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Tales from the Crypt 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.
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
English, Technology, 3 seasons, 689 episodes, 2 days, 21 hours, 46 minutes
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
English, Technology, 3 seasons, 689 episodes, 2 days, 21 hours, 46 minutes
#483: Bitcoin Is The 7th Largest Base Money In The World with Matthew Mežinskis
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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2/21/2024 • 2 hours, 9 minutes, 40 seconds
#482: Freedom Fighters Need Bitcoin with Lyudmyla Kozlovska & Bota Jardemalie
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:
🫡 defendpow@geyser.fund
🫂 donate@bps.odfoundation.eu
- Lyudmyla on X: @LyudaKozlovska
- Bota on X: @jardemalie
0:00 - Intro8:00 - EU attacks on Bitcoin18:58 - Abuse of KYC/AML25:10 - Confronting regulators about their consequences37:45 - Timeline on preventing EU action41:15 - What can be done47:52 - What does the success of Bitcoin look like50:11 - What it’s like when they come for you52:50 - The laws are more draconian and less effective58:04 - Narrative war1:02:31 - Complacency1:07:39 - Dealing with the stress1:12:55 - Wrapping up
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2/20/2024 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 39 seconds
#481: Bitcoin's Positive Influence On Power Markets with James McAvity
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 - Intro7:38 - 50k and Ready Player One13:16 - Assertions of Chinese grid attack23:06 - Working with the wind tax credit issue36:44 - Renewable grid drawbacks and risks44:17 - The right mix of energy sources47:53 - Germany decommissioning and energy politics1:00:23 - Bitcoiners running nuclear1:06:11 - Halving1:11:52 - ASIC innovation1:31:04 - Mining fees1:34:28 - BitMEX1:38:07 - Gamestop1:40:41 - Cormint1:47:01 - Energy/finance integration1:52:25 - Wrapping up
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2/13/2024 • 1 hour, 54 minutes, 11 seconds
#480: Bitcoin Mining State Of The Union with Harry Sudock
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 - Intro7:26 - Big week for Griid11:21 - State of the mining industry15:46 - Industrial adoption19:43 - Demand response23:46 - Energy FUD from the parasitic class31:44 - Future of mining36:06 - Technical innovation37:27 - ASIC manufacturers45:02 - Halvening51:59 - Political influence and pencil making58:27 - ETF and stocks1:02:54 - Ten31 advisor1:08:56 - Wrapping up
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2/6/2024 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 1 second
#479: Socialist Attack On Bitcoin Mining with Jason Brett
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 - Intro6:17 - Overview on “emergency” survey15:03 - Clearly an overt state attack21:45 - Fighting back30:21 - Upcoming months32:30 - Energy industry and policy39:29 - Failure of ESG46:31 - Making political progress52:20 - Federal vs State58:12 - Wrapping up
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2/2/2024 • 1 hour, 27 seconds
#478: How DEI Is Weakening The Military with Matthew Lohmeier
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 - Intro6:45 - Politics dividing the military15:57 - Military of the best22:28 - DEI harms those it “protects”27:00 - US weakening is rapid and likely intentional40:15 - What’s making us stronger?47:12 - First steps to mending54:18 - Call to the silent majority50:03 - Money and incentives1:02:15 - Define your values
1/31/2024 • 1 hour, 4 minutes
#477: What It Was Like Launching Bitcoin In El Salvador with Sean McDonnell
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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1/29/2024 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 37 seconds
#476: The Story Of The People And Projects That Inspired Bitcoin with Aaron van Wirdum
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 - Intro6:32 - Storytime with Marty13:00 - Genesis book16:15 - Where does Bitcoin’s history begin?19:43 - Cypherpunk history27:50 - Who are the OGs?31:05 - Precursor projects and culture35:53 - Hashcash, BitGold, B-Money43:11 - Demand for privacy tech52:18 - Whitepaper and genesis block1:00:06 - Cypherpunks today1:03:52 - Timing and Chaum1:09:51 - Free banking, extropians, AI1:20:01 - Pitching the book
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1/26/2024 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 42 seconds
#475: Bitcoin Is Eating The World with John Arnold
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 - Intro7:06 - The real John Arnold10:26 - John’s background23:10 - Total addressable market29:31 - Tech stock returns34:42 - Best time to jump in44:04 - Why Bitcoin is eating the world52:01 - Financial services1:03:06 - Consumer applications1:09:06 - Replacing the incumbent system1:21:48 - Venture capital not recognizing1:29:57 - Ten31 network1:35:07 - Bitcoin is fun1:40:45 - Wrapping up
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1/24/2024 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 2 seconds
#474: What's On Weiner's Laptop? with Dave Collum
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 - Intro6:17 - Child trafficking22:17 - Immigrant flooding32:13 - Crime syndicates and technocracy40:47 - Darkness49:11 - J659:29 - Ukraine1:03:36 - Hope and changing winds1:10:24 - Election1:14:24 - State independence1:18:39 - ETF1:27:39 - Inflation and correctional1:53:30 - Geopolitical status2:02:17 - Great minds2:09:30 - Tangents2:24:04- Roth IRAs2:32:39 - What to do without Bitcoin2:41:26 - Family3:05:44 - Lacrosse3:26:53 - Wrapping up
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1/17/2024 • 3 hours, 31 minutes, 30 seconds
#473: Banks Without Bankers with Eric Yakes
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 - Intro6:40 - Can we really have banks without bankers?12:44 - Tradeoffs16:10 - Fedimints23:48 - Federated model cost/benefit35:23 - Implementing incentives42:08 - Fedi in the future45:53 - Speculating on possibilities51:35 - Mint distribution and crossing chasms59:23 - Ark1:07:57 - Spoiling final thoughts1:11:31 - Multi-institution custody1:15:03 - ETF1:22:59 - Falling empire1:25:46 - Wrapping up
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1/12/2024 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 51 seconds
#472: Amos Miller And The Encroachment Of The Nanny State with Chris Hume
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 - Intro6:17 - Amos Miller raided10:42 - State dislikes independent communities14:28 - The problem of positive law19:01 - The state removes your choices24:59 - “Raw” milk and choosing for yourself29:00 - Forgoing convenience32:01 - Those who enable tyranny40:02 - Money printing gives the state leverage48:47 - Statism vs Christianity1:00:52 - Pushing back1:04:45 - Wrapping up
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1/8/2024 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 50 seconds
#471: Fighting The Digital Dollar And AI Surveillance with Whitney Webb & Mark Goodwin
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 - Intro6:17 - Exposition on Farmington and Fluent Finance12:47 - Stablecoins21:18 - Transitioning to CBDC35:30 - Crisis as pretense for surveillance and war53:59 - Digital ID1:04:02 - Powell’s not your pal1:07:37 - Figuring out the de facto CBDC1:13:41 - Manufactured consent psyops1:18:46 - National figureheads1:28:56 - Social media warzone1:37:04 - Preventing Bitcoin co-opting1:49:13 - They’ll profile and surveil everyone1:59:05 - Fighting AI-controlled life2:25:37 - Building alternatives2:34:50 - Wrapping up
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12/30/2023 • 2 hours, 43 minutes, 13 seconds
#470: Bitcoin's Finite Supply Is The Breakthrough with Dhruv Bansal
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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12/22/2023 • 2 hours, 33 minutes, 28 seconds
#469: Bitcoin And The Great Financial Crisis with Parker Lewis
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 - Intro7:07 - Liz Warren and CBDCs16:55 - 2008 crisis still echoes22:17 - Marty’s experience of the crisis29:00 - Metting people where they are35:27 - Satoshi was keyed in38:29 - It’s personal for everyone53:01 - Bitcoin, not Blockchain57:41 - Bitcoin is not for criminals59:28 - Dollar is not patriotic1:07:50 - Sound money is freedom1:13:49 - Bitcoin in future crises1:22:59 - How much will they print next time?1:26:08 - Replacing an unfathomable behemoth1:38:10 - Can’t stop the signal1:44:11 - Wrapping up
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12/20/2023 • 1 hour, 46 minutes, 42 seconds
#468: Q3 2023 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis
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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12/12/2023 • 2 hours, 3 minutes, 13 seconds
#467: The ETF Will Push Bitcoin To $500k with Fred Krueger
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 - Intro6:01 - The scale of ETFs13:35 - The pace of incoming money20:48 - Perspective of an ETF buyer28:16 - Will the ETF change the cycles?36:33 - Bitcoin improving payments40:13 - Financial degradation47:06 - Inflation from the perspective of the wealthy51:39 - Apathy towards Bitcoin1:00:56 - Older generations hold the wealth1:12:14 - Bull vibes will return with ETF1:17:19 - ETFs will have the largest stacks1:29:14 - Playing it safe1:35:57 - Fred represents the majority1:38:11 - Block size and other dev issues1:42:14 - Money printer go brrr1:46:55 - Likely date for the ETF1:49:22 - How Fred got into Bitcoin1:53:57 - The Anti-SBF event2:02:02 - ETF is inevitable2:03:55 - Wrapping up
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12/12/2023 • 2 hours, 5 minutes, 1 second
#466: Bitcoin on the Geopolitical Chessboard with Kane McGukin
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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12/11/2023 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 20 seconds
Bitcoin For Business: Fanatics
Lou turns the questions on Marty to find out how businesses can embrace Bitcoin.
0:00 - Intro7:20 - Why are we here?13:29 - What is Fanatics?19:54 - FanCash should be Bitcoin29:58 - Introducing Bitcoin through rewards33:04 - Chargebacks and international onboarding37:29 - Bitcoin is can enable better UX flow41:39 - NFTs don’t work48:30 - New media monetization models53:26 - Protection from censorship58:36 - Trust still required1:02:17 - Saving your business in a recession1:05:21 - Debrief, comment your suggestions!
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12/6/2023 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 26 seconds
#465: Five Pillars of Product Management with Will Cole
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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12/4/2023 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 32 seconds
#464: The Emergence of the Network of Keys with Matt from Unchained
Marty sits down with Matt from Unchained to discuss key networks and setting new industry standards for Bitcoin custody.
0:00 - Intro6:17 - Matt’s backstory (go birds)12:56 - Challenges overcome at Unchained19:43 - The role of keys in Bitcoin21:53 - Preparing for the next bull23:42 - Misconceptions about keys26:41 - UX gaps29:18 - Structures built on key networks34:15 - Countering bad optics for regulators37:29 - Predictions42:27 - Recognition of multisig47:59 - ETFs and Coinbase54:41 - Multi-jurisdiction58:07 - Blinded xpubs and deepfakes1:05:56 - Incoming developments in Bitcoin1:08:48 - Are you an ordinals enjoyer?1:11:32 - MPC vs multisig1:17:52 - Shitcoin cycles1:21:43 - Here for tech or money?1:26:26 - Saving Philly1:34:02 - Wrapping up
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12/1/2023 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 23 seconds
#463: Orange Pilling AI & Bitcoin Times Energy Edition with Aleks Svetski
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 - Intro6:52 - Riffing9:53 - What is Spirit of Satoshi?18:12 - AGI24:04 - Closed/open source AI33:38 - Building your own language model41:04 - AI’s opinions are based on its master45:02 - Data cleanliness and hallucination52:58 - 1000 minds vs the Borg58:59 - A wealth of data1:03:54 - Biden’s AI executive order1:05:26 - AI agents and Bitcoin1:12:23 - ASICs1:16:36 - Energy1:21:09 - Bitcoin Times Energy Edition, ESG1:32:16 - Bitcoin is energy1:39:29 - Conquering mindset1:49:21 - Wrapping up
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11/30/2023 • 1 hour, 51 minutes, 51 seconds
#462: Government Spending Leads To Hyperinflation with Peter St Onge
Marty sits down with Peter St Onge to discuss government incompetence, hyperinflation events, predictions for the 2024 election, and more.
