wealth taxes
- Samourai Wallet v0.99.97a
- Sparrow Wallet v1.5.0
- Bisq v1.7.4
- Btcpayserver v1.2.4
- Fully Noded v0.2.27
- Nix-bitcoin v0.0.52
- Simple Bitcoin Wallet v2.1.14
- Immortan v0.2.5
- Rust-lightning v0.0.101
- Bluewallet rn-ldk v0.2.14
- OnionShare v2.4
- blockstream satellite walkthrough
- verifone to accept bitcoin payments via bitpay
- AP links bitcoin usage to extremist groups
- CIA had plans to kidnap or assassinate Assange
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Join Marty as he sits down with Greg Foss the boss, of Validus Power, to discuss:
- The ongoing Evergrande situation
- Will its collapse cause contagion?
- Is it similar to Lehman?
- Global supply chain issues
- Bitcoin + Energy
- much more
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- tax change in infrastructure bill
- wasabi wallet 2.0 blog
- el salvador owns 700 bitcoin
- compass adds at home mining option
- chainalysis runs a block explorer to track users
- Simple Bitcoin Wallet v2.1.12
- Blue Wallet v6.2.7
- Lightning Terminal v0.5.1-alpha
- Immortan v0.2.4
- gladstein on el salvador
- US Treasury sanctions Russian bitcoin exchange
- Doconomy carbon limits credit card
- UK nat gas crisis
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- HRF provides 3.75 bitcoin in development grants
- el salvador bitcoin tax exemptions for foreigners
- imessage zero click exploit
- Bitcoin Core v22.0
- Simple bitcoin wallet v2.0.12
- Zap android v0.5.1-beta
- Umbrel v0.4.2
- Nix-bitcoin v0.0.5
- namecheap has done 190k bitcoin transactions since implementing btcpayserver a year ago
- crew energy mining bitcoin
- lagarde thinks bitcoin isn't currency
- fode diop, bitcoin + senegal
- aswath damodaran ESG blog
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- bitcoin is now legal tender in el salvador
- bullbitcoin adds lightning support
- irs undercover operation on localcryptos p2p exchange
- mastercard acquires ciphertrace
- Phoenix v1.4.17
- Simple Bitcoin Wallet v2.0.9
- Caravan v0.3.11
- Mempool v2.2.2
- BlueWallet v6.2.5
- Btcpayserver v1.2.3
- this month in bitcoin privacy
- intro to samourai wallet, wednesdays at 1800 UTC
- blockstream and macquarie form 'green' bitcoin mining partnership
- new law in ukraine legalizes and regulates bitcoin trading
- bitcoin is for everyone campaign
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with George Gammon to discuss:
- The COVID reaction; is it about health or control?
- The erosion of civil liberties
- The emergence of states asserting their autonomy
- Trends that emerged as empires have fallen throughout history
- Bitcoin as Freedom money
- How weak men are creating hard times
- much more
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits back down with LaserHodl to continue their conversation about Monetary Reset.
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- salvadorian gov approves $150M bitcoin trust
- twitter beta testing lightning tipping service through strike partnership
- simple bitcoin wallet v2.0.5
- specter desktop v1.6.0
- specter diy v1.6.0
- seedsigner v0.4.4
- blue wallet v6.2.4
- coldcard v4.1.3
- human rights foundation bitcoin academy for activists 4th and 5th
- adopting bitcoin lightning summit in el salvador nov 16
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Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Fenton, author of Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, & American Businesses, to discuss:
- Chinese propaganda in Hollywood
- China + the NBA
- How interconnected are the US and Chinese markets?
- What is needed to combat the CCP at the business level?
- much more
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss his report on the Q2 2021 Global Monetary Base.
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Rahim Taghizadegan, President of Free Private Cities, to discuss:
- Citadels
- Creating free private cities
- How economic zones work
- Examples of successful free private cities
- How to get started
- Where are free cities most likely to pop up?
- much more
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Blake Masters, COO of Thiel Capital - President of The Thiel Foundation - Running for US Senate in Arizona, to discuss:
- Why leave the private sector for the Senate?
- What policies are important to focus on?
- Complacency in the US
- The pitfalls of public education
- Energy policy
- Balkanization
- Bitcoin Permanent Funds
- much more
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- bitcoinsmiles.org crowdfunding campaign launches to provide dental care to salvadorians
- bitmex demonstrates new proof of reserves and liabilities method
- bull bitcoin acquires veriphi
- bitmex, deribit, binance, bitfinex, and others are using shyft for 'travel rule' compliance
- binance hires former IRS official
- unchained capital sponsoring mempool project and implementing fee estimation
- mempool v2.2.1
- joinmarket v0.9.1
- joininbox v0.6.0
- nix-bitcoin v0.0.49
- zap desktop v0.7.4-beta
- rust lightning v0.0.100
- simple bitcoin wallet v2.0.2
- blockstream launches new mining service targeting stranded renewable energy
- founder of helix bitcoin mixer pleads guilty
- tmobile data breach leaves up to 100M customers exposed
- terrorist watchlist exposed, includes data on 2M people
- digital identity cards and biometric data collected by US in Afghanistan may be used by Taliban against opposition
- robinhood rev 40% crypto, 62% of that doge
- vitalik and musk join doge foundation board
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- infrastructure bill amendments fail
- beyer bill proposed
- large number of potential malicious bitcoin nodes graphing the network
- compass mining provides $80K grant to Jon Atack
- bitmex pays $100M to resolve charges with CFTC and FinCEN
- lightning addresses using lnurl
- phoenix v1.4.15
- specter v1.5.1
- trezor suite v21.8.1
- btcpayserver v1.2.0
- mining bitcoin at home
- cuba and bitcoin by gladstein
- lightning liquidity management guide by lopp
- bitcoin 2022 april 6-9 in miami beach
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- hodlhodl vulnerability
- bitaroo exchange now requires video verification for withdrawals
- infrastructure bill
- SeedSigner v0.4.3
- umbrel v0.4.0
- nth key v1.0.3
- fully noded v0.2.23
- lightning pool v0.5.1
- joinmarket v0.9.0
- NCR buys libertyx
- this month in bitcoin privacy
- chain analysis and bitcoin privacy guide
- solarwinds hackers accessed emails of 27 DOJ offices
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Join Marty as he sits down with LaserHodl to discuss:
- Monetary reset
- Zooming out and viewing the world through a specific lens
- Tactics used by the power structure to divide
- The 2030/2050 Agendas
- Why Bitcoin throws a wrench in all of this
- much more
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Wright, Founder and CEO of Liberty Oilfield Services, to discuss:
- Energy poverty
- Lack of education around energy extraction and delivery
- Energy density
- Does fracking pollute water?
- Is Chris anti "renewables"?
- much more
Check out the Liberty 2020 ESG Report
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- bipartisan infrastructure bill targets bitcoiners
- Israel forced bitcoin disclosure bill
- mexico regulator says 12 bitcoin exchanges are operating illegaly
- bolt12 spec released http://bolt12.org/
- fully noded v0.2.20
- zap android v0.4.2-beta
- blue wallet v6.2.2
- bisq v1.7.2
- coldcard v4.1.2
- caravan v0.3.9
- sphinx relay v2.2.0
- ledger donjon analysis of software wallet
- liquid truedex launches on mobile
- lolli raises $10M from celebrities
- can bitcoin be palestine's currency of freedom
- french police officer caught selling personal information on darkweb
- mac malware steals telegram accounts
- the life cycle of a breached database
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- brink's second round of developer grants
- seed signer v0.4.2
- specter desktop v1.5.0
- samourai dojo v1.10.1
- eclair v0.6.1
- electrum v4.1.5
- lnd v0.13.1-beta
- blockstream green desktop v0.1.10
- greenlight by blockstream
- multisig with better privacy
- EU preparing to implement travel rule
- NSO spyware
- critical cloudflare flaw left 12.5% of all sites compromised
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HodlHodl. Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- bitmex dev grant program accepting applications
- bluewallet mobile focused lightning implementation powered by LDK
- trezor suite app officially launches
- bluewallet v6.1.9
- rust lightning v0.0.99
- nix-bitcoin v0.0.47
- zeus v0.5.2
- fully noded 0.2.18
- sparrow wallet v1.4.3
- mint mobile data breach
- powell on capitol hill
- unrest around the world
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HodlHodl. Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Saylor, Darin Feinstein, and Austin Storms to have a discussion about the Bitcoin Mining Council and the ESG movement.
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Join Marty as he sits down with Scott Harrison, Founder and CEO of Charity: Water, to discuss:
- A prodigal son's journey
- Nightclub life
- Hitting rock bottom
- Turning to a life of charity
- Volunteering in Liberia
- Starting Charity: Water
- How Charity: Water brings clean drinking water to those who desperately need it
- Running a charity that allocates funds appropriately
- The Bitcoin Water Trust
- much more
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- specter windows vulnerability was a false alarm
- bisq discloses substantial privacy vulnerability
- former cftc chair advocates for a bitcoin etf
- casa client drugged by tinder date in attempted bitcoin theft
- kaspersky password manager was generating insecure passwords
- bybit adding kyc
- fincen hires a "chief digital currency advisor" with justice department experience
- EU parliament approves mass surveillance of private communications
- samourai wallet v0.99.96i released
- mempool v2.2.0 released
- new feature allows you to coinjoin directly to cold storage using whirlpool
- brenntag paid a 70 bitcoin ransom to darkside in may
- nuclear powered mining op in south carolina
- hydropower mining op in new york
- this month in bitcoin privacy
- bitcoin and the american idea by gladstein
- diverter on freedom
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HodlHodl. Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Edward Evenson, Director of Business Development at Braiins, to discuss:
- The great hashrate migrations
- What Chinese miners are looking for in co-location partners
- The 100 year anniversary of the CCP and its significance
- Will mining return to China?
- How well is hashrate being distributed as a product of this migration?
- Braiins update
- much more
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- windows version of specter desktop v1.4.6 included a virus
- largest downward difficulty adjustment in bitcoin history expected tomorrow
- athena to install 1500 bitcoin atms in el salvador
- bisq v1.7.0
- cwtch beta released
- strike adds buy and hold support
- proposal for federated blind lightning mints
- niftynei on dual funded channels and privacy
- iranian government exempts 30 mining operators amid moratorium
- binance adds travel rule tool from ciphertrace
- nearly all 700M linkedin users exposed in API compromise
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Unchained Capital. Check out their white glove vault concierge service that will take you from zero to secure multisig setup in no time. Use the code TFTC and receive $50 off that package that includes 2 Trezor Model Ts and $1,000 in your vault.
HodlHodl. Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Leo Zhang, founder of Anicca Research, to discuss:
- Is this mining ban real?
- How are Chinese miners reacting?
- The dynamics of communication between the Chinese and Western mining industries
- How will this migration affect hashrate in the short and medium term?
- What does this mean for the market for ASICS?
- What does capacity in the US look like right now?
- Hashrate derivatives
- much more
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Check out Anicca Research
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- bitcoin hash drops amid chinese crackdown
- gbtc redemptions hurting bitcoin demand
- the b word initiative
- lnd v0.13.0-beta
- specter diy v1.5.5
- rust lightning v0.0.98
- joinmarket v0.8.3
- joininbox v0.5.0
- bluewallet v6.1.6
- lightning terminal v0.5.0-alpha
- sparrow wallet v1.4.2
- umbrel v0.3.13
- microstrategy buys more bitcoin
- british FCA cracking down
- iran seizes miners
- pysa ransomware targets education organizations
- gladstein on monetary colonialism
- mccormack interviews president of el salvador
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- taproot upgrade has locked in, activation expected in november
- Criminals mailing ledger customers compromised hardware wallets
- US Bitcoin Mining Council formally launches
- NY Electricians' union successfully fights bitcoin mining ban
- G7 leaders say ransomware is a priority
- Ukrainian raids arrest six tied to CLOP ransomware
- Biden and Putin meet for four hours with US threatening "cyber response" to ransomware
- US Dems form "cryptocurrency working group"
- Microstrategy keeps buying bitcoin
- Microstrategy considering stock sale
- Swiss broker Relai raises $2.7M
- FastBitcoins now available in Australia
- Russell Okung's letter to the Nigerian government as local support for bitcoin increases
- Bitcoin Beach article in business week
- New guide from econoalchemist on coldcard + sparrow
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Join Marty as he sits down with Chase Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Impervious.ai, to discuss:
- Building a VPN that leverages Lightning Network routing nodes
- Data transfer and user privacy on the Internet
- Building an API that allows individuals to build privacy preserving apps that leverage Lightning
- The second iteration of the Internet
- Node management
- much more
Follow Chase on Twitter
Check out Impervious
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- El Salvador declares bitcoin legal tender
- Legal tender move pissed off IMF
- VOLCANO MINING
- DOJ seizes 63.7 bitcoin connected to Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack
- Global bank regulators propose burdensome bitcoin capital rule
- White House advisor disclosures million dollar bitcoin position
- Blockstream and Square announce solar mining initiative
- Square announces $5M bitcoin endowment
- Rumors that Indian Government will be more positive toward bitcoin going forward
- Bitmex extends Gleb Naumenko grant
- Microstrategy announces new private offering
- Bitfinex invests in HodlHodl
- Ledger raises $380 million
- FBI ran an encrypted phone network 'Anom' with a backdoor
- Apple announces new 'private relay' trust minimized VPN
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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HodlHodl. Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Moon bouncing transactions
- Ross Ulbricht's interview
- Green coins
- Kevin O'Leary gets heckled
- Censorship
- Bitcoin Design Guide
- Indy 500
- Mining in gas fields
- Much more
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HodlHodl. Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Untapped Growth to discuss:
- ESG
- Is it moral?
- Can it be leveraged to speculative attack the fiat standard?
- How can Bitcoin lead to better culture
- Seeking objective truth
- much more
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Desiree Dickerson of Lightning Labs and Mint Gox + Christian Moss and Michael Tidwell of ZEBEEDEE to discuss:
- Update of the CSGO ZEBEEDEE Infuse integration
- How users have tried to stack by gaming the system
- Moderating sat farming
- New slang around stacking sats
- How the Lightning Network technical infrastructure is looking
- New games on the horizon
- Kids in South America earning a living via CSGO infused with sats
- The eSports Stage at Bitcoin 2021 - 100,000,000 sats on the line!
- much more
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Chinese government bitcoin mining ban rumors
- US based "bitcoin mining council"
- texas bitcoin law
- Ray dalio owns bitcoin
- carl icahn considering bitcoin investment
- four month bitcoin mining ban in iran
- specter diy v1.5.4
- blue wallet v6.1.4
- lnd sidecar channels
- bitcoin indy car
- gladstein on the humanitarian and environmental case for bitcoin
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Unchained Capital. Check out their white glove vault concierge service that will take you from zero to secure multisig setup in no time. Use the code TFTC and receive $50 off that package that includes 2 Trezor Model Ts and $1,000 in your vault.
HodlHodl. Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with the legend Dave Collum to discuss:
- Fauci
- Climate change
- Lockdowns
- The Fed
- Inflation
- Skydiving
- much more
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Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Ellen Wald, author of Saudi, Inc., to discuss:
- The unspoken tradeoffs of green energy
- The Colonial Pipeline situation
- Ransomeware
- The ESG movement
- Is bitcoin a commodity?
- Saudi Inc.
- much more
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with pro surfer Bethany Hamilton and Adam Dirks to discuss:
- Bitcoin 101
- Inflation
- Hyperinflation rhyming
- much more
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Check out Bethany's website
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- our two first $10K candles and it was the same day!
- hash rate appears to have dropped
- dutch bank no longer requiring withdrawal address verification
- cross browser tracking vulnerability
- chaos at freenode
- libsecp256k1 improvements have sped up bitcoin core validation by 7%
- darkside says servers and bitcoin seized, all decryption keys to be released
- elliptic follows darkside funds https://archive.ph/lBa2C and oxt provides cluster
- argentina authorities force exchanges to provide data
- US Treasury wants a $10K transfer reporting requirement
- whirlpool cli v0.10.11
- ronindojo v1.10.0
- sparrow wallet v1.4.1
- chess tournament with $100K bitcoin prize
- galaxy digital on bitcoin energy consumption
- wharton receives $5M worth of bitcoin
- anthony towns on taproot activation
- chinese gov and apple servers
- follow up to last week's solar comments
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Join Marty as he sits down with the Mayor of Jackson Tennessee, Scott Conger, to discuss:
- Being the 3rd Mayor of Jackson in his family
- The day to day of leading a small city
- How Mayor Conger approaches taxes for the city
- How Mayor Conger became interested in bitcoin
- Bitcoin's role in local government
- Local v. Federal government
- "If not me, then who?"
- much more
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with prolific Bitcoin artist cryptograffiti to discuss:
- Using art to convey Bitcoin's revolutionary nature
- Content monetization under a Bitcoin Standard
- Why NFTs are so popular
- Is art subjective or is there objective beauty?
- Cutting out middle men
- Artists working directly with collectors
- much more
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Check out his art
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with investigative journalist Whitney Webb to discuss:
- Raising children as a countercultural act
- Ransomeware attacks
- Colonial Pipeline spill cover up
- Elon Musk
- Bill Gates
- Central Bank Digital Currencies
- AI
- Bitcoin as a tool to fight back
- Citadels
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- cake wallet vulnerability
- hash rate ath
- the bitcoin car at indy 500
- elon tweets energy fud
- microstrategy stacked more
- recent CPI numbers released
- us gov probes binance
- gbtc discount hits record low of 20%
- fully noded v0.2.17
- bluewallet v6.1.2
- lightning network privacy analysis
- analysis of darkside ransomware group
- colonial pipeline allegedly paid $5M ransom
- check your financial privilege by gladstein
- gladstein in cato on a post cash world
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss:
- The latest global monetary base update
- Why the monetary base is a good benchmark for bitcoin
- Bitcoin is the 6th largest base money (ex-gold) in the world
- Defining assets and liabilities on the Fed's balance sheet
- Why Japan matters
- Communism creep
- Bitcoin and a free banking system
- Academic economists and bitcoin
- much more
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Robert Bryce; author, documentarian, and host of the Power Hungry Podcast, to discuss:
- The Indian Point power plant shutdown
- Energy mix
- Subsidies leading to capital misallocation
- Bitcoin's value prop
- The externalities that come with wind turbines
- Land use and green energy
- much more
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Check out Robert's latest book, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
Check out Robert's website
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
bitcoin core v0.21.1
first taproot signalling period
new multisig guide from bitcoinqna
thailand in person kyc
this month in bitcoin privacy
bluewallet v6.1.0
umbrel v03.10
phoenix v1.4.11
F2pool hashrate from outside china
Dual-funded LN channel on mainnet
MARA virtue signaling
Iranian Central Bank cucking too
NY State wants to ban mining
Bitcoin Beach fund raiser
Coinbase transparency report
Cash App Q1 numbers
Commodities inflation
Tunisian student arrested and tortured for using BTC
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Meredith Angwin, author of Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid, to discuss:
- The fragility of grids
- Misconceptions around electric grids
- Energy mix
- What's happening in Texas and California?
