Abstract

This paper looks at the energy consumption of seven proof-of-work-based anarchic (public) blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.  By using a hashrate division method – similar to the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index – a lower bound and upper bound of mining hardware are provided.  Based on this method we are able to show that proof-of-work chains continue to consume resources in direct proportion to the underlying coin value.  Due to the rapid increase in coin value, proof-of-work-related activities – such as semiconductor manufacturing – are once again squeezing supply chains and retail channels, crowding out socially productive goods and services from entering the marketplace.

The model identified a bounded range for energy consumption.  If we took the most efficient energy consumption assumptions (the lower bounds), these seven proof-of-work chains in aggregate consume 59.3 TWh per year, or roughly the footprint of Kuwait.  In most cases – such as with Bitcoin itself – the lower bound is not realistic because the necessary amount of hashing equipment (miners) for that degree of efficiency has not been manufactured.  In contrast, if we took a less conservative assumption and used the upper bound these same proof-of-work chains in aggregate consume 180.1 TWh per year, or roughly the footprint of Poland or Thailand.  The upper bound scenario is likely unrealistic for coins that have seen their value (measured in USD) decline or stay the same (such as Litecoin).  For those that have seen rapid appreciation (such as Bitcoin), it is possible that older equipment has temporarily been reconnected.

The paper is organized into several sections.  Sections 1-4 provide a foundation for understanding how traditional financial market infrastructure, such as a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system, operates, and uses Bitcoin and Ethereum as examples of how proof-of-work-based systems inherently result in socialized losses and e-waste.  Section 5 contains calculations of smaller proof-of-work networks.  Section 6 is a summary of the calculations found in the preceding sections.  Sections 7 and 8 briefly look at misinformation spread as memes on social media.  Sections 9 and 10 look at news reports covering several large ASIC and GPU mining operations.  Section 11 provides several recommendations framed as a Call to Action.

(1) Background

This paper is a sequel to our occasional series on the energy consumption of proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

We will get to resource consumption in the next section, but let us start in reverse order this time.   

Many Bitcoin promoters conjure a future world in which the future of finance clears and/or settles on the Bitcoin blockchain, and in which that the demand for PoW generating equipment (miners) will simultaneously usher in a greener world.

Fedwire is categorized as systemically important financial market infrastructure due to the enormous amount of value it transfers and secures.

According to (Bilger 2020):

In 2018, Fedwire executed 158 million transfers with an aggregate value of $716 trillion (Federal Reserve, 2019). While many of the fund transfers executed by Fedwire were of small value, the average value per transfer in 2018 was $4.5 million.

Bureau of Economic Analysis (2019) estimated that 2018 total gross domestic product (GDP) was $20.5 trillion (para. 12). Fedwire may be viewed as a kind of force multiplier for the American economy by processing annual banking payments at 35 times the country’s GDP. Further evidence of Fedwire’s role promoting the efficiency of American financial markets can be seen by considering Fedwire payments against the aggregate value of all deposits at U.S. lending institutions – $12.6 trillion in March of 2019 (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2019). Fedwire payments for the previous year were 57 times this figure.

We have discussed these types of large aggregates before in the past.  For instance, a December 2015 paper from the Federal Reserve Board pointed out that, in the aggregate, U.S. payment, clearing and settlement systems process approximately 600 million transactions per day, valued at over $12.6 trillion.

When we mention these large, socially significant aggregates in conversations and debates at cryptocurrency-related conferences and events, many promoters are at a loss for words because they are unaware of these post-trade processes.  

Another group – typically self-deputized coinfluencers – will proclaim that Bitcoin can move and secure the same value if not more, via metaphors.

The container ship fetish is a sleight-of-hand trick because Bitcoin versus a RTGS is not even a false dichotomy.

A tangentially related argument is that Bitcoin transactions are structured to move blocks of data that can include additional information beyond bitcoin itself: even if a single coin is a ‘container ship,’ Bitcoin structurally has more capacity or flexibility than traditional networks. 

The problem with this argument is that it is entirely possible to do that with a non-proof-of-work system as well.  In fact, a blockchain may not be necessary at all.  The fact the U.S., or international co-ops like SWIFT, set up its payments system to move around specific types of (messaging) data was a generational choice but not a permanent design constraint.  In other words, a PoW-based network architecture does not have an exclusive monopoly on richer or broader forms of data.  That is a red herring when comparing the two systems.

What about “stablecoins” piggybacking on top of Bitcoin?

The ongoing growth of parasitic stablecoins (such as Tether) rely on reliable banking access, specifically dollars cleared by the New York Federal Reserve.  Not to mention all the new traditional-style institutions and intermediaries hooking into Bitcoin for custody and trading.  Don’t like old, monocle-wearing trusted third parties?  Here are newer, hoodie-wearing trusted third parties to hold your coins!

More to the point, the majority of Bitcoin transactions today are simply bitcoins moving from one known intermediary to another, typically between coin exchanges for speculative purposes.  If most of the endpoints and miners are self-doxxed then there is no longer a Sybil attack problem, removing the raison d’etre for proof-of-work.

How can we visualize this?

Despite oodles of free marketing that bitcoin has received, payment-related activity is still lower than during the 2017 bubble.  By some measures it is a zombie chain because Bitcoin users do not spend volatile chainletter earnings.  Or more precisely, merchant processors handled less than $4 billion of bitcoin last year.

What is another key difference between an RTGS and proof-of-work chain such as Bitcoin?

Settlement finality.4

We have discussed this multiple times but it bears repeating: proof-of-work chains – by design – allow mining participants to fork or reorganize the chain.  Block making is permissionless.  Now in practice, this does not frequently happen because the cost to acquire hash-generating equipment needed to successfully double-spend or reorg a chain is often quite prohibitive.

Either way, all a proof-of-work chain can guarantee is probabilistic finality that some type of confirmation has occurred but that there is a possibility that a well-funded attacker could reverse or reorganize the chain.  For example, in August 2020, Ethereum Classic was hit by three separate 51% attacks, one that was more than 7000 blocks deep.

In practice, the way some financial institutions involved in the cryptocurrency world (such as trading desks) mitigate the risk of a double-spend or reorg is requiring a certain amount of blocks confirmed (often 3-6 confirmations) before allowing users to have access to recently transferred funds. 

Fedwire transfers are one-way, which means banks can wire funds out, but cannot debit other banks and wire funds in. Fedwire is a payment system and does not perform the traditional banking functions of managing deposits and withdrawals. It simply transfers funds between accounts within the Federal Reserve System. Once Fedwire transactions are complete, they are irrevocable.

What about the actual network infrastructure?  Surely Fedwire needs millions of hash-generating machines to secure all of those transactions each day!

According to (Bilger 2020) Fedwire has around 6600 nodes, 25 which are considered “core” which also have backups in case of disruption.  Critically: none of the nodes in Fedwire is purposefully consuming oodles of extra energy to generate hashes.  

Because there is no Sybil attack problem in Fedwire, there are no nyms.  Anarchic chains such as Bitcoin – by design – allow pseudonyms to participate in block making.  To make it expensive to double-spend or conduct a block reorganization, proof-of-work was purposefully integrated in Bitcoin so that the attacker has to expend real economic resources to succeed.  

This entire kludge is negated in Fedwire because all participants are known: it is permissioned.

What does this image (above) represent?   

A single day of Fedwire transactions in 2004.  According to (Bilger 2020), a group of researchers isolated links and the nodes that connect them, that team was able to determine that just 66 nodes and 181 links comprised 75% of the value of daily payments. These core nodes and links are illustrated above.  And as mentioned a moment ago, the inner ring of approximately 25 densely connected financial institutions is also evident.

What does this all mean?

The participating computing infrastructure for Fedwire involves between ten and twenty thousand computers, none of which need to generate SHA256 hashes.  Its participants securely transfer trillions of dollars in real value each day.  And most importantly: Fedwire does not take the energy footprint of Egypt or the Netherlands to do so.

As we will see below, the more than 2 million machines used in Bitcoin mining alone consume as much energy as Egypt or the Netherlands consumes each year.  And they do so while simultaneously only securing a relatively small amount of payments less than $4 billion last year.  

This oxymoronic phenomenon — a resource intensive permissioned-on-permissionless infrastructure — has led to Ray Dillinger – one of the first Bitcoin users – to declare Bitcoin a disaster:

Bitcoin mining has encouraged corruption (Because it’s often done using electricity which is effectively stolen from taxpayers with the help of government officials), wasted enormous resources of energy, fostered botnets, centralized mining activity in a country where centralization means it’s effectively owned by exactly the kind of government most people thought they *DIDN’T* want looking up their butts and where the people who that government allows to “own” this whole business work together as a cartel.  

There’s a pretense of monitoring the network to guard against a 51% attack, but to me it seems pretty clear that what they’re guarding against is merely the mistake of the cartel failing to give the latest warehouse full of miners a distinct network identity.  The whole idea of proof-of-work mining is broken the instant hardware comes out which is  specialized for mining and useless for general computation because at that point the need to have compute power for other purposes is absolutely irrelevant in having any effect on mining, and there ceases to be any force that causes mining to be distributed around the world. It becomes a “race to the bottom” to find where people can get the cheapest electricity, and then mining anywhere else – anywhere the government tries to make sure ordinary people actually get the benefit from electricity bought for tax money, for example – becomes first pointless, then a net loss.

We interviewed Dillinger a couple of years ago.  Be sure to check it out.

Nornickel is a Russian mining and smelting corporation.  Last year a series of news articles described how BitCluster, a Russian cryptocurrency mining company, was building a mining farm above the Arctic Circle in Norilsk.  It chose this location in part because of the natural ambient cooling and in part to re-use land from a closed nickel smelting plant.  The farm will utilize a local coal power plant to generate 11.2 MWh to power bitcoin miners. 

The next several sections will dive into the energy consumption of the largest proof-of-work chains, including Bitcoin.  As we will show, PoW chains are the equivalent of adding an undead country – a zombie chain – to the power grid: one that consumes energy and produces little beyond emissions.

If you are an asset manager considering whether or not to include proof-of-work coins in your portfolio – and have an ESG mandate – or a policymaker considering whether or not to encourage the proliferation of these types of coins in your jurisdiction, it is pretty clear that PoW coins such as Bitcoin are an ESG nightmare and not a suitable fit.  If and when some (or all) of these coins transition to proof-of-stake is beyond the scope of this article.

(2) Bitcoin

There are multiple ways to estimate how much energy and how many resources (mining equipment, physical plant) are used generating hashes for a PoW chain.

One involves surveying miners and mining pools, and hoping they provide accurate self-reported information.  Another method involves a bit of detective work, physically visiting locations or obtaining purchase order documents from mining manufacturers.  However, this makes it hard to ascertain how much second hand equipment is being re-used.

For example, Bitcoin has a carbon footprint comparable to that of New Zealand, producing 36.95 megatons of CO2 annually, according to Digiconomist’s Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index (BECI).  According to this tool, Bitcoin consumes as much power as Chile — around 77.82 TWh.

The Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (BECI), a separate tool from researchers at Cambridge University, shows a much larger figure of 121.88 TWh — more than the entire annual energy consumption of the Netherlands.

There is one more simple method that everyone can do at home on their own computer.  One that can create lower and upper bounds with a high degree of confidence.  This is the hashrate division method which we have used multiple times in the past.

The way this works is by taking the publicly known hashrate of a network and dividing it by common hashing (mining) equipment metrics.

For example, on December 30, 2020, the Bitcoin network hashrate momentarily spiked to a record high 178.6 EH/s.  That is exahashes per second (an exahash is one million terahashes).

How can we derive aggregate energy usage from this singular number?

Last May, Bitmain began shipping its Antminer S19 Pro.  There is a bit of public information on how much each of these hashing units consumes and performs.

On paper a single S19 Pro generates a maximum hashrate of 110TH/s or terahashes per second with a power consumption of 3250 watts.

If the entire Bitcoin network were solely comprised of S19 Pro’s (which it is not), it would consist of around 1.624 million hashing machines consuming 46.2 TWh in a year.  According to estimates from the EIA, that is about as much as Portugal or Singapore consumes each year.  This is a likely lower bound for how much energy is being used.

But wait, where does the Egypt number come from?

Recall that the S19 Pro is basically the most efficient, mass produced machine available today.  Due to variance (the inhomogeneous Poisson process), the network hashrate varies day to day.  In the process of writing this article it has gone from as low as 140 EH/s to the spike mentioned above.

Due to the rapid increase in Bitcoin’s price over the last few months — because hashrate follows coin value — over the next several months it is likely that the hashrate will continue to grow as purchase orders are fulfilled and hit 200 EH/s by the end of this summer.  This is why manufacturers like Bitmain are crushing it, with $327 million in cash holdings as of last month.

In practice, the network is not comprised of 1.6 million S19 Pro’s because Bitmain has not even produced half a million of them.

To get a more accurate figure we must look at older, but more common systems that are still running.

For instance, the Antminer S17e system can churn out 64TH/s running at around 2880 watts.  If the entire network was comprised of S17e systems there would be about 2.8 million machines involved.

That’s about 70.4 TWh in a year.  Which is about as much energy as Colombia or Bangladesh use.

But that is still not the upper bound.

Enter the older, but reliable Antminer S9i first released in May 2018 which can churn out 14 TH/s and consumes 1320 watts.

If the whole network was using S9i’s, then there would be about 12.8 million of these machines churning out hashes.

In a year these would consume 147.5 TWh or roughly the same amount of energy that Malaysia or Egypt use each year (this is larger than either Chile or the Netherlands).

While there are probably botnets trying to use CPUs or GPUs to mine bitcoin, the amount of hashrate generated by them is likely marginal.  Thus the S9i approximation is probably the upper bound.

Manufacturers such as Bitmain, MicroBT, or Canaan will eventually reveal how many systems they have sold which will give us some better refinement on the lower bound, the minimum amount of machines being used.

But it is clear that the spectrum is at a bare minimum Portugal and likely closer to Malaysia or Egypt, especially with so many people and companies trying to bring on older systems right now.  This would put Bitcoin around the 27th largest ‘country’ by energy consumption.

Is the hashrate division method a better estimate than the Cambridge or Digiconomist BECI models?

They both have their tradeoffs.  The Digiconomist model is inherently more conservative because it is based on miners’ income, whereas the Cambridge model uses a similar framework as the hashrate division method, starting with mining hardware that is available.

In any case, it is clear that while the energy consumption is somewhere between the Netherlands and Egypt, there is not an equivalent economic gain to the same degree.  

Another way to say this is that: historically as a country develops it produces more economic output per unit of energy input, getting more output with less input.  For example, U.S. energy consumption has been relatively flat since 2000 yet its GDP has more than doubled over the same period.  Likewise following reunification, Germany’s GDP growth rapidly outpaced energy consumption.

As a result, PoW is clearly not something a fund with an ESG mandate should want to be involved in.

(3) Socialized losses and e-waste

Speaking of older systems, because these hash generating systems are single use ASICs (i.e., they can only do one specific thing: generate SHA256 hashes), they are often discarded in a time frame of 18-24 months.  Some parts are salvaged and reused – such as the power supplies – and sometimes a new buyer is willing to acquire used machines second hand (as in the case of North Korean coin miners).  

One estimate is that around half of all data center energy usage is now tied to Bitcoin mining.  In fact, the energy consumption of Bitcoin is more than the combined energy use of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple.  And the e-waste that is generated annually from discarded mining equipment is roughly equivalent to what Luxembourg throws in the trash each year. 

This also does not include the socialized costs – and privatized gains – that miners place on specific geographies due to the type of energy used in generating the hashes.

Below are several recent examples:

Beginning with the 2017 “crypto boom,” Rosseti started noticing abnormal jumps in electricity consumption in numerous Russian regions. The firm identified unauthorized cryptocurrency mining farms and estimated the damage to be over 718 million rubles—about $9.5 million—a significant part of which has already recovered through court procedures.

The “black” miners are known to do more than just tap into power lines. Illegal Bitcoin operations actually build their own transformer stations.

This is by no means an exhaustive set of sources on the topic.  The examples serve to reinforce how PoW mining can be a one-way wealth extraction (privatizing gains) whilst externalizing environmental costs.

(4) Ethereum

Like Bitcoin, the past month has seen Ethereum (ETH) hit several new record prices.  Unsurprisingly this has also led to a new record in hashrate, at over 360,000 GH/s.

In December 2020, a mining manufacturer in China, Linzhi, revealed an early demonstration of its new Phoenix mining machine via F2Pool.  According to the demo, the Phoenix could generate 2,600 MH/s and consume 3,000 watts.  It has not shipped any to the retail market and it is unclear when it might.

In contrast, the most efficient ASIC mining system on the market today (for Ethash) is the InnoSilicon A10+ Pro.  A single A10+ Pro can generate 500 MH/s and consume 1,300 watts.  This is just slightly faster than the A10 which the previous article used as a baseline.

The Ethereum network hovers at over 360,000,000 MH/s per day.  That is equivalent to 720,000 A10+ Pro’s.

Annually these machines would consume 8.2 TWh.  That’s about as much as the Congo (DRC) or Trinidad and Tobago consume.  This would probably be the lower bound.

As mentioned in the previous article, there are many mining farms that still use GPUs to mine Ethereum.  So much so that it has led to a massive, publicly reported on shortage of high end cards from Nvidia and AMD.

Without any modifications, the top-of-the-line GeForce RTX 3090 can churn out 122 MH/s and consumes 350 watts. ((With some tweaking this can reportedly be increased to 150 MH/s.)) This makes it about 50% faster compared with the 3080.

A network entirely composed of 3090’s would involve 2.95 million GPUs.  Altogether they would consume about 9.1 TWh per year.  This is about as much as Bolivia or Panama consume annually.

As you can see, as these GPUs have closed in on the previous generation of ASIC, this has led to some speculation that GPU manufacturers such as Nvidia may once again roll out GPUs just for cryptocurrency mining (again).  The last time was a major dud as Nvidia had to write-off over $57 million in hardware due to a glut in 2018.

What is an upper bound for Ethereum mining?

This is a bit harder to guesstimate compared with the upper bound for Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash, because of the unknown factor: how many GPUs are being used.  Anecdotally it appears that a lot of less efficient GPUs and older ASICs are likely being used due to the run-up in ETH.

For example, an overclocked RTX 2080 can generate 35.3 MH/s and consume 235 watts.  

An entire network of overclocked 2080’s would consist of 10.2 million GPUs.  These would consume about 21 TWh per year.  This is about as much as Azerbaijan or Ecuador uses annually.  

In the summer of 2018 it was estimated there were around 10 million GPUs churning hashes for the Ethereum network.  For instance, JPR Research estimated that 3 million GPUs were sold to cryptocurrency miners in 2017.  During those heady days, mining farms such as Genesis Mining, rented 747s to fly large batches of GPUs to its mining farms.

Because of the mix of older, less efficient GPUs (such as the RTX 10 series) or first generation ASICs that have been switched back on, it is likely that the network hashrate is closer to the upper bound of Ecuador than mid-range of Bolivia or Panama.  This would put Ethereum around the 70th largest country by energy consumption.

Unlike many Bitcoin promoters, most Ethereum developers – and even some miners – believe that this energy footprint is temporary, pointing to an ongoing transition to proof-of-stake which started with the Beacon chain (Phase 0) launched last December.  Obviously the work-in-progress towards PoS has been known since before mainnet was even launched, yet it has been a slow slog.  

Despite the desire of developers to quickly sunset proof-of-work, last month we contacted Vitalik Buterin who pointed out that there is currently no EIP to switch over from PoW to PoS.  Based on the roadmap at least one EIP is expected to be crafted during the year.

It also bears mentioning that Buterin – unlike Bitcoin promoters – recognizes the large aggregates of energy consumption that PoW chains account for.  In an interview three years ago he explained:

“I would personally feel very unhappy if my main contribution to the world was adding Cyprus’s worth of electricity consumption to global warming.”

While “DeFi” usage and total-value-locked (TVL) has soared since the previous two articles on this topic were published, this would be an ends-justify-the-means argument.  Not a fallacy per se, but also not a frequently used argument, because greenwashing is not part and parcel to the Ethereum ecosystem.

(5) Other large PoW chains

(5a) Litecoin

The fact that Litecoin is still a “Top 10” coin in 2021 should indicate how ridiculous proof-of-work coins are for society.  No one really uses it for anything.  Except one guy who invested more than he could afford to.

In fact, the hashrate is roughly the same today as it was two-and-a-half years ago because — as pointed out many times — hashrate follows coin price.  Its most recent surges were due to PayPal adding it as an option users could buy or sell with, and an adult website (PornHub) that announced it would accept it as a form of payment.

Despite having launched several years ago, Bitmain’s Antminer L3+ is still basically the top ASIC mining unit that is used today.  It generates ~500 MH/s with ~800 watts. A slightly more powerful L3++ is on the market as well.

At around 300 TH/s, there are the equivalent of about 600,000 L3+ machines generating hashes for Litecoin.  In aggregate, these machines would consume 4.2 TWh per year.  It would be placed around 130th, between Namibia and Cyprus.

The Antminer L3++ specifications are similar:

If only L3++’s were used, the outcome would be about the same. 9

This consumption is pretty absurd once we factor in things like how there are only a couple of active developers who basically just merge changes from Bitcoin into Litecoin.  In other words, one of the largest PoW networks has very few users or developers, yet consumes the same amount of energy as Cyprus.  

How is that a socially useful innovation?

(5b) Bitcoin Cash

Unlike Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash has seen a dramatic decline in hashrate since it briefly peaked at over 5 million TH/s in 2018.   In fact, it is now oscillating around 1.3 million TH/s, or half of what it was 15 months ago.

The calculations for Bitcoin Cash are very straightforward since it is just a modified version of Bitcoin.

Recall from above that a single S19 Pro generates a maximum hashrate of 110TH/s or terahashes per second with a power consumption of 3250W.

A network consisting of just Bitmain S19 Pro systems would comprise about 12,000 systems.

In a given year these would use about 336 GWh, this will serve as our lower bound.

Not counting e-waste, that would put the energy usage of Bitcoin Cash somewhere around 174th or about the same as Burundi. Despite the fact that BCH has almost doubled in value since the last article, the hashrate decline is likely due to more efficient hardware now available.  

This presents a problem for potential malicious forks as an attacker could rent hardware (via NiceHash) or purchase older discarded hardware previously used for Bitcoin mining.  There are disagreements as to how to prevent this but most of them involve some kind of centralized group of developers manually inserting themselves into the validation process (via block signing).

For an upper bound, let us use an S9i for approximation.  Recall it churns out 14 TH/s and consumes 1320 watts.  That would involve about 93,000 systems consuming 1,073 GWh placing it somewhere between Fiji and Benin at 160th place.

Unlike last update, there is relatively little economic activity beyond speculators moving coins from one intermediary to another.  In fact, an economist with Chainalysis noted that Bitcoin Cash saw less merchant processor volume, about $12 million in 2020.10

Clearly on-chain payments is not the use case, even though the infrastructure exists to do so.

(5c) Monero

Unlike the previous article, it appears that the decision makers behind Monero stopped trying to fork it every six months to prevent involvement from ASICs.  

At the time of this writing Monero’s hashrate is hovering near its all-time high, likely due to the fact that XMR’s price has also risen, reaching a two-and-a-half year high.11

Compared with the previous article, the hashrate has increased nearly six fold to about 2 GH/s. And it is believed that most of this hashrate is still generated by GPUs and CPUs.

There are lots of how-to guides for building a CPU-focused Monero mining system, and NiceHash even has an easy-to-use profitability calculator.  

In the previous article we looked at a Vega-based GPU build, which could still work, but again, CPU mining is still typically used for Monero.  Currently the top performing CPU system on Monero Benchmarks is a modified 3990X Threadripper which generates 64,000 hashes/s and sips 600 watts.  Note: these are self-reported, user-submitted numbers.

If the entire network were composed of just this type of machine, there would be 31,250 systems running.  They would consume 164 GWh annually.  This would place it around 195th, between American Samoa and Saint Kitts and Nevis.  This would be the lower bound.

For comparison, a slightly more common Ryzen 3600 generates 7,400 hashes/sec and consumes 100 watts.  A network would consist of around 271,000 systems.  They would consume about 237 GWh annually.  This would place it around 190th between Chad and Sierra Leone.

In terms of GPUs, a RTX 3090 generates 2053 hashes/sec and consumes 350 watts.  A network of these would involve 974,184 systems.  Altogether they would consume about 2,987 GWh per year.  This would place it around 136th, between Montenegro and Jamaica.  This is not the upper bound.

As you can see, just like ASICs in sections above each older or slightly less energy efficient CPU or GPU system will incrementally increase the aggregate energy consumed.

For instance, in the previous article we looked at a 12-card Vega build, the user was able to generate 28,100 hashes/sec and consume 1920 watts. That’s about 2341 hashes per card.

That’s about 854,335 GPUs each sipping 160 watts. Altogether these consume 1,197 GWh annually.  This is still not the upper bound.

What is the upper bound then?

A few months ago a manufacturer, ASICLine, claimed to be shipping a mining system that can generate hashes for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, and Monero.  Because of how inflexible ASICs are, it is unlikely that their claim is true.  While we would like to be able to say for certain how much energy Monero is consuming, there is a possibility that someone has built a custom ASIC (or FPGA) which could throw off our estimate.  

Based on the same electricity consumption chart as the others, we can guesstimate that Monero drinks around 1 GWh a year and would be placed somewhere definitely above Chad and probably below Montenegro. 

(5d) BSV and ZEC and DOGE

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of dead PoW coins.  Three proof-of-work coins that have remained in the “Top 50 as measured by USD” over the past few years are Bitcoin SV (BSV) and Zcash (ZEC) and Dogecoin (DOGE).

BSV was created (forked) by Craig Wright, an Australian who claims – without sufficient evidence – to be Satoshi Nakamoto.

Due to a lack of interest beyond a core group of his followers, BSV — as measured in USD — has declined relative to its cousins BTC and BCH.  As a result, its hashrate has also declined.  At the time of this writing it is just over 600 PH/s, which is a two-and-half-year low.  This makes it relatively inexpensive to successfully double-spend or reorg the chain.12

If the BSV network was composed only of S19 Pro’s there would be around 5,454 systems consuming 155 GWh per year.  That is about as much as America Samoa at around 200th place.  This is the lower bound.  An upper bound is unknown but if we re-use the S9i there would be about 43,400 of these systems consuming 502 GWh.  That would put it around Andora or South Sudan, around 170th place.

There are a number of gambling-related apps that have been built around BSV, but no substantive economic analysis beyond the regular speculation that dominates in other chains.

Zcash received a lot of attention when it first launched for its privacy and confidentiality (opt-in) properties.  For one reason or another, it has not seen as much market interest as Monero (despite arguably having stronger technical capabilities).

Either way, at the time of this writing Zcash’s current hashrate (6.79 GH/s) is hovering near its all-time high.  That may sound like a relatively small number compared to Bitcoin or Ethereum, but it uses a hashing algorithm called Equihash, which is more difficult to generate hashes.  Unlike Monero, it is primarily mined via GPUs instead of CPUs.  There are a variety of online calculators and guides comparing different setups.  

There are also multiple ASIC miners for ZEC available including the Antminer Z15.  The Z15 churns out 420 KH/s and consumes 1,510 watts.  If the entire network were comprised of these ASIC machines there would be about 1,620 of them. Altogether they would consume 21.4 GWh each year.  It would rank around 215th, near the Falkland Islands and Kiribati.  This would be the lower bound.

One of the slightly dated comparisons involved tweaking a Nvidia 1080 Ti. One user was able to achieve around 641 H/s at 300 watts.  A network of these GPUs would comprise 1.06 million GPUs.  These would consume about 2,783 GWh.  That would place it around 140th, between New Caladonia and Mauritius.  While there may be older GPUs and even some CPUs mining, this is probably closer to the upper bound.

What about Dogecoin?

We wrote a bit about Dogecoin in 2014 but stopped because it merge mined with Litecoin in September of that year.  While it is no longer independent — as it piggybacks off of Litecoin mining — people still mine it with the same L3+ machines mentioned above (both Litecoin and Dogecoin use the same hash generating algorithm called ‘scrypt’).  Despite new record highs in prices, Dogecoin’s hashrate is about 30% less than its all-time high.  In fact, it is nearly identical to Litecoin’s hashrate because it uses the same farms and pools.  While some have suggested that this is an efficient usage of resources (two-chains-for-the-price-of-one) it creates a top-heavy situation that in theory, makes them both less secure.

(6) Status check

With all of these numbers and calculation spread around, let us briefly collate them in an easy to view section.

If the entire Bitcoin network were solely comprised of:

If the entire Ethereum network were solely comprised of:

If the entire Litecoin network were solely comprised of:

If the entire Bitcoin Cash network were solely comprised of:

If the entire Monero network were solely comprised of:

If the entire BSV network were solely comprised of:

If the entire ZEC network were solely comprised of:

As mentioned above (and in numerous previous articles) there are hundreds if not thousands of dead or dying PoW chains.

If we took the most efficient energy consumption assumptions above (the lower bounds), these seven PoW chains consume 59.3 TWh per year.  Roughly the footprint of Kuwait, around 46th place.  But in most cases – such as with Bitcoin itself – the lower bound is not realistic because the necessary amount of efficient hashing equipment (miners) have not been manufactured.

In contrast, if we took a less conservative assumption and used the upper bound these same PoW chains consume 180.1 TWh per year.  Roughly the footprint of Poland or Thailand, around 25th place.  The upper bound scenario is likely unrealistic for coins that have seen their value (measured in USD) decline or stay the same.  For those that have seen rapid appreciation (such as Bitcoin), it is possible that older equipment temporarily comes back online until newer replacements are installed.

And yet, in either scenario, these PoW networks are not also adding the equivalent GDP output of similar sized countries.  Society is in effect, at a net loss.

As we have mentioned in this article and others, historically, as a country industrializes, its growth is often limited by access to energy which throttles its energy consumption.  Simultaneously, as it grows and develops, it becomes more efficient per wattage of input. 

For example, according to the Energy Information Agency:

In the United States, energy intensity has been declining steadily since the early 1970s and continues to decline in EIA’s long-term projection. A country’s energy intensity is usually defined as energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product (GDP). Greater efficiency and structural changes in the economy have reduced energy intensity.

Despite dozens of RTGS systems being deployed across the world, in no instance do any of them consume the footprint of a small or medium sized country to operate.

The next section will look at some of the coin promoters and how they try to whitewash this issue away.

Only two nuclear reactors have been built in the U.S. in the past 25 years.  One of the reasons why others may not be built in the future: the shale boom.

Interested in hearing the twenty-first century equivalent of “smoking is good for you”?

On with the show!

No, Bitcoin is not a battery.

Contrary to the musings of venture capitalists with a heavy stake in coins (and coin mining), mining PoW chains is not the same as a battery.  It should be obvious that energy used in mining is not reusable, it is turned into heat as it enters the environment.  When miners pay bills they convert some of their holdings into actual money, energy is not released in this process because no energy was stored to begin with.

It is hard to know where to start with this batch of Bitcoin promoters, nearly all of whom work for prominent cryptocurrency intermediaries.

Fun fact: despite continual claims that Bitcoin will spur development of Thorium-based nuclear power plants, to date, there have been zero Thorium plants built let alone funded by Bitcoin personalities.

What about stranded energy?

In practice “stranded energy” means there is some kind of inefficiency in storage and/or the transportation grid.  In some cases capital could be used to increase efficiencies (e.g., new pipelines) which could reduce the price of energy extraction or transmission.  Yet because it is stranded, it centralizes PoW mining in that specific area.13

But what about renewables?

Hitchen’s Razor: That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

In terms of cyclical generation, even in the summer, when hydroelectric dams are at their peak output in the northern hemisphere, Cambridge BCIE estimates that more than half of energy generation still relies on non-renewables such as coal or gas.  

Many miners themselves do not provide any reason to believe this. Cambridge surveys miners, and they indicated that while a majority has renewables in the energy mix, only 39% of mining is done with renewables (as it can be a small part of the energy mix).

The location data above is from Cambridge, sourced from mining pools rather than a survey.  If you look at where miners are situated most of the time, you also see that while they use some renewables during the summer (wet season) in China, they are using fossil fuels the rest of the year.

According to Stoll et al., the carbon intensity of the energy used for mining Bitcoin was 480-500g CO2 per kWh in 2019 and went up to more than 550g CO2 per kWh recently due to increasing popularity of Iran and Kazakhstan.  8% of miners are now using sanctioned Iranian oil-based energy to mine.

There is also a steady stream of on-the-ground local stories providing anecdotes to the rush for relatively cheap energy.  For instance, clandestine Bitcoin mining in Iran is believed to be one of the reasons for a rash of blackouts (and smog).

Lastly, even if Bitcoin miners were mostly run on renewables (which is not occurring) Bitcoin mining could not be considered environmentally friendly.  Why?  Because of the regular cycle of e-waste that is created as next generation ASICs are introduced.

(8) Whataboutisms

Whataboutery is commonplace and normalized in the cryptocurrency world.  

Tired of policy makers pointing out that illicit activity is attracted to KYC-less chains?  Whatabout HSBC!  Dislike the moans from hospitals impacted by Bitcoin-funded ransomware operations?  Whatabout nuclear warfare!

This fallacy rears its head in the discussion of energy consumption: ignore this category of waste because there is also a category of waste there!

This is not a contest to waste as much energy as possible.  Aircraft carriers, submarines, and airborne infantry divisions do not protect RTGS systems. All wasteful activities – such as nuclear warhead production – can clearly be categorized as bad and undesirable.  It is also unclear from that thread how Bitcoin can end war or reduce military spending.

Speaking of poor analogies:

If we are going to play along with this game above: we actually know who participates in Federal Reserve decision making processes.  Whereas we still do not have a regularly updated list of who funds those with merge control in the Bitcoin Core github repo.

At the time of this writing about 70 RGTS systems are live across the world.  But only a small handful of countries with an RTGS also have nuclear weapons and/or aircraft carriers.  And only six have both. 15 This illustrates that you can have one – a secure large value transfer system – without the other.

Held’s argument is a Whataboutism.  Why?  Because this is not a contest over who wastes more (or less).

As Galloway correctly points out in that thread: no one is trying to run a PoW-based payment system with Christmas lights.  Christmas light operators are not incentivized to string up more lights as the aggregate market capitalization of light manufacturers increases.16

No one is trying to run a PoW-based payment system with smartphones.  Furthermore, telecoms do not need to consume oodles of more energy per extra unit of phone added to their networks.  PoW chains empirically and theoretically will consume energy in direct proportion to the value of the coin price.  That is why we continue to see ever larger amounts of ASIC machinery sold by Bitmain and MicroBT to miners, not less.  Yet PoW chains do not have a monopoly on securing permissionless payment systems.

Proof-of-stake (PoS) chains require some electricity too.  If this was a comparison of say Polkadot or Avalanche (both of which are PoS-based), they would consume several orders less than Bitcoin does today.  

And if these were compared to running full nodes (since there is no hash generation needed)? 

For instance, according to Bitnodes there are approximately 9,415 nodes relaying transactions on the Bitcoin network (including the 25 or so mining pools).  

Virtually every sentence is incorrect.  And this is all Whataboutery.  Bitcoin mining usage could boil the ocean?  But what about banks!

The bar should be: how can a value transfer system reduce its energy consumption and externalities, not to distractingly point fingers at other entities that also waste.  

Speaking of which, in her examples above, it is also a different type and magnitude of waste.  Banks do not generate more revenue if they leave their computers on 24/7 whereas PoW miners have to be left on around the clock to generate hashes in order to compete for block rewards.  

Furthermore, banks as a whole provide many more services (and products) beyond just processing payments.  In contrast, Bitcoin has very limited functionality, including the inability to do any on-chain lending.

That is not an accurate description of boiling gold (alchemy?) or what proof-of-work is as described by the original creators (Dwork and Naor).  Neither its supply schedule nor energy consumption is what creates value for PoW coins, external demand is.  

Claiming that PoW imbues a cryptocurrency with value because it requires real effort to produce it is a variation of the Labor Theory of Value.  And saying PoW can promote energy efficiency is like saying paying people to dig holes and fill them up again helps the economy. 19

In his accompanying article for this image Held states that: “The pressure to find cheap electricity sources will accelerate the effort to build fusion reactors.”

But that basically saying if you leave your car running it is good because it incentivizes finding alternate power sources.

Speaking of which:

Due to the demand shock from COVID-19, depending on geography, the cheapest sources of energy today might actually be oil and gas.  Perhaps the near-future of mining are cars parked outside of refineries in Houston, churning up hashes for PoW networks.

And last but not least:

According to modeling from the Resources for the Future, a think tank, Miami will become the most vulnerable major coastal city in the world with “100-year floods” occuring every few years rather than once a century in many locations.  A quarter of all homes at risk from flooding due to climate change reside in Miami-Dade county.  If the mayor wanted to stave off this crisis the last thing he should be encouraging is direct investments in proof-of-work based cryptocurrencies.

(9) Competing for scarce resources

Due to the rapid rise in some cryptocurrency prices, foundries that churn out semiconductors have months of backlogs due to GPU and ASIC demand.  Why?  Because there are only a small handful of foundries capable of manufacturing state-of-the-art chips and as a result there is a limited capacity irrespective of what the ultimate destination may be.

This has led to a shortage of chips used in automobiles to the point where large manufacturers such as Ford or General Motors (GM) have announced plant shutdowns.  In its most recent earnings announcement, GM estimated that:

The semiconductor shortage will shave $1.5 billion to $2 billion off adjusted earnings before interest and taxes this year.

How much semiconductor output capacity is being squeezed because of PoW miners?  

History repeats itself: in November 2017, Chen Min (a chip designer at Avalon Mining) gave a presentation which noted that 5% of all transistors in the entire semiconductor industry were used for mining and that was driving up DRAM prices.  Last cycle this negatively impacted a variety of ancillary set of actors, such as astronomers who rely on GPUs to chug through cosmic signals.  

The current surge in demand for GPUs for mining has led some participants to acquire hundreds of gaming laptops en masse, crowding out, again, anyone who needs a high performance GPU.  The image (above) comes from a Weibo account tracking various China-based miners who are showing off their GPU farms consisting of high-end laptops.  

“Laptop mining” has pushed new buyers down the performance curve, to hardware that is two generations old.

Below are three publicly listed companies that have announced large purchases of mining equipment in the past several months:

A few days ago UK-listed Argo Blockchain announced it would build a 200 MW mining facility in West Texas.  

Private companies have also announced large purchases of coin miners.  For instance, last month Blockstream announced that it had purchased $25 million worth of equipment from MicroBT and that this would be part of its 300 MW of mining capacity.  

And an anonymous buyer in Russia, recently acquired 20,000 mining systems that consume 70 MW for a new farm in Bratsk, Siberia.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

A GPU farm of 78 GeForce 3080s was photographed (above) churning up hashes for Ethereum last month.  

An entire paper or two could be written on large bulk purchases of ASICs or GPUs which crowd out other industries that need the same resources for actual productive activities.

(10) Undead countries are an ESG nightmare

Is it a stretch to call Bitcoin a ‘smoldering Chernobyl sitting at the heart of Silicon Valley’?  

In May 2014 we briefly discussed a hypothetical “million dollar” bitcoin.  At the time, Bitcoin’s price had dropped below $500 and we were already able to empirically discern that hashrate grows (or declines) directly proportional to coin value.

In the previous articles we found that, despite the introduction of increasingly energy efficient hardware, a PoW network like Bitcoin consumes ever larger amounts of energy.  That is because of the Red Queen’s Race: miners do not downsize farms in aggregate, they simply replace aging hardware with newer ones; they must run faster in order to stay in the same place.

That is why anyone that has access to a hashrate chart can project with decent certainty what the likely outcome of a “million dollar” bitcoin will be in the future.

If a $40,000 bitcoin has already led miners to consume the energy equivalent of the Netherlands or Egypt, a million dollar bitcoin would be about 25 times as much.

What does that mean in actual numbers?

Critical to any analysis of energy usage is economic output.  In a million dollar bitcoin world, society would be bearing the externalities of mining activity that does not produce a proportional amount of GDP.  For instance, much of the coin mining industry is reliant and dependent on taxpayer funded utility companies and grids.  As a result, we would see the equivalent of an additional U.S.-sized energy usage without seeing anywhere near the economic output, this would be a huge net loss.

This also does not take into account e-waste that is created via discarded single-use ASICs.  And it does not take into account other PoW networks such as Litecoin which are basically ghost towns yet consume country-sized energy units too. 

Miners will surely lead to greener sources of energy production, right?

This is a red herring.

Through the usage of either permissioned systems (like an RTGS) or a proof-of-stake chain, the energy consumed by PoW chains did not need to take place at all.  In fact, PoS chains can provide the same types of utility that PoW chains do, but without the negative environmental externalities.  PoW chains are the equivalent of adding an undead country – a zombie chain – to the power grid: one that consumes energy and produces little more than emissions.  

Because of disputes among its undead participants these zombie chains must utilize the judicial and legal resources of third party countries. The chains also have a parasitic relationship to other government-run services that they continue to rely on such as taxpayer-financed energy grids.

(11) Call to Action

What can be done?

For starters, do not patronize coin lobbying organizations that weaponize misinformation.  They are not dedicated to protecting consumers or the environment.  Their mission is to convince legislators around the world to take a hands-off approach to regulations, including potential taxes on miners.

Nearly three years ago, the executive director of Coin Center, Jerry Brito, solicited names to hire to whitewash easy-to-prove energy consumption numbers.  

Why?  Because it is bad for business. Some Bitcoin promoters like to present themselves as being part of the cutting-edge future, one disassociated with the ancien régime.  But as we have seen repeatedly in this paper, PoW miners compete for the same scarce resources and capacity that society relies on to generate real goods and services.

This is not true.  Agrawal, who works with Brito at Coin Center, attempts to limit the available options when there are a wide range of other possibilities.

For instance, according to The New Republic:

In 2020, Tesla sold about $1.58 billion worth of these [carbon] credits—almost exactly the value of the Bitcoin purchased.

Tesla is going to account for its Bitcoin holdings as intangible assets (goodwill) which is not how this line item was intended for.  This is clearly shrewd opportunism (and accounting), not some re-imagination of resource consumption.

According to Digiconomist: 

If 12 million people used Bitcoin to buy a Tesla, it would be enough to completely offset the combined total of CO2 saved by these EVs (by Tesla’s own account).

Elon Musk says he is now a fan of Bitcoin but PoW miners are directly cannibalizing the chip production capacity required to produce Tesla vehicles, a point that Tesla’s latest 10-K filing indirectly touches on.

What can you do?

Most developed and developing countries levy taxes on polluters or “sin” activities. ((Another consideration that funds with an ESG mandate should consider is not just the environmental impact of PoW mining but also the human rights that may be violated in the production of said coins.)) Clearly proof-of-work mining falls into both categories.

Contact your local Public Utility Company and explain the socialized losses and privatized gains that are possibly accruing to miners.  In addition to levying a tax on coin mining activity, perhaps introducing a tax on PoW-based holdings at intermediaries could be discussed since they directly benefit from miners providing the underlying blockchain infrastructure.

And if you are a user of a cryptocurrency, publicly advocate for switching to proof-of-stake (PoS) chains or accelerating such transitions if they are already underway.  You can still enjoy decentralized finance in a way that does not dramatically contribute to climate change.24

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following people for their helpful feedback: CK, JG, VB, RG, KR, JH, MW, and AV.

Endnotes

The actual writing of this piece took around six hours, though I have been thinking on this issue for at least the past nine years since I started writing my Easy Money book. I have been told that the backlash from the bitcoins believers will be huge. All feedback is welcome, as long as you don’t abuse. And if you choose to abuse at least read the piece first. You will be able to abuse better.

 Bulbulon ko abhi intezar karne do. (Let the bubbles wait for now). — Gulzar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Usha Uthup and Rekha Bhardwaj in 7 Khoon Maaf.

Let’s start this one with a small story.

Salvador Dalí was a famous painter who lived through much of the twentieth century. He was a pioneering figure in what is known as Surrealism.

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Other than being a fantastic painter, Dalí was also a sharp businessman. The story goes that once Dalí had treated some friends at an expensive New York restaurant. When the time to pay for the meal came, Dalí instead of paying in dollars, like anyone else would have, decided to carry out a small experiment.

On the back of the cheque Dalí had signed to pay for the expensive meal, he drew a sketch in his inimitable style. He signed it and handed it to the waiter. The waiter passed it on to the manager.

The manager realised the value of what Dalí had given him and decided to frame the cheque and hang it on the wall, making sure that anyone who came to the restaurant saw it.

Of course, this meant that Dalí’s cheque wasn’t encashed and he didn’t really have to pay in dollars for the expensive meal he had taken his friends out for.

This trick worked for Dalí. He was delighted and he used the same trick at different New York restaurants to pay for meals. The managers of all these different restaurants framed the cheque and hung it on one of the walls in their restaurants, so that everybody who came to the restaurant could see and realise that the famous painter Salvador Dalí had dined at the same place as they were.

This interesting story is recounted by Mauro F Guillén in his book 2030—How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything: “

Now what was happening here? If I can state this in simple English, Salvador Dalí, had turned his art into money. As Guillén writes:

“The money offered to pay for the meals was never deposited, as the cheques were transformed into artworks and took on a separate life. For Dalí, this maneuver was a stroke of genius. He could print his own money (his drawings had value), and people were willing to accept it as a form of payment.”

The trouble was Dalí went overboard and paid for one too many meals using this trick. In the end, the restaurant managers wised up and Dalí probably had to start paying real dollars for the expensive meals he took his friends out for.

What’s the moral of this story? Anyone can create his or her own money as long as others are willing to accept it, though one thing needs to be kept in mind. As Guillén writes: “As with national currencies, any money can be felled by the laws of supply and demand, as an excessive supply depreciates its worth and reduces people’s willingness to use it.”

What Dalí ended up doing in a very small way, governments have done over and over again, over the centuries. They have gone overboard with printing money and spending it, created high inflation, as too much has chased the same set of goods and services, and in the process destroyed the prevailing form of money. (If you are interested in details, I would suggest that you read my Easy Money trilogy).

Dear Reader, you must be wondering by now why am I recounting this story in a piece which is headlined to be about the bitcoin bubble. Have some patience, everything will become clear very soon. Read on.

Bitcoin is a digital currency that does not use banks or any third party as a medium or at least that is how it is conventionally defined. It is governed by a string of cryptographical codes, which are believed to be military grade and very tough to break.

The price of a bitcoin has rallied big-time over the last few months. It rose from a little over $10,000 per bitcoin in early September to more than $40,000 per bitcoin in early January. As of January 8, 2021, the price of bitcoin touched an all-time high of $40,599.

One of the core selling points of bitcoins as well as its raison d’être is that unlike paper money they cannot be created out of thin air. The number of bitcoins is finite and the code behind it is so written that they cannot go beyond a limit of 21 million tokens.

Interestingly, mining, or the generation of a bitcoin, happens when a computer solves a complex algorithm. Anyone can try to mine bitcoins, but with a finite number being generated at regular intervals and with an increase in the number of people joining the mining race, it has become increasingly difficult to solve the algorithm and generate bitcoins.

As of January 11, 2021, the number of bitcoins in circulation stood at 18.6 million units. The rate at which bitcoins are being created has slowed down over the years and the last fraction of the 21 millionth bitcoin will be created only in 2140.

The larger point here is that unlike the paper money system (or to put it slightly more technically the fiat money system) which can be manipulated by central banks and the governments, the bitcoin system can’t.

Hence, there is an overall limit to the number of bitcoins that can be created. This is the main logic offered in support of buying and owning bitcoins. Unlike central banks or governments or Salvador Dalí (in case you are still wondering why I started with that story), money in the form of bitcoin cannot be created out of thin air and beyond a certain limit.

In fact, this core idea/message at the heart of the bitcoin was built into the first fifty coins, now known as the genesis block, created by Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious inventor behind it. The beauty of bitcoin is that even not knowing who really Nakamoto is, doesn’t impact the way the system he created, works.

The genesis block contained a headline from The Times newspaper published in London dated January 3, 2009. The headline was: “Chancellor on brink of second bail-out for banks”. The headline and the date are permanently embedded into the bitcoin data.

As Nakamoto wrote on a message board in February 2009: “The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work… The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts.”

Bitcoin was supposed to be this grand idea meant to save the world from the way the central banks and governments manipulate the paper money system. As William Quinn and John D Turner write in Boom and Bust—A Global History of Financial Bubbles: “To its advocates, bitcoin was the money of the future: it could not be devalued through inflation by a central bank, you could spend it on anything without having to worry about government interference or taxes, and it cut out the middleman, namely commercial banks.”

The question is, in these times of easy money, has bitcoin reached anywhere near its original goal or is it just another way of pure speculation.

Let’s look at this pointwise.

1) Here is a chart of the price of bitcoin in dollars since July 18, 2010 (I couldn’t find the price of bitcoin before this in the public domain, hence, the random date).

It doesn’t take rocket science to understand that if you have been a long-term investor in bitcoin, you would have made shitloads of money by now. But the fundamental question is, is bitcoin money or even the future of money, as it is made out to be, by those who are in love with it, or is it simply another form of speculation.

One of the key characteristics of money is that it is a store of value. The recent rally in bitcoin has led to many bitcoin believers telling us that bitcoin is a store of value. This comes from a very shaky understanding of what the term store of value actually means.

A store of value basically means that something has a stable value over time. As Jacob Goldstein writes in Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing: “If $100 buys your family a week’s worth of groceries today, there is a very good chance it will buy approximately a week’s worth of groceries a year from now. The dollar is a good store of value (it tends to lose about 2 percent of its value every year).”

Let’s look at what has happened to bitcoin over the last few months. It rose from a little over $10,000 per bitcoin in early September 2020 to more than $40,000 per bitcoin in early January 2021.

As of January 8, 2021, the price of bitcoin touched an all-time high of $40,599. As I write this early in the morning on January 14, 2021, the price of a bitcoin is around $37,329. The price has fallen by 8% in a little over five days’ time. So, where is the stability of value? And this isn’t a one-off event. Bitcoin has moved rapidly up and down on many occasions.

But this is a very simple point. Here’s the more complicated point. The price of a bitcoin as of September 5, 2020, was $ 10,092. On January 8, 2021, it reached $40,599, a rise of 302% in a matter of a little over four months.

If bitcoin really was money, using which we could make and receive payments and borrow and lend, the recent rally would have created a havoc in the economy.

What does the rise in the value of any form of money really mean? It means that the price of everything that money can buy is falling. And in this case prices would have fallen big-time. As Goldstein puts it: “This rise in the value of bitcoin would have caused a deflation far worse than the one in the Great Depression.” Deflation is the scenario of falling prices and is deemed to be dangerous because people keep postponing their consumption in the hope of getting a lower price. This hurts businesses and the overall economy.

Now take a look at the following chart which plots the price of a bitcoin in dollars between December 2017 and December 2018.

The price of a bitcoin as on December 16, 2017, was $19,345. A year later on December 15, 2018, it had fallen by 83% to around $3,229. What would this have meant if bitcoin really was money? It would mean that the price of money has fallen and hence, the price of other things has gone up. In this case, it would mean very high inflation, even hyperinflation.

In its current form, bitcoin is no store of value. If it was to be used as money, the world would hyperventilate between deflation and inflation.

2) Another key characteristic of money is that it is a medium of exchange or to put it in simple English, it can be used to buy things (like Dalí bought meals at expensive restaurants).

According to financial services company Fundera 2,352 American businesses, accept bitcoins as a payment. The United States is the mecca of bitcoin believers. As per the US Census Bureau there were around 7.7 million companies in the US with at least one paid employee. This statistic doesn’t inspire much confidence. Barely anyone takes payments in bitcoins even in the United States.

Of course, it takes time for any new form of money to be adopted, but for something that has been around for 12 years, the rate of adoption seems quite poor.

Personally, I don’t know of any business that accepts bitcoin as a payment in India. Maybe, there is some coffee shop in Bengaluru that does. Dear reader, if you know of it, do let me know.

3) The bitcoin believers like to compare it with gold. The reason gold has acted as a hedge against the proclivity of the governments and central banks to create paper money out of thin air, is that it cannot be created out of thin air. While alchemists, which included Isaac Newton as well, have tried this over the centuries, no one has been successful in developing a chemical formula that converts other metals into gold. Bitcoin works because of a similar dynamic, the believers tell us. There is a limit to the number of bitcoins that can be created and as time passes by it becomes more and more difficult to mine bitcoins. That’s how the code behind bitcoin is written.

But the thing is that the code behind bitcoin is freely available. Anyone can take it and tweak it and come up with a new kind of money. Over the years this has happened and many of these new forms of money have ended up as shitcoins.

As Quinn and Turner write:

“In August 2016, one bitcoin was trading at $555; in the next 16 months its price rose by almost 3,400 per cent to a peak of $19,783.3 This was accompanied by a promotion boom, as a mix of cryptocurrency enthusiasts and opportunistic charlatans issued their own virtual currencies in the form of initial coin offerings, or ICOs. These coins had, on the face of it, no intrinsic value – to entitle their holders to future cash flows would have violated laws against issuing unregistered securities – but they nevertheless attracted $6.2 billion of money from investors in 2017 and a further $7.9 billion in 2018.”

A lot of this money never came back to the investors. There is no way to make sure that this won’t happen in the future.

Also, at a broader level, a free market in money is a bad idea. The United States went through this situation sometime in the nineteenth century (Something I discuss in detail in the first volume of Easy Money). It was very easy to get a banking license and banks could print their own money.

As Goldstein writes: “Not all banks were shady. Not even most banks were shady. But the notes printed by the shady banks looked as legit as the notes printed by the honest banks. And there were a lot of notes—at one point, the Chicago Tribune reported that the country had 8,370 different kinds of paper money in circulation.” Imagine the confusion this would have created.

It was also easy for counterfeiters to manufacture their own paper money. In this scenario, a guide called Leonori’s New York Bank Note List, Counterfeit Detector, and Wholesale Prices Current was published once a month. An issue of this guide, dated 18 November 1854, shows that 1,276 such banks were in operation in various states and 825 different kinds of forged notes were in circulation. The financial system was in a total anarchy.

While it is easy to make a case for a non-government decentralised money system, what may lie in store isn’t something we may want in the first place. The sad part is very little thinking has happened on this front. Saying, let the best money win is a very insensitive way to go about it.

4) The bitcoin code which limits their number to 21 million units is written in C++. As Sean Williams writes on Fool.com: “Last I checked, code can always be erased and rewritten. While it’s unlikely that a community consensus would be reached to increase the circulating supply of bitcoin, the possibility of this happening isn’t zero.” Anyway this possibility isn’t going to arise until 2140, when the last fraction of the bitcoin will be mined, and by then you and I, won’t be around. So, it doesn’t really matter.

5) Let’s talk a little more about paper money. Why do others accept it as money? Because they know that the government bank/central bank deems it to be money and hence, still others will accept it as money as well.

As L Randall Wray writes in Modern Money Theory – A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems: “The typical answer provided in textbooks is that you will accept your national currency because you know that others will accept it. In other words, it is accepted because it is accepted. The typical explanation thus relies on an ‘infinite regress’: John accepts it because he thinks Mary will accept it, and she accepts it because she thinks Walmart will take it.”