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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11/28/2023 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 23 seconds
#461: Defecting from Corrupt Healthcare with Andy Schoonover
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 - Intro7:23 - It’s been a year14:22 - Doctors are excited18:22 - The government owns the system22:29 - Insurance is impersonal28:23 - Bitcoin and LN34:13 - Bitcoin doctors42:49 - What’s the catch?48:29 - How many people does it take for change?51:22 - Relationship with employers55:28 - Metabolic health and strong communities1:04:09 - Defectors from the corrupt system1:08:21 - Spreading knowledge1:13:01 - CrowdHealth profitability1:15:50 - CH’s relationship with TFTC1:20:23 - Press the hard button1:24:21 - We’re gonna win
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11/17/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 25 seconds
#460: Deconstructing the Censorship Industrial Complex with Mike Benz
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 - Intro6:17 - Censorship Industrial Complex13:06 - Turning point in 201615:08 - Twitter files and wrongspeak terminology22:44 - NGO participation26:07 - Corporate control32:30 - Russian gas37:15 - Biden laptop43:09 - Justice Department can kill you48:40 - Destabilization ops53:07 - End goal of control57:33 - Methods of resistance1:01:11 - Monetary censorship and Bitcoin1:04:11 - We’re gonna win
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11/14/2023 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 11 seconds
#459: An 8-Month Taliban Holiday with Lord Miles
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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11/7/2023 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 23 seconds
#458: Climate Narratives Are Failing with Tom Nelson
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 - Intro6:43 - Riffing on Dave Collum and hurricanes11:08 - Narratives are failing18:17 - Charlie Munger21:07 - AI23:44 - DC and climate policy26:34 - Nuclear30:32 - ESG and mining33:41 - Green energy kills42:32 - Hydrocarbons bring life50:31 - Those who would control you54:27 - Bitcoin56:53 - War59:21 - Podcasting, censorship, and finding new allies1:09:41 - Go get yourself called a racist1:19:24 - Wrapping up
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11/1/2023 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 30 seconds
#457: How a Miner Survives a Bitcoin Bear Market with Drew Armstrong & AJ Scalia
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 - Intro5:04 - New York11:23 - Current doomer status14:36 - Lessons learned since last bull run26:24 - Decisions made in 202234:20 - Underclocking and maintaining mining efficiency39:16 - Evaluing mining businesses by hashprice43:31 - Educating energy providers48:25 - Cathedra firmware52:07 - Shifting the bottleneck away from ASICs58:20 - AI1:06:46 - Geographic dispersion of hash1:12:59 - Rising rates and ETFs1:25:20 - Halvening prediction1:35:05 - Wrapping up
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10/26/2023 • 1 hour, 37 minutes, 31 seconds
#456: The Path To Hyperinflation with EJ Antoni
Marty sits down with EJ Antoni to discuss the disastrous policies of the Federal Reserve.
EJ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RealEJAntoni
0:00 - Intro5:48 - Explaining Fed losses22:16 - 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 indicators42:04 - Protecting yourself financially50:48 - Weimar style hyperinflation54:21 - Weaponization of the dollar57:23 - Bitcoin1:00:24 - Wrapping
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10/24/2023 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 11 seconds
#455: AI-Powered Tyranny with Whitney Webb
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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10/20/2023 • 1 hour, 54 minutes, 40 seconds
#454: An Onramp To The New Custody Standard with Onramp & BitGo
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 - Intro5:04 - How’s The Last Trade going?10:06 - OnRamp/BitGo partnership23:35 - The importance of multi-institution29:18 - What convinces key agents?36:53 - The next stage of Bitcoin’s adoption40:36 - Trillion Dollar Wallets and other fun ideas45:03 - Bitcoin is for everyone49:11 - State attacks and multi-jurisdiction1:01:43 - Adoption, education, ETFs1:19:05 - Marty backstory1:22:04 - Mitch backstory and BitGo1:26:15 - Bitcoin is the spirit of revolution1:28:56 - Wrapping
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10/19/2023 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 39 seconds
#453: From Barstool to Mash with Louis Roberts
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 - Intro5:28 - Riffing15:37 - Mash and the new TFTC site24:26 - Incumbent monetization models29:06 - Enabling interaction features31:58 - Controlling your own flow of funds39:27 - Ending the subscription model47:22 - Convincing other publishers50:29 - Verifying humanity54:51 - Lightning compared to advertising a decade ago1:00:39 - Barstool1:03:24 - Death of the old model1:06:27 - Riffing after an interruption1:11:26 - Chicken and egg of Bitcoin adoption1:17:39 - Demo-ing donations1:19:33 - We’re gonna win1:25:42 - Twitter and Nostr1:29:30 - Riffing1:32:56 - New site launch1:36:08 - Saving the world with Bitcoin1:40:30 - Politicians are nuts1:48:21 - War1:58:35 - Rising from ashes of the American empire2:01:27 - AI2:03:26 - Ending riff
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10/17/2023 • 2 hours, 7 minutes, 33 seconds
#452: Zaprite Is Driving Bitcoin Merchant Adoption with John Magill
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 - Intro5:04 - Irish shitcoinery and true Bitcoiners9:51 - Irish government18:39 - Irish economy25:26 - Erasing Irish culture32:35 - Strong communities and fiat world38:42 - Merchant adoption48:56 - Update on Zaprite, onboarding Will and Parker54:44 - What to build next1:12:04 - Bullish vibes1:17:16 - Returning to roots1:20:56 - Conferences and meetups
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10/9/2023 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 45 seconds
#451: UTXOracle with Steve Jeffress & Daniel Hinton
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 - Intro6:41 - Steve and Daniel’s background10:59 - Explaining UTXOs13:34 - Visualizing data20:46 - Effect of Bitcoin ATMs on patterns25:24 - How to infer price from UTXO data35:27 - Usefulness as an oracle45:28 - Possibility of price per block46:41 - Human action, opportunities and attack vectors53:26 - Effect of ordinals55:49 - UTXO mismanagement1:02:37 - Spending old coins1:06:51 - Taproot changes and far future problems1:18:20 - Fun new concepts1:27:43 - Run the numbers yourself1:32:58 - Wrapping up
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10/3/2023 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 47 seconds
#450: Bitcoin Money Market Funds with Théo Mogenet
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 - Intro7:00 - Théo’s background11:06 - Explaining money market funds16:46 - UK Gilt duration mismatch22:32 - US bank failures25:08 - Weaponization of monetary system39:41 - How Bitcoin fixes this49:26 - Bitcoin’s increasing demand52:47 - Through the lens of monetary policy55:28 - Perpetual markets1:00:46 - DLCs for futures contracts1:07:55 - Acquiring liquidity for DLCs1:18:24 - Nascent companies1:23:52 - Inciting hyperbitcoinization1:29:12 - What drives further adoption?1:40:47 - Théo’s upcoming writing
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10/1/2023 • 1 hour, 45 minutes, 41 seconds
#449: DEATH ATHLETIC: A Dissident Architecture with Jessica Solce
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 - Intro6:27 - Stumbling into cypherpunk docs11:24 - Dealing with scandals16:12 - Death Athletes22:44 - The process of following Cody24:04 - Fighting digital tyrrany28:14 - Apathy32:39 - Free information40:11 - Dealing with courts of law and social media45:37 - JStark49:38 - Corporate control1:01:13 - Aesthetics and the film industry1:07:57 - AI1:11:21 - Plugs + wrap up
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9/27/2023 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 37 seconds
#448: Opt Out Of Keynesian Brain Rot with Godfrey Bloom
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 - Intro6:43 - How govts have been corrupted16:09 - Is mobilization of the common man imminent?18:40 - Central banks are the unknown cause24:56 - Removing yourself from the system27:12 - New Keynesians29:59 - Bitcoin and gold34:46 - More on UK provenance law38:09 - Lawful cancelation dissidents43:58 - Civil war and states asserting autonomy46:42 - Wrapping up
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9/26/2023 • 48 minutes, 59 seconds
#447: Biowarfare In The 21st Century with Sam Husseini
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 - Intro5:36 - Sam’s body of work8:20 - Covid’s parallels to anthrax attacks15:08 - Wuhan lab obscurement22:56 - Biowarfare is unique26:02 - USAID funding of the lab30:44 - The gaslighting is highly effective40:54 - Those in control have no benevolent intentions44:02 - Disappointment in RFK46:02 - Bird flu modification48:21 - Actionable items50:17 - Censorship56:38 - Wrapping up
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9/22/2023 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 43 seconds
#446: The State of the Lightning Network with Matt Corallo
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 forks13:34 - Should we focus on what we have?18:27 - Core dev burnout24:58 - State of Bitcoin adoption35:23 - The year of LDK40:46 - Stablecoins and AI46:44 - Where should the focus be?52:42 - LSPs and improving LN UX59:21 - Crypto impatience1:05:26 - Using lightning every day1:07:02 - Regulations1:21:01 - Bitcoin and Crypto have different regulatory concerns1:23:34 - AI and energy1:27:31 - Is LN a panacea?1:35:54 - How is LN success defined?1:38:35 - PTLCs1:43:46 - Bitcoin’s success probability
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9/14/2023 • 1 hour, 48 minutes, 40 seconds
#445: Dispelling Nuclear Energy Misconceptions with Ryan MacLeod
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 - Riffing7:46 - Texas demand scare13:57 - Best source for stable energy20:11 - Reputation of nuclear power31:39 - If the end were nigh, we’d need nuclear33:40 - Cost of capital and SMRs36:53 - SMR and mining impact on grids41:05- Bitcoin can ease problems with nuclear44:37 - Nuclear looking good53:15 - Germany’s idiotic policies55:09 - Uranium supply58:01 - Nuclear future1:02:01 - Does the nuclear industry recognize Bitcoin?1:07:09 - Wrapping up
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9/12/2023 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 23 seconds
#444: Fiat Ruins Everything with Jimmy Song
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 - Intro5:38 - Writing with ChatGPT10:59 - Degeneracy hazards12:54 - Jimmy’s book and writing process20:39 - Structuring a book23:36 - Fiat’s influence on individuals with corps30:28 - Strong families and low time pref life35:01 - Fiat world built on ossification44:19 - No stores of value, can’t buy a house50:15 - 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 welfare1:14:40 - Wide and narrow gate, drivechains1:26:45 - Plugging the book
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9/6/2023 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 26 seconds
#443: Q2 2023 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis
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 CBDCs26:08 - Top 5 currencies32:30 - Compound annual growth rate36:06 - FHLB exposure42:27 - Inflation is impacting people45:08 - Bitcoin chart56:49 - Scandinavian physical currency59:17 - US federal debt1:15:08 - Canary in the coal mine1:23:30 - Nations using Bitcoin and BRICS gold1:40:02 - Optimal outcome
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8/30/2023 • 1 hour, 47 minutes, 27 seconds
#442: Launching Flex with Bitcoin Talent Co
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
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8/25/2023 • 55 minutes, 44 seconds
#441: Miniscript and Bitcoin Risk Products with Rob Hamilton
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 Launch7:43 - Bluechecks13:31 - Content models18:18 - Drivechains and OP_VAULT22:58 - Miniscript27:07 - Stepping back on Miniscript33:50 - Balancing complexity at Anchorwatch36:17 - Bitcoin risk products42:52 - Anchorwatch policy construction47:15 - UX51:58 - Impatience55:17 - Get your hands dirty59:31 - Edge cases1:06:22 - MPC1:18:54 - Upgrades with unknown unknowns1:27:34 - Bullish1:32:43 - Bitcoin in macro1:39:59 - Urgency
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8/24/2023 • 1 hour, 45 minutes, 46 seconds
