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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
Frequency: 1 episode/3d. Total Eps: 860

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#533: Preparing For The Next Bull Run with Will Reeves
vendredi 6 septembre 2024 • Duration 01:16:59
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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#532: Q2 2024 Monetary Base Update | Matthew Mežinskis
samedi 31 août 2024 • Duration 01:44:14
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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#523: Why a Bitcoin Treasury is the Winning Strategy with Eric Semler
lundi 15 juillet 2024 • Duration 55:33
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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#434: Capital in the 21st Century with Allen Farrington
lundi 17 juillet 2023 • Duration 01:44:14
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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#433: Lightning Network at the Enterprise Level with Jose Lemus
vendredi 14 juillet 2023 • Duration 01:37:49
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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#432: Jab Injury Event Horizon with Ed Dowd
mardi 11 juillet 2023 • Duration 01:09:18
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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#431: Bitcoin Privacy and the Payjoin Dev Kit with Dan Gould
mercredi 5 juillet 2023 • Duration 01:24:06
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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#430: Bitcoin vs the $156 Trillion Global Payments Industry with Sam Wouters
vendredi 30 juin 2023 • Duration 02:01:16
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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#429: Is The Inflation Problem Really Solved? with Luke Gromen
mercredi 28 juin 2023 • Duration 01:15:40
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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#428: Examining BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF with Townsend Lansing
lundi 26 juin 2023 • Duration 54:51
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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