While this sounds correct there is a slightly more nuanced answer to the question.

There are three main powers that any government has: 1) The right to “legal” violence. 2) The right to tax. 3) The right to create money out of thin air by printing it.

As Wray writes:

“One of the most important powers claimed by sovereign government is the authority to levy and collect taxes (and other payments made to government, including fees and fines). Tax obligations are levied in the national money of account: Dollars in the United States, Canada, and Australia; Yen in Japan; Yuan in China; and Pesos in Mexico. Further, the sovereign government also determines what can be delivered to satisfy the tax obligation. In most developed nations, it is the government’s own currency that is accepted in payment of taxes.”

What does this mean?

As Wray puts it:

“Ultimately, it is because anyone with tax obligations can use currency to eliminate these liabilities that government currency is in demand, and thus can be used in purchases or in payment of private obligations. The government cannot easily force others to use its currency in private payments, or to hoard it in piggybanks, but government can force use of currency to meet the tax obligations that it imposes… It is the tax liability (or other obligatory payments) that stands behind the curtain.”

Hence, the government creates demand for paper/fiat money by accepting taxes in it. This has ensured that the paper money system has kept going despite its weaknesses.

What this also means is that for bitcoin to become popular and move beyond the nerds, it needs a use case as solid as paying taxes in what government deems to be money, is.

It is worth remembering here what Wray writes: “For the past 4,000 years (“at least”, as Keynes put it), our monetary system has been a “state money system”. To simplify, that is one in which the state chooses the money of account, imposes obligations (taxes, tribute, tithes, fines, and fees), denominated in that money unit, and issues a currency accepted in payment of those obligations.”

This is not to say that governments haven’t destroyed money systems in the past. The history of money is littered with examples of kings, queens, rulers, dictators, general secretaries and politicians, representing governments in different eras, having destroyed different money systems at different points of time. But the government has always comeback and controlled the money system the way it has wanted to.

And unless governments and central banks start taking a liking to bitcoin, there is no way its usage is going to spread to a level where it can hope to challenge the prevailing paper money system. It is worth remembering that if governments start taking interest in bitcoin, it in a way beats the entire purpose behind its creation.

Also, every government will want to protect its right to create money out of thin air. Right now bitcoin is too small in the overall scheme of things for governments to be bothered about it and hence, they have largely humoured it (not in India though).

The market capitalisation of bitcoins (number of coins multiplied by the dollar price) as of January 8, peaked at around $759 billion. The global GDP in 2019 was around $88 trillion. So the price of bitcoin even at its peak was lower than 1% of the global GDP.

Hence, the bitcoin story is like that of a rich Indian father basically allowing his son to play around, until he thinks that the son now needs to grow up.

6) There is another point that needs to be made here regarding the paper money system. This is something I realised while writing the third volume of Easy Money  and it makes me sceptical of anyone who wants to write off the paper money system in a hurry. (Before you jump on me for being a blanket supporter of the paper money system, I am not, but then that doesn’t mean I don’t see logical arguments when they are offered).

Many years back, in one of my first freelancing assignments, I happened to interview the financial historian Russel Napier. He explained to me the link between paper money and democracy. As he told me on that occasion:

“The history of the paper currency system, or the fiat currency system is really the history of democracy … Within the metal currency, there was very limited ability for elected governments to manipulate that currency. And I know this is why people with savings and people with money like the gold standard. They like it because it reduces the ability of politicians to play around with the quantity of money. But we have to remember that most people don’t have savings. They don’t have capital. And that’s why we got the paper currency in the first place. It was to allow the democracies. Democracy will always turn towards paper currency and unless you see the destruction of democracy in the developed world, and I do not see that, we will stay with paper currencies and not return to metallic currencies or metallic-based currencies.”

Back then bitcoin wasn’t really on the radar. The reason people with savings liked gold back then, is why many of them like bitcoins now.

The twentieth century saw the rise of both paper money and democracy. Pure paper money started coming into being after the First World War. The reason for this is very straightforward. In a democracy whenever there is a crisis, the politicians and the technocrats advising them need to be seen to be doing something.

As an ex-RBI Governor once told me, do nothing cannot be a strategy. And this need to be seen to be doing something, can most easily be fulfilled by manipulating the paper money system that prevails in a democracy. It gives central bankers the option of printing money and driving down interest rates in the hope that people will borrow and spend more and businesses will borrow and expand.

Of course, this has its own problems (as I keep highlighting in my pieces over and over again). But then, the prevailing system does really allow politicians to show that they are trying. Any other system would take this option away from politicians. Hence, the paper money system is not going to be replaced in a hurry. No government is going to let go of this privilege.

7) This is a slightly technical point, but I think it needs to be made. As I have mentioned through this piece, over the years it has become more and more difficult to mine bitcoins. Now bitcoin farms with giant racks of mining computers, are needed to mine bitcoins. The days when bitcoins could be mined using the processing power of a PC are long gone.

The bitcoin farms, as they are known as, need a lot of electricity. Hence, mining operations have moved to countries where electricity is cheap. They have moved to countries like Iceland, Mongolia and primarily, China.

This has created another problem. As Goldstein writes: “By the beginning of 2020, Chinese miners had grown so large that they controlled most of the processing power on the bitcoin network. And the way the code for bitcoin was written gave them control over the system.”

While, bitcoin might be a decentralised democratic system running on code, but it’s people who ultimately control the mining of bitcoins and hence, can direct its future.

So, will the future of bitcoin be driven by China? And if that turns out to be the case, what does this do to its chances of spreading as actual money, used in the selling and buying of things? There are no easy answers to these questions.

8) One of the key points of bitcoins was that it was a non-government decentralised money system which promised freedom from the middlemen. But that hasn’t really happened. As Quinn and Turner write: “[Bitcoin] had promised freedom from middlemen, but trading it without a third party was cumbersome unless the user was expert in cybersecurity.”

If you are using a broker to trade bitcoin it beats the entire idea of freedom from middlemen. Also, the moment you convert your money into fiat money and the money comes into your bank account, the entire idea of remaining unknown and the government not knowing what you are doing goes for a toss. Hence, you may have your reasons to buy bitcoins, but basically you are speculating.

9) You might want to ask why you haven’t heard all this in the mainstream media. The reason for that lies in the fact that the incentives of the media are misaligned these days. Most investment related news is presented as a money-making opportunity. Hence, in this case the bitcoin believers have gotten more space and screen time in the media.

Many of the bitcoin believers are like the original investors in a Ponzi scheme. They have an incentive to talk up bitcoin, get more investors into it, drive up its price and make more money in the process. (In fact, these are precisely the kind of stock market investors that you get to see on TV and read in the media most of the time, but that is another topic for another day).

Also, given the extremely short attention spans that people have these days, the written word doesn’t find much of an audience. As Quinn and Turner put it: “More fundamentally, the move away from the written word to television financial news, docusoaps and social media may corrode the ability of investors to think clearly and understand the complexities of the financial system.”

You cannot understand economic history and the complexities of the financial system by watching TV or watching stuff over the internet or even listening to extremely detailed podcasts (podcasts can just give you a flavour of things and a feeling that you are actually learning a lot). The only way to understand complex issues is to read, read and read more.

In an era of short attention spans, bitcoins are just the right asset to speculate on. Their price goes up or falls even before you can say Virat Kohli. (This is another reason to support my writing).

10) We live in an era of easy money. Central banks have printed trillions of dollars during the course of 2020 to drive down interest rates in the hope of encouraging people to borrow and spend and businesses to borrow and expand. Interest rates are in negative territory in some of the European nations.

In this scenario of very low interest rates, investors are desperate to earn returns. Hence, a lot of money has been invested into stock markets all over the world, driving them to levels not justified by earnings that companies are expected to earn in the years to come.

Some money has also found its way into bitcoins. As The Economist puts it: “The current surge seems to have been spurred by interest from the financial establishment, most of which had long scorned it.” In simple English, hedge funds are buying bitcoins. Given that bitcoins are thinly traded, this has driven up prices by astonishing levels. Hence, like stock markets, bitcoin is also in bubble territory.

And as we have seen over the past few decades, hedge fund money can be quite mercurial. They can drive down prices faster than they drove them up.

To conclude, the fact that the price of bitcoin is so volatile tells us that most people investing in it aren’t really bothered about the long-term story of bitcoin as money, the bitcoin believers try selling all the time. If they did believe in this story they would have bought bitcoin and held on to it. But as the crash of 2018 showed that is clearly not the case.

As Saifedean Ammous writes in The Bitcoin Standard, the bible of the bitcoin believers:

“Buying a Bitcoin token today can be considered an investment in the fast growth of the network and currency as a store of value, because it is still very small and able to grow many multiples of its size and value very quickly. Should Bitcoin’s share of the global money supply and international settlement transactions become a majority share of the global market, the level of demand for it will become far more predictable and stable, leading to a stabilization in the value of the currency.”

(Ha ha, this is to show that I also read stuff I don’t really agree with).

I am not clairvoyant. This may happen. This may not happen. My reading of economic history tells me it won’t. But then I might turn out to be wrong. What do they say about history not repeating itself but rhyming? But what if it doesn’t rhyme as well?

There are no guarantees when it comes to economics. The trouble is that while you are waiting for all this to happen, the price of a bitcoin is at the level of a very very very very expensive large cap stock and its volatility is that of a small cap penny stock.

So, if you do invest in bitcoin, do understand that you are taking a punt, you are speculating, you are hoping that the price goes up and does not fall. Also, don’t go looking for fundamental reasons for investing in it.

Given that investing in bitcoin is equal to taking a punt, please don’t bet your life on it. As the old cliché goes, don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

PS: This doesn’t mean I don’t believe in digital money. I do. But I also believe that it will be controlled by large corporations and the governments.

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This week Saifedean Ammous, legendary author of The Bitcoin Standard, and George Gammon, Rebel Capitalist, joined Swan Signal live to discuss gold, central banking, the deval­u­a­tion of curren­cies and how Bitcoin is going to suck value out of every store of value. George and Saifedean connected well and needed nearly no prompting for a lively discus­sion hosted by Brady Swenson, Swan Bitcoin Head of Educa­tion.

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0:00 Intro­duc­tion

1:59 Micros­trategy holds Bitcoin on balance sheet

8:32 Bitcoin vs Gold

15:01 Bitcoin vs Real Estate

21:07 Infla­tion’s conse­quences

29:00 Nation-state responses to Bitcoin

41:01 Histor­ical transi­tions between curren­cies

55:28 Fed Coin as compe­ti­tion

1:02:02 Which country will adopt Bitcoin first?

1:05:43 How will Bitcoin narra­tives change?

1:15:57 Closing thoughts

Brady Swenson:

Welcome to the Swan Signal podcast, a produc­tion of Swan Bitcoin. The best way to accumu­late bitcoin with automatic recur­ring buys at swanbitcoin.com. Swan Signal pairs great guests for compelling discus­sions and this week we have author and educator, Saifedean Ammous and George Gammon, host of The Rebel Capitalist Show. Pairing up great guests is a unique format in the bitcoin content space and has produced some incred­ible content so far. In my opinion, Swan Signal absolutely deserves a spot in your rotation. So subscribe today if you’re not already. Glad you found your way here. Hope you enjoy.

Hello and welcome back to Swan Signal live, a produc­tion of Swan Bitcoin. Swan Signal is a weekly show that pairs up great guests for compelling discus­sions about bitcoin and economics. I’m your host, Brady Swenson, head of educa­tion at Swan. But before we dive in, a quick word about the service we provide here at Swan. We’ve built the best way to accumu­late bitcoin with automatic recur­ring buys. It’s a very simple setup. One, you just connect your bank account to auto fund USD.

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Today, I have some big news for you all. We are launching our Daily Buys beta. We’ve had a huge demand to add Daily Buys to our weekly, bi-monthly, and monthly purchase frequen­cies. So we’re about to roll that out. You can sign up at swanbitcoin.com. Just add your email address, click get started to be added to the beta list or you can DM us on twitter @SwanBitcoin.

We have about 400 out of our thousand Daily Buys beta slots filled up, so get in there. All right. I’m really excited to welcome our guest to the show today. First, we have the inimitable, Saifedean Ammous with us today. He’s author of a staple of the bitcoin canon, of course the Bitcoin Standard and he’s an economics educator researcher. You can find Saif’s work at saifedean.com. Saif, welcome to the show, man.

Saifedean Ammous:

Thank you very much for having me. It’s always fun to join you, Brady.

All right. And we have finance and wealth manage­ment YouTuber, host of The Rebel Capitalist show and investor, George Gammon with us today as well. You can subscribe to George’s channel at youtube.com/georgegammon. Gammon is G‑A-M-M-O‑N. Welcome, George. How’s it going today?

George Gammon:

Doing very well. Thank you very much. I appre­ciate you having me on the show.

I really appre­ciate your time. Okay. Let’s dive in and get started with the big news from yesterday that bitcoin Twitter is a buzz about the news that MicroS­trategy announced that they made a $250 million bitcoin purchase. Black­Rock, the largest asset manager in the world and Vanguard, the largest provider of mutual funds in the world, both hold a signif­i­cant stake in MicroS­trategy. The two of them together hold over 25%.

So it seems likely that they had prior notice of this buy and if so, that means that these two finan­cial behemoths just essen­tially approved a massive bitcoin buy. The MicroS­trategy stock price is up around 15% on the news. So that means I’m sure that other CEOs are taking notice. We’ve also seen in the past few months big macro investors are publicly announcing their bitcoin positions. Paul Tudor Jones, Raoul Pal, Lyn Alden who we had on the show recently.

For instance, Raoul Pal recently tweeted that bitcoin is the future and is wildly under­priced. So George, let’s start with you on this one. What do you think of these devel­op­ments and their impli­ca­tions for bitcoin?

Well, I’d have to go with Lyn Alden. She’s my partner in Rebel Capitalist Pro. So anything she says, I’m definitely going to go along with because she is definitely one of the smartest people I have ever met in my life without excep­tion. But I think the best infor­ma­tion I can give you is just some insider infor­ma­tion right here from St. Barts and I came here maybe three weeks ago because I wanted to find a place in the world where I could just go to the gym or I could go to the beach where things were as close to normal as you could find.

And if your viewers or your listeners have never been to St. Barts, it’s right in the Caribbean. It’s basically like Monaco. So there’s 9,000 people on this little island and it’s extremely affluent. I mean 90% of the people here are in finance. They’re hedge fund managers, they’re invest­ment bankers, they’re straight from Wall Street. This is the group that you were basically just mentioning. And I’ve gone to several social gather­ings, let’s say. And you’re having drinks with the guys just saying, “What do you do?” I’m not going to mention any names, but a lot of the people that I’ve met here, you’d recog­nize from CNBC, you’d recog­nize from Bloomberg.

I would say pretty much every single one of them that I spoke with after a few drinks, we ended up talking about bitcoin. So you can take that for what it’s worth and I don’t really know what’s going on as far as the news. I don’t know what’s going on with this company or Black­Rock, but I do know that every hedge fund manager I’m talking to here in St. Barts after a couple drinks. That’s where the conver­sa­tion goes.

Great. Tell them about my book.

Yeah. It’s a great place to start for sure. It’s widely recom­mended. Saif, what are the impli­ca­tions here for bitcoin. I’ve got a follow-up after this, but I’d like to hear just your initial thoughts.

I think it’s quite signif­i­cant because a lot of people have spent the last few years discussing bitcoin from the perspec­tive of payments and retail adoption, and the idea was when am I going to be able to pay for my coffee or for my McDon­ald’s with bitcoin? The point that I made in my book in the Bitcoin Standard is that bitcoin is not competing with Visa, with Master­cards, with all these payment methods. Bitcoin is not an alter­na­tive to these things. It doesn’t compete with them. It’s orthog­onal to them. You can install all of those things on top of bitcoin.

Bitcoin is competing with the actual assets that are being traded on these networks. It’s competing with the curren­cies, with national curren­cies and with gold as a form of money and as a store of value. I think this devel­op­ment bears it out and of course it’s absolutely massive. It’s $250 million of bitcoin, which is not chump change. I mean, it’s a large company that makes about a half a billion dollars of revenue a year.

It’s a company that has a signif­i­cant cash balance and it has reached the conclu­sion that the best thing for us to do with the signif­i­cant part of our cash balance is to hold some bitcoin. Somebody dug up there, I think it was the investor letter from a few weeks or a few months ago where they had discussed… I’m not sure if it was a confer­ence call or the letter, but they discussed their cash position and they said, “Our outlook on our cash position is becoming negative now because of all the devel­op­ments of the last three months with the coron­avirus lockdowns and so on. They have a negative outlook on their cash position and now we see that they’ve acted upon that and they’ve replaced part of their holdings of US dollar cash with bitcoin and I think a lot of people are going to see the benefit of this.

I think really this is how bitcoin adoption happens. Bitcoin is going to become part of people’s cash balances and if it continues to work, if it continues to operate and it continues to appre­ciate, it’s going to become an increas­ingly signif­i­cant part of other people’s cash balances partic­u­larly as other curren­cies continue to lose value more and more over time. So the phenom­enon I described in my book is that in the long run, value accrues to the hardest money. I think Microsys­tems recog­nizing that, I think is I find it to be very exciting because it’ll be inter­esting to see what happens when more compa­nies really do that.

I mean, if we look at bitcoin’s average perfor­mance over the last 10 years, I think it’s gone up. Last time I ran the numbers, it was maybe 500 or 400% per year on average. So if bitcoin has an average year for bitcoin next year, every company is going to pay atten­tion because this move is likely to end up being more profitable than anything else the company has done. I think that just shows the value propo­si­tion for investing in an alter­na­tive to central banks. The market is telling the world, invest in this central bank alter­na­tive that works well.

Go ahead, George.

I’m sorry. I don’t know the format here, but just to dovetail on that thought, I think going back to the people that I’m speaking with who are the profes­sionals, short term, I think it’s more of a specu­la­tion, and I don’t really see gold as competing with bitcoin or silver just because I see them as two completely separate asset classes. I would never buy bitcoin for the reasons I buy gold and vice versa because gold to me is just an insur­ance policy. It’s not a way to get rich, it’s a way to stay rich. And with bitcoin, it’s a fantastic asymmetric specu­la­tion.

So I just see them as two completely separate things. Now, that said, I think long term what you were saying with your book is really inter­esting because you’re talking about how in the long run every­thing goes into hard curren­cies or hard money like we’ve seen in the past with gold. When you were saying that, it reminded me of Gresham’s law. Brady, if your viewers aren’t familiar with Gresham’s law, it’s basically the bad money chases out good money.

So let’s use an example of Ancient Rome or some society where they used physical gold coins and when they get over indebted, what happens is the presi­dent or king or whomever says, “Okay. We’ll just solve this problem by making these new coins and we’ll just paint them gold. But really, they’re nickel or they’re copper or something like that. They’re trying to pull the wool over your eyes and they issue more and more of this currency, we’ll call it. But everyone knows it’s fake. So the more they issue these curren­cies, the more the real gold coins come out of circu­la­tion because smart people see the value, they see the intrinsic value and they start hoarding all of the real money. It’s Gresham’s law. Over the long-term, I’m not saying it’s happening today, but it could happen with bitcoin. It’s a very inter­esting concept.

Yeah, but I think the nickel coins are nowhere to be found today, but gold coins are still around today. So I think Gresham’s law talks about which coins will be used for legal, commer­cial trans­ac­tions in the country. And the answer is clearly in Venezuela today, every­body wants to spend their Bolivars if they can, but nobody wants to take them. So officially, yes, the bolivar has driven out the US dollars because it is the worst money many, many times over. But in reality, the bolivar continues to drop further and further and further. And any actual real wealth that exists in Venezuela is stored in the US dollar or in bitcoin or in gold.

It’s misin­ter­preted by Keyne­sians to suggest that, “Oh, if it’s an easy money, then it’s just going to win out over the harder money.” Well, no, it’s going to win out because people are just going to get rid of it, but eventu­ally it’s not going to be money very quickly because it’s going to just lose its value quickly and eventu­ally the harder money will remain.

Yeah, I think that’s my point.

Yeah. I think this is effec­tively what’s happening with bitcoin and you’re right that it is in this asymmetric bet now, but it’s an asymmetric bet where the positive upside outcome is that it becomes something like gold. It stops being an asymmetric bet. It becomes just the predom­i­nant monetary asset. We’re at least 100X away from there or maybe 50X away from there or a thousand X away from there. God knows how much more bull run we have to get there. But bitcoin keeps going up. It eats every­thing else. I’m not saying it will happen, but it hasn’t looked like it’s been stoppable over the last 10 years. So we’ll see.

I’m sure you guys have done the math. I’d be curious to know how much the price of bitcoin would have to go up in order for it to be equiv­a­lent to the market value of gold or the market cap of gold.

It’s at about the price of one gold bar like the 12 1⁄2 kilogram, 400 ounce bar. So basically one bitcoin would be worth about 400 ounces of gold.

Yeah. The math I’d like to do is figure out how much gold is in the world right now?

I think it’s about 180, 170,000 tons.

Yeah. How much is that in dollar terms and then figure out how much bitcoin would have to go up to equal that amount?

I think it’s about $10 trillion at this point if I’m running-

Gold is about $10 trillion, yeah because it’s about 180,000 tons and then 1 kilogram is I think around $60,000 or something. I think you multiply these, you end up with around 10 trillion. It’s in that ballpark. So bitcoin is around 200 billion so far.

Yeah. I think that’s your upside.

Exactly. 2% of gold.

That’s not the upside actually. That’s just one way station on one base camp on the real launch because that’s just gold. Right now in a world in which all kinds of other monetary assets are used because gold is not allowed to be in a free market. If we could have a free market of money, I believe gold would win and every­body would be using more of the instru­ments back for gold.

In that case, probably gold would be worth a lot more than what it is today because we would have all these national curren­cies. So there’s also that. So gold and then there’s the national curren­cies. And then there’s the question of how much of the store value market in the world. How much of the finan­cial markets in the world and the art market, and the real estate market is actually just store of value demand that could better be repli­cated by just going into bitcoin.

How many people are just buying houses and real estate invest­ments not because they want to own houses, but because they want to store their wealth. So you think that could lead to poten­tially more stuff for bitcoin to eat as it rises.

Another fantastic point. I do a lot of business in South America, and I’ve been doing so since, call it 2014. And for the Ameri­cans or people in more devel­oped economies, they might not get this. But in South America, I mean I’m going to call it almost 100% of the popula­tion stores their wealth in real estate. That’s just what you do. I mean, when I was in Ecuador, even the poor people in the fishing villages, if they earned an extra even hundred thousand dollars, what they do is they just build another 10 or 20 square feet on their house and they just keep building, and building, and building, and building.

And the same thing in Medellin, Colombia where I’ve been doing real estate since 2015. I would say and I had the numbers for this, but almost like 90% of the apart­ments that are owned there are owned just outright. There’s no mortgage on them, because people really don’t have savings accounts there. Their currency hasn’t been a store of value at all. It’s lost a lot more than the dollar a lot faster. So for them, their house, their apart­ment, their property, their FINCA, it’s a store of value. It’s their savings account. So I think you just hit the nail on the head there, very inter­esting point.

Yeah. I think in my book, I argue basically bitcoin is the most advanced technology for saving that we’ve ever invented because it’s strictly scarce. Gold was the most advanced because gold by nature of its chemistry can never increase it more than 1 or 2% per year, but bitcoin is even more advanced because in a few years, it’s going to go below gold’s growth rate and eventu­ally drops to zero. So it’s the one thing, one liquid asset that we have in the world that is strictly scarce. There’s never going to be more than 21 million. That’s it.

When you think about it this way, there’s no better thing in which if you want to store value in the future, this offers, in my mind, the expla­na­tion for why we’ve seen so much gains in bitcoin and I think as long as this continues, the case is arguably very strong that this is quite useful as a store of value simply because nobody can make more of it. We’ve had 10 years, 11 years of this thing running and nobody managed to find a way of making one bitcoin more than what should be made in the schedule by this block height. And I think that’s an aston­ishing inven­tion really.

Just thinking about it, it’s almost… Robert Breedlove on Twitter compares this to the inven­tion of zero. It’s a mental construct. Once we’ve invented… It changes the way that we can do math just by thinking of zero and in a sense inventing this first strictly scarce asset just changes the way that we deal with scarcity and with storing value and with saving for the future. It’s an aston­ishing idea.

I would even take it a step further and that I don’t even think it’s a fixed number of bitcoin. I think it’s a decreasing number. These human beings are always going to lose them. That may be a crude way of looking at it, but there might be more than one billion, but sure next year, there’s going to be maybe 20.5 and as the years go on, you lose more, and more, and more of them. So it’s a scarce asset as is that becomes more and more scarce just because us, clumsy human beings are just going to lose our thumb drive or who knows what we’ll do.

We call those donations, George.

It’s philan­thropy. Defla­tionary philan­thropy.

So Saif, I want to circle back to this idea of monetary premiums in other assets especially real estate. So how much do you think that the monetary premiums in these actually hard assets drives wealth inequality or inequality of access to these assets that are needed?

I think it’s quite signif­i­cant because it makes the market for people who are looking for homes. It’s not just young people who are looking to leave their parents home and start their own family and have their own home. On top of that, you have people who already have a house, but are looking for a savings account that can’t be confis­cated through capital controls and infla­tion by their govern­ment. The people in Latin America instead of putting money in a bank account or a stock market or something, some advanced technology for saving like bitcoin, they end up having to buy a new apart­ment.

So you see this all over the world so many apart­ments are empty or are owned by people that are renting them out. It’s increased demand. Most people have no business specu­lating in the real estate business. This should be something that is provided by profes­sionals who have exper­tise in this business. If you’re a doctor, you’re not providing any value to the real estate business by investing in real estate proper­ties. In a healthy finan­cial system, what you’re looking for in terms of savings, you would keep in a decent saving vehicle like gold or bitcoin.

Then what you’re looking to invest, you’d invest in things in which you have, some kind of specific edge that allows you to under­stand probably your own business. You’d open your own clinic, your own practice or some business that you have some exper­tise with. But I think this notion that every­body needs to be a real estate specu­lator just so that they can retire is in my mind massive ineffi­ciency in the housing market. I think we’d have cheaper houses avail­able for people if it was just the people who… If the people bidding for houses were only the people who were looking for houses to live in, to buy. And if credit for housing wasn’t so easy to get, houses would be far cheaper.

I mean, I think that’s a huge point that I hope everyone just under­stands and I would take it and say all finan­cial assets. Let’s take it back to 1930 and if you look at a chart of infla­tion from 1930 to today, you see that every single year, it’s just pretty much going up. We’ve got a few years it just goes down a fraction. It might stay the same, but it’s just up, up, up, up. Take it prior to 1930 and you see that infla­tion and defla­tion was more like a heart­beat. It would go up, it would go down, it go up, it would go down and most of the time it stayed pretty consis­tent.

If you look at the 1800s as an example, the late 1800s, we had about 3% defla­tion per year. So the price of goods and services were going down. Now most people especially Keyne­sians would have a heart attack and say, “Oh my gosh, that must have been the most horrible time in history.” But it wasn’t. We had nominal GDP growth and we had nominal wages increase. We also had about 4% nominal rates. So you could put your money in a bank back then and you could get a 7% real return. So you didn’t need to specu­late on real estate or in the stock market or in bonds.

But now that we have a two or 3% per year infla­tion, I would argue that it’s higher going back to 1980. You don’t have a choice. The average Joe and Jane, whether they know it consciously or subcon­sciously, they realize that if they keep their money in the bank, they’re never going to be able to retire. The way that you get ahead is you buy a home or you take and you put as much money as you possibly can in your 401k to go in the stock market and then maybe, just maybe you’ll have enough money to retire.

But if you think about it, that’s because we have lived in a state of infla­tion where those currency units are losing value every single day. If they were gaining in value every single day, it’s the complete opposite. I would go so far as to say it would not only alleviate the misal­lo­ca­tion of resources through just pure specu­la­tion of the overall economy, but it would make society so much better because people… Just as an example, a McDon­ald’s worker. Let’s say they’re making $1,500 a month. Their expenses are $1,500 a month.

If you take and run that math over 20 years at 3% defla­tion and a 1% raise in their nominal wages, at the end of the 20 years, they’re making $1,800 a month doing the same job flipping burgers. If they don’t get a raise, if they don’t get a promo­tion. And you say, “George, that’s only a 300 raise over 20 years.” Right, but their expenses have gone from $1,500 down to $800.

So now they have a thousand dollar delta right there and they have a thousand dollars every single month of dispos­able income. They’ve gotten richer just debt, but the problem is they still have a really unstable economy because it’s built around oil where we would have the same thing. You could wipe out all these things that people perceived to be the problem, but it wouldn’t rearrange our economy.

Our economy still is the same. You look at the zombie corpo­ra­tions in Japan. Even if you could wipe out their debt, zombie corpo­ra­tions are still there. So would anything really change if you just do a couple accounting tricks? Not really. So what bitcoin does or what any hard money system does is it starts from the ground up and every­thing that you build on top of this infra­struc­ture, on top of this founda­tion is solid, it’s secure, it’s sustain­able. I mean I know that’s a buzzword now with everyone in the green commu­nity and whatnot. But for me, something that’s sustain­able, number one is something that is profitable. I know it’s a bizarre concept in today’s stock market.

It’s profitable, but also it doesn’t require massive amounts and ever expanding amounts of debt in money printing and fiat currency. That’s sustain­able. So again, my main point is that whether it’s Bitcoin Standard, whether it’s gold, anything that fixes these currency units and provides us with natural defla­tion, a free market economy where entre­pre­neurs are always producing more efficient goods and services at lower and lower prices, that’s where we want to be. And I think looking at this through an optimistic lens hopefully I think we could get there. I know we could get there as human beings because we’ve done it many, many times before we’re very resilient and I think that’s how we kind of come out the other side.

Yeah. And I really think it’s shaping up to be bitcoin. That’s the solution. Bitcoin really is the… Because you identify the problem exactly in terms of the problem of not having a hard money and how govern­ment captures that and bitcoin just routes around the way govern­ment is able to capture it. And this is why I think… I’m not one of the people who puts a high proba­bility on there being the violent crack­down on bitcoin because I think it’s just… The natural techno­log­ical limita­tions of physical gold naturally led to govern­ment having the ability to abuse its authority over gold and then having that ability led to all these insti­tu­tions that were built around it.

When new technology is created, it creates its own reality and the world adjusts to it. So people deal with it from a self-interest perspec­tive, and that’s eventu­ally what bitcoin does. That’s the cycle of skepti­cism. You start off thinking, of course, this can’t work, of course, it’s going to fail. Then it continues to work and then you’re starting to appre­ciate why it continues to not fail. Then eventu­ally you under­stand that there’s value related there and that it’s relevant to you and you could use it yourself.

Yeah. I think that every day that goes by, as we see more adoption with bitcoin, the better proba­bility you have that that’s the default mecha­nism. So many people say, “Oh, we’ll never go on a bitcoin center. We’ll never go on a gold standard again. It will never ever happen. Govern­ments will never choose to go on XYZ standard.” But what they’re not under­standing is it might not be govern­ment’s choice.

You might not have an alter­na­tive.

Yeah. The Roman empire didn’t choose to go out of business.

Exactly, right. So if you get this gradual adoption, the more time goes on, the more bitcoin isn’t a new thing. It’s not a bizarre thing. You don’t have these grand­mothers like, “Bit what? Bit who? What’s going on here?” I think it’s very inter­esting and I’m not sure the specific countries in Africa, but I know many of them, the people aren’t even using cash. They’re just trading their their cellphone minutes back and forth on their cellphone or whatever little… I forgot the name of the little unit of exchange, but it just goes back and forth on their cellphone.

Although it might not be bitcoin directly, the bottom line is it’s a currency that’s completely digital that’s going back and forth that people are already starting to adopt. And of course the millen­nials are doing it. Even on your twitter feed, I know someone was making fun of both of us calling us boomers like, “Oh, I’m not watching that one. You got two boomers on there.” Right? But my point is obviously, it’s being more and more adopted by the younger gener­a­tion. So as those kids get older, it’s not so bizarre to them and that benefits bitcoin even more, I think.

You get to that point where govern­ments don’t have a choice because of a total loss of confi­dence in fiat current.

Yeah. All right. So I’m going to sneak in two questions here because you guys are going for 45 minutes on one question, which I love. It’s great. I’m going to sneak two in here.

Making your job easy, huh?

Yeah, exactly. And I want to check in, we’re about 15 minutes away or so from end time.

I forgot where we’re at.

So I want to know if you guys can go a little longer than we had planned or if you have a hard cut off?

I’m fine. Go ahead and let me look at my calendar here. Are people-

You check it out. All right. So here’s the questions. To follow up on the question about transi­tions. So we have some chatter in the YouTube chat about central bank digital curren­cies like a fed coin, right?

So Saif, what do you think about the prospects of a fed coin and the compe­ti­tion that it might bring against bitcoin?

I think ultimately we might get some forms of more digiti­za­tion. I think there will be things like that, but ultimately it’s not a digital currency. It’s still any national currency. And it’s orthog­onal to bitcoin, it’s irrel­e­vant to bitcoin or I shouldn’t say irrel­e­vant, it’s different from bitcoin because it doesn’t do anything that bitcoin does. In partic­ular, there are two things that are distin­guishing bitcoin from current national curren­cies, which is that bitcoin’s monetary policy is algorithmic, it’s not discre­tionary. Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides what to do with bitcoin’s monetary policy.

Also, the bitcoin payment final­iza­tions, clear­ance, and settle­ment is also algorithmic and crypto­graphic and program­mable rather than discre­tionary. So nobody can freeze your bitcoin account, nobody can confis­cate it. So those are the two main functions of central banks. That’s why central banks are there to decide who can pay and who can’t pay on one hand and secondly to decide what’s going to happen with the monetary policy.

So the notion that central banks would invent a digital currency or intro­duce a digital currency that takes away those two things, I think is a non-starter. They’re not getting themselves out of business. They’re not going to intro­duce a currency who supplies algorithmic or whose payment clear­ance is totally crypto­graphic. They’re still going to want what programs call god mode. They’re still going to want the ability to say, “No, you can’t send them money.” And they’re still going to want to set the money supply.

All they’re doing is that they’re just making it more digital­ized and there­fore hopefully making it, just as George was saying getting bitcoin accep­tance into people’s minds. So we thank them for the free PR.

Basically like a last gasp like rebranding of the dollar basically.

I think bitcoin could get us there a lot faster. And going back to what we’re talking about of the collapse of confi­dence in fiat currency itself. So I don’t want to get too wonky on everyone here, but if we create, let’s call it a fed coin and I actually talked to Ron Paul about this the other day. Basically what would have to happen is everyone would have to have a bank account with the fed with bank reserves just like the primary dealer banks and the banks under the fed’s umbrella because the fed right now can’t really create broad money directly as of right now. I think that may change, but right now they just create base money.

And I don’t want to bore anyone with details, but that’s why quanti­ta­tive easing, they could take it up to 10 trillion, 20 trillion and it wouldn’t neces­sarily affect consumer prices because the transfer mecha­nism there is A, the debt moneti­za­tion with the govern­ment. If they’re not doing that, then it has to be lent out into new money by the commer­cial banking system. And those bank reserves, they’re not lending those out directly. Those only just backstop additional loans and increase the capacity of their balance sheet, okay?

So that’s the way it works right now, but I’m thinking that maybe very soon here and we saw this how cumber­some it was to get out these stimulus checks that the fed because, they’re thinking okay, we’re going to take on more power. We want more control over the currency and how money is spent and we want to know where you’re spending every single dollar. We want more and more control over that whether it’s the fed, the govern­ment just the central planners, let’s call them. They want to micro­manage every­thing. So they take that. They set up this fed coin and say, “What you have to do is download this app on your phone and every single month, we’ll send you these stimulus checks or UBI,” whatever you want to call it of let’s say $2,000.

Then you can go right to Starbucks and use that on your phone. Okay. Well, everyone is going to… In my opinion, most people will adopt that because it’s free money and then you are on this fed coin system, if we look at the work of Dr. Lacey Hunt who’s one of my favorite econo­mists, he’s someone that’s really in the defla­tionary camp, but he says that once you change the Federal Reserve Act to allow the federal reserve to change what he calls their liabil­i­ties into actual currency units, into broad money, increase M2 money supply directly, that’s where he goes from being a defla­tionist to someone who sees us being on the path to hyper infla­tion.

Those are his words, not mine. And if you don’t know who Lacy Hunt is, not a tin foil hat guy. He goes all the way back to the Milton Friedman days. He is an OG. He is legit. You can look him up, google him for sure. So that’s how he sees this. So my point is that by creating this fed coin, what they’re doing is they’re getting us on the path to hyper­in­fla­tion. And the faster we get to hyper­in­fla­tion, obviously, that’s by defin­i­tion a loss of confi­dence in fiat currency. That’s when as a society, as a global society, we start looking for an alter­na­tive, whatever it is.

So you see my point? I think they’re going to a fed coin. Obviously, it’s not a cryptocur­rency, it’s just a more digital currency that gives them more control, but I think inadver­tently if they do that, they put us right on the path that will lead to their own destruc­tion.

All right. So here’s the second question I was going to ask then because I didn’t get it in. That was my mistake. All right. So we’re talking about how bitcoin might global, talking about hyper­in­fla­tion, hyper­bit­coiniza­tion. We’ve talked about the path that might be taken to get to a bitcoin future. So yeah, I wanted to go back to that idea, but ask a more specific question. What country do you guys think will be the first to publicly disclose that they have bought some bitcoin for their own treasury if they’re sover­eign treasury.

Again, remem­bering that at the top we talked about how we have macro investors, big investors buying in. We have compa­nies now buying in. It seems like the last kind of stone to fall is a sover­eign nation. Obviously, the game theory says that because it’s an asymmetric bet, you could make an asymmetric bet on the future of your country’s power and really rise and increase your country’s power on the global stage signif­i­cantly by accumu­lating bitcoin now. So what do you guys think? Saif, you want to start?

I think Venezuela.

Because what’s their downside? I mean obviously, the guy running the show there is a complete nut, but if you got someone that actually had some sense, then why not start going on what’s called a Bitcoin Standard. Because if you look at hyper­in­fla­tions throughout history, the way you partic­u­larly get rid of that like with Zimbabwe as an example. You say, “Okay. Just automat­i­cally overnight, we’re not using this Zimbabwe thing anymore. We’re using the dollar.” It’s just a change of confi­dence.

I employ a lot of them in Colombia, so believe me, they’re no fans of what’s going on there to say the least. I mean, viscer­ally it makes them sick when I even talk about it on my videos. So they’re going to have this complete loss in anything that the govern­ment comes out that even resem­bles a fiat currency which just puts them right back in the same position. So why not just say, “Okay. We’re on a bitcoin standard. We are no longer going to control…” I mean, the only other thing they could do is like dollarize something like that. But I don’t think Venezuela would do that because they want nothing to do with the US govern­ment. Although Ecuador did it, but I think that’s kind of what have you got to lose? There’s no downside. The only thing you have is upside so why not?

We know that Venezuela is using bitcoin. We know that Venezuela that some govern­ment depart­ment, I think for passport renewal, they were charging people in bitcoin because they can’t get their money from the regular banking system because they’re bankrupt and they were charging bitcoin. But I think it’s not so much about charging and holding it or using it, it’s about holding it for the long term. That’s the really inter­esting thing.

With a govern­ment like Venezuela, it doesn’t matter how much bitcoin they buy and sell and spend. I mean, it doesn’t matter how much bitcoin they get in, they’re going to continue to spend it and so they won’t really benefit from holding and appre­ci­ating in the long run. It’s really hard to say. I mean, it’s 200 govern­ments or something in the world. It’s really hard to say which one of them is going to take the plunge on it.

If I were to make a wild guess, I’d say Switzer­land just because they were the ones who had the gold standard for the longest time and they went off the gold standard the most recently. So perhaps, they might be the ones that are most percep­tive to it.

Yeah. I’d like to dive into talking a little bit about the market narra­tives in bitcoin and we’ve seen the narra­tive change quite a bit. It seems like the prevailing narra­tive now is probably digital gold in terms of like the widespread view of bitcoin. So Saif, how do you see bitcoin narra­tives evolving as adoption happens and works its way up the S curve?

I mean, I think the main evolu­tion is going to be the one that we mentioned earlier from asymmetric bet on this happening in over long-term into it becoming more and more of just a boring monetary asset that every­body holds and that’s ultimately it. I think we’ve seen a lot of narra­tives come and go and we’re going to continue to see a lot of narra­tives come and go that missed the point. But it may just be that hard money is really… It’s just going to be the narra­tive that is dominant.

Yeah. What I’d be curious to know and I’m sure you guys have your finger on the pulse of this more than I do is what is the proba­bility of the tech around bitcoin advancing to the point where it could legit­i­mately be a medium of exchange? Because correct me if I’m wrong right now, it’s rather cumber­some. The amount of trans­ac­tions that happen on a daily basis would just completely overwhelm the system and it would be slow or the amount of electrical needs what not. But I’m assuming there’s tons of people that are trying to figure out workarounds for that.

Yeah, there are. The thing that I argue in my book is… And that’s why the title of my book is The Bitcoin Standard is that you can’t really compare bitcoin trans­ac­tions with credit card payments. Bitcoin trans­ac­tions are final settle­ment trans­ac­tions so you have to compare them with settle­ment payments across inter­na­tional borders. That’s the advan­tage. If I send you a bitcoin trans­ac­tion and you’re in the same room, it costs let’s say five cents and it takes a few minutes or a couple of hours to confirm.

But if I send that same trans­ac­tion across the world to China, that’s also going to cost the same thing. So the trans­ac­tions that are going to be used in… I mean bitcoin is going to be used, in my opinion more as a settle­ment layer rather than for individual payments. I don’t think individ­uals are going to be using bitcoin to pay for their coffee, the bitcoin tune. And scaling limita­tions, and I show some numbers in my book, bitcoin does, what is it, half a million trans­ac­tions a day or something like that and Visa does I think something like 2 billion.

Even if we improve bitcoin in all kinds of way, there are limita­tions because it’s decen­tral­ized that mean that it will always be different from Visa. But you can’t compare Visa payments to bitcoin payments because Visa payments are credit payments. Visa payment is my credit card goes to your machine and in your shop and then my bank tells your bank that they’re going to settle with them and then they sort it out and it takes several weeks for it to finally settle. But a bitcoin trans­ac­tion is final.

Once you’ve gotten six, 10 confir­ma­tions, whatever, it’s going to take a few hours. Once you’ve gotten a few of these confir­ma­tions, then you’ve gotten to the point where the trans­ac­tion is completely secure. Well, completely is obviously a big word, but it’s secure and it’s irreversible. So in this regard we need to think of the bitcoin chain base layer as being similar to physical gold or physical money and that it’s going to be moved around. Central banks will exchange gold and they will exchange physical cash with each other and banks will move physical cash around, but ultimately the majority of trans­ac­tions will be done digitally without the physical under­lying asset having to move.

I think bitcoin is going to scale with that like there will be second layer solutions that are settled with the second layer bitcoin. It’s the second on the first layer, settled on the first layer of bitcoin chain.

How do you see the exten­sion of credit, if we’re on a bitcoin standard because obviously, you’re not lending… or how does that… Let me just…

My feeling… Well, I wouldn’t say feeling. I think the way that I think about it is that in that kind of situa­tion where we have hard money and what would happen is that banking would have two functions. Deposits where you pay people in order to store your money for you and have it avail­able for you and use it to settle payment around the world. And I think this is a very valuable service that your money is at once safe from theft and also a click of a button away from being sent to China.

So you pay people for offering you that service, so deposit banking and then there’s equity banking in my mind or equity invest­ment. I don’t see the possi­bility of… I don’t think credit really makes sense in this world, but I don’t think that’s neces­sarily a bad thing. I don’t see why it wouldn’t be a problem. I think deposit banking and equity are all that anybody needs. If you want your money to just remain safe or if you want your money to be there, then you pay people to store it.

Now, if you want your money to earn a return, they can’t just store it for you, they have to put it out, which means that there’s going to be a risk involved, which means that it’s going to be invested. And in a world in which nobody has a money printer and central banks can’t bail out banks, I don’t see how you can give depos­i­tors guaran­tees on their invest­ment. If lenders are not offered the guarantee on the downside because the central bank can’t bail them out, I don’t see why they would want to lend with a fixed interest rate rather than just taking equity, which has unlim­ited upside.

Right. So if I’m hearing you correctly, we’re not looking at a fractional reserve system there?

I don’t think it would work. I think bitcoin fixes the glitch in gold that makes fractional reserve banking work, because gold requires banks and places so much value in bank’s ability to clear money that it almost allows them to print money because they almost have like a monopoly network on banks. So bitcoin, by making settle­ments so cheap and open to anybody an open source and not monop­o­listic, anybody can set up their own bitcoin node and settle payments for people all over the world. I think by making it into an open market, it makes it very hard for banks to engage in things like fractional reserve banking or maturity trans­for­ma­tion. That’s also something I get into in detail in the fiat standard.

Yeah. I just wonder how that would work with the growth of the economy needing a growth of the money supply or if it just comes through defla­tion like you’re talking about.

Maybe we get five, 10% defla­tion a year.

Yeah, right because that in essence would increase the amount of… I want to call them units of measure­ment avail­able. Let’s just say that we had one bitcoin or had one dollar. A lot of people say, well, then the economy could never grow. But it could if you just divided the dollar into small amounts. Such as pennies, right?

And then everyone that was saving those quarters or in this case bitcoin, they would just get richer and richer and richer just by holding it. So anyway, it’s just kind of a thing that I’ve tried to think through there. I appre­ciate your feedback.

Yeah. It’s an absolutely amazing idea when you think about it that anybody can have their wealth, hold its value and appre­ciate over time, and that’s avail­able for anybody anywhere. Then if you want to take on extra risk. Once you’ve estab­lished an amount of saving that can protect you from say a rainy day or losing your job or whatever, and then you’re able to take risk, then you’re able to put invest­ments in. You’ll only invest and take risk once you find something that’s extremely compelling as an invest­ment. I think in that world, we’d only get resources diverted toward really valuable invest­ments that produce value in the long-term.

100%. We go back to what I said with a sustain­able business because your hurdle is so much higher. I mean, think what your hurdle rate is when you’re getting a business loan that costs 3% fixed rate over 30 years compared to if your hurdle rate was 10%. I mean, how much stronger would the cash flows of those businesses need to be? So, yeah.

Okay. Yeah, absolutely.

We had Jeff Booth on a couple of episodes ago with Lyn Alden. In his book, The Price of Tomorrow, he talks a lot about the defla­tionary forces that technology brings. We’ve actually like with the fiat standard been overcoming or suppressing the defla­tionary forces of technology.

Yeah, I’d agree.

I think the risk of defla­tion causing some problems or making… I don’t believe in the hoarding effect anyway or bringing the economy to a stand­still anyway. But with the defla­tionary effects of technology then there’s like no risk at all. I think we’re going to see really quick defla­tion especially with the hard money economy. Okay, guys. Time is up there. I want to respect you guys’ time and we’ll wrap it up. Any closing words?

No. This has been a fasci­nating conver­sa­tion. I appre­ciate you both for your time and expressing your views. I’ve learned a lot.

Likewise. Thank you. I really enjoyed this as well. I want to pick your brain about refer­ences on a couple of things that you mentioned, the 7% return in the 1890s. If you can give me refer­ences-

I was just using the 4% combined with 3% defla­tion to get the 7% real.

I’m looking for sources on this and a couple of other things. I’ll probably email you about them.

Okay. I think you’ve got my email, don’t you?

I’ll make sure, Saif has it.

All right. Thanks so much guys. And again, you know can find Saifedean’s work at saifedean.com. That’s S‑A-I-F-E-D-E-A‑N and George Gammon at youtube.com/georgegammon. It’s been a fantastic episode, guys. Of course, you can start stacking some bitcoin. I know you want to now. You can go stack some bitcoin regularly and steadily with automatic recur­ring buys at swanbitcoin.com. Thanks everyone for being here today.

Thank you so much, Brady. Take care. Bye-bye.

Thanks so much again to Saif and George for joining us today. You can find Saif on Twitter at @saifedean. That’s at S‑A-I-F-E-D-E-A‑N and George @GeorgeGammon. I am @CitizenBitcoin. On behalf of the Swan team, thanks so much for joining us. We hope you enjoyed this episode of the Swan Signal podcast. It’s fun to join us live on the YouTube broad­cast at youtube.com/swansignal. So head over there, subscribe, and turn on the notifi­ca­tion. We have a lot of fun in the live chat and we often are able to work in some questions for listeners.

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Episode 9 –Rockstar Devel­oper and Jeremy Rubin

Episode 10 – Bitcoin TINA and CK Snarks

Episode 11– Gigi and Knut Svanholm

Episode 12 –Adam Back and Preston Pysh

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Episode 14 –Robert Breedlove and Tuur Demeester

Episode 15 –Isaiah Jackson and Max Keiser

Episode 16 –Gigi and Udi Wertheimer

Episode 17 –Aleks Svetski and Jimmy Song

Episode 18 –Stephan Livera and Marty Bent

Episode 19 –Mark Moss and Ben Prentice

Episode 20 –Samson Mow and Parker Lewis

Episode 21–Lyn Alden and Jeff Booth

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as a result of letting the free market do its job, create goods and services at lower and lower prices.

Absolutely. That’s all music to my ears. People don’t get the idea that economics is not a rat race. Economics is we produce stuff and then that makes life better for us. And really by burning the value of our money, we’re making it so that every person is constantly watching… The alter­na­tive is that you’re just going to watch your wealth be dissi­pated. So you have no reason to save, you have no reason to think about the future. Your focus is going to be about what can I do with this money right now.

So that destroys the incen­tive for saving. In fact, think about it. With a hard money that appre­ci­ates at 1 or 2 or 3%, children could start getting their birthday gifts in small little sums of money and then they can start watching them appre­ciate over time. From the age of three, five, 10, you start saving and you watch them appre­ci­ating. And it makes sense that you’d work little jobs in the summer as a kid. You do a little bit of work here and there and you could see people actually saving up from their own money with the help of some savings, some work and some defla­tion.

It’s not impos­sible to imagine that any normal person working any kind of menial job given the techno­log­ical capacity of our society today. It’s normal that people should be able to afford normal and decent homes with 24-hour electricity and running hot water. It’s just something that is so cheap to produce given our techno­log­ical capac­i­ties today that really any burger flipper should be able to afford it. If you spend eight hours a day flipping burgers, that’s an extremely valuable thing. You should be able to afford saving up to that after a few years. You should be able to afford to buy a house.

I think it would be something that would be taken for granted in this world. For most of the 19th century, you’re right, people could save. People had that ethic of saving. They had that idea that you put your money aside and you save and you watch it grow. Now, that’s completely replaced with the idea that no, you just continue to spend and all of your life you spend, you spend, you spend and then when you have major expenses, you just take out a loan, and you get into the debt. Then the more income you get, the bigger debt you can take on.

Yeah. It’s ironic that we’ve got the people in the central bank, all these PhDs that see infla­tion as the solution, right? They see it as the solution to every­one’s problems instead of looking at it as the cause of the problem.

If we could just get people to rearrange their thinking and say, “Okay, wait a minute. If all this additional govern­ment spending, let’s say through welfare, this creates infla­tion. It creates additional money supply. Now, whether that comes out in the CPI due to velocity, that’s a whole other story. But you’re increasing the money supply through the debt moneti­za­tion of the fed and let’s say they’re spending it on welfare, that’s the solution that as a society we look to or the govern­ment just has to spend more money, the govern­ment just has to provide health­care or whatever. But if we turned it on its head, so to speak and said, “Well, if we just go back to defla­tion, we don’t need the govern­ment to solve all these problems, which they just make worse, that society could handle it on their own because they’ve got a hard money that stays consis­tent or appre­ci­ates over time.”

Listen, if that’s where bitcoin can take us, then I think everyone should be on board. Philo­soph­i­cally, I don’t think anyone is more aligned with bitcoin than I am whether it pans out, only time will tell, but I think if you under­stand really the ramifi­ca­tions for society at large to have a currency or a store of value, that’s scarce, that’s limited. You almost solve every single problem that we have at least in the devel­oped economies today.

Yeah. A lot of people make fun of bitcoiners because one of the things that we’re always saying is whatever problem there is bitcoin fixes this. But really, if we do manage to put central banks out of business and replace them with a form of software where every­body in the world can have access to a hard money that they could save in, really that’s going to fix an enormous amount of problems all over the world.

It’s all about hard money.

It’s all about hard money whether it’s gold, whether it’s bitcoin, whether you want a price in oil, whatever you want to do. As long as you got that hard money, that’s what it’s all about.

Yeah. But oil is not a hard money.

I’m just saying you use anything you want. I don’t care what you plug into the equation. As long as-

I mean, the reason gold was used is because it is hard, but I think the inter­esting thing about bitcoin is that it gets over the one limita­tion of gold, which is that gold is physical and clunky to move around. Bitcoin is native to the internet so there’s no physical asset to it anywhere. There’s nothing in the world that is a physical manifes­ta­tion of bitcoin that is needed for bitcoin to operate. So it exists purely digitally. So it can travel around the world very fast, very cheap. That’s the really powerful thing about it.

And so far, the past 11 years we don’t really have time to get into the technical details, but judging by results, we’ve had 11 years in which the supply has not been inflated by anybody or corrupted by anybody. That’s the really inter­esting thing.

Yeah. Where do you… I’m sorry, Brady. Do you have another question, Brady? I was going to…

No. Go ahead man. Go ahead. This is great.

How do you guys recon­cile the advance­ment of bitcoin? Let’s say that it triples in values. It quadru­ples in value. So now all of a sudden, it’s a competitor where the govern­ment really sees this as competing with the dollar. And I under­stand that they can’t ban it from a stand­point that it’s decen­tral­ized. I totally get that, but they make it illegal to where the conse­quences of being caught although very few people actually do get caught, but the conse­quences are so extreme that it prevents people from using it or holding it or want to. How do we get around that with bitcoin?

I mean, first of all, there’s no promises and no guaran­tees. So obviously this is a risk that any investor needs to assume and assess on their own. But I would say the… First of all, the fact that trying to pass a ban like this is highly unlikely to succeed. You can see it from the fact that you can still get drugs in pretty much any major city in the world even though drugs are illegal and even though drugs need to be physi­cally produced and processed and trans­ported and sold, and yet you can still secure them.

So bitcoin requires people to just run code on their computers and it can be encrypted. Of course, there’ll always be surveil­lance mecha­nisms, but there are always ways to get around them. It’s a compli­cated cat and mouse game, but I think ultimately it’s very hard to ban it and I think it seems that… At some point, it might even be ridicu­lous that we are discussing this because it’s been 11 years now and some govern­ments have issued recom­men­da­tions against it here and there, but practi­cally we haven’t seen any kind of real crack down on bitcoin.

It’s getting to a point where it’s entering into the mainstream and I think the way that I look at it is that in a sense this isn’t a superior technology and this is a point that I make repeat­edly in my talks. People think about this as if it’s just like a new gimmick, whether they let us adopt it or they won’t let us adopt it. But I think it’s better to think about it as something like dynamite. So when you’ve invented dynamite, govern­ments can make it illegal, but the smarter ones would rather have the dynamite themselves.