#440: Climate Change Is A Bad Excuse with Anas Alhajji
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 trade13:27 - COP 28 and climate change excuses27:46 - Climate change religion31:05 - Dishonest numbers37:05 - Shale oil underperforming42:02 - “Green” energy can only win by force48:11 - Why we Bitcoin49:46 - Near future energy market56:16 - Impact of subsidies58:59 - Immigration and Climate arguments don’t mix1:03:48 - Dollar shortage and Bitcoin
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8/18/2023 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 55 seconds
#439: Mining, Memes and Meetups with Thomas Pacchia
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 scarcity21:56 - Will shitcoin cycles continue?28:42 - No soft landing32:01 - Large scale investors42:27 - Mining meetup53:06 - What drives hashrate growth from here?58:18 - Treasury management1:00:55 - Pool monetization1:09:51 - Scammers and hamsters1:12:48 - NYC Bitcoin makes Marty bullish1:23:05 - Memes and NFTs1:28:58 - Derailment and riffing1:36:29 - Bitcoin conferences and new Pubkey locations1:44:08 - Hex and hardware wallets1:46:58 - Reminiscing from our prison cells in 2030
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8/8/2023 • 1 hour, 54 minutes, 38 seconds
#438: Cycling Toward A Bitcoin Boom with Tuur Demeester
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 - Intro5:30 - Aliens11:35 - Bitcoin cycles18:04 - Is the next cycle different?20:21 - Will crypto stay dead?24:12 - Old ideas, new ideas, and startups33:44 - Regulatory landscape38:27 - Financial “innovations” from crypto42:31 - Bitcoin politics46:29 - Implications of decentralized custody54:23 - Multiple fronts of chaos1:02:04 - How far can inflation go?1:10:04 - Bitcoin is the escape hatch1:12:13 - Nation state adoption1:15:29 - Next bull market1:26:29 - Fedimints and AI1:34:38 - Bullish on Texas1:47:28 - We’re gonna win
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7/31/2023 • 1 hour, 48 minutes, 34 seconds
#437: History Doesn't Rhyme, It Repeats with Dave Collum & Rudy Havenstein
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 - Bants11:41 - Background27:20 - Banking crisis lull33:12 - Media collapse and Twitter48:43 - Evil rulers1:15:10 - Corporate press and those they hate1:22:35 - Younger generations1:30:21 - Forth turning and inflation1:58:20 - CBDCs vs Bitcoin2:03:49 - Final words from Rudy2:05:39 - Rabbit holes on rabbit holes
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7/25/2023 • 3 hours, 8 minutes, 10 seconds
#436: Building Sound Finance For Sound Money with Atomic Finance
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 origins15:44 - What’s wrong with defi?21:15 - Explaining DLCs25:26 - How Atomic uses DLCs28:39 - Risks34:13 - Atomic’s oracle37:39 - State of DLCs and lightning44:51 - Plans for Atomic47:46 - Ethereum’s centralization50:26 - Order of operations in Bitcoin adoption54:04 - Scaling Bitcoin and ossification1:04:59 - Staking reputation on BIPs1:14:28 - A lot at stake1:21:00 - Wrapping
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7/24/2023 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 8 seconds
#435: Bitcoin Solves the Payments Problem in AI with Kody Low
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 - Intro5:30 - Marty Barbell Bender7:10 - Kody’s background, every Bitcoiner a dev13:59 - What layer is Fedi?19:38 - Explaining Fedimint25:43 - What do Fedimints fix about lightning?30:23 - Expanding on federation34:46 - Scaling Bitcoin for the world38:56 - Federated operating system49:23 - How it works for guardians57:57 - Privacy1:00:41 - Synth dollar trading1:11:18 - AI/Lightning intersection1:20:33 - L402 and M2M payments1:35:53 - Lightning’s headstart on crypto1:38:24 - Avoiding Bitcoin’s volitility with Fedi1:41:02 - Bitcoin is the best money1:49:10 - Pushing AI companies to Lightning1:52:02 - Answer the call, freaks1:55:25 - Privacy and gpu hosting2:05:27 - Wrapping up
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7/19/2023 • 2 hours, 9 minutes, 5 seconds
#434: Capital in the 21st Century with Allen Farrington
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 Axiom9:43 - Cost of capital14:26 - Debt is not universally bad16:59 - Capital as a tool18:51 - The goal of capital allocation22:13 - Affecting individual savings26:06 - Capital flowchart and long term thinking37:18 - Bitcoin doesn’t allow fiat games44:47 - Bitcoin mining illustrating the point58:09 - Impact of lightning’s instant settlement1:06:26 - Building a long term company1:14:46 - Temperance during the boom1:18:46 - Liquid BTC1:27:28 - Axiom and further upcoming writing1:41:04 - Wrapping up
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7/17/2023 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 14 seconds
#433: Lightning Network at the Enterprise Level with Jose Lemus
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 riffing7:37 - What’s up at Ibex?22:24 - Impact of instant settlement26:21 - Lightning Network, AI, Internet of Things34:07 - What’s taking adoption so long?36:49 - Bitcoin’s unique combination of properties45:57 - Burden of compliance49:45 - Fiat is the money of force52:44 - KYC is the illicit activity1:02:38 - Mexico partnership1:03:44 - The purpose of financial products1:12:36 - Bitcoin is a tween1:17:30 - Don’t get distracted by bull markets1:29:14 - Marty’s excited about energy and AI1:35:36 - Wrapping up
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7/14/2023 • 1 hour, 37 minutes, 49 seconds
#432: Jab Injury Event Horizon with Ed Dowd
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 rising15:41 - RFK Jr and the jab injury event horizon25:17 - Distractions29:00 - Debt event horizon has already passed33:26 - Trust in the system degrading37:05 - Bitcoin38:42 - The CIA disapproves38:53- Broken money and psyops45:46 - Individual state power49:29 - Three Letter Agencies don’t want this heard54:31 - Hard times before good times56:37 - Strong families1:03:50 - Final note on RFK Jr1:07:12 - I am Spartacus
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7/11/2023 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 18 seconds
#431: Bitcoin Privacy and the Payjoin Dev Kit with Dan Gould
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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7/5/2023 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 6 seconds
#430: Bitcoin vs the $156 Trillion Global Payments Industry with Sam Wouters
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 - Intro2:30 - Finding bitcoin through Runescape9:22 - New educational resources in Bitcoin13:27 - Diving into Sam’s report17:51 - Structure of the report21:39 - Chapter 1: Cross-border payments industry31:53 - Comparing Bitcoin and internet adoption41:37 - Remittance education48:31 - Getting into charts on remittance volume56:18 - Chapter 2: Global bitcoin adoption1:07:58 - Motivation for adoption1:13:39 - Chapter 3: Cross-border Bitcoin payments1:23:13 - What makes bitcoin better for remittance1:26:28 - Lightning services1:30:26 - Bitcoin for payments1:33:32 - Google search traffic for Bitcoin1:39:17 - B2C1:44:35 - Chapter 4: Growing cross-border Bitcoin payments1:51:36 - Adoption funnel1:55:33 - Marty tries to quote himself before wrapping up
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6/30/2023 • 2 hours, 1 minute, 16 seconds
#429: Is The Inflation Problem Really Solved? with Luke Gromen
Marty sits down with Luke Gromen to discuss inflation catching up with the world.
Luke on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LukeGromen
0:00 - Intro6:33 - UK inflation11:02 - American banking crisis lull18:12 - Structural problems in energy25:56 - Liquidity issues with massive bank accounts31:33 - Debt ceiling33:13 - Retirement and target date funds40:18 The Ukraine distraction45:54 - Collapse in skilled labor and infrastructure50:41 - Taking on troubled times54:55 - Bitcoin’s interaction with energy57:05 - Landing on the wrong side of stagflation59:19 - Bitcoin eliminates banking BS1:01:34 - Treasury bond duration risk1:06:22 - 40 year bull market over, gold and Bitcoin win1:13:51 - Wrapping
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6/28/2023 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 40 seconds
#428: Examining BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF with Townsend Lansing
Marty sits down with Townsend Lansing to discuss BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF.
Townsend on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TownsendLansing
0:00 - Intro8:40 - Inflation hitting the UK11:07 - Introducing Townsend, Blackrock ETF19:10 - SEC approval25:23 - APA26:46 - How Bitcoin market could be affected29:28 - People becoming aware of crypto risk31:23 - How the grantor trust works35:50 - ETF liquidity42:12 - Bitcoin’s better security45:30 - Will bitcoin financial products be treated differently?48:05 - Approval is unlikely49:52 - Bitcoin’s impact on finance51:13 - Wrapping up
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6/26/2023 • 54 minutes, 51 seconds
#427: Killer Whale Liquidity Crisis with John Titus
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 liquidity16:13 - The Fed is at the center21:01 - Coordinated consolidation effort26:28- The strength of cash33:57 - John’s origin story39:09 - Fix the money, fix the world42:20 - Dollar endgame45:06 - John on Bitcoin49:38 - The system is run by those who hate you52:54 - Life expectancy decline55:35 - Tyranny thrives in the fear of resistance58:39 - Wrapping up
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6/20/2023 • 59 minutes, 54 seconds
#426: Bringing Lightning To Utilities with Synota
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 Synota14:05 - Payment settlement struggles for utilites16:56 - How Synota integrates23:47 - Financing possibilities26:20 - Utilities grokking bitcoin34:07 - Effects of decentralizing the grid45:22 - The team’s orange pilling49:41 - Mining industry is maturing55:56 - Efficiency impact of instant payments1:01:11 - Mining permanent funds1:05:03 - Issues building on lightning1:10:57 - Wrapping up
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6/6/2023 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 11 seconds
#425: Fiat Crisis with Balaji Srinivasan
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 check21:38 - History is running in reverse25:09 - The unipolar moment is over38:05 - America is 3 tribes44:42 - Democracy has 4 definitions55:33 - India adopting pragmatic democracy59:08 - China won’t go away1:07:03 - USSA1:36:11 - How America gets its strength back1:43:16 - Dollar nationalists, social media politics1:53:20 - It’s not one nation, it’s two parties with verbal footsoldiers2:07:15 - The Gray tribe2:35:47 - Blue losing media control2:39:46 - Recap, Blue’s remaining power2:45:48 - The tribal filter on the banking situation3:01:36 - The declining US empire3:13:13 - Blue America’s infrastructure highlights3:16:40 - Exiting through Bitcoin3:20:18 - We’ve lost our moon shoes3:22:24 - The writing’s on the wall and states have incentive to exit early3:42:53 - People robbed by cantillon cities are likely to get mad3:48:13 - Fed now is a CBDC no matter what they say4:05:15 - Civil unrest precursors4:08:24 - Hiding insolvency4:11:13 - History mirroring4:17:04 - Reflecting on a long show, doling white pills
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6/2/2023 • 4 hours, 25 minutes, 57 seconds
#424: Q1 2023 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis
Follow along with the charts: https://twitter.com/1basemoney/status/1664179527784734720?s=20
Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/1basemoney
8:12 - Baltic hockey17:17 - Debt ceiling bye bye22:55 - New basemoney drop!36:19 - Bitcoin base vs top fiat, reverse repo49:41 - Bank failures1:01:54 - Treasury markets1:05:34 - Fannie & Freddie debt numbers1:09:32 - Balaji says FedNow is a CBDC1:17:02 - Sidebar on children1:18:19 - Back on topic, centralization will continue1:23:45 - Sovereign sat and gold stacking1:34:41 - Quick stats1:35:56 - Full reserve in Texas1:45:37 - Wrapping up
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6/1/2023 • 1 hour, 49 minutes, 49 seconds
#423: Retirement Funds In The Age Of Bitcoin with Matt Dines
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 funds11:49 - Balance sheets of the American household26:23 - History of retirement accounts30:30 - The post-Covid financial landscape34:52 - Retirement account participation46:14 - Legislation isn’t the answer50:09 - Primary residence ownership and mortgage backed securities55:39 - Target Date Funds1:01:28 - US bond market selloff1:09:45 - Near-dated TDF vs inflation1:13:12 - Investment/retirement industry isn’t keeping up1:17:59 - Bridging the gap to Bitcoin with Build1:32:15 - Bitcoin lending1:46:36 - Unchained1:53:57 - Explaining the mindset2:02:31 - The flywheel of truth2:08:12 - Wrapping up