- Why nuclear is important
- How data is manipulated to push special interests
- How we can fix our grids
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Gabriel Shipton, brother of Julian Assange, to discuss:
- Julian's ongoing trial
- How the US Government is wrongfully persecuting Julian
- The bogus rape charges lobbed against Julian
- The US Government's Espionage charges
- Journalism in 2021
- Why Julian's case is very important for the future of journalism
- How to support Julian's defense fund
- much more
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Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- BTCPay Server vulnerability disclosure
- JP Morgan bends the knee
- Tesla CFO on bitcoin during Q1 earnings
- Public video game publisher Nexon buys 1717 bitcoin
- Chiefs veteran tight end Sean Culkin converting entire salary to bitcoin
- Second bitcoin exchange goes down in Turkey
- Turkish gov using it as an excuse to regulate further
- Bitcoin Fog custodial bitcoin mixer operator arrested
- DC Cops hit with ransomware which threatens informants
- Global ransomware task force launched
- Bisq exploring new trade protocol
- Adam Gibson on big picture Joinmarket improvements
- Blockstream satellite easy base station
- Umbrel v0.3.9
- RaspiBlitz v1.7.0
- Specter v1.3.1
- Sparrow v1.4.0
- Sphinx Relay v2.0.13
- BTCPay Server v1.1.0
- Specter DIY
- Square adds former vice president of U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness
- LND benchmarking, 1000 TPS on consumer VPS possible
- Bitcoin Beach feature
- Rizzo on Satoshi's disappearance
- Gladstein on the petrodollar
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Join Marty as he sits down with Karim Helmy from Galaxy Digital to discuss:
- The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner Pt. II
- Modeling future price and profitability
- Helping miners make better business decisions
- The ASIC crunch
- Future research topics
- much more
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Check out The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner Pt. II
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Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis, Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital, to discuss:
- The Austin Bitcoin scene
- The Fed opening the spigots
- Systemic credit risk
- Fiscal spending enabled by the Fed
- Capital allocation under a Bitcoin Standard
- Sam Houston
- much more
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Check out Unchained Capital
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Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Venmo adds bitcoin IOU support, no withdrawals
- WeWork accepting bitcoin as payment and will hodl
- Coin Center responds strongly against FATF
- Turkish Gov attempting bitcoin payments ban
- Turkish bitcoin exhange Thodex apparent exit scam
- OKEx adds lightning support
- Cashapp raises withdrawal minimum to 100K sats frok 10K sats
- Bitcoin Core v0.21.1 RC 1 Taproot Speedy Trial client released
- UASF Taproot client released
- Aaron Van Wirdum write up on the two taproot clients
- myNode v0.2.30
- Start9 adds Sphinx, Onion pages, Photoview
- Square and Ark argue that bitcoin is good for the environment
- Former comptroller of the currency Brian Brooks new CEO of Binance US
- Former CFTC Chair joins BlockFi Board
- The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner, Part II
- Signal hacks hacking company Cellebrite
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HodlHodl. Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Stewart and Ben Carman from Suredbits to discuss:
- The Austin scene
- Migrations in the US
- DLCs
- Lessons from DeFi
- Taproot activation
- Speedy Trial
- Coinflip
- Milk cattle
- much more
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Speedy Trial taproot activation method merged
- Comments by greg maxwell
- COPA sues CSW
- CCI releases first report stating there is minimal "illicit activity" using bitcoin
- VanEck "bitcoin" ETF DAPP that does not hold bitcoin directly
- btc-rpc-explorer v3.0
- trezor suite beta v21.4.1
- Alleged paxful KYC leak claimed to be fake
- Gladstein biweekly column
- shitCOIN IPO, currently valued at ~$66B
- Mexico fingerprint KYC for phone sim cards
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HodlHodl. Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- coinbase IPO on april 14th, ticker COIN
- NYDIG raises another $100M
- African P2P volumes hit new all time highs
- Ukrainian civil servants own more than 46k bitcoin
- Crypto Council for Innovation announced
- Square Crypto grant for mempool.space
- Peter Thiel comments on bitcoin and china
- Arthur Hayes surrenders
- Circle and Polo ordered to provide info on users to IRS
- Kraken received similar but judge says they must narrow request
- former chainalysis chief technical counsel now head of fincen
- Blue Wallet v6.0.8
- Hexa Wallet v1.5.0
- Coldcard v4.0.2
- Sphinx-relay v2.0.9
- Sparrow Wallet v1.3.2
- Electrum v4.1.2
- LexisNexis signs contract to provide database of 283 million people to US ICE
- 522 million facebook users' info leaked online
- Jake Chervinsky Q1 review
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Join Marty as he sits down with Untapped Growth (Joel) to discuss:
- The Fiat Farming system
- Top soil
- Roundup in everything
- Using cattle for regenerative farming
- Creating a cattle ranching/land management co-op
- Distributed asynchronous citadel networks
- much more
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Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- coldcard physical attack
- Kentucky signs bitcoin mining incentives
- Strike launches in El Salvador without banking partners
- Azteco adds lightning
- Goldman to start offering bitcoin exposure to rich clients
- Morgan Stanley prepping to add bitcoin exposure to major funds
- Brink's first round of dev grants
- Gemini provides grant to mempool.space
- Specter v1.3.0
- Coldcard v4.01
- Bisq v1.6.1
- BTCPay Server v1.0.7.1
- sphinx-relay v2.0.7
- c-lightning v0.10.0
- MyNode v0.2.29
- Umbrel v0.3.8
- Zeus v0.5.1
- JoininBox v0.3.4
- Wasabi v1.1.12.7
- HWI v2.0.1
- Chainalysis raises $100M, valued at $2B
- Canada increases KYC requirements
- Lightning node performance tests
- Probing lightning channels paper
- Largest KYC leak ever from MobiKwik in India
- GBTC still trading at discount
- Bitcoin transcripts hub
- This month in bitcoin privacy
- SuredBits Multi Oraclee deep dive
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Join Marty as he sits down with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo to discuss:
- Ledn's recent raise
- Proof of Reserves
- Risk Management
- Duration matching
- Hyperinflation
- Good people succeeding
- Bitcoin scaling in layers
- Ledn users sending within the platform
- The Petro
- much more
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Check out Ledn
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Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with Bob McElrath to discuss:
- NY BitDevs
- Mining pools
- P2Pool
- Braidpool
- Making decentralized pools viable
- How they may fail
- Adversarial thinking
- Bob's Bitcoin journey
- much more
Follow Bob on Twitter
Bitcoin Munich Meetup Video
Braidpool IRC
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Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Tesla now accepting bitcoin and will hodl
- Podcasting 2.0 on breez
- Microsoft launches layer 2 decentralized identity on top of bitcoin mainnet
- FTX closing $7M per year deal for Miami Heat Arena
- Fidelity files for a bitcoin etf
- Lolli raises $5M from Serena Williams and her husband
- CFTC fines coinbase $6.5M for litecoin bullshit
- FATF releases enhanced KYC guidelines
- Coincenter analysis
- Surveillance firm Elliptic explaining Hydra innovative dead drops
- JoininBox v0.3.3
- RoninDojo v1.9.0
- Sparrow Walet v1.3.1
- Tails v4.17
- Sphinx relay v2.0.6
- BlueWallet v6.0.7
- Specter DIY v1.5.0
- eznode simple pruning-friendly setup for a personal bitcoin full node
- New liquid wallet
- Test release of coinswaps statechain implementation
- Bisq meeting on moving to layer 2 networks
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
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Unchained Capital. Check out their white glove vault concierge service that will take you from zero to secure multisig setup in no time. Use the code TFTC and receive $50 off that package that includes 2 Trezor Model Ts and $1,000 in your vault.
HodlHodl. Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
Join Marty as he sits down with David Bailey, founder of BTC Media, to discuss:
- How bullish is David?
- How high will bitcoin go?
- Timing the birth of his children up with bull markets
- Bitcoin 2021 events
- Bitcoin 2021 location
- Bitcoin Magazine content
- much more
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Lend at Hodl Hodl is a new non-custodial bitcoin backed lending platform, that allows peer to peer lending and borrowing between users, globally, anonymously & on your own terms. Create you offers & set your own terms on lend.hodlhodl.com
Compass Mining. Compass wants to democratize bitcoins hashrate and give everyone the ability to strengthen the network while mining bitcoin profitably. Thanks to Compass, it’s never been easier to mine bitcoin. Check them out at compassmining.io
Braiins. Braiins are leaders in the mining industry; running Slush Pool, creating firmware to make miners more profitable (Braiins OS+), and building out Stratum V2 to help further decentralize mining and make Bitcoin more robust. Check out their mining profitability calculator.
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- FTX negotiating naming rights to miami heat arena https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article249892678.html
- miner revenue priced in dollars hits all time high https://twitter.com/_Checkmatey_/status/1370901101403238400
- Kentucky passes tax breaks to bitcoin miners https://www.coindesk.com/kentucky-approves-bills-providing-incentives-for-crypto-miners
- Pakistani province experimenting with mining using hydro https://www.reuters.com/article/us-crypto-currency-pakistan/pakistani-province-plans-to-build-pilot-crypto-currency-mining-farms-idUSKBN2BA0KW
- Oakland Athletics bitcoin suites https://twitter.com/AthleticsPR/status/1371144942735609859
- Morgan Stanley wealth management now offering bitcoin funds https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/17/bitcoin-morgan-stanley-is-the-first-big-us-bank-to-offer-wealthy-clients-access-to-bitcoin-funds.html
- Signal now accepting bitcoin https://signal.org/donate/#cryptocurrency
- India attempted ban rumored https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-cryptocurrency-ban-idUSKBN2B60R0
- JPMorgan says retail flows comparable to institutional https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-15/retail-bitcoin-traders-rival-wall-street-buyers-as-mania-builds
- Third coincenter letter to fincen about proposed enhanced kyc https://www.coincenter.org/coin-center-uses-additional-time-provided-by-fincen-to-file-another-comment-in-ongoing-surveillance-rulemaking/
- Binance probed by CFTC https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-12/crypto-exchange-binance-investigated-by-u-s-over-who-s-trading
- BitMEX cofounder Ben Delo surrenders and released on $20M bail https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-15/bitmex-founder-delo-surrenders-to-face-u-s-laundering-charges
- Coldcard v4.0.0 https://blockclockmini.com/firmware/
- Blockclock mini v1.0.8 https://blog.coinkite.com/version-4.0.0-released/
- HWI v2.0.0 https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI/releases/tag/2.0.0
- Nodl dojo v0.1.2c
- Rudefox Burrow v0.1.1 https://www.rudefox.io/burrow/quick-start.html
- Anthony Towns on UASF http://www.erisian.com.au/wordpress/2021/03/14/fixing-uasf
- Ryan Gentry on bitcoin governance https://ryanthegentry.medium.com/a-theory-of-bitcoin-governance-13510eff42a6
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Join Marty as he sits down with Paul Itoi, co-founder of Stakwork and Sphinx Chat, to discuss:
- Sphinx chat
- Content monetization without ads
- Encrypted chat over the Lightning Network
- Paying anons around the world
- Banking the unbanked
- Rearchitecting the Internet using BTC/LN
- How BTC/LN can help parents unschool their kids
- Bringing back grazing cattle via Sphinx
- Training personal AIs
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Epstein, Author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, to discuss:
- Green energy jobs v. oil jobs
- Subsidies driving energy prices higher
- Using fraud as a heuristic to question the anti-energy movement
- Developing our environment to protect from climate
- "Climate catastrophe"
- Why not nuclear?
- Moralizing energy conversion
- Bitcoin and energy
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Kelly Lannan, the mind behind Bitcoin Urbanism, to discuss:
- Parasitic ideas
- How Bitcoin Urbanism came to be
- Being a real estate developer
- Building materials inflation
- How fiat money destroyed city planning
- How city codes hamstring builders
- Fixing the Fiat Standard one block at a time
- Classical architecture making a come back
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert to discuss:
- Occupy Wall Street
- Wall Street in the 80s
- Independent media
- Propaganda and gaslighting
- Bitcoin as an anti-war movement
- Comedy in NYC in the 70s & 80s
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Norwegian energy giant Aker forms bitcoin unit Seetee
- New Taproot Activation Method proposed "Speedy Trial"
- Malicious backdoored version of electrum wallet
- Whirlpool GUI v0.10.3
- Samourai Wallet v0.99.96e
- Zeus v0.5.0
- JoinMarket v0.8.2
- JoininBox v0.3.0
- Coldcard v4.0.0-beta
- Sparrow v1.3.0
- BTCPay Server v1.0.7.0
- NYDIG $200 million growth round
- Blockfi $350M raise at $3B valuation
- River $12M raise
- Massive Microsoft Exchange email server compromise
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Join Marty as he sits down with Dominic Frisby to discuss:
- Daylight Robbery
- The history of taxes
- The future of taxes under a Bitcoin Standard
- The State as a coercive evil force
- Gold v. Bitcoin
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Anas Alhajji to discuss:
- OPEC dynamics
- The politics of oil and gas
- The history of the shale industry
- Common sense
- Bitcoin as a settlement currency for oil trade
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- bottlepay flagging samourai whirlpool coinjoin deposits
- bitstamp flagging wasabi coinjoin usage post withdrawal
- I2P network support merged into bitcoin core
- Regtest demo of zcash based bitcoin sidechain
- Arthur Hayes negotiating surrender agreement
- Umbrel v0.3.6
- BlueWallet v6.0.6
- Whirlpool CLI v0.10.10
- Eclair v0.5.1
- Lightning Terminal v0.4.1
- BTCPay Server added to Voltage
- Citi bank bullish report
- Goldman Sachs bitcoin trading desk
- HRF $70K in bitcoin dev grants
- Bull Bitcoin and Wasabi Wallet $40K grant to Luke-Jr
- Unchained Capital $5.5M seed round led by NYDIG
- Bitcoin voicepaper
- Kentucky bitcoin mining incentive
- PayNyms 101
- This month in bitcoin privacy
- DEA report mentions bitcoin and 'virtual currency'
- Mempool joins COPA
- Germany considering KYC for emails and texts
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Join Marty as he sits down with Nick Hansen, co-founder and CEO of Luxor Mining, to discuss:
- Raising money in 2020
- Building as the price of bitcoin crashed
- Hashrate derivative tokens
- Why a miner would sell hash
- Why a retail investor would buy a hash rate token
- Why isn't hash rate keeping up with price
- Mining off grid
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Taproot LOT OF LOTS
- BitPay Sanctions Violations
- Bitfinex and Tether settle with NY AG without admitting fault
- MicroStrategy bought another ~19.5k bitcoin for a ~$1.03B, they now hold 90.5k bitcoin
- Square quarterly earnings
- Coinbase discloses number ahead of Nasdaq listing
- Teleport Transactions CoinSwap implementation
- Arthur Hayes emerges
- Specter v1.2.0
- Onion Share v2.3
- RTL v0.10.1
- Hexa Wallet v1.4.5
- Samourai Dojo v1.9.0
- MyNode v0.2.27
- Sparrow Wallet v1.2.0
- Blockstream Green adds encryption to wallet metadata
- River raised $17.3M
- BottlePay raised $15.5M
- Can Governments Stop Bitcoin?
- BitMEX provides third grant for Michael Ford
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Join Marty as he sits down with Lyn Alden, Founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, to discuss:
- Current market environment
- Commodities pumping
- Rates jumping
- Repo markets
- Inflation
- Historical inflationary event
- Bitcoin + energy arbitrage
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Mason Jappa & Sam Chwarzynski from Blockware Solutions to discuss:
- Mining trends
- Hosting
- Bitcoin as a messaging protocol
- The bitcoin liquidity crunch
- The macro factors lining up for bitcoin
- Bitcoin the messaging network
- Protecting against onerous regulations
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Taproot activation timeline released
- Dread admins discuss issues with ongoing Tor attack
- Jack and Jay Z announce 500 bitcoin development endowment
- Canadian Bitcoin ETF gets green light
- BlackRock "dabbling" in bitcoin
- BlueWallet v6.0.5
- Zap Android v0.4.0-beta
- JoininBox v0.2.0
- Umbrel v0.3.3
- Wasabi Wallet v1.1.12.4
- BIP47 v3 draft spec released
- Bitcoin Storage Guide by Sparrow Wallet Team
- Ministry of Nodes Ubuntu Node Box Guide
- Osprey Bitcoin Trust (OBTC), a challenger to Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC)
- Myanmar internet cut multiple times as military curfew continues
- Matt + Scaramucci
- Texas energy debacle
- Bitcoin is the #6 base money in the world
- much more
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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 money printing
- History of layered money systems
- Different reserves
- How complicated the current USD reserve system is
- A new financial stack emanating from nonces
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Lamar Wilson to discuss:
- Black Bitcoin Billionaires club on Clubhouse
- Marketing bitcoin
- Empowering individuals with bitcoin
- Bringing back strong families
- Getting people off zero on their way to becoming satoshi millionaires
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Coldcard multisig vulnerability https://nunchuk.medium.com/the-missing-multisig-standard-5b4092e3ea92
- Tesla buys $1.5B worth of bitcoin https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459021004599/tsla-10k_20201231.htm
- Bitcoin Hash Rate New ATH
- Samourai Wallet v0.99.96c https://docs.samourai.io/en/wallet/releases#v09996c
- Nunchuk v0.9.7 https://nunchuk.medium.com/nunchuk-0-9-7-6b74b3848c3d
- Joinmarket v0.8.1 https://github.com/joinmarket-org/joinmarket-clientserver/releases/tag/v0.8.1
- Sparrow v1.1.0 https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.1.0
- Twitter CFO says they are considering bitcoin purchase https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/1359501275650547714
- SEC Commish says they are ready for a bitcoin ETF https://www.coindesk.com/peirce-sec-coindesk-tv
- Sending large files with blockstream satellite https://medium.com/blockstream/orbital-data-freighting-with-blockstream-satellite-2b9cde6aa79e
- Saylor Academy launches free bitcoin course http://sylr.org/BTC4E
- Gladstein + Reason Video https://twitter.com/reason/status/1357756578787708931
- Arthur Hayes Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-bitcoin-billionaire-arthur-hayes
- Castle Island new $50M bitcoin VC fund https://medium.com/castle-island-ventures/castle-island-ventures-ii-and-the-road-ahead-e1dfffe72d8f
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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 a split
- Fork futures
- Lessons learned
- UASF as a nuclear option
- Taproot activation
- BIP 8 (True/False)
- Why precedents matter
- LDK update
- much more
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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 of the bitcoin mining and energy industries
- Energy delivery problems
- Grid stabilization
- Central banks of the future
- Efficient capital allocation under a Bitcoin Standard
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Elon playing games
- Senator Lummis appointed Senate Banking Committee
- Microstrategy Bitcoin Summit
- Grayscale GBTC premium goes negative for first time
- California pension fund goes HAM on RIOT
- Darknet markets hit new ATH revenue according to chainalysis
- Matrix Chat Client Element removed
- Zeus v0.5.0-beta1
- Bisq v1.5.5
- Hexa Wallet v1.4.2
- Phoenix v1.4.6
- Home mining for non-KYC Bitcoin
- Self-hosting guide by Ketan
- Coinbase targeting Nasdaq and $50B valuation
- New Fed paper on inequality
- Ukraine considering nuclear mining
- Proposed Bitcoin Ban in India
- India blocks internet amid protests
- ATMs, banks, and internet access have been shutdown in Myanmar following military coup
- Casa raises $4m in seed round
- XMR.to shuts down
- This Month in Bitcoin Privacy: January 2020
- Bitcoin 2021 Conference moved from LA to Miami in June
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Wall Street Mayhem
- Tor v3 DoS attacks continue
- Tighter KYC regs in Netherlands
- Marathon buys $150M in bitcoin
- Sparrow Wallet v1.0.0
- Tails v4.15
- Fully Noded v0.2.11
- GrapheneOS web installer
- Grayscale donates $1M to coincenter, matching up to another $1M
- Navalny donation address receives almost 4 bitcoin since he was jailed addy
- Mining pool censorship analysis by bitmex research
- Jihan Wu signed letter
- Gladstein in Time on privacy
- Ray Dalio on bitcoin
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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 CDS market for sovereign bonds as a way to calculate Bitcoin's fair value
- Systemic risk in the financial system
- Counter-party risk
- Bitcoin and the energy industry
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with independent journalist Whitney Webb to discuss:
- Solar Winds
- Q Anon
- Operation Warp Speed
- Incoming Secretary of State
- WEF's Great Reset
- Independent Journalism
- Opting out
- much more
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This week in Bitcoin Marty and Matt discuss:
- bitcoin reorg confusion: BITMEX & Blockstream Explorer & Deribit Dissection & Peter Todd
- CSW sues bitcoin.org and bitcoincore.org over whitepaper copyright
- Energy usage FUD smacks marty in the face on twitter
- Mining in the arctic circle
- Iranian gov seizing ASICs
- Blue Wallet v6.0.3
- c-lightning v0.9.3
- Bitcoin Dev Kit v0.3.0
- Blackrock entering the fray?
