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TFTC Podcast

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast is a podcast about Bitcoin, beauty and freedom in the Digital Age hosted by Marty Bent.

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449: Death Athletic: A Dissident Architecture with Jessica Solce

449: Death Athletic: A Dissident Architecture with Jessica Solce

Jessica joined us in the studio to discuss the documentary about the saga, Death Athletic: A Dissident Architecture, the importance of the battles that Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed fought, how the battle still wages on, and the very essence of freedom in the digital age.

448: Opt Out Of Keynesian Brain Rot with Godfrey Bloom

448: Opt Out Of Keynesian Brain Rot with Godfrey Bloom

Godfrey joins the show to discuss the ills of central banking and the increasing encroachments on civil liberties by the governments of the United Kingdom and the United States

447: Biowarfare in the 21st Century with Sam Husseini

447: Biowarfare in the 21st Century with Sam Husseini

Sam joins the show to discuss questions around whether or not USAID was funding the Wuhan Lab to research gain of function and created COVID in the process.

446: The State of the Lightning Network with Matt Corallo

446: The State of the Lightning Network with Matt Corallo

Matt Corallo joins the show to give us an update on the state of the lightning network, where it is improved, the kinks that need to be worked out, and how it may evolve in the future.

445: Dispelling Nuclear Energy Misconceptions with Ryan MacLeod

445: Dispelling Nuclear Energy Misconceptions with Ryan MacLeod

If humans are going to flourish moving forward, nuclear energy is going to need to proliferate across the world.

444: Fiat Ruins Everything with Jimmy Song

444: Fiat Ruins Everything with Jimmy Song

The ills of fiat money affect the world at every layer of society.

443: Q2 2023 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis

443: Q2 2023 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis

Matthew Mežinskis is back on to discuss his Q2 2023 monetary base update.

442: Launching Flex with Bitcoin Talent Co

442: Launching Flex with Bitcoin Talent Co

Beyond an update on Bitcoin Talent Co, the discussion meanders into a broader conversation about how companies should think about growing their teams and businesses while keeping burn rate and opex in mind.

441: Miniscript and Bitcoin Risk Products with Rob Hamilton

441: Miniscript and Bitcoin Risk Products with Rob Hamilton

In this rip Marty and Rob discuss potential protocol upgrades on the horizon, how Miniscript works and how it is progressing, and how MPC may evolve in the future.

440: Climate Change is a Bad Excuse with Anas Alhajji

440: Climate Change is a Bad Excuse with Anas Alhajji

If you're looking to get smarter on global energy markets, this is the episode for you.

439: Mining, Memes and Meet Ups with Thomas Pacchia

439: Mining, Memes and Meet Ups with Thomas Pacchia

Marty and Thomas sat down in PubKey's office to discuss the state of the mining industry, ordinals, memes, and the power of bitcoin third places.

438: Cycling Toward A Bitcoin Boom with Tuur Demeester

438: Cycling Toward A Bitcoin Boom with Tuur Demeester

From a risk-adjusted perspective, there has never been a better time in the last 15-years to get into bitcoin, whether you're an investor or a builder.

437: History Doesn't Rhyme, It Repeats with Dave Collum & Rudy Havenstein

437: History Doesn't Rhyme, It Repeats with Dave Collum & Rudy Havenstein

History doesn't rhyme, it repeats. And what we're living through right now seems to be a repeat of the banking crises that led to the Great Depression and Weimar Republic hyperinflationary event.

436: Building Sound Finance For Sound Money with Atomic Finance

436: Building Sound Finance For Sound Money with Atomic Finance

Matt Black and Tony Cai started Atomic to bring sound finance to sound money by offering individuals the ability to leverage Discrete Log Contracts to create native financial products within bitcoin transactions in a sovereign fashion.

435: Bitcoin Solves the AI Payments Problem with Kody Low

435: Bitcoin Solves the AI Payments Problem with Kody Low

If you want to learn how lighting is actually driving value by perfecting payments, this is the rip for you.

434: Capital in the 21st Century with Allen Farrington

434: Capital in the 21st Century with Allen Farrington

Allen Farrington joins the show to discuss Axiom and a new essay they produced called, Capital in the 21st Century.

433: Onboarding enterprise clients to the lightning network with Jose Lemus

433: Onboarding enterprise clients to the lightning network with Jose Lemus

The lightning network provides a step function improvement to the experience of settling value between two parties.

432: Jab Injury Event Horizon with Ed Dowd

432: Jab Injury Event Horizon with Ed Dowd

Ed Dowd is back to give us an update on the deaths and injuries caused by the COVID-19 "vaccine".

431: Bitcoin Privacy and the Payjoin Dev Kit with Dan Gould

431: Bitcoin Privacy and the Payjoin Dev Kit with Dan Gould

Dan gives a detailed explanation of how PDK works, why it exists, and what it can do for bitcoiners.

430: Bitcoin vs the $156 Trillion Global Payments Industry with Sam Wouters

430: Bitcoin vs the $156 Trillion Global Payments Industry with Sam Wouters

The global payments industry is a $156 Trillion behemoth that facilitates B2B, B2C and C2C economic activity that bitcoin is attempting to consume.

429: Is The Inflation Problem Really Solved? with Luke Gromen

429: Is The Inflation Problem Really Solved? with Luke Gromen

The CPI has been coming in lower and lower month-on-month as the Fed has embarked on an aggressive rate hike campaign over the last one-and-a-half years.

428: A Breakdown of the BlackRock Bitcoin ETF with Townsend Lansing

428: A Breakdown of the BlackRock Bitcoin ETF with Townsend Lansing

There is a lot of buzz about the BlackRock Bitcoin ETF since they filed with the SEC a couple of weeks ago.

427: Killer Whale Liquidity Crisis with John Titus

427: Killer Whale Liquidity Crisis with John Titus

John Titus believes that many are missing the forest for the trees when it comes to the banking crisis that is currently unfolding.

426: Bringing Lightning To Utilities with Synota

426: Bringing Lightning To Utilities with Synota

Bitcoin is making the energy sector efficient in many different ways and over time it should lead to a more distributed and robust energy system that is beneficial for end consumers.

425: The Fiat Crisis with Balaji

425: The Fiat Crisis with Balaji

Decades of money printing, military expansion, and the growing divide between blue America and red America have culminated in a fiat crisis that is approaching a catastrophic endgame.