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 Saifedean Ammous to discuss the Israel/Gaza conflict from the perspective of property rights.
Saifedean on Twitter: https://x.com/saifedean
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.
Whitney on Twitter: https://x.com/_whitneywebb
Mark on Twitter: https://x.com/markgoodw_in
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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