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5/31/2023 • 2 hours, 12 minutes, 3 seconds
#422: Human Forever with James Poulos
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 transhumanism12:37 - Defining the humanity we fight for19:54 - Breaking people apart29:14 - False gods34:23 - Fighting on the digital level38:39 - Changing the tide47:50 - The moment of humility50:31 - Return to traditional family56:55 - Focusing attention58:26 - Being human is better1:00:44 - Judging yourself first1:02:55 - Sloth1:12:04 - Wrapping up
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5/26/2023 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 50 seconds
#421: Rejecting The Great Reset with Michael Rectenwald
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 Reset10:29 - Stakeholder capitalism14:15 - ESG leads to corporate rule18:32 - Mock the rulers20:23 - Neo-techno-feudalism while infrastructure breaks24:03 - Refusing CBDCs, Bitcoin and gold27:21 - Bitcoiners at Mises and Bitcoin FUD29:45 - The lies are being noticed32:28 - Control through social credit and social perception36:55 - The letter agencies cause the problems they claim to solve38:04 - Asserting autonomy44:37 - Bank failures will be the CBDC trigger46:42 - Defending against ideological onslaught51:05 - Fighting evil54:20 - Wrapping up, plugs
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5/17/2023 • 55 minutes, 18 seconds
#420: Powering Livestreaming With Sats Through Vida with Lyle Pratt
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 history20:51 - Telecom architecture and using bitcoin to solve problems27:57 - New tools like AI, Nostr, and LN32:30 - Current state of lightning33:46 - Vida demo with some difficulties35:45 - Monetizing your attention37:41 - The Vida team44:56 - Vida can be a better Restream50:44 - Lightning adoption is a bright light in a dark future1:01:12 - Future Nostr integration1:05:28 - Leveraging AI1:10:29 - Explaining LLMs1:16:46 - Living in interesting times1:27:20 - Resource demands of AI1:31:03 - Thank God For Bitcoin1:36:31 - Wrapping up
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5/15/2023 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 52 seconds
#419: Fedi Is Connecting Communities With Freedom Technology with Obi Nwosu
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 place12:32 - Comparing the beginnings of Coinfloor and Fedi22:00 - Explaining Fedi34:19 - Applications made possible by Fedi40:59 - Fedi ambassadors46:20 - The freedom made possible by Fedi53:12 - Fedipools and off-grid mining57:38 - The antifragile nature of Bitcoin1:07:36 - Has the mission gotten more urgent?1:13:53 - Wrapping up
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5/12/2023 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 1 second
#418: A First Principles Breakdown of the Monetary Crisis with Peter St Onge
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 Theory14:54 - Fed policy heading off a cliff24:39 - Approaching the debt ceiling and unemployment33:28 - A whitepilled take on imminent collapse39:57 - They pushed too far too early44:53 - Hidden purpose behind the lies55:45 - What happens without the state59:43 - What the state has devoured and destroyed1:09:29 - BS Environment policy and cronyism1:14:45 - Bitcoin adoption and the convolution if banks1:26:00 - Full/fractional reserve banking1:35:48 - When will the US default?1:42:44 - Energy nonsense and mocking the rulers1:55:28 - Wrapping up
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5/10/2023 • 1 hour, 57 minutes, 13 seconds
#417: An Ex-Intelligence Officer's View on Ukraine with Lee Slusher
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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5/8/2023 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 46 seconds
#416: The Scramble To Push A CBDC Future with Whitney Webb
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 launch12:11 - Banks failing and consolidating19:02 - Story of Jamie Dimon26:38 - Reexamining 200831:10 - CBDCs, biometrics and control40:11 - JP Morgan, Wexner and Crown44:59 - WSJ callout50:36 - Noam Chomsky54:55 - Are people waking up?1:07:16 - Satan and transhumanism1:22:18 - Google and Disney1:28:12 - Whitney's talk at Bitcoin Miami1:32:02 - Nobody's saving you1:35:49 - Wrapping up
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5/5/2023 • 1 hour, 43 minutes, 24 seconds
#415: Coal Is The Future with Steve Barbour
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 interest19:18 - Bitcoin reaching maturity21:01 - Russian mining25:37 - Fiat IOUs28:30 - The state of US mining34:25 - Will "Coal" Cole38:09 - Upstream's progress since Steve's last pod47:06 - Hydro is better for portability55:31 - New design59:53 - Is coal the future?1:04:48 - Hydrocarbons debate1:08:33 - Lizard men1:10:57 - Mock the rulers1:19:03 - Fiat dying1:25:01 - Wrapping up
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4/28/2023 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 43 seconds
#414: The Dollar Endgame Theory with Peruvian Bull
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 Reddit17:48 - Is the dollar currently in its endgame?23:02 - Weaponizing dollar against Russia hurt US25:19 - Past the debt event horizon33:45 - Bitcoin reserve36:21 - Will BRICS BUCS gain traction?41:06 - A great opportunity for bitcoiners44:01 - Nations missing the Bitcoin bus49:40 - Converting individuals to Bitcoin52:02 - Why Latin America understands intuitively55:43 - SUPERSTONK58:42 - Suffering in the streets1:00:51 - Price post-hyperbitcoinization1:03:57 - Societal impact of hyperbitcoinization1:10:24 - The next 3 months1:17:01 - technical difficulties1:17:59 - Dollar losing network effect1:21:42 - Plugs
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4/25/2023 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 48 seconds
#413: Resisting mRNA Food with Charles Mayfield
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 food12:20 - Keto Con16:58 - Epic Dermis20:59 - Why Farrow24:34 - Pigs34:05 - Untrustworthy institutions41:10 - Poison in the livestock45:43 - Insidious legislature51:01 - Looking at more accurate health markers1:00:26 - Big Pharma and Big Ag1:05:57- Resisting mRNA food1:10:31 - Life insurance story1:12:15 - Instilling urgency1:16:40 - Symbiosis1:22:56 - Blackpill/Whitepill1:29:58 - Mock the rulers1:33:52 - 3 years of madness1:40:47 - Health is wealth1:43:43 - Big week for Farrow1:47:46 - Marty is a glowing god of goodness
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4/21/2023 • 1 hour, 49 minutes, 9 seconds
#412: Speaking Out For Those Injured By The Jabs with Michael Koss and Joel Wallskog
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 roundtable18:30 - Joel's background - React1927:34 - Politicization of the jab29:25 - Doubling down on bad decisions32:13 - Justice for crimes against humanity35:29 - Regulators' lost credibility42:15 - Incompetence or malice?49:47 - Fixing incentives56:55 - Bringing it back to bitcoin1:03:50 - Speaking to the silent majority1:12:17 - Wrapping up
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4/19/2023 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 37 seconds
#411: How OnRamp is Bringing Bitcoin Multisig to Financial Products with Michael Tanguma & Jesse Meyers
Marty sits down with Michael Tanguma and Jesse Meyers to talk about OnRamp.
Check out OnRamp: http://onrampbitcoin.com/
Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MTanguma
Jesse on Twitter: https://twitter.com/croesus_btc
0:00 - Intro5:26 - Marty's chair is stolen7:11 - OnRamp's use case and problems to solve14:28 - Legal structure of OnRamp19:30 - Difficulty in educating on self custody31:10 - Decentralized control41:55 - How will OnRamp's launch impact the market?51:59 - The adoption curve55:01 - Qualified custodians vs collaborative custody1:00:36 - A new industry model1:10:16 - OnRamp's educational mission1:20:20 - OnRamp's content platform and new podcast1:26:27 - Plugs
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4/14/2023 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 35 seconds
#410: The Fed Is Trying To Bring Down The European Banks with Tom Luongo
Join Marty as he sits down with Tom Luongo to discuss the role the banking crisis plays in the inter-cabal squabble.
Tom Luongo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TFL1728
Tom's website: https://tomluongo.me/
8:14 - What the hell is going on?13:08 - Communicating ideas20:04 - Intentions of the Fed and big American banks31:39 - Europe in trouble as rates raise38:41 - Pivot to BRICS42:20 - FIMA47:52 - Keeping a finger on the pulse51:03 - Multi-vector attack on America55:36 - Trump's indictment and the need for trust58:37 - Tom's take on Bitcoin1:02:01 - Stablecoins1:04:48 - Can the Fed fix what they've created?1:15:17 - Shaping reality with headlines1:17:08 - Credit where credit is due1:20:03 - The Fed on Bitcoin and crypto1:25:06 - Congealed energy1:28:51 - Keep your eggs in more baskets
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4/7/2023 • 1 hour, 40 minutes, 21 seconds
#409: Talking Value 4 Value with the Podfather Adam Curry
Join Marty as he sits down with Adam Curry to discuss Podcasting 2.0, Value 4 Value, Bitcoin, energy, culture, and much more.
Adam Curry on Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamcurry
No Agenda Show: https://www.noagendashow.net/
Pod8:57 - Opening Riff14:51 - Information Freedom18:57 - Bitcoin responsibility and remembering your keys24:19 - Patriot Act 2.0 and thinking local28:25 - Mining and energy38:30 - Trans politics and transhumanism52:41 - Nostr55:50 - v4v1:08:43 - Joe Rogan1:13:23 - Go make children1:15:50 - Modern dating1:18:08 - Comedy mothership1:21:22 - Elon, CBDCs and AI1:33:27 - Habla1:36:00 - Self hosting and running nodes1:38:56 - v4v electric boogaloo1:46:29 - Thank God for Bitcoin1:54:59 - No Agenda1:58:59 - These timestamps took a lot of condensing2:00:11 - Drugs, digital and pharmaceutical2:08:05 - v4v thunderdome2:29:12 - Truth For The Commoner2:30:56 - Meetups2:30:58 - We're gonna win
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4/5/2023 • 2 hours, 37 minutes, 53 seconds
#408: The Truth About Renewable Energy with Brian Gitt
Join Marty as he sits down with Brian Gitt to discuss the flawed ideological approach behind ESG mandates and renewable energies.
Brian Gitt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianGitt
Brian's website: https://briangitt.com/
5:23 - California emissions and electric cars14:08 - Material supply for EVs16:21 - California's oil hypocrisy21:15 - EGS mandates don't preserve environment or help human life27:06 - Nuclear safety32:48 - Small modular reactors48:52 - Wind and solar subsidies52:52 - Ranting on batteries55:08 - Unreliable and inefficient renewables1:04:05 - Top down ideological policy1:09:27 - Regulations are the root of the problem1:14:11 - Questioning beliefs and educating1:19:25 - Money and energy are the backbone1:25:23 - Speaking out1:29:56 - Plugs, wrapping up
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3/27/2023 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 10 seconds
#407: FedNow is not a CBDC with Matthew Mežinskis
Sitting down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q4 2022 Monetary Base update, the banking crisis, CBDCs, and more
Follow Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crypto_voices
9:14 - Q4 update, just in time for Q113:32 - Bitcoin price22:29 - The results of raising interest24:42 - Bond duration risk32:30 - QE534:40 - Choke Point 2.038:14 - Balaji's price prediction46:53 - FedNow55:04 - CDBC destroying big banks1:00:09 - US state rights1:05:21 - Flaring natural gas1:11:00 - Blood in the water, Bitcoin is the way out1:19:18 - Custodia Bank1:27:17 - Black markets and civil disobedience1:31:09 - Monetary base1:39:09 - Back to CBDCs1:45:33 - Bitcoin's rank in monetary base1:47:22 - We're gonna win1:59:39 - Gold and Silver2:06:19 - Wrapping up
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3/23/2023 • 2 hours, 9 minutes, 20 seconds
#406: Debt-Based Colonialism and Structural Adjustment with Alex Gladstein
Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Gladstein to discuss how the IMF and World Bank harness debt to funnel resources from poor nations to rich ones.
Alex's article on Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/imf-world-bank-repress-poor-countries
Alex's Essays: https://alexgladstein.com/
Alex Gladstein at HRF: https://hrf.org/team/alex-gladstein/
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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3/20/2023 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 17 seconds
#405: The Biden Laptop Report with Garrett Ziegler
Sitting down with Garrett Ziegler to discuss the Biden laptop.