I think this is the case with bitcoin. I think the ultimate security of bitcoin rests not on maybe the technical speci­fi­ca­tions, but it rests on the fact that it’s going to be compelling as an economic option for every­body including people in govern­ment. I think we see this increas­ingly. Members of congress are open about the fact that they hold bitcoin and we see more and more finan­cial insti­tu­tions getting into it. It’s more likely that people once they under­stand the impli­ca­tions of bitcoin, it’s more likely that they would want to be on the side of bitcoin rather than fighting it because fighting it is extremely expen­sive and it has an extremely high oppor­tu­nity cost because if you failed, you could have spent all that time and money on securing yourself more of the scarce bitcoin buy.

Inciden­tally, I think the point where I started really paying atten­tion to bitcoin was in 2013 when it didn’t really collapse after the Silk Road incident. After that was shut down and bitcoin continued to operate. Later on, I remember hearing from one of the inves­ti­ga­tors where she I think said something along the lines of, “Once I started learning about bitcoin, my initial intuition was all right, we should just shut this thing down. But then as I dug into it, I thought to myself no, we should use this to identify the drug dealers and to work with them.”

I’ve heard several stories of this both in person to talking to people as well as reading about them. Inter­est­ingly enough, that same inves­ti­gator ended up also working in bitcoin and holding bitcoin, and using it. Now, she works in some bitcoin compa­nies as well. So I think there’s this allure to hard money that I think you clearly obviously under­stand the value propo­si­tion of gold. And in a sense, if you under­stand gold and you see bitcoin as digital gold, it starts to make sense that people don’t want to ban gold. They want to get their hands on it.

So they if they’re banning it, they’re probably taking it away from you so that they would have it rather than banning it because they don’t want to touch it. Because it’s really scarce and if it’s banned, I’d rather have it banned while I possess it rather than take my chances and not own it because I can’t get it back again because of that scarcity.

I see what has happened, let’s just say, since we can go back a long time, but let’s just take recently what has happened 2020 with the the coron­avirus and the fed coming in and doing limit­less quanti­ta­tive easing, commit­ting to a trillion dollars a day and repo. Just taking their balance sheet from under four trillion up to seven trillion. Or war. Bitcoin would prevent them from going into war, which I’m all about. I think everyone would be in favor of that except for the people in politics that gain polit­ical power through going to war and doing all of these, what I would consider nefar­ious things.

But I think that it’s just… If we were to say, “Okay, listen. We want to use this bitcoin that takes away the power of the central bank to increase the money supply and it elimi­nates the warfare state, it elimi­nates the welfare state. I don’t think govern­ments are going to… Or at least the United States govern­ments and the devel­oped economies are going to jump on board with that. But what I do think is inter­esting, if we get to a point where if bitcoin rises in value that much, then my guess is there’s going to be a lot of skepti­cism at that time even more so than today with fiat curren­cies.

One thing that I’ve looked into just recently because of how hard it is to travel right now, and I don’t even want to go into the story of me trying to get from Medellin, Colombia just to St. Barts. I mean it was like a mission impos­sible movie with Tom Cruise. I mean it was just crazy having to get a human­i­tarian flight out of Medellin to Fort Lauderdale. Then in Fort Lauderdale, I couldn’t get a COVID test in time to get to St. Bart’s because every­where in the Caribbean right now, you have to have a negative test that had been taken within three days.

And in Florida, when I was there, the fastest you could get the results was five days. So effec­tively, you’ve got a Berlin wall around Florida right there if you’re trying to get even somewhere like Puerto Rico. So I had to fly from Fort Lauderdale to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands just to get a COVID test. Get it in 24 hours or 48 hours. Then once I got the test done, then go to Puerto Rico then down to St. Barts on a semi charter flight.

I mean, it was insanity. But my point is I’m like, “Okay. I’m in the process right now of getting my Colom­bian passport to have dual citizen­ship, but I’ve looked into some of these Caribbean islands.” Now, the passports in these islands right now as an example St. Kitts, St. Lucia, the ones that you always hear about that are actually very good passports, they’re a fraction of the price of what they were prior to COVID because all of their revenues are decreasing so they have to lower their prices to compete with other countries that are selling these passports.

So fast forward or go back to what I was saying about bitcoin and the lack of confi­dence in fiat currency, maybe if we have a United States, Japan that takes those draconian measures, because they want to keep the warfare and the welfare state alive and well, and give the the federal reserve the power to create money supply or at least base money supply or M2. Who knows where it goes in the future? But maybe there’ll be other countries that say, “Hey, listen. What we’ll do is we’ll go and we’ll use bitcoin.

Puerto Rico right now with Act 20 and 22. I know a lot of bitcoin guys have gone there for that. So what Puerto Rico is doing, saying, “Hey, guys. Come here and spend your money. We’ll take bitcoin or we’ll lower your taxes. We’ll do whatever needs to be done to encourage you to come here and create jobs, create businesses, do these things.” So maybe if you’re a country that’s an emerging market and you’re saying, “Hey, how do we get out of our debt problem? How do we save our economy? I know what we’ll do. We’ll take bitcoin, guys. Come here. Bring all your money. Bring all your wealth. Bring your human capital. Bring your brain power, your experi­ence. Come here and create a tech industry, create businesses, create jobs. I think that’s where it could go.

Also too, if central banks, and you guys would know this a heck of a lot better than I would, but a few people that I’ve talked to recently that know the bitcoin space have kind of gone over this hypoth­esis when I was inter­viewing them about if central banks start bringing bitcoin on and using that as an asset on their balance sheet a little bit like they do with gold, so then if you had the central banks that were kind of giving it the green light although it might not become and replace their hallowed fiat currency, it becomes more adopted and then you kind of have that boiling of the frog effect, with bitcoin boiling the frog, being the politi­cians, the federal govern­ment and the central bank of that nation.

They just gradu­ally adopt it. So that kind of goes along with what you’re saying. But that’s kind of where I find the argument very inter­esting against what I brought up initially with the govern­ments just not wanting to lose power over the printing press and just saying, “You know what, bitcoin is illegal.”

Yeah, and I think… Go ahead, Brady.

I want to steer this into a certain direc­tion. Excuse me. So the irony that you were trying to point out, George was that govern­ment inter­ven­tions under the guise of trying to fix the problems, fix certain problems in society and the vast majority of them were caused by this singular inter­ven­tion that we all know as the govern­ment take over control of money. As you say, this is how Saif says bitcoiners have this meme and bitcoin fixes this. Saif, in your book, you write that human civiliza­tion flour­ished in times and places where sound money was widely adopted. Whereas unsound money all too frequently coincided with civiliza­tional decline and societal collapse. So question on the table now, how do you guys see the path toward a better society unfolding given that we transi­tion to a bitcoin based economy? And what lessons might we be able to draw from histor­ical transi­tions between global curren­cies? Saif, you want to start this one?

Sure. So gener­ally as a little disclaimer, my friends will probably let you know that I am the most optimisti­cally delusional person or delusion­ally optimistic person.

You must be a great entre­pre­neur.

It’s best reflected in my support of my football team where I’ve believed for every one of the last 30 years, the Liver­pool are going to win the league, and they never do. Of course, until this year they’ve won it. So now I guess-

Like being a Chicago Cubs fan.

Yeah, basically. So now perhaps my delusional optimism is not entirely misplaced since it did work out eventu­ally. I think in this situa­tion, I like to take the optimistic take that it’s not going to neces­sarily… Or bitcoin is what’s going to mean that the collapse of govern­ment money is going to be less painful and less problem­atic. I think this is the way that I would like to think of it. When hyper­in­fla­tion happens, the reason hyper­in­fla­tion is terrible is not just because people lose money, it’s not just because people lost their wealth.

It’s not just that every­body got an 80 or 90 or 99% haircut on their wealth, it’s the fact that businesses are no longer working. Shelves are empty and economic produc­tion breaks down. Farmers can’t grow food and then food can’t get to the shelves. And all that stuff breaks down because money is no longer usable, because there’s no longer a money in society. So that’s the real catastrophe of hyper­in­fla­tion much more than just the finan­cial losses that are attached to it.

Now, in the case of bitcoin, I’m slightly optimistic that perhaps what’s going to happen is that, because bitcoin is avail­able, as we witness more and more of these hyper­in­fla­tions around the world, more and more people will have access to bitcoin. More and more people will be able to hedge against their national curren­cies with bitcoin, hold a 5% position in bitcoin, 10% position in bitcoin, which could end up being 50% of your net worth after a couple of years of national currency infla­tion and a couple of years of bitcoin appre­ci­a­tion 50 or even 90.

So I think with this being there, it means that… And I don’t think bitcoin is yet at that point where the liquidity is large enough, but possibly in a few years, 10 years maybe let’s say when more hyper­in­fla­tionary cases like, say, Zimbabwe and Venezuela and Lebanon start happening, more and more people will have access to bitcoin and these things will start mattering less and less. The way that I see it is, and I discussed this in my forth­coming book, The Fiat Standard, bitcoin is the way that we eutha­nize and get rid of the fiat standard peace­fully and without too much blood­shed.

We don’t have to butcher it and risk it. Jumping and killing us while we’re butchering it. Nobody needs to be reliant upon it and as it starts to collapse, people can choose to opt out and use bitcoin. Bitcoin is better than gold in this regard because you can continue to use it inter­na­tion­ally whereas gold is much harder to use. So I’m going to go with the… I discuss all different scenarios in the book, maybe delusion­ally, but I’m optimistic that bitcoin ends up being more of an upgrade of the finan­cial software of the world rather than messy cataclysmic Roman empire collapse.

Well, I can tell you that if you can get some way to transact, it gets around the swift system that we have right now and around FATCA. The increase in global produc­tivity would be meaning­less. I mean we’re talking about something that I think would be very much like the airplane. Let me explain.

That’s a great metaphor, yeah.

An airplane would, let’s say, go from Phoenix to Las Vegas. Let’s just say we only had cars, right? So it takes you six hours. Well, that’s six hours of your time. Well, if it only takes you an hour to fly, then that’s five hours that you have saved that you could be producing goods and services. Well, times that by however many flights there are, how many hours we save as a result. I can tell you by doing so much business in South America and in Medellin that just getting my own money that it’s not someone else’s, I’m not going to loan. It’s my money from the United States just down to Colombia and then take the dollars and then buy the pesos, and put them in the bank, and go to the paper­work, and go to the reporting system and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Then you’ve got to pay the spread to the bank for doing the transfer. So think about how much money is flushed down the toilet right there and then how much time is wasted. I mean, we’re talking about billions if not trillions of dollars a year. This is completely wasted in economic output and produc­tivity as a result of having to deal with something so cumber­some as the current dollar fiat system we have. It’s not just about the global reserve currency, just these green pieces of paper, but people have to under­stand it’s about the infra­struc­ture.

So that’s why it’s so hard to go from, let’s say the dollar to the euro, or the yen, or the won, or something like that, it’s not neces­sarily it would be hard to change green pieces of paper for red pieces of paper.

No, but every­body’s locked into the infra­struc­ture and the KYC and all that.

The infra­struc­ture. But this infra­struc­ture is very cumber­some. So to your point, if we could get this seamless way to transfer money… I remember the first time I spoke with my buddy, Alex with Nuggets News, he made me… Right when I was talking to him on the phone. I don’t know if we were live or not, but he had me download this app on my wallet while I was talking to him. I think I still got it right here. It’s this Wallet of Satoshi. He told me to open it up like this and I put it right in front of the the camera there and he trans­ferred me like 2 or $3 in Satoshi’s just through the little webcam thing. I mean, to think about how hard that would have been if he would have tried to transfer me, let’s say 100,000 or something like that from Australia to where I was in Medellin, Colombia at the time.

I mean, this is a huge, huge advance­ment. It’s really a game changer as far as global produc­tivity. Also, what I wanted to say is you were talking about how the current system completely distorts the economy and it creates this… Well, let me back up here. So it distorts the economy, but I would go so far as to take it even a step further back. So what I mean by this is we were talking about infla­tion distorting the economy, but if you look at govern­ment debt, it distorts the economy as well and people say, “Well, yeah. But it’s when the debt gets to a certain level.” But what they don’t realize is it’s getting from A to B that really matters.

I think most people really don’t get that. So let me give you an example. Right now, the United States govern­ment is almost 50% of GDP. The govern­ment spending is over 50% of GDP. So that means that private sector economy or the produc­tive part of the economy is only 50%. Take that back before we had the federal reserve and it was over 90% of the govern­ment was the actual private sector that really produced the goods and services.

So now even if we could just elimi­nate all 26 trillion in debt, the problem is that our economy has been built around this govern­ment spending and these ineffi­cien­cies just like Venezuela using them as an example. You could solve all their debt problems or the dollar denom­i­nated

Via VOX EU To what degree has aggregate stable coin issuance driven the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies? This column addresses the Griffin and Shams (2018) collusion hypothesis based on results in Lyons and Viswanath-Natraj (2019). Our bottom line: We find no systematic evidence of stable coin issuance driving cryptocurrency prices. We do find, in contrast, evidence of alternative hypotheses for the drivers of issuance. Specifically, (i) stable coin issuance endogenously responds to deviations of the secondary market rate from the pegged rate and (ii) stable coins perform a significant role in the digital-asset economy as a safe haven. This can be seen, for example, in the significant premiums during the COVID-19 panic of March 2020. For perspective, stable coin use has risen dramatically in the last two years, with estimates of total trading between Bitcoin and Tether, the largest stable coin, exceeding the volume of Bitcoin/USD in 2019.1 That stable coin use should be growing so rapidly is consistent with their ‘raison d’etre’ – to solve the store-of-value problem by pegging their value to the US dollar (Yermack 2015). If a stable coin is managed by a centralised issuer, then in principle coin supply can be increased at its discretion, leading to potentially inflationary effects on crypto asset pricing. This question is important since Tether Inc. – the company behind Tether, the largest stable coin by market capitalisation – is facing litigation. As of October 2019, there is a class action suit against Tether that claims (i) Tether is not backed one-for-one by dollar reserves and (ii) Bitfinex increased Tether issuance during 2017 to manipulate Bitcoin markets.2 Allegations assert collusion between Tether Inc. and Bitfinex to increase stable coin issuance to drive the rapid appreciation in Bitcoin prices that occurred in late 2017.3 The collusion view finds support in the recent Griffin and Shams (2018) paper, which provides evidence consistent with Bitfinex expanding the supply of Tether to fuel a boom in Bitcoin in late 2017.4 Alternatively, if stable coins are used purely to satisfy transaction demand by investors, we would expect no systematic effect of stable coin issuance on the price of Bitcoin. To understand the role of Tether in potentially driving inflation of crypto asset prices, we first document how Tether is created. Figure 1 outlines that creation via collateralised dollar deposits.5 Figure 1 Tether creation process up to 2018 Analogous to a currency board, every Tether issued is in principle 100% backed by a dollar deposit, so that in the event of a run on the currency, all investors could redeem their Tether for an equivalent amount of dollars. Tether is created when an investor deposits dollars into Tether’s account, creating an equivalent supply of Tether that is introduced in circulation. Prior to 2018, nearly all the Tether created via grants was immediately distributed to Bitfinex and on to the other exchanges for trading in the secondary market. A change occurred in 2018: Tether Treasury now retains a fraction of the total Tether in circulation. Figure 2 separates total Tether in circulation into the secondary market and Tether kept in the reserves of the Treasury, with the 2018 change clearly evident. This is important for our analysis: To understand the impact of Tether on Bitcoin, we need total Tether in circulation net of Tether stored as reserves by the Treasury.6 The Treasury, through its reserve holdings of Tether, has the capacity to sell Tether for dollars in the event the Tether price in the secondary market is priced above parity.7 Figure 2 Tether supply held by the Treasury and in the secondary market Note: The figure plots total Tether in circulation, separating the amount in circulation in the secondary market (held by investors and exchanges) and the amount held by the Tether Treasury as reserves. Data are from Omniexplorer and Etherscan apis. Our first test is to measure the effect of shocks to Tether supply on the price of Bitcoin, after controlling for past movements in supply and Bitcoin price. This can control for two-way feedback and for lagged effects, for example. Using our more precise measure of Tether flow to the secondary market, we find no significant effect on prices of major non-stable crypto currencies (Figure 3). This result is robust to the choice of sample period – including the late 2017 period in which Bitcoin prices surged – and holds for other major stable coins as well.8 Our results do not preclude the possibility that price manipulation has occurred; however, based on aggregate issuance data, there is no systematic effect. This supports the view that stable coins operate more as a decentralised system of exchange rate pegs, without first-order intervention effects on prices via issuance. Instead, we argue in our paper that stable coins’ use as a vehicle currency is dependent on other factors (Lyons and Viswanath-Natraj 2019). We now turn to these other factors. Figure 3 Response of Bitcoin and Ethereum prices to Tether issuance Note: This figure documents local projections of a change in secondary-market issuance on the prices for Bitcoin and Ethereum, using the method in Jordà (2005). Data for secondary market flows are from Omniexplorer and Etherscan. Price data are from cryptocompare. Controls include lagged price changes, and changes in cryptocurrency fundamentals hash rate and number of unique addresses of the network, based on Bhambhwani et al. (2019). Sample period is from August 2017 to November 2019. Gray area denotes two-standard-error bands for statistical significance at the five-percent level, indicating no significant price impact over the subsequent 20 days. One factor that theory tells us can drive flows of Tether into the secondary market is the incentive to arbitrage deviations of Tether’s market price from the peg. For example, consider the case where the dollar price of Tether in the market is above parity. In this instance, an investor can buy Tether from the Treasury at a one-for-one rate, and sell Tether at the prevailing market rate for a profit, resulting in a flow of Tether from the Treasury to the secondary market.9 Our empirical analysis finds strong evidence of this: a 100 basis point (1 cent) increase in the dollar price of Tether results in a flow of approximately $0.3 billion to the secondary market. Arbitrage by secondary-market participants offers a decentralised solution to exchange rate stability. A second factor that theory tells us can drive Tether flows is the role of stable coins as a vehicle currency. In periods of risk, some investors will choose to exchange into a better store of value. Portfolio rebalancing toward Tether and other stable coins provide this function with minimal intermediation costs. On some exchanges, for example, there are long processing lags for dollar withdrawals in order to comply with intermediation procedures.10 During the period of collapse in Bitcoin markets in January and February of 2018, the price of Tether traded up to $1.05, a premium of 500 basis points (5 cents) in the secondary market, and data on trading in the Bitcoin-Tether market suggests a significant rebalancing of portfolios away from Bitcoin and towards Tether during this period. We also find quantitatively similar premiums in Tether and other stable coins during the COVID-19 panic of March 2020, in which the price of Bitcoin fell by 40% in a single day on 12 March. We test this more rigorously and find that returns on Tether and other major stable coins comove negatively and consistently with a cryptocurrency risk factor that explains the movements of cryptocurrency prices like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The negative correlations between stable coin returns and the risk factor are more pronounced during periods of increased volatility in Bitcoin markets, a fact also noted in Baur and Hoang (2019). This column answers a series of questions relevant to whether stable coins have an inflationary effect on crypto asset prices. The bottom line: We find no systematic evidence that stable coin issuance affects cryptocurrency prices. Rather, our evidence supports alternative views, namely, that stable-coin issuance endogenously responds to deviations of the secondary market rate from the pegged rate, and stable coins consistently perform a safe-haven role in the digital economy. Baur, D G and L T Hoang (2019), “A Crypto Safe Haven Against Bitcoin”, Available at SSRN. Bhambhwani, S, S Delikouras and G M Korniotis (2019), “Do Fundamentals Drive Cryptocurrency Prices?”, Available at SSRN. Griffin, J and A Shams (2018), “Is Bitcoin Really Untethered?”, Available at SSRN. Jordà, Ò (2005), “Estimation and inference of impulse responses by local projections”, American Economic Review 95(1): 161–182. Lyons, R K and G Viswanath-Natraj (2019), “What Keeps Stable Coins Stable?”, Available at SSRN. Yermack, D (2015), “Is Bitcoin a real currency? An economic appraisal”, In D L K Chuen (ed.), Handbook of digital currency (pp. 31-43), Elsevier. We thank the Berkeley Haas Blockchain Initiative for a research grant. 1https://econ.st/2NSR5Q6 2 Plaintiff estimated damages amount to roughly $1.4 trillion. 3 For more on the suit against Tether, see The Economist 4 This note does not address their findings specifically. They depart from our analysis in fundamental ways, for example, in providing evidence that Bitfinex channelled Tether to an investor who is linked to approximately 50% of the net buying of Bitcoin during this period. The data we use in our analysis are aggregated and cannot therefore speak to their disaggregated results. 5 The schematic in Figure 1 shows creation of Tether in circulation through dollar deposits from Bitfinex, a cryptocurrency exchange in partnership with Tether. Starting in 2019, other market participants were able to deposit dollars directly with the Tether Treasury. 6 Some analyses of Tether’s impact on Bitcoin have missed this point. 7 As an analogy, the Tether Treasury’s holdings of Tether is similar the holding of foreign reserves by a central bank. If a currency pegged to the dollar is pegged at an overvalued rate, the central bank can intervene in the foreign exchange market by selling dollar foreign reserves and buying domestic currency. 8 See Lyons and Viswanath-Natraj (2019) for our full analysis. Our aggregate issuance data means we cannot trace movement of Tether from the Treasury to specific wallets precisely. 9 Conversely, when the dollar price of Tether is below one, an investor can buy Tether at the exchange and sell to the Tether Treasury, resulting in the opposite flow from the secondary market to the Tether Treasury. 10 The cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex states that it will take investors 7 to 15 days to make dollar withdrawals from their platform. Also, fees are often imposed when dollar withdrawals are frequent or large. Hold dit netværk orienteret Become an author at finanz.dk Submit your post to info@finanz.dk. We welcome everybody to contribute to finanz.dk continued development. Are you a SEO content provider? See pricelist for SEO content providers here Copyright © 2020 finanz.dk

[NEW YORK] A form of digital money known as Monaco gained as much as 695 per cent in value since May 17, when its issuing company tweeted that it would offer a Visa-branded payment card.Monaco didn't have a deal with Visa.Later that month, Monaco put out a press release describing the benefits of its Visa-branded card.Cademenos didn't say how Monaco's decision to promote two nonexistent relationships with Visa would affect the review process. Wirecard didn't return requests for comment."In retrospect, we probably wouldn't put the Visa name on there yet," Kris Marszalek, Monaco's chief executive officer, said in an interview. "It probably would have been more prudent to just leave it out until everything is done." In an Aug 31 press release, Monaco announced a new mobile application along with plans to debut five different payment cards. There was no mention of Visa. The value of Monaco's currency dropped 29 per cent that day. Accounting for all its ups and downs, Monaco's money has tripled in value since May 17.Fledgling digital-money companies are clamoring for deals with Visa because it would mean their currencies would be accepted at the 44 million merchant locations in Visa's network.But there are obstacles.While cryptocurrencies typically offer users anonymous transactions, payment networks and financial institutions are required to followknow-your-customer rules to prevent money laundering and funding for criminal activity.To say the market for digital money is like the Wild West would be unfair to the comparatively tame American frontier days. Dozens of cryptocurrencies compete for investors' attention with few restrictions and a ready-fire-aim mentality. The admonishment "buyer beware'' seems inadequate, and, to even mention it, almost naive.Mr Marszalek's history as an entrepreneur is a checkered one. And a bit like swinging from vine to vine in the digital jungle.In 2010, Mr Marszalek founded the daily deals website Bee Crazy, which was similar to Groupon. He sold it to iBuy Group in December 2013 for US$21 million. After the deal, he became chief operating officer of iBuy, which later purchased Ensogo, a unit of LivingSocial, for US$18.5 million. IBuy ultimately changed its name to Ensogo and named Mr Marszalek CEO in August 2014.In Mr Marszalek's first year as CEO, Ensogo posted a A$67 million (S$71.3 million) loss, more than 11 times its 2013 deficit, as the company's operating expenses ballooned. The next year, the loss widened to A$80 million."I was asked after I sold the company to try and turn the business around," Mr Marszalek said. "It was a very, very difficult task as the business model was failing." In June 2016, Ensogo's board of directors announced the company was shutting down Bee Crazy to preserve cash for new investment opportunities. Bee Crazy came under fire from the Hong Kong Consumer Council for the sudden closing, which left consumers and local merchants who bought and sold coupons on the website with no way of contacting the company."The council was deeply concerned about its closure and had tried to contact the Bee Crazy's management through different channels, in order to understand how the company would arrange and handle the related inquiries and complaints," the council said in an email statement. "However, the council has been unable to reach the head of Bee Crazy since its closure." The Consumer Council received 117 complaints and 328 inquiries about Bee Crazy over the course of eight days in June 2016, according to the statement.Mr Marszalek, meanwhile, resigned from Ensogo. Within weeks, Monaco was born.Monaco's digital currency gained 166 per cent to US$7.65 on Aug 16, when the company announced it would list on Binance - a cryptocurrency exchange in China - giving Monaco users in China the ability to trade the tokens securely.Soon after, Chinese regulators were looking to dampen irrational exuberance. China announced Sept 4 it would outlaw initial coin offerings. The country also aims to stop exchange trading of cryptocurrencies, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News.The moves won't impact Monaco's trading on Binance, which has already banned Chinese internet addresses from trading on its platform, Mr Marszalek said. Monaco also conducted its token sale using a Swiss entity after finding that country's regulators to be more "progressive'' toward digital money, Mr Marszalek said.Mr Marszalek said he and his team are focused on securing a deal with Visa. The company has received 13,000 reservations for Monaco cards, he said. One hungry investor even kicked in US$2 million worth of Ethereum, another cryptocurrency, to secure black-card No 1 from the company."When you're successful, you don't learn as much," Mr Marszalek said. "You remember the lessons better if things go wrong, rather than the other way around." BLOOMBERGSPH Digital News 2018 SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS LTD. REGN NO. 198402668E

Jonald FyookballBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJun 26, 2017Mathematical Proof That the Lightning Network Cannot Be a Decentralized Bitcoin ScalingSolutionHave you heard of the Bitcoin Lightning Network? It is a proposal that claims that:using a network of these micropayment channels, Bitcoin can scale to billions of transactions perdayWhat it doesnt tell you is that this can only be accomplished by using large, centralized banking hubs.Many in the Bitcoin community mistakenly assumed or were led to believe that the Lightning Network (LN) would be a distributed peer-to-peer network.However, this is infeasible. In fact, even using a generous set of assumptions, we will prove it is mathematically impossible.We will divide this document into sections. Part one will be a brief general overview of the LN. Part two will explain in simple terms why it cannot provide decentralized scaling. Part three will be a more rigorous mathematical proof.PART I: OVERVIEW OF LIGHTNING NETWORKThe Bitcoin ScalingDebateBitcoin was originally designed as peer to peer cash that would scale with simple blocksize increases. However, the discussion over how to scale the network has become a lot more complicated and controversial.57 Bitcoin Core developers have signed their support to an official Capacity Increase Roadmap that advocates the Lightning Network as a non-bandwidth scaling mechanism that may provide very high decentralization.We disagree and will prove it does not. After reading and understanding the information here, we recommend you draw your own conclusions.What is the Lightning Network and How Does itWork?Lightning Network (LN) is a protocol allowing for a series of off-chain bidirectional payment channels. Here is an excellent 3 part series by Aaron van Wirdum, if you would like to understand the technicalities.Bidirectional simply means two directions, so Alice and Bob could open up a private channel and send bitcoins back and forth (outside of the blockchain):In order to open the channel, one or both parties have to deposit bitcoins into a special Bitcoin address. After that, they can do as many transactions as they want inside the channel, until either of them decide to close it, which settles (pays out the appropriate final balances) on the main Bitcoin blockchain.Linking MultipleChannelsGoing one step farther, if Alice had a channel with Bob, and Bob also had a channel with Carol, then Alice could indirectly send money to Carol: Bob would first pay Carol, and then Alice would reimburse Bob.The Envisioned NetworkLN evangelists promote the idea that if Alice can pay Carol through Bob, we should be able to keep extending this idea to build an entire network of payment channels, thus allowing a large percentage of transactions to occur off-chain.However, this cannot be realistically accomplished as a peer-to-peer network, at least not one of any significant size.Decentralized Vs Distributed SemanticsIn everyday talk about Bitcoin, most people say decentralized to mean what is technically a distributed topology.Conversely, a network with centralized hubs can technically be called decentralized if it doesnt have a singular center.But lets not get caught up in word games. The diagram below should clear things up:PART II: AN EXPLANATION FOR THE LAYMAN: WHY THE LIGHTNING NETWORK CANNOTSCALEIll make this explanation as short as I can.First, you must understand that the Lightning Network is not like other networks in that you cannot simply connect to another user whenever you want.To send or receive bitcoins, you need either a payment channel with that specific user, or a linked series of payment channels (a route).Its pointless to create a payment channel for the sole purpose of sending an off-chain transaction, since it requires an on-chain transaction to open the channel (and another one to close). You might as well just send an on-chain transaction instead; you dont need the LN.The idea is that youre supposed to be able to route your payment to any destination through a series of connections. From the viewpoint of a user, the potential path to anyone else looks like a tree structure:It Starts Off Like a Basic MathProblemWere going to assume the goal is to scale to one million users.Lets think about this: If you have a tree with 10 branches, and each of those branches has 10 leaves, you can reach 100 leaves.And if you have a tree with 10 branches, and each has 10 sub-branches, and each of those in turn has 10 sub-branches, etc you can go 6 levels deep and get: 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10, or simply: 10, which equals one million.Since you have to hop from branch to branch 6 times to reach the leaf, we can say we have 6 hops. So thats 10 branches with 6 hops, or in our case: 10 channels with 6 hops.So, whats the challenge?Your Money Cant Be In Two Places At the SameTimeIf we assume we need 10 payment channels to reach the entire network in 6 hops, that means youd have to divide up your bitcoins into 10 parts.But, probably only one of these channels will reach the intended recipient at any given time. That means youll only be able to send part of your money, for example 10%.Could we get around this by just having 2 channels and, say 20 hops? Well come back to this question. First, lets understand another important fact:Everyone is Lending to EveryoneElseImagine Alice wants to send 1 BTC to Carol through Bob like so: Alice->Bob->CarolIn order to route the money, Bob has to have at least 1 BTC in his balance in the channel with Carol. Essentially, Alice is borrowing from Bob to pay Carol.Bob transfers his 1 BTC to Carol in the [Bob->Carol] channel, and Alice transfers 1 BTC to Bob in the [Alice->Bob] channel. Thats how it worksAlice cannot give the 1 BTC to Bob to then pass along to Carol.It really is a loan because the network uses timelocks to eliminate custodial risk: Alice cant repay Bob safely until shes sure Bob has paid Carol.In fact, EVERY hop en route to a destination must have the funds available for each transaction. So, the more hops that are used, the more this lending burden is multiplied.Why is this a big deal?It Means a Large Number of Hops is a Deal-BreakerLets say that everyone was using routes with 20 hops, and most users spent about $1000/month. If everyone did their fair share to help route payments, each user would need to route $20,000/month.Would that even be possible?It depends on many factors including: the amount of time required for a route and the number of transactions.Even if we make a (possibly generous) assumption that a user can route 20 times his normal transaction load and only suffer a reduction of 50% in the availability of his channels, then he would need double the number of channels he normally would have.In Reality, Its EvenWorseTheres at least 5 additional problems which worsen the situation.Even the basic math we started with: 10=1,000,000 isnt quite applicable. If we assume peers form mostly random connections without a central authority to plan routes, then theres a certain probability of success. A one-in-a-million chance, repeated a million times, only produces a 63% success rate. Choosing 2 million times improves this to 84%, which would mean increasing the number of channels.As users spend their income, available routes degrade, until the time that more funds are deposited. In other words, when a person receives a salary payment and deposits funds in the network, their channels are at a maximum, with full routing power. But as their money is spent, this power drops toward zero. Averaged out, this pattern cuts the routing power by about half, requiring double the number of channels.Routing funds for others disrupts an otherwise even distribution of funds, which also diminishes the number of usable channels.There is a large wealth disparity in any population. Therefore, the number of users that can route funds for any other random user is only a fraction of the network. And this problem is magnified exponentially with an increasing number of hops.There always exists a risk of a routing channel becoming unresponsive (either intentionally or unintentionally). This risk also grows exponentially with an increasing number of hops.The TLDRSummaryTo reach anyone in a big network with a series of branching channel connections, you either need a large number of channels, or a large number of hops.Both are a huge problem. A large number of channels means users have to divide up their funds and cant do anything except tiny purchases. And a large number of hops means everyones money will be tied up routing everybody elses money.Conclusion: A Completely Unworkable SystemAs the network reaches a million users, it seems there will be no realistic way to avoid these problems. Dividing funds into many channels and continually loaning out money both make the network unusable.The only conceivable visions are either A) everyone deposits MUCH much more than they need to transact with, or B) the system depends on large centralized hubs.Neither is a decentralized scaling solution, or even a major part of one.PART III: INFORMAL MATHEMATICAL PROOF1. AssumptionsModeling a theoretical network that does not actually exist, of a large group of diverse people, is obviously impossible to do precisely. We acknowledge making a number of assumptions, some stated, some implicit, and some generous to critics of this proof.Within this context, we aim to demonstrate, through probability calculations, that a large number of open payment channels will be required for each user, thus making the system essentially inoperable at a size of 1,000,000 users.2. Channels and Hops Required, with No ConstraintsModeling the network as a complex graph of 1,000,000 nodes, we shall examine the probability of reaching a random peer given a certain number of open channels, C, and allowing for a certain number of hops, H.From the perspective of a user, reaching distant peers through a series of branching channels is similar to tree structure. The number of leafs grow exponentially and are possible transaction destinations.To simplify the calculations, we will ignore the possibility that a branch on the tree could link to another branch already on the tree (such as an ancestor or cousin).This possibility happening would reduce the number of peers found from a purely exponential branching to a slightly lower number. Since we are attempting to prove that a relatively low number of peers would be reached without a large number of channels or hops, and the real number would be even lower, this is a generous assumption (strengthening the proof).Let n be the number of leafs, defined as C^H. For example, 10 open channels and 6 hops is 10 = 1,000,000.The probability P for failing to choosing a member of a set |N| with cardinality n by sampling n times, with replacement is:(In our case, obtaining a desired destination by matching to a leaf.)We can generalize this with the limiting form:Since 1/e = 0.3678 then the probability of choosing correctly at least once is (1- (1/e)) = 63.21%Having access to any given peer at a rate of only 63.21% is too low to be considered successful for a payment system.Using a different number of trials can be expressed as:For example:By taking various exponents of e, we can calculate the corresponding probabilities:Using a value of 1,000,000 users and the limiting form, we derive the formula:Using this formula, we can calculate some initial values reaching at least the 80% probability level; however this is not considering other factors not yet discussed:13. Channels and Hops Required, with a Basic Money ConstraintAll hops along the route must have sufficient funds to process any payment they wish to service. This is the money constraint.Modeling a network of a million users with a wide variety of financial profiles and spending patterns isnt possible to do precisely because there are too many unknown factors.However, we can make a very general common-sense assumption that many or most users will receive some kind of income at some kind of regular interval, and deposit an allowance of funds into the LN for spending.Deposited funds will generally be either spent or eventually withdrawn. (We will assume LN is not used as a savings vehicle)As users spend funds, payment channel availability for routing will degrade, either because a channel closes, or because the funded amount diminishes. When additional funds are deposited, the routing capabilities are revitalized.We do not have a detailed model of which and how many users are getting paid how much, when, and how often. However, we can aggregate the behavior of the set of users thanks to the law of large numbers, which states that the average of the results obtained from a large number of trials should be close to the expected value.The typical consumer cycles consist of receiving income, spending it, and then repeating. We can generalize this behavior as a reverse sawtooth wave:Visually, it appears as:Salary payments are represented by spikes, and income is then spent gradually until the next payment.Integrating the function gives half the value of the period, as expected:This is also apparent visually as the waves form right triangles cutting out half the area.The implication is that about half the channels that would be used for routing are invalid. Thus, the number of channels at each hop needs to be doubled.Our probability formula changes to:And our table of results becomes:There is also a huge generous assumption we are making, which is that all users are a useful part of set of routing participants for all other users. In reality, a vastly uneven distribution of wealth would likely put additional and significant constraints on the system.4. Additional Constraint ofLendingIn addition to the burdens of dividing funds and finding routes, we assume that the user also participates in the network by helping others route payments.This disrupts the user in two ways.First, it may cause the distribution of the users personal funds to become unbalanced, diminishing the number of routes available. Over time, this could theoretically average out with money flowing in either direction of any given channel. However, each user would be subject to a large degree of variance at any given time.The second is that the money used in routing others payments is unavailable to the user during the time that the route is in use.We shall generously ignore the first cause of disruption and only attempt to model the second. Well take the simplistic approach of assuming all users have the same average number of transactions and spending volume, and assume each user participates equally in the routing.Let us define the following variables:U: the number of usersH: the number of hopsV: the total network transaction volume during a period of timev: the transaction volume per user during a period of timer: the total routed volume per user during a period of timeD: the duration in hours of a time period of measurementt: average number of transactions per user for time period Dd: the duration in hours of the average routeSince each hop needs to route the entire transaction amount for any transaction in a route that it participates in, the total routed volume for the entire network during a period of time = VH.Thus, r= VH/U. And since V/U=v, r=Hv.For example, if v=$1000, the plot appears as:Let us introduce the concept of dollar-hours to measure routing capacity.Each user can only spend their own money once, of course. But for purposes of routing others money, we can think of dollar-hours as the total dollars in their channels, multiplied by the number of hours they available. For example, $1000 sitting unmoved for a week is 168,000 dollar-hours.We can then calculate a quotient Q, which represents the percentage of available capacity remaining after routing for others:Q = 1- (d(H-1))/DNote that v and t do not appear in the equation as they are factored out, but they are implicit in the ratio d/D. The reason for H-1 is that one hop doesnt cost the network anything beyond a users own transactions (r=Hv).For example, if the network uses 4 hops, and routes require 4 hours, and the users balances for routing are based on 168 hours (1 week), then:Q=1- ((4)*(3))/168 ) = 0.92Our probability formula is now:Assuming D=168, and routing time d = 4 hours, we arrive at the following probabilities:5. Determining Transaction Limitations Based on a Pareto DistributionIt hardly seems necessary to prove that if funds need to be split into small buckets, there would be an enormous negative effect on usability. However, for completeness, we included this section.We assume most consumer and business spending follows a Pareto distribution in that each user makes a relatively small number of large transactions, several medium-sized transactions, and a larger amount of smaller transactions.The Pareto probability density function is expressed as:For the simplest type 1 Pareto curve, this simplifies to:The distribution does not change by applying constants, but we can better envision the model with some real world values by multiplying the y-values by 1000, so that dollar amounts for big items become substantial, and integrate over a typical set of x values (number of transactions at each dollar value), say 50.The total sum of transactions = $980. Using a 10% value of $98,we can solve the equation: 98 = 1000/x to obtain 3.194 transactions.Next, we will integrate over the smaller set of transactions to obtain the sum value of the transactions that have amounts that less than the our minimum $98 value:Since 293.48/980=.299, we can say that only 29.9% of all desired economic activity would be possible if 10 channels were used.Final ThoughtsI expect critics to nitpick. I encourage you to do your own critical thinking. Do not forget the generous assumptions we have made to ignore wealth disparity.Remember, Bitcoin must be decentralized. Be wary of the rationalization of Centralization is ok as long as the base layer is kept decentralized. That is an insidious trap which allows forcing users off the base layer and into the centralized systems. We must never allow that.So, is Bitcoin in trouble because second layer solutions may not work? No, not at all. Bitcoin was designed to scale on-chain with simple blocksize increases. It can and will do so, if we allow it.AddendumI published a short follow-up addressing some misunderstandings and objections.FootnotesNot a new type of address. Simply, a multi-signature address for the purposes of the channel.Originally published by Carl S. Sterner in Resilience and Decentralization.There are additional probability considerations as discussed in part III.Technically a complex graph, not a tree structure, although the tree is an appropriate mental construct. We could have used more sophisticated graph theory calculations (perhaps the degree sum formula or a related formula) to arrive at a more precise number of nodes reached given D degrees and E edges, of but decided it was unnecessary because the maximum number of nodes is used, which is a generous assumption.No rights reserved by the author. BitcoinOne clap, two clap, three clap, forty?By clapping more or less, you can signal to us which stories really stand out.5.5K72BlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJonald Fyookball