- Chainalysis releases 2020 "illicit activity" report
- Our boy Nic dropped a great piece in NYMag
- Mullvad conducts infrastructure audit
- Bitcoin Core usage survey
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Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Krieger to discuss:
- Cancel yourself before they cancel you
- Free and open source software
- Censorship
- History
- Bitcoin as a way to exit
- The illegitimacy of the expert class
- Localism
- The education system
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Tor v3 Onion addresses unreachable after apparent attack on Tor network
- Ledger discloses new data leak and steps they are taking to mitigate issues going forward
- Analysis of Solar Winds attack
- HRF provides grants to Specter and Lot49
- Lagarde attacks bitcoin
- Bitcoin Core v0.21.0
- BlueWallet v6.0.2
- BTCPay Server v1.0.6.5
- RaspiBlitz v1.6.3
- Sparrow v0.9.10
- Hexa Wallet v1.4.1
- Fully Noded v0.2.9
- Coldcard v3.2.2
- Mempool v2
- Bakkt going public on NYSE
- Poolin releases hash rate token
- FinCEN extends comment period
- German Police take down DarkMarket and arrest operator
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Join Marty as he sits down with Tracy Shuchart (@chigrl) from Hedge Fund Telemetry to discuss:
- Oil Markets
- Misallocation of capital
- PE + O&G
- Fragile supply chains
- Rare Earth metals
- Bitcoin mining with flare gas
- Energy producers are the central banks of the future
- much more
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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
- bitcoin the hard asset
- Bitcoin the Network
- Strike global
- Routing around with Bitcoin
- State of the Lightning Network
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- OCC letter on banks using stablecoins
- Pro censorship American mining pool gains steam
- Iranian mining crackdown
- Strike Global
- Blockstream Jade
- Bitcoin Core v0.21.0 RC5
- Fully Noded v0.2.8
- Specter v1.0.0
- Braiins acquires remaining stake in Slush Pool from Slush
- Coindesk buys tradeblock
- Anthony Towns on 2021
- Bitcoin Explained by BJ Dweck
- Silent Link
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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 and solutions
- DLCFDs
- Stablecoins
- Transaction fees
- Is Ethereum beating Bitcoin?
- PEMDAS
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Our boy Russ getting paid in bitcoin using Strike
- Mooch's new bitcoin fund slides leak
- Indian Gov considering 18% tax on bitcoin trading
- US Treasury hits BitGo with sanctions violations on their non custodial wallet
- Bisq v1.5.3
- Umbrel App Store
- VanEck refiles ETF
- This Month in Bitcoin Privacy
- SolarWinds attack
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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's App Store
- Why personal hardware is an imperative moving forward
- Self-sovereign surveillance
- Making all of this easy
- much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- Ledger database dump
- FinCEN adds new KYC requirements for withdrawals
- Nigeria is now second biggest Paxful bitcoin market after the US
- Bitmain civil war escalates
- Microstrategy recent purchases complete
- BlueWallet v6.0.1
- Eclair v0.5.0
- Caravan adds PSBT support
- Discreet Log Contract for Difference
- Ripple gets hit by SEC
- Bitcoin DevKit
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with their very good friend arbedout to discuss:
- Gurri's Revolt of the Public
- Telecommunications networks
- Deflationary v. Inflationary currencies
- MMT vs Bitcoin in context of Hirschmann's Exit, Voice and Loyalty
- Great American Mining, energy, and Bitcoin
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Desiree Dickerson, Christian Moss and Simon Cowell to discuss:
- Gaming + The Lightning Network
- Why dedicated gaming tokens don't make sense
- Zebedee's SDK
- MintGox
- Getting pro gamers into LN enabled gaming
- Gaming culture these days
- The Upcoming MintGox tournament on December 27th
- Our favorite games
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Louis Roberts AKA Lightswitch Lou, the man who launched TFTC, to discuss:
- Everything under the sun
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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 culture
- Are Bitcoin's properties inherent or emergent?
- Bitcoin v. Ethereum
- Journalism
- Bias
- Objectivity
- much more
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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
- Guggenheim's Minerd drops a casual $400k price prediction
- UK FCA allows temp approvals
- Kraken to add lightning early next year
- MTGox claims speculation
- BTCPay Server v1.0.6.3
- myNode v0.2.20
- TailsOS v4.14
- ACINQ Phoenix v1.4.4
- ACINQ iOS wallet enters testing
- Electrum v4.0.8
- BlueWallet v6.6.0
- Compromising airgapped machines
- OXT Research Kucoin Report
- JoinMarket guide
- 10 ways to lose your bitcoin
- Coinbase going public
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Join Marty as he sits down with BitcoinTINA to discuss:
- The new ATH
- Institutional adoption
- How high will Bitcoin go?
- Gradually, then suddenly
- Cutting losses v. taking profits
- Gold's fate
- The importance of running a node
- The market will bend the knee
- Holding in a bull market v. holding in a bear market
- much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Ben Kaufman, unlicensed software developer, to discuss:
- Specter Wallet
- Crypto Advanced
- Making multisig easy
- Making connecting to a full node easy
- PSBT
- QR Codes
- HWI
- Hardware
- Zoomers
- much more
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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 discuss:
- Sound Money as a moral imperative
- How easy money corrupts society
- The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil
- Serving money or God
- Positivism v. Natural Rights
- Jesus flipping the table and kicking out the moneychangers
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Ledger Phishing scams continue and get more sophisticated
- Our boy Justin gets funded by Square Crypto
- Brian Brooks non answer when asked about potential self custody restrictions
- G7 Finance Ministers discuss the need for more bitcoin regulations
- Our boy Jake sends out 'canary' tweet
- Four Republican Congressmen send letter to Mnunchin defending self custody
- French Finance Ministry to enact stricter bitcoin regs
- Elliptic releases press release associating bitcoin privacy wallets with criminal intent
- Mass Mutual buys $100M worth of bitcoin
- Microstrategy borrowing money to buy more bitcoin
- c-lightning v0.9.2
- RoninDojo v1.8.0
- Specter v0.10.4
- Zap Android v0.3.6
- Sparrow Wallet v0.9.9
- Ledger Live adds easy bitcoin core full node support
- Bullish yearly survey from Blockchain Capital
- First multi-transaction CoinSwap test by Chris Belcher
- Lightning Network deanonymization paper
- BTC-e Operator sentenced to 5 years
- The Battle for P2SH
- Bitcoin Dissidents Editorial
- BTC Mag drops Top 21 in 2020 list:
- Moxie on Rogan then mobilecoin launch
- Tutanota ordered to break encryption
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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
- potential rushed self custody restrictions via brian armstrong
- CCP was the Plus Token Whale
- NYTimes hit piece on coinbase and bitcoin
- Bitcoin Beach balls out
- BTCPay Server v1.0.6.0
- JoinMarket v0.8.0
- JoininBox v0.1.15
- RaspiBlitz v1.6.2
- MyNode v0.2.19
- Sparrow Wallet v0.9.8
- Nunchuk v0.9.3
- Samourai Wallet v0.99.96
- BlueWallet v5.6.7
- PSBT Toolkit v0.1.2
- New version of nthKey
- Specter DIY now offered prebuilt
- Guggenheim fund may invest in bitcoin
- AllianceBernstein like bitcoin now
- BitMEX hires heavy hitter German CEO
- OTC volumes hit new records
- This Month in Bitcoin Privacy
- Brink announces first fellow, Gloria Zhao
- Gemini announces bitcoin development "Opportunity Fund"
much more
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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 Fiat Standard
- Principles of Economics
- The University system
- "The Science"
- Lockdown hysteria
- Unexpected externalities from lockdowns
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Coldcard testnet attack
- John Newbery and Mike Schmidt launch new bitcoin development initiative
- Chainalysis raising $100M at $1B valuation
- Microstrategy exploring bitcoin "data products"
- Gold funds falling while bitcoin pumps
- Bisq v1.5.0
- Bitcoin Wallet Tracker v0.2.0
- Autoloop lightning liquidity
- PTLC Proof of Concept from Suredbits
- Leo Zhang's The Intelligent Bitcoin Miner
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Join Marty as he sits down with Adam Curry to discuss:
- Origins of podcasting
- Podcasting 2.0
- Value for Value
- Sphinx chat
- Streaming payments
- Automatic royalties/distributions
- Self censorship and advertising
- Open publishing and distributed money make sense together
- Distrust in media
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- taproot activation hits 55% miner support taprootactivation.com
- Second richest Mexican is now a bitcoiner
- Senator Lummis on fire
- the mooch considering a bitcoin play
- Citi likes bitcoin now
- Whirlpool CLI v0.10.9
- Electrum v4.0.5
- ThunderHub v0.10.3
- Tails v4.13
- Lend at HodlHodl now available in US
- Swan XPUB support
- OKEx mining hash rate falls due to solvency concerns
- OKEx announces they will start processing withdrawals again
- Dutch exchange now making you verify addresses
- Chainalysis double dipping on government contracts
- Binance suing Forbes
- Apple privacy issues exposed due to server failure
- US military buying precise location data from marketing agencies
- Librem 5 begins shipping
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Join Marty as he sits down with Graham Krizek, Founder of Voltage, to discuss:
- Graham's Bitcoin journey
- Starting Voltage
- The Lightning Network + node operators
- Necessary infrastructure
- Encrypting data in the cloud
- Security tradeoffs
- Cloud Computing landscape
- Centralization risks
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Adam Curry announces lightning powered Podcast 2.0 spec
- Ledger Phishing Email analysis
- Nodl v0.1.2
- Fully Noded Desktop v0.2.1
- Sparrow v0.9.7
- myNode v0.2.18
- Umbrel v0.2.14
- RTL v0.9.3
- Adam Gibson on wasabi 2.0
- WORDS Bitcoin Journal October 2020
- OKEx could be a CCP play
- EU encryption resolution
- blockseer KYC mining pool
- Nigerian gov blocking protest bank accounts
- ethereum hard fork bug
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Join Marty as he sits down with Patrick Dugan to discuss:
- Financial regulations
- The Bank Secrecy Act
- FATF
- Money laundering
- Cypherpunk v. Financialization
- A bifurcated network inevitable?
- TradeLayer
- Op Codes
- much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Tom Trevethan, CTO of CommerceBlock, to discuss:
- Statechains
- Mercury Wallet
- Trust tradeoffs
- Privacy gains
- Fee structure
- Custodial tradeoff
- Use cases
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- bitcoin difficulty adjusted down by 16%
- This month in bitcoin privacy
- Russian Gazprombank likes bitcoin now
- Lightning Pool liquidity market
- Zeus v0.4.0
- Specter v0.9.1
- Lightning Terminal v0.3.0
- Android Tor Browser v10.0.3
- JoininBox v0.1.14
- FUlly Noded Desktop v0.1.99
- Raspi 400
- Nunchuk multisig
- Low bandwidth bitcoin
- bitbo.io bitcoin dashboard
- Bitcoin merge mining report
- Layer1 legal issues
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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
- Proof of Work as an essential component of cryptocurrencies
- The Order of Operations necessary to create a truly distributed cryptocurrency
- Reading white papers
- Will Ethereum scale?
- Lightning Pool
- Shadow Pools
- A LN yield curve
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Morgen Rochard, author of Personal Finance QuickStart Guide, to discuss:
- Personal Finance
- When you should start saving
- How much you should be saving
- How you should be paying down debt
- When can you buy bitcoin?
- Should you speculative attack your debt?
- Keeping tabs of your finances
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- FEE FOMO IS REAL
- Cryptocloaks release triton case
- First monthly nodl call
- Travel rule fuckery intensifies
- If you wish to submit a comment
- Statechains for privacy?
- JoinMarket status update
- Marathon announces purchase of 10k AntMiner S-19 Pros
- New round of Ledger user phishing attempts
- Anthony Towns on Taproot activation
- Largest bank in Singapore to launch bitcoin exchange
- JoinMarket v0.7.2
- JoininBox v0.1.13
- BTCPay Server v1.0.5.9
- Lightning Terminal v0.2.0
- Fully Noded Desktop v0.1.96
- Atomic finance launches DLC based bitcoin betting tool
- BlockFi discloses 5% position in GBTC
- Sounds like the NSA is still putting insecure backdoors into our favorite products
- River adds hardware wallet account
- Kucoin hacked bitcoin going through ChipMixer
- Iranian government announces intention to use bitcoin to circumvent import sanctions
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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 interact
- How HodlHodl's lending product differs from DeFi
- What stablecoins are available
- Prediction markets
- Liquid
- RGB
- Integration with Blue Wallet
- much more
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This week Mart and Matt discuss:
- two LND vulnerabilities disclosed
- Paypal adds "bitcoin"
- Our boy Paul shills the corn again
- coinbase transparency report
- FinCEN fines custodial bitcoin mixing CEO $60M
- Travel rule white paper & participants
- BTCPay Server v1.0.5.8
- Bisq v1.4.2
- Phoenix v1.4.0
- Breez RC1
- Tails v4.12
- Tor browser v10.0.2
- Raspiblitz v1.6.1
- Sparrow v0.9.6
- Voltage cloud lightning node service launched
- Hodl Hodl adds P2P bitcoin lending support
- BitMEX speeding up KYC process
- Bitcoin hit piece by CNAS
- Thai authorities attempting to block access to telegram
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Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss:
- Cancel culture
- Modern day journalism
- COVID-19
- Lockdowns
- Vaccines
- The Election
- Censorship
- much more
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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
- The Lightning Network
- Liquid
- Tokens
- Privacy
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- LND vulnerability
- DOJ launches global push to ban end to end encryption
- OKEx suspends withdrawals
- Taproot merged into Bitcoin Core
- BitMEX cofounder released on $5M bond
- BitMEX hires new compliance officer
- Indian exchanges working together to provide stricter KYC/AML compliance
- Spain potential law forcing full disclosure of bitcoin holdings
- Unchained adds coldcard support
- myNode v0.2.17
- Nodl v0.1.1f
- RTL v0.9.1-beta
- Eclair v0.4.2
- JoinMarket v0.7.1
- Trezor Suite Public Beta
- Electrum v4.0.4
- Stone Ridge $115M bitcoin investment
- Rodolfo the domain hodler
- Fidelity recommends 5% position in bitcoin
- Fidelity privacy panel with Matt
- Marathon announces new 105 Megawatt bitcoin mining op
- BitMEX on the risks of brain wallets
- lnresearch data
- MuSig2 paper
- WORDS September Bitcoin Journal
Join Marty as he sits down with Independent Journalist Whitney Webb to discuss:
- Chile
- Operation Warp Speed
- Intelligence Agencies
- Defense contractors
- Big Pharma connections
- History of the CIA
- Operation Dark Winter
- Color Revolutions
- Overcoming the Conspiracy Theorist label
- Epstein as a pawn in a bigger game
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Ansel Linder to discuss:
- 2015 + 2016 bear market
- Different iterations of altcoins
- Fed Policy
- Is QE inflationary or deflationary
- How does Fed policy affect Bitcoin?
- much more
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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 zero profitability for pools
- Value add services pools provide
- The future of mining pools
- Firmware products
- PPS v. FPPS v. PPLNS
- Cheese
- Wine
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Square buys $50M worth of bitcoin
- New Europol report
- Travel rule rumors swirl
- New DoJ framework
- HMRC orders coinbase to hand over customer records
- Chainalysis hits Mex with high risk warning
- BitMEX leadership changes
- Schnorr summary by suredbits
- specter v0.8.1
- bitcoin wallet tracker v0.1.5
- blockstream green desktop v0.0.4
- sparrow v0.9.5
- bluewallet v5.6.1
- BTCPay server v1.0.5.7
- Hexa Wallet v1.2.0
- Fully Noded v0.1.90
- Ledger live adding coin control and full node support
- Riot Blockchain buys 2500 S19 Pros
- $26 million in bitfinex stolen bitcoin moves
- mempool sponsors
- classroom surveillance on the rise with rona as the excuse
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Join Marty as he sits down with Leo Zhang, Founder of Anicca Research, to discuss:
- The Alchemy of Hashpower
- Stakeholders within the mining industry
- ASICs as physical options on bitcoin
- Bitmain's struggles
- MicroBT
- Hashrate derivatives
- The US and China
- Family
- much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Joost Jager, independent Lightning Network developer, to discuss:
- Griefing Attacks
- Circuit Breaker
- Routing on Lightning
- Multi-Path Payments + Wumbo
- Public v. Private channel capacity
- Whatsat
- Multiple implementations and how they interact
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- BitMEX hit by CFTC and Department of Justice
- KuCoin hacked for $150M
- New Zealand tax authority seeking personal info from local exchanges
- Chainalysis and Integra FEC receive IRS contracts for lightning and monero tracing
- Pierre adds bounties to BitcoinACKs.com
- September privacy newsletter by Janine
- Murchandamus joins Chaincode
- RoninDojo v1.7.0
- Sparrow Wallet v0.9.4
- nix-bitcoin v0.0.18
- The Eye of Satoshi v0.1.1
- BTCPay Server v1.0.5.6
- Aqua Wallet by blockstream
- CoinOS web wallet with liquid and lightning support
- Docusign competitor using bitcoin - Woleet
- CalyxOS released
- Taproot explainer by suredbits
- HCPP this weekend
- Ministry of Nodes also thinks specter is straight fire
- PlanB Dox
- Brian Armstrong fake woke
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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 responsibility
- Cynthia's experience Wyoming's state Treasurer
- How Bitcoin can help with fiscal responsibility
- How Bitcoin can help pensions
- How Bitcoin can help the energy sector
- How Bitcoin embodies the ideals America was founded on
- The work Wyoming has done to welcome Bitcoin innovators
- There are good people in Washington
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Stephan Kinsella to discuss:
- State's rights
- The Lockdowns
- The Constitution
- The Government v. The State
- Bitcoin didn't ask for permission
- Are leftists insane?
- Should you vote?
- Smart contracts
- much more
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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?
- Miners are Energy Pirates
- How mining companies should manage their balance sheets
- Art
- Digital Art
- NFTs
- Literature
- much more
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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 transition
- DeFi on Ethereum, is it legit?
- Non-custodial DeFi on Bitcoin?