Follow Marco Polo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarcoPolo501c3
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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3/18/2023 • 1 hour, 35 minutes, 13 seconds
#404: Thinking Beyond the Crowd with Konstantin Kisin
Join Marty as he sits down with Konstantin Kisin to discuss woke culture, covid hysteria, comedy, Ukraine, and more.
Follow Konstantin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin
Check out Triggernometry https://www.youtube.com/c/Triggerpod
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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3/15/2023 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 48 seconds
#403: Dissecting the Banking Crisis with Parker Lewis
Join Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis to break down the causes of the banking crisis from first principles.
Follow Parker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/parkeralewis
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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3/13/2023 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 14 seconds
#402: The Fed Is Losing Money with Lyn Alden
Join Marty as he sits down with Lyn Alden to discuss the state of the Federal Reserve and inflation.
Follow Lyn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact
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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3/10/2023 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 31 seconds
#401: Inflation Hitting The Real Estate Market and Bitcoin Urbanism with Kelly Lannan
Join Marty as he sits down with Kelly Lannan to discuss the condition of infrastructure and the real estate market during this period of inflation, as well as Bitcoin Urbanism.
Follow Kelly on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ktlannan
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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3/8/2023 • 2 hours, 3 minutes, 53 seconds
#400: We're Gonna Win Against Broken Money and Broken Culture with @sovereignbrah
Join Marty as he sits down with Chase, AKA Sovereign Brah, to discuss broken money, degenerate culture, energy, Bitcoin, and God.
Follow Chase on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sovereignbrah
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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3/6/2023 • 2 hours, 4 minutes, 48 seconds
#399: Bitcoin Mining is Igniting an Engineering Renaissance with Rete and Isaac from Cathedra
Join Marty as he sits down with Rete Browning and Isaac Fithian from Cathedra to discuss the origins of off-grid bitcoin mining, their findings on over/underclocking ASICs, and the direction the mining industry is headed.
Check out Cathedra: https://www.cathedra.com/
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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3/2/2023 • 1 hour, 37 minutes, 17 seconds
#398: Replit, AI, and Bitcoin with Amjad Masad
Join Marty as he sits down with Amjad Masad to discuss Replit, why AI is not to be feared, and how it merges with Bitcoin to provide hope.
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Check out Replit: https://replit.com/
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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3/1/2023 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 53 seconds
#397: Nostr and Lightning Are The Real Web 3.0 with Myles Snider
Join Marty as he sits down with Myles Snider for a very bullish discussion of Nostr and the Lightning Network.
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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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2/21/2023 • 1 hour, 45 minutes, 18 seconds
#396: How To Get Hired In Bitcoin with Bitcoin Talent Co.
Join Marty has he sits down with Andy Thompson and Michael Tanguma from Bitcoin Talent Co. to discuss the process of finding talented individuals to work for bitcoin companies.
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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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2/16/2023 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 50 seconds
#395: How The Jabs Killed Gut Health with Dr. Sabine Hazan
Join Marty has he sits down with Dr. Sabine Hazan to discuss microbiomes, the damaged caused to gut health by both Covid and the vaccine, and standing up for the truth.
Follow Dr. Hazan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SabinehazanMD
Check out Progenabiome: https://progenabiome.com/
Dr. Hazan's book: https://letstalkshit.org/
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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2/8/2023 • 49 minutes, 14 seconds
#394: Warrior Cultures, True Friendship, Bitcoin and Austrian Economics with Aleks Svetski
Join Marty as he sits down with Aleks Svetski to discuss vol. 5 of The Bitcoin Times, as well as the impact modernity has had on male bonds, the values Bitcoiners should instill in the future, and narrowing focus as one gets older.
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Check out The Bitcoin Times: https://bitcointimes.io/
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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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2/3/2023 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 16 seconds
#393: Value 4 Value Music with Sam & Michael from Wavlake
Join Marty as he sits down with Sam Means and Michael Rhee to discuss Wavlake, the current issues with the music industry, and how to orange pill people with cool products.
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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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1/31/2023 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 44 seconds
#392: Resisting Online Surveillance with Viktor from IVPN
Join Marty as he sits down with Viktor from IVPN to discuss online privacy and the surveillance traps set by online companies, including most VPNs.
Follow Viktor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vonthedock
Check out IVPN: https://www.ivpn.net/
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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1/30/2023 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 12 seconds
#391: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths with Ed Dowd
Join Marty as he sits down with Ed Dowd to discuss excess deaths in recent times, the ever changing narratives surrounding Covid and the jabs, and how to move forward as the credibility of institutions crumbles.
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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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1/26/2023 • 57 minutes, 48 seconds
#390: Animal-Based Skincare and Regenerative Agriculture with Charles Mayfield
Join Marty as he sits down with Charles Mayfield to discuss Farrow Skincare, animal vs plant-based fats, and regenerative farming.
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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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1/24/2023 • 2 hours, 46 seconds
#389: Hydroelectric Bitcoin Mining is Changing Lives in Congo's National Park with Adam Popescu
Join Marty as he sits down with Adam Popescu to discuss the impact of the hydroelectric power plant and associated Bitcoin mine in Congo's Virunga National Park.
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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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1/18/2023 • 54 minutes, 19 seconds
#388: OP_VAULT and Bitcoin Governance with James O'Beirne
Join Marty as he sits down with James O'Beirne to discuss the OP_VAULT proposal, the way Bitcoin Core is governed, and some bearish vibes.
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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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1/16/2023 • 1 hour, 41 minutes, 9 seconds
#387: Building Lightning Network Infrastructure with Graham Krizek from Voltage
Join Marty as he sits down with Graham Krizek to discuss the progress of Voltage over the last 2 years, how the lightning network's doing, and where it's going from here.
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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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1/12/2023 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 19 seconds
#386: 3D Printing and CryptoCloaks with Rick V
Join Marty as he sits down with Rick V to discuss his 3D printed space heater mod for miners, the story of CryptoCloaks, and what it's like running a Bitcoin-based business.
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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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1/10/2023 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 23 seconds
#385: 2022: Year In Review with David Collum
Join Marty as he sits down with David Collum to recap 2022. The discuss Ukraine, the recession, and so much jab shit-talking we didn't even bother putting this on YouTube.
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9:30 - Hocking loogies and snapping necks
13:58 - Rumors that the 3rd jab compromises immunity
17:02 - Brett Weinstein on Rogan
18:20 - Fauci
20:55 - Vax disaster
26:02 - dog
26:07 - Attitudes and responsibility of the medical community
30:45 - Only conclusion left is deliberate malice
36:04 - Australian data on birthrate
38:27 - Sportsball players dying in the field
42:13 - Speak out, get got
44:45 - Azov Regiment, MK Ultra, and Hollywood pedos
56:34 - SBF
1:04:44 - They tried to kill us with Covid
1:06:33- Who's in control and how much control do they have?
1:16:41 - Trans mind sickness
1:26:11 - Trudeau and Castro
1:27:29 - Where's the financial chaos going?
1:39:41 - Gold
1:49:55 - What's up with Japan?
2:00:00 - Inflation
2:09:30 - A story of redonkulous financial degeneracy
2:14:19 - Remember IndyMac?
2:18:28 - If everyone's mad at the start of the recession, what does the bottom look like?
2:21:00 - Talking monetization
2:24:34 - Bitcoin vs gold
2:31:50 - Family dynamics changed by economy
2:35:59 - Mining bitcoin
2:39:32 - Bullish on nuclear
2:44:29 - Marty is a lesbian woman with two children
2:46:06 - dog
2:52:04 - Ukraine
2:55:51 - Moon landing and flat earth
3:00:29 - Dinner time for dog
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1/8/2023 • 3 hours, 2 minutes
#384: Nostr Got 1.4B Sats From Jack Dorsey And Banned From Twitter with jb55
Join Marty as he sits down with jb55 to get an update on Nostr, the 14 bitcoin grant from Jack Dorsey, and how the grant will be allocated and the strange moves out of Twitter to box out competitors.
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8:11 - @Jack funded Nostr
12:22 - What is Nostr anyway?
614:25 - How to spin up a Nostr relay
16:18 - State of Nostr
18:27 - How Jack's donation is being used
21:12 - fiatjaf
23:13 - How are people interacting with Nostr?
23:06 - Building clients and the future of Nostr
25:52 - BOLT11 invoicing
29:56 - Delegation
33:25 - Minds social network
34:33 - Things that need work in Nostr
36:06 - Private key scraping
37:33 - Personal Nostr signing devices
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
54:38 - Wrapping up
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12/19/2022 • 57 minutes, 54 seconds
#383: Bitcoin: A Work In Progress with Sjors Provoost
Join Marty as he sits down with Sjors to discuss a million little bitcoin rabbit holes.
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7:00 - A wild Sjors appears in Austin!
10:08 - Senator Warren's DAAML bill
13:46 - Miners could start self censoring
20:24 - Forced labour
22:28 - Who interested in passing DAAML?
24:09 - Warren's terminology of "money transmission"
25:25 - Can this kill Bitcoin?
30:30 - State of Bitcoin development
33:08 - Utreexo and the growing blockchain
39:44 - Erlay
46:39 - Back to Utreexo and blockchain growth
50:44 - Foreshadowing a new blocksize war
55:10 - Building Bitcoin with future humanity in mind
58:06 - Bitcoin full node is a ship of Theseus
1:01:25 - Sjors backstory: Physics and Ducks
1:04:52 - Sjors backstory: Gold and Bitcoin
1:08:07 - Javascript dependency circus
1:09:07 - Geeks project
1:16:44 - Defending your node
1:20:07 - Separating wallets from nodes
1:25:28 - Miniscript
1:31:39 - How's Taproot doing?
1:34:27 - Are devs spread too thin?
1:36:09 - Bitcoin: A Work In Progress
1:41:59 - AI writers
1:46:44 - What happened with bitcoin core v0.24.0
1:47:39 - Checkpoints
1:52:36 - Bitcoin's upcoming 14th birthday
1:53:39 - Regulatory attacks
1:58:25 - Circular economy helps with privacy
1:59:48 - Countries switching to bitcoin
2:04:04 - Blocked by Taleb
2:05:28 - Ending
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12/16/2022 • 2 hours, 6 minutes, 57 seconds
#382: The Dematerialization of Money with Jesse Myers
Join Marty as he sits down with Jesse to discuss the shitcoin mindset, the core value of Bitcoin, and the financial debasement that threatens us.
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9:15 - Nyms and names
10:10 - Unlearning shitcoinery
16:53 - Copying digital scarcity devalues it
21:28 - Crypto is becoming more scammy over time
28:54 - The crypto cult leaders
32:18 - Why yuppies can't grok bitcoin
38:36 - Crypto feeds off of early internet mindset
44:51 - Resisting inflation with hard money
52:50 - Digital revolution of value
55:10 - Progression of better money
1:03:58 - The degeneration of fiat world
1:12:10 - The progression of America's debasement of money
1:20:33 - Past the financial event horizon
1:30:53 - Weak men in hard times
1:33:09 - The peaceful revolution
1:36:56 - Take ownership
1:43:51 - Is the contagion still contagious?
1:49:29 - Plugs
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12/14/2022 • 1 hour, 51 minutes, 12 seconds
#381: Q3 2022 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis
Join Marty as he sits back down with Matthew Mežinskis of Porkopolis Economics to discuss the Q2 2022 monetary base update.
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5:54 - Criminal charges against member of Swiss government
12:35 - Damages from vaccination
16:35 - German military confirms jab worsens health
18:51 - Connection to WEF and Davos
22:57 - The state of Switzerland
27:38 - Opinion on Bitcoin
34:06 - Pascal's history
37:20 - African governments
40:28 - Christine Lagarde
42:05 - Ukraine
49:42 - What happens next in finance
54:40 - Jab is about control
1:00:54 - Call to action
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12/7/2022 • 2 hours, 2 minutes, 31 seconds
#380: The Swiss Government Lied About Jabs with Pascal Najadi
Join Marty as he sits down with Pascal Najadi to discuss bringing criminal charges against a member of the Swiss government for damage done by vaccine mandates. They also dive into the vaccine's connection to the WEF's desire for control and the importance of finding peace in Ukraine.