App today from the App Store or Google Play Store and start #stackingsats 42:17May 7, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.29This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Bitcoin v.0.18.0 released hats-new/ - Bitfinex spread increases, -1-billion-through-an-ieo-shareholder-says/ - Cashapp $65.5M quarterly bitcoin sales  - Amazon Managed Blockchain ce-available-to-the-public/ - #dropgold campaign - dropgold.com - Ethereum is now money according to ethereum.org - CoinJoins as a Percentage of All Bitcoin Payments Have Tripled to 4.09% Over the Past Year -payments-have-tripled-to-409-over-the-past-year - Samourai Whirlpool enters mainnet testing phase - Nine in 10 Americans have heard about bitcoin, Blockchain Capital survey finds itcoin-survey-finds/ - Fidelity surveys 400 institutional investors, 22% already have exposure, 47% think exposure makes sense: nvestments-likely-to-increase-over-next-5-years-729fb1ca3c52 - eTrade joining the party, plans to offer bitcoin trading to its ~5M customers https://twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/1121868559330598912 Shoutout to this week's sponsors: Cash App, head over to the Apple App Store or Google Play and download it today to start #stackingsats Unchained Capital, check out Unchained's 2-of-3 multisig vaults product today and get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin. er 1:06:11May 2, 2019Tales from the Crypt #68: Patrick DuganJoin Marty as he sits down with Founder and CEO of TradeLayer, Patrick Dugan, to discuss Patrick's run in with pot smoking bandits in Argentina, what he's building on TradeLayer, how decentralized derivatives markets may help drive demand for Bitcoin, the flow of money, and sovereignty in the Information Age.  Check out TradeLayer: http://tradelayer.org/ Follow Patrick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/duganist Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent 2:13:51April 30, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.22This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitfinex gets sued - d=vIexA1b0spKOnK_PLUS_ZUGTJ3A==&system=prod  -  https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/356 - Erisx and TdAmeritrade - market/ - Ledger Windows phishing attack - 0 - Wasabi update - https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/releases - d>=20 - Lightning Labs releases Beta Neutrino Lightning App for desktop - >=20 - assumutxo proposal by James O'Beirne - https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/04/09/ - Satoshi's Treasure update - tinyurl.com/dpravengers - Samsung invests 2.9M into Ledger  - ger/ - Gemini integrates SegWit fully - egwit-protocol/ - Bitmain rumored to be abandoning BCH - https://twitter.com/btcking555/status/1121699148523352064 - Casa privacy campaign + tor update - https://blog.keys.casa/casa-privacy-and-data-protection-policy/ - finalmessage.io - Run a tor relay node! - https://blog.torproject.org/new-guide-running-tor-relay Shoutout to this week's sponsor, 21Lectures! 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Sign up for their multisig vault product today by using the link below and receive a free three-month subscription to Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin.  er1:39:36April 23, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.15 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Satoshi's Treasure https://satoshistreasure.xyz/ & M4Gor240vH_yVN9Urni7VjPYlh4Z5rlRA/viewform?usp=sf_link - Reports from CoinMetrics and TradeBlock dispute Reuters $100M whale story - and ld>=20 - Wasabi Wallet hardware wallet support in testing - mentation/Guides/20190416HardwareWalletTestingGuide.md - lLND 0.6.0 - static channel backup --- release notes: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases --- Channel backup guide: >channel-backups  - Lightning Powernode Launcher will default to Tor /bold>=20 - Nodl update- 5804c08420230e23c7c - hodlnaut BTCPay fundraiser - https://weareallhodlonaut.com/ - US Sanction Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua - s-measures-against-cuba-venezuela-and-nicaragua - Proof of Solvency piece - a-thing-bc4750dd16c7 & t-60-march-2019 - paywall.link and lightningscratchcard.io Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Check out their 2-of-3 multisig vault service today! er1:04:40April 18, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.08This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Julian Assange d>-issue-460 - HODL guide https://github.com/DriftwoodPalace/guides - Multisig scenarios - Coinbase o-fiat-debit-card-in-the-uk-filling-gap-left-by-shift-shutdown/ - LND 0.6.0 release https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases - Zap 0.4.1 release https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases - Managing a Lightning Node 75cc3cc28b7ffcde1 - Binance to-up-the-exchanges-compliance-procedures/ - Energy waste https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1116340276463714305 - China bans Bitcoin wants-to-eliminate-bitcoin-mining-idUSKCN1RL0C4 Shout out to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. 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Parker's knowledge of what was going on at the Fed as the '07/'08 crisis was unfolding and during its aftermath is rare and something all of you freaks could learn from.  Follow Parker on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/parkeralewis Follow Marty on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/martybent Check out Unchained Capital: https://www.unchained-capital.com 1:21:37April 9, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.01This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Eclair Correction - Price talk - Cumberland OTC desk 10+ bids over 1000 bitcoin on Monday - surge-of-large-btc-orders-in-a-single-hour-late-monday-night/ - Fee talk - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1113949215829430275 - Nodl - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1113806561921708032 - Boltz inbound capacity tool 1432 - Pierre inbound capacity tool https://lightningpowerusers.com/home/ - Veriblock ICO sold out in seconds - https://medium.com/@ambroidcrypto/veriblock-deep-dive-49c533e9c5e7 - Bitcoin 2019 Conference - https://www.bitcoin2019conference.com/ - BitBlockBoom Conference [Promo: RHR] - https://bitblockboom.com/ - NVT Signal - =19 Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Sign up and create a multisig vault and receive a FREE three-month subscription to Dr. Saifedean Ammous'  The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin using this link: er55:07April 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #65: Johnny Dilley, Tom Garrambone & Matt OdellJoin Marty as he sits down with Johnny Dilley (Founder of Mempool Partners), Tom Garrambone (Founder of Tetras Capital), and Matt Odell (Bitcoiner) to have a roundtable discussion covering; Capitalism v. Socialism, Bitmain, 21co, nature, dinosaurs, what could kill Bitcoin, and much more.  Check out mempool.io Check out tetras.capital Follow Tom on Twitter: www.twitter.com/tomgarrambone Follow Matt on Twitter: www.twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Smash that subscribe button, freaks! 1:34:11April 2, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.25This week Marty and Matt Discuss:  - Coinbase, stake is on the menu - Steve Barbour WSJ article - BSV - Bitmain IPO not happening - ryanofsky PR merged - Gemini bech32 + Blockstream explorer - Eclair mainnet full release - Craig Wright is a fraud - Dream Market shutting down - BitMex LN research Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Head over to medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Vault%20Launch and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vault product. If you're in NYC on 4/1, head over to Galvanize to check out a live demo: 4596257746:35March 29, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.18On this week's episode Marty and Matt discuss: - Square Crypto initiative - https://twitter.com/jack/status/1108487911802966017 - Lightning Loop - https://blog.lightning.engineering/posts/2019/03/20/loop.html - BlockstreamGreen - t - Fed shifting posture - https://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1108427995709165573 - Venezuela sanctions payment processors - ns-prohibiting-payment-processing-services-in-venezuela/ - ETH ProgPow - https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1108561560304316421 - Bitcoin Optech - https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/03/19/ - Hash rate - https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty - FUD debunking Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Head over to er and check out their multisig vault setup which let's you maintain control and sovereignty over your BTC while providing a solution that keeps you worry free!  1:01:10March 21, 2019Tales from the Crypt #64: Carl DongJoin Marty as he sits down with Carl Dong, Bitcoin Core contributor currently working at Chaincode Labs, to discuss responsible disclosures, making Bitcoin Core more modular, Guix containers, Dyson spheres and much more!  Follow Carl on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carl_dong Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Check out Carl's PR: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/152771:25:12March 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #63: Zac Prince & Rene van Kesteren Join Marty as he sits down with Zac Prince & Rene van Kesteren from Blockfi to discuss their new interest account product, how they manage risk with this particular offering, the nature of risk disclosures, and the utility that Bitcoin provides the world that wasn't possible before its existence.  Follow Zac on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlockFiZac Follow Renee on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rene_vankest Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Martybent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, 21Lectures. Head over to https://21lectures.com to learn more about their courses aimed at helping developers become more familiar/comfortable with BTC/LN development! 1:38:41March 15, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.11This week Marty and Matt are joined by Adam Ficsor (@nopara73), Founder of Wasabi Wallet, to discuss: - The current dust attack against Wasabi users - https://twitter.com/nopara73/status/1105779583410946049 - CoinJoins  - Privacy - Unchained Capital multisig vaults - Porn KYC in the UK - Drop in BTC transactions  - Trezor vulnerabilities Thanks to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Check out their new multisig vault solution today:  er1:02:43March 14, 2019Tales from the Crypt #62: Jake Chervinsky Join Marty as he sits down with Jake Chervinsky, a lawyer with a focus on government enforcement defense and securities litigation, as they discuss the law and how it pertains to Bitcoin and everything created in its wake. Topics covered include, Jake's path to Bitcoin, the concept of light touch regulation, organizations like Coin Center, how the SEC has been treating ICOs, how the SEC may treat these ICOs going forward, and hope for a less Orwellian future. Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Lolli! Head over to https://lolli.com/ref/tftc right now and start stacking sats as you shop online today! 1:53:37March 12, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.04This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Canadian Revenue Service asking for BTC addresses: https://twitter.com/kyletorpey/status/1103467047412002817 - Ripple, FinCen agreement: ld>=20 - Is Bitcoin Twitter engagement back at 2015 levels?: https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1103673829832970240 - ABCore 0.70 released: old>=20  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greenaddress.abcore - QE, NIRP creeping - BlockFi Interest Account: https://twitter.com/BlockFiZac/status/1103293858283245569 https://twitter.com/vandrewattycpa/status/1102953966537752576 - Coinbase: https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/1103443720307912704 - Facebook going private?: =19 - Facebook 2fa phone number leak: ing-of-phone-numbers-required-for-2fa/ - Chinese database surveillance leak, indow-chinas-digital-surveillance-state - QuadrigaCX update, l-patryn-allegedly-traded-large-positions-on-bitmex/ Shoutout to this week's sponsors: Honeyminer, head over to stackingsats.com and download Honeyminer today. The one-click solution to mining altcoins to stack sats.  Unchained Capital, if you're in the Austin area on Monday March 11th, 2019 Unchained is demo'ing their new multi-sig vault product. If you're not in Austin, do not worry. The event will be live streamed. Link to attend below: 4March 7, 2019Tales from the Crypt #61: Jack DorseyJoin Marty as he sits down with Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, to discuss how Jack came to experiment with Bitcoin, the parallels he sees between Twitter and Bitcoin, dealing with pseudonymity on Twitter, how Bitcoin curbs the State, education in the Information Age, what it's like to be a part of the Casa node club, and much more. Thank you to this week's sponsors: Honeyminer is the easiest way to earn Bitcoin. A simple crypto mining application that uses your computer's CPUs and GPUs to mine cryptocurrencies and pays you in Bitcoin. Go to https://www.honeyminer.com today and start earning BTC now. 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Head over to https://lolli.com/ref/tftc today! 35:04March 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.25This week Marty and Matt discuss: -Casa new product lineup g-its-business-and-its-kicking-off-with-two-new-products/ -Facebook coin FUD telegram.html -Venezuela bitcoin article flation-cryptocurrencies.html#click=https://t.co/P8hxu1vqni -Square sold 10k BTC in Q4 2018 of-bitcoin-in-2018/ -Coinomi spellcheck bug 547ca348676b -Trezor and Ledger update reminders -Samourai Whirlpool in testing phases, running on nodl.it -Wasabi, try it out free shill - www.twitter.com/@tweet_stamp is pretty cool, uses OpenTimestamps -Torpedo vulnerable https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/24/new-4g-5g-security-flaws/ -New privacy wiki up by Chris Belcher https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Privacy Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer. Head over to stackingsats.com today, download Honeyminer, and start stacking sats today!  54:23March 1, 2019Tales from the Crypt #60: Misir Mahmudov Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin researcher Misir Mahmudov to discuss many topics including Bitcoin as Time, Bitcoin's amorality, Bitcoin's incentives, and family values.  Follow Misir on Twitter: www.twitter.com/misir_mahmudov Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Thanks to this week's sponsor, BlockFi! Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can avoid selling your BTC today! 2:39:32February 26, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.18This week Marty and Matt discuss: -Galaxy S10 Bitcoin wallet confirmed https://bitcoinist.com/samsung-galaxy-s10-bitcoin-wallet/ -Jack activates tippin.me https://twitter.com/jack/status/1098324828182831104 -Coinbase acquires chain analysis company https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1098275229556768768 -Elon Ark Invest pod https://twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1097905577831862272 -Coinmama KYC breach 450k customer affected https://twitter.com/bitentrepreneur/status/1096549320302776320 -IMF NIRP Blog post  est-rates-work/ Thanks to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer!  Head over to stackingsats.com and download Honeyminer today! The easiest way to begin earning BTC with your spare computing hardware. Now available for Linux (www.honeyminer.com/labs). 48:29February 21, 2019Tales from the Crypt #59: Eric SpanoJoin Marty as he sits down with Eric Spano, Founder of bylls.com, to discuss building a product with little understanding of code, enterprise blockchain consulting, Bitcoin service provider UX, and much more.  Follow Eric on Twitter: www.twitter.com.espano_ Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Peep the Nielsen Norman Group's 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design  https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/ Visit www.bylls.com 2:01:31February 20, 2019Tales from the Crypt #58: André Neves Join Marty as he sits down with André Neves, Co-Founder and Co-CTO of Koala Studio, to discuss everything from BTC/LN adoption via gaming, what it's like to live in the UAE, the Surveillance State, and much more.  Follow André on Twitter: www.twitter.com/andreneves Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Check out Koala Studio: koalastud.io Thanks to our sponsors: BlockFi, head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can avoid selling your BTC this tax season.  Lolli, head over to lolli.com/ref/tftc and download Lolli today so you can begin earning up to 30% cash back in BTC!  1:48:03February 19, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.11This week Marty and Matt discuss: -Tippin.me extension -Lolli extension -Spacebit.live -Venezuela ATH LocalBitcoins volume - 2454 Bitcoin / 8.95 million USD https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/VES/BTC -Bitcoin Ham radio https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1095354354289135617 -Full nodes, block size, offline transactions, 65% of 4000 said no full node -JPM shitcoin -Bitdevs https://www.meetup.com/BitDevsNYC/events/258566808/ -Wasabi update -Coin Center on cash + privacy https://coincenter.org/entry/the-case-for-electronic-cash Shout out to this week's sponsors: Lolli, head over to www.lolli.com/ref/tftc and start earning Bitcoin when you shop on the net today!  Honeyminer, head over to www.honeyminer.com/labs to check out their new Linux compatible software. Or head to stackingsats.com to pump our ref link. 1:02:45February 14, 2019Tales from the Crypt #57: Alex AdelmanJoin 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 Thanks to our sponsor BlockFi! Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can use your bitcoin as collateral to get USD loans in minutes! 2:16:53February 13, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.04This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Matt handing off the LN torch to @jack https://twitter.com/jack/status/1092891165966229509 - Matt Ahlborg's LocalBitcoins analysis and new metric -suggests-bitcoin-is-working-as-satoshi-intended-d8b04d3ac7b2 - Koala Studio Lightning Chess https://koalastud.io/ - Blockstream Proof of Reserve ent-its-proof-reserves-tool/ - ZCash inflation vulnerability disclosed mediated/ - Abra releases new equities exposure product -etfs-using-bitcoin/ Shoutout to our sponsors: BlockFi, head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt and learn how you can avoid selling your BTC today!  Honeyminer, peep www.honeyminer.com/labs to see the new Honeyminer Max implementation for Linux users. Or www.stackingsats.com to pump our ref link. 21Lectures, go to www.21lectures.com and learn more about their Bitcoin developer classes! 1:01:18February 8, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.28This week we are joined by Murad Mahmudov to discuss a litany of topics. Had a bunch of topics planned but didn't get to all of them. A lot of tangents.  Thanks to our sponsors: BlockFi - Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt and learn how to leverage your crypto without selling!  HoneyMinerTales from the Crypt: A Bitcoin PodcastBy Marty BentTales 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.Starting in undefined…00:0050:281xRabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.05.04This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Paul Tudor Jones announces bitcoin investment  - Nodl Dojo adds keysend support and btc-rpc explorer nodl.it - CashApp quarterly bitcoin sales ATH  - CoinKite announces BlockClock Mini and steel backup plates  - Foundation Devices announces intention to build new hardware wallet in US  - Blockstream satellite v2  - BlueWallet v5.3.5  - c-lightning v0.8.2  - eclair v0.4  - the perpetual one way peg  - Lebanon and bitcoin  - Zoom buys keybase  - Duterte shutsdown major news network in the Phillipines  - Marty's Bent RSS Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.2:03:08May 7, 2020#158: Marshall HolbrookJoin Marty as he sits down with Marshall Holbrook, founder of BitG@s, to discuss: - Marshall's experience with natural gas over the last two decades - How natural gas gets delivered to the grid - The decrease in nat gas prices - Using Bitcoin mining to get more money for his gas - The design of a bitcoin mining shed on a nat gas field - Mining with S9s - Trying to convince other nat gas producers to get into mining - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.50:28May 6, 2020#157: Ben Prentice + Heavily Armed ClownJoin Marty as he sits down with Ben Prentice and Heavily Armed Clown to discuss: - WTF happened in 1971?!  Follow Ben on Twitter Follow Heavily Armed Clown on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:08:45May 5, 2020#156: Matt AhlborgJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Ahlborg, founder of UsefulTulips.org, to discuss: - How the rolling blackouts in Venezuela last year affected bitcoin trading in LatAm + the US - How Venezuelan's are using bitcoin as a rail to move money - Why we've seen an increase in bitcoin exchange volume in Argentina - Argentina's history of capital controls - Cuevas - Do individuals using bitcoin in LatAm believe in its long-term viability as a digital money? - Increased bitcoin exchange volume in Kenya - Bitcoin usage in India - much more Follow Matt on Twitter Check out UsefulTulips   Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:06:41May 1, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.27This week Marty and Matt as they discuss: - HWI updated to fix new Trezor firmware compatibility issues  - Laurent on payjoin and deception tools  - Ministry of Nodes RoninDojo video  - Argentina bitcoin usage by Matt Ahlborg  - Kenyan P2P bitcoin volume hits ATHs  - CardCoins sponsoring core developer  - BTCPay Server v1.0.4.2  - ColdCard Kitchen  - OXT Research Report on North Korean cybercrime group  - ColdCard v3.1.3 firmware  - LND v0.10-beta  - Learn using comics with Amiti  - Dressing for the surveillance age  - CryptoCloaks Honey Badger hidden box  - Harvard authoritarians + NIH funding of research on the virus - Lebanese Banking crisis Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.2:08:55April 30, 2020#155: OpenomsJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with developer Openoms to discuss: - How Openoms came to find Bitcoin - Why he started building apps and hardware products for bitcoiners - JoininBox - JoinMarket - Fidelity Bonds - Privacy on Lightning - Broadcast transactions privately - much more Follow Openoms on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:27:34April 29, 2020#154: Amiti Uttarwar Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Amiti Uttarwar, Bitcoin Core contributor at Xapo, to discuss: - How Amiti came to find Bitcoin - Getting into Bitcoin Core development - Learning C++ - Amiti's work on rebroadcasting - Protecting privacy at the P2P level - Nuance of mempools - Current state of Bitcoin - much more Follow Amiti on Twitter Check out her post, Onboarding to Bitcoin Core Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:09:44April 28, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.20Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Unchained Capital caravan update inbound - mynode v0.2.03  - SLP Chris Belcher  - Upcoming eps with Amiti and Openoms - YouTube taking down any content not in line with WHO - Should we reopen the economy? - much more  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:28:00April 23, 2020#153: ZubyJoin Marty as he sits down with Zuby, Rapper/Author/Podcaster/Free thinker, to discuss: - How to use Twitter correctly - How people waste time on Twitter with hate - Why you shouldn't let people you've never met dictate your happiness - People losing their own humanity - Only you control your success - Bitcoin and why it may have limited upside - The importance of healthy living - much more Follow Zuby on Twitter Check out Zubymusic.com Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:03:14April 22, 2020#152: Ben HuntJoin Marty as he sits down with Ben Hunt, founder of Epsilon Theory, to discuss: - How institutions have failed us across the board in the wake of coronavirus - Why we need to burn it the f*ck down - How we can create grass roots movements to turn away from our failing institutions - Ben's work with frontlineheroes.com - Why we probably won't have a 'V' shaped recovery - much more  Follow Ben on Twitter Check out Frontline Heroes Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.50:36April 21, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap Stimulus Package: 2020.04.20Join Marty & Matt as they discuss: - BTCPay Server adds payjoin support  - Trezor update breaks HWI support   - Cobra and Theymos split ownership of bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org - Purse.io shuts down  - Breez wallet adds keysend support  - Nodl adds keysend support Nodl OG  - Juggernaut messenger  - Oil markets - MMT - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:32:34April 21, 2020#151: Marshall LongJoin Marty as he sits down with long time bitcoiner + miner Marshall Long to discuss: - How Marshall got into Bitcoin mining - Why he only mines Bitcoin now - Evolution of chips - Chip fabrication foundries  - Stories of procuring miners in China - The evolution of culture in China - The future of Bitcoin mining - much more Follow Marshall on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:13:05April 18, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.13This week Marty & Matt discuss: - Bryan Bishop releases bitcoin vaults prototype  - Ransomware operator now defaults to monero payments  - Utreexo explainer  - Trezor Model T v2.3.0  - Samourai Wallet v0.99.93  - Whirlpool CLI v0.10.5 released  - Apple and Google bluetooth based tracking system integrated at the mobile OS level  - Graphene OS guide  - Protesting is a "non essential activity" - Masks now required in NYC lol - Surveillance programs escalate worldwide using coronavirus as an excuse  - Most popular ethereum chain explorer has added a blacklist tool  - Maker foundation lawsuit  - Central banks recommend global stablecoin ban, notable ethereum stakeholders caught off guard but they shouldn't be - Libra pivots to simple single currency stablecoin model  - 9th anniversary of online poker Black Friday  - Mullvad.net VPN releases mobile wireguard compatible apps - SLP Rafael Yakobi  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:14:01April 16, 2020#150: Great American MiningJoin Marty as he sits down with two members from the team at Great American Mining, Austin Storms and Tom M, to discuss: - What Great American Mining is doing - The journey and lessons learned along the way - Different energy sources and how they affect the decisions of mining operations - Miners biggest problem; finding cheap power at scale - Austin's journey with Bearbox - How mining is ruthless capitalism - Solving problems for oil companies - The future of mining in North America - much more - Check out Great American Mining's one pager (site to be updated soon) - Follow Austin on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:14:09April 15, 2020#149: Steve Barbour Join Marty as he sits down with Steve Barbour, founder of Upstream Data, to discuss: - Steve's experience in the Oil & Gas industry before Bitcoin - Difference between an electrical and mechanical engineer - The problem Bitcoin mining solves for the O&G industry - Difference between building on the grid and off the grid - Why Bitcoin is so important - Building a business slowly - much more Follow Steve on Twitter Check out Upstream Data Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:29:26April 14, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.06Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - 16.5M Americans unemployed - Today's Fed announcements  - Dave Portnoy calling the dollar Schrute Bucks  - Bisq security vulnerability  - ACINQ Phoenix v1.3.0 adds Tor support - BlueWallet v5.3.0 - Samourai Dojo v1.5  - Ronin Dojo v1.4  - All Nodls now support dojo and whirlpool - Method to provide clearnet access to Tor lightning nodes proposed  - Fold announces sats back visa debit card  - Zane Pocock on the EARN IT Act  - Stephan Livera with Gleb Naumenko on erlay  - Chainalysis CoFounder on WBD  - Shoutout to @jamesbtcbond for setting up his node with electrum  - Rodolfo bitcoin-dev keychain email Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.  1:27:12April 9, 2020#148: Matt D'SouzaJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt D'Souza from Blockware Solutions to discuss: - Blockware's recent research paper on mining - Running a mining operation - How Matt came to realize Bitcoin is King - The State of the Economy - Why Bitcoin isn't "backed by nothing" - much more Follow Matt on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:12:15April 8, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap Stimulus Package: 2020.04.06Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - CDC finally recommends face coverings  - CoolWallet S security flaw  - MutantC RPi4 mobile build  - Whirlpool CLI v0.10.4 released  - Eclair v0.3.4 released  - OC Bitcoin Network talk on samourai wallet and privacy  - Tor Browser v9.0.8 released  - RaspiBlitz v1.5 RC1 adds joinmarket CLI support  - Wasabi Wallet v1.1.11 released  - MyNode v0.2.01 - Janet Yellen wants the Fed to buy stocks - Japanese family formation - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:19:19April 6, 2020#147:Alex GladsteinJoin Marty & Matt as they sit down with Alex Gladstein from the Human Rights Foundation to discuss: - Government overreach during the response to COVID19 - The capture of the World Health Organization - Censorship in China as COVID19 was spreading - The economic impact of forced quarantine  - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:33:09April 3, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: 2020.03.30This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Breez Point of Sale mode added to lightning wallet  - LSAT Authentication  - Samourai Whirlpool GUI v0.10.1 and CLI v0.10.3    - MyNode v0.2.0  - Bitmex research bitcoin development funding analysis  - Bitmex renews and increases grant to Bitcoin Core maintainer Michael Ford  - Mulit-location backup scheme spec released by @openoms  - Whirlpool March volume totaled 1523.45 bitcoin  - Multi sig betting with caravan  - Binance makes a distinction between coinjoin and custodial mixers in recent blog post  - Coinkite begins selling power only magnetic usb cables  - Surveillance companies pivot to coronavirus tracking to increase their reach  - UK PM hosts cabinet meeting on Zoom  - StandardNotes.org and meet.jit.si shoutouts - Calling out pedos  - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:34:13April 2, 2020#146: Rodolfo NovakJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Rodolfo Novak to have a meandering discussion about: - COVID19 - Droplets v. Vapor - Why you should wear a mask - Why people are so willing to cede civil liberties during crises - Hardware on the horizon from CoinKite - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:17:39April 1, 2020#145: Roy SebagJoin Marty as he sits down with Roy Sebag, Founder of Goldmoney and Menē, to discuss: - The mechanics of paper and physical bullion markets - The history of paper gold being used to suppress the price of physical gold - The Fed has man-in-the-middle attacked US citizens - Why the Internet isn't decentralized - Why Sound Money is so important and why bitcoiners and gold holders need to join forces - The reaction to COVID19. Are we being put in our pods? - Political framing and mental pods - The common man - The importance of unplugging - What Gen Z thinks - much more Follow Roy on Twitter Check out Goldmoney Check out Menē Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:37:34March 30, 2020#144: Michael KriegerJoin Marty as he sits down with Michael Krieger, founder of Liberty Blitzkrieg to discuss: - Gold markets - The Empire - Most recent bailout - Great Awakening - Why Michael is still bullish on Bitcoin - Bitcoin + Oil & Gas Industry - Un-schooling - much more Follow Michael on Twitter Check out Liberty Blitzkrieg Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:22:45March 27, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.23This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin and Venezuela  - Coinkite Coldpower  - Zebedee releases bitcoin gaming SDK explainer video  - Tails OS v4.4.1  - Graphene OS v2020.03.23.22 released  - TFTC Guides: Graphene OS installation  - BTCxZelko on Stephan Livera - $500M of US stimulus bill dedicated to increased surveillance capabilities  - Disturbing video shows coronavirus phone tracking tool  -Taiwan coronavirus surveillance escalates  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:12:55March 26, 2020#143: JW Weatherman & Giacomo ZuccoJoin Marty as he sits down with JW Weatherman and Giacomo Zucco to discuss: - Separating people from their State - Overt v. covert evil empires - Heuristics one can use to gauge the severity of COVID19 - much more Follow JW on Twitter Follow Giacomo on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:54:13March 25, 2020#142: Elisabeth PréfontaineJoin Marty as he sits down with Elisabeth Préfontaine, founder of Octonomics, to discuss: - Elisabeth's experience in the banking + financial worlds - Problems with transparency in the traditional financial world - Bad incentives in the traditional financial system - Why Bitcoin only? - How Quebec messed up their opportunity to court bitcoin entrepreneurs - Defining Bitcoin - Why bitcoin isn't a security - PC creep into the boardroom - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  1:02:59March 24, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Stimulus Package 2020.03.23Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:  - Markets down, bitcoin up - Sunday futures limit down in 3 mins - 60 Minutes interview Kashkari "infinite amount of cash"  - Fed announces unlimited QE  - Russian central bank added 400k ounces of gold to its reserves in february  - TFTC.tv guides - Graphene & MyNode - JoinMarket v0.6.2  - JoinMarket PR for fidelity bonds  - Nodl Dojo v0.0.8  - March Whirlpool volume higher than last 3 months combined  - LN Markets released on mainnet  - CashApp adds option to display in sats  - Magic Internet Gathering bitcoin gaming initiative announced  - HRF deep dive into buying bitcoin anonymously  - DOJ seeks permission to detain people indefinitely without trial  - Israel to go into full lockdown with phone location monitored and Ministry of Health to release new tracking app - The Chula Vista Police Department to use 4 drones to monitor Coronavirus shutdown - Nascar virtual races on fs1  - much more  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:22:09March 23, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.16Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Macro scene - Casa open sources node  - Bitcoin Magazine op ed on CoinJoin legality  - BTCPay VR Presentation this Saturday  - US Gov considering location tracking  - Samourai Whirlpool volume set to top January and February volume combined  - Upcoming node guides: tftc.tv and parts list  - Ark Invest bitcoin mining research  - Blockware Solutions bitcoin mining research - Don't skimp on Micro SDs - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. 1:28:07March 19, 2020#141: Charles MarohnJoin Marty as he sits down with Charles Marohn, Author of Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity, to discuss: - How America has been very wasteful with resources for the last five decades - The problems with top-down decision making - Why centralized economies "on the bike" don't work in the long-run - The morality of Fed policy - Parallels between modern day America and the Weimar Repulic - How small towns can start over and stand on their own two feet - Value per acre - Creating community - Bringing design thinking to city building - Activating unused spaces - much more Follow Charles on Twitter Buy the book Check out the Strong Towns podcast Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:14:58March 17, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Stimulus Package 2020.03.16Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - COVID19 + Market reaction - Fed cuts + repo operations - MyNode v0.1.97  - 3D Printing in Italy's corona battle  - VR Socratic Meetup - Jameson Lopp on Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges - Other stuff Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.49:25March 16, 2020#140: Kyle Bass & Parker LewisJoin Marty as he hops on a call with Kyle Bass and Parker Lewis to discuss: - Recent market chaos - The Fed's response up to this point and what they may do moving forward - The need for a strong fiscal response in conjunction with Fed policy - The dangers of centralizing our supply chain in China - Russia's move in oil markets over the weekend - much more Follow Kyle on Twitter Follow Parker on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.48:40March 12, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.09This week Marty and Matt discuss: - macro and price talk - mining death spiral FUD - Bitcoin Core v0.19.1  - bluewallet node issue  - payjoin support should be added to btcpay soon   - Samourai Wallet Whirlpool hits new monthly ATH   - Specter-Desktop multisig release  - OXT Research PlusToken Report Issue 2  - Electrum v4 release still delayed - MKR/DAI liquidation crisis  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:12:19March 12, 2020#139: George GammonJoin Marty as he sits down with George Gammon to discuss: - Why George started his YouTube channel - The Oil Wars - Was Russia's move over the weekend a kill shot directed at the US? - Corporate Debt - Buybacks - Junk bonds - The Fed's reaction to recent market movements - Fed policy and the erosion of the Nuclear family - Deflation - Sounds money standards of the past - George's thoughts on Gold v. Bitcoin - much more Check out George's YouTube channel Follow George on Twitter Shoutout to this week's in to learn about the people, data sources and tools Hasu used to bootstrap his knowledge of Bitcoin in only 10 months. Follow Matt: @TheBlueMatt Follow Hasu: @Hasufl Follow Marty: @MartyBent Links: https://tim.blog/2017/06/04/nick-szabo/ https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/outline Thank you to our sponsor, Honeyminer. Check them out here: https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk49:46September 26, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.24On this week's episode of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt and Marty discuss: CVE-2018-17144: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/20/notice/ Monero bug: ning-bug.html Baltic Honey Badger Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66ZoGUAnY9s https://hodlhodl.com/ Argentina: /bold>-issue-325 "Please stop deploying d-apps to Ethereum.": https://twitter.com/5chdn/status/1042860655114694656 B Foundation: https://twitter.com/TheB_Foundation/status/1043805473949065216 Thank you to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer. Use the ref link below for 1,000 satoshis and use one click to start mining today: honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk 1:09:48September 26, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.17On this week's edition of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt and Marty discuss: NY Attorney General's report - https://virtualmarkets.ag.ny.gov Jesse Powell DGAF - __twitter_impression=true Bitcoin Core bug + v0.16.3 - https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/09/18/ Josh Garza goes to jail - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1040300880170500097 Bancor on EOS - fast-free-transactions/ *Lightning Spotlight* LND Work - https://www.lndwork.com/ BTC volume in Venezuela - https://diar.co/volume-2-issue-37/ Salt Bae :( Laurent's last post - https://medium.com/@laurentmt/electric-money-e2cd34f78f56 Thank you to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer. Use the ref link below for 1,000 satoshis and use one click to start mining today: https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk 57:14September 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #43: Caitlin LongJoin Marty as he sits down with Wall Street veteran Caitlin Long to discuss her journey to Austrian economics via Wall Street, the extent of the shadow banking system, the situation public pensions and social security find themselves in, and Caitlin's efforts to make Wyoming the most Bitcoin-friendly state in the US. Follow Caitlin on Twitter: @CaitlinLong_ Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Caitlin's website: https://caitlin-long.com/1:31:11September 16, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.10In this week's episode Marty and Matt discuss: Gemini & Paxos fiat backed 'stablecoins' - d>=19 Robinhood fueled Doge pump - d>=19 Unraveling of the ICO bubble - -silicon-valley-riches-can-he-survive-the-crash-1536681364?mod=e2tw & d>=19 Laurent's new post in PoW series - https://medium.com/@laurentmt/cliffhangers-cb87ed47124e SEC ETN Suspensions pdf & Bittrex, Malta, and Regulatory Arbitrage - https://support.bittrex.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001354486. & e-eu-is-furious-with-1:00:14September 12, 2018Tales from the Crypt #42: Coinyeezy AKA Elon MoistJoin Marty as he sits down with Coinyeezy to discuss a litany of topics including; Honeyminer, the power of memes, "Bitcoin Generalists", hustling and some trippy theories about the great pyramids. Follow Coinyeezy on Twitter: @coinyeezy Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Peep Honeyminer: www.honeyminer.com 1:26:44September 10, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.03In this edition of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt + Marty discuss: Emerging Market currency crises Iran give Bitcoin mining the go-ahead Ethereum FOMC meeting Infura centralization ShapeShift Casa's new plug and play all-in-one Bitcoin full node + Lightning node Discussions of a new Bitcoin testnet Links: https://twitter.com/WallSt_Dropout/status/1037004709419278336 d>=19 d>=19 bold>-issue-311 apeshift-membership/ https://twitter.com/ConsenSys/status/1037339692981727233 /bold>:01:57September 6, 2018Tales from the Crypt #41: Ryan Selkis Join Marty as he sits down with Ryan Selkis, Founder at Messari, to discuss how Ryan got into Bitcoin, how writing helped him carve out a niche in a budding industry, what it was like to work for Digital Currency Group and CoinDesk, what he learned there, how he's using those lessons while building Messari, and a deep dive into Token Curated Registries. Follow Ryan on Twitter: @twobitidiot Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Messari: https://messari.io/58:59September 4, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.08.27In this episode we discuss: Vitalik Buterin's recent blog post on how to scale with layers The importance of soft forks CNBC's trash coverage WeChat and Alipay banned cryptocurrency commerce and chats The recent jump in hash rate Laurent's piece on measuring the value secured by PoW NIRP in Germany CFTF fine of German Bank for manipulating USD derivatives ETF denial then subsequent "reevaluation" Links: https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/08/26/layer_1.html >=19 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1019675622581391361 https://medium.com/@laurentmt/gravity-10e1a25d2ab2 59:14August 29, 2018Tales from the Crypt #40: Joe Weisenthal Join Marty as he sits down with Joe Weisenthal, Editor at Bloomberg and co-host of "What'd you miss?" on BloombergTV. The two jump into the mind of a skeptic. Joe was notoriously a skeptic of Bitcoin after writing an article titled "Bitcoin is a joke" in 2013. Since then Joe has become less skeptical and he explains why in this episode. Beyond Bitcoin, Marty and Joe discuss economics, the state of the economy, Joe's journey to Bloomberg, and the mainstream media. Follow Joe: @TheStalwart Follow Marty: @MartyBent Check out WDYM?: https://www.bloomberg.com/series/whatd-you-miss Peep Joe's Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/joseph-weisenthal1:55:37August 28, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.08.20Join Marty and Matt Odell for their new weekly series, Rabbit Hole Recap, in which they break down the latest news pertaining to Bitcoin. In their inaugural episode, the two discuss Bitmain's IPO and balance sheet, Bitcoin Core's impending release of v0.17, Square's Cash App gaining steam vs. Venmo, Venezuela and the Petro, and Siacoin's decision to hard fork to become ASIC resistant to certain miners. Links discussed in the show: https://twitter.com/btcven/status/1028743266739662849 Complaint-as-Filed-3063362-1.pdf fields-com-cash-48a99b85aad4 https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/VEF/BTC1:08:20August 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #39: Zac PrinceJoin Marty as he sits down with Zac Prince, co-founder of Blockfi, to discuss using Bitcoin as collateral, Fed policy, the fulfilment one gets from working in Bitcoin, and much more. Follow Zac: @BlockfiZac Follow Brad: @BradMichelson Follow Marty: @MartyBent Link to blogpost on taxes we discussed: -and-crypto-tax-treatment/ 1:42:38August 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #38: Nic CarterJoin Marty as he sits down with Nic Carter, Partner at Castle Island Ventures and co-founder of Coinmetrics.io, to dive into the current state of the cryptocurrency landscape, Augur, blockchain data, the evolving narratives in Bitcoin over time, and how Nic and his team approach investing in this space. Follow Nic on Twitter: @nic__carter Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Castle Island Ventures: http://www.castleisland.vc/ Check out Coinmetrics: https://coinmetrics.io/1:46:31August 14, 2018Tales from the Crypt #37: Dhruv BansalJoin Marty as he sits down with Dhruv Bansal, co-founder of Unchained Capital, to discuss HODL waves, using bitcoin as collateral for loans, how the story of Merlin and Arthur in "The Once & Future King" may apply to Bitcoin, and how we may take Bitcoin to space as an intergalactic money. Follow Dhruv: @dhruvbansal Follow Marty: @MartyBent Check out Unchained: https://www.unchained-capital.com/1:54:31August 7, 2018Tales from the Crypt #36: John NewberyJoin Marty as he sits down with John Newbery to discuss Bitcoin Optech, a new initiative to help large economic players within Bitcoin ensure they are following best practices when it comes to using the Bitcoin blockchain efficiently. The two also dive into Schnorr signatures, Taproot, Lightning Network, and get cosmic over some heady Bitcoin theories. Follow John on Twitter: @jfnewbery Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Bitcoin Optech: www.bitcoinops.org1:02:46August 1, 2018Tales from the Crypt #35: Bitcoin Sign GuyJoin Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Sign Guy to talk about the infamous day he held a "Buy Bitcoin" sign behind Janet Yellen as she gave a congressional testimony, what drives him philosophically, and what technologies like Bitcoin and 3D printers will enable in the future. *WARNING* This may be the drunkest TFTC episode to date. Enjoy!1:23:03July 10, 2018Tales from the Crypt #34: Murad MahmudovJoin Marty as he sits down with Murad Mahmudov, angel investor and author of two of the most prolific pieces on Bitcoin this year. The two dive deep into this conversation, discussing why dApp platform tokens shouldn't have any value, why Bitcoin's quest to become the reserve currency of the world has the biggest potential from an investment perspective, and some thoughts on anon coins and stable coins. Follow Murad: www.twitter.com/MustStopMurad Follow Marty: www.twitter.com/MartyBent1:50:58June 27, 2018Tales from the Crypt #33: Saifedean AmmousJoin Marty as he sits down with Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, to discuss the history of money, why sound money is so important, and how fiat currency has caused negative externalities like fiat food.  Follow Saifedean on Twitter: https://twitter.com/saifedean Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Pick up The Bitcoin native-Central/dp/11194736:48June 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #32: Josh OlszewiczJoin Marty as he sits down with a longtime crypto-Twitter and trading legend, Josh Olszewicz AKA @CarpeNoctom, to discuss a range of topics including TA, crypto-Twitter, how "the space" has changed and how the scams have adapted over the years. Tune in for some high qual reminiscing.   Josh's Twitter: www.twitter.com/CarpeNoctem Josh's YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/carpenoctom Read his stuff: https://bravenewcoin.com/authors/josh-olszewicz/ Marty's Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent1:29:13June 12, 2018Tales from the Crypt #31: Matt CoralloThis conversation hits on many topics, but focuses on (de)centralization and the types of centralizing risks that exist in the realm of cryptocurrencies. Matt expounds upon his project to decentralize mining, how UASF proved that Bitcoin is decentralized, why there is a somewhat-urgent need to develop a fee market to subsidize the block reward, and calls out some scams. Follow Matt on Twitter: @TheBlueMatt Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Chaincode Labs: www.chaincode.com1:34:52June 5, 2018Tales from the Crypt #30: Ryan DippmannJoin Marty as he sits down with Ryan Dippmann, co-founder of Azte.co, to discuss Bitcoin on/off ramps, payments, low hanging fruit that entreprenuers can use Bitcoin to exploit, surfing, and much more.  Follow Ryan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/RyanDippmann Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out www.azte.co  Use the code "CRYPT" at www.thecryptocandle.com for 10% of and a chance to buy a whole Bitcoin for $45!1:08:02May 31, 2018Tales from the Crypt #29: Jameson LoppJoin Marty as he sits down with Jameson Lopp to discuss a range of topics including private key management, anarcho-capitalism, SWATting, and why we need to be continually optimistic about freedom enabling technologies like Bitcoin. Follow Jameson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lopp Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Use the promo code "CRYPT" at www.thecryptocandle.com for 10% off a crypto candle at checkout. Buy one and you might win some bitcoin!57:36May 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #28: Joe LooneyJoin Marty as he sits down with Joe Looney, Co-Founder of the Rare Pepe Foundation, to discuss digital collectibles, the history of Rare Pepes, efficiencies provided to power plants via PoW mining, and much more.  Follow Joe on Twitter: @wasthatawolf Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent1:16:57May 15, 2018Tales from the Crypt #27: Alejandro MachadoJoin Marty as he sits down with Alejandro Machado to discuss Bitcoin and Venezuela, how Bitcoin may be able to help the struggling country, and how Venezuela got to this point. The two also venture into discussions about UX in crypto, the weird world we're living in, and how it's getting harder and harder to trust the information we receive on a day-to-day basis. Follow Alejandro on Twitter @alegw Follow Marty on Twitter @MartyBent1:29:01May 9, 2018Tales from the Crypt #26: Charles HwangJoin Marty as he sits down with Charles Hwang, Managing Partner at Lightning Capital and adjunct professor at Baruch College, to discuss what it's like teaching the subject of Bitcoin to college students, how regulators are and should classify Bitcoin, brain wallets, the introduction of a new segment "Freak Questions", and much more!  Follow Charles on Twitter: @cryptocharlesh Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent1:28:58May 2, 2018Tales from the Crypt #25: Patrick StanleyJoin Marty as he sits down with Patrick Stanley, Growth Partner at Blockstack, to discuss Blockstack, decentralizes applications, how Blockstack differs from Ethereum, education in America, and thinking different.  Follow Patrick on Twitter: @PatrickWStanley Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent1:10:11April 24, 2018Tales from the Crypt #24: PompJoin Marty as he sits down with Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano as they dive into a meandering conversation about mining, tokenized securities, memes, and the need for better UX in crypto.  Follow Pomp on Twitter: @APompliano Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent59:31April 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #23: Dylan CurranJoin Marty as he gets off the beaten path with Dylan Curran to talk about data in today's digital world, how we are controlled by it, and how we can change our tendencies to take back some privacy + control of our data. They get a little cosmic towards the end too. Follow Dylan on Twitter: @iamdylancurran Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent46:39April 17, 2018Tales from the Crypt #22: Tom Garrambone Pt. IIIn the second half of their conversation, Marty and Tom dive into leadership centralization, easy money, traditional financial markets, and the ongoing brain drain into crypto.1:06:58April 12, 2018Tales from the Crypt #21: Tom Garrambone Pt. IMarty sits down with Tom Garrambone, co-founder of Tetras Captial in NYC, to talk about his approach to investing in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the differences between a medium of exchange and store of value, and Silicon Valley v. Wall Street.1:05:55April 10, 2018Tales from the Crypt #20: Matt OdellJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Odell to talk about Bitcoin's game theory, the mining landscape, and the need for people to avoid FOMO as hard as they can. Join in on the ramblings of two shitposters who have been observing the space for many years.1:03:42April 3, 2018Tales from the Crypt #19: The Brothers O'Beirne Pt. IIPart II of Marty's conversation with the brothers O'Beirne gets more philosophical as the crew dives into many different topics.1:27:02March 29, 2018Tales from the Crypt #18: The Brothers O'Beirne Pt IJoin Marty as he sits down with brothers James and Will O'Beirne to talk about Bitcoin and Ethereum. James is now a full-time Bitcoin Core contributor, working at Chaincode Labs. Will is a part of the MyCrypto.com team and finally gives us a peek into the mind of someone building on and around Ethereum. The conversation meanders through many topics including prediction markets, Proof-of-Work v. Proof-of-Stake, the philosophy behind these technologies, and the current state of the space.1:31:16March 28, 2018Tales from the Crypt #17: Bobb FoggJoin Marty as he sits down with Bobb Fogg to discuss a litany of topics including; Bitcoin Maximalism, do blockchains have to be decentralized, the concepts of Nassim Taleb, and the state of governance in blockchains and the world.  Follow Bobb on Twitter: @BobbFogg Subscribe. Rate. Review. Share.1:49:16March 13, 2018Tales from the Crypt #16: Ari PaulJoin Marty as he sits down with Ari Paul to discuss a wide range of topics including; the token economy, the range of disciplines that someone investing in this asset class must have (at the very least) a grasp on, how little we know, and how important (not) knowing Satoshi is.  You can find out more about Ari by following him on Twitter @AriDavidPaul.2:11:56March 6, 2018Tales from the Crypt #15: Eduardo Medina and ZahJoin Marty as he sits down with Eduardo Medina to discuss Venezuela, the country's current crisis, the Petro, and how Bitcoin may help. Zah joins us for this episode to help draw parallels between Venezuela's situation and Zimbabwe's run-in with hyperinflation. This is why we Bitcoin.1:29:16February 28, 2018Tales from the Crypt #14: JW Weatherman**Sorry for the poor sound quality on my end of the mic. Recorded on my laptop and the mic wasn't configured properly.** Join Marty as he sits down with JW Weatherman to learn about the cypherpunk movement, JW's definition of modern-day slavery, anarcho-capitalism and how they all relate to Bitcoin. Hold onto your butts, the conversation broaches some controversial topics that will make you think about the systems we've grown up within.  JW is on Twitter under the handle @WeathermanIam. Follow him.1:55:16February 21, 2018Tales from the Crypt #13: Chiefy NduomJoin Marty as he sits down with Chiefy Nduom, a man on a mission to bring Bitcoin to the balance sheets of some of Africa's Central Banks. Topics covered throughout the conversation include the current state of the global financial system, the importance of having Bitcoin in a diversified portfolio, and how Bitcoin will evolve to be the collateral of choice in the future when people take out loans. Tune in, grow your know.1:51:14January 31, 2018Tales from the Crypt #12: Crypto de MediciJoin Marty as he sits down to peek into the mind of Crypto de Medici, a crypto investor and Crypto Twitter must-follow. Throughout the episode Marty and Medici touch on investment process, controlling emotions, the current landscape of crypto, and our archaic education system.1:20:56January 25, 2018Tales from the Crypt #11: Arjun Balaji Pt. IIJoin Marty and crew for the second half of their conversation with Arjun Balaji. They cover Blockstack, how the Internet is broken, and why companies like Facebook and Google may actually be bad.1:07:05January 23, 2018Tales from the Crypt #10: Arjun Balaji Pt. IJoin Marty and crew as they sit down with Arjun Balaji, a young crypto investor with a keen sense for finding value in the budding world of cryptocurrencies. Arjun let's us know the two cryptocurrencies he would hodl if he had to lock them up for 10 years, how these nascent technologies may shape our future, how they have changed people already, and much more.1:06:46January 16, 2018Tales from the Crypt #9: ZahJoin Marty as he sits down with Barstool's resident Zimbabwean, Zah, to talk about the history of Zimbabwe, its political situation, what people use as money during bouts of hyperinflation, and how people are using Bitcoin in the land locked African country north of South Africa.1:01:30January 8, 2018Tales from the Crypt #8: Team Lightswitch breaks down madnessMarty and fellow Team Lightswitch member Matt Brown breakdown the crazy week that was.22:24December 22, 2017Tales from the Crypt #7: Matt Corallo Pt. IICatch Pt. II of Marty's conversation with Matt Corallo to hear them discuss Bitcoin's chances of succeeding, how Bitcoin makes people smarter, and how everyone is ignorant when it comes to Bitcoin + blockchains. Enjoy.1:14:50December 18, 2017Tales from the Crypt #6: Matt Corallo Pt. IJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Corallo, a Bitcoin Core contributor, to discuss Bitcoin, the current altcoin landscape, scaling blockchains, cryptokitties, all time highs + bubbles, and much more. Drink of choice for this Happy Hour was Brooklyn Brewery's Pilsner.1:24:50December 12, 2017Tales from the Crypt #5: John NewberyJoin Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor, John Newbery to dig into some of the technical details of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Core's process, keeping the long-term in mind, and what the average Joe can do to make Bitcoin better.1:20:41December 6, 2017Tales from the Crypt #4: What the hell is going on?Marty is back in the studio with Louis and a special guest, Barstool's resident spider monkey, Nate. In this episode Nate signs a band, PFT makes a cameo to give us a lesson in exponential growth, and Marty answers all the questions Louis and Nate have about the current events in Bitcoin. Tune in to get caught up with all of the news that has been going on in Bitcoin.56:57November 20, 2017Tales from the Crypt #3: Santiago SiriMarty sits down with Santiago Siri, co-founder of Democracy.Earth, to talk about a range of topics including the Silk Road, liquid democracy, a trip to Cuba, Information Theory, and much more.1:41:30November 7, 2017Tales from the Crypt: Pierre Rochard Pt. IIIMarty and Pierre round out their conversation by hitting on "where we are now", crypto hedge funds, and Bitcoin storage. Links discussed: Kyle Bass interview - http://adventuresinfinance.realvision... Cold storage guide - https://github.com/rustyrussell/bitco...43:24November 2, 2017Tales from the Crypt: Pierre Rochard Pt. IIJoin Marty and Pierre in Pt. II of Episode 2 as they continue their conversation about speculative attacks, Bitcoin v. Ethereum, this year's ICO mania, and quality v. quantity.  Show notes: Grant Williams' interview with Kyle Bass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZdtL1YrRYo Satoshi Nakamoto Institute: www.nakamotoinstitute.org  Pierre Twitter: www.twitter.com/pierre_rochard Marty Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent1:11:28October 26, 2017Tales from the Crypt: Pierre Rochard Pt. IMarty sits down with Pierre Rochard, co-founder of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, to discuss a litany of topics. Tune into Pt. I of the three part episode to learn about Austrian Economics, the Tezos debacle, Bitcoin's governance, Linux, hyperbitcoinization, and speculative attacks.1:23:12October 25, 2017Tales from the Crypt Ep1: The History of Bitcoin pt. IIJoin Marty and Louis as they pick up the history of Bitcoin in 2012 and run through everything that's happened through today. Learn about Bitcoin's supply schedule, why people dislike Coinbase, and the first attempt to dethrone the Core team. This week's tangents include the Sixers, a Japanese word of the day, Louis' journey to find the Deep Web, and parking tickets in Chicago.1:11:47October 11, 2017Tales from the Crypt Ep1: The History of Bitcoin pt. IMarty and Louis discuss the history of Bitcoin, where they were when the Phillies won the world series, Brad Pitt, and Brock Lesnar.28:42October 3, 2017 - State of the Lightning Network - Gaming - Why are we doing this? - Security attack vectors to be aware of - Much more Follow Evan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/evankaloudis  Check out Zeus 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:56:32October 30, 2019Tales from the Crypt #110: Saifedean AmmousJoin Marty as he sits down with Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard, to discuss: - Academia - Bitcoinization might not play out how you think - The collective "We" - Building his Economics course - much more Check out Saif's website and academy - https://saifedean.com/ 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/44:55October 25, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.21This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Layer1 mining el-crypto-investment/ - Bakkt hits ATH volume >s=20 - Tails 4.0 old>=20 - Nodl Dojo kill switch 20 - Cryptosteel Capsule https://cryptosteel.com - Zebedee and SatoshisGames - zebedee.io & lightnite.io - Zap updates for iOS and desktop 0 & 0 - Bisq update v1.2, make sure you complete all trades/disputes/offers before upgrading old>=20 - ACINQ announces new mobile lightning wallet called Phoenix =20 - Iterative Capital announces Escher Hub bitcoin on/off ramp et-a-cheap-and-fast-way-to-transact-bitcoin/ - Bittr teases Lightning support with Nodl partnership =20 - FullyNoded iOS app (@fullynoded) allows you to connect to your own full node through Tor and use it with Coldcard PSBTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqKEPpSky2g - Tracking the PlusToken whale through Wasabi by @ergobtc coin-laundering-and-its-impact-on-wasabi-wallet-787c0d240192 - Samourai wallet releases anon set tool onymity-sets-4156a54b0bc7 - NordVPN private keys leaked d>=20 Much more Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo 1:08:05October 24, 2019Tales from the Crypt #109: Justin MoonJoin Marty as he sits down to catch up with Justin Moon. They discuss: - Building Buidl Bootcamp - Mooniversity - BitBoy - Junction - Wallets - Redundancy - Much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:44:36October 22, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.14This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Casa node concerns https://blog.keys.casa/addressing-security-concerns-about-casa-node/ - Realvision with Saifedean -standard?source_collection=07157a6eedda4e78b9dcada0c3bc76c0 - Trezor + Unchained Slip0039 implementation ndividuals-and-groups-cae3e9573410 - Child porn ring brought down shutdown - Oxford English Dictionary adds sats - Blockstream Green Wallet adds integrated Tor support =19 - LND 0.8.0 released ml - Casa covenant inheritance planning rvice-and-protocol/ - Nodl team begins moving everything behind Tor 19 - Tor releases new version of OnionShare e-publish-anonymous-uncensorable-websites-0 - Electrum announces their own lightning implementation - Coldcard Mk3 begins shipping - Rep Warren Davidson on Noded old>=19 - Protests around the world Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral. Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/tftc211:12:06October 17, 2019Tales from the Crypt #108: Jared DillianJoin Marty as he sits down with Jared Dillian, Founder & Editor of The Daily Dirtnap newsletter, to discuss: - Jared's reformed skepticism of Bitcoin - Bitcoin v. Gold - What happens if we End The Fed? - Millenial investing - much more  Follow Jared on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailydirtnap Check out The Daily Dirtnap: https://www.dailydirtnap.com/ Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/52:00October 15, 2019Tales from the Crypt #107: American HodlJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with American Hodl to wax poetic about everything. Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:25:57October 11, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.07This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Real Vision upcoming show with Saif - Coldcard adds offline address explorer with new update thanks to @hodlwave https://blog.coinkite.com/address-explorer/ - Zap Android app update 0 - Upcoming Zap desktop update to include node pubkey signing https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-588/ - New KYCP update - kycp.org - https://mempool.observer/monitor/ by @0xB10C - Nodl Samourai announced - https://shop.nodl.it/en/home/38-nodl-samourai-edition.html - Casa Node 2 announced - https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-casa-node-2/ - ACINQ raises $8M in series A - ning-implementation-raises-8m - Tor removes ~800 old relays - ers-for-running-eol-versions/ - Adobe and others cut off Venezuelan users from cloud services - behance-us-sanctions - Multiple corporations bend the knee to China - https://ibb.co/album/eSSKDv - Hong Kong Free Press switches to BTCPay - d>=20 - City of Miami to vote on 30 year contract for cameras and flood sensors on light poles to private company with no data protection >=20 - Surveillance partnerships with Amazon's Ring door cameras -on-elected-officials-to-stop/ - Bitcoin2020 tickets for $50, Szabo is keynote - https://www.bitcoin2020conference.com/ Cash App. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com to check out their collaborative custody and loan products as well as their open source contributions. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Check out www.youtube.com/tftc21 1:01:37October 10, 2019Tales from the Crypt #106: Aleks SvetskiJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Aleks Svetski, founder of Amber, to discuss: - The latest Amber updates - Building out a product road map and prioritizing - Citadels - Separation of money and state - Hypothetical paths to a post-bitcoinization world - much more  Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:08:36October 8, 2019Tales from the Crypt #105: Travis KlingJoin Marty as he sits down with Travis Kling, CIO of Ikigai Asset Management, to discuss: - Travis' journey to bitcoin - Failed narratives/frameworks of years past - How the current system is gamed - Timing - Much more Follow Travis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Travis_Kling Check out Ikigai: https://www.ikigai.fund Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:21:53October 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.30This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Michelle Phan y-she-left.html - Baakt launches with limited volume https://www.bakkt.com/markets - US & UK CLOUD Act Agreement ion-backdoors.shtml - HK - 1967 emergency laws enacted - face masks banned https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-4991888 - host4coins.net - Opendime videos - tftc.tv - Team signing for Casa Diamond Members ($5040 per year) https://blog.keys.casa/team-signing-on-casa-keymaster/ - uesefultulips.org - Wasabi error, rescan required - Crypto Rating Council launched by  Coinbase, Kraken, Poloniex and Bittrex https://www.cryptoratingcouncil.com/asset-ratings - EOS $24M settlement with SEC https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-202 - Keybase impersonator Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral. Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/tftc211:03:50October 3, 2019Tales from the Crypt #104: JanineJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Janine, privacy researcher and co-host of Block Digest, to discuss: - Janine's path to Bitcoin - Common privacy blunders - Avoiding big tech - Coinbase's checkered history - CoinJoins - Block Digest - Traveling without Google Maps - Much more Follow Janine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/J9Roem Check out Block Digest: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb53lXz2IzEFT5JNHSbdvPg Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:11:41October 1, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.23This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Lightning Vulnerability disclosed er/002174.html - Maduro rumored to own bitcoin in-stash-and-doesn-t-know-what-to-do-with-it - In device address explorer coming to coldcard /bold>=20 - Erlay BIP draft released https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-578/ - Fold joins the sats back party with Amazon support =20 - tThe "hashcrash" https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1176850968211668994 - ETH gas limit raised it-to-10-million Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral. Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada.49:49September 27, 2019Tales from the Crypt #103: Mauricio Di Bartolomeo & Adam ReedsJoin Marty as he sits down with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo & Adam Reeds, the co-founders of Ledn.io, to discuss: - Ledn's loan offerings and expansion into Latin America - Bitcoin mining in Venezuela - Stablecoins  - Crossing boarders with Bitcoin - How the Venezuela government buys bitcoin via LocalBitcoins - Sneaking out of the country - The ills of Socialism - much more  Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 2:12:20September 26, 2019Tales From The Crypt #102: John DoeJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with John Doe, an ex-Silk Road vendor who had a four year forced hodl. Learn about what it was really like to use the Silk Road, the ethos of the website + forums, and the absurdness of The Drug War.  Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:05:15September 24, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.16This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Baltic Honeybadger in Riga - [Day 1] rce%3Ddigg [Day 2] e=digg - Reminder that browser extensions can be malicious, act accordingly - Someone is impersonating Matt on Keybase - Olympus fiat to lightning https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-574/ - Sparkswap beta launched >=20 - Square Crypto hires 3 new devs Valentine Wallace, Jeffrey Czyz, Arik Sosman, announces funding for BTCPay https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-570/ - Hash rate all time high again - https://bitcoinvisuals.com/chain-hash-rate - Tor project now using BTCPay - https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency - Bobby Lee launches horrible product BalletCrypto card that nobody should use  - ColdCard multisig plugin merged into electrum, next official version of should have it ready to go, or just build from official sources today - Nodl + Samourai edition designs released, preorders soon /bold>=20 - Bisq adds encrypted chat https://twitter.com/wiz/status/1174104040193413120?s=20 - Repo market / Fed cuts rate / QE4? Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada.56:36September 20, 2019Tales from the Crypt #101: Jack Mallers - Olympus AnnouncementJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers to discuss the launch of Olympus, a non-custodial way to buy bitcoin and immediately receive it on the Lightning Network.  Link to Jack's Medium post on the launch: -ramps-by-zap-1f5349a96ee9 Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:16:58September 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #100: @arbedoutJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Odell and a very special guest, arbedout. Arbedout is a Twitter anon who has some incredible views on Bitcoin. Particularly how the nascent "cryptocurrency boom" shares a lot of eerie parallels with market booms throughout history.  The trio polishes off 3/4 of a bottle of Knob Creek while reminiscing on their experiences within the "cryptocurrency boom".  