- Bitcoin + DLCs
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Lightning node firewall circuitbreaker
- Iran power plants making mining moves
- Timeline of bitmain power struggle
- Bisq v1.3.9
- BlueWallet v5.5.9
- Tails v4.11
- nix-bitcoin v0.0.17
- Dojo v1.8.0 released
- Specter v0.8.0
- Smartcard support for Specter DIY HWW
- Square Crypto $100k grant to btcpay server and launches a proper portal for their work squarecrypto.org
- Namecheap adds btcpay server!
- Unchained Capital adds advanced multisig business accounts
- Russian gov wants full wallet disclosures
- Venezuelan government to require use of national mining pool
- FinCen Files leak
- Over 170 arrests and over $6.5M seized in global DOJ lead operation against dark markets
- whirlpool fee calculator and portal for his other links by bitcoinqna https://getbitcoin.help/
- Umbrel wallet support
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Join Marty as he sits down with Christopher Gimmer and Marc Chouinard, co-founders of Snappa, to discuss:
- Bootstrapping v. Raising funds from VCs
- Building many businesses and failing
- The decision to add Bitcoin to Snappa's balance sheet
- Why it's easier to move cash to Bitcoin as a small biz v. publicly traded companies
- Small business self-custody via multisig
- Asking, "What is money?"
- Canada's inflated real estate market
- Bullish sentiment
- Bitcoin education
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis of the Crypto Voices Podcast to discuss:
- Q2 2020 Global Monetary Base update
- Defining Base Monies
- Where Bitcoin stands as a base money
- Current growth rate of base monies
- Claims on base monies
- Claims on bitcoin
- Proof of Reserves
- History of Communism in the 20th century
- How people rioting in the US are misguided
- What's going on in Belarus right now (podcast link)
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Stacking Saylor
- Bakkt all time high daily volume
- Coin Control in Ledger Live
- Square Crypto provides another $100K grant to btcpay
- Sparrow Wallet Guide by bitcoinqna
- Roy from Breeze on MPP and Wumbo
- c-lightning v0.9.1
- Electrum v4.0.3
- BlueWallet v5.5.8
- Kraken is a bank now
- Anicca Research - The Alchemy of Hashpower Pt. II
- FATF Report on Red Flags
- Is creeping KYC a threat to bitcoin?
- Chinese Nationals allegedly attack more than 100 companies
- Chinese database of 2.4M foreigners leaks
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- CVE-2018-17145 Bitcoin vulnerability (that has since been patched) disclosed
- Flaxman digs specter too
- So does Ketan
- Bitcoinqna NO KYC homepage
- Chainalysis Global Crypto Adoption
- Belarus non profit using bitcoin
- Square launches Crypto Open Patent Alliance
- Umbrel v0.2.9
- Rudefox Burrow v0.0.5
- Ledger Status on liquidity farming
- Freak questions answered
- much more
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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)
- An Oracle's role in DLCs
- Are decentralized Oracles possible?
- DLCs onchain v. on the Lightning Network
- Stock-to-flow thoughts
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- bitblockboom reflections
- Trezor/Keepkey passphrase vuln
- Trezor security patch
- Alleged electrum phishing attack
- This Month in Bitcoin Privacy
- Looming Russian mining crackdown
- Bithumb exchange seized in South Korea
- Coincenter cools rumors about escalating regulatory measures
- Empire market exit scam
- Alphabay dispute moderator gets 11 years in prison
- Chainalysis Latin America analysis
- Specter v0.7.0
- Sparrow Wallet v0.9.2
- Umbrel v0.2.6
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Join Marty, Matt, Justin Moon, Jeff Vandrew, and the audience from BitBlockBoom as they discuss:
- CoinJoin wars
- Equinor working with Crusoe Energy
- Coinbase users told by California that they should hold their keys
- Tax laws
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Fabian Jahr to discuss:
- Fabian's year since leaving the Chaincode residency
- His OKCoin grant
- The importance of code review
- An optimal review:PR ratio for devs
- Signet
- gettxoutsetinfo and Supply Gate
- PR Review Club
- How to best fund devs
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Bendiksen, Head of Research at Coinshares, to discuss:
- Consciousness
- Time
- Mining
- Hashrate derivatives
- Asynchronous time + Proof of Work
- TOOL
- Free will
- Education
- Bitcoin's benefits to a portfolio
- Energy consumption
- much more
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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's catch-22
- Bankruptcy via inflation
- Debt/GDP
- Apolitical alternatives to the Dollar
- Money + energy
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Ongoing bsv dust attack
- OXT research alleged wasabi vulnerability
- Strike adds cashback
- Hash rate hits ATH then floods in Sichuan
- Tor statement on recent exit node attacks
- Tor proposal for possible DoS mitigations
- cypherpunklabs.com allows you to easily fund Tor nodes
- BitMEX adding KYC
- Specter v0.6.1
- myNode v0.2.14
- Zeus v0.3.1
- BTCPay Server v1.0.5.5
- Lily Wallet v1.0.0
- lnd v0.11-beta
- Schnorr explainer series by suredbits
- Raspiblitz on bitcoinmagazine stream
- Lancium sues Layer 1
- BlockFi raises $50M, rumored valuation of $400M
- Cryptovoices monetary base update
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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 cousin
- Expanding River to 30 states
- River's foray into Hawaii
- Hawaii's regulatory history with Bitcoin
- Onboarding and educating high net worth individuals
- Building out River's software stack
- Thoughts on chain surveillance companies
- Interacting with a banking system that isn't open 24/7/365
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- numbers run, yams fucked, fees sliced
- malicious tor exit node attacks
- microstrategy macro strategy
- portnoy and winklevii
- whirlpool and postmix spending FAQ
- bisq v1.3.7
- psbt toolkit v0.1.1
- c-lightning v0.9.0-1
- nodl dojo and one v0.1.1d
- Fully Noded v0.1.68
- ledger nano s and nano x firmware updates
- Full datasheet for the secure chip used by Coldcard MK3 leaked
- Nigerians using bitcoin
- Lily multisig demo
- Specter multisig demo
- MintGox 006 - Sep 13 - 2PM ET
- DOJ seizes terrorist funds
- US CBP increases electronic surveillance powers at borders
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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
- The double edged sword of the reserve currency of the world
- Inflation metrics
- Why Lyn is interested in Bitcoin
- How the world would look different on a Bitcoin Standard
- much more
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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
- What bitcoin data can tell you
- The polarization in America
- Secession
- How easy money leads to more lawyers and laws
- Will Marxism come to America?
- An optimistic path forward
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Tor Project response to "zero day" disclosures
- Ledger App Isolation Bypass
- ledger response
- 17 year old arrested for twitter hack
- Threat of KYC bitcoinmagazine panel
- RoninDojo on OC Bitcoin Network
- Bitcoin Core v0.20.1
- RTL v0.8.3-beta
- ACINQ Phoenix v1.3.2
- c-lightning v0.9.0
- RaspiBlitz v1.6
- nix-bitcoin v0.0.12
- BlueWallet v5.5.2
- BlueWallet Desktop Alpha
- Specter v0.6.0
- Wasabi v1.1.12
- ColdCard v3.1.8
- Lily Wallet Update tease
- Trezor Model T v2.3.2 and Model one v1.9.2
- Lightning Labs terminal
- Rudefox Burrow
- This Month in Bitcoin Privacy
- WORDS July Bitcoin Journal
- Using HodlHodl by bitcoinqna
- HRF three new grants
- OKCoin funds Marco Falke
- Cashapp going moon bound
- Casa offers non custodial bitcoin buys
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Ledger personal info hacked
- Chainalysis public dashboard (Use a VPN or Tor)
- Murch post on enterprise UTXO management
- Alchemy of Hashpower
- Minsc scripting language
- softfork activations breakdown
- myNode v0.2.12
- Tor Browser v9.5.3
- Fidelity bitcoin investment thesis
- Bakkt ATH volume
- CME ATH open interest
- Support bitcoin devs
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Join Marty as he sits down with Whitney Webb to discuss:
- Epstein + Deutschebank
- The history of Kroll Associates
- The global intelligence community
- Private intelligence companies
- The blending of the State + Big Tech
- Human trafficking
- NGOs as a front for trafficking
- The 2020 Election and potential shenanigans
- 9/11
- Why Whitney covers these stories
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Vijay Boyapati to discuss:
- Tales of moving gold across borders
- The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
- Austrian Economics
- The riots
- Jevons Paradox
- Bitcoin is in its embryo-tic stage
- much more
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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 demonstration release
- RaspiBlitz v1.6 release candidate 3 add IP2TOR
- Eye of Satoshi v0.1.0
- Aaron Van Wirdum on Taproot activation
- Testing and improving asmap
- myNode Stack by bitcoinqna
- Samourai Stack by bitcoinqna
- Great threads from @dannydiekroeger
- EFF Atlas of Surveillance
- CIA can launch offensive cyber attacks more easily now
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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
- Future products from Foundation Devices
- much more
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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
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- samourai post mix address reuse disclosure & patch
- Timing attacks on Lightning Network
- Twitter hacked
- difficulty hits new ATH
- taproot activation
- coinbase selling surveillance software to Secret Service and IRS
- Zeus v0.3.0
- Bisq v1.3.6
- BTCPay Server v1.0.5.3
- Specter v0.5.5
- Ronin Dojo v1.5
- Samourai Dojo v1.7.0
- Tallycoin v2.1
- blockchain dot com wallet fingerprinting analysis of marketshare
- Bitcoin Mining Hashrate and Power Analysis
- Zap raises $3.5M
- Paradigm provides funding to Anthony Towns
- List of ongoing dev funding by @polylunar_
- Animated QR code demo by Blockchain Commons
- Russian Activists using bitcoin
- Microsoft and the police state
- Mitre Corp surveillance programs
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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
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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 bitcoin research report
- Iran gives bitcoin miners one month to register with the state
- Venezuelan military seize 315 ASICs
- PSBT signing in fully noded
- PSBT Toolkit by benthecarman
- Coincenter bitcoin privacy explainer
- Crowdfunded distributed bitcoin awareness project
- Coinbase trying to IPO
- Signal downloads surge in HK as new draconian laws go into effect
- USDC blacklists address with $100k USD
- Tether has blacklisted $5.5 million in USDT this year
- Marty's favorite app Tiktok pumps doge
- Boltz Channel Creation Swap
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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
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Reading materials that Jeff mentioned:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/20/reed-d20.html
http://communia.blog/why-are-stocks-going-up-when-everything-is-going-awry/
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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
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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
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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
- Words bitcoin journal
- Using postal orders with bisq by @heady_wook
- New coldcard bags
- Chinese ASIC manufacturer Ebang IPO - ticker EBON
- OCBTCN MyNode Special
- Fake gold in China
- Three Gorges Dam
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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
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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
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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 Wallet multisig beta wallet for coldcard users
- Guide for using LND with dojo by dammkewl
- Gladstein bitcoin and human rights video
- Square Crypto design initiative and grants
- Kraken grant to btcpay server for $150,000
- Sci-Hub accepts bitcoin donations because paypal blocked them
- Paypal/Venmo may start offering bitcoin purchases
- Bitmain power struggle continues
- NY Bitlicense gets a little less shitty
- Oracle BlueKai corporate surveillance data leaks
- The US Senate has a new anti-encryption bill
- FBI used social media to arrest protesters/looters
- Facebook and the FBI hacked Tails OS yet never disclosed the vulnerability used
- IRS bought location data to try to find suspects
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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 youths understand Bitcoin more innately
- much more
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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
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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
- Bitmex and OKCoin provide grant to Amiti Uttarwar
- River Financial raises $5.7M
- John Cantrell breaks Alistair Milne's engagement buying scheme
- Rajarshi Maitra explains his journey contributing to bitcoin core
- KYCnot.me website launches
- a discussion about open source software
- Consensys partnering with major exchanges to help them stake ETH + Matt's thread
- Zoom will offer end to end encryption to all users
- Capitalism doesn't exists
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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
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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 sats without KYC
- Bisq guide by @bitcoinQ_A
- List of no kyc P2P services
- HRF starts privacy focused bitcoin dev grant program with $50K grant to Chris Belcher as first recipient
- Microsoft's decentralized ID protocol moves to bitcoin mainnet
- CoinPool privacy and scaling proposal released
- Three Arrows Capital discloses 6.25% ownership of GBTC shares
- China OTC crackdown
- Brave browser ref link autocomplete
- Pentagon War Game ZBellion
- Signal blog on their core principles and design philosophy
- Stephan has IAMTHECHARACTER on pod
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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
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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
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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
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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
- The shady company behind the study
- Perverse incentives in the medical industry
- The World Health Organization
- Medicine Uncensored
- much more
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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 provides $100k development grant to Gleb Naumenko
- Will Cole's mother in law is running for Senate in Wyoming
- Chainalysis Webinar Archive Dump
- Unconfirmed Europol Wasabi Wallet Report leaked
- Time-Dilation attacks on the Lightning Network
- 3M+ bitcoin currently being held on exchanges
- OXT Research: Joinmarket Report
- Coinsquare private user data stolen due to rogue employee
- Tor Browser v9.5 adds human readable addresses
- Signal adds photo blur feature
- 6102 on SLP
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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
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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
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Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss everything under the sun.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- trezor and ledger web shop alleged breach
- chris belcher coinswap proposal, consider donating
- photo-lib libray for building react-native bitcoin wallets
- use bitcoin core with electrum directly using Bitcoin Wallet Tracker plugin
- blockstream green desktop
- okcoin provides $100k grant to btcpay server
- michael ford on bitcoin core security
- 8GB RasPi 4
- StrandHogg 2.0 Android Vuln
- raspiblitz quick thoughts
- no more fee fomo
- hong kong
- spacex + nasa collab
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Join Marty as he sits down with Brandon Quittem to discuss:
- Fungi
- Psychedelic mushrooms
- Smart networks
- Gall's Law
- The Fourth Turning
- Generational archetypes
- Learning what hard work is while young
- much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- Laser Fault Injection attack on Coldcard MK2
- Ledger
- Coldcard
- BlockFi hacked, user personal info taken
- transaction fees hit yearly high
- hash rate and difficulty adjustment
- May whirlpool volume passed March volume whirlpoolstats.com
- Cobra claims he will pass on control of bitcoin.org by end of the year
- Caravan Multisig adds HD wallet support
- Crystal surveillance releases darknet usage report
- Apple and google release updates adding coronavirus people tracking capability
- CCP increases pressure on Hong Kongers
- Twitter adds "safe space feature"
- Joe Rogan to Spotify
- NEW SEGMENT: Your Tax Dollars At Work
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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 Central Banks are unnatural
- Bitcoin + energy efficiency
- Thinking from first principles
- Logos
- Human freedom
- Much more
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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
- How shrinkflation works
- Self Help
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with fellow Bitcoiner Brian Harrington to discuss:
- Civil Liberties and the shutdown
- Three sides of your balance sheet
- Should we stop paying taxes?
- Using your bitcoin in different ways
- Enacting change via local government
- Jesus
- much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- Coldcard security disclosure
- Delphi Digital Halving Report
- Quantitative Analysis of Lightning Network Privacy:
- Crypto Voices Q1 2020 global monetary base report
- African P2P exchange volume ATH
- Nodl Dojo build and setup video
- LightNite announces NFTs on Liquid
- Lolli raises $3M round including Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Phan
- Coindesk Top 50 list is sad af
- US Senate votes to allow FBI warrantless access to web browsing history
- Venezuela pays Iran with $500M worth of gold bars, requiring 9 jets
- Thunderspy USB C vulnerability
- RHR Live on BTC Mag
- US Senator stock sales
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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 in recent decades
- The future of cheap energy
- Why an inflationary monetary policy doesn't make sense in a deflationary world
- How Bitcoin fixes this
- The future of AI
- The future of work
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Paul Tudor Jones announces bitcoin investment
- Nodl Dojo adds keysend support and btc-rpc explorer nodl.it
- CashApp quarterly bitcoin sales ATH
- CoinKite announces BlockClock Mini and steel backup plates
- Foundation Devices announces intention to build new hardware wallet in US
- Blockstream satellite v2
- BlueWallet v5.3.5
- c-lightning v0.8.2
- eclair v0.4
- the perpetual one way peg
- Lebanon and bitcoin
- Zoom buys keybase
- Duterte shutsdown major news network in the Phillipines
- Marty's Bent RSS
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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
- How natural gas gets delivered to the grid
- The decrease in nat gas prices
- Using Bitcoin mining to get more money for his gas
- The design of a bitcoin mining shed on a nat gas field
- Mining with S9s
- Trying to convince other nat gas producers to get into mining
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Prentice and Heavily Armed Clown to discuss:
- WTF happened in 1971?!
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Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Ahlborg, founder of UsefulTulips.org, to discuss:
- How the rolling blackouts in Venezuela last year affected bitcoin trading in LatAm + the US
- How Venezuelan's are using bitcoin as a rail to move money
- Why we've seen an increase in bitcoin exchange volume in Argentina
- Argentina's history of capital controls
- Cuevas
- Do individuals using bitcoin in LatAm believe in its long-term viability as a digital money?
- Increased bitcoin exchange volume in Kenya
- Bitcoin usage in India
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- HWI updated to fix new Trezor firmware compatibility issues
- Laurent on payjoin and deception tools
- Ministry of Nodes RoninDojo video
- Argentina bitcoin usage by Matt Ahlborg
- Kenyan P2P bitcoin volume hits ATHs
- CardCoins sponsoring core developer
- BTCPay Server v1.0.4.2
- ColdCard Kitchen
- OXT Research Report on North Korean cybercrime group
- ColdCard v3.1.3 firmware
- LND v0.10-beta
- Learn using comics with Amiti
- Dressing for the surveillance age
- CryptoCloaks Honey Badger hidden box
- Harvard authoritarians + NIH funding of research on the virus
- Lebanese Banking crisis
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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 products for bitcoiners
- JoininBox
- JoinMarket
- Fidelity Bonds
- Privacy on Lightning
- Broadcast transactions privately
- much more
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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 into Bitcoin Core development
- Learning C++
- Amiti's work on rebroadcasting
- Protecting privacy at the P2P level
- Nuance of mempools
- Current state of Bitcoin
- much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- Unchained Capital caravan update inbound
- mynode v0.2.03
- SLP Chris Belcher
- Upcoming eps with Amiti and Openoms
- YouTube taking down any content not in line with WHO
- Should we reopen the economy?