5:54 - Criminal charges against member of Swiss government
12:35 - Damages from vaccination
16:35 - German military confirms jab worsens health
18:51 - Connection to WEF and Davos
22:57 - The state of Switzerland
27:38 - Opinion on Bitcoin
34:06 - Pascal's history
37:20 - African governments
40:28 - Christine Lagarde
42:05 - Ukraine
49:42 - What happens next in finance
54:40 - Jab is about control
1:00:54 - Call to action
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12/6/2022 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 41 seconds
#379: From Neuroscience to Bitcoin Proof of Reserves with Sam Abbassi
Join Marty as he sits down with Sam Abbassi to discuss building Hoseki, the potential austerity of a hyperbitcoinized world, and weird brain stuff.
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6:29 - Sam's crypto origin story
11:14 - Concussions and neuroscience
19:06 - Encountering crypto degeneracy and getting orange pilled
25:24 - Working at Fidelity
35:21 - Marty's writing history
41:01 - AI
44:02 - Are we better off than in medieval times?
47:50 - An austere orange pilled Earth
52:57 - What are the problems in a bitcoin standard?
1:04:53 - Hoseki
1:18:14 - Developing a web of trust in third world countries
1:21:12 - Fiat world
1:26:48 - Proof of reserves
1:38:36 - National divorce
1:43:45 - Feds shouldn't be romanticized
1:46:34 - Last words
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12/5/2022 • 1 hour, 48 minutes, 23 seconds
#378: Building a Billion Dollar Payments Company with Ryan Breslow
Join Marty as he sits down with Ryan Breslow to discuss Bolt, Love, and the AI Singularity.
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6:48 - Stanford Bitcoin Group
11:21 - Building Bolt
15:08 - Pain points in Bolt
17:25 - Making API for merchants
21:15 - Engaging with VCs as a founder
26:46 - What value to look for in an investor
28:36 - Bitcoin companies are long term game
31:38 - Bolt started as a Bitcoin wallet
35:27 - Optimism
43:03 - AI art and the singularity
47:13 - Getting addicted to tech
53:17 - Ryan's new venture, Love
1:02:25 - Final words of wisdom
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12/2/2022 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 28 seconds
#377: Is Bitcoin Violence? with Jason Lowery
Join Marty as he sits down with Jason Lowery to discuss whether or not bitcoin is violence.
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11/29/2022 • 3 hours, 37 minutes, 48 seconds
#376: The Texas Hedge with Parker Lewis
Join Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis to discuss the fallout of the FTX collapse.
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11/19/2022 • 59 minutes, 1 second
#375: Keeping Your Bitcoin Safe From Exchanges with Phil Geiger
Join Marty as he sits down with Phil Geiger to discuss the self custody. The dive into how multisig works, the dangers of platforms like FTX, and the importance of distinguishing between Crypto and Bitcoin.
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11/16/2022 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 9 seconds
#374: Bitkit, Hypercore, and RBF with John Carvalho
Join Marty as he sits down with John Carvalho, CEO of Synonym to discuss Bitkit, Hypercore, and Slashtags, before later diving into into the RBF controversy.
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11/10/2022 • 2 hours, 28 minutes, 5 seconds
#373: The Energy of Nations with John Constable
Join Marty as he sits down with John Constable to discuss the economics of renewable energy.
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11/1/2022 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 2 seconds
#372: Taliban Merch and Spy Encounters with Lord Miles
Join Marty as he sits down with Lord Miles to discuss his Afgani imports, outsmarting Kenyan police, and the state of the US empire.
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10/31/2022 • 2 hours, 50 minutes, 47 seconds
#371: In-Person Maximalism with Rod Bitkite
Join Marty as he sits down with Rod to discuss Bitcoin Park, building businesses, and the trials of mining.
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10/25/2022 • 1 hour, 54 minutes, 7 seconds
#370: Deezy and Tao Wallet with Danny Diekroeger
Join Marty as he sits down with Danny Diekroeger to discuss his new projects after leaving Cashapp.
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10/24/2022 • 1 hour, 48 minutes, 36 seconds
#369: Bolt.Fun and Bitcoin's Inherent Social Network with Johns and Ed from Peakshift
Join Marty as he sits down with Johns and Ed from Peakshift to discuss Bolt.Fun. They dive into educational UX, ways to attracts new devs to Bitcoin, and the ways Bitcoin provides value beyond western countries.
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10/21/2022 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 31 seconds
#368: Powell's Shadow War With Davos with Tom Luongo
Join Marty as he sits down with Tom Luongo to discuss the monstrous web of events that point to the Federal Reserve's opposition to the Davos plan.
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10/18/2022 • 1 hour, 42 minutes, 51 seconds
#367: Taking Responsibility For Your Health with Andy Schoonover
Join Marty as he sits down with Andy Schoonover to discuss an alternative to the broken healthcare system. They dive into the impact of obesity on American health, the poor incentives in medicine, and building a company in an industry full of red tape.
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10/17/2022 • 1 hour, 49 minutes, 33 seconds
#366: The Colossal Multisig with Paul Miller
Join Marty as he sits down with Paul Miller to discuss the 998 of 999 multisig. They also discuss early days of podcasting, educating users through UX, and whether Bitcoin was divine intervention.
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10/12/2022 • 2 hours, 8 minutes, 16 seconds
#365: Luxor Mining and Bitcoin Hashrate Derivatives with Matt Williams
Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Williams to discuss Forward Contracts. They dive into the details of hedging strategy, the software of forwards contracts, and the connection between mining companies and the energy industry.
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10/11/2022 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 11 seconds
#364: The Sovereign Debt Crisis is Imploding in Real Time with Greg Foss
Join Marty as he sits down with Greg Foss to discuss the ongoing financial chaos.
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10/10/2022 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 20 seconds
#363: Standing up to Big Food with Texas Slim
Join Marty as he sits down with Texas Slim to discuss all things food intelligence. They dive into the many conferences organized by the Beef Initiative, the cartoon world of modern supermarkets, and breaking your addiction to food.
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10/4/2022 • 2 hours, 11 minutes, 29 seconds
#362: Debifi with Max Keidun
Join Marty as he sits down with Max Keidun to discuss the new Debifi platform. They also discuss the Baltic Honeybadger Conference and future prospects for Debifi and Hodl Hodl.
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10/3/2022 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 6 seconds
#361: Tether, Holepunch, and Keet with Paolo Ardoino
Join Marty as he sits down with Paolo Ardoino to discuss the history of Tether and Bitfinex. They also discuss Tether's role in hyperbitcoinization, Holepunch and Keet, and how private key authentication can help the internet become far more P2P.
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9/28/2022 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 43 seconds
#360: Resurrecting the Libertarian Party with Angela McArdle
Join Marty as he sits down with Angela McArdle to discuss the resurrection of the libertarian party. They also discuss how bitcoin plays a critical role in the conscious uncoupling, asymmetric warfare, and how grassroots libertarianism is the next wave.
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9/20/2022 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 44 seconds
#359: Sustainable Debt Slavery with Whitney Webb and Iain Davis
Join Marty as he sits down with Whitney Webb and Iain Davis to discuss their new series on Sustainable Development Goals. They also discuss the Rockefellers being behind the UN, the destruction of Central America's environment under the guise of sustainability and how to dismantle climate narratives.
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9/16/2022 • 1 hour, 47 minutes, 34 seconds
#358: Q2 2022 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis
Join Marty as he sits back down with Matthew Mežinskis of Porkopolis Economics to discuss the Q2 2022 monetary base update.
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9/15/2022 • 2 hours, 33 minutes, 13 seconds
#357: The ESG Narrative is Failing with Tracy Shuchart
Join Marty as he sits down with Tracy Shuchart (@chigrl) to discuss the ESG backlash happening across the world. They also discuss how flattening the curve, growth recession is the new narrative and why natural gas is the perfect transition tool for emerging markets.
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9/9/2022 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 3 seconds
#356: The UnCommunist Manifesto with Mark Moss
Join Marty as he sits down with Mark Moss to discuss why the world is in a devolution revolution. They also discuss how trust evaporated around the world, if the USA is resembling the USSR and why we are living in a war of information.
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8/31/2022 • 2 hours, 7 minutes, 25 seconds
#355: A different approach to lightning micropayments with Jared Nusinoff
Join Marty as he sits down with Jared to discuss how Mash can help content creators earn more with lightning. They also discuss if lightning can fix ads, if Nick Szabo micro-transactions thesis is false and just how early everyone is building on lightning.
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8/29/2022 • 1 hour, 59 minutes, 51 seconds
#354: Adventures in war zone countries with Lord Miles
Join Marty as he sits down with Lord Miles to discuss traversing Afghanistan during a time of war. They also discuss the aftermath of visiting countries under sanctions, the global spring upon us and just how fake news coverage by the mainstream is perpetrated.
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8/24/2022 • 1 hour, 58 minutes, 36 seconds
#353: One nation under blackmail with Whitney Webb
Join Marty as he sits down with Whitney Webb to discuss her new book, One Nation Under Blackmail. They also discuss just how deep the Jeffery Epstein rabbit hole goes, Bush and Clinton crime family and who was Mark Middleton?
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8/22/2022 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 37 seconds
#352: Freedom of speech in the digital age with Preston Byrne
Join Marty as he sits down with Preston Byrne to discuss the Tornado Cash sanctions taking place, whether a precedent was just set for developers and what freedom of speech is in the digital age.
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8/15/2022 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 18 seconds
#351: Heading toward an inflection point with London Paul
Join Marty as he sits down with London Paul to discuss if the world is heading toward an inflection point, whether the inflation reduction act is a point of no return and what does the endgame for the state of the world look like.
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8/10/2022 • 2 hours, 21 minutes, 30 seconds
#350: There is no climate emergency with Dr. William Happer
Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. William Happer to discuss if we are in a climate crisis, whether the planet can sustain human growth and why the push away from hydro carbons.
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8/8/2022 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 30 seconds
#349: 18-months to counterpunch with Texas Slim
Join Marty as he sits back down with Texas Slim to discuss the push to consolidate the US ranching industry, why we have 18-months to fight back, and the push to eat the bugs.
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8/3/2022 • 1 hour, 56 minutes, 18 seconds
#348: Building "Web 3.0" the right way on Nostr with jb55
Join Marty as he sits down with jb55 to discuss building distributed apps on Nostr that monetize via the Lightning Network.
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8/1/2022 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 9 seconds
#347: The next chapter of Slush Pool with Jan Čapek
Join Marty as he sits down with Jan Čapek, co-founder of Braiins, to discuss the transition away from Slush Pool and everything going on in the mining world.
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7/26/2022 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 19 seconds
#346: Diving into FediMint with the Fedi team
Join Marty as he sits down with the Fedi team to discuss FediMints.
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7/25/2022 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 32 seconds
#345: There will be Bitcoin with Griffin Haby
Join Marty as he sits down with Griffin Haby to discuss an oil man's journey to bitcoin mining.
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7/22/2022 • 1 hour, 59 minutes, 18 seconds
#344: The dollar is strong and the economy is weak with Luke Gromen
Join Marty as he sits down with Luke Gromen to discuss the state of the world.
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7/19/2022 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 45 seconds
#343: State of the bitcoin mining industry with Edward Evenson
Join Marty as he sits down with Edward Evenson from Braiins to discuss the state of the mining industry.
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7/1/2022 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 34 seconds
#342: Dissecting the contagion with Parker Lewis
Join Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis to discuss the contagion ripping through bitcoin markets and the incumbent financial system.
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6/29/2022 • 1 hour, 40 minutes, 49 seconds
#341: The death of Capitalism via three-letter acronyms with Vivek Ramaswamy
Join Marty as he sits down with Vivek Ramaswamy, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Strive Asset Management, to discuss the death of modern day capitalism.