Follow arbedout on Twitter: https://twitter.com/arbedout Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/  3:22:33September 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #99: Raoul PalJoin Marty as he sits down with Raoul Pal, Founder of Real Vision and Global Macro Investor, to discuss: - Repo markets - The state of the global financial system - Demographics - Behavioral Economics - Tokenizing income streams - much more  Follow Raoul on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI Check out Real Vision: https://www.realvision.com/ Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:06:03September 18, 2019Tales from the Crypt #98: Carla Kirk-Cohen Join Marty as he sits down with Carla Kirk-Cohen, the last of Chaincode Labs' Summer residents to swing through the studio, to discuss: - Carla's journey to Bitcoin - Her passion for the Lightning Network - Life in South Africa - Bringing LN to an exchange - Things that LN enables that weren't possible before  Follow Carla on Twitter: https://twitter.com/actuallyCarlaKC Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:05:29September 17, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.09This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Lightning CVE exploited in the wild, lnd 0.7.0 vulnerable, update! er/002148.html - Digg from the dead https://digg.com/channel/bitcoin - NY payroll company MyPayrollHR exit scam $35M 5-million/ - French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire says Libra will not be allowed in the EU .html - Premier League Club Watford Bitcoin logo on jerseys due to sportsbet.io sponsorship https://www.watfordfc.com/club/bitcoin-confirmed-new-sleeve-partner - Keybase airdrops shitcoin, bitcoiners donate to Tor, almost 17000 XLM donated(~$1020) KGJDMEW6VLOOLBTIFPJIN7XT6KAFXJQPJ?filter=payments - Bitcoin as a nonviolent rebellion by Nic Carter e?sk=c70e2e688cb3c15dfe68f4d2627b1059 - ColdCard firmware update 2.1.4 for multi-sig change outputs https://coldcardwallet.com/docs/upgrade - Bittr adds xpub support =19 - Spencer Dinwiddie of NJ Nets is a bitcoiner and is tokenizing his ~$34 million extension t-that-means/ - ECB cuts rates and announces a new round of QE "Negative rates will not provoke the collapse of the financial system" - Draghi arts-qe-to-fight-slowdown-as-draghi-era-ends Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada.1:07:59September 13, 2019Tales from the Crypt #97: Eric Voskuil Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Eric Voskuil, lead maintainer of the libbitcoin Bitcoin implementation, as they discuss: - libbitcoin - Austrian Economics - Attack vectors - Eric's experience in the Navy  - How Bitcoin fails  - Dust - much more  Check out the libbitcoin Wiki: https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:53:13September 11, 2019Tales from the Crypt #96: Elichai TurkelJoin Marty as he sits down with Elichai Turkel, recent Summer resident at Chaincode Labs, to discuss: - Elichai's path to cryptography and Bitcoin - Schnorr signatures - Taproot  - Miniscript - Cryptography - State of academic papers - much more Follow Elichai on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Elichai2 Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:04:13September 9, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.02This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Portugal is indeed exempting bitcoin from cap gains treatment: oin-tax-code-other-nations-should-take-note - Hash rate all time high - https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-hashrate.html - LocalBitcoins KYC - -privacy-concerns - SNICKER https://gist.github.com/AdamISZ/2c13fb5819bd469ca318156e2cf25d79 - vaneck & solidx pivot to gbtc like structure rather than ETF for their investment product oin-etf-to-institutional-investors - Facebook left phone numbers exposed on server, 419 million records leaked: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/ - Google discloses exploit that allowed malicious sites to retrieve iPhone files and location data: hones-for-years - M5Stack + bitcoin https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-562/ - TFTC Guides: Lightning for beginners with Breez wallet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zhW7ilOjWg&feature=youtu.be - Bridgefy mesh messaging app being used in hong kong: https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-561/ - Argentina implements capital controls, individuals won't be allowed to acquire or wire abroad more than 10,000 dollars per month - turn-to-argentina-as-macri-fights-to-survive - Upgrade your lightning nodes, disclosure of vulnerability in 3 weeks 002130.html - Jack Dorsey Twitter account hijacked due to sim swap + tweets by sms: d>=20 Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada. 1:05:12September 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #95: Gleb Naumenko Join Marty as he sits down with Gleb Naumenko to discuss: - Gleb's experience helping to build an exchange - Bitcoin usage in Ukraine - Gleb's work on Erlay - The Erebus attack  - Movies Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 1:19:30September 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.26This week Marty and Matt discuss: - ColdCard MK3 announced: https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-mark3/ - https://ln.alhur.es/ by @fiatjf - UI for hardware wallet multisig using bitcoin core and HWI released for testing by @justinmoon - https://github.com/justinmoon/junction - Bitcoin realized cap hits ath of ~$100B - https://coinmetrics.substack.com/ - According to Chainalysis, less than 11% of mixed bitcoin are used for illicit purposes - t-used-for-illicit-purposes - CSW rebuked hard in court, judge orders 50% of his bitcoin to be given to Kleinman's estate, unfortunately for them he probably doesn't own any - Bitcoin for safety by @jamesob - https://jameso.be/2019/08/24/bitcoin-is-for-this.html - WTF happened in 1971? https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ - Janey + Cato - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-559/ - Binance adds interest bearing accounts (BNB, ETC, Tether) - o-crypto-as-binance-starts-lending-business - Opennode adds kyc and shopify integration - https://www.opennode.co/blog/how-to-accept-bitcoin-shopify-extension/ - EOS dumped almost 20 mins earlier first: >=20 - Portugal tax exemption. Fake news? Let us know Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber45:39August 29, 2019Tales from the Crypt #94: Fabian Jahr Join Marty as he sits down with Fabian Jahr, current Summer resident at Chaincode Labs, to discuss the RPC call Fabian has been working on this Summer, the Chaincode residency experience, the Bitcoin scene in Berlin, Fabian's experience with the Lightning Network, and much more.  Follow Fabian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fjahr Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:37:54August 28, 2019Tales from the Crypt #93: Rodolfo NovakJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Rodolfo Novak to discuss Coinkite, how Rodolfo approaches making products for Bitcoiners, a little Bitcoin history, Ham Radios, airplanes, and much more.  Check out Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ (Use the promo code "TFTC" for 5% OFF!) Follow Rodolfo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. 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Head over to https://keys.casa/ today.1:23:51August 27, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.19This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - BitBlockBoom - bitsteins talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBAuHv5cPl8 - New Erebus attack paper - https://erebus-attack.comp.nus.edu.sg - Hardware wallets + multisig - https://stephanlivera.com/episode/97/ - Sats the standard - Blockstream Green Wallet adds sats - ld>=20 - All seeds are not cross compatible, be aware - https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1164165702602899456?s=20 - Bitcoin Optech bech32 + RBF compatibility matrix  - https://bitcoinops.org/en/2019-compatibility-matrix/ - Matt Corallo first hire by Square Crypto - =20 - Miniscript - 20 - Hong Kong protesters are distributed not centralized - -brilliance-backed-beijing-into-a-corner/ - 40 straight weeks of anti-macron yellow vest protests - >=20 - Another fake Satoshi, safely ignore - Happy birthday Lolli! Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber 1:10:08August 22, 2019Tales from the Crypt #92: Bryan Bishop & Joseph JacksonJoin 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: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:34:53August 21, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.12 LIVE w/ Pierre Rochard & Michael GoldsteinJoin Marty and Matt as they're joined by the hosts of the Noded Podcast, Pierre Rochard and Michael Goldstein to discuss: - Bakkt Futures - Binance KYC - Liquid Tether - Hong Kong - India - Samsung + Bitcoin - Coinbase negligence - much more Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber47:09August 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #91: Tuur DemeesterJoin Marty as he sits down with Tuur Demeester, Founder of Adamant Capital, to discuss Tuur's journey to Bitcoin, the founding of Adamant Research then Adamant Capital, how to leverage Bitcoin to short USD, Bitcoin's parallels with The Reformation. Follow Tuur on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.43:47August 17, 2019Tales from the Crypt #90: James C.Join Marty as he sits down with James Chiang, currently spending his Summer at Chaincode Labs, to discuss James' journey to Bitcoin, his experience with Libbitcoin, how Libbitcoin compares to Bitcoin Core, working in the renewable energy sector, working on a Python library for Taproot, and much more.  Checkout https://teachbitcoin.io/ Follow James on Twitter - https://twitter.com/digi_james Follow Marty on Twitter - https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.55:13August 15, 2019Tales from the Crypt #89: BitcoinTINA & Alpha Zeta Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with BitcoinTINA & Alpha Zeta to talk about the current market conditions, where Bitcoin sits, whether or not Bitcoin is a risk-on or risk-off trade, and the fact that Bitcoin is a fundamental financial tech innovation.  Check out Alpha Zeta's portfolio tracker: http://www.thewarden.io/index.html Follow BitcoinTINA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinTINA Follow Alpha Zeta on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alphaazeta Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.58:20August 14, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.05This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin vaults - 7229.html - Yuan peg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCH_-fcCoK4&feature=youtu.be - Big blocks and tradeoffs - https://twitter.com/BitMEXResearch/status/1157667091719380992 - Binance KYC leak - s-negotiations-with-its-kyc-hacker - Is anything priced in? Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber46:33August 8, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.29This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - JoinMarket, fidelity bonds, and privacy - 69.html - Capital One data breach - llowing-the-banking-hack/ - Zap update + full node - https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases/tag/v0.5.2-beta - Fold App Kickbacks - - "Stacking sats" - Hong Kong - old>=20 - Fortnite World Cup - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1155838643094917121 - much more  Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:00:56August 1, 2019Tales from the Crypt #88: Richard MyersJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Richard Myers, who is working on "Bitcoin's last mile" via mesh networks at GoTenna and Global Mesh Labs, to discuss: - ByteABit, Richard's P2P mobile Bitcoin exchange - Mesh networks, GoTenn, LOT49, and Global Mesh Labs - Cashless societies - Deflation - much more Follow Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/remyers_ Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 2:05:40July 30, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.22This week Marty and Matt discuss: -BTCPayServer - https://stephanlivera.com/episodes/ - Wasabi & Samourai - Ethereum hashrate down 42% from ATH, bitcoin hashrate at ATH: able-to-attack - Coldcard + Wasabi video, class on the 26th at Chaincode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2uhyROpAQ&feature=youtu.be - New Cash App UI - Ohmm  - =20 - Hong Kong protests take violent turn: ld>=20 - Nodl Electrumx - =20 - Parker Lewis' Gradually, Then Suddenly - https://www.unchained-capital.com/blog/dollar-crisis-to-bitcoin/ Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:03:19July 26, 2019Tales from the Crypt #87: Conner BrownJoin Marty as he sits down with Conner Brown to discuss how he became interested in Bitcoin, philosophy, the intersubjective nature of money, Kanye West, and much more.  Follow Conner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_ConnerBrown_ Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:53:27July 23, 2019Tales from the Crypt #86: Ben HuntJoin Marty as he sits down with Ben Hunt (with a guest appearance from James O'Beirne) to discuss some of the running themes from Epsilon Theory, how they relate to Bitcoin, and why Bitcoiners may be fighting a losing battle.  Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory Follow James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesob Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:48:18July 19, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.15This week Marty and Matt discuss: - This week in Bitcoin - d>=19 - Wasabi - d>=19 - C-Lightning - ld>-9fca65debeb2 - Binance staking XLM -  https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360030727092 - >=19  - ETH on BCH - er-for-ethereum/5735 - Much more  Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app - Now available for Linux users! HoneyMiner is the easiest way to earn BTC. Peep their site here to learn more - =marty%20bent%20honeyminer1:06:57January 31, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.21This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Venezuela - https://twitter.com/btcven - Post-Soviet LN + Satellite API messages - https://twitter.com/notgrubles/status/1088402776638541827 - Lightning games - old>-issue-402 - Georgia & Bitfury - https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1088816882872926211 - Taproot article by Aaron van Wirdum - -will-benefit-bitcoin/ - ETF withdrawn - https://twitter.com/gaborgurbacs/status/1088173233722089486 Thanks to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer! All you home mining freaks should head over to www.honeryminer.com/labs to check out their new version, now available to Linux users!  54:28January 25, 2019Tales from the Crypt #56: Chris DannenJoin Marty as he sits down with Chris Dannen, co-founder and Partner at Iterative Capital, to discuss a range of topics including the evolution of software development culture, destroying the technostructure, the poison that is mainstream media, and much more.  Follow Chris on Twitter: www.twitter.com/chrisdannen Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out Iterative's thesis: iterative.capital/thesis  Thanks to our sponsor BlockFi! Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to peep the special offer they have for you freaks! 1:53:58January 24, 2019Tales from the Crypt #55: BitcoinTINA aka Rick FlexJoin Marty on this week's edition of Tales from the Crypt as he sits down with BitcoinTINA aka Rick Flex to discuss how bullish he is, past tech trends and how we may use them to guess how Bitcoin adoption may play out, and much much more. Banger of an episode. 2:52:14January 18, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.14In this episode we discuss:  -ETH 2.0 -Constantinople bug and delay -LN network analysis network-has-been-remarkable-but-theres-a-catch/ -Putin bitcoin rumor -Wasabi multi-denominations -ETC was indeed reorged chain wide -China plans on using great firewall to target nodes ficially-try-to-extend-its-great-firewall-to-blockchains/ -Grin launch -Thor from Bitrefill payments-easy -Baakt delayed -Genesis Trading OTC volume up 50% YoY, e-is-up-50-year-over-year/ 1:01:44January 18, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.07This week we discuss: -Deplatforming +  -ETC 51% -ETH Constantinople and progPow forks -10 years since Hal - https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988?lang=en -Zap POS app ld>=19 -Gemini ad campaign - https://twitter.com/Gemini/status/1082726902622797825 -Bitcoin mining pools over time, BetterHash - https://coinmetrics.io/mining-pool-mapping/ -Kraken compliance report =19 -Nodl.it -Bitmain founders rumored to be stepping down, new CEO inbound  ounders-wu-and-zhan-step-aside/ -Norwegian Monero Ransom -ShapeShift lays off 30% of their team, 37 people - Bezos Commencement speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBmavNoChZc Thanks to our sponsors:  BlockFi. Head to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt and check out BlockFi today!  BUIDL Bootcamp - Next course starts January 21st, head over to www.buidlbootcamp.com and sign up today! (Online Courses) 1:10:20January 10, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.31On this week's edition of RHR Marty and Matt come to you live from RiseNY to shoot the shit about Bitcoin's first ten years as well as some current events.  Shoutout to our sponsor Blockfi: Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can leverage your BTC today! 50:43January 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.24This week we discuss:  Trezor + Ledger hacks - wallet.fail - allet-vulnerabilities-at-tech-conference/ Electrum hack - eal-over-700k-from-users-of-a-popular-bitcoin-wallet/ New Joule version out - Pierre Rochard's node launcher Indian gov possibly loosening regs - ossible-rule-change-around-legal-status-of-cryptocurrencies/ Bitcoin Private- https://coinmetrics.io/bitcoin-private/ Facebook + crypto - ok-is-said-to-develop-stablecoin-for-whatsapp-transfers US Government Shutdown Civil token relaunch Tuur Demeester's thread on ETH: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1078682801954799617 Bitmain layoffs - t-up-to-50-of-staff/ Consensys layoffs - yoffs-employees-pending-startup-ethereum GMO exiting mining biz - https://ir.gmo.jp/en/pdf/irlibrary/gmo_disclose_info20181225_e.pdf Difficulty leveling off - nother-9-but-hash-rate-picks-up/ 7-month trading volume highs - g-volume-reached-7-month-highs/ Highest single day trade vol for tether - l-time-high/ Civic takedown - lustrates-why-companies-masquerading-tokens-will-fail/ Iterative Capital NYC Event - bent-aaron-lammer-jay-kang-tickets-51666739609 Shoutout to this week's sponsor, BlockFi. Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can avoid selling BTC or help start that side project you always wanted by leveraging your BTC holdings!  1:02:41December 28, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.17This week Matt and Marty Discuss: RIP Tim May Minisketch - es-about-get-easier/ & https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1075460072786935808 Blockstream satellite - rom-space/#548f7bc75a80 Unchained Capital Dust analysis - modynamics-615dd51f49 Basis - d-to-investors/ Coinbase - and-zilliqa-zil-are-launching-on-coinbase-3065eeb42d5b & 083c62 & https://medium.com/hydro-protocol/why-we-are-forking-0x-97dc48ee0426 & w-digital-assets-92ba4ab7f465 Tether - ypto-mystery-clues-suggest-tether-has-the-billions-it-promised ETH Constantinople fork - ivation-point-for-next-hard-fork Gazprombank - / Japanese tax law - nges-to-ease-crypto-tax-burden Rumor Bitmain IPO not happening The Patreon War Mulvaney a Bitcoiner - https://twitter.com/ObsoleteDogma/status/810957268950859780 - Samourai Dojo - https://samouraiwallet.com/dojo -Mining in Iran - ts-not-as-easy-as-it-sounds Thanks to our Sponsors: BlockFi: Sign up at blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to get $25 in free crypto added to customer collateral for loans under $10k or $50 in free crypto added to customer collateral for loans over $10k. Applying takes less than 2 minutes. Tallyco.in/BTC_Spot/ - Head over to http://tallyco.in and raise funds with some of that unstoppable, censorship-resistant, magic internet money today! 52:34December 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #54: Yassine Elmandjra Join Marty as he sits down with Yassine Elmandjra, Crypto Analyst at ARK Invest, to discuss Yassine's insanely low time preference decisions post-college, Bitcoin mining, how Bitcoin changes you, and much more. Follow Yassine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/yassineARK Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent 1:23:17December 18, 2018Tales from the Crypt #53: Matthew Mežinskis Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis, co-host of the Crypto Voices podcast, to discuss Base Money, Free Banking, how Bitcoin plays into these concepts, and much more. Follow Crypto Voice on Twitter: www.twitter.com/crypto_voices Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Thank you to our sponsor BlockFi! Go to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to get $25 of free crypto collateral for loans under $10k and $50 of free crypto collateral for loans above $10k!2:07:31December 11, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.05This week Matt and Marty are joined by Bitcoin Sign Guy and they discuss: -Rogoff v. White recap -Vertcoin 51% - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1069989819969929218 -International oil contracts - https://twitter.com/arbedout/status/1070323234845925376 -Buy Bitcoin in Paris - https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1069330451695845383 -Pierre Rochard's lnd launcher + Zap + Joule - https://twitter.com/pierre_rochard/status/1070296265806745600 -Wasabi UX update - wasabiwallet.io -Death spiral - ing-death-spiral-debate-explained/ -Coinshares Bitcoin mining research - bitcoin-mining-network-dynamics-f820d6218bdf -RAMP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Anonymous_Marketplace -Larimer new coin - r 5, 2018Tales from the Crypt #52: Dan HeldJoin Marty as he sits down with Dan Held, co-founder of Picks & Shovels, to discuss the early days of Bitcoin, "Planting Bitcoin", shaping narratives, the beauty of PoW, and much much more. Follow Dan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/danheld Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Check out Picks & Shovels: https://picks.co/ Shoutout to our sponsor Blockfi! Go to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to get $25 of free crypto collateral for loans under $10k and $50 of free crypto collateral for loans above $10k! 2:09:59December 5, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.26 This week we are joined by Dan Held, Co-Founder of Picks & Shovels, to discuss: - lightningjoule.com - Ohio taxes and friendly Treasurer ure-as-a-crypto-owner/ - Hash rate - -f2pool-founder-estimates - Hester Peirce on WhatBitcoinDid https://t.co/aOSPdNAG5f - VanEck OTC index itcoin-otc-index/ - VanEck & Nasdaq futures cash settled january tures-contracts - Tether relaunches direct redemption at tether.to - tion-of-fiat-from-its-platform/ 54:09November 29, 2018Tales from the Crypt #51: Max Keidun & Roman SnitkoJoin Marty as he sits down with Max Keidun & Roman Snitko, co-founders of Hodl Hodl, to discuss how they became interested in Bitcoin, why they decided to start Hodl Hodl, the nature of P2P exchanges, Bitcoin prediction markets, their decision to block US citizens from using their service, and much more. Follow Max on Twitter: https://twitter.com/keidunm Follow Roman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/romansnitko Follow Hodl Hodl on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hodlhodl Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Check out https://hodlhodl.com/ Thanks to our sponsor cash.app! 1:15:19November 27, 2018Tales from the Crypt #50: Jeremy WelchJoin Marty as he sits down with Jeremy Welch, co-Founder and CEO of Casa, to discuss how Jeremy became interested in Bitcoin, how he Casa came to be, and the state of personal data. Follow Jeremy on Twitter: www.twitter.com/jeremyrwelch Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Peep Casa: https://keys.casa/ Use the code "CRYPT" at www.baboontothemoon.com for 10% off a Go-Bag! 1:24:53November 20, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.19This week we discuss: Gold hoarders executed Iran - ctions-hit-iran-executes-gold-currency-speculators - Ledger & Trezor issues - https://blog.trezor.io/psa-non-genuine-trezor-devices-979b64e359a7 https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1062876921787236352 - BCH post mortem -Lolli https://www.lolli.com/ -nodl.it http://www.nodl.it/ -SIM Swapping, App based 2FA psa - https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/130-lizard#episode-player -SEC coming down on ICOs59:01November 19, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.12This week we discuss: - Bitcoin Cash hard fork - Bitcoin price volatility - Coinemine - nd-mint-crypto-money - US Elections, politicians holding BTC - Blockchain voting - EtherDelta fined - nregistered-securities-exchange - Recent Bitcoin Core merge - https://twitter.com/MarcoFalke/status/1060913913221599232 - BitMex v. Hasu - change-f956324b449f rity/ - China Debt situation - old>-issue-356 - MakerDAI Get your Baboon Go-Bag right now! Use the code "CRYPT" for 10% your purchase at www.baboontothemoon.com 1:02:00November 14, 2018Tales from the Crypt #49: Alex LieglJoin Marty as he sits down with Alex Liegl, Founder of Layer1 Capital, to discuss his mental framework for valuing cryptocurrencies, Grin, Bitcoin's inception, what it means to be part of a team, and much more. Follow Alex on Twitter: twitter.com/alexanderliegl Follow Marty on Twitter: twitter.com/MartyBent Download the Cash App today! https://cash.app1:28:26November 13, 2018Tales from the Crypt #48: Pierre RochardJoin Marty as he sits down with Pierre Rochard to reminisce about the year that has past since their first recording, give out free futuristic business ideas, discuss Pierre's Excel plugin that links to the Lightning Network, buyers of last resort, and much more. Follow Pierre: www.twitter.com/pierre_rochard Follow Marty: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out BitcoinACKs: www.bitcoinacks.com Check out Bitcoin Advisory: www.bitcoinadvisory.com Peep the Nakamoto Institute: www.nakamotoinstitute.org Download the Cash App today! cash.app2:10:06November 7, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.05This week we discuss: - Bitcoin Cash - Tether + Deltec - lationship-is-authentic/ - Wasabi check-in -Gwyneth Paltrow - https://twitter.com/katherineykwu/status/1059525781163048961 Ron Paul - /bold>/october/29/trump-is-right-the-fed-is-crazy/ - Petro - https://petro.gob.ve/index_eng.html - InitiativeQ Scam - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1057338090392498176 - Unocoin founder arrested - eir-cryptocurrency-atm/ - Coinbase 1.3B in revenue - uments-show - WEX - ed-to-long-troubled-exchange/ - Janet Yellen doesn't own any bitcoin Block height: 548,923 Use the code "CRYPT" for 10% off your Go-Bag at www.baboontothemoon.com!57:30November 5, 2018Tales from the Crypt #47: Jack Mallers Join Marty as he sits down with Jack Mallers, founder of Zap, to discuss Chicago, chess, Jack's path to Bitcoin, what draws him to Lightning, Bitcoin financial products, and much much more. Follow Jack on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JackMallers Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out Zap: https://zap.jackmallers.com/1:14:58October 31, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.29This week we discuss: -Gab -China social credit -Localbitcoins lead by Russia and Venezuela - https://t.co/VSiTn63psi -Maplechange - not your keys, not your bitcoin -Lightning residency + hackathon -IDEX blocking NY IPs https://twitter.com/Aurora_dao/status/105491741862198476841:46October 30, 2018Tales from the Crypt #46: Justin Moon Join Marty as he sits down with Justin Moon, founder BUIDL Bootcamp, to discuss Bitcoin and life. Follow Justin - https://twitter.com/_justinmoon_ Follow Marty - https://twitter.com/martybent Checkout BUIDL Bootcamp - https://www.buidlbootcamp.com2:24:59October 26, 2018Tales from the Crypt #45: Lightning Koala Join Marty as he sits down with Lightning Koala, creator of satoshis.place and a man dedicated to building on top of the Lightning Network. The two discuss a bunch of different topics spanning from building games on Lightning to the coordination efforts it takes to make something like Bitcoin work at scale. Follow Lightning Koala: https://twitter.com/LightningK0ala Follow Marty: https://twitter.com/LightningK0ala Check out satoshis.place 1:33:20October 23, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.22Topics of the week: - Betty - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45889707 - Venezuela local bitcoin volume new ATHs ($25M per week) - https://twitter.com/louAboudHogben/status/1053086355100581888 - Tether follow up - _stack=true - Unocoin routing around Indian regs - al-bank-crackdown-india/ - Wasabi Wallet - allet-privacy-focused-bitcoin-wallet-for-desktop/ - Ethereum Constantinople hard fork delayed - elayed-until-2019/ -Ransoms - rica-possibly-kidnapped - Neutrino - ino.html -Monero Bulletproofs hard fork - c6408babf - Binance, Chainalysis - -from-chainalysis/ -Bisq ATH volumes - amid-increased-monero-demand/ 58:42October 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #44: Alan SilbertJoin Marty as he sits down with Alan Silbert, Executive Managing Director of INX Limited, to chat about the old days and his experience starting Bitpremier.com, a site where people could spend BTC to buy luxury goods. Alan explains how he got into Bitcoin, how his side hustle pushed him to leave his main hustle and what it's like to get a call from Homeland Security. Follow Alan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alansilbert Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Check out INX Limited: https://www.inx.co Thank you to our sponsors: Cash App, download the app here - https://cash.app/ HoneyMiner, enter to win a GPU here - https://twitter.com/gethoneyminer/status/1052200242781786112 Download Honeyminer here - https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk1:33:23October 18, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.15 Topics of the week: Tether + Bitfinex - >=19 ETH Constantinople hard fork on testnet - https://twitter.com/5chdn/status/1051194779890003974 Liquid Announcement - https://blockstream.com/2018/10/10/liquid-launch.html goTenna unboxing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzZen7ajmKA&feature=youtu.be Fidelity announcement - h-da19b06aa58e Hugo fire flames - e18 Lightning bike - https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1051832593082175488 Nouriel - https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1050766810348445696 Thanks to our sponsor, The Cash App. Download it here: https://cash.app/58:12October 15, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.08 "Bull v. Bear" In this week's episode, Marty and Matt sit down with Murad Mahmudov to discuss: - Murad's bear thesis - Swensen/Yale investments is-said-to-invest-in-crypto-fund-that-raised-400-million) - Supply chain attacks + secure hardware >-top-companies) - Bitcoin Core v0.17.0 release -whats-new/) - Gemini gets asset insurance (https://medium.com/gemini/digital-assets-insurance-adbfb0c44e74) - Bitfinex cut ties with Noble, now with HSBC -its-banking-relationship-to-hsbc/) - SegWit txs almost at 50% work(https://transactionfee.info/charts/payments/segwit) - Eris announces Bakkt competitor exchange-to-create-crypto-market-backed-by-drw-virtu) - Aaron van Wirdum's privacy series ld>=19) - Murad + David Puell's MVRV Ratio mvrv-ratio-3ebc914dbaee) 1:04:04October 8, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.01On this week's episode of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt and Marty discuss - Samourai Wallet + goTenna collab: ld>-issue-330 Siacoin bricks ASICs: https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/955907524317859842 Malta Prime Minister, pretty chay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QzbiMmuO0k&feature=youtu.be 1Broker gets seized: d>=19 ShapeShift: on-wsjs-attack-on-shapeshift-and-crypto/ EOS collusion: old>=19 Thank you to our sponsors: Cash App, we don't use the other apps anymore. Download the app now - https://cash.app/ Honeyminer, start making BTC in one click - https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk1:00:22October 2, 2018Conversations from Riga: Matt Corallo + HasuflyIn this special edition of Tales from the Crypt, Marty sits down with Matt Corallo to discuss CVE-2018-17144, the bug found in Bitcoin last week, and his efforts with the Betterhash mining pool protocol. This is a quick 15-minute conversation that touches on a lot. During the last 2/3 of the episode, Marty sits down with Hasufly, a budding star in the world of Bitcoin content to discuss the practices he used to learn about Bitcoin as quickly as possible. Hasu has an incredible way of creating mental frameworks from which to learn. Tune sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:08:01March 10, 2020#138: BitcoinTINA "The Perfect Storm"Join Marty as he sits down with BitcoinTINA to discuss how the macro factors lining up in the world right now are a perfect storm for Bitcoin in the medium to long-term. Follow BitcoinTINA on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:02:36March 6, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.02This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coronavirus + Fed Rate Cut - Whirlpool volume PAMPING - VR Presentation by Adam Gibson on PayJoin  - Nodl updated with new RTL - myNode updated with Dojo support - Casa adds Coldcard support  - BlueWallet adds Coldcard support  - BlockFi flagging wasabi deposits  - Square Crypto announces two new grants  - India Supreme Court strikes down bitcoin banking ban  - South Korea passes amendment formalizing bitcoin regulation  - Germany deems bitcoin a financial instrument  - New York Power Plant mining $50K worth of bitcoin per day  - Coinbase tested facial recognition software Clearview AI - EARN IT Act to be introduced in US Congress  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:08:44March 4, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.24This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Trace fall from Grace - FullyNoded corrections - consider donating here - @6102bitcoin infographics on taint, chainalysis, and blacklisting - Zebedee releases developer SDK  - Whirlpool usage second monthly ATH in a row  - Whirlpool mobile released  - Casa bitcoin inheritance solution released  - Coldcard v3.1.1  - Square reports growing bitcoin volume  - Square teases option to display in sats and auto buys  - Suredbits Discreet Log Contracts Demo - Nodl Day - March 24th in SF - Wifi flaw exposed billions of devices - lol progpow - Macro and Coronavirus Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:18:22February 27, 2020#136: Paul SztorcJoin Marty as he sits down with Paul Sztorc, the man behind Drivechains and Bitcoin Hivemind, to discuss: - Proof of Work v. Proof of Stake - Bitcoin's fee market - How it may develop in the future - Is Bitcoin our only shot?  - Drivechains - Why people don't like Drivechains - Why their concerns are valid + invalid - Bitcoin Hivemind - much more Follow Paul on Twitter Check out his blog Check out Drivechains  Check out Bitcoin Hivemind Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 2:29:22February 25, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.17This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bisq v1.2.6 adds support for L-BTC  - Bisq volume up 2.6x YoY  - Zeus v0.2.1  - RTL v0.6.5  - c-lightning v0.8.1  - ColdCard firmware v3.1.0 adds support for HSM mode called ckbunker  - Fully Noded 2 released on testflight  - BTCSessions mynodebtc.com build your own node walkthrough video  - Microsoft ION distributed identity project  - OpenNode fiat integration  - Peter Thiel backed Layer1 begins mining operation in West Texas  - What Constant Surveillance Does to Your Brain  - hardware wallet threat modeling  - DoD systems (DISA) compromised, PII taken  - Bitcoin's fifth largest hourly price drop in history  - FTX election markets - Thought Police in New Zealand Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:47:54February 19, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.10This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Dropbit CEO arrested for running a centralized mixing service called Helix and a dark market search engine called Grams  - Self payments lightning privacy proposal  - Coldcard releases PSBT Faker tool for testing  - Tor Browser v9.0.5  - Tails v4.3  - Wasabi implements Apple Code Sign  - Escher App demos paying any lightning invoice with your connected bank account  - Liquid support on Bisq goes live  - Anon submits Taproot critique to mailing list  - Chainalysis has been paid over $10M by US gov agencies  - A world without bitcoin thought experiment by Alex Gladstein  - US Federal Budget Proposal Mentions More Cryptocurrency regulation and enforcement  - Trump admin to introduce new FinCEN requirements  - Redditor posts IRS audit request  - If US Marshals never sold seized bitcoin they would currently be worth over $1.8B  - Casa releases home defense primer  - CNBC clip  - Coronavirus Close Contact app  - CIA owned encryption company facilitated global spying for decades  - The Chinese Gov allegedly hacked Equifax  - Yandex facial recognition tool  - FTX launches US elections futures markets for top 6 candidates  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:20:44February 11, 2020#133: Whit GibbsJoin Marty as he sits down with Whit Gibbs, Co-Founder and CEO of Hashr8OS, to discuss: - Whit buying the 2017 top - Why he decided to focus on mining - Mining hardware + energy dynamics - What's going to happen after the halving? - Is the US turning into the USSR? - Social credit - much more Follow Whit on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:52:14February 8, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.03This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Casa will no longer sell nodes, gold package reduced to $10 per month  - Wasabi removes fixed fee address  - Samourai Whirlpool usage hits monthly all time high  - Proof Wallet tool released by @hodlwave  - Eclair v0.3.3  - BTCPay Server v1.0.4.156  - Blockstream Green v3.3.3  - BitMex Research estimates 28% of channels are private, 12% of total capacity  - Lolli requiring bank account linked to withdraw bitcoin rewards for some users  - Lightning Labs raised $10M Series A round and launches lighting loop beta   - ColdCard teases new HSM mode  - ShiftCrypto releases results of new tamper evident packaging alpha test - Zoomers fighting back against Instagram tracking  - Bitcoin citadel workshop in SF before bitcoin2020  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 2:17:52February 4, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.27This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coronavirus - Payswap privacy proposal  - Knapsack privacy proposal  - Paxos flags account that used wasabi for previous withdrawals  - 6102bitcoin on CoinJoin flagging  - Cryptocurrency Indicators of Suspicion (CIOS) Working Group aka Project Participate  - KYCP.org update - Bitcoin obsoletes all other money  - New Chaincode podcast  - Casa teases coldcard support for multisig service  - 28% of lightning channels are likely private  - BIP BIP Hooray  - Protonmail and VPN blocked in Russia  - Track internet censorship in real time  - Contribute to open map data, win bitcoin  - Wawa PoS malware compromises 30M+ customer credit cards  - Avast AV has been harvesting and selling user data  - Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers  - BCH mining tax proposal  - Lightning torch privacy PSA - LN Strike Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:16:58January 30, 2020Tales from the Crypt #131: Matt Corallo + Valentine Wallace Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Matt Corallo and Val Wallace from the Square Crypto team to discuss: - How Val came to work on LN - How the Square Crypto team honed in on a Lightning Development Kit - What a Lightning Development Kit would do for developers building on LN - Having a team able to focus on a singular open source project - Are we pawns? - Bitcoin fee elasticity  - Dev funding - Stratum v2  - Matt gives an updated probability of Bitcoin's success - much more Check out the LDK announcement Follow Matt on Twitter Follow Val on Twitter Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv2:22:16January 27, 2020Tales from the Crypt #130: Jeremy RubinJoin Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Jeremy Rubin to discuss: - MIT Digital Currency Initiative - Airdrops - OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (BIP 119) - POWSWAP - Dev funding - Scaling - much more Follow Jeremy on Twitter Check out BIP 119 Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:31:05January 24, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.20This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ronin Dojo v1.2  - txCast: Randomised Bitcoin (testnet) transaction broadcasting to break timing analysis  - MyNode v0.1.80  - lnd v0.9-beta  - Zeus v0.2.0  - BTCPay Vault  - Liquid support coming to Bisq with next update  - Exchange cold storage analysis  - Square Crypto announces lightning development kit  - Square files bitcoin related US Patent  - LightNite game map and other details released  - Apple iCloud backups are essentially a backdoor to phone data  - ECB paper on central bank digital currencies highlights negative interest rates, helicopter money, and more seignorage  - Clearview app face recognition app uses 3B+ photos scraped from millions of public facing websites - Pentagon accounting debacle - Bezos gets pwnd by the Saudis - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:44:02January 20, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.13This week Marty and Matt discuss: - RIP Tamas Blummer  - Tor Browser 9.0.4  - Zeus v0.2.0-rc1 : Android APK + Dev Signature - Instant VPS powered by lightning  - Liquid support on BTCPayserver  - Kashmir internet shutdown 170+ days now  - BitMEX Research shows more lightning usage than expected  - Samourai Wallet announces OXT Research  - FBI tries to set encryption backdoor precedent once again  - Coincenter reintroduces bill to add tax exemption for small purchases  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies1:01:25January 17, 2020Tales from the Crypt #128: Jamal JamesJoin Marty as he sits down with Jamal James, creator of Polar - a productivity tool for Lightning Network developers, to discuss: - Building Polar - Jamal starting and running a successful business for 15+ years - How he originally got into Bitcoin - Deciding to build for Bitcoin + LN - Building for application devs - Why Bitcoin is inevitable - much more Follow Jamal on Twitter Check out Polar  Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:56:44January 16, 2020Tales from the Crypt #127: Andrew ChowJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Andrew Chow, Bitcoin Core Contributor and Engineer at Blockstream, to discuss: - How Andrew found bitcoin in high school - What life was like before the Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBT) standard - Why PSBT is important - Working on Bitcoin Core's Hardware Wallet Interface - CoinJoins - Coin selection - Hardware wallets - Video games - much more Follow Andrew on Twitter Follow Andrew on GitHub Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 1:31:17January 13, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.06This week Marty and Matt discuss: - River financial only 8 states - https://sphinx.chat/ - Samourai whirlpool dynamics, whirlpool CLI 0.10.2 released  - Clark Moody adds sats per dollar and lightning Tor stats to his dashboard - zeus beta2 released, c-lightning support and iOS - Polar v0.2.0 released, c-lightning support added  - RTL releases a major UX upgrade  - lnd v0.9.0-beta-rc1 released with multi-path payment support  - South Korean government committee recommends adding bitcoin product to national exchange  - Neil Woodfine on how to keep bitcoin running in offline environments: video, slides, & thread - Tessercube PGP on mobile, recommended by @coinsureNZ  - Kraken releases yearly government request transparency report  - Cloud extraction report by privacy international  - Russian state energy company courting bitcoin mining ops  - Elaine makes the case for censorship resistant money  - Video of gold accumulation over the last 20 years overlayed with bitcoin market cap  - Debrief creative video by @CreativeLandRun mentions Marty  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies1:01:14January 9, 2020Tales from the Crypt #126: Jeff VandrewJoin Marty as he sits down with Jeff Vandrew, founder of the Keykeeper IRA, to discuss: - Jeff's essay on Post-Capitalism - Distributism - Marxism - Social Democracy - Socialism - Localism - Externalities - much more Follow Jeff on Twitter Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:18:51January 8, 2020Tales from the Crypt #125: Alexander LeishmanJoin Marty as he sits down with Alexander Leishman, Co-Founder of River Financial, to discuss: - Building River - Being a Bitcoin-only business - Dollar Cost Averaging  - Complex systems - Bitcoin and American values - KYC/AML hypocrisy - much more Follow Alexander on Twitter Check out River Financial Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/3:09:47January 3, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.30This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin's first 11 years - NthKey: use your iPhone as part of a multisig setup  - Nodl Dojo first impressions  - Samourai Whirlpool 0.10.0 released  - MyNode adds whirlpool support, dojo coming soon  - Satreon: a non custodial lightning network powered alternative to Patreon  - Metal seed storage reviews  - Introducing A Framework for Privacy in eCommerce via Bitcoin  - Difficulties with verifiable open hardware Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. 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They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies1:13:54January 2, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.23This week Marty and Matt discuss: - BitBox02 brute force vulnerability disclosed, update to firmware V5.0.0 asap (h/t @freedomisntsafe)    - BLW on Android adds support for hosted channels  - Argentina local bitcoins volume hits ATHs amid further capital controls  - As expected CSW makes excuses ahead of "tulip trust" access date  - Ethereum Co-Founder Jeffrey Wilcke dumps $11.5M worth of ETH from premine  - The Venezuelan Petro update  - HK Police freeze $9M raised by activists via Spark Alliance  - Popular chat app ToTok removed from app store due to concerns it is a UAE spy tool  - US gov issues warning to service members asking them not to use DNA testing services  - @dergigi releases 21 Lessons book  - Kiara Bickers (@kiarabickers) releases Bitcoin Clarity book  - Proof of Keys next week - John Newbery thread - German gold capital controls Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:10:47December 23, 2019Tales from the Crypt #123: Bitcoin Sign Guy on UrbitJoin Marty as he sits down with Urbit ambassador to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Sign Guy, to discuss: - Urbit 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:40:31December 20, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.16This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bottle Pay shuts down rather than implement KYC per upcoming AMLD5 regulation  - Binance Singapore allegedly flagging accounts that CoinJoin after withdrawal  - Phoenix lightning wallet by ACINQ launches on Android  - c-lightning 0.8.0 released  - Wasabi Wallet V1.1.10 released  - Coldcard firmware 3.0.6 released  - Ronin UI for Samourai Dojo  - Trace Mayer on CoinJoin usage - BTCPay integration with M5Stack - cheap point of sale option - Alex Gladstein in Coindesk, Quillette, Tor blog       - Polo adds no KYC option  - Direct deposits delayed nationwide due to Fed glitch - NYTimes report on location tracking using phone apps Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies1:09:05December 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #122: Parker LewisJoin Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis to discuss: - What is QE?  - The Fed's balance sheet over the last decade - Unwinding the balance sheet - Repo market madness - Source of the repo liquidity crunch - Moving forward - much more Follow Parker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/parkeralewis 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/51:50December 15, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.09This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Honeyminer acting sketchy - not your keys, not your coins - Jill Carlson on censorship resistance  - Coinjoin usage Wasabi & Samourai chart  - SquareCrypto gives grant to a nym - ZmnSCPxj   - RIP CryptoDeleted  - Exchange tokens are centralized and high risk  - Malicious relays on the Tor network  - Twitter funding small team to develop a more open platform   - Amazon Ring cameras compromised  - More than 260k documents leaked by Sprint contractor  - War on cash escalates in Greece and Italy  - Repo market demand  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:10:11December 11, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.02This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bakkt weekly volume all time high   - Bakkt ceo Kelly Loeffler tapped as new Georgia senator  - The second Boltathon online lightning conference this weekend, tickets are 800k sats  - easypaysy bitcoin accounts proposal  - On The Brink podcast with former head of Circle OTC desk Dan Matuszewski  - Bitfinex adds lightning deposits and withdrawals  - A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack by Lucas Nuzzi  - TFTC with Matt Ahlborg  - Interesting reddit discussion about Confidential Transactions  - Wasabi v1.1.10 RC1 released - go test it and earn sats  - Badass BTCPay cleats by Russel Okung  - Great Fold commercial by @bvbtc and @content_noir  - BottlePay chat sats launched  - Tails 4.1 released  - Binance launches no fee Tezos staking undercutting all noncustodial options  - Tron backed Poloniex flexes on DGB founder  - OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:15:55December 3, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.25This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin Core 0.19.0 released - s-whats-new - ColdCard firmware 3.0.5 released  - Bakkt daily volume  - =20 - Bitmex research analyzes IBD - https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoins-initial-block-download/ - Telegram's Durov issues scathing statement - https://t.me/durov/109 - Two great pieces from Coindesk's Leigh Cuen https://www.coindesk.com/global-protests-reveal-bitcoins-limitations - ypto-at-thanksgiving - Nigerians + Bitcoin - -you-arent-paying-attention-to-4e699db0c5ca - Great presentation by Alex Gladstein - https://vimeo.com/375118500 - Venezuelans using RuneScape for additional income - rency-is-worthless-so-its-people-seek-virtual-gold - South Korean exchange UPbit allegedly hacked: 9 - Eric Wall write up of "stablecoins"  - d74ee17c25d - DMVs are selling your info -dollar50m-a-year-selling-drivers-personal-information - Jameson Lopp’s IBD research https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-node-performance-sync-tests/ Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo!54:15November 29, 2019Tales from the Crypt #119: Chris ArnadeJoin Marty as he sits down with Chris Arnade, Author of Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America, to discuss: - Traveling through back row America - Cognitive hubs and spatial redistribution - Trading on Wall Street - Connecting with "the other" - Retribution as politics  - The importance of community  - much more Follow Chris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade Pick up Dignity: 733 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:40:23November 26, 2019Tales from the Crypt #118: Will ReevesJoin Marty as he sits down with Will Reeves, Founder of Fold, to discuss:  - How Fold has grown from an app that allowed users to purchase pizza via LN to something much bigger - Building a distributed team - Building on a protocol that is changing and evolving - Bridging the gap between non-technical users and cypherpunks - The switch from ad tech to surveillance tech - California wine - much more Follow Will on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wlrvs Check out Fold: https://foldapp.com/ Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:19:36November 22, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.18This week Marty & Matt discuss: - BTCPay vault + BTCPay configurator t%2Fv0.0.3 & =21 - Five corporate sponsors for BTCPay now - Luna node and wallet of satoshi join d>=21 - Coinmetrics & BitMex Research launch txstats.com  - Bottlepay launches developer API https://docs.bottle.dev/ - Matt’s first attempt in front of a camera https://jwp.io/s/O54RhCTj - Donnerlab announces Bitcoin Bounty Hunt FPS game with sats integrated d>=21 - Binance practices responsible UTXO management https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-616/ -  @6102bitcoin launches Bitcoin-intro.com - Upgrade your Trezor T before sending transactions d-its-mitigation-6370ad73ed2a - Zap 0.6.0 desktop released ae597 - @mutatrum launches hodl.camp - How Many Bitcoins Are Permanently Lost? 2e - PlusToken scam chainanalysis - 21 Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:11:34November 21, 2019Tales from the Crypt #117: Wiz & Steve JainJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Wiz and Steve Jain from the Bisq project to discuss: - The origins of Bisq - How Bisq works - Mining  - Why KYC/AML does more harm than good - Why privacy is important - The Bisq DAO - much more Check out and download Bisq: https://docs.bisq.network/getting-started.html Follow Wiz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiz Follow Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/m52go 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 1:49:32November 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #116: Trace Mayer Join Marty as he sits down with Trace Mayer to discuss: - Wyoming blockchain legislation  - The institution of the nuclear family - Bitcoin + freedom - An update on Bitcoin's 7 network effects - much more Follow Trace on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TraceMayer 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:17:08November 15, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.11This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Update firmware before using coldcard SD card feature to send transactions https://blog.coinkite.com/troublesome-change/ - Unchained Capital announces Caravan multisig GUI https://www.unchained-capital.com/blog/the-caravan-arrives/ - Stratum V2 initial specs released -overhaul-in-pooled-bitcoin-mining - Unknown fund announces $75M bitcoin investment towards privacy https://www.unknown.fund/press-release - Digital Garage provides third grant to BTCPay Foundation worth $30k https://blog.btcpayserver.org/dg-grant-2019/ - Easily create regtest lightning networks with Polar https://github.com/jamaljsr/polar - Boltathon 2 online lightning conference announced Dec. 6-8 >=20 - Zap iOS 0.5.0 adds Tor support 0 - HUT8 quarterly figures =HUT - Suspicion-less searches of travelers' devices rule unconstitutional earches-travelers-phones-and-laptops - Fed Chair Powell: "The federal budget is on an unsustainable path with high and rising debt." ld>=21 Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:06:55November 12, 2019Tales from the Crypt #114: Alpha ZetaJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Alpha Zeta to discuss: - Living through hyperinflation - Repo operations. Is it QE?  - Why you shouldn't trade Bitcoin - Stories from Wall Street - Bitcoin's volatility - ETF - HNWI + Bitcoin - much more Follow Alpha Zeta on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alphaazeta 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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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 1:13:45November 8, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.04This week Marty and Matt discuss: - BTC Citadel workshop #2 Thursday December 5th at 6:30 d>=20 - FullyNoded d>=20 - BTCPay update / - Coldcard firmware 3.0.3 https://blog.coinkite.com/Login-Countdown-and-Nickname/ - Square quarterly results - $149M bitcoin sold, first time buyers double - Locha mesh trial in Venezuela use-bitcoin-during-blackouts - Radar Redshift >=20 - EinsteinXchange y-bitcoin-complaints-1.5347104?cmp=rss - BullBitcoin to catch a predator old>=20 - Wasabi to integrate Bitcoin Core directly bold>=20 - CoinJoin usage chart d>=20 - Chat over Lightning =20 - Jack Mallers Twitter AMA ld>=20 - BitMEX leaks 30k passwords >=20 - NodlOne announced https://shop.nodl.it/en/home/43-71-nodl-one-early-bird.html - Tether FUD? - Coinbase adds Tezos staking to consumer facing interface =20 & >=20 - Realt + Uniswap + KYC bold>=20 - Ray Dalio "The World Has Gone Mad and the System is Broken" dalio/ - Cash transactions greater than ~$6000 banned in malaysia to-impose-cash-transaction-limit-of-rm25000-next-year - GEDmatch court case precedent could open up millions of DNA records t.html - Russian "sovereign internet" law control-online Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo1:39:00November 7, 2019Tales from the Crypt #113: Michael Caras AKA The Bitcoin RabbiJoin Marty as he sits down with Michael Caras AKA The Bitcoin Rabbi, Author of Bitcoin Money: A Tale of Bitville Discovering Good Money, to discuss: - Writing Bitcoin Money - Michael's journey to Bitcoin - Charity - Gold's future - much more Check out Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebitcoinrabbi 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:25:18November 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #112: Dhruv BansalJoin Marty as he sits down with Dhruv Bansal, Co-Founder and CSO of Unchained Capital, to discuss: - Multisig - Hardware wallets - SLIP 0039 - Center of Hash - Bitcoin in space - Balancing adaptation and conviction - much more  Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:30:11November 1, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.28This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - 11 years of bitcoin https://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/ - #FastForSatoshi - $1B in fees d>=19 - China blockchain pump s-blockchain-push - Wasabi and Samourai Whirlpool comparison chart d>=19 - Casa Gold 2 of 3 multisig s/ - Coinmetrics nonce analysis 4a - Wired hit piece on sanctions evasion https://www.wired.com/story/cryptocurrency-boom-post-soviet-frontier/ - Cryptosteel capsule hands on ld>=19 & old>=19 - Breez announces Lightning Rod d3e44a - Lightning and privacy & d>=19 - c-lightning 0.7.3 released https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v0.7.3 - Donations to Tor will be matched by Mozilla until November 4th https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency - Coldcard releases full schematics https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-hardware-shared/ - Lebanon institutes ban on cash leaving country USKBN1X60R2 & ins-limitations  - Argentina increases capital controls, $200 per month limit currency-controls-after-fernandez-victory Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo1:16:39October 31, 2019Tales from the Crypt #111: Evan Kaloudis Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Evan Kaloudis, Founder of ZeusLN.app, to drink moonshine and discuss: - Zeus and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:16:27July 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #85: Paranoid BullJoin Marty as he sits down with DAL, AKA Paranoid Bull, to discuss his journey through the markets, systemic risk, political risk, the world's current disconnection from reality and how Bitcoin play into it all.  Check out Odin River's mission: https://medium.com/odin-river/odin-river-31ddc131a22 Follow DAL on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paranoidbull Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App.  Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:11:53July 16, 2019Tales from the Crypt #84: Bull BitcoinJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Francis Pouliot and BTC Sessions from Bull Bitcoin to discuss the Montreal Bitcoin scene throughout the years, consulting in the "Blockchain" space, SegWit2x, the common mission Bitcoiners have, and much more.  Check out Bull Bitcoin: https://bullbitcoin.com/ Follow Francis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/francispouliot_ Follow BTCSessions on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTCsessions Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App.  Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  1:08:42July 15, 2019The Trump Tweet Ep: Marty, Matt and Murad MahmudovMarty, Matt and Murad breakdown the implications of Donald J. Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Powell's comments on Bitcoin.  Links discussed:  https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149472282584072192 https://twitter.com/StopAndDecrypt/status/1149703537871355904 https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/114962998415726182531:26July 12, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.08This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coldcard  - Nodl update - Wasabi update - Samourai 0.99.81 - ter-the-dojo - Miner trying to inflate the supply - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-523/ - History of the DAO hack - Eclair update - https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/releases/tag/v0.3.1  - Surveillance tech creeps forward https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1148222460724207616 - Much more Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:00:09July 11, 2019Tales from the Crypt #83: Aleks SvetskiJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Aleksander Svetski, founder of Amber, to discuss his journey to Bitcoin, lessons from trading, lessons from being a door to door salesman, why Bitcoin not Blockchain, putting up with scammers, and much more.  Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Liking the show and want to contribute? You can do so by going to https://tftc.io/contribute/54:48July 9, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Freedom Edition Week of 2019.07.01This week Marty and Matt sit down on the 4th of July to discuss: - Bitcoin's revolutionary nature - Sats App announced by Casa https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-sats-app-with-satsback/ - 300 tickets sold for Bitcoin2020 - LND 0.7 released >=19 -Zap desktop 0.5 released ce582 - Coldcard v2.1.1 update adds dice support /bold>=19 - US House of Reps Committee of Financial Services asks Facebook to hold off on Libra pdf - Cloudflare went down due to faulty upgrade es-everywhere/ - Whirlpool desktop 0.7 released with full tor support https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1145998882947682304 - Hong Kong - Chinese border guards put spyware on phones at Xinjiang border rveillance-app-tourists-phones - Bitcoin as a safe haven in FT https://www.ft.com/content/f7643858-98f8-11e9-9573-ee5cbb98ed36 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.1:05:50July 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #82: Ketominer + AskuwheteauJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Ketominer and Askuwheteau, the team behind Nodl.it, to discuss how Nodl came to be, their recent partnership with Samourai Wallet, the freedom that Bitcoin enables, potentially moving from hardware to software in the future, the new Raspberry Pi, and much more.  Check out Nodl: https://nodl.it/ Follow Ketominer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ketominer Follow Askuwheteau on Twitter: https://twitter.com/IAskuwheteau Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app. 1:47:33July 2, 2019Tales from the Crypt #81: Dan HeldJoin Marty as he sits down with Dan Held, Co-Founder of Interchange, to discuss his paper on Bitcoin's future security, the importance of sharpening narratives, the false narratives that seem to persist, and much more.  Follow Dan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/danheld Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to a charity of our choice when you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.1:53:07July 1, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap LIVE: Week of 2019.06.24Join Marty and Matt as they are joined by Pierre Rochard, Bitcoin Sign Guy & Francis Pouliot with a special appearance from Paul Sztorc as they discuss: - FATF Guidelines - Iranians mining Bitcoin in mosques - COLDCARD new upgrades  - Libra - CoinJoining - Much more...46:31June 27, 2019Rabbit Hole Cap: Week of 2019.06.17This 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 html - Firefox vulnerability update to 67.0.3 ASAP ser-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 .html 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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You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:12:05June 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #80: Andrew PoelstraJoin Marty as he sits down with Andrew Poelstra, Head of Research at Blockstream, to discuss Cryptography, how small of a field it is, how it's culture compares to Bitcoin's development culture, Taproot, MuSig, MiniSketch, Schnorr signatures, and much much more.  Checkout Andrew's work: https://github.com/apoelstra Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App.  Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:09:11June 18, 2019Tales from the Crypt #79: John Carvalho Join Marty + Matt as they sit down with John Carvalho, CCO of Bitrefill, to discuss his history in Bitcoin, all the dope stuff Bitrefill is working on, Bitcoin's fungibility, Bitcoin culture, and much much more. Checkout Bitrefill: https://www.bitrefill.com/ Follow John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinErrorLog Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App.  Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:44:18June 14, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.06.10This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Proposed ban on Bitcoin in India - Home mining ld>=19 - Nodl + Samourai collab bold>=19 - Global Mesh Labs bold>=19 - Zap on Android bold>=19 - Hong Kong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBl05xNq_AU - Italy https://twitter.com/Schuldensuehner/status/1138709519184175104 - Will O'Beirne's new Joule upgrade a Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. 1:04:21June 13, 2019Tales from the Crypt #78: Lawrence Nahum Join Marty as he sits down with Lawrence Nahum, Founder of GreenAddress + Chief Architect at Blockstream, to discuss approaching Bitcoin development, the history of GreenAddress, what he's working on at Blockstream, helping to make it so everyone can run a node with ABCore, and much more.  Checkout GreenAddress' GitHub and contribute to ABCore if you can: https://github.com/greenaddress Follow Lawrence on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LarryBitcoin  Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor:  Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.49:33June 11, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.06.03This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Rooftop RHR in SF - code "tftc25" -  First 100 person CoinJoin 6a3577ae0f4eddcc4d9174 - 6102 Bitcoin hodl privacy leak overview https://github.com/6102bitcoin/FAQ/blob/master/hodl-privacy.md - Ring cameras creeping rveillance-network-with-ring-doorbells/ - SEC files suit against Kik crypto-anymore/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2019/comp-pr2019-87.pdf - Initial rollout of LN Watchtowers g#click=https://t.co/5VuAHhvsoq - Samourai Dojo open sourced and released -dojo-10-open-source-and/ - Utreexo proposal https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/611.pdf - "Buy" stocks and ETFs with bitcoin using Abra in 150+ countries (not US) d>=19 - Statechains tcoin-transfer-1ae4845a4a39 - Weird YouTube AI https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/1135529605530411008 - Fed to cut rates? https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-499/ 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. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:06:03June 6, 2019Tales from the Crypt #77: David BaileyJoin Marty as he sits down with David Bailey, CEO of BTC Media, to discuss the early days of Bitcoin, how BTC Media came to be, the state of discourse around Bitcoin, how people are underestimating Bitcoin's TAM, and much more. Follow David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidfbailey Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Thinking about heading to the Bitcoin 2019 Conference? Use the promo code "RHR" for a discount at checkout: https://www.bitcoin2019conference.com Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:30:24June 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #76: Alex GladsteinJoin Marty as he sits down with Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation and the Oslo Freedom Forum, to discuss how Alex ended up at the HRF, how authoritarian regimes use digital panopticons to control their subjects, why Bitcoin is such an important project, and why we can't mess it up. Checkout Alex's speech from MCC: https://youtu.be/CyieujRFk3g?t=13786 Follow Alex on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gladstein Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:35:33May 31, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.27This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Wasabi update: https://wasabiwallet.io/ - Erlay proposal, 4.html - New bitcoin ATH in Argentinian peso - 4.1 billion people living under authoritarian regimes according to Oslo Freedom Forum - Proposed FATF regulations - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-492/ - defendcrypto.org - Facebook  - Bitrefill + ACINQ 1 BTC channel - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-494/ - Trade Wars - Taxi medallions Shoutout to the MIB Chad Index Funds 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. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 57:37May 30, 2019Tales from the Crypt #75: Jack MallersJoin Marty as he sits down with Jack Mallers to discuss Zap, potential futures markets for Bitcoin miners, upgrades to the Lightning Network, cannabis, and much more.  Check out Zap: https://zap.jackmallers.com/ Follow Jack on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackMallers Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shout out to this week's sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. 21Lectures! If you're looking to learn how to build on top of Bitcoin and LN check out https://www.21lectures.com/ today! 1:21:59May 28, 2019Tales from the Crypt #74: Andrew Torba Join Marty as he sits down with Andrew Torba, Founder and CEO of Gab.com, to discuss what it's like to be de-platformed, the Silicon Valley "cognoscenti", building more resilient communication tools, the fight for Free Speech, forking open source software as a business model for Gab, the normalization of deviant values, and much more.  Check out Gab: https://gab.com/   Follow Gab on Twitter: https://twitter.com/getongab If you like this podcast, subscribe and give us a rating on your local podcasting platform. Every bit helps. Shoutout to this week's sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:27:49May 24, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.20This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Who would you want to tweet about Bitcoin? - LN node update 75cc3cc28b7ffcde1 - SIM Swaps ils-of-sim-port-hack-35de11517124 -lncast.com launch - 60 Minutes uxnTG/bitcoin-s-wild-ride/ - $8 trillion hidden around the world and Elizabeth Warren wants to tax it e-who-finds-the-hidden-money-of-the-super-rich - BestMixer shutdown: ixer/ - CoinCenter - Non-custodial cryptocurrency mixer developers are not subject to U.S. regulation. - ers-are-not-subject-to-u-s-regulation - Bull Bitcoin starts mixing user funds: =19 - Kraken equity offering at 4B valuation, $1000 min: mers-in-chunks-as-small-as-1000-for-its-fundraising-round/ - Bitfinex LEO token: ange-token-leo-on-may-20/ - Polo/Circle blocks tokens from US customers, lays off 30 employees old>=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. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  1:00:04May 23, 2019Tales from the Crypt #73: Jan Čapek + Pavel MoravecJoin Marty as he sits down with Jan Čapek and Pavel Moravec, Co-CEOs of Slush Pool & Braiins, to discuss their backgrounds, Slush Pool's history, what they're building with BraiinsOS, the nature of reorgs, BetterHash, the dream of a shared foundry, mining futures markets, and much more. Checkout Slush Pool: https://slushpool.com/ Checkout Braiins: https://braiins-os.org/ Follow Jan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/janbraiins Follow Pavel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mor_pav  Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:30:41May 21, 2019Tales from the Crypt #72: Jeff VandrewJoin Marty as he sits down with Jeff Vandrew, Attorney-CPA-Coder, to discuss Distributism, self-custody Bitcoin IRAs, maintaing BTCPayServer's Python implementation, rent seeking, relearning to code, and much more.  Check out Jeff's work: https://vandrew.com/bitcoin/ Follow Jeff on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vandrewattycpa Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:33:20May 20, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.13This week Marty and Matt are joined by Bitcoin Sign Guy to discuss a bunch of stuff.  Thank you to this week's sponsors. 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You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.50:17May 16, 2019Tales from the Crypt #71: James O'Beirne Join Marty as he sits down with James O'Beirne, Bitcoin Core contributor, to discuss his assumeutxo proposal, debt, short-term v. long-term thinking, and what it's like being a permabear.  Checkout the assumeutxo proposal: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/15605 Follow James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesob Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent  Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. 1:50:28May 14, 2019Tales from the Crypt #70: Ruben WatermanJoin Marty and Matt Odell as they sit down with the one man team behind Bittr, the easiest way to stack sats in Europe. We discuss Ruben's path to Bitcoin, his experience getting a Masters in Blockchain from the University of Nicosia, why he built Bittr, what it's like bootstrapping a company, and much more.  Check out Bittr: https://www.getbittr.com/ Follow Ruben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/watermaniak Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:29:38May 13, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.06This week Marty and Matt are joined by Murad Mahmudov from Adaptive Capital to discuss: - Binance hack - onlynet=onion in config file - h/t Evan Kaloudis - TFTC.io launch - Our Lightning node was stolen 75cc3cc28b7ffcde1 - bip-taproot https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip-schnorr/bip-taproot.mediawiki - Wasabi guide bitcoin-only.com @6102bitcoin  https://github.com/6102bitcoin/FAQ/blob/master/wasabi.md - Honeyminer Mac release - One entity is responsible for 50% of BCH transactions - Whirpool - Andrew Chow on PSBT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6xZSRDXUiU&feature=youtu.be Shoutout to this week's listener contributor, Pedro. Here's the video he shared https://youtu.be/NO1aDZ6L4NQ?t=1118 Thank you to this week's sponsors. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. 1:15:45May 9, 2019Tales from the Crypt #69: Juthica ChouJoin Marty as he sits down with Juthica Chou, Co-Founder and COO of LedgerX, to discuss Bitcoin options, what it was like for LedgerX to navigate the regulatory waters throughout the years, LedgerX's Omni platform, and much more. Learn about futures contracts based on block height, backing into projected price probabilities, and how miners hedge their risk. Check out LedgerX: https://ledgerx.com/ Follow Juthica on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juthica Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent Shout out to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Download the Cash

sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. 1:50:28May 14, 2019Tales from the Crypt #70: Ruben WatermanJoin Marty and Matt Odell as they sit down with the one man team behind Bittr, the easiest way to stack sats in Europe. We discuss Ruben's path to Bitcoin, his experience getting a Masters in Blockchain from the University of Nicosia, why he built Bittr, what it's like bootstrapping a company, and much more.  Check out Bittr: https://www.getbittr.com/ Follow Ruben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/watermaniak Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:29:38May 13, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.06This week Marty and Matt are joined by Murad Mahmudov from Adaptive Capital to discuss: - Binance hack - onlynet=onion in config file - h/t Evan Kaloudis - TFTC.io launch - Our Lightning node was stolen 75cc3cc28b7ffcde1 - bip-taproot https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip-schnorr/bip-taproot.mediawiki - Wasabi guide bitcoin-only.com @6102bitcoin  https://github.com/6102bitcoin/FAQ/blob/master/wasabi.md - Honeyminer Mac release - One entity is responsible for 50% of BCH transactions - Whirpool - Andrew Chow on PSBT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6xZSRDXUiU&feature=youtu.be Shoutout to this week's listener contributor, Pedro. Here's the video he shared https://youtu.be/NO1aDZ6L4NQ?t=1118 Thank you to this week's sponsors. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. 1:15:45May 9, 2019Tales from the Crypt #69: Juthica ChouJoin Marty as he sits down with Juthica Chou, Co-Founder and COO of LedgerX, to discuss Bitcoin options, what it was like for LedgerX to navigate the regulatory waters throughout the years, LedgerX's Omni platform, and much more. Learn about futures contracts based on block height, backing into projected price probabilities, and how miners hedge their risk. Check out LedgerX: https://ledgerx.com/ Follow Juthica on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juthica Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent Shout out to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Download the Cash App today from the App Store or Google Play Store and start #stackingsats 42:17May 7, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.29This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Bitcoin v.0.18.0 released hats-new/ - Bitfinex spread increases, -1-billion-through-an-ieo-shareholder-says/ - Cashapp $65.5M quarterly bitcoin sales  - Amazon Managed Blockchain ce-available-to-the-public/ - #dropgold campaign - dropgold.com - Ethereum is now money according to ethereum.org - CoinJoins as a Percentage of All Bitcoin Payments Have Tripled to 4.09% Over the Past Year -payments-have-tripled-to-409-over-the-past-year - Samourai Whirlpool enters mainnet testing phase - Nine in 10 Americans have heard about bitcoin, Blockchain Capital survey finds itcoin-survey-finds/ - Fidelity surveys 400 institutional investors, 22% already have exposure, 47% think exposure makes sense: nvestments-likely-to-increase-over-next-5-years-729fb1ca3c52 - eTrade joining the party, plans to offer bitcoin trading to its ~5M customers https://twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/1121868559330598912 Shoutout to this week's sponsors: Cash App, head over to the Apple App Store or Google Play and download it today to start #stackingsats Unchained Capital, check out Unchained's 2-of-3 multisig vaults product today and get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin. er 1:06:11May 2, 2019Tales from the Crypt #68: Patrick DuganJoin Marty as he sits down with Founder and CEO of TradeLayer, Patrick Dugan, to discuss Patrick's run in with pot smoking bandits in Argentina, what he's building on TradeLayer, how decentralized derivatives markets may help drive demand for Bitcoin, the flow of money, and sovereignty in the Information Age.  Check out TradeLayer: http://tradelayer.org/ Follow Patrick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/duganist Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent 2:13:51April 30, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.22This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitfinex gets sued - d=vIexA1b0spKOnK_PLUS_ZUGTJ3A==&system=prod  -  https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/356 - Erisx and TdAmeritrade - market/ - Ledger Windows phishing attack - 0 - Wasabi update - https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/releases - d>=20 - Lightning Labs releases Beta Neutrino Lightning App for desktop - >=20 - assumutxo proposal by James O'Beirne - https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/04/09/ - Satoshi's Treasure update - tinyurl.com/dpravengers - Samsung invests 2.9M into Ledger  - ger/ - Gemini integrates SegWit fully - egwit-protocol/ - Bitmain rumored to be abandoning BCH - https://twitter.com/btcking555/status/1121699148523352064 - Casa privacy campaign + tor update - https://blog.keys.casa/casa-privacy-and-data-protection-policy/ - finalmessage.io - Run a tor relay node! - https://blog.torproject.org/new-guide-running-tor-relay Shoutout to this week's sponsor, 21Lectures! If you're looking to learn how to build on top of Bitcoin and LN check out 21Lectures.com today!  1:29:53April 26, 2019Tales from the Crypt #67: Nik Bhatia Join Marty as he sits down with Nik Bhatia, who has pushed forward the theory of Lightning Network Reference Rates, to discuss a range of topics including reference rates in the traditional financial sector, LNRR, Bitcoin + Real Estate escrow, Nik's experience producing rap albums and much more.  Check out Nik's writing on LNRR:  https://medium.com/@timevalueofbtc Follow Nik on Twitter: www.twitter.com/timevalueofbtc Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital! Sign up for their multisig vault product today by using the link below and receive a free three-month subscription to Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin.  er1:39:36April 23, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.15 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Satoshi's Treasure https://satoshistreasure.xyz/ & M4Gor240vH_yVN9Urni7VjPYlh4Z5rlRA/viewform?usp=sf_link - Reports from CoinMetrics and TradeBlock dispute Reuters $100M whale story - and ld>=20 - Wasabi Wallet hardware wallet support in testing - mentation/Guides/20190416HardwareWalletTestingGuide.md - lLND 0.6.0 - static channel backup --- release notes: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases --- Channel backup guide: >channel-backups  - Lightning Powernode Launcher will default to Tor /bold>=20 - Nodl update- 5804c08420230e23c7c - hodlnaut BTCPay fundraiser - https://weareallhodlonaut.com/ - US Sanction Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua - s-measures-against-cuba-venezuela-and-nicaragua - Proof of Solvency piece - a-thing-bc4750dd16c7 & t-60-march-2019 - paywall.link and lightningscratchcard.io Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Check out their 2-of-3 multisig vault service today! er1:04:40April 18, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.08This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Julian Assange d>-issue-460 - HODL guide https://github.com/DriftwoodPalace/guides - Multisig scenarios - Coinbase o-fiat-debit-card-in-the-uk-filling-gap-left-by-shift-shutdown/ - LND 0.6.0 release https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases - Zap 0.4.1 release https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases - Managing a Lightning Node 75cc3cc28b7ffcde1 - Binance to-up-the-exchanges-compliance-procedures/ - Energy waste https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1116340276463714305 - China bans Bitcoin wants-to-eliminate-bitcoin-mining-idUSKCN1RL0C4 Shout out to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Check out their 2-of3 multisig vaults today! er54:16April 12, 2019Tales from the Crypt #66: Parker LewisJoin Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis, Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital, to discuss Unchained's mission and product suite, and reflect on the Federal Reserve's continuously shifting policy over the last twelve years. Parker's knowledge of what was going on at the Fed as the '07/'08 crisis was unfolding and during its aftermath is rare and something all of you freaks could learn from.  Follow Parker on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/parkeralewis Follow Marty on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/martybent Check out Unchained Capital: https://www.unchained-capital.com 1:21:37April 9, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.01This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Eclair Correction - Price talk - Cumberland OTC desk 10+ bids over 1000 bitcoin on Monday - surge-of-large-btc-orders-in-a-single-hour-late-monday-night/ - Fee talk - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1113949215829430275 - Nodl - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1113806561921708032 - Boltz inbound capacity tool 1432 - Pierre inbound capacity tool https://lightningpowerusers.com/home/ - Veriblock ICO sold out in seconds - https://medium.com/@ambroidcrypto/veriblock-deep-dive-49c533e9c5e7 - Bitcoin 2019 Conference - https://www.bitcoin2019conference.com/ - BitBlockBoom Conference [Promo: RHR] - https://bitblockboom.com/ - NVT Signal - =19 Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Sign up and create a multisig vault and receive a FREE three-month subscription to Dr. Saifedean Ammous'  The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin using this link: er55:07April 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #65: Johnny Dilley, Tom Garrambone & Matt OdellJoin Marty as he sits down with Johnny Dilley (Founder of Mempool Partners), Tom Garrambone (Founder of Tetras Capital), and Matt Odell (Bitcoiner) to have a roundtable discussion covering; Capitalism v. Socialism, Bitmain, 21co, nature, dinosaurs, what could kill Bitcoin, and much more.  Check out mempool.io Check out tetras.capital Follow Tom on Twitter: www.twitter.com/tomgarrambone Follow Matt on Twitter: www.twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Smash that subscribe button, freaks! 1:34:11April 2, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.25This week Marty and Matt Discuss:  - Coinbase, stake is on the menu - Steve Barbour WSJ article - BSV - Bitmain IPO not happening - ryanofsky PR merged - Gemini bech32 + Blockstream explorer - Eclair mainnet full release - Craig Wright is a fraud - Dream Market shutting down - BitMex LN research Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Head over to medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Vault%20Launch and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vault product. If you're in NYC on 4/1, head over to Galvanize to check out a live demo: 4596257746:35March 29, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.18On this week's episode Marty and Matt discuss: - Square Crypto initiative - https://twitter.com/jack/status/1108487911802966017 - Lightning Loop - https://blog.lightning.engineering/posts/2019/03/20/loop.html - BlockstreamGreen - t - Fed shifting posture - https://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1108427995709165573 - Venezuela sanctions payment processors - ns-prohibiting-payment-processing-services-in-venezuela/ - ETH ProgPow - https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1108561560304316421 - Bitcoin Optech - https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/03/19/ - Hash rate - https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty - FUD debunking Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Head over to er and check out their multisig vault setup which let's you maintain control and sovereignty over your BTC while providing a solution that keeps you worry free!  1:01:10March 21, 2019Tales from the Crypt #64: Carl DongJoin Marty as he sits down with Carl Dong, Bitcoin Core contributor currently working at Chaincode Labs, to discuss responsible disclosures, making Bitcoin Core more modular, Guix containers, Dyson spheres and much more!  Follow Carl on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carl_dong Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Check out Carl's PR: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/152771:25:12March 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #63: Zac Prince & Rene van Kesteren Join Marty as he sits down with Zac Prince & Rene van Kesteren from Blockfi to discuss their new interest account product, how they manage risk with this particular offering, the nature of risk disclosures, and the utility that Bitcoin provides the world that wasn't possible before its existence.  Follow Zac on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlockFiZac Follow Renee on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rene_vankest Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Martybent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, 21Lectures. Head over to https://21lectures.com to learn more about their courses aimed at helping developers become more familiar/comfortable with BTC/LN development! 1:38:41March 15, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.11This week Marty and Matt are joined by Adam Ficsor (@nopara73), Founder of Wasabi Wallet, to discuss: - The current dust attack against Wasabi users - https://twitter.com/nopara73/status/1105779583410946049 - CoinJoins  - Privacy - Unchained Capital multisig vaults - Porn KYC in the UK - Drop in BTC transactions  - Trezor vulnerabilities Thanks to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Check out their new multisig vault solution today:  er1:02:43March 14, 2019Tales from the Crypt #62: Jake Chervinsky Join Marty as he sits down with Jake Chervinsky, a lawyer with a focus on government enforcement defense and securities litigation, as they discuss the law and how it pertains to Bitcoin and everything created in its wake. Topics covered include, Jake's path to Bitcoin, the concept of light touch regulation, organizations like Coin Center, how the SEC has been treating ICOs, how the SEC may treat these ICOs going forward, and hope for a less Orwellian future. Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Lolli! Head over to https://lolli.com/ref/tftc right now and start stacking sats as you shop online today! 1:53:37March 12, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.04This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Canadian Revenue Service asking for BTC addresses: https://twitter.com/kyletorpey/status/1103467047412002817 - Ripple, FinCen agreement: ld>=20 - Is Bitcoin Twitter engagement back at 2015 levels?: https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1103673829832970240 - ABCore 0.70 released: old>=20  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greenaddress.abcore - QE, NIRP creeping - BlockFi Interest Account: https://twitter.com/BlockFiZac/status/1103293858283245569 https://twitter.com/vandrewattycpa/status/1102953966537752576 - Coinbase: https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/1103443720307912704 - Facebook going private?: =19 - Facebook 2fa phone number leak: ing-of-phone-numbers-required-for-2fa/ - Chinese database surveillance leak, indow-chinas-digital-surveillance-state - QuadrigaCX update, l-patryn-allegedly-traded-large-positions-on-bitmex/ Shoutout to this week's sponsors: Honeyminer, head over to stackingsats.com and download Honeyminer today. The one-click solution to mining altcoins to stack sats.  Unchained Capital, if you're in the Austin area on Monday March 11th, 2019 Unchained is demo'ing their new multi-sig vault product. If you're not in Austin, do not worry. The event will be live streamed. Link to attend below: 4March 7, 2019Tales from the Crypt #61: Jack DorseyJoin Marty as he sits down with Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, to discuss how Jack came to experiment with Bitcoin, the parallels he sees between Twitter and Bitcoin, dealing with pseudonymity on Twitter, how Bitcoin curbs the State, education in the Information Age, what it's like to be a part of the Casa node club, and much more. Thank you to this week's sponsors: Honeyminer is the easiest way to earn Bitcoin. A simple crypto mining application that uses your computer's CPUs and GPUs to mine cryptocurrencies and pays you in Bitcoin. Go to https://www.honeyminer.com today and start earning BTC now. Lolli lets you earn up to 30% back in BTC when you shop online. Shop from 750+ online retailers including Jet, Overstock, SeatGeek, Priceline, Hotwire, Walmart, CVS, Best Buy, GAP, Macy’s, Hilton, and Mariott and earn BTC via the Lolli extension. Head over to https://lolli.com/ref/tftc today! 35:04March 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.25This week Marty and Matt discuss: -Casa new product lineup g-its-business-and-its-kicking-off-with-two-new-products/ -Facebook coin FUD telegram.html -Venezuela bitcoin article flation-cryptocurrencies.html#click=https://t.co/P8hxu1vqni -Square sold 10k BTC in Q4 2018 of-bitcoin-in-2018/ -Coinomi spellcheck bug 547ca348676b -Trezor and Ledger update reminders -Samourai Whirlpool in testing phases, running on nodl.it -Wasabi, try it out free shill - www.twitter.com/@tweet_stamp is pretty cool, uses OpenTimestamps -Torpedo vulnerable https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/24/new-4g-5g-security-flaws/ -New privacy wiki up by Chris Belcher https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Privacy Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer. Head over to stackingsats.com today, download Honeyminer, and start stacking sats today!  54:23March 1, 2019Tales from the Crypt #60: Misir Mahmudov Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin researcher Misir Mahmudov to discuss many topics including Bitcoin as Time, Bitcoin's amorality, Bitcoin's incentives, and family values.  Follow Misir on Twitter: www.twitter.com/misir_mahmudov Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Thanks to this week's sponsor, BlockFi! Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can avoid selling your BTC today! 2:39:32February 26, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.18This week Marty and Matt discuss: -Galaxy S10 Bitcoin wallet confirmed https://bitcoinist.com/samsung-galaxy-s10-bitcoin-wallet/ -Jack activates tippin.me https://twitter.com/jack/status/1098324828182831104 -Coinbase acquires chain analysis company https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1098275229556768768 -Elon Ark Invest pod https://twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1097905577831862272 -Coinmama KYC breach 450k customer affected https://twitter.com/bitentrepreneur/status/1096549320302776320 -IMF NIRP Blog post  est-rates-work/ Thanks to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer!  Head over to stackingsats.com and download Honeyminer today! The easiest way to begin earning BTC with your spare computing hardware. Now available for Linux (www.honeyminer.com/labs). 48:29February 21, 2019Tales from the Crypt #59: Eric SpanoJoin Marty as he sits down with Eric Spano, Founder of bylls.com, to discuss building a product with little understanding of code, enterprise blockchain consulting, Bitcoin service provider UX, and much more.  Follow Eric on Twitter: www.twitter.com.espano_ Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Peep the Nielsen Norman Group's 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design  https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/ Visit www.bylls.com 2:01:31February 20, 2019Tales from the Crypt #58: André Neves Join Marty as he sits down with André Neves, Co-Founder and Co-CTO of Koala Studio, to discuss everything from BTC/LN adoption via gaming, what it's like to live in the UAE, the Surveillance State, and much more.  Follow André on Twitter: www.twitter.com/andreneves Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Check out Koala Studio: koalastud.io Thanks to our sponsors: BlockFi, head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can avoid selling your BTC this tax season.  Lolli, head over to lolli.com/ref/tftc and download Lolli today so you can begin earning up to 30% cash back in BTC!  1:48:03February 19, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.11This week Marty and Matt discuss: -Tippin.me extension -Lolli extension -Spacebit.live -Venezuela ATH LocalBitcoins volume - 2454 Bitcoin / 8.95 million USD https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/VES/BTC -Bitcoin Ham radio https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1095354354289135617 -Full nodes thesis - Swensen/Yale investments is-said-to-invest-in-crypto-fund-that-raised-400-million) - Supply chain attacks + secure hardware >-top-companies) - Bitcoin Core v0.17.0 release -whats-new/) - Gemini gets asset insurance (https://medium.com/gemini/digital-assets-insurance-adbfb0c44e74) - Bitfinex cut ties with Noble, now with HSBC -its-banking-relationship-to-hsbc/) - SegWit txs almost at 50% work(https://transactionfee.info/charts/payments/segwit) - Eris announces Bakkt competitor exchange-to-create-crypto-market-backed-by-drw-virtu) - Aaron van Wirdum's privacy series ld>=19) - Murad + David Puell's MVRV Ratio mvrv-ratio-3ebc914dbaee) 1:04:04October 8, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.01On this week's episode of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt and Marty discuss - Samourai Wallet + goTenna collab: ld>-issue-330 Siacoin bricks ASICs: https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/955907524317859842 Malta Prime Minister, pretty chay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QzbiMmuO0k&feature=youtu.be 1Broker gets seized: d>=19 ShapeShift: on-wsjs-attack-on-shapeshift-and-crypto/ EOS collusion: old>=19 Thank you to our sponsors: Cash App, we don't use the other apps anymore. Download the app now - https://cash.app/ Honeyminer, start making BTC in one click - https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk1:00:22October 2, 2018Conversations from Riga: Matt Corallo + HasuflyIn this special edition of Tales from the Crypt, Marty sits down with Matt Corallo to discuss CVE-2018-17144, the bug found in Bitcoin last week, and his efforts with the Betterhash mining pool protocol. This is a quick 15-minute conversation that touches on a lot. During the last 2/3 of the episode, Marty sits down with Hasufly, a budding star in the world of Bitcoin content to discuss the practices he used to learn about Bitcoin as quickly as possible. Hasu has an incredible way of creating mental frameworks from which to learn. Tune in to learn about the people, data sources and tools Hasu used to bootstrap his knowledge of Bitcoin in only 10 months. Follow Matt: @TheBlueMatt Follow Hasu: @Hasufl Follow Marty: @MartyBent Links: https://tim.blog/2017/06/04/nick-szabo/ https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/outline Thank you to our sponsor, Honeyminer. Check them out here: https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk49:46September 26, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.24On this week's episode of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt and Marty discuss: CVE-2018-17144: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/20/notice/ Monero bug: ning-bug.html Baltic Honey Badger Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66ZoGUAnY9s https://hodlhodl.com/ Argentina: /bold>-issue-325 "Please stop deploying d-apps to Ethereum.": https://twitter.com/5chdn/status/1042860655114694656 B Foundation: https://twitter.com/TheB_Foundation/status/1043805473949065216 Thank you to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer. Use the ref link below for 1,000 satoshis and use one click to start mining today: honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk 1:09:48September 26, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.17On this week's edition of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt and Marty discuss: NY Attorney General's report - https://virtualmarkets.ag.ny.gov Jesse Powell DGAF - __twitter_impression=true Bitcoin Core bug + v0.16.3 - https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/09/18/ Josh Garza goes to jail - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1040300880170500097 Bancor on EOS - fast-free-transactions/ *Lightning Spotlight* LND Work - https://www.lndwork.com/ BTC volume in Venezuela - https://diar.co/volume-2-issue-37/ Salt Bae :( Laurent's last post - https://medium.com/@laurentmt/electric-money-e2cd34f78f56 Thank you to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer. Use the ref link below for 1,000 satoshis and use one click to start mining today: https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk 57:14September 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #43: Caitlin LongJoin Marty as he sits down with Wall Street veteran Caitlin Long to discuss her journey to Austrian economics via Wall Street, the extent of the shadow banking system, the situation public pensions and social security find themselves in, and Caitlin's efforts to make Wyoming the most Bitcoin-friendly state in the US. Follow Caitlin on Twitter: @CaitlinLong_ Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Caitlin's website: https://caitlin-long.com/1:31:11September 16, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.10In this week's episode Marty and Matt discuss: Gemini & Paxos fiat backed 'stablecoins' - d>=19 Robinhood fueled Doge pump - d>=19 Unraveling of the ICO bubble - -silicon-valley-riches-can-he-survive-the-crash-1536681364?mod=e2tw & d>=19 Laurent's new post in PoW series - https://medium.com/@laurentmt/cliffhangers-cb87ed47124e SEC ETN Suspensions pdf & Bittrex, Malta, and Regulatory Arbitrage - https://support.bittrex.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001354486. & e-eu-is-furious-with-1:00:14September 12, 2018Tales from the Crypt #42: Coinyeezy AKA Elon MoistJoin Marty as he sits down with Coinyeezy to discuss a litany of topics including; Honeyminer, the power of memes, "Bitcoin Generalists", hustling and some trippy theories about the great pyramids. Follow Coinyeezy on Twitter: @coinyeezy Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Peep Honeyminer: www.honeyminer.com 1:26:44September 10, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.03In this edition of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt + Marty discuss: Emerging Market currency crises Iran give Bitcoin mining the go-ahead Ethereum FOMC meeting Infura centralization ShapeShift Casa's new plug and play all-in-one Bitcoin full node + Lightning node Discussions of a new Bitcoin testnet Links: https://twitter.com/WallSt_Dropout/status/1037004709419278336 d>=19 d>=19 bold>-issue-311 apeshift-membership/ https://twitter.com/ConsenSys/status/1037339692981727233 /bold>:01:57September 6, 2018Tales from the Crypt #41: Ryan Selkis Join Marty as he sits down with Ryan Selkis, Founder at Messari, to discuss how Ryan got into Bitcoin, how writing helped him carve out a niche in a budding industry, what it was like to work for Digital Currency Group and CoinDesk, what he learned there, how he's using those lessons while building Messari, and a deep dive into Token Curated Registries. Follow Ryan on Twitter: @twobitidiot Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Messari: https://messari.io/58:59September 4, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.08.27In this episode we discuss: Vitalik Buterin's recent blog post on how to scale with layers The importance of soft forks CNBC's trash coverage WeChat and Alipay banned cryptocurrency commerce and chats The recent jump in hash rate Laurent's piece on measuring the value secured by PoW NIRP in Germany CFTF fine of German Bank for manipulating USD derivatives ETF denial then subsequent "reevaluation" Links: https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/08/26/layer_1.html >=19 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1019675622581391361 https://medium.com/@laurentmt/gravity-10e1a25d2ab2 59:14August 29, 2018Tales from the Crypt #40: Joe Weisenthal Join Marty as he sits down with Joe Weisenthal, Editor at Bloomberg and co-host of "What'd you miss?" on BloombergTV. The two jump into the mind of a skeptic. Joe was notoriously a skeptic of Bitcoin after writing an article titled "Bitcoin is a joke" in 2013. Since then Joe has become less skeptical and he explains why in this episode. Beyond Bitcoin, Marty and Joe discuss economics, the state of the economy, Joe's journey to Bloomberg, and the mainstream media. Follow Joe: @TheStalwart Follow Marty: @MartyBent Check out WDYM?: https://www.bloomberg.com/series/whatd-you-miss Peep Joe's Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/joseph-weisenthal1:55:37August 28, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.08.20Join Marty and Matt Odell for their new weekly series, Rabbit Hole Recap, in which they break down the latest news pertaining to Bitcoin. In their inaugural episode, the two discuss Bitmain's IPO and balance sheet, Bitcoin Core's impending release of v0.17, Square's Cash App gaining steam vs. Venmo, Venezuela and the Petro, and Siacoin's decision to hard fork to become ASIC resistant to certain miners. Links discussed in the show: https://twitter.com/btcven/status/1028743266739662849 Complaint-as-Filed-3063362-1.pdf fields-com-cash-48a99b85aad4 https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/VEF/BTC1:08:20August 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #39: Zac PrinceJoin Marty as he sits down with Zac Prince, co-founder of Blockfi, to discuss using Bitcoin as collateral, Fed policy, the fulfilment one gets from working in Bitcoin, and much more. Follow Zac: @BlockfiZac Follow Brad: @BradMichelson Follow Marty: @MartyBent Link to blogpost on taxes we discussed: -and-crypto-tax-treatment/ 1:42:38August 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #38: Nic CarterJoin Marty as he sits down with Nic Carter, Partner at Castle Island Ventures and co-founder of Coinmetrics.io, to dive into the current state of the cryptocurrency landscape, Augur, blockchain data, the evolving narratives in Bitcoin over time, and how Nic and his team approach investing in this space. Follow Nic on Twitter: @nic__carter Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Castle Island Ventures: http://www.castleisland.vc/ Check out Coinmetrics: https://coinmetrics.io/1:46:31August 14, 2018Tales from the Crypt #37: Dhruv BansalJoin Marty as he sits down with Dhruv Bansal, co-founder of Unchained Capital, to discuss HODL waves, using bitcoin as collateral for loans, how the story of Merlin and Arthur in "The Once & Future King" may apply to Bitcoin, and how we may take Bitcoin to space as an intergalactic money. Follow Dhruv: @dhruvbansal Follow Marty: @MartyBent Check out Unchained: https://www.unchained-capital.com/1:54:31August 7, 2018Tales from the Crypt #36: John NewberyJoin Marty as he sits down with John Newbery to discuss Bitcoin Optech, a new initiative to help large economic players within Bitcoin ensure they are following best practices when it comes to using the Bitcoin blockchain efficiently. The two also dive into Schnorr signatures, Taproot, Lightning Network, and get cosmic over some heady Bitcoin theories. Follow John on Twitter: @jfnewbery Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Bitcoin Optech: www.bitcoinops.org1:02:46August 1, 2018Tales from the Crypt #35: Bitcoin Sign GuyJoin Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Sign Guy to talk about the infamous day he held a "Buy Bitcoin" sign behind Janet Yellen as she gave a congressional testimony, what drives him philosophically, and what technologies like Bitcoin and 3D printers will enable in the future. *WARNING* This may be the drunkest TFTC episode to date. Enjoy!1:23:03July 10, 2018Tales from the Crypt #34: Murad MahmudovJoin Marty as he sits down with Murad Mahmudov, angel investor and author of two of the most prolific pieces on Bitcoin this year. The two dive deep into this conversation, discussing why dApp platform tokens shouldn't have any value, why Bitcoin's quest to become the reserve currency of the world has the biggest potential from an investment perspective, and some thoughts on anon coins and stable coins. Follow Murad: www.twitter.com/MustStopMurad Follow Marty: www.twitter.com/MartyBent1:50:58June 27, 2018Tales from the Crypt #33: Saifedean AmmousJoin Marty as he sits down with Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, to discuss the history of money, why sound money is so important, and how fiat currency has caused negative externalities like fiat food.  Follow Saifedean on Twitter: https://twitter.com/saifedean Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Pick up The Bitcoin native-Central/dp/11194736:48June 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #32: Josh OlszewiczJoin Marty as he sits down with a longtime crypto-Twitter and trading legend, Josh Olszewicz AKA @CarpeNoctom, to discuss a range of topics including TA, crypto-Twitter, how "the space" has changed and how the scams have adapted over the years. Tune in for some high qual reminiscing.   Josh's Twitter: www.twitter.com/CarpeNoctem Josh's YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/carpenoctom Read his stuff: https://bravenewcoin.com/authors/josh-olszewicz/ Marty's Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent1:29:13June 12, 2018Tales from the Crypt #31: Matt CoralloThis conversation hits on many topics, but focuses on (de)centralization and the types of centralizing risks that exist in the realm of cryptocurrencies. Matt expounds upon his project to decentralize mining, how UASF proved that Bitcoin is decentralized, why there is a somewhat-urgent need to develop a fee market to subsidize the block reward, and calls out some scams. Follow Matt on Twitter: @TheBlueMatt Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Chaincode Labs: www.chaincode.com1:34:52June 5, 2018Tales from the Crypt #30: Ryan DippmannJoin Marty as he sits down with Ryan Dippmann, co-founder of Azte.co, to discuss Bitcoin on/off ramps, payments, low hanging fruit that entreprenuers can use Bitcoin to exploit, surfing, and much more.  Follow Ryan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/RyanDippmann Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out www.azte.co  Use the code "CRYPT" at www.thecryptocandle.com for 10% of and a chance to buy a whole Bitcoin for $45!1:08:02May 31, 2018Tales from the Crypt #29: Jameson LoppJoin Marty as he sits down with Jameson Lopp to discuss a range of topics including private key management, anarcho-capitalism, SWATting, and why we need to be continually optimistic about freedom enabling technologies like Bitcoin. Follow Jameson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lopp Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Use the promo code "CRYPT" at www.thecryptocandle.com for 10% off a crypto candle at checkout. Buy one and you might win some bitcoin!57:36May 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #28: Joe LooneyJoin Marty as he sits down with Joe Looney, Co-Founder of the Rare Pepe Foundation, to discuss digital collectibles, the history of Rare Pepes, efficiencies provided to power plants via PoW mining, and much more.  Follow Joe on Twitter: @wasthatawolf Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent1:16:57May 15, 2018Tales from the Crypt #27: Alejandro MachadoJoin Marty as he sits down with Alejandro Machado to discuss Bitcoin and Venezuela, how Bitcoin may be able to help the struggling country, and how Venezuela got to this point. The two also venture into discussions about UX in crypto, the weird world we're living in, and how it's getting harder and harder to trust the information we receive on a day-to-day basis. Follow Alejandro on Twitter @alegw Follow Marty on Twitter @MartyBent1:29:01May 9, 2018Tales from the Crypt #26: Charles HwangJoin Marty as he sits down with Charles Hwang, Managing Partner at Lightning Capital and adjunct professor at Baruch College, to discuss what it's like teaching the subject of Bitcoin to college students, how regulators are and should classify Bitcoin, brain wallets, the introduction of a new segment "Freak Questions", and much more!  Follow Charles on Twitter: @cryptocharlesh Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent1:28:58May 2, 2018Tales from the Crypt #25: Patrick StanleyJoin Marty as he sits down with Patrick Stanley, Growth Partner at Blockstack, to discuss Blockstack, decentralizes applications, how Blockstack differs from Ethereum, education in America, and thinking different.  Follow Patrick on Twitter: @PatrickWStanley Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent1:10:11April 24, 2018Tales from the Crypt #24: PompJoin Marty as he sits down with Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano as they dive into a meandering conversation about mining, tokenized securities, memes, and the need for better UX in crypto.  Follow Pomp on Twitter: @APompliano Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent59:31April 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #23: Dylan CurranJoin Marty as he gets off the beaten path with Dylan Curran to talk about data in today's digital world, how we are controlled by it, and how we can change our tendencies to take back some privacy + control of our data. They get a little cosmic towards the end too. Follow Dylan on Twitter: @iamdylancurran Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent46:39April 17, 2018Tales from the Crypt #22: Tom Garrambone Pt. IIIn the second half of their conversation, Marty and Tom dive into leadership centralization, easy money, traditional financial markets, and the ongoing brain drain into crypto.1:06:58April 12, 2018Tales from the Crypt #21: Tom Garrambone Pt. IMarty sits down with Tom Garrambone, co-founder of Tetras Captial in NYC, to talk about his approach to investing in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the differences between a medium of exchange and store of value, and Silicon Valley v. Wall Street.1:05:55April 10, 2018Tales from the Crypt #20: Matt OdellJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Odell to talk about Bitcoin's game theory, the mining landscape, and the need for people to avoid FOMO as hard as they can. Join in on the ramblings of two shitposters who have been observing the space for many years.1:03:42April 3, 2018Tales from the Crypt #19: The Brothers O'Beirne Pt. IIPart II of Marty's conversation with the brothers O'Beirne gets more philosophical as the crew dives into many different topics.1:27:02March 29, 2018Tales from the Crypt #18: The Brothers O'Beirne Pt IJoin Marty as he sits down with brothers James and Will O'Beirne to talk about Bitcoin and Ethereum. James is now a full-time Bitcoin Core contributor, working at Chaincode Labs. Will is a part of the MyCrypto.com team and finally gives us a peek into the mind of someone building on and around Ethereum. The conversation meanders through many topics including prediction markets, Proof-of-Work v. Proof-of-Stake, the philosophy behind these technologies, and the current state of the space.1:31:16March 28, 2018Tales from the Crypt #17: Bobb FoggJoin Marty as he sits down with Bobb Fogg to discuss a litany of topics including; Bitcoin Maximalism, do blockchains have to be decentralized, the concepts of Nassim Taleb, and the state of governance in blockchains and the world.  Follow Bobb on Twitter: @BobbFogg Subscribe. Rate. Review. Share.1:49:16March 13, 2018Tales from the Crypt #16: Ari PaulJoin Marty as he sits down with Ari Paul to discuss a wide range of topics including; the token economy, the range of disciplines that someone investing in this asset class must have (at the very least) a grasp on, how little we know, and how important (not) knowing Satoshi is.  You can find out more about Ari by following him on Twitter @AriDavidPaul.2:11:56March 6, 2018Tales from the Crypt #15: Eduardo Medina and ZahJoin Marty as he sits down with Eduardo Medina to discuss Venezuela, the country's current crisis, the Petro, and how Bitcoin may help. Zah joins us for this episode to help draw parallels between Venezuela's situation and Zimbabwe's run-in with hyperinflation. This is why we Bitcoin.1:29:16February 28, 2018Tales from the Crypt #14: JW Weatherman**Sorry for the poor sound quality on my end of the mic. Recorded on my laptop and the mic wasn't configured properly.** Join Marty as he sits down with JW Weatherman to learn about the cypherpunk movement, JW's definition of modern-day slavery, anarcho-capitalism and how they all relate to Bitcoin. Hold onto your butts, the conversation broaches some controversial topics that will make you think about the systems we've grown up within.  JW is on Twitter under the handle @WeathermanIam. Follow him.1:55:16February 21, 2018Tales from the Crypt #13: Chiefy NduomJoin Marty as he sits down with Chiefy Nduom, a man on a mission to bring Bitcoin to the balance sheets of some of Africa's Central Banks. Topics covered throughout the conversation include the current state of the global financial system, the importance of having Bitcoin in a diversified portfolio, and how Bitcoin will evolve to be the collateral of choice in the future when people take out loans. Tune in, grow your know.1:51:14January 31, 2018Tales from the Crypt #12: Crypto de MediciJoin Marty as he sits down to peek into the mind of Crypto de Medici, a crypto investor and Crypto Twitter must-follow. Throughout the episode Marty and Medici touch on investment process, controlling emotions, the current landscape of crypto, and our archaic education system.1:20:56January 25, 2018Tales from the Crypt #11: Arjun Balaji Pt. IIJoin Marty and crew for the second half of their conversation with Arjun Balaji. They cover Blockstack, how the Internet is broken, and why companies like Facebook and Google may actually be bad.1:07:05January 23, 2018Tales from the Crypt #10: Arjun Balaji Pt. IJoin Marty and crew as they sit down with Arjun Balaji, a young crypto investor with a keen sense for finding value in the budding world of cryptocurrencies. Arjun let's us know the two cryptocurrencies he would hodl if he had to lock them up for 10 years, how these nascent technologies may shape our future, how they have changed people already, and much more.1:06:46January 16, 2018Tales from the Crypt #9: ZahJoin Marty as he sits down with Barstool's resident Zimbabwean, Zah, to talk about the history of Zimbabwe, its political situation, what people use as money during bouts of hyperinflation, and how people are using Bitcoin in the land locked African country north of South Africa.1:01:30January 8, 2018Tales from the Crypt #8: Team Lightswitch breaks down madnessMarty and fellow Team Lightswitch member Matt Brown breakdown the crazy week that was.22:24December 22, 2017Tales from the Crypt #7: Matt Corallo Pt. IICatch Pt. II of Marty's conversation with Matt Corallo to hear them discuss Bitcoin's chances of succeeding, how Bitcoin makes people smarter, and how everyone is ignorant when it comes to Bitcoin + blockchains. Enjoy.1:14:50December 18, 2017Tales from the Crypt #6: Matt Corallo Pt. IJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Corallo, a Bitcoin Core contributor, to discuss Bitcoin, the current altcoin landscape, scaling blockchains, cryptokitties, all time highs + bubbles, and much more. Drink of choice for this Happy Hour was Brooklyn Brewery's Pilsner.1:24:50December 12, 2017Tales from the Crypt #5: John NewberyJoin Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor, John Newbery to dig into some of the technical details of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Core's process, keeping the long-term in mind, and what the average Joe can do to make Bitcoin better.1:20:41December 6, 2017Tales from the Crypt #4: What the hell is going on?Marty is back in the studio with Louis and a special guest, Barstool's resident spider monkey, Nate. In this episode Nate signs a band, PFT makes a cameo to give us a lesson in exponential growth, and Marty answers all the questions Louis and Nate have about the current events in Bitcoin. Tune in to get caught up with all of the news that has been going on in Bitcoin.56:57November 20, 2017Tales from the Crypt #3: Santiago SiriMarty sits down with Santiago Siri, co-founder of Democracy.Earth, to talk about a range of topics including the Silk Road, liquid democracy, a trip to Cuba, Information Theory, and much more.1:41:30November 7, 2017Tales from the Crypt: Pierre Rochard Pt. IIIMarty and Pierre round out their conversation by hitting on "where we are now", crypto hedge funds, and Bitcoin storage. Links discussed: Kyle Bass interview - http://adventuresinfinance.realvision... Cold storage guide - https://github.com/rustyrussell/bitco...43:24November 2, 2017Tales from the Crypt: Pierre Rochard Pt. IIJoin Marty and Pierre in Pt. II of Episode 2 as they continue their conversation about speculative attacks, Bitcoin v. Ethereum, this year's ICO mania, and quality v. quantity.  Show notes: Grant Williams' interview with Kyle Bass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZdtL1YrRYo Satoshi Nakamoto Institute: www.nakamotoinstitute.org  Pierre Twitter: www.twitter.com/pierre_rochard Marty Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent1:11:28October 26, 2017Tales from the Crypt: Pierre Rochard Pt. IMarty sits down with Pierre Rochard, co-founder of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, to discuss a litany of topics. Tune into Pt. I of the three part episode to learn about Austrian Economics, the Tezos debacle, Bitcoin's governance, Linux, hyperbitcoinization, and speculative attacks.1:23:12October 25, 2017Tales from the Crypt Ep1: The History of Bitcoin pt. IIJoin Marty and Louis as they pick up the history of Bitcoin in 2012 and run through everything that's happened through today. Learn about Bitcoin's supply schedule, why people dislike Coinbase, and the first attempt to dethrone the Core team. This week's tangents include the Sixers, a Japanese word of the day, Louis' journey to find the Deep Web, and parking tickets in Chicago.1:11:47October 11, 2017Tales from the Crypt Ep1: The History of Bitcoin pt. IMarty and Louis discuss the history of Bitcoin, where they were when the Phillies won the world series, Brad Pitt, and Brock Lesnar.28:42October 3, 2017Tales from the Crypt: A Bitcoin PodcastBy Marty BentTales 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.Starting in undefined…00:0056:321x#161: Misir MahmudovJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Misir Mahmudov to discuss: - This Book Will Save You Time - Inflation - How inflation data is manipulated - How shrinkflation works - Self Help - much more Follow Misir on Twitter Buy the book Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.56:32May 16, 2020#160: Brian HarringtonJoin Marty as he sits down with fellow Bitcoiner Brian Harrington to discuss: - Civil Liberties and the shutdown - Three sides of your balance sheet - Should we stop paying taxes? - Using your bitcoin in different ways  - Enacting change via local government - Jesus - much more Follow Brian on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.1:07:22May 15, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.05.11Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Coldcard security disclosure  - Delphi Digital Halving Report  - Quantitative Analysis of Lightning Network Privacy: Paper Slides Video - Crypto Voices Q1 2020 global monetary base report  - African P2P exchange volume ATH  - Nodl Dojo build and setup video  - LightNite announces NFTs on Liquid  - Lolli raises $3M round including Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Phan  - Coindesk Top 50 list is sad af  - US Senate votes to allow FBI warrantless access to web browsing history  - Venezuela pays Iran with $500M worth of gold bars, requiring 9 jets  - Thunderspy USB C vulnerability  - RHR Live on BTC Mag  - US Senator stock sales  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:39:15May 14, 2020#159: Jeff BoothJoin Marty as he sits down with Jeff Booth, Author of The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is Key to an Abundant Future, to discuss: - Tech deflation in recent decades - The future of cheap energy - Why an inflationary monetary policy doesn't make sense in a deflationary world - How Bitcoin fixes this - The future of AI - The future of work - much more Follow Jeff on Twitter Check out The Price of Tomorrow Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.1:08:41May 12, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.05.04This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Paul Tudor Jones announces bitcoin investment  - Nodl Dojo adds keysend support and btc-rpc explorer nodl.it - CashApp quarterly bitcoin sales ATH  - CoinKite announces BlockClock Mini and steel backup plates  - Foundation Devices announces intention to build new hardware wallet in US  - Blockstream satellite v2  - BlueWallet v5.3.5  - c-lightning v0.8.2  - eclair v0.4  - the perpetual one way peg  - Lebanon and bitcoin  - Zoom buys keybase  - Duterte shutsdown major news network in the Phillipines  - Marty's Bent RSS Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.2:03:08May 7, 2020#158: Marshall HolbrookJoin Marty as he sits down with Marshall Holbrook, founder of BitG@s, to discuss: - Marshall's experience with natural gas over the last two decades - How natural gas gets delivered to the grid - The decrease in nat gas prices - Using Bitcoin mining to get more money for his gas - The design of a bitcoin mining shed on a nat gas field - Mining with S9s - Trying to convince other nat gas producers to get into mining - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.50:28May 6, 2020#157: Ben Prentice + Heavily Armed ClownJoin Marty as he sits down with Ben Prentice and Heavily Armed Clown to discuss: - WTF happened in 1971?!  Follow Ben on Twitter Follow Heavily Armed Clown on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:08:45May 5, 2020#156: Matt AhlborgJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Ahlborg, founder of UsefulTulips.org, to discuss: - How the rolling blackouts in Venezuela last year affected bitcoin trading in LatAm + the US - How Venezuelan's are using bitcoin as a rail to move money - Why we've seen an increase in bitcoin exchange volume in Argentina - Argentina's history of capital controls - Cuevas - Do individuals using bitcoin in LatAm believe in its long-term viability as a digital money? - Increased bitcoin exchange volume in Kenya - Bitcoin usage in India - much more Follow Matt on Twitter Check out UsefulTulips   Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:06:41May 1, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.27This week Marty and Matt as they discuss: - HWI updated to fix new Trezor firmware compatibility issues  - Laurent on payjoin and deception tools  - Ministry of Nodes RoninDojo video  - Argentina bitcoin usage by Matt Ahlborg  - Kenyan P2P bitcoin volume hits ATHs  - CardCoins sponsoring core developer  - BTCPay Server v1.0.4.2  - ColdCard Kitchen  - OXT Research Report on North Korean cybercrime group  - ColdCard v3.1.3 firmware  - LND v0.10-beta  - Learn using comics with Amiti  - Dressing for the surveillance age  - CryptoCloaks Honey Badger hidden box  - Harvard authoritarians + NIH funding of research on the virus - Lebanese Banking crisis Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.2:08:55April 30, 2020#155: OpenomsJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with developer Openoms to discuss: - How Openoms came to find Bitcoin - Why he started building apps and hardware products for bitcoiners - JoininBox - JoinMarket - Fidelity Bonds - Privacy on Lightning - Broadcast transactions privately - much more Follow Openoms on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:27:34April 29, 2020#154: Amiti Uttarwar Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Amiti Uttarwar, Bitcoin Core contributor at Xapo, to discuss: - How Amiti came to find Bitcoin - Getting into Bitcoin Core development - Learning C++ - Amiti's work on rebroadcasting - Protecting privacy at the P2P level - Nuance of mempools - Current state of Bitcoin - much more Follow Amiti on Twitter Check out her post, Onboarding to Bitcoin Core Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:09:44April 28, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.20Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Unchained Capital caravan update inbound - mynode v0.2.03  - SLP Chris Belcher  - Upcoming eps with Amiti and Openoms - YouTube taking down any content not in line with WHO - Should we reopen the economy? - much more  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:28:00April 23, 2020#153: ZubyJoin Marty as he sits down with Zuby, Rapper/Author/Podcaster/Free thinker, to discuss: - How to use Twitter correctly - How people waste time on Twitter with hate - Why you shouldn't let people you've never met dictate your happiness - People losing their own humanity - Only you control your success - Bitcoin and why it may have limited upside - The importance of healthy living - much more Follow Zuby on Twitter Check out Zubymusic.com Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:03:14April 22, 2020#152: Ben HuntJoin Marty as he sits down with Ben Hunt, founder of Epsilon Theory, to discuss: - How institutions have failed us across the board in the wake of coronavirus - Why we need to burn it the f*ck down - How we can create grass roots movements to turn away from our failing institutions - Ben's work with frontlineheroes.com - Why we probably won't have a 'V' shaped recovery - much more  Follow Ben on Twitter Check out Frontline Heroes Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.50:36April 21, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap Stimulus Package: 2020.04.20Join Marty & Matt as they discuss: - BTCPay Server adds payjoin support  - Trezor update breaks HWI support   - Cobra and Theymos split ownership of bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org - Purse.io shuts down  - Breez wallet adds keysend support  - Nodl adds keysend support Nodl OG  - Juggernaut messenger  - Oil markets - MMT - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:32:34April 21, 2020#151: Marshall LongJoin Marty as he sits down with long time bitcoiner + miner Marshall Long to discuss: - How Marshall got into Bitcoin mining - Why he only mines Bitcoin now - Evolution of chips - Chip fabrication foundries  - Stories of procuring miners in China - The evolution of culture in China - The future of Bitcoin mining - much more Follow Marshall on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:13:05April 18, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.13This week Marty & Matt discuss: - Bryan Bishop releases bitcoin vaults prototype  - Ransomware operator now defaults to monero payments  - Utreexo explainer  - Trezor Model T v2.3.0  - Samourai Wallet v0.99.93  - Whirlpool CLI v0.10.5 released  - Apple and Google bluetooth based tracking system integrated at the mobile OS level  - Graphene OS guide  - Protesting is a "non essential activity" - Masks now required in NYC lol - Surveillance programs escalate worldwide using coronavirus as an excuse  - Most popular ethereum chain explorer has added a blacklist tool  - Maker foundation lawsuit  - Central banks recommend global stablecoin ban, notable ethereum stakeholders caught off guard but they shouldn't be - Libra pivots to simple single currency stablecoin model  - 9th anniversary of online poker Black Friday  - Mullvad.net VPN releases mobile wireguard compatible apps - SLP Rafael Yakobi  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:14:01April 16, 2020#150: Great American MiningJoin Marty as he sits down with two members from the team at Great American Mining, Austin Storms and Tom M, to discuss: - What Great American Mining is doing - The journey and lessons learned along the way - Different energy sources and how they affect the decisions of mining operations - Miners biggest problem; finding cheap power at scale - Austin's journey with Bearbox - How mining is ruthless capitalism - Solving problems for oil companies - The future of mining in North America - much more - Check out Great American Mining's one pager (site to be updated soon) - Follow Austin on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:14:09April 15, 2020#149: Steve Barbour Join Marty as he sits down with Steve Barbour, founder of Upstream Data, to discuss: - Steve's experience in the Oil & Gas industry before Bitcoin - Difference between an electrical and mechanical engineer - The problem Bitcoin mining solves for the O&G industry - Difference between building on the grid and off the grid - Why Bitcoin is so important - Building a business slowly - much more Follow Steve on Twitter Check out Upstream Data Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:29:26April 14, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.06Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - 16.5M Americans unemployed - Today's Fed announcements  - Dave Portnoy calling the dollar Schrute Bucks  - Bisq security vulnerability  - ACINQ Phoenix v1.3.0 adds Tor support - BlueWallet v5.3.0 - Samourai Dojo v1.5  - Ronin Dojo v1.4  - All Nodls now support dojo and whirlpool - Method to provide clearnet access to Tor lightning nodes proposed  - Fold announces sats back visa debit card  - Zane Pocock on the EARN IT Act  - Stephan Livera with Gleb Naumenko on erlay  - Chainalysis CoFounder on WBD  - Shoutout to @jamesbtcbond for setting up his node with electrum  - Rodolfo bitcoin-dev keychain email Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.  1:27:12April 9, 2020#148: Matt D'SouzaJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt D'Souza from Blockware Solutions to discuss: - Blockware's recent research paper on mining - Running a mining operation - How Matt came to realize Bitcoin is King - The State of the Economy - Why Bitcoin isn't "backed by nothing" - much more Follow Matt on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:12:15April 8, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap Stimulus Package: 2020.04.06Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - CDC finally recommends face coverings  - CoolWallet S security flaw  - MutantC RPi4 mobile build  - Whirlpool CLI v0.10.4 released  - Eclair v0.3.4 released  - OC Bitcoin Network talk on samourai wallet and privacy  - Tor Browser v9.0.8 released  - RaspiBlitz v1.5 RC1 adds joinmarket CLI support  - Wasabi Wallet v1.1.11 released  - MyNode v0.2.01 - Janet Yellen wants the Fed to buy stocks - Japanese family formation - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:19:19April 6, 2020#147:Alex GladsteinJoin Marty & Matt as they sit down with Alex Gladstein from the Human Rights Foundation to discuss: - Government overreach during the response to COVID19 - The capture of the World Health Organization - Censorship in China as COVID19 was spreading - The economic impact of forced quarantine  - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:33:09April 3, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: 2020.03.30This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Breez Point of Sale mode added to lightning wallet  - LSAT Authentication  - Samourai Whirlpool GUI v0.10.1 and CLI v0.10.3    - MyNode v0.2.0  - Bitmex research bitcoin development funding analysis  - Bitmex renews and increases grant to Bitcoin Core maintainer Michael Ford  - Mulit-location backup scheme spec released by @openoms  - Whirlpool March volume totaled 1523.45 bitcoin  - Multi sig betting with caravan  - Binance makes a distinction between coinjoin and custodial mixers in recent blog post  - Coinkite begins selling power only magnetic usb cables  - Surveillance companies pivot to coronavirus tracking to increase their reach  - UK PM hosts cabinet meeting on Zoom  - StandardNotes.org and meet.jit.si shoutouts - Calling out pedos  - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:34:13April 2, 2020#146: Rodolfo NovakJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Rodolfo Novak to have a meandering discussion about: - COVID19 - Droplets v. Vapor - Why you should wear a mask - Why people are so willing to cede civil liberties during crises - Hardware on the horizon from CoinKite - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:17:39April 1, 2020#145: Roy SebagJoin Marty as he sits down with Roy Sebag, Founder of Goldmoney and Menē, to discuss: - The mechanics of paper and physical bullion markets - The history of paper gold being used to suppress the price of physical gold - The Fed has man-in-the-middle attacked US citizens - Why the Internet isn't decentralized - Why Sound Money is so important and why bitcoiners and gold holders need to join forces - The reaction to COVID19. Are we being put in our pods? - Political framing and mental pods - The common man - The importance of unplugging - What Gen Z thinks - much more Follow Roy on Twitter Check out Goldmoney Check out Menē Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:37:34March 30, 2020#144: Michael KriegerJoin Marty as he sits down with Michael Krieger, founder of Liberty Blitzkrieg to discuss: - Gold markets - The Empire - Most recent bailout - Great Awakening - Why Michael is still bullish on Bitcoin - Bitcoin + Oil & Gas Industry - Un-schooling - much more Follow Michael on Twitter Check out Liberty Blitzkrieg Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:22:45March 27, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.23This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin and Venezuela  - Coinkite Coldpower  - Zebedee releases bitcoin gaming SDK explainer video  - Tails OS v4.4.1  - Graphene OS v2020.03.23.22 released  - TFTC Guides: Graphene OS installation  - BTCxZelko on Stephan Livera - $500M of US stimulus bill dedicated to increased surveillance capabilities  - Disturbing video shows coronavirus phone tracking tool  -Taiwan coronavirus surveillance escalates  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:12:55March 26, 2020#143: JW Weatherman & Giacomo ZuccoJoin Marty as he sits down with JW Weatherman and Giacomo Zucco to discuss: - Separating people from their State - Overt v. covert evil empires - Heuristics one can use to gauge the severity of COVID19 - much more Follow JW on Twitter Follow Giacomo on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:54:13March 25, 2020#142: Elisabeth PréfontaineJoin Marty as he sits down with Elisabeth Préfontaine, founder of Octonomics, to discuss: - Elisabeth's experience in the banking + financial worlds - Problems with transparency in the traditional financial world - Bad incentives in the traditional financial system - Why Bitcoin only? - How Quebec messed up their opportunity to court bitcoin entrepreneurs - Defining Bitcoin - Why bitcoin isn't a security - PC creep into the boardroom - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  1:02:59March 24, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Stimulus Package 2020.03.23Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:  - Markets down, bitcoin up - Sunday futures limit down in 3 mins - 60 Minutes interview Kashkari "infinite amount of cash"  - Fed announces unlimited QE  - Russian central bank added 400k ounces of gold to its reserves in february  - TFTC.tv guides - Graphene & MyNode - JoinMarket v0.6.2  - JoinMarket PR for fidelity bonds  - Nodl Dojo v0.0.8  - March Whirlpool volume higher than last 3 months combined  - LN Markets released on mainnet  - CashApp adds option to display in sats  - Magic Internet Gathering bitcoin gaming initiative announced  - HRF deep dive into buying bitcoin anonymously  - DOJ seeks permission to detain people indefinitely without trial  - Israel to go into full lockdown with phone location monitored and Ministry of Health to release new tracking app - The Chula Vista Police Department to use 4 drones to monitor Coronavirus shutdown - Nascar virtual races on fs1  - much more  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:22:09March 23, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.16Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Macro scene - Casa open sources node  - Bitcoin Magazine op ed on CoinJoin legality  - BTCPay VR Presentation this Saturday  - US Gov considering location tracking  - Samourai Whirlpool volume set to top January and February volume combined  - Upcoming node guides: tftc.tv and parts list  - Ark Invest bitcoin mining research  - Blockware Solutions bitcoin mining research - Don't skimp on Micro SDs - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. 