- much more
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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 Twitter with hate
- Why you shouldn't let people you've never met dictate your happiness
- People losing their own humanity
- Only you control your success
- Bitcoin and why it may have limited upside
- The importance of healthy living
- much more
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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 coronavirus
- Why we need to burn it the f*ck down
- How we can create grass roots movements to turn away from our failing institutions
- Ben's work with frontlineheroes.com
- Why we probably won't have a 'V' shaped recovery
- much more
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Join Marty & Matt as they discuss:
- BTCPay Server adds payjoin support
- Trezor update breaks HWI support
- Cobra and Theymos split ownership of bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org
- Purse.io shuts down
- Breez wallet adds keysend support
- Nodl adds keysend support Nodl OG
- Juggernaut messenger
- Oil markets
- MMT
- much more
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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 Bitcoin now
- Evolution of chips
- Chip fabrication foundries
- Stories of procuring miners in China
- The evolution of culture in China
- The future of Bitcoin mining
- much more
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This week Marty & Matt discuss:
- Bryan Bishop releases bitcoin vaults prototype
- Ransomware operator now defaults to monero payments
- Utreexo explainer
- Trezor Model T v2.3.0
- Samourai Wallet v0.99.93
- Whirlpool CLI v0.10.5 released
- Apple and Google bluetooth based tracking system integrated at the mobile OS level
- Graphene OS guide
- Protesting is a "non essential activity"
- Masks now required in NYC lol
- Surveillance programs escalate worldwide using coronavirus as an excuse
- Most popular ethereum chain explorer has added a blacklist tool
- Maker foundation lawsuit
- Central banks recommend global stablecoin ban, notable ethereum stakeholders caught off guard but they shouldn't be
- Libra pivots to simple single currency stablecoin model
- 9th anniversary of online poker Black Friday
- Mullvad.net VPN releases mobile wireguard compatible apps
- SLP Rafael Yakobi
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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 is doing
- The journey and lessons learned along the way
- Different energy sources and how they affect the decisions of mining operations
- Miners biggest problem; finding cheap power at scale
- Austin's journey with Bearbox
- How mining is ruthless capitalism
- Solving problems for oil companies
- The future of mining in North America
- much more
- Check out Great American Mining's one pager (site to be updated soon)
- Follow Austin on Twitter
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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
- Difference between an electrical and mechanical engineer
- The problem Bitcoin mining solves for the O&G industry
- Difference between building on the grid and off the grid
- Why Bitcoin is so important
- Building a business slowly
- much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- 16.5M Americans unemployed
- Today's Fed announcements
- Dave Portnoy calling the dollar Schrute Bucks
- Bisq security vulnerability
- ACINQ Phoenix v1.3.0 adds Tor support
- BlueWallet v5.3.0
- Samourai Dojo v1.5
- Ronin Dojo v1.4
- All Nodls now support dojo and whirlpool
- Method to provide clearnet access to Tor lightning nodes proposed
- Fold announces sats back visa debit card
- Zane Pocock on the EARN IT Act
- Stephan Livera with Gleb Naumenko on erlay
- Chainalysis CoFounder on WBD
- Shoutout to @jamesbtcbond for setting up his node with electrum
- Rodolfo bitcoin-dev keychain email
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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 operation
- How Matt came to realize Bitcoin is King
- The State of the Economy
- Why Bitcoin isn't "backed by nothing"
- much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- CDC finally recommends face coverings
- CoolWallet S security flaw
- MutantC RPi4 mobile build
- Whirlpool CLI v0.10.4 released
- Eclair v0.3.4 released
- OC Bitcoin Network talk on samourai wallet and privacy
- Tor Browser v9.0.8 released
- RaspiBlitz v1.5 RC1 adds joinmarket CLI support
- Wasabi Wallet v1.1.11 released
- MyNode v0.2.01
- Janet Yellen wants the Fed to buy stocks
- Japanese family formation
- much more
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Join Marty & Matt as they sit down with Alex Gladstein from the Human Rights Foundation to discuss:
- Government overreach during the response to COVID19
- The capture of the World Health Organization
- Censorship in China as COVID19 was spreading
- The economic impact of forced quarantine
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Breez Point of Sale mode added to lightning wallet
- LSAT Authentication
- Samourai Whirlpool GUI v0.10.1 and CLI v0.10.3
- MyNode v0.2.0
- Bitmex research bitcoin development funding analysis
- Bitmex renews and increases grant to Bitcoin Core maintainer Michael Ford
- Mulit-location backup scheme spec released by @openoms
- Whirlpool March volume totaled 1523.45 bitcoin
- Multi sig betting with caravan
- Binance makes a distinction between coinjoin and custodial mixers in recent blog post
- Coinkite begins selling power only magnetic usb cables
- Surveillance companies pivot to coronavirus tracking to increase their reach
- UK PM hosts cabinet meeting on Zoom
- StandardNotes.org and meet.jit.si shoutouts
- Calling out pedos
- much more
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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 mask
- Why people are so willing to cede civil liberties during crises
- Hardware on the horizon from CoinKite
- much more
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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 history of paper gold being used to suppress the price of physical gold
- The Fed has man-in-the-middle attacked US citizens
- Why the Internet isn't decentralized
- Why Sound Money is so important and why bitcoiners and gold holders need to join forces
- The reaction to COVID19. Are we being put in our pods?
- Political framing and mental pods
- The common man
- The importance of unplugging
- What Gen Z thinks
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Krieger, founder of Liberty Blitzkrieg to discuss:
- Gold markets
- The Empire
- Most recent bailout
- Great Awakening
- Why Michael is still bullish on Bitcoin
- Bitcoin + Oil & Gas Industry
- Un-schooling
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Bitcoin and Venezuela
- Coinkite Coldpower
- Zebedee releases bitcoin gaming SDK explainer video
- Tails OS v4.4.1
- Graphene OS v2020.03.23.22 released
- TFTC Guides: Graphene OS installation
- BTCxZelko on Stephan Livera
- $500M of US stimulus bill dedicated to increased surveillance capabilities
- Disturbing video shows coronavirus phone tracking tool
-Taiwan coronavirus surveillance escalates
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Join Marty as he sits down with JW Weatherman and Giacomo Zucco to discuss:
- Separating people from their State
- Overt v. covert evil empires
- Heuristics one can use to gauge the severity of COVID19
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Elisabeth Préfontaine, founder of Octonomics, to discuss:
- Elisabeth's experience in the banking + financial worlds
- Problems with transparency in the traditional financial world
- Bad incentives in the traditional financial system
- Why Bitcoin only?
- How Quebec messed up their opportunity to court bitcoin entrepreneurs
- Defining Bitcoin
- Why bitcoin isn't a security
- PC creep into the boardroom
- much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- Markets down, bitcoin up
- Sunday futures limit down in 3 mins
- 60 Minutes interview Kashkari "infinite amount of cash"
- Fed announces unlimited QE
- Russian central bank added 400k ounces of gold to its reserves in february
- TFTC.tv guides - Graphene & MyNode
- JoinMarket v0.6.2
- JoinMarket PR for fidelity bonds
- Nodl Dojo v0.0.8
- March Whirlpool volume higher than last 3 months combined
- LN Markets released on mainnet
- CashApp adds option to display in sats
- Magic Internet Gathering bitcoin gaming initiative announced
- HRF deep dive into buying bitcoin anonymously
- DOJ seeks permission to detain people indefinitely without trial
- Israel to go into full lockdown with phone location monitored and Ministry of Health to release new tracking app
- The Chula Vista Police Department to use 4 drones to monitor Coronavirus shutdown
- Nascar virtual races on fs1
- much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:
- Macro scene
- Casa open sources node
- Bitcoin Magazine op ed on CoinJoin legality
- BTCPay VR Presentation this Saturday
- US Gov considering location tracking
- Samourai Whirlpool volume set to top January and February volume combined
- Upcoming node guides: tftc.tv and parts list
- Ark Invest bitcoin mining research
- Blockware Solutions bitcoin mining research
- Don't skimp on Micro SDs
- much more
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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 has been very wasteful with resources for the last five decades
- The problems with top-down decision making
- Why centralized economies "on the bike" don't work in the long-run
- The morality of Fed policy
- Parallels between modern day America and the Weimar Repulic
- How small towns can start over and stand on their own two feet
- Value per acre
- Creating community
- Bringing design thinking to city building
- Activating unused spaces
- much more
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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
- VR Socratic Meetup
- Jameson Lopp on Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges
- Other stuff
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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 may do moving forward
- The need for a strong fiscal response in conjunction with Fed policy
- The dangers of centralizing our supply chain in China
- Russia's move in oil markets over the weekend
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- macro and price talk
- mining death spiral FUD
- Bitcoin Core v0.19.1
- bluewallet node issue
- payjoin support should be added to btcpay soon
- Samourai Wallet Whirlpool hits new monthly ATH
- Specter-Desktop multisig release
- OXT Research PlusToken Report Issue 2
- Electrum v4 release still delayed
- MKR/DAI liquidation crisis
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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 a kill shot directed at the US?
- Corporate Debt
- Buybacks
- Junk bonds
- The Fed's reaction to recent market movements
- Fed policy and the erosion of the Nuclear family
- Deflation
- Sounds money standards of the past
- George's thoughts on Gold v. Bitcoin
- much more
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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 medium to long-term.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Coronavirus + Fed Rate Cut
- Whirlpool volume PAMPING
- VR Presentation by Adam Gibson on PayJoin
- Nodl updated with new RTL
- myNode updated with Dojo support
- Casa adds Coldcard support
- BlueWallet adds Coldcard support
- BlockFi flagging wasabi deposits
- Square Crypto announces two new grants
- India Supreme Court strikes down bitcoin banking ban
- South Korea passes amendment formalizing bitcoin regulation
- Germany deems bitcoin a financial instrument
- New York Power Plant mining $50K worth of bitcoin per day
- Coinbase tested facial recognition software Clearview AI
- EARN IT Act to be introduced in US Congress
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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
- Building products to take Bitcoin to the masses
- The Lightning Network
- Key management on the Lightning Network
- Node fallbacks + redundancy
- Discreet Log Contracts
- Oracles
- BitDevs Chicago
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Trace fall from Grace
- FullyNoded corrections - consider donating here
- @6102bitcoin infographics on taint, chainalysis, and blacklisting
- Zebedee releases developer SDK
- Whirlpool usage second monthly ATH in a row
- Whirlpool mobile released
- Casa bitcoin inheritance solution released
- Coldcard v3.1.1
- Square reports growing bitcoin volume
- Square teases option to display in sats and auto buys
- Suredbits Discreet Log Contracts Demo
- Nodl Day - March 24th in SF
- Wifi flaw exposed billions of devices
- lol progpow
- Macro and Coronavirus
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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's fee market
- How it may develop in the future
- Is Bitcoin our only shot?
- Drivechains
- Why people don't like Drivechains
- Why their concerns are valid + invalid
- Bitcoin Hivemind
- much more
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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
- ColdCard firmware v3.1.0 adds support for HSM mode called ckbunker
- Fully Noded 2 released on testflight
- BTCSessions mynodebtc.com build your own node walkthrough video
- Microsoft ION distributed identity project
- OpenNode fiat integration
- Peter Thiel backed Layer1 begins mining operation in West Texas
- What Constant Surveillance Does to Your Brain
- hardware wallet threat modeling
- DoD systems (DISA) compromised, PII taken
- Bitcoin's fifth largest hourly price drop in history
- FTX election markets
- Thought Police in New Zealand
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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 the cryptocurrency world
- Bitcoin v. Ethereum
- How people are using each
- How each project is approaching adoption
- The state of media
- VC funded media incentives
- Independent content creation
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Dropbit CEO arrested for running a centralized mixing service called Helix and a dark market search engine called Grams
- Self payments lightning privacy proposal
- Coldcard releases PSBT Faker tool for testing
- Tor Browser v9.0.5
- Tails v4.3
- Wasabi implements Apple Code Sign
- Escher App demos paying any lightning invoice with your connected bank account
- Liquid support on Bisq goes live
- Anon submits Taproot critique to mailing list
- Chainalysis has been paid over $10M by US gov agencies
- A world without bitcoin thought experiment by Alex Gladstein
- US Federal Budget Proposal Mentions More Cryptocurrency regulation and enforcement
- Trump admin to introduce new FinCEN requirements
- Redditor posts IRS audit request
- If US Marshals never sold seized bitcoin they would currently be worth over $1.8B
- Casa releases home defense primer
- CNBC clip
- Coronavirus Close Contact app
- CIA owned encryption company facilitated global spying for decades
- The Chinese Gov allegedly hacked Equifax
- Yandex facial recognition tool
- FTX launches US elections futures markets for top 6 candidates
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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
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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
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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 requiring bank account linked to withdraw bitcoin rewards for some users
- Lightning Labs raised $10M Series A round and launches lighting loop beta
- ColdCard teases new HSM mode
- ShiftCrypto releases results of new tamper evident packaging alpha test
- Zoomers fighting back against Instagram tracking
- Bitcoin citadel workshop in SF before bitcoin2020
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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
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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 multisig service
- 28% of lightning channels are likely private
- BIP BIP Hooray
- Protonmail and VPN blocked in Russia
- Track internet censorship in real time
- Contribute to open map data, win bitcoin
- Wawa PoS malware compromises 30M+ customer credit cards
- Avast AV has been harvesting and selling user data
- Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers
- BCH mining tax proposal
- Lightning torch privacy PSA
- LN Strike
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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 funding
- Stratum v2
- Matt gives an updated probability of Bitcoin's success
- much more
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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
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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 and other details released
- Apple iCloud backups are essentially a backdoor to phone data
- ECB paper on central bank digital currencies highlights negative interest rates, helicopter money, and more seignorage
- Clearview app face recognition app uses 3B+ photos scraped from millions of public facing websites
- Pentagon accounting debacle
- Bezos gets pwnd by the Saudis
- much more
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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
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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 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
- Coincenter reintroduces bill to add tax exemption for small purchases
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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
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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
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- River financial only 8 states
- 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 multi-path payment support
- South Korean government committee recommends adding bitcoin product to national exchange
- Neil Woodfine on how to keep bitcoin running in offline environments: video, slides, & thread
- Tessercube PGP on mobile, recommended by @coinsureNZ
- Kraken releases yearly government request transparency report
- Cloud extraction report by privacy international
- Russian state energy company courting bitcoin mining ops
- Elaine makes the case for censorship resistant money
- Video of gold accumulation over the last 20 years overlayed with bitcoin market cap
- Debrief creative video by @CreativeLandRun mentions Marty
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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
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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
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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
- Difficulties with verifiable open hardware
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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 premine
- The Venezuelan Petro update
- HK Police freeze $9M raised by activists via Spark Alliance
- Popular chat app ToTok removed from app store due to concerns it is a UAE spy tool
- US gov issues warning to service members asking them not to use DNA testing services
- @dergigi releases 21 Lessons book
- Kiara Bickers (@kiarabickers) releases Bitcoin Clarity book
- Proof of Keys next week
- John Newbery thread
- German gold capital controls
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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
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Join Marty as he sits down with Urbit ambassador to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Sign Guy, to discuss:
- Urbit
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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 usage
- BTCPay integration with M5Stack - cheap point of sale option
- Alex Gladstein in Coindesk, Quillette, Tor blog
- Polo adds no KYC option
- Direct deposits delayed nationwide due to Fed glitch
- NYTimes report on location tracking using phone apps
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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
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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
- Twitter funding small team to develop a more open platform
- Amazon Ring cameras compromised
- More than 260k documents leaked by Sprint contractor
- War on cash escalates in Greece and Italy
- Repo market demand
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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
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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 in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack by Lucas Nuzzi
- TFTC with Matt Ahlborg
- Interesting reddit discussion about Confidential Transactions
- Wasabi v1.1.10 RC1 released - go test it and earn sats
- Badass BTCPay cleats by Russel Okung
- Great Fold commercial by @bvbtc and @content_noir
- BottlePay chat sats launched
- Binance launches no fee Tezos staking undercutting all noncustodial options
- Tron backed Poloniex flexes on DGB founder
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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
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Bitcoin Core 0.19.0 released - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-core-0-19-0-released-heres-whats-new
- ColdCard firmware 3.0.5 released
- Bakkt daily volume - https://twitter.com/BakktBot/status/1200417914744135680?s=20
- Bitmex research analyzes IBD - https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoins-initial-block-download/
- Telegram's Durov issues scathing statement - https://t.me/durov/109
- Two great pieces from Coindesk's Leigh Cuen https://www.coindesk.com/global-protests-reveal-bitcoins-limitations - https://www.coindesk.com/lebanese-bitcoiners-show-how-to-talk-about-crypto-at-thanksgiving
- Nigerians + Bitcoin - https://medium.com/dlabvc/paxful-is-the-most-important-bitcoin-company-you-arent-paying-attention-to-4e699db0c5ca
- Great presentation by Alex Gladstein - https://vimeo.com/375118500
- Venezuelans using RuneScape for additional income - https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2019/11/21/venezuelas-paper-currency-is-worthless-so-its-people-seek-virtual-gold
- South Korean exchange UPbit allegedly hacked: https://etherscan.io/address/0xa09871AEadF4994Ca12f5c0b6056BBd1d343c029
- Eric Wall write up of "stablecoins" - https://medium.com/human-rights-foundation-hrf/privacy-and-cryptocurrency-part-iv-stablecoins-for-human-rights-blacklists-and-traceability-6d74ee17c25d
- DMVs are selling your info https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjekz/the-california-dmv-is-making-dollar50m-a-year-selling-drivers-personal-information
- Jameson Lopp’s IBD research https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-node-performance-sync-tests/
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Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Arnade, Author of Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America, to discuss:
- Traveling through back row America
- Cognitive hubs and spatial redistribution
- Trading on Wall Street
- Connecting with "the other"
- Retribution as politics
- The importance of community
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Will Reeves, Founder of Fold, to discuss:
- How Fold has grown from an app that allowed users to purchase pizza via LN to something much bigger
- Building a distributed team
- Building on a protocol that is changing and evolving
- Bridging the gap between non-technical users and cypherpunks
- The switch from ad tech to surveillance tech
- California wine
- much more
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Check out Fold: https://foldapp.com/
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This week Marty & Matt discuss:
- BTCPay vault + BTCPay configurator https://github.com/btcpayserver/BTCPayServer.Vault/releases/tag/Vault%2Fv0.0.3 & https://twitter.com/pavlenex/status/1197465294463283200?s=21
- Five corporate sponsors for BTCPay now - Luna node and wallet of satoshi join https://twitter.com/milessuter/status/1196973452306993152?s=21
- Coinmetrics & BitMex Research launch txstats.com
- Bottlepay launches developer API https://docs.bottle.dev/
- Matt’s first attempt in front of a camera https://jwp.io/s/O54RhCTj
- Donnerlab announces Bitcoin Bounty Hunt FPS game with sats integrated https://twitter.com/donnerlab1/status/1196856002118852611?s=21
- Binance practices responsible UTXO management https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-616/
- @6102bitcoin launches Bitcoin-intro.com
- Upgrade your Trezor T before sending transactions https://blog.trezor.io/details-of-the-multisig-change-address-issue-and-its-mitigation-6370ad73ed2a
- Zap 0.6.0 desktop released https://medium.com/@JimmyMow/announcing-zap-desktop-0-6-0-beta-1724d13ae597
- @mutatrum launches hodl.camp
- How Many Bitcoins Are Permanently Lost? https://coinmetrics.substack.com/p/coin-metrics-state-of-the-network-d2e
- PlusToken scam chainanalysis - https://twitter.com/ergobtc/status/1197496064854634496?s=21
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Wiz and m52go from the Bisq project to discuss:
- The origins of Bisq
- How Bisq works
- Mining
- Why KYC/AML does more harm than good
- Why privacy is important
- The Bisq DAO
- much more
Check out and download Bisq: https://docs.bisq.network/getting-started.html
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Join Marty as he sits down with Trace Mayer to discuss:
- Wyoming blockchain legislation
- The institution of the nuclear family
- Bitcoin + freedom
- An update on Bitcoin's 7 network effects
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Update firmware before using coldcard SD card feature to send transactions https://blog.coinkite.com/troublesome-change/
- Unchained Capital announces Caravan multisig GUI https://www.unchained-capital.com/blog/the-caravan-arrives/
- Stratum V2 initial specs released https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/with-stratum-v2-braiins-plans-big-overhaul-in-pooled-bitcoin-mining
- Unknown fund announces $75M bitcoin investment towards privacy https://www.unknown.fund/press-release
- Digital Garage provides third grant to BTCPay Foundation worth $30k https://blog.btcpayserver.org/dg-grant-2019/
- Easily create regtest lightning networks with Polar https://github.com/jamaljsr/polar
- Boltathon 2 online lightning conference announced Dec. 6-8 https://twitter.com/Boltathon/status/1193935341914226689?s=20
- Zap iOS 0.5.0 adds Tor support https://twitter.com/ln_zap/status/1192841623421542401?s=20
- HUT8 quarterly figures https://web.tmxmoney.com/article.php?newsid=5330196128175970&qm_symbol=HUT
- Suspicion-less searches of travelers' devices rule unconstitutional https://www.eff.org/press/releases/federal-court-rules-suspicionless-searches-travelers-phones-and-laptops
- Fed Chair Powell: "The federal budget is on an unsustainable path with high and rising debt." https://twitter.com/breaking911/status/1194689974387576838?s=21
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Join Marty as he sits down with Dan Tapiero, Founder of DTAP Capital and Gold Bullion International, to discuss:
- Ray Dalio's recent note
- Dan's views on the current macro landscape
- Why Bitcoin is already established
- Why it's hard for institutional investors to approach
- Bitcoin + The American Revoultion
- Critical thinking
- much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Alpha Zeta to discuss:
- Living through hyperinflation
- Repo operations. Is it QE?
