TFTC is a podcast hosted by Marty Bent about Bitcoin. Join Marty, Editor in Chief of "the best newsletter in Bitcoin", as he sits down to discuss Bitcoin with interesting people.
Marty sits down with Alex Bergeron to discuss Ark Labs.
Alex on Twitter: https://x.com/bergealex4
Ark Labs: https://arklabs.to/
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Will the strategic reserve stop soft forks?
15:50 - Unchained
16:50 - Ark
25:10 - Zaprite & SOTE
26:43 - How Ark works
1:03:57 - Product market fit
1:13:31- Things take time to build
1:20:31 - Meta protocols
1:26:35 - Wrap up
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Marty sits down with John Carvalho to discuss his BIP on bitcoin units and an update on Pubky.
Links:
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https://pubky.org/
https://x.com/BitcoinErrorLog
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - John's BIP
10:16 - Millisats
14:30 - Unchained
15:30 - Optimizing against govt controlled btc
22:30 - OP_VAULT and fork consensus
36:53 - Zaprite & SOTE
38:26 - Pubky
45:21 - Government digital ID
54:10 - Nostr's vs X vs Bluesky
1:00:00 - Why Nostr needs an ID solution
1:03:13 - Atomic Economy
1:08:08 - Tether
1:12:15 - Bitfinex stolen coins
1:14:13 - MSTR
1:21:20 - Core dev incentives
1:25:39 - John's hot take history
1:29:29 - Bluesky culture
1:33:15 - Giving people what they don’t know they want
1:35:52 - Wrapup
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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
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