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6/24/2022 • 42 minutes, 33 seconds
#340: Truth in an insane world with Dr. Brooke Miller
Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Brooke Miller to discuss the insanity of today's world in the context of cattle ranching and medical tyranny.
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6/21/2022 • 2 hours, 23 minutes, 17 seconds
#339: The importance of bitcoin self-custody with Tyler Campbell
Join Marty as he sits down with Tyler Campbell from Unchained Capital to discuss the importance of bitcoin self-custody and multisig and what it's been like onboarding hundreds of people to Unchained's collaborative custody products.
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6/18/2022 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 5 seconds
#338: Powering the future with Daniel Turner
Join Marty as he sits down with Daniel Turner from Power the Future to discuss the state of energy policy in America and how we can move forward.
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6/14/2022 • 1 hour, 40 minutes, 50 seconds
#337: Q1 2022 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis
Join Marty as he sits back down with Matthew Mežinskis of Porkopolis Economics to discuss the Q1 2022 monetary base update.
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6/8/2022 • 2 hours, 14 minutes, 7 seconds
#336: A Texas history lesson with Texas Slim and Parker Lewis
Join Marty as he sits down with Texas Slim and Parker Lewis to discuss the history of Texas.
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5/26/2022 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 11 seconds
#335: The overlooked tradeoffs of "renewable" energy with Brian Gitt
Join Marty as he sits down with Brian Gitt to discuss the overlooked tradeoffs of "renewable" energy.
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5/23/2022 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 51 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #200: The podcast stream has officially been moved
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- financial leaders of 44 countries meet in El Salvador to discuss bitcoin
- Luna foundation sold 80000 bitcoin amid "stablecoin" crash
- texas pacific land corp announces bitcoin mining venture
- canaan revenues increased by 237%
- cambridge numbers are flawed
- EU wants to scan all your private messages
- 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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5/19/2022 • 2 hours, 35 minutes, 49 seconds
#334: Energy, food, ESG, and Bitcoin with Doomberg
Join Marty as he sits down with Doomberg to discuss the unfolding energy and food crises, the nature of ESG, and bitcoin.
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5/18/2022 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 20 seconds
#333: Building beautiful small towns on a Bitcoin Standard with Jaime "the storefront guy"
Join Marty as he sits down with Jaime "the storefront guy" to discuss building strong local communities with beautiful aesthetics and sound money.
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5/16/2022 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 24 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap 199: Bitcoin is dead, we're cancelling the show
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- terra "stablecoin" blows up
- treasury sanctions custodial bitcoin mixer blender(.)io
- cashapp $1.73B in bitcoin sales Q1, $43M profit
- coinbase $309B volume Q1, $430M loss
- chainalysis valued at $8.6B
- joinmarket v0.9.6
- arti v0.3.0 Tor rust client
- casa launches api
- rusty russell releases alternative covenants proposal
- conversation with rusty on his proposal on dispatch
- spiral post on supporting open source
- georgetown law research shows ICE tracks 75% of Americans
- 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
- brian armstrong thread
- ishares high yield
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5/12/2022 • 1 hour, 52 minutes, 27 seconds
#332: Developing bitcoin developers with Kyle Murphy and Lisa Neigut
Join Marty as he sits down with Kyle Murphy and Lisa Neigut to discuss what it takes to attract and train bitcoin developers who go on to build companies.
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5/11/2022 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 6 seconds
#331: The state of global energy markets with Anas Alhajji
Join Marty as he sits down with Anas Alhajji to discuss the state of global energy markets.
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5/9/2022 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 42 seconds
#330: Preventative care with Dr. Mary Caire
Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Mary Caire to discuss the perverse incentives of the pharmaceutical industry.
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5/6/2022 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 9 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #198: The government spies and lies
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- coinbase launches revamped surveillance product
- SEC doubles size of "crypto assets" unit
- cdc tracked the location of millions of americans without a warrant
- fbi did millions of searches of americans data last year without a warrant
- bitcoin mining council submits letter to EPA
- how women view bitcoin
- mycitadel v1.0
- seed tool v1.0.4
- tor v0.4.7.7
- cold card upgrade
- lightning multiplexer
- new lightning only vpn
- voltage podcast index study
- 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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5/5/2022 • 1 hour, 48 minutes, 6 seconds
#329: Back to basics with the TFTC Godfather Louis Roberts
Join Marty as he sits down with Louis Roberts to reminisce about the last five years of TFTC.
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5/4/2022 • 55 minutes, 14 seconds
#328: The pitfalls of the Fiat Standard with Dr. Saifedean Ammous
Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Saifedean Ammous to discuss the pitfalls of the Fiat Standard.
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5/3/2022 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 32 seconds
#327: Healthcare on a Bitcoin Standard with Andy Schoonover
Join Marty as he sits down with Andy Schoonover, CEO of CrowdHealth, to discuss the problems with the health care system, how CrowdHealth is providing better product, and how bitcoin can fix the health insurance industry.
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5/3/2022 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 49 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #197: The Disinformation Governance Board is here to tell you how to think
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- ukraine central bank bans bitcoin
- binance and the FSB
- 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
- Ruble strength / yen weakness
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4/28/2022 • 2 hours, 22 minutes, 59 seconds
#326: Understanding Taro with Olaoluwa Osuntokun
Join Marty as he sits down with Olaoluwa Osuntokun AKA @roasbeef, CTO at Lightning Labs, to discuss Taro - Taproot Asset Representation Overlay and what it means for the LNP/BP stack.
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4/25/2022 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 6 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #196: Sanctions on Russian bitcoin miners and the escalating energy and food crisis
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
Relief
- 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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4/21/2022 • 1 hour, 48 minutes, 47 seconds
#325: Texas beef and decentralizing the food supply with Texas Slim, Cole Bolton, and Parker Lewis
Join Marty as he sits down with Texas Slim, Cole Bolton and Parker Lewis to discuss the decentralization of our food supply.
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4/19/2022 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 27 seconds
#324: There is no climate emergency with Tom Nelson
Join Marty as he sits down with Tom Nelson to explain why there is no climate emergency.
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4/18/2022 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 4 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #195: The nation state bankruptcy wave is upon us
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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4/14/2022 • 1 hour, 41 minutes, 3 seconds
#323: The Global Spring has sprung with Tom Luongo
Join Marty as he sits down with Tom Luongo to discuss the state of the world.
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4/12/2022 • 1 hour, 41 minutes, 49 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #194: Live from the open source stage
This week Marty and Matt are in Miami for the Bitcoin 2022 Conference. They are joined live on the Open Source stage with Craig Raw, Wiz and Steve Barbour.
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4/12/2022 • 51 minutes
#322: Building the reputation layer for social with Maciek
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4/6/2022 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 37 seconds
#321: Unapologetic freedom with Justin Rezvani and JP Sears
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4/4/2022 • 2 hours, 15 minutes, 50 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #193: The unjust laws are on the rise
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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4/1/2022 • 1 hour, 48 minutes, 54 seconds
#320: Pushing the design limits of bitcoin with Super Testnet
Join Marty as he sits down with Super Testnet.
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3/31/2022 • 1 hour, 49 minutes, 34 seconds
#319: The "adults in the room" are beating the war drums with Michael Tracey
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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3/30/2022 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 2 seconds
#318: Circular economy, freelancing and earning bitcoin with John Zaprite
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3/29/2022 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 38 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #192: Bitcoin Merges with the Energy Sector
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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3/25/2022 • 2 hours, 10 minutes, 48 seconds
#317: Exposing environmental LARPs with Mike Umbro
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3/22/2022 • 1 hour, 47 minutes, 10 seconds
#316: Discussing critical thinking in today's age with Edward Dowd
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3/22/2022 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 38 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap 191: The Gang is back in person
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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3/17/2022 • 2 hours, 14 seconds
#315: The return of NVK
Join Marty as he sits down with NVK, the fearless leader of Coinkite, to talk about a little bit of everything.
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3/16/2022 • 2 hours, 12 minutes, 56 seconds
#314: Group hang with CK, Pete Rizzo and Dylan LeClair
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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3/15/2022 • 1 hour, 53 minutes, 37 seconds
#313: The financial costs of war with Alex Gladstein
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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3/15/2022 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 10 seconds
#312: The popping of the 100 year sovereign debt bubble with Luke Gromen
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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3/14/2022 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 45 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #190: Sanctions and the fall of the dollar
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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3/10/2022 • 1 hour, 48 minutes, 48 seconds
#311: Surging commodities prices, de-dollarization and bitcoin with Lawrence Lepard
Join Marty as he sits back down with Lawrence Lepard and discuss surging commodities prices, de-dollarization and bitcoin.
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3/7/2022 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 17 seconds
#310: Q4 2021 monetary base update and the macro landscape with Matthew Mežinskis
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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3/4/2022 • 2 hours, 1 minute, 5 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #189: Ti wuz here
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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3/4/2022 • 2 hours, 16 minutes, 22 seconds
#309: An alternative perspective on the state of the world with London Paul
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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2/28/2022 • 2 hours, 28 minutes, 2 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #188: Chaos in the world
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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2/25/2022 • 1 hour, 42 minutes, 37 seconds
#308: Becoming un-cancelable with Mark Jeftovic
Join Marty as he sits down with Mark Jeftovic to discuss Bitcoin, tyranny in Canada, and becoming un-cancelable.
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2/23/2022 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 7 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #187: Freedom Money
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:
- galoy money v0.1.21:
- lightning terminal v0.6.3-alpha:
- mercury wallet v0.6.4:
- nix bitcoin v0.0.66:
- 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
2/18/2022 • 2 hours, 4 minutes, 42 seconds
#307: Medical censorship with Doc Woods
Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. Woods, a career long physician who had was fired for prescribing medicine.
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2/16/2022 • 1 hour, 49 minutes, 35 seconds
#306: Bitcoin in Ohio with Josh Mandel
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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2/14/2022 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 42 seconds
#305: Fire, Bitcoin and Teleportation with Aleks Svetski
Join Marty as he sits down with Aleks Svetski to discuss the parallels between fire, bitcoin and teleportation.
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2/11/2022 • 1 hour, 54 minutes, 42 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #186: High inflation, beautiful honking and rising taxes on miners
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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2/11/2022 • 2 hours, 21 minutes, 14 seconds
#304: Bitcoin and Energy with Max Gagliardi
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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2/9/2022 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 43 seconds
#303: Falling down the WEF rabbit hole with Jesse Matchey
Join Marty as he sits down with retired Army Blackhawk Pilot Jesse Matchey to discuss the WEF rabbit hole.
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2/8/2022 • 2 hours, 36 minutes, 2 seconds
#302: The state of our food supply with Texas Slim and Cole Bolton
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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2/4/2022 • 2 hours, 25 minutes, 31 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #185: Currency crises, cold weather, and good bitcoin mining tax news
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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2/3/2022 • 2 hours, 4 minutes, 2 seconds
#301: A Check-in with Dave Collum
Join Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum to discuss the state of the world.
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1/31/2022 • 3 hours, 13 minutes, 6 seconds
#300: Doomer optimism with Tucker Max
Join Marty as he sits down with Tucker Max to discuss doomer optimism and Bitcoin.
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1/28/2022 • 2 hours, 26 minutes, 51 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #184: The IRS wants your face and the Treasury hates you
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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1/27/2022 • 2 hours, 21 minutes, 59 seconds
#299: North American mining (pools) with Alex Brammer
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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1/27/2022 • 2 hours, 4 minutes, 36 seconds
#298: Is it a BLIP or a BOLT with Lisa Neigut
Join Marty as he sits down with Lisa Neigut to discuss everything going on with the Lightning Network.
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1/22/2022 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 38 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #183: Intel hopping in the Bitcoin mining game and Presidents meeting to talk Bitcoin
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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1/20/2022 • 1 hour, 53 minutes, 8 seconds
#297: Becoming a cockroach in the Bitcoin mining world with AJ Scalia and Drew Armstrong
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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1/20/2022 • 2 hours, 7 minutes, 55 seconds
#296: Messianic Bitcoin with Erik Cason
Join Marty as he sits down with Erik Cason to discuss Messianic Bitcoin and other cosmic topics.