- Why you shouldn't trade Bitcoin
- Stories from Wall Street
- Bitcoin's volatility
- ETF
- HNWI + Bitcoin
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- BTC Citadel workshop #2 Thursday December 5th at 6:30 https://twitter.com/btcCITADEL/status/1191395545656569856?s=20
- FullyNoded https://twitter.com/FullyNoded/status/1192327571486068736?s=20
- BTCPay update https://blog.btcpayserver.org/btcpay-1-0-3-137-released/
- Coldcard firmware 3.0.3 https://blog.coinkite.com/Login-Countdown-and-Nickname/
- Square quarterly results - $149M bitcoin sold, first time buyers double
- Locha mesh trial in Venezuela https://www.coindesk.com/venezuelans-made-lightning-savvy-hardware-to-use-bitcoin-during-blackouts
- Radar Redshift https://twitter.com/radar_ion/status/1191783806077825024?s=20
- EinsteinXchange https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/einstein-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-complaints-1.5347104?cmp=rss
- BullBitcoin to catch a predator https://twitter.com/BullBitcoin_/status/1191830231809576960?s=20
- Wasabi to integrate Bitcoin Core directly https://twitter.com/HillebrandMax/status/1191286955708833792?s=20
- CoinJoin usage chart https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1191038010466426881?s=20
- Chat over Lightning https://twitter.com/joostjgr/status/1190714028626251779?s=20
- Jack Mallers Twitter AMA https://twitter.com/JackMallers/status/1190353245358755840?s=20
- BitMEX leaks 30k passwords https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1190745630316154882?s=20
- NodlOne announced https://shop.nodl.it/en/home/43-71-nodl-one-early-bird.html
- Tether FUD?
- Coinbase adds Tezos staking to consumer facing interface https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1192154927813943296?s=20 & https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/947551556546760704?s=20
- Realt + Uniswap + KYC https://twitter.com/RealTPlatform/status/1191420634196111360?s=20
- Ray Dalio "The World Has Gone Mad and the System is Broken" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/world-has-gone-mad-system-broken-ray-dalio/
- Cash transactions greater than ~$6000 banned in malaysia https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2019/11/07/malaysia-to-impose-cash-transaction-limit-of-rm25000-next-year
- GEDmatch court case precedent could open up millions of DNA records https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/business/dna-database-search-warrant.html
- Russian "sovereign internet" law https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/10/31/russia-new-law-expands-government-control-online
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Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Caras AKA The Bitcoin Rabbi, Author of Bitcoin Money: A Tale of Bitville Discovering Good Money, to discuss:
- Writing Bitcoin Money
- Michael's journey to Bitcoin
- Charity
- Gold's future
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Dhruv Bansal, Co-Founder and CSO of Unchained Capital, to discuss:
- Multisig
- Hardware wallets
- SLIP 0039
- Center of Hash
- Bitcoin in space
- Balancing adaptation and conviction
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- 11 years of bitcoin https://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/
- #FastForSatoshi
- $1B in fees https://twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1189559688494493697?s=19
- China blockchain pump https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-dissident-sees-dark-warnings-in-chinas-blockchain-push
- Wasabi and Samourai Whirlpool comparison chart https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1189606714250858496?s=19
- Casa Gold 2 of 3 multisig https://blog.keys.casa/basic-multisig-2-of-3-now-with-two-hardware-keys/
- Coinmetrics nonce analysis https://coinmetrics.substack.com/p/coin-metrics-state-of-the-network-04a
- Wired hit piece on sanctions evasion https://www.wired.com/story/cryptocurrency-boom-post-soviet-frontier/
- Cryptosteel capsule hands on https://twitter.com/cryptosteel/status/1186354407019110400?s=19 & https://twitter.com/JimJones1913/status/1189021491397980160?s=19
- Breez announces Lightning Rod https://medium.com/breez-technology/introducing-lightning-rod-2e0a40d3e44a
- Lightning and privacy https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1186998875854376960?s=19 & https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1187731152318160897?s=19
- c-lightning 0.7.3 released https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v0.7.3
- Donations to Tor will be matched by Mozilla until November 4th https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency
- Coldcard releases full schematics https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-hardware-shared/
- Lebanon institutes ban on cash leaving country https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-protests-economy-dollars-idUSKBN1X60R2 & https://www.coindesk.com/how-lebanons-economic-crisis-highlights-bitcoins-limitations
- Argentina increases capital controls, $200 per month limit https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-28/argentina-tightens-currency-controls-after-fernandez-victory
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Evan Kaloudis, Founder of ZeusLN.app, to drink moonshine and discuss:
- Zeus
- State of the Lightning Network
- Gaming
- Why are we doing this?
- Security attack vectors to be aware of
- Much more
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Check out Zeus
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Join Marty as he sits down with Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard, to discuss:
- Academia
- Bitcoinization might not play out how you think
- The collective "We"
- Building his Economics course
- much more
Check out Saif's website and academy - https://saifedean.com/
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Layer1 mining https://fortune.com/2019/10/15/what-is-bitcoin-mining-layer1-peter-thiel-crypto-investment/
- Bakkt hits ATH volume yesterdayhttps://twitter.com/BakktBot/status/1187356577143107584?s=20
- Tails 4.0 https://twitter.com/Tails_live/status/1186660581446733826?s=20
- Nodl Dojo kill switch https://twitter.com/nodl_it/status/1186652356554964994?s=20
- Cryptosteel Capsule https://cryptosteel.com
- Zebedee and SatoshisGames - zebedee.io & lightnite.io
- Zap updates for iOS and desktop https://twitter.com/ln_zap/status/1186666607990497280?s=20 & https://twitter.com/ln_zap/status/1187071191342817282?s=20
- Bisq update v1.2, make sure you complete all trades/disputes/offers before upgrading https://twitter.com/bisq_network/status/1186237315598950400?s=20
- ACINQ announces new mobile lightning wallet called Phoenix https://twitter.com/acinq_co/status/1185129586482388992?s=20
- Iterative Capital announces Escher Hub bitcoin on/off ramp http://iterative.capital/introducing-escher-hub-making-every-foss-wallet-a-cheap-and-fast-way-to-transact-bitcoin/
- Bittr teases Lightning support with Nodl partnership https://twitter.com/GetBittr/status/1186317300313530370?s=20
- FullyNoded iOS app (@fullynoded) allows you to connect to your own full node through Tor and use it with Coldcard PSBTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqKEPpSky2g
- Tracking the PlusToken whale through Wasabi by @ergobtc https://medium.com/@ErgoBTC/tracking-the-plustoken-whale-attempted-bitcoin-laundering-and-its-impact-on-wasabi-wallet-787c0d240192
- Samourai wallet releases anon set tool https://medium.com/samourai-wallet/diving-head-first-into-whirlpool-anonymity-sets-4156a54b0bc7
- NordVPN private keys leaked https://twitter.com/hexdefined/status/1185864801261477891?s=20
Much more
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Join Marty as he sits down to catch up with Justin Moon. They discuss:
- Building Buidl Bootcamp
- Mooniversity
- BitBoy
- Junction
- Wallets
- Redundancy
- Much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Casa node concerns https://blog.keys.casa/addressing-security-concerns-about-casa-node/
- Realvision with Saifedean https://www.realvision.com/tv/shows/interviews/videos/gold-the-bitcoin-standard?source_collection=07157a6eedda4e78b9dcada0c3bc76c0
- Trezor + Unchained Slip0039 implementation https://blog.trezor.io/open-source-standards-unchained-slip-0039-for-individuals-and-groups-cae3e9573410
- Child porn ring brought down https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/chainalysis-doj-welcome-to-video-shutdown
- Oxford English Dictionary adds sats
- Blockstream Green Wallet adds integrated Tor support https://twitter.com/BlockstreamHelp/status/1184176681260584960?s=19
- LND 0.8.0 released https://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2019/10/15/lnd-v0.8.html
- Casa covenant inheritance planning https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-casa-covenant-bitcoin-inheritance-service-and-protocol/
- Nodl team begins moving everything behind Tor https://twitter.com/nodl_it/status/1184110287424610305?s=19
- Tor releases new version of OnionShare https://blog.torproject.org/new-version-onionshare-makes-it-easy-anyone-publish-anonymous-uncensorable-websites-0
- Electrum announces their own lightning implementation
- Coldcard Mk3 begins shipping
- Rep Warren Davidson on Noded https://twitter.com/NodedPodcast/status/1182490088464408577?s=19
- Protests around the world
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Join Marty as he sits down with Jared Dillian, Founder & Editor of The Daily Dirtnap newsletter, to discuss:
- Jared's reformed skepticism of Bitcoin
- Bitcoin v. Gold
- What happens if we End The Fed?
- Millenial investing
- much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with American Hodl to wax poetic about everything.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Real Vision upcoming show with Saif
- Coldcard adds offline address explorer with new update thanks to @hodlwave https://blog.coinkite.com/address-explorer/
- Zap Android app update https://twitter.com/ln_zap/status/1181618068096724994?s=20
- Upcoming Zap desktop update to include node pubkey signing https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-588/
- New KYCP update - kycp.org
- https://mempool.observer/monitor/ by @0xB10C
- Nodl Samourai announced - https://shop.nodl.it/en/home/38-nodl-samourai-edition.html
- Casa Node 2 announced - https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-casa-node-2/
- ACINQ raises $8M in series A - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/acinq-startup-behind-eclair-lightning-implementation-raises-8m
- Tor removes ~800 old relays - https://www.zdnet.com/article/tor-project-removes-13-5-of-current-servers-for-running-eol-versions/
- Adobe and others cut off Venezuelan users from cloud services - https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20904030/adobe-venezuela-photoshop-behance-us-sanctions
- Multiple corporations bend the knee to China - https://ibb.co/album/eSSKDv
- Hong Kong Free Press switches to BTCPay - https://twitter.com/HongKongFP/status/1182196845511987200?s=20
- City of Miami to vote on 30 year contract for cameras and flood sensors on light poles to private company with no data protection https://twitter.com/TooMuchMe/status/1181947359753904130?s=20
- Surveillance partnerships with Amazon's Ring door cameras -https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2019-10-07-open-letter-calling-on-elected-officials-to-stop/
- Bitcoin2020 tickets for $50, Szabo is keynote - https://www.bitcoin2020conference.com/
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Aleks Svetski, founder of Amber, to discuss:
- The latest Amber updates
- Building out a product road map and prioritizing
- Citadels
- Separation of money and state
- Hypothetical paths to a post-bitcoinization world
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Travis Kling, CIO of Ikigai Asset Management, to discuss:
- Travis' journey to bitcoin
- Failed narratives/frameworks of years past
- How the current system is gamed
- Timing
- Much more
Follow Travis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Travis_Kling
Check out Ikigai: https://www.ikigai.fund
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Michelle Phan https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/michelle-phan-youtube-beauty-star-on-why-she-left.html
- Baakt launches with limited volume https://www.bakkt.com/markets
- US & UK CLOUD Act Agreement https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190928/18254143088/no-new-agreement-to-share-data-between-us-uk-law-enforcement-does-not-require-encryption-backdoors.shtml
- HK - 1967 emergency laws enacted - face masks banned https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-4991888
- Opendime videos - tftc.tv
- Team signing for Casa Diamond Members ($5040 per year) https://blog.keys.casa/team-signing-on-casa-keymaster/
- Wasabi error, rescan required
- Crypto Rating Council launched by Coinbase, Kraken, Poloniex and Bittrex https://www.cryptoratingcouncil.com/asset-ratings
- EOS $24M settlement with SEC https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-202
- Keybase impersonator
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Janine, privacy researcher and co-host of Block Digest, to discuss:
- Janine's path to Bitcoin
- Common privacy blunders
- Avoiding big tech
- Coinbase's checkered history
- CoinJoins
- Block Digest
- Traveling without Google Maps
- Much more
Follow Janine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/J9Roem
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Lightning Vulnerability disclosed https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2019-September/002174.html
- Maduro rumored to own bitcoin https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-26/venezuela-has-bitcoin-stash-and-doesn-t-know-what-to-do-with-it
- In device address explorer coming to coldcard https://twitter.com/COLDCARDwallet/status/1177393853076320258?s=20
- Erlay BIP draft released https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-578/
- Fold joins the sats back party with Amazon support https://twitter.com/fold_app/status/1176843962528567296?s=20
- tThe "hashcrash" https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1176850968211668994
- ETH gas limit raised https://www.trustnodes.com/2019/09/14/miners-begin-raising-the-gas-limit-to-10-million
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Join Marty as he sits down with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo & Adam Reeds, the co-founders of Ledn.io, to discuss:
- Ledn's loan offerings and expansion into Latin America
- Bitcoin mining in Venezuela
- Stablecoins
- Crossing boarders with Bitcoin
- How the Venezuela government buys bitcoin via LocalBitcoins
- Sneaking out of the country
- The ills of Socialism
- much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with John Doe, an ex-Silk Road vendor who had a four year forced hodl. Learn about what it was really like to use the Silk Road, the ethos of the website + forums, and the absurdness of The Drug War.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Baltic Honeybadger in Riga - [Day 1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IpZWSWUIVE&feature=youtu.be%3Futm_source%3Ddigg
[Day 2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns_I2LpeAbQ&feature=youtu.be?utm_source=digg
- Reminder that browser extensions can be malicious, act accordingly
- Someone is impersonating Matt on Keybase
- Olympus fiat to lightning https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-574/
- Sparkswap beta launched https://twitter.com/sparkswap/status/1173588374604537856?s=20
- Square Crypto hires 3 new devs Valentine Wallace, Jeffrey Czyz, Arik Sosman, announces funding for BTCPay https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-570/
- Hash rate all time high again - https://bitcoinvisuals.com/chain-hash-rate
- Tor project now using BTCPay - https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency
- Bobby Lee launches horrible product BalletCrypto card that nobody should use
- ColdCard multisig plugin merged into electrum, next official version of should have it ready to go, or just build from official sources today
- Nodl + Samourai edition designs released, preorders soon https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1174200358828163072?s=20
- Bisq adds encrypted chat https://twitter.com/wiz/status/1174104040193413120?s=20
- Repo market / Fed cuts rate / QE4?
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers to discuss the launch of Olympus, a non-custodial way to buy bitcoin and immediately receive it on the Lightning Network.
Link to Jack's Medium post on the launch: https://medium.com/@JimmyMow/announcing-olympus-lightning-enabled-fiat-ramps-by-zap-1f5349a96ee9
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Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Odell and a very special guest, arbedout. Arbedout is a Twitter anon who has some incredible views on Bitcoin. Particularly how the nascent "cryptocurrency boom" shares a lot of eerie parallels with market booms throughout history.
The trio polishes off 3/4 of a bottle of Knob Creek while reminiscing on their experiences within the "cryptocurrency boom".
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Join Marty as he sits down with Raoul Pal, Founder of Real Vision and Global Macro Investor, to discuss:
- Repo markets
- The state of the global financial system
- Demographics
- Behavioral Economics
- Tokenizing income streams
- much more
Follow Raoul on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI
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Join Marty as he sits down with Carla Kirk-Cohen, the last of Chaincode Labs' Summer residents to swing through the studio, to discuss:
- Carla's journey to Bitcoin
- Her passion for the Lightning Network
- Life in South Africa
- Bringing LN to an exchange
- Things that LN enables that weren't possible before
Follow Carla on Twitter: https://twitter.com/actuallyCarlaKC
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Lightning CVE exploited in the wild, lnd 0.7.0 vulnerable, update! https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2019-September/002148.html
- Digg from the dead https://digg.com/channel/bitcoin
- NY payroll company MyPayrollHR exit scam $35M https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/09/ny-payroll-company-vanishes-with-35-million/
- French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire says Libra will not be allowed in the EU https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-libra-cryptocurrency-bitcoin-europe-france-ban-block-latest-a9102171.html
- Premier League Club Watford Bitcoin logo on jerseys due to sportsbet.io sponsorship https://www.watfordfc.com/club/bitcoin-confirmed-new-sleeve-partner
- Keybase airdrops shitcoin, bitcoiners donate to Tor, almost 17000 XLM donated(~$1020) https://stellar.expert/explorer/public/account/GABWGQEQESRX5TKDTPIYJFPKGJDMEW6VLOOLBTIFPJIN7XT6KAFXJQPJ?filter=payments
- Bitcoin as a nonviolent rebellion by Nic Carter https://medium.com/@nic__carter/a-most-peaceful-revolution-8b63b64c203e?sk=c70e2e688cb3c15dfe68f4d2627b1059
- ColdCard firmware update 2.1.4 for multi-sig change outputs https://coldcardwallet.com/docs/upgrade
- Bittr adds xpub support https://twitter.com/GetBittr/status/1172171274791116801?s=19
- Spencer Dinwiddie of NJ Nets is a bitcoiner and is tokenizing his ~$34 million extension https://theathletic.com/1199912/2019/09/12/sources-spencer-dinwiddie-to-convert-his-nba-contract-into-a-secured-digital-investment-heres-what-that-means/
- ECB cuts rates and announces a new round of QE "Negative rates will not provoke the collapse of the financial system" - Draghi https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-12/ecb-cuts-rates-restarts-qe-to-fight-slowdown-as-draghi-era-ends
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Eric Voskuil, lead maintainer of the libbitcoin Bitcoin implementation, as they discuss:
- libbitcoin
- Austrian Economics
- Attack vectors
- Eric's experience in the Navy
- How Bitcoin fails
- Dust
- much more
Check out the libbitcoin Wiki: https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki
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Join Marty as he sits down with Elichai Turkel, recent Summer resident at Chaincode Labs, to discuss:
- Elichai's path to cryptography and Bitcoin
- Schnorr signatures
- Taproot
- Miniscript
- Cryptography
- State of academic papers
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Portugal is indeed exempting bitcoin from cap gains treatment: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed-portugal-clarified-its-bitcoin-tax-code-other-nations-should-take-note
- Hash rate all time high - https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-hashrate.html
- LocalBitcoins KYC - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/localbitcoins-new-kyc-rules-raise-privacy-concerns
- SNICKER https://gist.github.com/AdamISZ/2c13fb5819bd469ca318156e2cf25d79
- vaneck & solidx pivot to gbtc like structure rather than ETF for their investment product https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/vaneck-solidx-to-offer-pilot-bitcoin-etf-to-institutional-investors
- Facebook left phone numbers exposed on server, 419 million records leaked: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/
- Google discloses exploit that allowed malicious sites to retrieve iPhone files and location data: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjwne5/malicious-websites-hacked-iphones-for-years
- M5Stack + bitcoin https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-562/
- TFTC Guides: Lightning for beginners with Breez wallet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zhW7ilOjWg&feature=youtu.be
- Bridgefy mesh messaging app being used in hong kong: https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-561/
- Argentina implements capital controls, individuals won't be allowed to acquire or wire abroad more than 10,000 dollars per month - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-02/capital-controls-return-to-argentina-as-macri-fights-to-survive
- Upgrade your lightning nodes, disclosure of vulnerability in 3 weeks https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2019-August/002130.html
- Jack Dorsey Twitter account hijacked due to sim swap + tweets by sms: https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1167628157731651584?s=20
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Join Marty as he sits down with Gleb Naumenko to discuss:
- Gleb's experience helping to build an exchange
- Bitcoin usage in Ukraine
- Gleb's work on Erlay
- The Erebus attack
- Movies
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- ColdCard MK3 announced: https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-mark3/
- https://ln.alhur.es/ by @fiatjf
- UI for hardware wallet multisig using bitcoin core and HWI released for testing by @justinmoon - https://github.com/justinmoon/junction
- Bitcoin realized cap hits ath of ~$100B - https://coinmetrics.substack.com/
- According to Chainalysis, less than 11% of mixed bitcoin are used for illicit purposes - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/chainalysis-most-mixed-bitcoin-not-used-for-illicit-purposes
- CSW rebuked hard in court, judge orders 50% of his bitcoin to be given to Kleinman's estate, unfortunately for them he probably doesn't own any
- Bitcoin for safety by @jamesob - https://jameso.be/2019/08/24/bitcoin-is-for-this.html
- WTF happened in 1971? https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
- Janey + Cato - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-559/
- Binance adds interest bearing accounts (BNB, ETC, Tether) - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-26/teaser-rates-come-to-crypto-as-binance-starts-lending-business
- Opennode adds kyc and shopify integration - https://www.opennode.co/blog/how-to-accept-bitcoin-shopify-extension/
- EOS dumped almost 20 mins earlier first: https://twitter.com/hodlonaut/status/1167094577389604865?s=20
- Portugal tax exemption. Fake news? Let us know
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Join Marty as he sits down with Fabian Jahr, current Summer resident at Chaincode Labs, to discuss the RPC call Fabian has been working on this Summer, the Chaincode residency experience, the Bitcoin scene in Berlin, Fabian's experience with the Lightning Network, and much more.
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Rodolfo Novak to discuss Coinkite, how Rodolfo approaches making products for Bitcoiners, a little Bitcoin history, Ham Radios, airplanes, and much more.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- BitBlockBoom - bitsteins talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBAuHv5cPl8
- New Erebus attack paper - https://erebus-attack.comp.nus.edu.sg
- Hardware wallets + multisig - https://stephanlivera.com/episode/97/
- Sats the standard - Blockstream Green Wallet adds sats - https://twitter.com/Blockstream/status/1164296386361331712?s=20
- All seeds are not cross compatible, be aware - https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1164165702602899456?s=20
- Bitcoin Optech bech32 + RBF compatibility matrix - https://bitcoinops.org/en/2019-compatibility-matrix/
- Matt Corallo first hire by Square Crypto - https://twitter.com/sqcrypto/status/1163850926114762755?s=20
- Miniscript - https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1163592166062473217?s=20
- Hong Kong protesters are distributed not centralized - https://quillette.com/2019/08/19/how-the-hong-kong-protestors-tactical-brilliance-backed-beijing-into-a-corner/
- 40 straight weeks of anti-macron yellow vest protests - https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1162751938720612352?s=20
- Another fake Satoshi, safely ignore
- Happy birthday Lolli!
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Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Bryan Bishop and his friend Joseph Jackson to discuss:
- Bitcoin Vaults
- Bitcoin security
- Transcription
- Transhumanism
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Join Marty and Matt as they're joined by the hosts of the Noded Podcast, Pierre Rochard and Michael Goldstein to discuss:
- Bakkt Futures
- Binance KYC
- Liquid Tether
- Hong Kong
- India
- Samsung + Bitcoin
- Coinbase negligence
- much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with Tuur Demeester, Founder of Adamant Capital, to discuss Tuur's journey to Bitcoin, the founding of Adamant Research then Adamant Capital, how to leverage Bitcoin to short USD, Bitcoin's parallels with The Reformation.
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Join Marty as he sits down with James Chiang, currently spending his Summer at Chaincode Labs, to discuss James' journey to Bitcoin, his experience with Libbitcoin, how Libbitcoin compares to Bitcoin Core, working in the renewable energy sector, working on a Python library for Taproot, and much more.
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with BitcoinTINA & Alpha Zeta to talk about the current market conditions, where Bitcoin sits, whether or not Bitcoin is a risk-on or risk-off trade, and the fact that Bitcoin is a fundamental financial tech innovation.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Bitcoin vaults - https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-August/017229.html
- Yuan peg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCH_-fcCoK4&feature=youtu.be
- Big blocks and tradeoffs - https://twitter.com/BitMEXResearch/status/1157667091719380992
- Binance KYC leak - https://www.coindesk.com/a-bitcoin-extortion-gone-wrong-inside-binances-negotiations-with-its-kyc-hacker
- Is anything priced in?
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- JoinMarket, fidelity bonds, and privacy - https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-July/017169.html
- Capital One data breach - https://www.cnet.com/how-to/capital-one-data-breach-what-you-can-do-following-the-banking-hack/
- Zap update + full node - https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases/tag/v0.5.2-beta
- Fold App Kickbacks - https://medium.com/in-the-fold/introducing-fold-kickbacks-5b1d255621b3
- "Stacking sats"
- Hong Kong - https://twitter.com/alessabocchi/status/1156513770254012416?s=20
- Fortnite World Cup - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1155838643094917121
- much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Richard Myers, who is working on "Bitcoin's last mile" via mesh networks at GoTenna and Global Mesh Labs, to discuss:
- ByteABit, Richard's P2P mobile Bitcoin exchange
- Mesh networks, GoTenn, LOT49, and Global Mesh Labs
- Cashless societies
- Deflation
- much more
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
-BTCPayServer - https://stephanlivera.com/episodes/
- Wasabi & Samourai
- Ethereum hashrate down 42% from ATH, bitcoin hashrate at ATH: https://www.longhash.com/news/ethereum-is-becoming-increasingly-vulnerable-to-attack
- Coldcard + Wasabi video, class on the 26th at Chaincode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2uhyROpAQ&feature=youtu.be
- New Cash App UI
- Ohmm - https://twitter.com/UpstreamDataInc/status/1152233409277648897?s=20
- Hong Kong protests take violent turn: https://twitter.com/mrjasonchoi/status/1152973052046524420?s=20
- Nodl Electrumx - https://twitter.com/BitcoinSchiller/status/1154400652979818498?s=20
- Parker Lewis' Gradually, Then Suddenly - https://www.unchained-capital.com/blog/dollar-crisis-to-bitcoin/
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Join Marty as he sits down with Conner Brown to discuss how he became interested in Bitcoin, philosophy, the intersubjective nature of money, Kanye West, and much more.
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Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Hunt (with a guest appearance from James O'Beirne) to discuss some of the running themes from Epsilon Theory, how they relate to Bitcoin, and why Bitcoiners may be fighting a losing battle.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- This week in Bitcoin - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1150840995808010241?s=19
- Wasabi - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1151882688053334016?s=19
- C-Lightning - https://medium.com/blockstream/new-release-c-lightning-0-7-1-9fca65debeb2
- Binance staking XLM - https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360030727092 - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/947551556546760704?s=19
- ETH on BCH - https://ethresear.ch/t/bitcoin-cash-a-short-term-data-availability-layer-for-ethereum/5735
- Much more
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Join Marty as he sits down with DAL, AKA Paranoid Bull, to discuss his journey through the markets, systemic risk, political risk, the world's current disconnection from reality and how Bitcoin play into it all.
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Francis Pouliot and BTC Sessions from Bull Bitcoin to discuss the Montreal Bitcoin scene throughout the years, consulting in the "Blockchain" space, SegWit2x, the common mission Bitcoiners have, and much more.
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Marty, Matt and Murad breakdown the implications of Donald J. Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Powell's comments on Bitcoin.
Links discussed:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149472282584072192
https://twitter.com/StopAndDecrypt/status/1149703537871355904
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Coldcard
- Nodl update
- Wasabi update
- Samourai 0.99.81 - https://blog.samouraiwallet.com/post/186208584657/introducing-09981-enter-the-dojo
- Miner trying to inflate the supply - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-523/
- History of the DAO hack
- Eclair update - https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/releases/tag/v0.3.1
- Surveillance tech creeps forward https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1148222460724207616
- Much more
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Aleksander Svetski, founder of Amber, to discuss his journey to Bitcoin, lessons from trading, lessons from being a door to door salesman, why Bitcoin not Blockchain, putting up with scammers, and much more.
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This week Marty and Matt sit down on the 4th of July to discuss:
- Bitcoin's revolutionary nature
- Sats App announced by Casa https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-sats-app-with-satsback/
- 300 tickets sold for Bitcoin2020
- LND 0.7 released https://twitter.com/lightning/status/1146107267592445952?s=19
-Zap desktop 0.5 released https://medium.com/@JimmyMow/announcing-zap-desktop-0-5-0-beta-7622672ce582
- Coldcard v2.1.1 update adds dice support https://twitter.com/COLDCARDwallet/status/1146410794315390977?s=19
- US House of Reps Committee of Financial Services asks Facebook to hold off on Libra https://financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/07.02.2019_-_fb_ltr.pdf
- Cloudflare went down due to faulty upgrade https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/02/a-cloudflare-outage-is-impacting-sites-everywhere/
- Whirlpool desktop 0.7 released with full tor support https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1145998882947682304
- Hong Kong
- Chinese border guards put spyware on phones at Xinjiang border https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/02/chinese-border-guards-surveillance-app-tourists-phones
- Bitcoin as a safe haven in FT https://www.ft.com/content/f7643858-98f8-11e9-9573-ee5cbb98ed36
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Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Ketominer and Askuwheteau, the team behind Nodl.it, to discuss how Nodl came to be, their recent partnership with Samourai Wallet, the freedom that Bitcoin enables, potentially moving from hardware to software in the future, the new Raspberry Pi, and much more.
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Join Marty as he sits down with Dan Held, Co-Founder of Interchange, to discuss his paper on Bitcoin's future security, the importance of sharpening narratives, the false narratives that seem to persist, and much more.
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Join Marty and Matt as they are joined by Pierre Rochard, Bitcoin Sign Guy & Francis Pouliot with a special appearance from Paul Sztorc as they discuss:
- FATF Guidelines
- Iranians mining Bitcoin in mosques
- COLDCARD new upgrades
- Libra
- CoinJoining
- Much more...
This week Marty & Matt discuss:
- Libra https://libra.org/en-US/
- Cash App deposits go live, fund cash card with bitcoin https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-507/
- Whirlpool public beta release https://github.com/Samourai-Wallet/Whirlpool
-Binance to block US citizens
-Lightning labs mobile app release https://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2019/06/19/mobile-app.html
- Firefox vulnerability update to 67.0.3 ASAP https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/18/18684272/firefox-zero-day-flaw-browser-attacks-crypto-patch
- Cellebrite states they can crack current all popular phones with physical access https://t.co/WHsaDxzoXz?amp=1
- Hashrate ATH
- dcabtc.com tool by @JohnCantrell97
- US vs Russia cyber cold war escalates https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/us/politics/trump-cyber-russia-grid.html
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Join Marty as he sits down with Andrew Poelstra, Head of Research at Blockstream, to discuss Cryptography, how small of a field it is, how it's culture compares to Bitcoin's development culture, Taproot, MuSig, MiniSketch, Schnorr signatures, and much much more.
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Join Marty + Matt as they sit down with John Carvalho, CCO of Bitrefill, to discuss his history in Bitcoin, all the dope stuff Bitrefill is working on, Bitcoin's fungibility, Bitcoin culture, and much much more.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Proposed ban on Bitcoin in India
- Home mining https://twitter.com/Karnickleon/status/1138906263230828544?s=19
- Nodl + Samourai collab https://twitter.com/stephanlivera/status/1138048466075054080?s=19
- Global Mesh Labs https://twitter.com/stephanlivera/status/1138048466075054080?s=19
- Zap on Android https://twitter.com/stephanlivera/status/1138048466075054080?s=19
- Hong Kong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBl05xNq_AU
- Italy https://twitter.com/Schuldensuehner/status/1138709519184175104
- Will O'Beirne's new Joule upgrade https://medium.com/@wbobeirne/introducing-joule-allowances-2b08bec75e3a
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Join Marty as he sits down with Lawrence Nahum, Founder of GreenAddress + Chief Architect at Blockstream, to discuss approaching Bitcoin development, the history of GreenAddress, what he's working on at Blockstream, helping to make it so everyone can run a node with ABCore, and much more.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Rooftop RHR in SF - code "tftc25"
- First 100 person CoinJoin https://blockstream.info/tx/e4a789d16a24a6643dfee06e018ad27648b896daae6a3577ae0f4eddcc4d9174
- 6102 Bitcoin hodl privacy leak overview https://github.com/6102bitcoin/FAQ/blob/master/hodl-privacy.md
- Ring cameras creeping https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/amazons-helping-police-build-a-surveillance-network-with-ring-doorbells/
- SEC files suit against Kik https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/06/05/skeptics-lens-not-defending-crypto-anymore/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2019/comp-pr2019-87.pdf
- Initial rollout of LN Watchtowers https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/watchtowers-are-coming-lightning#click=https://t.co/5VuAHhvsoq
- Samourai Dojo open sourced and released https://blog.samouraiwallet.com/post/185312260292/introducing-samourai-dojo-10-open-source-and/
- Utreexo proposal https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/611.pdf
- "Buy" stocks and ETFs with bitcoin using Abra in 150+ countries (not US) https://twitter.com/AbraGlobal/status/1133697009381138434?s=19
- Statechains https://medium.com/@RubenSomsen/statechains-non-custodial-off-chain-bitcoin-transfer-1ae4845a4a39
- Weird YouTube AI https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/1135529605530411008
- Fed to cut rates? https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-499/
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Join Marty as he sits down with David Bailey, CEO of BTC Media, to discuss the early days of Bitcoin, how BTC Media came to be, the state of discourse around Bitcoin, how people are underestimating Bitcoin's TAM, and much more.
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Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation and the Oslo Freedom Forum, to discuss how Alex ended up at the HRF, how authoritarian regimes use digital panopticons to control their subjects, why Bitcoin is such an important project, and why we can't mess it up.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Wasabi update: https://wasabiwallet.io/
- Erlay proposal, https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-May/016994.html
- New bitcoin ATH in Argentinian peso
- 4.1 billion people living under authoritarian regimes according to Oslo Freedom Forum
- Proposed FATF regulations - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-492/
- defendcrypto.org
- Bitrefill + ACINQ 1 BTC channel - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-494/
- Trade Wars
- Taxi medallions
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Join Marty as he sits down with Jack Mallers to discuss Zap, potential futures markets for Bitcoin miners, upgrades to the Lightning Network, cannabis, and much more.
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Join Marty as he sits down with Andrew Torba, Founder and CEO of Gab.com, to discuss what it's like to be de-platformed, the Silicon Valley "cognoscenti", building more resilient communication tools, the fight for Free Speech, forking open source software as a business model for Gab, the normalization of deviant values, and much more.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Who would you want to tweet about Bitcoin?
- LN node update https://1ml.com/node/02d419c9af624d0e7a7c90a60b9ffa35f4934973a9d7d3b4175cc3cc28b7ffcde1
- SIM Swaps https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-most-expensive-lesson-of-my-life-details-of-sim-port-hack-35de11517124
-lncast.com launch
- 60 Minutes https://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/HaKmux455gSICzgSiGqzyUPIfGhuxnTG/bitcoin-s-wild-ride/
- $8 trillion hidden around the world and Elizabeth Warren wants to tax it https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-23/the-wealth-detective-who-finds-the-hidden-money-of-the-super-rich
- BestMixer shutdown: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/dutch-authorities-shut-down-bestmixer/
- CoinCenter - Non-custodial cryptocurrency mixer developers are not subject to U.S. regulation. - https://coincenter.org/link/non-custodial-cryptocurrency-mixer-developers-are-not-subject-to-u-s-regulation
- Bull Bitcoin starts mixing user funds: https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1131309370900402178?s=19
- Kraken equity offering at 4B valuation, $1000 min: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/kraken-is-offering-itself-to-customers-in-chunks-as-small-as-1000-for-its-fundraising-round/
- Bitfinex LEO token: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitfinex-to-start-trading-its-exchange-token-leo-on-may-20/
- Polo/Circle blocks tokens from US customers, lays off 30 employees https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/poloniex-continues-to-advocate-for-better-crypto-regulation-as-it-goes-on-a-delisting-spree-in-the-us/ https://twitter.com/jerallaire/status/1130912877991333891?s=19
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Join Marty as he sits down with Jan Čapek and Pavel Moravec, Co-CEOs of Slush Pool & Braiins, to discuss their backgrounds, Slush Pool's history, what they're building with BraiinsOS, the nature of reorgs, BetterHash, the dream of a shared foundry, mining futures markets, and much more.
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Join Marty as he sits down with Jeff Vandrew, Attorney-CPA-Coder, to discuss Distributism, self-custody Bitcoin IRAs, maintaing BTCPayServer's Python implementation, rent seeking, relearning to code, and much more.
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This week Marty and Matt are joined by Bitcoin Sign Guy to discuss a bunch of stuff.
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Join Marty as he sits down with James O'Beirne, Bitcoin Core contributor, to discuss his assumeutxo proposal, debt, short-term v. long-term thinking, and what it's like being a permabear.
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Join Marty and Matt Odell as they sit down with the one man team behind Bittr, the easiest way to stack sats in Europe. We discuss Ruben's path to Bitcoin, his experience getting a Masters in Blockchain from the University of Nicosia, why he built Bittr, what it's like bootstrapping a company, and much more.