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1/20/2022 • 2 hours, 9 minutes, 59 seconds
#295: Going against the mainstream narrative with Jordan Schachtel
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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1/18/2022 • 2 hours, 7 minutes, 52 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #182: CBDCs are treasonous and prices are rising
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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1/13/2022 • 2 hours, 27 minutes, 45 seconds
#294: Gordian principles and the standardization of Bitcoin software with Christopher Allen & Wolf McNally
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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1/13/2022 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 32 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #181: Internet Blackouts and More Consolidation
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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1/6/2022 • 58 minutes, 57 seconds
#293: Bitcoin and the Looming US Fiscal Crisis with Avik Roy
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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1/5/2022 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 14 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #180: End of 2021 roundup
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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12/30/2021 • 2 hours, 22 minutes, 23 seconds
#292: Diving into tbDEX with Mike Brock
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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12/29/2021 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 59 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #179: End of year holiday chop special
Happy Holidays from Marty and Matt. Enjoy this end of year holiday chop special of Rabbit Hole Recap from 2021.
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12/27/2021 • 3 hours, 7 minutes, 36 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #178: We got a strike
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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12/23/2021 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 59 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #177: The gaslighting heats up
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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12/16/2021 • 1 hour, 35 minutes, 15 seconds
#291: Getting to the source of the seed with Texas Slim
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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12/16/2021 • 2 hours, 22 minutes, 29 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #176: Party rip
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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12/10/2021 • 1 hour, 59 minutes, 28 seconds
#290: Continuing the dissection of the Great Reset with LaserHodl
Join Marty as he sits back down with LaserHodl to discuss:
- 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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12/4/2021 • 2 hours, 12 minutes, 19 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #175: Don't live in fear
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- 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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12/2/2021 • 1 hour, 57 minutes, 23 seconds
#289: Bitcoin is about to surpass the British Pound with Matthew Mežinskis
Join Marty as he sits back down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss:
- 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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12/1/2021 • 2 hours, 2 minutes, 48 seconds
#288: Bringing a design focus to Bitcoin with Patricia
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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11/29/2021 • 2 hours, 9 minutes, 58 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap #174: Much to be thankful for
This week Marty and Matt discuss:
- 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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11/24/2021 • 2 hours, 33 minutes, 54 seconds
#287: EmbassyOS v0.3.0, building out the independent stack, and philosophy with Matt Hill
Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Hill, co-founder of Start9 Labs, to discuss:
- 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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11/22/2021 • 2 hours, 33 minutes, 50 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.11.15
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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11/19/2021 • 1 hour, 50 minutes, 28 seconds
#286: Securitizing natural assets and manufactured energy and food shortages with Whitney Webb
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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11/18/2021 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 39 seconds
#281b: Announcing Synonym with John Carvalho
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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11/17/2021 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 11 seconds
#285: From bars to Bitcoin with Justin Rhedrick
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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11/12/2021 • 1 hour, 38 minutes, 37 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.11.08
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
- bitcoinblackfriday.org
- robinhood data breach impacts 7 million customers
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11/12/2021 • 2 hours, 31 minutes, 18 seconds
#284: Surviving brain surgery, coming to grips with death, and pushing the limitations of the Lightning Network with Justin Rezvani
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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11/9/2021 • 1 hour, 59 minutes, 43 seconds
#283: How we messed up our food and how we fix it with Texas Slim
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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11/6/2021 • 2 hours, 1 minute, 25 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.11.01
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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11/4/2021 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 3 seconds
#282: River adds bitcoin mining, the Metaverse, physical landscapes, and the CIA with Alexander Leishman
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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11/3/2021 • 1 hour, 53 minutes, 20 seconds
#281: Chinese mining theory, bitcoin divisibility, and UTXOs with John Carvalho
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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11/2/2021 • 1 hour, 43 minutes, 48 seconds
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10/31/2021 • 55 minutes, 2 seconds
#280: A spooky Halloween special with our good friend @arbedout
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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10/30/2021 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 43 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.10.25
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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10/30/2021 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 26 seconds
#279: Avoiding oblivion, the state of Chicago, and bitcoin smart contracts with Chris Stewart
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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10/27/2021 • 1 hour, 57 minutes, 4 seconds
#278: Dissecting the Clown World with Ben Kaufman
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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10/25/2021 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 43 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap LIVE with @arbedout: Week of 2021.10.18
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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10/23/2021 • 54 minutes, 38 seconds
#277: Slowly getting bitcoin, why gold is already demonetized, and the virtue of Bitcoin with Larry Lepard
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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10/20/2021 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 20 seconds
#276: Starting an exchange in Guatemala, onboarding enterprise clients, and freedom money with the IBEX Mercado team
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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10/18/2021 • 1 hour, 37 minutes, 13 seconds
#275: Supply chains, government incompetence, Bitcoin, and Uranium with Kuppy
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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10/15/2021 • 1 hour, 2 minutes
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.10.11
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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10/14/2021 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 12 seconds
#274: Canada's nonsensical restrictions, home mining, and oil & gas companies mining bitcoin with Steve Barbour
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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10/13/2021 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 47 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.10.04
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
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- https://oslofreedomforum.com/bitcoin-academy-off2021
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10/8/2021 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 23 seconds
#273: Supply chain problems, a proposed solution, and Bitcoin + Natural Rights with Ross Kennedy
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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10/6/2021 • 1 hour, 52 minutes, 26 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.09.27
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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9/29/2021 • 2 hours, 2 minutes, 19 seconds
#272: Evergrande, sovereign debt, and the convergence of bitcoin + the energy sector with Greg Foss
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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9/23/2021 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 35 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin week of 2021.09.20
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
- Evergrande
- UK nat gas crisis
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9/22/2021 • 1 hour, 46 minutes, 40 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.09.13
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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9/16/2021 • 1 hour, 52 minutes, 24 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.09.06
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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9/9/2021 • 2 hours, 1 minute, 16 seconds
#271: Health v. Control, the decay of empires, and Bitcoin as Freedom money with George Gammon
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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9/8/2021 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 45 seconds
#270: Better Understanding Monetary Reset with LaserHodl
Join Marty as he sits back down with LaserHodl to continue their conversation about Monetary Reset.
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9/3/2021 • 2 hours, 52 minutes, 13 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.08.29
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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9/2/2021 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 21 seconds
#269: Hollywood, the NBA, China and Bitcoin with Chris Fenton
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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9/2/2021 • 52 minutes, 44 seconds
#268: Q2 Global Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis
Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss his report on the Q2 2021 Global Monetary Base.
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Check out the report here
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9/1/2021 • 1 hour, 49 minutes, 11 seconds
#267: Free private cities, economic zones, and gradual progress with Rahim Taghizadegan
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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8/30/2021 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 58 seconds
#266: Complacency in the US, reworking public education, and changing the system from within w/ Blake Masters
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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8/24/2021 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 23 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.08.16
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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8/19/2021 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 33 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.08.09
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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8/13/2021 • 2 hours, 9 minutes, 40 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.08.02
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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8/6/2021 • 1 hour, 45 minutes, 33 seconds
#265: Monetary reset, Malthusian wizardy, and Bitcoin as way out with LaserHodl
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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8/4/2021 • 2 hours, 11 minutes, 59 seconds
#264: Energy poverty, nonsensical energy policy, and the miracle of petroleum with Chris Wright
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
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7/30/2021 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 44 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.07.26
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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7/29/2021 • 1 hour, 56 minutes, 12 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.07.19
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
- "the b word"
- EU preparing to implement travel rule
- NSO spyware
- critical cloudflare flaw left 12.5% of all sites compromised
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7/23/2021 • 2 hours, 45 minutes, 5 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.07.12
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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7/15/2021 • 1 hour, 38 minutes, 28 seconds
#263: The Bitcoin Mining Council and ESG with Michael Saylor, Darin Feinstein, and Austin Storms
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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7/14/2021 • 1 hour, 43 minutes, 5 seconds
#262: Clean water, a prodigal son's journey, and the Bitcoin Water Trust with Scott Harrison
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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7/9/2021 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 43 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.07.05
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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7/9/2021 • 2 hours, 44 minutes, 44 seconds
#261: The CCP's 100-year anniversary, the geographic distribution of hashrate, and capacity constraints in North America with Edward Evenson
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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7/2/2021 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 32 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.06.28
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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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.
7/1/2021 • 2 hours, 29 minutes, 40 seconds
#260: The Great Mining Migration, the market for ASICs, and the near term future of hashrate with Leo Zhang
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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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.
6/30/2021 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 39 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.06.21
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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6/25/2021 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 53 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.06.14
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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6/17/2021 • 2 hours, 17 minutes, 20 seconds
#259: Bitcoin layer 3, empowering dissidents, and the power of the Lightning Network with Chase Perkins
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
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Check out Impervious
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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.
6/15/2021 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 8 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.06.07
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
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6/11/2021 • 2 hours, 36 minutes, 13 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap LIVE IN MIAMI: Week of 2021.05.31
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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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.
6/7/2021 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 54 seconds
#258: The morality of ESG with Untapped Growth
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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6/2/2021 • 2 hours, 4 minutes, 42 seconds
#257: Infusing bitcoin into gaming, the Lightning Network, and Bitcoin 2021 with Desiree Dickerson, Christian Moss, and Michael Tidwell
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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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.
5/28/2021 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 14 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.05.24
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
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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.
5/27/2021 • 2 hours, 10 minutes, 21 seconds
#256: How to grow a pair with Dave Collum
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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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.
5/26/2021 • 3 hours, 13 minutes, 22 seconds
#255: Green energy tradeoffs, real environmentalism, Bitcoin as a commodity, & Saudi Inc. with Dr. Ellen Wald
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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5/25/2021 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 53 seconds
#254: Bitcoin 101, inflation, and surfing with Bethany Hamilton and Adam Dirks
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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5/21/2021 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 19 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.05.17
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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5/20/2021 • 2 hours, 3 minutes, 23 seconds
#253: Local government, building a strong town, and bitcoin on the balance sheet with Mayor Scott Conger
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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5/19/2021 • 50 minutes, 57 seconds
#252: Content monetization, art, and NFTs with cryptograffiti
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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5/18/2021 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 54 seconds
#251: Raising children, ransomware attacks, climate narrative, and Bitcoin under attack with Whitney Webb
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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5/14/2021 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 34 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.05.10
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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5/13/2021 • 2 hours, 29 minutes, 8 seconds
#250: Q1 Monetary Base Update, inflation, and haters with Matthew Mežinskis
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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5/13/2021 • 2 hours, 14 minutes, 28 seconds
#249: Indian Point shutdown, electricity prices, Bitcoin 101, and externalities of wind energy w/ Robert Bryce
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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5/10/2021 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 55 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.05.03
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
Miningpool.observer
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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5/6/2021 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 17 seconds
#248: Fragile electrical grids, unreliable energy lobby, nuclear FUD, and common sense with Meredith Angwin
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
Follow Meredith on Twitter
Pick up Shorting the Grid
5/4/2021 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 22 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.11.02
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
Shoutout to this week's sponsors:
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Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.
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11/5/2020 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 11 seconds
Tales from the Crypt #92: Bryan Bishop & Joseph Jackson
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
Check out Joe's website: biotechnbeyond.com
Follow Bryan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kanzure
Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent
Shoutout to our sponsors:
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8/21/2019 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 53 seconds
Rabbit Hole Cap: Week of 2019.06.17
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
Shoutout to this week's sponsors:
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6/19/2019 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 5 seconds
Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.20
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
Shoutout to this week's listener contributor @mdotbit (https://twitter.com/mdotbit)
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.
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5/23/2019 • 1 hour, 4 seconds
Tales from the Crypt #57: Alex Adelman
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.
Follow Alex on Twitter: www.twitter.com/alexadelman
Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent
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2/13/2019 • 2 hours, 16 minutes, 53 seconds