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This week Marty and Matt are joined by Murad Mahmudov from Adaptive Capital to discuss:
- Binance hack
- onlynet=onion in config file - h/t Evan Kaloudis
- TFTC.io launch
- Our Lightning node was stolen https://1ml.com/node/02d419c9af624d0e7a7c90a60b9ffa35f4934973a9d7d3b4175cc3cc28b7ffcde1
- bip-taproot https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip-schnorr/bip-taproot.mediawiki
- Wasabi guide bitcoin-only.com @6102bitcoin https://github.com/6102bitcoin/FAQ/blob/master/wasabi.md
- Honeyminer Mac release
- One entity is responsible for 50% of BCH transactions
- Whirpool
- Andrew Chow on PSBT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6xZSRDXUiU&feature=youtu.be
Shoutout to this week's listener contributor, Pedro. Here's the video he shared https://youtu.be/NO1aDZ6L4NQ?t=1118
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Join Marty as he sits down with Juthica Chou, Co-Founder and COO of LedgerX, to discuss Bitcoin options, what it was like for LedgerX to navigate the regulatory waters throughout the years, LedgerX's Omni platform, and much more. Learn about futures contracts based on block height, backing into projected price probabilities, and how miners hedge their risk.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Bitcoin v.0.18.0 released https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-core-0180-release-heres-whats-new/
- Bitfinex spread increases, https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitfinex-plans-to-raise-as-much-as-1-billion-through-an-ieo-shareholder-says/
- Cashapp $65.5M quarterly bitcoin sales
- Amazon Managed Blockchain https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/amazon-made-its-blockchain-service-available-to-the-public/
- #dropgold campaign - dropgold.com
- Ethereum is now money according to ethereum.org
- CoinJoins as a Percentage of All Bitcoin Payments Have Tripled to 4.09% Over the Past Year https://www.longhash.com/news/coinjoins-as-a-percentage-of-all-bitcoin-payments-have-tripled-to-409-over-the-past-year
- Samourai Whirlpool enters mainnet testing phase
- Nine in 10 Americans have heard about bitcoin, Blockchain Capital survey finds https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/nine-in-10-americans-heard-about-bitcoin-survey-finds/
- Fidelity surveys 400 institutional investors, 22% already have exposure, 47% think exposure makes sense: https://medium.com/@FidelityDigitalAssets/new-research-institutional-investments-likely-to-increase-over-next-5-years-729fb1ca3c52
- eTrade joining the party, plans to offer bitcoin trading to its ~5M customers https://twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/1121868559330598912
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Join Marty as he sits down with Founder and CEO of TradeLayer, Patrick Dugan, to discuss Patrick's run in with pot smoking bandits in Argentina, what he's building on TradeLayer, how decentralized derivatives markets may help drive demand for Bitcoin, the flow of money, and sovereignty in the Information Age.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Bitfinex gets sued - https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=vIexA1b0spKOnK_PLUS_ZUGTJ3A==&system=prod - https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/356
- Erisx and TdAmeritrade - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/04/24/erisx-is-testing-its-new-crypto-exchange-and-tdameritrade-is-one-firm-looking-to-link-up-with-the-market/
- Ledger Windows phishing attack - https://twitter.com/Ledger/status/1121439219086495745?s=20
- Wasabi update - https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/releases - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1121203954145222662?s=20
- Lightning Labs releases Beta Neutrino Lightning App for desktop - https://twitter.com/lightning/status/1120735863225237506?s=20
- assumutxo proposal by James O'Beirne - https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/04/09/
- Satoshi's Treasure update - tinyurl.com/dpravengers
- Samsung invests 2.9M into Ledger - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/samsung-invests-2-9-million-in-ledger/
- Gemini integrates SegWit fully - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/gemini-wallet-now-fully-supports-segwit-protocol/
- Bitmain rumored to be abandoning BCH - https://twitter.com/btcking555/status/1121699148523352064
- Casa privacy campaign + tor update - https://blog.keys.casa/casa-privacy-and-data-protection-policy/
- finalmessage.io
- Run a tor relay node! - https://blog.torproject.org/new-guide-running-tor-relay
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Join Marty as he sits down with Nik Bhatia, who has pushed forward the theory of Lightning Network Reference Rates, to discuss a range of topics including reference rates in the traditional financial sector, LNRR, Bitcoin + Real Estate escrow, Nik's experience producing rap albums and much more.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Satoshi's Treasure https://satoshistreasure.xyz/ & https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeawYh0POJhlKjaUM4Gor240vH_yVN9Urni7VjPYlh4Z5rlRA/viewform?usp=sf_link
- Reports from CoinMetrics and TradeBlock dispute Reuters $100M whale story - https://tradeblock.com/blog/analyzing-the-bitcoin-price-surge-in-april and https://twitter.com/coinmetrics/status/1118603910522994688?s=20
- Wasabi Wallet hardware wallet support in testing - https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/blob/master/WalletWasabi.Documentation/Guides/20190416HardwareWalletTestingGuide.md
- lLND 0.6.0 - static channel backup --- release notes: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases --- Channel backup guide: https://wiki.ion.radar.tech/lightning-technology/research/static-channel-backups
- Lightning Powernode Launcher will default to Tor https://twitter.com/pierre_rochard/status/1117567495680950272?s=20
- Nodl update- https://1ml.com/node/0331f80652fb840239df8dc99205792bba2e559a05469915804c08420230e23c7c
- hodlnaut BTCPay fundraiser - https://weareallhodlonaut.com/
- US Sanction Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua - https://www.npr.org/2019/04/18/714552854/trump-administration-announces-measures-against-cuba-venezuela-and-nicaragua
- Proof of Solvency piece - https://medium.com/@nic__carter/how-to-scale-bitcoin-without-changing-a-thing-bc4750dd16c7 & https://blog.coinfloor.co.uk/post/183567327051/provable-solvency-report-60-march-2019
- paywall.link and lightningscratchcard.io
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Julian Assange https://mailchi.mp/5a9e133f8318/martys-bent-april-11th-2018-issue-460
- HODL guide https://github.com/DriftwoodPalace/guides
- Multisig scenarios
- Coinbase https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/04/10/coinbase-launches-crypto-to-fiat-debit-card-in-the-uk-filling-gap-left-by-shift-shutdown/
- LND 0.6.0 release https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases
- Zap 0.4.1 release https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases
- Managing a Lightning Node https://1ml.com/node/02d419c9af624d0e7a7c90a60b9ffa35f4934973a9d7d3b4175cc3cc28b7ffcde1
- Binance https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/binance-teams-up-with-ciphertrace-to-up-the-exchanges-compliance-procedures/
- Energy waste https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1116340276463714305
- China bans Bitcoin https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cryptocurrency/china-says-it-wants-to-eliminate-bitcoin-mining-idUSKCN1RL0C4
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Join Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis, Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital, to discuss Unchained's mission and product suite, and reflect on the Federal Reserve's continuously shifting policy over the last twelve years. Parker's knowledge of what was going on at the Fed as the '07/'08 crisis was unfolding and during its aftermath is rare and something all of you freaks could learn from.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Eclair Correction
- Price talk
- Cumberland OTC desk 10+ bids over 1000 bitcoin on Monday - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/cumberlands-otc-desk-reports-mini-surge-of-large-btc-orders-in-a-single-hour-late-monday-night/
- Fee talk - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1113949215829430275
- Nodl - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1113806561921708032
- Boltz inbound capacity tool https://medium.com/boltzhq/announcing-the-first-boltz-release-6cb630701432
- Pierre inbound capacity tool https://lightningpowerusers.com/home/
- Veriblock ICO sold out in seconds - https://medium.com/@ambroidcrypto/veriblock-deep-dive-49c533e9c5e7
- Bitcoin 2019 Conference - https://www.bitcoin2019conference.com/
- BitBlockBoom Conference [Promo: RHR] - https://bitblockboom.com/
- NVT Signal - https://twitter.com/woonomic/status/1113971442801094658?s=19
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Join Marty as he sits down with Johnny Dilley (Founder of Mempool Partners), Tom Garrambone (Founder of Tetras Capital), and Matt Odell (Bitcoiner) to have a roundtable discussion covering; Capitalism v. Socialism, Bitmain, 21co, nature, dinosaurs, what could kill Bitcoin, and much more.
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This week Marty and Matt Discuss:
- Coinbase, stake is on the menu
- Steve Barbour WSJ article
- BSV
- Bitmain IPO not happening
- ryanofsky PR merged
- Gemini bech32 + Blockstream explorer
- Eclair mainnet full release
- Craig Wright is a fraud
- Dream Market shutting down
- BitMex LN research
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On this week's episode Marty and Matt discuss:
- Square Crypto initiative - https://twitter.com/jack/status/1108487911802966017
- Lightning Loop - https://blog.lightning.engineering/posts/2019/03/20/loop.html
- BlockstreamGreen - https://blockstream.com/2019/03/19/the-all-new-blockstream-green-wallet
- Fed shifting posture - https://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1108427995709165573
- Venezuela sanctions payment processors - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/u-s-considers-sanctions-prohibiting-payment-processing-services-in-venezuela/
- ETH ProgPow - https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1108561560304316421
- Bitcoin Optech - https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/03/19/
- Hash rate - https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty
- FUD debunking
Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Head over to https://www.unchained-capital.com/vaults/?utm_source=MartyBentNewsletter and check out their multisig vault setup which let's you maintain control and sovereignty over your BTC while providing a solution that keeps you worry free!
Join Marty as he sits down with Carl Dong, Bitcoin Core contributor currently working at Chaincode Labs, to discuss responsible disclosures, making Bitcoin Core more modular, Guix containers, Dyson spheres and much more!
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Join Marty as he sits down with Zac Prince & Rene van Kesteren from Blockfi to discuss their new interest account product, how they manage risk with this particular offering, the nature of risk disclosures, and the utility that Bitcoin provides the world that wasn't possible before its existence.
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This week Marty and Matt are joined by Adam Ficsor (@nopara73), Founder of Wasabi Wallet, to discuss:
- The current dust attack against Wasabi users - https://twitter.com/nopara73/status/1105779583410946049
- CoinJoins
- Privacy
- Unchained Capital multisig vaults
- Porn KYC in the UK
- Drop in BTC transactions
- Trezor vulnerabilities
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Join Marty as he sits down with Jake Chervinsky, a lawyer with a focus on government enforcement defense and securities litigation, as they discuss the law and how it pertains to Bitcoin and everything created in its wake. Topics covered include, Jake's path to Bitcoin, the concept of light touch regulation, organizations like Coin Center, how the SEC has been treating ICOs, how the SEC may treat these ICOs going forward, and hope for a less Orwellian future.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Canadian Revenue Service asking for BTC addresses: https://twitter.com/kyletorpey/status/1103467047412002817
- Ripple, FinCen agreement: https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1103356359284805633?s=20
- Is Bitcoin Twitter engagement back at 2015 levels?: https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1103673829832970240
- ABCore 0.70 released: https://twitter.com/LarryBitcoin/status/1102255072799535105?s=20
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greenaddress.abcore
- QE, NIRP creeping
- BlockFi Interest Account: https://twitter.com/BlockFiZac/status/1103293858283245569
https://twitter.com/vandrewattycpa/status/1102953966537752576
- Coinbase: https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/1103443720307912704
- Facebook going private?: https://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1103476030503739393?s=19
- Facebook 2fa phone number leak: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/facebook-faces-criticism-for-handling-of-phone-numbers-required-for-2fa/
- Chinese database surveillance leak, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/massive-database-leak-gives-us-window-chinas-digital-surveillance-state
- QuadrigaCX update, https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/03/07/quadrigacx-co-founder-michael-patryn-allegedly-traded-large-positions-on-bitmex/
Shoutout to this week's sponsors:
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https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Bitcoin-Developers/events/259337229/
Join Marty as he sits down with Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, to discuss how Jack came to experiment with Bitcoin, the parallels he sees between Twitter and Bitcoin, dealing with pseudonymity on Twitter, how Bitcoin curbs the State, education in the Information Age, what it's like to be a part of the Casa node club, and much more.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
-Casa new product lineup https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/02/28/casa-is-dramatically-shifting-its-business-and-its-kicking-off-with-two-new-products/
-Facebook coin FUD https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/technology/cryptocurrency-facebook-telegram.html
-Venezuela bitcoin article https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/venezuela-bitcoin-inflation-cryptocurrencies.html#click=https://t.co/P8hxu1vqni
-Square sold 10k BTC in Q4 2018 https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/02/27/square-sold-over-166m-worth-of-bitcoin-in-2018/
-Coinomi spellcheck bug https://medium.com/coinomi/official-statement-on-spell-check-findings-547ca348676b
-Trezor and Ledger update reminders
-Samourai Whirlpool in testing phases, running on nodl.it
-Wasabi, try it out free shill
- www.twitter.com/@tweet_stamp is pretty cool, uses OpenTimestamps
-Torpedo vulnerable https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/24/new-4g-5g-security-flaws/
-New privacy wiki up by Chris Belcher https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Privacy
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Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin researcher Misir Mahmudov to discuss many topics including Bitcoin as Time, Bitcoin's amorality, Bitcoin's incentives, and family values.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
-Galaxy S10 Bitcoin wallet confirmed
https://bitcoinist.com/samsung-galaxy-s10-bitcoin-wallet/
-Jack activates tippin.me
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1098324828182831104
-Coinbase acquires chain analysis company
https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1098275229556768768
-Elon Ark Invest pod
https://twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1097905577831862272
-Coinmama KYC breach 450k customer affected
https://twitter.com/bitentrepreneur/status/1096549320302776320
-IMF NIRP Blog post
https://blogs.imf.org/2019/02/05/cashing-in-how-to-make-negative-interest-rates-work/
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Join Marty as he sits down with Eric Spano, Founder of bylls.com, to discuss building a product with little understanding of code, enterprise blockchain consulting, Bitcoin service provider UX, and much more.
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Join Marty as he sits down with André Neves, Co-Founder and Co-CTO of Koala Studio, to discuss everything from BTC/LN adoption via gaming, what it's like to live in the UAE, the Surveillance State, and much more.
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Check out Koala Studio: koalastud.io
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
-Tippin.me extension
-Lolli extension
-Spacebit.live
-Venezuela ATH LocalBitcoins volume - 2454 Bitcoin / 8.95 million USD
https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/VES/BTC
-Bitcoin Ham radio
https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1095354354289135617
-Full nodes, block size, offline transactions, 65% of 4000 said no full node
-JPM shitcoin
-Bitdevs
https://www.meetup.com/BitDevsNYC/events/258566808/
-Wasabi update
-Coin Center on cash + privacy
https://coincenter.org/entry/the-case-for-electronic-cash
Shout out to this week's sponsors:
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Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Adelman, Co-Founder and CEO of Lolli, to discuss developers building for developers, the retail landscape, building a consumer facing product with a BTC component, and much more.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Matt handing off the LN torch to @jack
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1092891165966229509
- Matt Ahlborg's LocalBitcoins analysis and new metric
https://medium.com/@mattahlborg/nuanced-analysis-of-localbitcoins-data-suggests-bitcoin-is-working-as-satoshi-intended-d8b04d3ac7b2
- Koala Studio Lightning Chess
https://koalastud.io/
- Blockstream Proof of Reserve
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/blockstream-open-sources-development-its-proof-reserves-tool/
- ZCash inflation vulnerability disclosed
https://z.cash/blog/zcash-counterfeiting-vulnerability-successfully-remediated/
- Abra releases new equities exposure product
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/abra-users-can-now-buy-stocks-and-etfs-using-bitcoin/
Shoutout to our sponsors:
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This week we are joined by Murad Mahmudov to discuss a litany of topics. Had a bunch of topics planned but didn't get to all of them. A lot of tangents.
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This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- Venezuela - https://twitter.com/btcven
- Post-Soviet LN + Satellite API messages - https://twitter.com/notgrubles/status/1088402776638541827
- Lightning games - https://mailchi.mp/9e176e464777/martys-bent-january-21st-2018-issue-402
- Georgia & Bitfury - https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1088816882872926211
- Taproot article by Aaron van Wirdum - https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/taproot-coming-what-it-and-how-it-will-benefit-bitcoin/
- ETF withdrawn - https://twitter.com/gaborgurbacs/status/1088173233722089486
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Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Dannen, co-founder and Partner at Iterative Capital, to discuss a range of topics including the evolution of software development culture, destroying the technostructure, the poison that is mainstream media, and much more.
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Check out Iterative's thesis: iterative.capital/thesis
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Join Marty on this week's edition of Tales from the Crypt as he sits down with BitcoinTINA aka Rick Flex to discuss how bullish he is, past tech trends and how we may use them to guess how Bitcoin adoption may play out, and much much more. Banger of an episode.
In this episode we discuss:
-ETH 2.0
-Constantinople bug and delay
-LN network analysis
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2019/01/15/the-growth-of-the-lightning-network-has-been-remarkable-but-theres-a-catch/
-Putin bitcoin rumor
-Wasabi multi-denominations
-ETC was indeed reorged chain wide
-China plans on using great firewall to target nodes https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612749/china-will-now-officially-try-to-extend-its-great-firewall-to-blockchains/
-Grin launch
-Thor from Bitrefill https://www.coindesk.com/new-bitrefill-service-aims-to-make-lightning-payments-easy
-Baakt delayed
-Genesis Trading OTC volume up 50% YoY, https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/genesis-tradings-otc-trading-volume-is-up-50-year-over-year/
This week we discuss:
-Deplatforming +
-ETC 51%
-ETH Constantinople and progPow forks
-10 years since Hal - https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988?lang=en
-Zap POS app https://twitter.com/JackMallers/status/1082778829217808384?s=19
-Gemini ad campaign - https://twitter.com/Gemini/status/1082726902622797825
-Bitcoin mining pools over time, BetterHash - https://coinmetrics.io/mining-pool-mapping/
-Kraken compliance report https://twitter.com/krakenfx/status/1081701788464558080?s=19
-Nodl.it
-Bitmain founders rumored to be stepping down, new CEO inbound
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitmain-to-appoint-new-ceo-as-co-founders-wu-and-zhan-step-aside/
-Norwegian Monero Ransom
-ShapeShift lays off 30% of their team, 37 people
- Bezos Commencement speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBmavNoChZc
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On this week's edition of RHR Marty and Matt come to you live from RiseNY to shoot the shit about Bitcoin's first ten years as well as some current events.
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This week we discuss:
Trezor + Ledger hacks - wallet.fail - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/researchers-demo-crypto-hardware-wallet-vulnerabilities-at-tech-conference/
Electrum hack - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/hackers-used-a-clever-tactic-to-steal-over-700k-from-users-of-a-popular-bitcoin-wallet/
New Joule version out - Pierre Rochard's node launcher
Indian gov possibly loosening regs - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/indian-government-panel-suggests-possible-rule-change-around-legal-status-of-cryptocurrencies/
Bitcoin Private- https://coinmetrics.io/bitcoin-private/
Facebook + crypto - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-21/facebook-is-said-to-develop-stablecoin-for-whatsapp-transfers
US Government Shutdown
Civil token relaunch
Tuur Demeester's thread on ETH: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1078682801954799617
Bitmain layoffs - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitmain-layoffs-underway-may-impact-up-to-50-of-staff/
Consensys layoffs - https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/20/18150036/consensys-layoffs-employees-pending-startup-ethereum
GMO exiting mining biz - https://ir.gmo.jp/en/pdf/irlibrary/gmo_disclose_info20181225_e.pdf
Difficulty leveling off - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitcoins-mining-difficulty-drops-another-9-but-hash-rate-picks-up/
7-month trading volume highs - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/bitcoin-and-ethereum-weekly-trading-volume-reached-7-month-highs/
Highest single day trade vol for tether - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/tiny/exchange-volume-for-tether-sees-all-time-high/
Civic takedown - https://www.theblockcrypto.com/2018/12/21/civics-token-illustrates-why-companies-masquerading-tokens-will-fail/
Iterative Capital NYC Event - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bitcoin-10-year-anniversary-live-w-marty-bent-aaron-lammer-jay-kang-tickets-51666739609
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Join Marty as he sits down with Jameson Lopp to discuss a range of topics including private key management, anarcho-capitalism, SWATting, and why we need to be continually optimistic about freedom enabling technologies like Bitcoin.
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