1:28:07March 19, 2020#141: Charles MarohnJoin Marty as he sits down with Charles Marohn, Author of Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity, to discuss: - How America has been very wasteful with resources for the last five decades - The problems with top-down decision making - Why centralized economies "on the bike" don't work in the long-run - The morality of Fed policy - Parallels between modern day America and the Weimar Repulic - How small towns can start over and stand on their own two feet - Value per acre - Creating community - Bringing design thinking to city building - Activating unused spaces - much more Follow Charles on Twitter Buy the book Check out the Strong Towns podcast Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:30:11November 1, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.28This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - 11 years of bitcoin https://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/ - #FastForSatoshi - $1B in fees d>=19 - China blockchain pump s-blockchain-push - Wasabi and Samourai Whirlpool comparison chart d>=19 - Casa Gold 2 of 3 multisig s/ - Coinmetrics nonce analysis 4a - Wired hit piece on sanctions evasion https://www.wired.com/story/cryptocurrency-boom-post-soviet-frontier/ - Cryptosteel capsule hands on ld>=19 & old>=19 - Breez announces Lightning Rod d3e44a - Lightning and privacy & d>=19 - c-lightning 0.7.3 released https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v0.7.3 - Donations to Tor will be matched by Mozilla until November 4th https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency - Coldcard releases full schematics https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-hardware-shared/ - Lebanon institutes ban on cash leaving country USKBN1X60R2 & ins-limitations  - Argentina increases capital controls, $200 per month limit currency-controls-after-fernandez-victory Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo1:16:39October 31, 2019Tales from the Crypt #111: Evan Kaloudis Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Evan Kaloudis, Founder of ZeusLN.app, to drink moonshine and discuss: - Zeus - State of the Lightning Network - Gaming - Why are we doing this? - Security attack vectors to be aware of - Much more Follow Evan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/evankaloudis  Check out Zeus 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:56:32October 30, 2019Tales from the Crypt #110: Saifedean AmmousJoin Marty as he sits down with Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard, to discuss: - Academia - Bitcoinization might not play out how you think - The collective "We" - Building his Economics course - much more Check out Saif's website and academy - https://saifedean.com/ 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/44:55October 25, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.21This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Layer1 mining el-crypto-investment/ - Bakkt hits ATH volume >s=20 - Tails 4.0 old>=20 - Nodl Dojo kill switch 20 - Cryptosteel Capsule https://cryptosteel.com - Zebedee and SatoshisGames - zebedee.io & lightnite.io - Zap updates for iOS and desktop 0 & 0 - Bisq update v1.2, make sure you complete all trades/disputes/offers before upgrading old>=20 - ACINQ announces new mobile lightning wallet called Phoenix =20 - Iterative Capital announces Escher Hub bitcoin on/off ramp et-a-cheap-and-fast-way-to-transact-bitcoin/ - Bittr teases Lightning support with Nodl partnership =20 - FullyNoded iOS app (@fullynoded) allows you to connect to your own full node through Tor and use it with Coldcard PSBTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqKEPpSky2g - Tracking the PlusToken whale through Wasabi by @ergobtc coin-laundering-and-its-impact-on-wasabi-wallet-787c0d240192 - Samourai wallet releases anon set tool onymity-sets-4156a54b0bc7 - NordVPN private keys leaked d>=20 Much more Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo 1:08:05October 24, 2019Tales from the Crypt #109: Justin MoonJoin Marty as he sits down to catch up with Justin Moon. They discuss: - Building Buidl Bootcamp - Mooniversity - BitBoy - Junction - Wallets - Redundancy - Much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:44:36October 22, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.14This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Casa node concerns https://blog.keys.casa/addressing-security-concerns-about-casa-node/ - Realvision with Saifedean -standard?source_collection=07157a6eedda4e78b9dcada0c3bc76c0 - Trezor + Unchained Slip0039 implementation ndividuals-and-groups-cae3e9573410 - Child porn ring brought down shutdown - Oxford English Dictionary adds sats - Blockstream Green Wallet adds integrated Tor support =19 - LND 0.8.0 released ml - Casa covenant inheritance planning rvice-and-protocol/ - Nodl team begins moving everything behind Tor 19 - Tor releases new version of OnionShare e-publish-anonymous-uncensorable-websites-0 - Electrum announces their own lightning implementation - Coldcard Mk3 begins shipping - Rep Warren Davidson on Noded old>=19 - Protests around the world Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral. Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/tftc211:12:06October 17, 2019Tales from the Crypt #108: Jared DillianJoin Marty as he sits down with Jared Dillian, Founder & Editor of The Daily Dirtnap newsletter, to discuss: - Jared's reformed skepticism of Bitcoin - Bitcoin v. Gold - What happens if we End The Fed? - Millenial investing - much more  Follow Jared on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailydirtnap Check out The Daily Dirtnap: https://www.dailydirtnap.com/ Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/52:00October 15, 2019Tales from the Crypt #107: American HodlJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with American Hodl to wax poetic about everything. Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:25:57October 11, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.07This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Real Vision upcoming show with Saif - Coldcard adds offline address explorer with new update thanks to @hodlwave https://blog.coinkite.com/address-explorer/ - Zap Android app update 0 - Upcoming Zap desktop update to include node pubkey signing https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-588/ - New KYCP update - kycp.org - https://mempool.observer/monitor/ by @0xB10C - Nodl Samourai announced - https://shop.nodl.it/en/home/38-nodl-samourai-edition.html - Casa Node 2 announced - https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-casa-node-2/ - ACINQ raises $8M in series A - ning-implementation-raises-8m - Tor removes ~800 old relays - ers-for-running-eol-versions/ - Adobe and others cut off Venezuelan users from cloud services - behance-us-sanctions - Multiple corporations bend the knee to China - https://ibb.co/album/eSSKDv - Hong Kong Free Press switches to BTCPay - d>=20 - City of Miami to vote on 30 year contract for cameras and flood sensors on light poles to private company with no data protection >=20 - Surveillance partnerships with Amazon's Ring door cameras -on-elected-officials-to-stop/ - Bitcoin2020 tickets for $50, Szabo is keynote - https://www.bitcoin2020conference.com/ Cash App. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com to check out their collaborative custody and loan products as well as their open source contributions. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Check out www.youtube.com/tftc21 1:01:37October 10, 2019Tales from the Crypt #106: Aleks SvetskiJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Aleks Svetski, founder of Amber, to discuss: - The latest Amber updates - Building out a product road map and prioritizing - Citadels - Separation of money and state - Hypothetical paths to a post-bitcoinization world - much more  Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:08:36October 8, 2019Tales from the Crypt #105: Travis KlingJoin Marty as he sits down with Travis Kling, CIO of Ikigai Asset Management, to discuss: - Travis' journey to bitcoin - Failed narratives/frameworks of years past - How the current system is gamed - Timing - Much more Follow Travis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Travis_Kling Check out Ikigai: https://www.ikigai.fund Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:21:53October 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.30This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Michelle Phan y-she-left.html - Baakt launches with limited volume https://www.bakkt.com/markets - US & UK CLOUD Act Agreement ion-backdoors.shtml - HK - 1967 emergency laws enacted - face masks banned https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-4991888 - host4coins.net - Opendime videos - tftc.tv - Team signing for Casa Diamond Members ($5040 per year) https://blog.keys.casa/team-signing-on-casa-keymaster/ - uesefultulips.org - Wasabi error, rescan required - Crypto Rating Council launched by  Coinbase, Kraken, Poloniex and Bittrex https://www.cryptoratingcouncil.com/asset-ratings - EOS $24M settlement with SEC https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-202 - Keybase impersonator Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral. Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/tftc211:03:50October 3, 2019Tales from the Crypt #104: JanineJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Janine, privacy researcher and co-host of Block Digest, to discuss: - Janine's path to Bitcoin - Common privacy blunders - Avoiding big tech - Coinbase's checkered history - CoinJoins - Block Digest - Traveling without Google Maps - Much more Follow Janine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/J9Roem Check out Block Digest: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb53lXz2IzEFT5JNHSbdvPg Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:11:41October 1, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.23This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Lightning Vulnerability disclosed er/002174.html - Maduro rumored to own bitcoin in-stash-and-doesn-t-know-what-to-do-with-it - In device address explorer coming to coldcard /bold>=20 - Erlay BIP draft released https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-578/ - Fold joins the sats back party with Amazon support =20 - tThe "hashcrash" https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1176850968211668994 - ETH gas limit raised it-to-10-million Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral. Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada.49:49September 27, 2019Tales from the Crypt #103: Mauricio Di Bartolomeo & Adam ReedsJoin Marty as he sits down with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo & Adam Reeds, the co-founders of Ledn.io, to discuss: - Ledn's loan offerings and expansion into Latin America - Bitcoin mining in Venezuela - Stablecoins  - Crossing boarders with Bitcoin - How the Venezuela government buys bitcoin via LocalBitcoins - Sneaking out of the country - The ills of Socialism - much more  Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 2:12:20September 26, 2019Tales From The Crypt #102: John DoeJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with John Doe, an ex-Silk Road vendor who had a four year forced hodl. Learn about what it was really like to use the Silk Road, the ethos of the website + forums, and the absurdness of The Drug War.  Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:05:15September 24, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.16This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Baltic Honeybadger in Riga - [Day 1] rce%3Ddigg [Day 2] e=digg - Reminder that browser extensions can be malicious, act accordingly - Someone is impersonating Matt on Keybase - Olympus fiat to lightning https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-574/ - Sparkswap beta launched >=20 - Square Crypto hires 3 new devs Valentine Wallace, Jeffrey Czyz, Arik Sosman, announces funding for BTCPay https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-570/ - Hash rate all time high again - https://bitcoinvisuals.com/chain-hash-rate - Tor project now using BTCPay - https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency - Bobby Lee launches horrible product BalletCrypto card that nobody should use  - ColdCard multisig plugin merged into electrum, next official version of should have it ready to go, or just build from official sources today - Nodl + Samourai edition designs released, preorders soon /bold>=20 - Bisq adds encrypted chat https://twitter.com/wiz/status/1174104040193413120?s=20 - Repo market / Fed cuts rate / QE4? Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada.56:36September 20, 2019Tales from the Crypt #101: Jack Mallers - Olympus AnnouncementJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers to discuss the launch of Olympus, a non-custodial way to buy bitcoin and immediately receive it on the Lightning Network.  Link to Jack's Medium post on the launch: -ramps-by-zap-1f5349a96ee9 Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:16:58September 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #100: @arbedoutJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Odell and a very special guest, arbedout. Arbedout is a Twitter anon who has some incredible views on Bitcoin. Particularly how the nascent "cryptocurrency boom" shares a lot of eerie parallels with market booms throughout history.  The trio polishes off 3/4 of a bottle of Knob Creek while reminiscing on their experiences within the "cryptocurrency boom".  Follow arbedout on Twitter: https://twitter.com/arbedout Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/  3:22:33September 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #99: Raoul PalJoin Marty as he sits down with Raoul Pal, Founder of Real Vision and Global Macro Investor, to discuss: - Repo markets - The state of the global financial system - Demographics - Behavioral Economics - Tokenizing income streams - much more  Follow Raoul on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI Check out Real Vision: https://www.realvision.com/ Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:06:03September 18, 2019Tales from the Crypt #98: Carla Kirk-Cohen Join Marty as he sits down with Carla Kirk-Cohen, the last of Chaincode Labs' Summer residents to swing through the studio, to discuss: - Carla's journey to Bitcoin - Her passion for the Lightning Network - Life in South Africa - Bringing LN to an exchange - Things that LN enables that weren't possible before  Follow Carla on Twitter: https://twitter.com/actuallyCarlaKC Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:05:29September 17, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.09This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Lightning CVE exploited in the wild, lnd 0.7.0 vulnerable, update! er/002148.html - Digg from the dead https://digg.com/channel/bitcoin - NY payroll company MyPayrollHR exit scam $35M 5-million/ - French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire says Libra will not be allowed in the EU .html - Premier League Club Watford Bitcoin logo on jerseys due to sportsbet.io sponsorship https://www.watfordfc.com/club/bitcoin-confirmed-new-sleeve-partner - Keybase airdrops shitcoin, bitcoiners donate to Tor, almost 17000 XLM donated(~$1020) KGJDMEW6VLOOLBTIFPJIN7XT6KAFXJQPJ?filter=payments - Bitcoin as a nonviolent rebellion by Nic Carter e?sk=c70e2e688cb3c15dfe68f4d2627b1059 - ColdCard firmware update 2.1.4 for multi-sig change outputs https://coldcardwallet.com/docs/upgrade - Bittr adds xpub support =19 - Spencer Dinwiddie of NJ Nets is a bitcoiner and is tokenizing his ~$34 million extension t-that-means/ - ECB cuts rates and announces a new round of QE "Negative rates will not provoke the collapse of the financial system" - Draghi arts-qe-to-fight-slowdown-as-draghi-era-ends Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada.1:07:59September 13, 2019Tales from the Crypt #97: Eric Voskuil Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Eric Voskuil, lead maintainer of the libbitcoin Bitcoin implementation, as they discuss: - libbitcoin - Austrian Economics - Attack vectors - Eric's experience in the Navy  - How Bitcoin fails  - Dust - much more  Check out the libbitcoin Wiki: https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:53:13September 11, 2019Tales from the Crypt #96: Elichai TurkelJoin Marty as he sits down with Elichai Turkel, recent Summer resident at Chaincode Labs, to discuss: - Elichai's path to cryptography and Bitcoin - Schnorr signatures - Taproot  - Miniscript - Cryptography - State of academic papers - much more Follow Elichai on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Elichai2 Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:04:13September 9, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.02This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Portugal is indeed exempting bitcoin from cap gains treatment: oin-tax-code-other-nations-should-take-note - Hash rate all time high - https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-hashrate.html - LocalBitcoins KYC - -privacy-concerns - SNICKER https://gist.github.com/AdamISZ/2c13fb5819bd469ca318156e2cf25d79 - vaneck & solidx pivot to gbtc like structure rather than ETF for their investment product oin-etf-to-institutional-investors - Facebook left phone numbers exposed on server, 419 million records leaked: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/ - Google discloses exploit that allowed malicious sites to retrieve iPhone files and location data: hones-for-years - M5Stack + bitcoin https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-562/ - TFTC Guides: Lightning for beginners with Breez wallet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zhW7ilOjWg&feature=youtu.be - Bridgefy mesh messaging app being used in hong kong: https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-561/ - Argentina implements capital controls, individuals won't be allowed to acquire or wire abroad more than 10,000 dollars per month - turn-to-argentina-as-macri-fights-to-survive - Upgrade your lightning nodes, disclosure of vulnerability in 3 weeks 002130.html - Jack Dorsey Twitter account hijacked due to sim swap + tweets by sms: d>=20 Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada. 1:05:12September 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #95: Gleb Naumenko Join Marty as he sits down with Gleb Naumenko to discuss: - Gleb's experience helping to build an exchange - Bitcoin usage in Ukraine - Gleb's work on Erlay - The Erebus attack  - Movies Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 1:19:30September 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.26This week Marty and Matt discuss: - ColdCard MK3 announced: https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-mark3/ - https://ln.alhur.es/ by @fiatjf - UI for hardware wallet multisig using bitcoin core and HWI released for testing by @justinmoon - https://github.com/justinmoon/junction - Bitcoin realized cap hits ath of ~$100B - https://coinmetrics.substack.com/ - According to Chainalysis, less than 11% of mixed bitcoin are used for illicit purposes - t-used-for-illicit-purposes - CSW rebuked hard in court, judge orders 50% of his bitcoin to be given to Kleinman's estate, unfortunately for them he probably doesn't own any - Bitcoin for safety by @jamesob - https://jameso.be/2019/08/24/bitcoin-is-for-this.html - WTF happened in 1971? https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ - Janey + Cato - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-559/ - Binance adds interest bearing accounts (BNB, ETC, Tether) - o-crypto-as-binance-starts-lending-business - Opennode adds kyc and shopify integration - https://www.opennode.co/blog/how-to-accept-bitcoin-shopify-extension/ - EOS dumped almost 20 mins earlier first: >=20 - Portugal tax exemption. Fake news? Let us know Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber45:39August 29, 2019Tales from the Crypt #94: Fabian Jahr Join Marty as he sits down with Fabian Jahr, current Summer resident at Chaincode Labs, to discuss the RPC call Fabian has been working on this Summer, the Chaincode residency experience, the Bitcoin scene in Berlin, Fabian's experience with the Lightning Network, and much more.  Follow Fabian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fjahr Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:37:54August 28, 2019Tales from the Crypt #93: Rodolfo NovakJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Rodolfo Novak to discuss Coinkite, how Rodolfo approaches making products for Bitcoiners, a little Bitcoin history, Ham Radios, airplanes, and much more.  Check out Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ (Use the promo code "TFTC" for 5% OFF!) Follow Rodolfo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. 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Head over to https://keys.casa/ today.1:23:51August 27, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.19This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - BitBlockBoom - bitsteins talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBAuHv5cPl8 - New Erebus attack paper - https://erebus-attack.comp.nus.edu.sg - Hardware wallets + multisig - https://stephanlivera.com/episode/97/ - Sats the standard - Blockstream Green Wallet adds sats - ld>=20 - All seeds are not cross compatible, be aware - https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1164165702602899456?s=20 - Bitcoin Optech bech32 + RBF compatibility matrix  - https://bitcoinops.org/en/2019-compatibility-matrix/ - Matt Corallo first hire by Square Crypto - =20 - Miniscript - 20 - Hong Kong protesters are distributed not centralized - -brilliance-backed-beijing-into-a-corner/ - 40 straight weeks of anti-macron yellow vest protests - >=20 - Another fake Satoshi, safely ignore - Happy birthday Lolli! Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber 1:10:08August 22, 2019Tales from the Crypt #92: Bryan Bishop & Joseph JacksonJoin 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: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:34:53August 21, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.12 LIVE w/ Pierre Rochard & Michael GoldsteinJoin Marty and Matt as they're joined by the hosts of the Noded Podcast, Pierre Rochard and Michael Goldstein to discuss: - Bakkt Futures - Binance KYC - Liquid Tether - Hong Kong - India - Samsung + Bitcoin - Coinbase negligence - much more Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber47:09August 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #91: Tuur DemeesterJoin Marty as he sits down with Tuur Demeester, Founder of Adamant Capital, to discuss Tuur's journey to Bitcoin, the founding of Adamant Research then Adamant Capital, how to leverage Bitcoin to short USD, Bitcoin's parallels with The Reformation. Follow Tuur on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.43:47August 17, 2019Tales from the Crypt #90: James C.Join Marty as he sits down with James Chiang, currently spending his Summer at Chaincode Labs, to discuss James' journey to Bitcoin, his experience with Libbitcoin, how Libbitcoin compares to Bitcoin Core, working in the renewable energy sector, working on a Python library for Taproot, and much more.  Checkout https://teachbitcoin.io/ Follow James on Twitter - https://twitter.com/digi_james Follow Marty on Twitter - https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.55:13August 15, 2019Tales from the Crypt #89: BitcoinTINA & Alpha Zeta Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with BitcoinTINA & Alpha Zeta to talk about the current market conditions, where Bitcoin sits, whether or not Bitcoin is a risk-on or risk-off trade, and the fact that Bitcoin is a fundamental financial tech innovation.  Check out Alpha Zeta's portfolio tracker: http://www.thewarden.io/index.html Follow BitcoinTINA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinTINA Follow Alpha Zeta on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alphaazeta Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.58:20August 14, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.05This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin vaults - 7229.html - Yuan peg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCH_-fcCoK4&feature=youtu.be - Big blocks and tradeoffs - https://twitter.com/BitMEXResearch/status/1157667091719380992 - Binance KYC leak - s-negotiations-with-its-kyc-hacker - Is anything priced in? Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber46:33August 8, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.29This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - JoinMarket, fidelity bonds, and privacy - 69.html - Capital One data breach - llowing-the-banking-hack/ - Zap update + full node - https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases/tag/v0.5.2-beta - Fold App Kickbacks - - "Stacking sats" - Hong Kong - old>=20 - Fortnite World Cup - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1155838643094917121 - much more  Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:00:56August 1, 2019Tales from the Crypt #88: Richard MyersJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Richard Myers, who is working on "Bitcoin's last mile" via mesh networks at GoTenna and Global Mesh Labs, to discuss: - ByteABit, Richard's P2P mobile Bitcoin exchange - Mesh networks, GoTenn, LOT49, and Global Mesh Labs - Cashless societies - Deflation - much more Follow Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/remyers_ Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 2:05:40July 30, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.22This week Marty and Matt discuss: -BTCPayServer - https://stephanlivera.com/episodes/ - Wasabi & Samourai - Ethereum hashrate down 42% from ATH, bitcoin hashrate at ATH: able-to-attack - Coldcard + Wasabi video, class on the 26th at Chaincode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2uhyROpAQ&feature=youtu.be - New Cash App UI - Ohmm  - =20 - Hong Kong protests take violent turn: ld>=20, block size, offline transactions, 65% of 4000 said no full node -JPM shitcoin -Bitdevs https://www.meetup.com/BitDevsNYC/events/258566808/ -Wasabi update -Coin Center on cash + privacy https://coincenter.org/entry/the-case-for-electronic-cash Shout out to this week's sponsors: Lolli, head over to www.lolli.com/ref/tftc and start earning Bitcoin when you shop on the net today!  Honeyminer, head over to www.honeyminer.com/labs to check out their new Linux compatible software. Or head to stackingsats.com to pump our ref link. 1:02:45February 14, 2019Tales from the Crypt #57: Alex AdelmanJoin 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 Thanks to our sponsor BlockFi! Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can use your bitcoin as collateral to get USD loans in minutes! 2:16:53February 13, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.04This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Matt handing off the LN torch to @jack https://twitter.com/jack/status/1092891165966229509 - Matt Ahlborg's LocalBitcoins analysis and new metric -suggests-bitcoin-is-working-as-satoshi-intended-d8b04d3ac7b2 - Koala Studio Lightning Chess https://koalastud.io/ - Blockstream Proof of Reserve ent-its-proof-reserves-tool/ - ZCash inflation vulnerability disclosed mediated/ - Abra releases new equities exposure product -etfs-using-bitcoin/ Shoutout to our sponsors: BlockFi, head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt and learn how you can avoid selling your BTC today!  Honeyminer, peep www.honeyminer.com/labs to see the new Honeyminer Max implementation for Linux users. Or www.stackingsats.com to pump our ref link. 21Lectures, go to www.21lectures.com and learn more about their Bitcoin developer classes! 1:01:18February 8, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.28This week we are joined by Murad Mahmudov to discuss a litany of topics. Had a bunch of topics planned but didn't get to all of them. A lot of tangents.  Thanks to our sponsors: BlockFi - Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt and learn how to leverage your crypto without selling!  HoneyMiner - Now available for Linux users! HoneyMiner is the easiest way to earn BTC. Peep their site here to learn more - =marty%20bent%20honeyminer1:06:57January 31, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.21This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Venezuela - https://twitter.com/btcven - Post-Soviet LN + Satellite API messages - https://twitter.com/notgrubles/status/1088402776638541827 - Lightning games - old>-issue-402 - Georgia & Bitfury - https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1088816882872926211 - Taproot article by Aaron van Wirdum - -will-benefit-bitcoin/ - ETF withdrawn - https://twitter.com/gaborgurbacs/status/1088173233722089486 Thanks to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer! All you home mining freaks should head over to www.honeryminer.com/labs to check out their new version, now available to Linux users!  54:28January 25, 2019Tales from the Crypt #56: Chris DannenJoin Marty as he sits down with Chris Dannen, co-founder and Partner at Iterative Capital, to discuss a range of topics including the evolution of software development culture, destroying the technostructure, the poison that is mainstream media, and much more.  Follow Chris on Twitter: www.twitter.com/chrisdannen Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out Iterative's thesis: iterative.capital/thesis  Thanks to our sponsor BlockFi! Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to peep the special offer they have for you freaks! 1:53:58January 24, 2019Tales from the Crypt #55: BitcoinTINA aka Rick FlexJoin Marty on this week's edition of Tales from the Crypt as he sits down with BitcoinTINA aka Rick Flex to discuss how bullish he is, past tech trends and how we may use them to guess how Bitcoin adoption may play out, and much much more. Banger of an episode. 2:52:14January 18, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.14In this episode we discuss:  -ETH 2.0 -Constantinople bug and delay -LN network analysis network-has-been-remarkable-but-theres-a-catch/ -Putin bitcoin rumor -Wasabi multi-denominations -ETC was indeed reorged chain wide -China plans on using great firewall to target nodes ficially-try-to-extend-its-great-firewall-to-blockchains/ -Grin launch -Thor from Bitrefill payments-easy -Baakt delayed -Genesis Trading OTC volume up 50% YoY, e-is-up-50-year-over-year/ 1:01:44January 18, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.07This week we discuss: -Deplatforming +  -ETC 51% -ETH Constantinople and progPow forks -10 years since Hal - https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988?lang=en -Zap POS app ld>=19 -Gemini ad campaign - https://twitter.com/Gemini/status/1082726902622797825 -Bitcoin mining pools over time, BetterHash - https://coinmetrics.io/mining-pool-mapping/ -Kraken compliance report =19 -Nodl.it -Bitmain founders rumored to be stepping down, new CEO inbound  ounders-wu-and-zhan-step-aside/ -Norwegian Monero Ransom -ShapeShift lays off 30% of their team, 37 people - Bezos Commencement speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBmavNoChZc Thanks to our sponsors:  BlockFi. Head to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt and check out BlockFi today!  BUIDL Bootcamp - Next course starts January 21st, head over to www.buidlbootcamp.com and sign up today! (Online Courses) 1:10:20January 10, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.31On this week's edition of RHR Marty and Matt come to you live from RiseNY to shoot the shit about Bitcoin's first ten years as well as some current events.  Shoutout to our sponsor Blockfi: Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can leverage your BTC today! 50:43January 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.24This week we discuss:  Trezor + Ledger hacks - wallet.fail - allet-vulnerabilities-at-tech-conference/ Electrum hack - eal-over-700k-from-users-of-a-popular-bitcoin-wallet/ New Joule version out - Pierre Rochard's node launcher Indian gov possibly loosening regs - ossible-rule-change-around-legal-status-of-cryptocurrencies/ Bitcoin Private- https://coinmetrics.io/bitcoin-private/ Facebook + crypto - ok-is-said-to-develop-stablecoin-for-whatsapp-transfers US Government Shutdown Civil token relaunch Tuur Demeester's thread on ETH: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1078682801954799617 Bitmain layoffs - t-up-to-50-of-staff/ Consensys layoffs - yoffs-employees-pending-startup-ethereum GMO exiting mining biz - https://ir.gmo.jp/en/pdf/irlibrary/gmo_disclose_info20181225_e.pdf Difficulty leveling off - nother-9-but-hash-rate-picks-up/ 7-month trading volume highs - g-volume-reached-7-month-highs/ Highest single day trade vol for tether - l-time-high/ Civic takedown - lustrates-why-companies-masquerading-tokens-will-fail/ Iterative Capital NYC Event - bent-aaron-lammer-jay-kang-tickets-51666739609 Shoutout to this week's sponsor, BlockFi. Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can avoid selling BTC or help start that side project you always wanted by leveraging your BTC holdings!  1:02:41December 28, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.17This week Matt and Marty Discuss: RIP Tim May Minisketch - es-about-get-easier/ & https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1075460072786935808 Blockstream satellite - rom-space/#548f7bc75a80 Unchained Capital Dust analysis - modynamics-615dd51f49 Basis - d-to-investors/ Coinbase - and-zilliqa-zil-are-launching-on-coinbase-3065eeb42d5b & 083c62 & https://medium.com/hydro-protocol/why-we-are-forking-0x-97dc48ee0426 & w-digital-assets-92ba4ab7f465 Tether - ypto-mystery-clues-suggest-tether-has-the-billions-it-promised ETH Constantinople fork - ivation-point-for-next-hard-fork Gazprombank - / Japanese tax law - nges-to-ease-crypto-tax-burden Rumor Bitmain IPO not happening The Patreon War Mulvaney a Bitcoiner - https://twitter.com/ObsoleteDogma/status/810957268950859780 - Samourai Dojo - https://samouraiwallet.com/dojo -Mining in Iran - ts-not-as-easy-as-it-sounds Thanks to our Sponsors: BlockFi: Sign up at blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to get $25 in free crypto added to customer collateral for loans under $10k or $50 in free crypto added to customer collateral for loans over $10k. Applying takes less than 2 minutes. Tallyco.in/BTC_Spot/ - Head over to http://tallyco.in and raise funds with some of that unstoppable, censorship-resistant, magic internet money today! 52:34December 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #54: Yassine Elmandjra Join Marty as he sits down with Yassine Elmandjra, Crypto Analyst at ARK Invest, to discuss Yassine's insanely low time preference decisions post-college, Bitcoin mining, how Bitcoin changes you, and much more. Follow Yassine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/yassineARK Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent 1:23:17December 18, 2018Tales from the Crypt #53: Matthew Mežinskis Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis, co-host of the Crypto Voices podcast, to discuss Base Money, Free Banking, how Bitcoin plays into these concepts, and much more. Follow Crypto Voice on Twitter: www.twitter.com/crypto_voices Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Thank you to our sponsor BlockFi! Go to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to get $25 of free crypto collateral for loans under $10k and $50 of free crypto collateral for loans above $10k!2:07:31December 11, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.05This week Matt and Marty are joined by Bitcoin Sign Guy and they discuss: -Rogoff v. White recap -Vertcoin 51% - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1069989819969929218 -International oil contracts - https://twitter.com/arbedout/status/1070323234845925376 -Buy Bitcoin in Paris - https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1069330451695845383 -Pierre Rochard's lnd launcher + Zap + Joule - https://twitter.com/pierre_rochard/status/1070296265806745600 -Wasabi UX update - wasabiwallet.io -Death spiral - ing-death-spiral-debate-explained/ -Coinshares Bitcoin mining research - bitcoin-mining-network-dynamics-f820d6218bdf -RAMP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Anonymous_Marketplace -Larimer new coin - r 5, 2018Tales from the Crypt #52: Dan HeldJoin Marty as he sits down with Dan Held, co-founder of Picks & Shovels, to discuss the early days of Bitcoin, "Planting Bitcoin", shaping narratives, the beauty of PoW, and much much more. Follow Dan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/danheld Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Check out Picks & Shovels: https://picks.co/ Shoutout to our sponsor Blockfi! Go to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to get $25 of free crypto collateral for loans under $10k and $50 of free crypto collateral for loans above $10k! 2:09:59December 5, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.26 This week we are joined by Dan Held, Co-Founder of Picks & Shovels, to discuss: - lightningjoule.com - Ohio taxes and friendly Treasurer ure-as-a-crypto-owner/ - Hash rate - -f2pool-founder-estimates - Hester Peirce on WhatBitcoinDid https://t.co/aOSPdNAG5f - VanEck OTC index itcoin-otc-index/ - VanEck & Nasdaq futures cash settled january tures-contracts - Tether relaunches direct redemption at tether.to - tion-of-fiat-from-its-platform/ 54:09November 29, 2018Tales from the Crypt #51: Max Keidun & Roman SnitkoJoin Marty as he sits down with Max Keidun & Roman Snitko, co-founders of Hodl Hodl, to discuss how they became interested in Bitcoin, why they decided to start Hodl Hodl, the nature of P2P exchanges, Bitcoin prediction markets, their decision to block US citizens from using their service, and much more. Follow Max on Twitter: https://twitter.com/keidunm Follow Roman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/romansnitko Follow Hodl Hodl on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hodlhodl Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Check out https://hodlhodl.com/ Thanks to our sponsor cash.app! 1:15:19November 27, 2018Tales from the Crypt #50: Jeremy WelchJoin Marty as he sits down with Jeremy Welch, co-Founder and CEO of Casa, to discuss how Jeremy became interested in Bitcoin, how he Casa came to be, and the state of personal data. Follow Jeremy on Twitter: www.twitter.com/jeremyrwelch Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Peep Casa: https://keys.casa/ Use the code "CRYPT" at www.baboontothemoon.com for 10% off a Go-Bag! 1:24:53November 20, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.19This week we discuss: Gold hoarders executed Iran - ctions-hit-iran-executes-gold-currency-speculators - Ledger & Trezor issues - https://blog.trezor.io/psa-non-genuine-trezor-devices-979b64e359a7 https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1062876921787236352 - BCH post mortem -Lolli https://www.lolli.com/ -nodl.it http://www.nodl.it/ -SIM Swapping, App based 2FA psa - https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/130-lizard#episode-player -SEC coming down on ICOs59:01November 19, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.12This week we discuss: - Bitcoin Cash hard fork - Bitcoin price volatility - Coinemine - nd-mint-crypto-money - US Elections, politicians holding BTC - Blockchain voting - EtherDelta fined - nregistered-securities-exchange - Recent Bitcoin Core merge - https://twitter.com/MarcoFalke/status/1060913913221599232 - BitMex v. Hasu - change-f956324b449f rity/ - China Debt situation - old>-issue-356 - MakerDAI Get your Baboon Go-Bag right now! Use the code "CRYPT" for 10% your purchase at www.baboontothemoon.com 1:02:00November 14, 2018Tales from the Crypt #49: Alex LieglJoin Marty as he sits down with Alex Liegl, Founder of Layer1 Capital, to discuss his mental framework for valuing cryptocurrencies, Grin, Bitcoin's inception, what it means to be part of a team, and much more. Follow Alex on Twitter: twitter.com/alexanderliegl Follow Marty on Twitter: twitter.com/MartyBent Download the Cash App today! https://cash.app1:28:26November 13, 2018Tales from the Crypt #48: Pierre RochardJoin Marty as he sits down with Pierre Rochard to reminisce about the year that has past since their first recording, give out free futuristic business ideas, discuss Pierre's Excel plugin that links to the Lightning Network, buyers of last resort, and much more. Follow Pierre: www.twitter.com/pierre_rochard Follow Marty: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out BitcoinACKs: www.bitcoinacks.com Check out Bitcoin Advisory: www.bitcoinadvisory.com Peep the Nakamoto Institute: www.nakamotoinstitute.org Download the Cash App today! cash.app2:10:06November 7, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.05This week we discuss: - Bitcoin Cash - Tether + Deltec - lationship-is-authentic/ - Wasabi check-in -Gwyneth Paltrow - https://twitter.com/katherineykwu/status/1059525781163048961 Ron Paul - /bold>/october/29/trump-is-right-the-fed-is-crazy/ - Petro - https://petro.gob.ve/index_eng.html - InitiativeQ Scam - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1057338090392498176 - Unocoin founder arrested - eir-cryptocurrency-atm/ - Coinbase 1.3B in revenue - uments-show - WEX - ed-to-long-troubled-exchange/ - Janet Yellen doesn't own any bitcoin Block height: 548,923 Use the code "CRYPT" for 10% off your Go-Bag at www.baboontothemoon.com!57:30November 5, 2018Tales from the Crypt #47: Jack Mallers Join Marty as he sits down with Jack Mallers, founder of Zap, to discuss Chicago, chess, Jack's path to Bitcoin, what draws him to Lightning, Bitcoin financial products, and much much more. Follow Jack on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JackMallers Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out Zap: https://zap.jackmallers.com/1:14:58October 31, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.29This week we discuss: -Gab -China social credit -Localbitcoins lead by Russia and Venezuela - https://t.co/VSiTn63psi -Maplechange - not your keys, not your bitcoin -Lightning residency + hackathon -IDEX blocking NY IPs https://twitter.com/Aurora_dao/status/105491741862198476841:46October 30, 2018Tales from the Crypt #46: Justin Moon Join Marty as he sits down with Justin Moon, founder BUIDL Bootcamp, to discuss Bitcoin and life. Follow Justin - https://twitter.com/_justinmoon_ Follow Marty - https://twitter.com/martybent Checkout BUIDL Bootcamp - https://www.buidlbootcamp.com2:24:59October 26, 2018Tales from the Crypt #45: Lightning Koala Join Marty as he sits down with Lightning Koala, creator of satoshis.place and a man dedicated to building on top of the Lightning Network. The two discuss a bunch of different topics spanning from building games on Lightning to the coordination efforts it takes to make something like Bitcoin work at scale. Follow Lightning Koala: https://twitter.com/LightningK0ala Follow Marty: https://twitter.com/LightningK0ala Check out satoshis.place 1:33:20October 23, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.22Topics of the week: - Betty - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45889707 - Venezuela local bitcoin volume new ATHs ($25M per week) - https://twitter.com/louAboudHogben/status/1053086355100581888 - Tether follow up - _stack=true - Unocoin routing around Indian regs - al-bank-crackdown-india/ - Wasabi Wallet - allet-privacy-focused-bitcoin-wallet-for-desktop/ - Ethereum Constantinople hard fork delayed - elayed-until-2019/ -Ransoms - rica-possibly-kidnapped - Neutrino - ino.html -Monero Bulletproofs hard fork - c6408babf - Binance, Chainalysis - -from-chainalysis/ -Bisq ATH volumes - amid-increased-monero-demand/ 58:42October 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #44: Alan SilbertJoin Marty as he sits down with Alan Silbert, Executive Managing Director of INX Limited, to chat about the old days and his experience starting Bitpremier.com, a site where people could spend BTC to buy luxury goods. Alan explains how he got into Bitcoin, how his side hustle pushed him to leave his main hustle and what it's like to get a call from Homeland Security. Follow Alan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alansilbert Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Check out INX Limited: https://www.inx.co Thank you to our sponsors: Cash App, download the app here - https://cash.app/ HoneyMiner, enter to win a GPU here - https://twitter.com/gethoneyminer/status/1052200242781786112 Download Honeyminer here - https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk1:33:23October 18, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.15 Topics of the week: Tether + Bitfinex - >=19 ETH Constantinople hard fork on testnet - https://twitter.com/5chdn/status/1051194779890003974 Liquid Announcement - https://blockstream.com/2018/10/10/liquid-launch.html goTenna unboxing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzZen7ajmKA&feature=youtu.be Fidelity announcement - h-da19b06aa58e Hugo fire flames - e18 Lightning bike - https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1051832593082175488 Nouriel - https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1050766810348445696 Thanks to our sponsor, The Cash App. Download it here: https://cash.app/58:12October 15, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.08 "Bull v. Bear" In this week's episode, Marty and Matt sit down with Murad Mahmudov to discuss: - Murad's bear #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:14:58March 17, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Stimulus Package 2020.03.16Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - COVID19 + Market reaction - Fed cuts + repo operations - MyNode v0.1.97  - 3D Printing in Italy's corona battle  - VR Socratic Meetup - Jameson Lopp on Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges - Other stuff Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.49:25March 16, 2020#140: Kyle Bass & Parker LewisJoin Marty as he hops on a call with Kyle Bass and Parker Lewis to discuss: - Recent market chaos - The Fed's response up to this point and what they may do moving forward - The need for a strong fiscal response in conjunction with Fed policy - The dangers of centralizing our supply chain in China - Russia's move in oil markets over the weekend - much more Follow Kyle on Twitter Follow Parker on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.48:40March 12, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.09This week Marty and Matt discuss: - macro and price talk - mining death spiral FUD - Bitcoin Core v0.19.1  - bluewallet node issue  - payjoin support should be added to btcpay soon   - Samourai Wallet Whirlpool hits new monthly ATH   - Specter-Desktop multisig release  - OXT Research PlusToken Report Issue 2  - Electrum v4 release still delayed - MKR/DAI liquidation crisis  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:12:19March 12, 2020#139: George GammonJoin Marty as he sits down with George Gammon to discuss: - Why George started his YouTube channel - The Oil Wars - Was Russia's move over the weekend a kill shot directed at the US? - Corporate Debt - Buybacks - Junk bonds - The Fed's reaction to recent market movements - Fed policy and the erosion of the Nuclear family - Deflation - Sounds money standards of the past - George's thoughts on Gold v. Bitcoin - much more Check out George's YouTube channel Follow George on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:08:01March 10, 2020#138: BitcoinTINA "The Perfect Storm"Join Marty as he sits down with BitcoinTINA to discuss how the macro factors lining up in the world right now are a perfect storm for Bitcoin in the medium to long-term. Follow BitcoinTINA on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:02:36March 6, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.02This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coronavirus + Fed Rate Cut - Whirlpool volume PAMPING - VR Presentation by Adam Gibson on PayJoin  - Nodl updated with new RTL - myNode updated with Dojo support - Casa adds Coldcard support  - BlueWallet adds Coldcard support  - BlockFi flagging wasabi deposits  - Square Crypto announces two new grants  - India Supreme Court strikes down bitcoin banking ban  - South Korea passes amendment formalizing bitcoin regulation  - Germany deems bitcoin a financial instrument  - New York Power Plant mining $50K worth of bitcoin per day  - Coinbase tested facial recognition software Clearview AI - EARN IT Act to be introduced in US Congress  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:08:44March 4, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.24This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Trace fall from Grace - FullyNoded corrections - consider donating here - @6102bitcoin infographics on taint, chainalysis, and blacklisting - Zebedee releases developer SDK  - Whirlpool usage second monthly ATH in a row  - Whirlpool mobile released  - Casa bitcoin inheritance solution released  - Coldcard v3.1.1  - Square reports growing bitcoin volume  - Square teases option to display in sats and auto buys  - Suredbits Discreet Log Contracts Demo - Nodl Day - March 24th in SF - Wifi flaw exposed billions of devices - lol progpow - Macro and Coronavirus Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:18:22February 27, 2020#136: Paul SztorcJoin Marty as he sits down with Paul Sztorc, the man behind Drivechains and Bitcoin Hivemind, to discuss: - Proof of Work v. Proof of Stake - Bitcoin's fee market - How it may develop in the future - Is Bitcoin our only shot?  - Drivechains - Why people don't like Drivechains - Why their concerns are valid + invalid - Bitcoin Hivemind - much more Follow Paul on Twitter Check out his blog Check out Drivechains  Check out Bitcoin Hivemind Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 2:29:22February 25, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.17This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bisq v1.2.6 adds support for L-BTC  - Bisq volume up 2.6x YoY  - Zeus v0.2.1  - RTL v0.6.5  - c-lightning v0.8.1  - ColdCard firmware v3.1.0 adds support for HSM mode called ckbunker  - Fully Noded 2 released on testflight  - BTCSessions mynodebtc.com build your own node walkthrough video  - Microsoft ION distributed identity project  - OpenNode fiat integration  - Peter Thiel backed Layer1 begins mining operation in West Texas  - What Constant Surveillance Does to Your Brain  - hardware wallet threat modeling  - DoD systems (DISA) compromised, PII taken  - Bitcoin's fifth largest hourly price drop in history  - FTX election markets - Thought Police in New Zealand Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:47:54February 19, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.10This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Dropbit CEO arrested for running a centralized mixing service called Helix and a dark market search engine called Grams  - Self payments lightning privacy proposal  - Coldcard releases PSBT Faker tool for testing  - Tor Browser v9.0.5  - Tails v4.3  - Wasabi implements Apple Code Sign  - Escher App demos paying any lightning invoice with your connected bank account  - Liquid support on Bisq goes live  - Anon submits Taproot critique to mailing list  - Chainalysis has been paid over $10M by US gov agencies  - A world without bitcoin thought experiment by Alex Gladstein  - US Federal Budget Proposal Mentions More Cryptocurrency regulation and enforcement  - Trump admin to introduce new FinCEN requirements  - Redditor posts IRS audit request  - If US Marshals never sold seized bitcoin they would currently be worth over $1.8B  - Casa releases home defense primer  - CNBC clip  - Coronavirus Close Contact app  - CIA owned encryption company facilitated global spying for decades  - The Chinese Gov allegedly hacked Equifax  - Yandex facial recognition tool  - FTX launches US elections futures markets for top 6 candidates  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:20:44February 11, 2020#133: Whit GibbsJoin Marty as he sits down with Whit Gibbs, Co-Founder and CEO of Hashr8OS, to discuss: - Whit buying the 2017 top - Why he decided to focus on mining - Mining hardware + energy dynamics - What's going to happen after the halving? - Is the US turning into the USSR? - Social credit - much more Follow Whit on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:52:14February 8, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.03This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Casa will no longer sell nodes, gold package reduced to $10 per month  - Wasabi removes fixed fee address  - Samourai Whirlpool usage hits monthly all time high  - Proof Wallet tool released by @hodlwave  - Eclair v0.3.3  - BTCPay Server v1.0.4.156  - Blockstream Green v3.3.3  - BitMex Research estimates 28% of channels are private, 12% of total capacity  - Lolli requiring bank account linked to withdraw bitcoin rewards for some users  - Lightning Labs raised $10M Series A round and launches lighting loop beta   - ColdCard teases new HSM mode  - ShiftCrypto releases results of new tamper evident packaging alpha test - Zoomers fighting back against Instagram tracking  - Bitcoin citadel workshop in SF before bitcoin2020  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 2:17:52February 4, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.27This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coronavirus - Payswap privacy proposal  - Knapsack privacy proposal  - Paxos flags account that used wasabi for previous withdrawals  - 6102bitcoin on CoinJoin flagging  - Cryptocurrency Indicators of Suspicion (CIOS) Working Group aka Project Participate  - KYCP.org update - Bitcoin obsoletes all other money  - New Chaincode podcast  - Casa teases coldcard support for multisig service  - 28% of lightning channels are likely private  - BIP BIP Hooray  - Protonmail and VPN blocked in Russia  - Track internet censorship in real time  - Contribute to open map data, win bitcoin  - Wawa PoS malware compromises 30M+ customer credit cards  - Avast AV has been harvesting and selling user data  - Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers  - BCH mining tax proposal  - Lightning torch privacy PSA - LN Strike Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:16:58January 30, 2020Tales from the Crypt #131: Matt Corallo + Valentine Wallace Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Matt Corallo and Val Wallace from the Square Crypto team to discuss: - How Val came to work on LN - How the Square Crypto team honed in on a Lightning Development Kit - What a Lightning Development Kit would do for developers building on LN - Having a team able to focus on a singular open source project - Are we pawns? - Bitcoin fee elasticity  - Dev funding - Stratum v2  - Matt gives an updated probability of Bitcoin's success - much more Check out the LDK announcement Follow Matt on Twitter Follow Val on Twitter Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv2:22:16January 27, 2020Tales from the Crypt #130: Jeremy RubinJoin Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Jeremy Rubin to discuss: - MIT Digital Currency Initiative - Airdrops - OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (BIP 119) - POWSWAP - Dev funding - Scaling - much more Follow Jeremy on Twitter Check out BIP 119 Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:31:05January 24, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.20This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ronin Dojo v1.2  - txCast: Randomised Bitcoin (testnet) transaction broadcasting to break timing analysis  - MyNode v0.1.80  - lnd v0.9-beta  - Zeus v0.2.0  - BTCPay Vault  - Liquid support coming to Bisq with next update  - Exchange cold storage analysis  - Square Crypto announces lightning development kit  - Square files bitcoin related US Patent  - LightNite game map and other details released  - Apple iCloud backups are essentially a backdoor to phone data  - ECB paper on central bank digital currencies highlights negative interest rates, helicopter money, and more seignorage  - Clearview app face recognition app uses 3B+ photos scraped from millions of public facing websites - Pentagon accounting debacle - Bezos gets pwnd by the Saudis - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:44:02January 20, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.13This week Marty and Matt discuss: - RIP Tamas Blummer  - Tor Browser 9.0.4  - Zeus v0.2.0-rc1 : Android APK + Dev Signature - Instant VPS powered by lightning  - Liquid support on BTCPayserver  - Kashmir internet shutdown 170+ days now  - BitMEX Research shows more lightning usage than expected  - Samourai Wallet announces OXT Research  - FBI tries to set encryption backdoor precedent once again  - Coincenter reintroduces bill to add tax exemption for small purchases  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies1:01:25January 17, 2020Tales from the Crypt #128: Jamal JamesJoin Marty as he sits down with Jamal James, creator of Polar - a productivity tool for Lightning Network developers, to discuss: - Building Polar - Jamal starting and running a successful business for 15+ years - How he originally got into Bitcoin - Deciding to build for Bitcoin + LN - Building for application devs - Why Bitcoin is inevitable - much more Follow Jamal on Twitter Check out Polar  Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:56:44January 16, 2020Tales from the Crypt #127: Andrew ChowJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Andrew Chow, Bitcoin Core Contributor and Engineer at Blockstream, to discuss: - How Andrew found bitcoin in high school - What life was like before the Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBT) standard - Why PSBT is important - Working on Bitcoin Core's Hardware Wallet Interface - CoinJoins - Coin selection - Hardware wallets - Video games - much more Follow Andrew on Twitter Follow Andrew on GitHub Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 1:31:17January 13, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.06This week Marty and Matt discuss: - River financial only 8 states - https://sphinx.chat/ - Samourai whirlpool dynamics, whirlpool CLI 0.10.2 released  - Clark Moody adds sats per dollar and lightning Tor stats to his dashboard - zeus beta2 released, c-lightning support and iOS - Polar v0.2.0 released, c-lightning support added  - RTL releases a major UX upgrade  - lnd v0.9.0-beta-rc1 released with multi-path payment support  - South Korean government committee recommends adding bitcoin product to national exchange  - Neil Woodfine on how to keep bitcoin running in offline environments: video, slides, & thread - Tessercube PGP on mobile, recommended by @coinsureNZ  - Kraken releases yearly government request transparency report  - Cloud extraction report by privacy international  - Russian state energy company courting bitcoin mining ops  - Elaine makes the case for censorship resistant money  - Video of gold accumulation over the last 20 years overlayed with bitcoin market cap  - Debrief creative video by @CreativeLandRun mentions Marty  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:18:51January 8, 2020Tales from the Crypt #125: Alexander LeishmanJoin Marty as he sits down with Alexander Leishman, Co-Founder of River Financial, to discuss: - Building River - Being a Bitcoin-only business - Dollar Cost Averaging  - Complex systems - Bitcoin and American values - KYC/AML hypocrisy - much more Follow Alexander on Twitter Check out River Financial Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/3:09:47January 3, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.30This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin's first 11 years - NthKey: use your iPhone as part of a multisig setup  - Nodl Dojo first impressions  - Samourai Whirlpool 0.10.0 released  - MyNode adds whirlpool support, dojo coming soon  - Satreon: a non custodial lightning network powered alternative to Patreon  - Metal seed storage reviews  - Introducing A Framework for Privacy in eCommerce via Bitcoin  - Difficulties with verifiable open hardware Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. 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They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies1:13:54January 2, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.23This week Marty and Matt discuss: - BitBox02 brute force vulnerability disclosed, update to firmware V5.0.0 asap (h/t @freedomisntsafe)    - BLW on Android adds support for hosted channels  - Argentina local bitcoins volume hits ATHs amid further capital controls  - As expected CSW makes excuses ahead of "tulip trust" access date  - Ethereum Co-Founder Jeffrey Wilcke dumps $11.5M worth of ETH from premine  - The Venezuelan Petro update  - HK Police freeze $9M raised by activists via Spark Alliance  - Popular chat app ToTok removed from app store due to concerns it is a UAE spy tool  - US gov issues warning to service members asking them not to use DNA testing services  - @dergigi releases 21 Lessons book  - Kiara Bickers (@kiarabickers) releases Bitcoin Clarity book  - Proof of Keys next week - John Newbery thread - German gold capital controls Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies59:49December 27, 2019Tales from the Crypt #124: Dave CollumJoin Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum, Professor of Organic Chemistry at Cornell University, to discuss: - Climate Change - Bitcoin - Jeffrey Epstein - Inflation - The Fed - much more Follow Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum Check out Dave's 2019 Year in Review Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:10:47December 23, 2019Tales from the Crypt #123: Bitcoin Sign Guy on UrbitJoin Marty as he sits down with Urbit ambassador to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Sign Guy, to discuss: - Urbit 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:40:31December 20, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.16This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bottle Pay shuts down rather than implement KYC per upcoming AMLD5 regulation  - Binance Singapore allegedly flagging accounts that CoinJoin after withdrawal  - Phoenix lightning wallet by ACINQ launches on Android  - c-lightning 0.8.0 released  - Wasabi Wallet V1.1.10 released  - Coldcard firmware 3.0.6 released  - Ronin UI for Samourai Dojo  - Trace Mayer on CoinJoin usage - BTCPay integration with M5Stack - cheap point of sale option - Alex Gladstein in Coindesk, Quillette, Tor blog       - Polo adds no KYC option  - Direct deposits delayed nationwide due to Fed glitch - NYTimes report on location tracking using phone apps Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies1:09:05December 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #122: Parker LewisJoin Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis to discuss: - What is QE?  - The Fed's balance sheet over the last decade - Unwinding the balance sheet - Repo market madness - Source of the repo liquidity crunch - Moving forward - much more Follow Parker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/parkeralewis 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/51:50December 15, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.09This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Honeyminer acting sketchy - not your keys, not your coins - Jill Carlson on censorship resistance  - Coinjoin usage Wasabi & Samourai chart  - SquareCrypto gives grant to a nym - ZmnSCPxj   - RIP CryptoDeleted  - Exchange tokens are centralized and high risk  - Malicious relays on the Tor network  - Twitter funding small team to develop a more open platform   - Amazon Ring cameras compromised  - More than 260k documents leaked by Sprint contractor  - War on cash escalates in Greece and Italy  - Repo market demand  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies1:09:31December 12, 2019Tales from the Crypt #121: Hector RosekransJoin Marty as he sits down with Hector Rosekrans, Navy veteran and bitcoiner, to discuss: - Being a Surface Warfare Officer - How the Navy teaches you to think - How Bitcoin may be better at spreading democracy than military might  - Self custody'ing your own data - Bitcoin and the Constitution - Nuclear deescalation via Bitcoin mining  - How should States lean in to Bitcoin? - much more Follow Hector on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HectorRosekrans Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:10:11December 11, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.02This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bakkt weekly volume all time high   - Bakkt ceo Kelly Loeffler tapped as new Georgia senator  - The second Boltathon online lightning conference this weekend, tickets are 800k sats  - easypaysy bitcoin accounts proposal  - On The Brink podcast with former head of Circle OTC desk Dan Matuszewski  - Bitfinex adds lightning deposits and withdrawals  - A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack by Lucas Nuzzi  - TFTC with Matt Ahlborg  - Interesting reddit discussion about Confidential Transactions  - Wasabi v1.1.10 RC1 released - go test it and earn sats  - Badass BTCPay cleats by Russel Okung  - Great Fold commercial by @bvbtc and @content_noir  - BottlePay chat sats launched  - Tails 4.1 released  - Binance launches no fee Tezos staking undercutting all noncustodial options  - Tron backed Poloniex flexes on DGB founder  - OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies 1:04:35December 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #120: Matt AhlborgJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Ahlborg, Data Scientist and Founder of Usefultulips.org, to discuss: - Why Matt is interested in P2P trading specifically - How Bitcoin is being used around the world - Developing the Usage Per Economic (Online) Person metric - What it's like cold calling a P2P trader - Why are people using Bitcoin? - What Matt plans to do in the future - much more Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MattAhlborg Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:15:55December 3, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.25This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin Core 0.19.0 released - s-whats-new - ColdCard firmware 3.0.5 released  - Bakkt daily volume  - =20 - Bitmex research analyzes IBD - https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoins-initial-block-download/ - Telegram's Durov issues scathing statement - https://t.me/durov/109 - Two great pieces from Coindesk's Leigh Cuen https://www.coindesk.com/global-protests-reveal-bitcoins-limitations - ypto-at-thanksgiving - Nigerians + Bitcoin - -you-arent-paying-attention-to-4e699db0c5ca - Great presentation by Alex Gladstein - https://vimeo.com/375118500 - Venezuelans using RuneScape for additional income - rency-is-worthless-so-its-people-seek-virtual-gold - South Korean exchange UPbit allegedly hacked: 9 - Eric Wall write up of "stablecoins"  - d74ee17c25d - DMVs are selling your info -dollar50m-a-year-selling-drivers-personal-information - Jameson Lopp’s IBD research https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-node-performance-sync-tests/ Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo!54:15November 29, 2019Tales from the Crypt #119: Chris ArnadeJoin Marty as he sits down with Chris Arnade, Author of Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America, to discuss: - Traveling through back row America - Cognitive hubs and spatial redistribution - Trading on Wall Street - Connecting with "the other" - Retribution as politics  - The importance of community  - much more Follow Chris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade Pick up Dignity: 733 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:40:23November 26, 2019Tales from the Crypt #118: Will ReevesJoin Marty as he sits down with Will Reeves, Founder of Fold, to discuss:  - How Fold has grown from an app that allowed users to purchase pizza via LN to something much bigger - Building a distributed team - Building on a protocol that is changing and evolving - Bridging the gap between non-technical users and cypherpunks - The switch from ad tech to surveillance tech - California wine - much more Follow Will on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wlrvs Check out Fold: https://foldapp.com/ Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:19:36November 22, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.18This week Marty & Matt discuss: - BTCPay vault + BTCPay configurator t%2Fv0.0.3 & =21 - Five corporate sponsors for BTCPay now - Luna node and wallet of satoshi join d>=21 - Coinmetrics & BitMex Research launch txstats.com  - Bottlepay launches developer API https://docs.bottle.dev/ - Matt’s first attempt in front of a camera https://jwp.io/s/O54RhCTj - Donnerlab announces Bitcoin Bounty Hunt FPS game with sats integrated d>=21 - Binance practices responsible UTXO management https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-616/ -  @6102bitcoin launches Bitcoin-intro.com - Upgrade your Trezor T before sending transactions d-its-mitigation-6370ad73ed2a - Zap 0.6.0 desktop released ae597 - @mutatrum launches hodl.camp - How Many Bitcoins Are Permanently Lost? 2e - PlusToken scam chainanalysis - 21 Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:11:34November 21, 2019Tales from the Crypt #117: Wiz & Steve JainJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Wiz and Steve Jain from the Bisq project to discuss: - The origins of Bisq - How Bisq works - Mining  - Why KYC/AML does more harm than good - Why privacy is important - The Bisq DAO - much more Check out and download Bisq: https://docs.bisq.network/getting-started.html Follow Wiz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiz Follow Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/m52go 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 1:49:32November 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #116: Trace Mayer Join Marty as he sits down with Trace Mayer to discuss: - Wyoming blockchain legislation  - The institution of the nuclear family - Bitcoin + freedom - An update on Bitcoin's 7 network effects - much more Follow Trace on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TraceMayer 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:17:08November 15, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.11This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Update firmware before using coldcard SD card feature to send transactions https://blog.coinkite.com/troublesome-change/ - Unchained Capital announces Caravan multisig GUI https://www.unchained-capital.com/blog/the-caravan-arrives/ - Stratum V2 initial specs released -overhaul-in-pooled-bitcoin-mining - Unknown fund announces $75M bitcoin investment towards privacy https://www.unknown.fund/press-release - Digital Garage provides third grant to BTCPay Foundation worth $30k https://blog.btcpayserver.org/dg-grant-2019/ - Easily create regtest lightning networks with Polar https://github.com/jamaljsr/polar - Boltathon 2 online lightning conference announced Dec. 6-8 >=20 - Zap iOS 0.5.0 adds Tor support 0 - HUT8 quarterly figures =HUT - Suspicion-less searches of travelers' devices rule unconstitutional earches-travelers-phones-and-laptops - Fed Chair Powell: "The federal budget is on an unsustainable path with high and rising debt." ld>=21 Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:06:55November 12, 2019Tales from the Crypt #114: Alpha ZetaJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Alpha Zeta to discuss: - Living through hyperinflation - Repo operations. Is it QE?  - Why you shouldn't trade Bitcoin - Stories from Wall Street - Bitcoin's volatility - ETF - HNWI + Bitcoin - much more Follow Alpha Zeta on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alphaazeta 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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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 1:13:45November 8, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.04This week Marty and Matt discuss: - BTC Citadel workshop #2 Thursday December 5th at 6:30 d>=20 - FullyNoded d>=20 - BTCPay update / - Coldcard firmware 3.0.3 https://blog.coinkite.com/Login-Countdown-and-Nickname/ - Square quarterly results - $149M bitcoin sold, first time buyers double - Locha mesh trial in Venezuela use-bitcoin-during-blackouts - Radar Redshift >=20 - EinsteinXchange y-bitcoin-complaints-1.5347104?cmp=rss - BullBitcoin to catch a predator old>=20 - Wasabi to integrate Bitcoin Core directly bold>=20 - CoinJoin usage chart d>=20 - Chat over Lightning =20 - Jack Mallers Twitter AMA ld>=20 - BitMEX leaks 30k passwords >=20 - NodlOne announced https://shop.nodl.it/en/home/43-71-nodl-one-early-bird.html - Tether FUD? - Coinbase adds Tezos staking to consumer facing interface =20 & >=20 - Realt + Uniswap + KYC bold>=20 - Ray Dalio "The World Has Gone Mad and the System is Broken" dalio/ - Cash transactions greater than ~$6000 banned in malaysia to-impose-cash-transaction-limit-of-rm25000-next-year - GEDmatch court case precedent could open up millions of DNA records t.html - Russian "sovereign internet" law control-online Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo1:39:00November 7, 2019Tales from the Crypt #113: Michael Caras AKA The Bitcoin RabbiJoin Marty as he sits down with Michael Caras AKA The Bitcoin Rabbi, Author of Bitcoin Money: A Tale of Bitville Discovering Good Money, to discuss: - Writing Bitcoin Money - Michael's journey to Bitcoin - Charity - Gold's future - much more Check out Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebitcoinrabbi 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:25:18November 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #112: Dhruv BansalJoin Marty as he sits down with Dhruv Bansal, Co-Founder and CSO of Unchained Capital, to discuss: - Multisig - Hardware wallets - SLIP 0039 - Center of Hash - Bitcoin in space - Balancing adaptation and conviction - much more  Shoutout to our sponsor - Nodl Electrumx - =20 - Parker Lewis' Gradually, Then Suddenly - https://www.unchained-capital.com/blog/dollar-crisis-to-bitcoin/ Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:03:19July 26, 2019Tales from the Crypt #87: Conner BrownJoin Marty as he sits down with Conner Brown to discuss how he became interested in Bitcoin, philosophy, the intersubjective nature of money, Kanye West, and much more.  Follow Conner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_ConnerBrown_ Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:53:27July 23, 2019Tales from the Crypt #86: Ben HuntJoin Marty as he sits down with Ben Hunt (with a guest appearance from James O'Beirne) to discuss some of the running themes from Epsilon Theory, how they relate to Bitcoin, and why Bitcoiners may be fighting a losing battle.  Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory Follow James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesob Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:48:18July 19, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.15This week Marty and Matt discuss: - This week in Bitcoin - d>=19 - Wasabi - d>=19 - C-Lightning - ld>-9fca65debeb2 - Binance staking XLM -  https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360030727092 - >=19  - ETH on BCH - er-for-ethereum/5735 - Much more  Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:16:27July 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #85: Paranoid BullJoin Marty as he sits down with DAL, AKA Paranoid Bull, to discuss his journey through the markets, systemic risk, political risk, the world's current disconnection from reality and how Bitcoin play into it all.  Check out Odin River's mission: https://medium.com/odin-river/odin-river-31ddc131a22 Follow DAL on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paranoidbull Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App.  Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:11:53July 16, 2019Tales from the Crypt #84: Bull BitcoinJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Francis Pouliot and BTC Sessions from Bull Bitcoin to discuss the Montreal Bitcoin scene throughout the years, consulting in the "Blockchain" space, SegWit2x, the common mission Bitcoiners have, and much more.  Check out Bull Bitcoin: https://bullbitcoin.com/ Follow Francis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/francispouliot_ Follow BTCSessions on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTCsessions Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App.  Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  1:08:42July 15, 2019The Trump Tweet Ep: Marty, Matt and Murad MahmudovMarty, Matt and Murad breakdown the implications of Donald J. Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Powell's comments on Bitcoin.  Links discussed:  https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149472282584072192 https://twitter.com/StopAndDecrypt/status/1149703537871355904 https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/114962998415726182531:26July 12, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.08This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coldcard  - Nodl update - Wasabi update - Samourai 0.99.81 - ter-the-dojo - Miner trying to inflate the supply - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-523/ - History of the DAO hack - Eclair update - https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/releases/tag/v0.3.1  - Surveillance tech creeps forward https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1148222460724207616 - Much more Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:00:09July 11, 2019Tales from the Crypt #83: Aleks SvetskiJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Aleksander Svetski, founder of Amber, to discuss his journey to Bitcoin, lessons from trading, lessons from being a door to door salesman, why Bitcoin not Blockchain, putting up with scammers, and much more.  Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Liking the show and want to contribute? You can do so by going to https://tftc.io/contribute/54:48July 9, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Freedom Edition Week of 2019.07.01This week Marty and Matt sit down on the 4th of July to discuss: - Bitcoin's revolutionary nature - Sats App announced by Casa https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-sats-app-with-satsback/ - 300 tickets sold for Bitcoin2020 - LND 0.7 released >=19 -Zap desktop 0.5 released ce582 - Coldcard v2.1.1 update adds dice support /bold>=19 - US House of Reps Committee of Financial Services asks Facebook to hold off on Libra pdf - Cloudflare went down due to faulty upgrade es-everywhere/ - Whirlpool desktop 0.7 released with full tor support https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1145998882947682304 - Hong Kong - Chinese border guards put spyware on phones at Xinjiang border rveillance-app-tourists-phones - Bitcoin as a safe haven in FT https://www.ft.com/content/f7643858-98f8-11e9-9573-ee5cbb98ed36 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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You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.1:05:50July 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #82: Ketominer + AskuwheteauJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Ketominer and Askuwheteau, the team behind Nodl.it, to discuss how Nodl came to be, their recent partnership with Samourai Wallet, the freedom that Bitcoin enables, potentially moving from hardware to software in the future, the new Raspberry Pi, and much more.  Check out Nodl: https://nodl.it/ Follow Ketominer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ketominer Follow Askuwheteau on Twitter: https://twitter.com/IAskuwheteau Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app. 1:47:33July 2, 2019Tales from the Crypt #81: Dan HeldJoin Marty as he sits down with Dan Held, Co-Founder of Interchange, to discuss his paper on Bitcoin's future security, the importance of sharpening narratives, the false narratives that seem to persist, and much more.  Follow Dan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/danheld Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to a charity of our choice when you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.1:53:07July 1, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap LIVE: Week of 2019.06.24Join Marty and Matt as they are joined by Pierre Rochard, Bitcoin Sign Guy & Francis Pouliot with a special appearance from Paul Sztorc as they discuss: - FATF Guidelines - Iranians mining Bitcoin in mosques - COLDCARD new upgrades  - Libra - CoinJoining - Much more...46:31June 27, 2019Rabbit Hole Cap: Week of 2019.06.17This 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 html - Firefox vulnerability update to 67.0.3 ASAP ser-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 .html 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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You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:12:05June 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #80: Andrew PoelstraJoin Marty as he sits down with Andrew Poelstra, Head of Research at Blockstream, to discuss Cryptography, how small of a field it is, how it's culture compares to Bitcoin's development culture, Taproot, MuSig, MiniSketch, Schnorr signatures, and much much more.  Checkout Andrew's work: https://github.com/apoelstra Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App.  Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:09:11June 18, 2019Tales from the Crypt #79: John Carvalho Join Marty + Matt as they sit down with John Carvalho, CCO of Bitrefill, to discuss his history in Bitcoin, all the dope stuff Bitrefill is working on, Bitcoin's fungibility, Bitcoin culture, and much much more. Checkout Bitrefill: https://www.bitrefill.com/ Follow John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinErrorLog Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App.  Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:44:18June 14, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.06.10This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Proposed ban on Bitcoin in India - Home mining ld>=19 - Nodl + Samourai collab bold>=19 - Global Mesh Labs bold>=19 - Zap on Android bold>=19 - Hong Kong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBl05xNq_AU - Italy https://twitter.com/Schuldensuehner/status/1138709519184175104 - Will O'Beirne's new Joule upgrade a Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. 1:04:21June 13, 2019Tales from the Crypt #78: Lawrence Nahum Join Marty as he sits down with Lawrence Nahum, Founder of GreenAddress + Chief Architect at Blockstream, to discuss approaching Bitcoin development, the history of GreenAddress, what he's working on at Blockstream, helping to make it so everyone can run a node with ABCore, and much more.  Checkout GreenAddress' GitHub and contribute to ABCore if you can: https://github.com/greenaddress Follow Lawrence on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LarryBitcoin  Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor:  Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.49:33June 11, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.06.03This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Rooftop RHR in SF - code "tftc25" -  First 100 person CoinJoin 6a3577ae0f4eddcc4d9174 - 6102 Bitcoin hodl privacy leak overview https://github.com/6102bitcoin/FAQ/blob/master/hodl-privacy.md - Ring cameras creeping rveillance-network-with-ring-doorbells/ - SEC files suit against Kik crypto-anymore/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2019/comp-pr2019-87.pdf - Initial rollout of LN Watchtowers g#click=https://t.co/5VuAHhvsoq - Samourai Dojo open sourced and released -dojo-10-open-source-and/ - Utreexo proposal https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/611.pdf - "Buy" stocks and ETFs with bitcoin using Abra in 150+ countries (not US) d>=19 - Statechains tcoin-transfer-1ae4845a4a39 - Weird YouTube AI https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/1135529605530411008 - Fed to cut rates? https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-499/ 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. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:06:03June 6, 2019Tales from the Crypt #77: David BaileyJoin Marty as he sits down with David Bailey, CEO of BTC Media, to discuss the early days of Bitcoin, how BTC Media came to be, the state of discourse around Bitcoin, how people are underestimating Bitcoin's TAM, and much more. Follow David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidfbailey Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Thinking about heading to the Bitcoin 2019 Conference? Use the promo code "RHR" for a discount at checkout: https://www.bitcoin2019conference.com Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:30:24June 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #76: Alex GladsteinJoin Marty as he sits down with Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation and the Oslo Freedom Forum, to discuss how Alex ended up at the HRF, how authoritarian regimes use digital panopticons to control their subjects, why Bitcoin is such an important project, and why we can't mess it up. Checkout Alex's speech from MCC: https://youtu.be/CyieujRFk3g?t=13786 Follow Alex on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gladstein Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:35:33May 31, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.27This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Wasabi update: https://wasabiwallet.io/ - Erlay proposal, 4.html - New bitcoin ATH in Argentinian peso - 4.1 billion people living under authoritarian regimes according to Oslo Freedom Forum - Proposed FATF regulations - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-492/ - defendcrypto.org - Facebook  - Bitrefill + ACINQ 1 BTC channel - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-494/ - Trade Wars - Taxi medallions Shoutout to the MIB Chad Index Funds 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. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 57:37May 30, 2019Tales from the Crypt #75: Jack MallersJoin Marty as he sits down with Jack Mallers to discuss Zap, potential futures markets for Bitcoin miners, upgrades to the Lightning Network, cannabis, and much more.  Check out Zap: https://zap.jackmallers.com/ Follow Jack on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackMallers Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shout out to this week's sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. 21Lectures! If you're looking to learn how to build on top of Bitcoin and LN check out https://www.21lectures.com/ today! 1:21:59May 28, 2019Tales from the Crypt #74: Andrew Torba Join Marty as he sits down with Andrew Torba, Founder and CEO of Gab.com, to discuss what it's like to be de-platformed, the Silicon Valley "cognoscenti", building more resilient communication tools, the fight for Free Speech, forking open source software as a business model for Gab, the normalization of deviant values, and much more.  Check out Gab: https://gab.com/   Follow Gab on Twitter: https://twitter.com/getongab If you like this podcast, subscribe and give us a rating on your local podcasting platform. Every bit helps. Shoutout to this week's sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:27:49May 24, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.20This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Who would you want to tweet about Bitcoin? - LN node update 75cc3cc28b7ffcde1 - SIM Swaps ils-of-sim-port-hack-35de11517124 -lncast.com launch - 60 Minutes uxnTG/bitcoin-s-wild-ride/ - $8 trillion hidden around the world and Elizabeth Warren wants to tax it e-who-finds-the-hidden-money-of-the-super-rich - BestMixer shutdown: ixer/ - CoinCenter - Non-custodial cryptocurrency mixer developers are not subject to U.S. regulation. - ers-are-not-subject-to-u-s-regulation - Bull Bitcoin starts mixing user funds: =19 - Kraken equity offering at 4B valuation, $1000 min: mers-in-chunks-as-small-as-1000-for-its-fundraising-round/ - Bitfinex LEO token: ange-token-leo-on-may-20/ - Polo/Circle blocks tokens from US customers, lays off 30 employees old>=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. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  1:00:04May 23, 2019Tales from the Crypt #73: Jan Čapek + Pavel MoravecJoin Marty as he sits down with Jan Čapek and Pavel Moravec, Co-CEOs of Slush Pool & Braiins, to discuss their backgrounds, Slush Pool's history, what they're building with BraiinsOS, the nature of reorgs, BetterHash, the dream of a shared foundry, mining futures markets, and much more. Checkout Slush Pool: https://slushpool.com/ Checkout Braiins: https://braiins-os.org/ Follow Jan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/janbraiins Follow Pavel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mor_pav  Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:30:41May 21, 2019Tales from the Crypt #72: Jeff VandrewJoin Marty as he sits down with Jeff Vandrew, Attorney-CPA-Coder, to discuss Distributism, self-custody Bitcoin IRAs, maintaing BTCPayServer's Python implementation, rent seeking, relearning to code, and much more.  Check out Jeff's work: https://vandrew.com/bitcoin/ Follow Jeff on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vandrewattycpa Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:33:20May 20, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.13This week Marty and Matt are joined by Bitcoin Sign Guy to discuss a bunch of stuff.  Thank you to this week's sponsors. 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Tales from the Crypt: A Bitcoin PodcastBy Marty BentTales 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.Starting in undefined…00:001:32:341xRabbit Hole Recap Stimulus Package: 2020.04.20Join Marty & Matt as they discuss: - BTCPay Server adds payjoin support  - Trezor update breaks HWI support   - Cobra and Theymos split ownership of bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org - Purse.io shuts down  - Breez wallet adds keysend support  - Nodl adds keysend support Nodl OG  - Juggernaut messenger  - Oil markets - MMT - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:32:34April 21, 2020#151: Marshall LongJoin Marty as he sits down with long time bitcoiner + miner Marshall Long to discuss: - How Marshall got into Bitcoin mining - Why he only mines Bitcoin now - Evolution of chips - Chip fabrication foundries  - Stories of procuring miners in China - The evolution of culture in China - The future of Bitcoin mining - much more Follow Marshall on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:13:05April 18, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.13This week Marty & Matt discuss: - Bryan Bishop releases bitcoin vaults prototype  - Ransomware operator now defaults to monero payments  - Utreexo explainer  - Trezor Model T v2.3.0  - Samourai Wallet v0.99.93  - Whirlpool CLI v0.10.5 released  - Apple and Google bluetooth based tracking system integrated at the mobile OS level  - Graphene OS guide  - Protesting is a "non essential activity" - Masks now required in NYC lol - Surveillance programs escalate worldwide using coronavirus as an excuse  - Most popular ethereum chain explorer has added a blacklist tool  - Maker foundation lawsuit  - Central banks recommend global stablecoin ban, notable ethereum stakeholders caught off guard but they shouldn't be - Libra pivots to simple single currency stablecoin model  - 9th anniversary of online poker Black Friday  - Mullvad.net VPN releases mobile wireguard compatible apps - SLP Rafael Yakobi  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:14:01April 16, 2020#150: Great American MiningJoin Marty as he sits down with two members from the team at Great American Mining, Austin Storms and Tom M, to discuss: - What Great American Mining is doing - The journey and lessons learned along the way - Different energy sources and how they affect the decisions of mining operations - Miners biggest problem; finding cheap power at scale - Austin's journey with Bearbox - How mining is ruthless capitalism - Solving problems for oil companies - The future of mining in North America - much more - Check out Great American Mining's one pager (site to be updated soon) - Follow Austin on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:14:09April 15, 2020#149: Steve Barbour Join Marty as he sits down with Steve Barbour, founder of Upstream Data, to discuss: - Steve's experience in the Oil & Gas industry before Bitcoin - Difference between an electrical and mechanical engineer - The problem Bitcoin mining solves for the O&G industry - Difference between building on the grid and off the grid - Why Bitcoin is so important - Building a business slowly - much more Follow Steve on Twitter Check out Upstream Data Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:29:26April 14, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.06Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - 16.5M Americans unemployed - Today's Fed announcements  - Dave Portnoy calling the dollar Schrute Bucks  - Bisq security vulnerability  - ACINQ Phoenix v1.3.0 adds Tor support - BlueWallet v5.3.0 - Samourai Dojo v1.5  - Ronin Dojo v1.4  - All Nodls now support dojo and whirlpool - Method to provide clearnet access to Tor lightning nodes proposed  - Fold announces sats back visa debit card  - Zane Pocock on the EARN IT Act  - Stephan Livera with Gleb Naumenko on erlay  - Chainalysis CoFounder on WBD  - Shoutout to @jamesbtcbond for setting up his node with electrum  - Rodolfo bitcoin-dev keychain email Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.  1:27:12April 9, 2020#148: Matt D'SouzaJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt D'Souza from Blockware Solutions to discuss: - Blockware's recent research paper on mining - Running a mining operation - How Matt came to realize Bitcoin is King - The State of the Economy - Why Bitcoin isn't "backed by nothing" - much more Follow Matt on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:12:15April 8, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap Stimulus Package: 2020.04.06Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - CDC finally recommends face coverings  - CoolWallet S security flaw  - MutantC RPi4 mobile build  - Whirlpool CLI v0.10.4 released  - Eclair v0.3.4 released  - OC Bitcoin Network talk on samourai wallet and privacy  - Tor Browser v9.0.8 released  - RaspiBlitz v1.5 RC1 adds joinmarket CLI support  - Wasabi Wallet v1.1.11 released  - MyNode v0.2.01 - Janet Yellen wants the Fed to buy stocks - Japanese family formation - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:19:19April 6, 2020#147:Alex GladsteinJoin Marty & Matt as they sit down with Alex Gladstein from the Human Rights Foundation to discuss: - Government overreach during the response to COVID19 - The capture of the World Health Organization - Censorship in China as COVID19 was spreading - The economic impact of forced quarantine  - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:33:09April 3, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: 2020.03.30This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Breez Point of Sale mode added to lightning wallet  - LSAT Authentication  - Samourai Whirlpool GUI v0.10.1 and CLI v0.10.3    - MyNode v0.2.0  - Bitmex research bitcoin development funding analysis  - Bitmex renews and increases grant to Bitcoin Core maintainer Michael Ford  - Mulit-location backup scheme spec released by @openoms  - Whirlpool March volume totaled 1523.45 bitcoin  - Multi sig betting with caravan  - Binance makes a distinction between coinjoin and custodial mixers in recent blog post  - Coinkite begins selling power only magnetic usb cables  - Surveillance companies pivot to coronavirus tracking to increase their reach  - UK PM hosts cabinet meeting on Zoom  - StandardNotes.org and meet.jit.si shoutouts - Calling out pedos  - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:34:13April 2, 2020#146: Rodolfo NovakJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Rodolfo Novak to have a meandering discussion about: - COVID19 - Droplets v. Vapor - Why you should wear a mask - Why people are so willing to cede civil liberties during crises - Hardware on the horizon from CoinKite - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:17:39April 1, 2020#145: Roy SebagJoin Marty as he sits down with Roy Sebag, Founder of Goldmoney and Menē, to discuss: - The mechanics of paper and physical bullion markets - The history of paper gold being used to suppress the price of physical gold - The Fed has man-in-the-middle attacked US citizens - Why the Internet isn't decentralized - Why Sound Money is so important and why bitcoiners and gold holders need to join forces - The reaction to COVID19. Are we being put in our pods? - Political framing and mental pods - The common man - The importance of unplugging - What Gen Z thinks - much more Follow Roy on Twitter Check out Goldmoney Check out Menē Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:37:34March 30, 2020#144: Michael KriegerJoin Marty as he sits down with Michael Krieger, founder of Liberty Blitzkrieg to discuss: - Gold markets - The Empire - Most recent bailout - Great Awakening - Why Michael is still bullish on Bitcoin - Bitcoin + Oil & Gas Industry - Un-schooling - much more Follow Michael on Twitter Check out Liberty Blitzkrieg Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:22:45March 27, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.23This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin and Venezuela  - Coinkite Coldpower  - Zebedee releases bitcoin gaming SDK explainer video  - Tails OS v4.4.1  - Graphene OS v2020.03.23.22 released  - TFTC Guides: Graphene OS installation  - BTCxZelko on Stephan Livera - $500M of US stimulus bill dedicated to increased surveillance capabilities  - Disturbing video shows coronavirus phone tracking tool  -Taiwan coronavirus surveillance escalates  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:54:13March 25, 2020#142: Elisabeth PréfontaineJoin Marty as he sits down with Elisabeth Préfontaine, founder of Octonomics, to discuss: - Elisabeth's experience in the banking + financial worlds - Problems with transparency in the traditional financial world - Bad incentives in the traditional financial system - Why Bitcoin only? - How Quebec messed up their opportunity to court bitcoin entrepreneurs - Defining Bitcoin - Why bitcoin isn't a security - PC creep into the boardroom - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  1:02:59March 24, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Stimulus Package 2020.03.23Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:  - Markets down, bitcoin up - Sunday futures limit down in 3 mins - 60 Minutes interview Kashkari "infinite amount of cash"  - Fed announces unlimited QE  - Russian central bank added 400k ounces of gold to its reserves in february  - TFTC.tv guides - Graphene & MyNode - JoinMarket v0.6.2  - JoinMarket PR for fidelity bonds  - Nodl Dojo v0.0.8  - March Whirlpool volume higher than last 3 months combined  - LN Markets released on mainnet  - CashApp adds option to display in sats  - Magic Internet Gathering bitcoin gaming initiative announced  - HRF deep dive into buying bitcoin anonymously  - DOJ seeks permission to detain people indefinitely without trial  - Israel to go into full lockdown with phone location monitored and Ministry of Health to release new tracking app - The Chula Vista Police Department to use 4 drones to monitor Coronavirus shutdown - Nascar virtual races on fs1  - much more  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. 1:28:07March 19, 2020#141: Charles MarohnJoin Marty as he sits down with Charles Marohn, Author of Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity, to discuss: - How America has been very wasteful with resources for the last five decades - The problems with top-down decision making - Why centralized economies "on the bike" don't work in the long-run - The morality of Fed policy - Parallels between modern day America and the Weimar Repulic - How small towns can start over and stand on their own two feet - Value per acre - Creating community - Bringing design thinking to city building - Activating unused spaces - much more Follow Charles on Twitter Buy the book Check out the Strong Towns podcast Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:14:58March 17, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Stimulus Package 2020.03.16Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - COVID19 + Market reaction - Fed cuts + repo operations - MyNode v0.1.97  - 3D Printing in Italy's corona battle  - VR Socratic Meetup - Jameson Lopp on Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges - Other stuff Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.49:25March 16, 2020#140: Kyle Bass & Parker LewisJoin Marty as he hops on a call with Kyle Bass and Parker Lewis to discuss: - Recent market chaos - The Fed's response up to this point and what they may do moving forward - The need for a strong fiscal response in conjunction with Fed policy - The dangers of centralizing our supply chain in China - Russia's move in oil markets over the weekend - much more Follow Kyle on Twitter Follow Parker on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.48:40March 12, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.09This week Marty and Matt discuss: - macro and price talk - mining death spiral FUD - Bitcoin Core v0.19.1  - bluewallet node issue  - payjoin support should be added to btcpay soon   - Samourai Wallet Whirlpool hits new monthly ATH   - Specter-Desktop multisig release  - OXT Research PlusToken Report Issue 2  - Electrum v4 release still delayed - MKR/DAI liquidation crisis  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:08:01March 10, 2020#138: BitcoinTINA "The Perfect Storm"Join Marty as he sits down with BitcoinTINA to discuss how the macro factors lining up in the world right now are a perfect storm for Bitcoin in the medium to long-term. Follow BitcoinTINA on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:02:36March 6, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.02This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coronavirus + Fed Rate Cut - Whirlpool volume PAMPING - VR Presentation by Adam Gibson on PayJoin  - Nodl updated with new RTL - myNode updated with Dojo support - Casa adds Coldcard support  - BlueWallet adds Coldcard support  - BlockFi flagging wasabi deposits  - Square Crypto announces two new grants  - India Supreme Court strikes down bitcoin banking ban  - South Korea passes amendment formalizing bitcoin regulation  - Germany deems bitcoin a financial instrument  - New York Power Plant mining $50K worth of bitcoin per day  - Coinbase tested facial recognition software Clearview AI - EARN IT Act to be introduced in US Congress  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:08:44March 4, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.24This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Trace fall from Grace - FullyNoded corrections - consider donating here - @6102bitcoin infographics on taint, chainalysis, and blacklisting - Zebedee releases developer SDK  - Whirlpool usage second monthly ATH in a row  - Whirlpool mobile released  - Casa bitcoin inheritance solution released  - Coldcard v3.1.1  - Square reports growing bitcoin volume  - Square teases option to display in sats and auto buys  - Suredbits Discreet Log Contracts Demo - Nodl Day - March 24th in SF - Wifi flaw exposed billions of devices - lol progpow - Macro and Coronavirus Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:18:22February 27, 2020#136: Paul SztorcJoin Marty as he sits down with Paul Sztorc, the man behind Drivechains and Bitcoin Hivemind, to discuss: - Proof of Work v. Proof of Stake - Bitcoin's fee market - How it may develop in the future - Is Bitcoin our only shot?  - Drivechains - Why people don't like Drivechains - Why their concerns are valid + invalid - Bitcoin Hivemind - much more Follow Paul on Twitter Check out his blog Check out Drivechains  Check out Bitcoin Hivemind Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 2:29:22February 25, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.17This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bisq v1.2.6 adds support for L-BTC  - Bisq volume up 2.6x YoY  - Zeus v0.2.1  - RTL v0.6.5  - c-lightning v0.8.1  - ColdCard firmware v3.1.0 adds support for HSM mode called ckbunker  - Fully Noded 2 released on testflight  - BTCSessions mynodebtc.com build your own node walkthrough video  - Microsoft ION distributed identity project  - OpenNode fiat integration  - Peter Thiel backed Layer1 begins mining operation in West Texas  - What Constant Surveillance Does to Your Brain  - hardware wallet threat modeling  - DoD systems (DISA) compromised, PII taken  - Bitcoin's fifth largest hourly price drop in history  - FTX election markets - Thought Police in New Zealand Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:47:54February 19, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.10This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Dropbit CEO arrested for running a centralized mixing service called Helix and a dark market search engine called Grams  - Self payments lightning privacy proposal  - Coldcard releases PSBT Faker tool for testing  - Tor Browser v9.0.5  - Tails v4.3  - Wasabi implements Apple Code Sign  - Escher App demos paying any lightning invoice with your connected bank account  - Liquid support on Bisq goes live  - Anon submits Taproot critique to mailing list  - Chainalysis has been paid over $10M by US gov agencies  - A world without bitcoin thought experiment by Alex Gladstein  - US Federal Budget Proposal Mentions More Cryptocurrency regulation and enforcement  - Trump admin to introduce new FinCEN requirements  - Redditor posts IRS audit request  - If US Marshals never sold seized bitcoin they would currently be worth over $1.8B  - Casa releases home defense primer  - CNBC clip  - Coronavirus Close Contact app  - CIA owned encryption company facilitated global spying for decades  - The Chinese Gov allegedly hacked Equifax  - Yandex facial recognition tool  - FTX launches US elections futures/danheld Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent 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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You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.1:53:07July 1, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap LIVE: Week of 2019.06.24Join Marty and Matt as they are joined by Pierre Rochard, Bitcoin Sign Guy & Francis Pouliot with a special appearance from Paul Sztorc as they discuss: - FATF Guidelines - Iranians mining Bitcoin in mosques - COLDCARD new upgrades  - Libra - CoinJoining - Much more...46:31June 27, 2019Rabbit Hole Cap: Week of 2019.06.17This 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 html - Firefox vulnerability update to 67.0.3 ASAP ser-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 .html 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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You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:12:05June 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #80: Andrew PoelstraJoin Marty as he sits down with Andrew Poelstra, Head of Research at Blockstream, to discuss Cryptography, how small of a field it is, how it's culture compares to Bitcoin's development culture, Taproot, MuSig, MiniSketch, Schnorr signatures, and much much more.  Checkout Andrew's work: https://github.com/apoelstra Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App.  Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:09:11June 18, 2019Tales from the Crypt #79: John Carvalho Join Marty + Matt as they sit down with John Carvalho, CCO of Bitrefill, to discuss his history in Bitcoin, all the dope stuff Bitrefill is working on, Bitcoin's fungibility, Bitcoin culture, and much much more. Checkout Bitrefill: https://www.bitrefill.com/ Follow John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinErrorLog Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App.  Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:44:18June 14, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.06.10This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Proposed ban on Bitcoin in India - Home mining ld>=19 - Nodl + Samourai collab bold>=19 - Global Mesh Labs bold>=19 - Zap on Android bold>=19 - Hong Kong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBl05xNq_AU - Italy https://twitter.com/Schuldensuehner/status/1138709519184175104 - Will O'Beirne's new Joule upgrade a Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. 1:04:21June 13, 2019Tales from the Crypt #78: Lawrence Nahum Join Marty as he sits down with Lawrence Nahum, Founder of GreenAddress + Chief Architect at Blockstream, to discuss approaching Bitcoin development, the history of GreenAddress, what he's working on at Blockstream, helping to make it so everyone can run a node with ABCore, and much more.  Checkout GreenAddress' GitHub and contribute to ABCore if you can: https://github.com/greenaddress Follow Lawrence on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LarryBitcoin  Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor:  Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.49:33June 11, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.06.03This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Rooftop RHR in SF - code "tftc25" -  First 100 person CoinJoin 6a3577ae0f4eddcc4d9174 - 6102 Bitcoin hodl privacy leak overview https://github.com/6102bitcoin/FAQ/blob/master/hodl-privacy.md - Ring cameras creeping rveillance-network-with-ring-doorbells/ - SEC files suit against Kik crypto-anymore/ https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2019/comp-pr2019-87.pdf - Initial rollout of LN Watchtowers g#click=https://t.co/5VuAHhvsoq - Samourai Dojo open sourced and released -dojo-10-open-source-and/ - Utreexo proposal https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/611.pdf - "Buy" stocks and ETFs with bitcoin using Abra in 150+ countries (not US) d>=19 - Statechains tcoin-transfer-1ae4845a4a39 - Weird YouTube AI https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/1135529605530411008 - Fed to cut rates? https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-499/ 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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Use the promo code "RHR" for a discount at checkout: https://www.bitcoin2019conference.com Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:30:24June 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #76: Alex GladsteinJoin Marty as he sits down with Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation and the Oslo Freedom Forum, to discuss how Alex ended up at the HRF, how authoritarian regimes use digital panopticons to control their subjects, why Bitcoin is such an important project, and why we can't mess it up. Checkout Alex's speech from MCC: https://youtu.be/CyieujRFk3g?t=13786 Follow Alex on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gladstein Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:35:33May 31, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.27This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Wasabi update: https://wasabiwallet.io/ - Erlay proposal, 4.html - New bitcoin ATH in Argentinian peso - 4.1 billion people living under authoritarian regimes according to Oslo Freedom Forum - Proposed FATF regulations - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-492/ - defendcrypto.org - Facebook  - Bitrefill + ACINQ 1 BTC channel - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-494/ - Trade Wars - Taxi medallions Shoutout to the MIB Chad Index Funds 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. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 57:37May 30, 2019Tales from the Crypt #75: Jack MallersJoin Marty as he sits down with Jack Mallers to discuss Zap, potential futures markets for Bitcoin miners, upgrades to the Lightning Network, cannabis, and much more.  Check out Zap: https://zap.jackmallers.com/ Follow Jack on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackMallers Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shout out to this week's sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. 21Lectures! If you're looking to learn how to build on top of Bitcoin and LN check out https://www.21lectures.com/ today! 1:21:59May 28, 2019Tales from the Crypt #74: Andrew Torba Join Marty as he sits down with Andrew Torba, Founder and CEO of Gab.com, to discuss what it's like to be de-platformed, the Silicon Valley "cognoscenti", building more resilient communication tools, the fight for Free Speech, forking open source software as a business model for Gab, the normalization of deviant values, and much more.  Check out Gab: https://gab.com/   Follow Gab on Twitter: https://twitter.com/getongab If you like this podcast, subscribe and give us a rating on your local podcasting platform. Every bit helps. Shoutout to this week's sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:27:49May 24, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.20This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Who would you want to tweet about Bitcoin? - LN node update 75cc3cc28b7ffcde1 - SIM Swaps ils-of-sim-port-hack-35de11517124 -lncast.com launch - 60 Minutes uxnTG/bitcoin-s-wild-ride/ - $8 trillion hidden around the world and Elizabeth Warren wants to tax it e-who-finds-the-hidden-money-of-the-super-rich - BestMixer shutdown: ixer/ - CoinCenter - Non-custodial cryptocurrency mixer developers are not subject to U.S. regulation. - ers-are-not-subject-to-u-s-regulation - Bull Bitcoin starts mixing user funds: =19 - Kraken equity offering at 4B valuation, $1000 min: mers-in-chunks-as-small-as-1000-for-its-fundraising-round/ - Bitfinex LEO token: ange-token-leo-on-may-20/ - Polo/Circle blocks tokens from US customers, lays off 30 employees old>=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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Checkout Slush Pool: https://slushpool.com/ Checkout Braiins: https://braiins-os.org/ Follow Jan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/janbraiins Follow Pavel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mor_pav  Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:30:41May 21, 2019Tales from the Crypt #72: Jeff VandrewJoin Marty as he sits down with Jeff Vandrew, Attorney-CPA-Coder, to discuss Distributism, self-custody Bitcoin IRAs, maintaing BTCPayServer's Python implementation, rent seeking, relearning to code, and much more.  Check out Jeff's work: https://vandrew.com/bitcoin/ Follow Jeff on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vandrewattycpa Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:33:20May 20, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.13This week Marty and Matt are joined by Bitcoin Sign Guy to discuss a bunch of stuff.  Thank you to this week's sponsors. 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You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.50:17May 16, 2019Tales from the Crypt #71: James O'Beirne Join Marty as he sits down with James O'Beirne, Bitcoin Core contributor, to discuss his assumeutxo proposal, debt, short-term v. long-term thinking, and what it's like being a permabear.  Checkout the assumeutxo proposal: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/15605 Follow James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesob Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent  Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. 1:50:28May 14, 2019Tales from the Crypt #70: Ruben WatermanJoin Marty and Matt Odell as they sit down with the one man team behind Bittr, the easiest way to stack sats in Europe. We discuss Ruben's path to Bitcoin, his experience getting a Masters in Blockchain from the University of Nicosia, why he built Bittr, what it's like bootstrapping a company, and much more.  Check out Bittr: https://www.getbittr.com/ Follow Ruben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/watermaniak Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:29:38May 13, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.06This week Marty and Matt are joined by Murad Mahmudov from Adaptive Capital to discuss: - Binance hack - onlynet=onion in config file - h/t Evan Kaloudis - TFTC.io launch - Our Lightning node was stolen 75cc3cc28b7ffcde1 - bip-taproot https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip-schnorr/bip-taproot.mediawiki - Wasabi guide bitcoin-only.com @6102bitcoin  https://github.com/6102bitcoin/FAQ/blob/master/wasabi.md - Honeyminer Mac release - One entity is responsible for 50% of BCH transactions - Whirpool - Andrew Chow on PSBT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6xZSRDXUiU&feature=youtu.be Shoutout to this week's listener contributor, Pedro. Here's the video he shared https://youtu.be/NO1aDZ6L4NQ?t=1118 Thank you to this week's sponsors. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. 1:15:45May 9, 2019Tales from the Crypt #69: Juthica ChouJoin Marty as he sits down with Juthica Chou, Co-Founder and COO of LedgerX, to discuss Bitcoin options, what it was like for LedgerX to navigate the regulatory waters throughout the years, LedgerX's Omni platform, and much more. Learn about futures contracts based on block height, backing into projected price probabilities, and how miners hedge their risk. Check out LedgerX: https://ledgerx.com/ Follow Juthica on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juthica Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent Shout out to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Download the Cash App today from the App Store or Google Play Store and start #stackingsats 42:17May 7, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.29This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Bitcoin v.0.18.0 released hats-new/ - Bitfinex spread increases, -1-billion-through-an-ieo-shareholder-says/ - Cashapp $65.5M quarterly bitcoin sales  - Amazon Managed Blockchain ce-available-to-the-public/ - #dropgold campaign - dropgold.com - Ethereum is now money according to ethereum.org - CoinJoins as a Percentage of All Bitcoin Payments Have Tripled to 4.09% Over the Past Year -payments-have-tripled-to-409-over-the-past-year - Samourai Whirlpool enters mainnet testing phase - Nine in 10 Americans have heard about bitcoin, Blockchain Capital survey finds itcoin-survey-finds/ - Fidelity surveys 400 institutional investors, 22% already have exposure, 47% think exposure makes sense: nvestments-likely-to-increase-over-next-5-years-729fb1ca3c52 - eTrade joining the party, plans to offer bitcoin trading to its ~5M customers https://twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/1121868559330598912 Shoutout to this week's sponsors: Cash App, head over to the Apple App Store or Google Play and download it today to start #stackingsats Unchained Capital, check out Unchained's 2-of-3 multisig vaults product today and get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin. er 1:06:11May 2, 2019Tales from the Crypt #68: Patrick DuganJoin Marty as he sits down with Founder and CEO of TradeLayer, Patrick Dugan, to discuss Patrick's run in with pot smoking bandits in Argentina, what he's building on TradeLayer, how decentralized derivatives markets may help drive demand for Bitcoin, the flow of money, and sovereignty in the Information Age.  Check out TradeLayer: http://tradelayer.org/ Follow Patrick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/duganist Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent 2:13:51April 30, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.22This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitfinex gets sued - d=vIexA1b0spKOnK_PLUS_ZUGTJ3A==&system=prod  -  https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/356 - Erisx and TdAmeritrade - market/ - Ledger Windows phishing attack - 0 - Wasabi update - https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/releases - d>=20 - Lightning Labs releases Beta Neutrino Lightning App for desktop - >=20 - assumutxo proposal by James O'Beirne - https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/04/09/ - Satoshi's Treasure update - tinyurl.com/dpravengers - Samsung invests 2.9M into Ledger  - ger/ - Gemini integrates SegWit fully - egwit-protocol/ - Bitmain rumored to be abandoning BCH - https://twitter.com/btcking555/status/1121699148523352064 - Casa privacy campaign + tor update - https://blog.keys.casa/casa-privacy-and-data-protection-policy/ - finalmessage.io - Run a tor relay node! - https://blog.torproject.org/new-guide-running-tor-relay Shoutout to this week's sponsor, 21Lectures! If you're looking to learn how to build on top of Bitcoin and LN check out 21Lectures.com today!  1:29:53April 26, 2019Tales from the Crypt #67: Nik Bhatia Join Marty as he sits down with Nik Bhatia, who has pushed forward the theory of Lightning Network Reference Rates, to discuss a range of topics including reference rates in the traditional financial sector, LNRR, Bitcoin + Real Estate escrow, Nik's experience producing rap albums and much more.  Check out Nik's writing on LNRR:  https://medium.com/@timevalueofbtc Follow Nik on Twitter: www.twitter.com/timevalueofbtc Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital! Sign up for their multisig vault product today by using the link below and receive a free three-month subscription to Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin.  er1:39:36April 23, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.15 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Satoshi's Treasure https://satoshistreasure.xyz/ & M4Gor240vH_yVN9Urni7VjPYlh4Z5rlRA/viewform?usp=sf_link - Reports from CoinMetrics and TradeBlock dispute Reuters $100M whale story - and ld>=20 - Wasabi Wallet hardware wallet support in testing - mentation/Guides/20190416HardwareWalletTestingGuide.md - lLND 0.6.0 - static channel backup --- release notes: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases --- Channel backup guide: >channel-backups  - Lightning Powernode Launcher will default to Tor /bold>=20 - Nodl update- 5804c08420230e23c7c - hodlnaut BTCPay fundraiser - https://weareallhodlonaut.com/ - US Sanction Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua - s-measures-against-cuba-venezuela-and-nicaragua - Proof of Solvency piece - a-thing-bc4750dd16c7 & t-60-march-2019 - paywall.link and lightningscratchcard.io Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Check out their 2-of-3 multisig vault service today! er1:04:40April 18, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.08This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Julian Assange d>-issue-460 - HODL guide t-3-dust-thermodynamics-615dd51f49 Basis - d-to-investors/ Coinbase - and-zilliqa-zil-are-launching-on-coinbase-3065eeb42d5b & 083c62 & https://medium.com/hydro-protocol/why-we-are-forking-0x-97dc48ee0426 & w-digital-assets-92ba4ab7f465 Tether - ypto-mystery-clues-suggest-tether-has-the-billions-it-promised ETH Constantinople fork - ivation-point-for-next-hard-fork Gazprombank - / Japanese tax law - nges-to-ease-crypto-tax-burden Rumor Bitmain IPO not happening The Patreon War Mulvaney a Bitcoiner - https://twitter.com/ObsoleteDogma/status/810957268950859780 - Samourai Dojo - https://samouraiwallet.com/dojo -Mining in Iran - ts-not-as-easy-as-it-sounds Thanks to our Sponsors: BlockFi: Sign up at blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to get $25 in free crypto added to customer collateral for loans under $10k or $50 in free crypto added to customer collateral for loans over $10k. Applying takes less than 2 minutes. Tallyco.in/BTC_Spot/ - Head over to http://tallyco.in and raise funds with some of that unstoppable, censorship-resistant, magic internet money today! 52:34December 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #54: Yassine Elmandjra Join Marty as he sits down with Yassine Elmandjra, Crypto Analyst at ARK Invest, to discuss Yassine's insanely low time preference decisions post-college, Bitcoin mining, how Bitcoin changes you, and much more. Follow Yassine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/yassineARK Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent 1:23:17December 18, 2018Tales from the Crypt #53: Matthew Mežinskis Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis, co-host of the Crypto Voices podcast, to discuss Base Money, Free Banking, how Bitcoin plays into these concepts, and much more. Follow Crypto Voice on Twitter: www.twitter.com/crypto_voices Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Thank you to our sponsor BlockFi! Go to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to get $25 of free crypto collateral for loans under $10k and $50 of free crypto collateral for loans above $10k!2:07:31December 11, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.05This week Matt and Marty are joined by Bitcoin Sign Guy and they discuss: -Rogoff v. White recap -Vertcoin 51% - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1069989819969929218 -International oil contracts - https://twitter.com/arbedout/status/1070323234845925376 -Buy Bitcoin in Paris - https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1069330451695845383 -Pierre Rochard's lnd launcher + Zap + Joule - https://twitter.com/pierre_rochard/status/1070296265806745600 -Wasabi UX update - wasabiwallet.io -Death spiral - ing-death-spiral-debate-explained/ -Coinshares Bitcoin mining research - bitcoin-mining-network-dynamics-f820d6218bdf -RAMP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Anonymous_Marketplace -Larimer new coin - r 5, 2018Tales from the Crypt #52: Dan HeldJoin Marty as he sits down with Dan Held, co-founder of Picks & Shovels, to discuss the early days of Bitcoin, "Planting Bitcoin", shaping narratives, the beauty of PoW, and much much more. Follow Dan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/danheld Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Check out Picks & Shovels: https://picks.co/ Shoutout to our sponsor Blockfi! Go to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to get $25 of free crypto collateral for loans under $10k and $50 of free crypto collateral for loans above $10k! 2:09:59December 5, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.26 This week we are joined by Dan Held, Co-Founder of Picks & Shovels, to discuss: - lightningjoule.com - Ohio taxes and friendly Treasurer ure-as-a-crypto-owner/ - Hash rate - -f2pool-founder-estimates - Hester Peirce on WhatBitcoinDid https://t.co/aOSPdNAG5f - VanEck OTC index itcoin-otc-index/ - VanEck & Nasdaq futures cash settled january tures-contracts - Tether relaunches direct redemption at tether.to - tion-of-fiat-from-its-platform/ 54:09November 29, 2018Tales from the Crypt #51: Max Keidun & Roman SnitkoJoin Marty as he sits down with Max Keidun & Roman Snitko, co-founders of Hodl Hodl, to discuss how they became interested in Bitcoin, why they decided to start Hodl Hodl, the nature of P2P exchanges, Bitcoin prediction markets, their decision to block US citizens from using their service, and much more. Follow Max on Twitter: https://twitter.com/keidunm Follow Roman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/romansnitko Follow Hodl Hodl on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hodlhodl Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Check out https://hodlhodl.com/ Thanks to our sponsor cash.app! 1:15:19November 27, 2018Tales from the Crypt #50: Jeremy WelchJoin Marty as he sits down with Jeremy Welch, co-Founder and CEO of Casa, to discuss how Jeremy became interested in Bitcoin, how he Casa came to be, and the state of personal data. Follow Jeremy on Twitter: www.twitter.com/jeremyrwelch Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Peep Casa: https://keys.casa/ Use the code "CRYPT" at www.baboontothemoon.com for 10% off a Go-Bag! 1:24:53November 20, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.19This week we discuss: Gold hoarders executed Iran - ctions-hit-iran-executes-gold-currency-speculators - Ledger & Trezor issues - https://blog.trezor.io/psa-non-genuine-trezor-devices-979b64e359a7 https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1062876921787236352 - BCH post mortem -Lolli https://www.lolli.com/ -nodl.it http://www.nodl.it/ -SIM Swapping, App based 2FA psa - https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/130-lizard#episode-player -SEC coming down on ICOs59:01November 19, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.12This week we discuss: - Bitcoin Cash hard fork - Bitcoin price volatility - Coinemine - nd-mint-crypto-money - US Elections, politicians holding BTC - Blockchain voting - EtherDelta fined - nregistered-securities-exchange - Recent Bitcoin Core merge - https://twitter.com/MarcoFalke/status/1060913913221599232 - BitMex v. Hasu - change-f956324b449f rity/ - China Debt situation - old>-issue-356 - MakerDAI Get your Baboon Go-Bag right now! Use the code "CRYPT" for 10% your purchase at www.baboontothemoon.com 1:02:00November 14, 2018Tales from the Crypt #49: Alex LieglJoin Marty as he sits down with Alex Liegl, Founder of Layer1 Capital, to discuss his mental framework for valuing cryptocurrencies, Grin, Bitcoin's inception, what it means to be part of a team, and much more. Follow Alex on Twitter: twitter.com/alexanderliegl Follow Marty on Twitter: twitter.com/MartyBent Download the Cash App today! https://cash.app1:28:26November 13, 2018Tales from the Crypt #48: Pierre RochardJoin Marty as he sits down with Pierre Rochard to reminisce about the year that has past since their first recording, give out free futuristic business ideas, discuss Pierre's Excel plugin that links to the Lightning Network, buyers of last resort, and much more. Follow Pierre: www.twitter.com/pierre_rochard Follow Marty: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out BitcoinACKs: www.bitcoinacks.com Check out Bitcoin Advisory: www.bitcoinadvisory.com Peep the Nakamoto Institute: www.nakamotoinstitute.org Download the Cash App today! cash.app2:10:06November 7, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.05This week we discuss: - Bitcoin Cash - Tether + Deltec - lationship-is-authentic/ - Wasabi check-in -Gwyneth Paltrow - https://twitter.com/katherineykwu/status/1059525781163048961 Ron Paul - /bold>/october/29/trump-is-right-the-fed-is-crazy/ - Petro - https://petro.gob.ve/index_eng.html - InitiativeQ Scam - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1057338090392498176 - Unocoin founder arrested - eir-cryptocurrency-atm/ - Coinbase 1.3B in revenue - uments-show - WEX - ed-to-long-troubled-exchange/ - Janet Yellen doesn't own any bitcoin Block height: 548,923 Use the code "CRYPT" for 10% off your Go-Bag at www.baboontothemoon.com!57:30November 5, 2018Tales from the Crypt #47: Jack Mallers Join Marty as he sits down with Jack Mallers, founder of Zap, to discuss Chicago, chess, Jack's path to Bitcoin, what draws him to Lightning, Bitcoin financial products, and much much more. Follow Jack on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JackMallers Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out Zap: https://zap.jackmallers.com/1:14:58October 31, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.29This week we discuss: -Gab -China social credit -Localbitcoins lead by Russia and Venezuela - https://t.co/VSiTn63psi -Maplechange - not your keys, not your bitcoin -Lightning residency + hackathon -IDEX blocking NY IPs https://twitter.com/Aurora_dao/status/105491741862198476841:46October 30, 2018Tales from the Crypt #46: Justin Moon Join Marty as he sits down with Justin Moon, founder BUIDL Bootcamp, to discuss Bitcoin and life. Follow Justin - https://twitter.com/_justinmoon_ Follow Marty - https://twitter.com/martybent Checkout BUIDL Bootcamp - https://www.buidlbootcamp.com2:24:59October 26, 2018Tales from the Crypt #45: Lightning Koala Join Marty as he sits down with Lightning Koala, creator of satoshis.place and a man dedicated to building on top of the Lightning Network. The two discuss a bunch of different topics spanning from building games on Lightning to the coordination efforts it takes to make something like Bitcoin work at scale. Follow Lightning Koala: https://twitter.com/LightningK0ala Follow Marty: https://twitter.com/LightningK0ala Check out satoshis.place 1:33:20October 23, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.22Topics of the week: - Betty - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45889707 - Venezuela local bitcoin volume new ATHs ($25M per week) - https://twitter.com/louAboudHogben/status/1053086355100581888 - Tether follow up - _stack=true - Unocoin routing around Indian regs - al-bank-crackdown-india/ - Wasabi Wallet - allet-privacy-focused-bitcoin-wallet-for-desktop/ - Ethereum Constantinople hard fork delayed - elayed-until-2019/ -Ransoms - rica-possibly-kidnapped - Neutrino - ino.html -Monero Bulletproofs hard fork - c6408babf - Binance, Chainalysis - -from-chainalysis/ -Bisq ATH volumes - amid-increased-monero-demand/ 58:42October 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #44: Alan SilbertJoin Marty as he sits down with Alan Silbert, Executive Managing Director of INX Limited, to chat about the old days and his experience starting Bitpremier.com, a site where people could spend BTC to buy luxury goods. Alan explains how he got into Bitcoin, how his side hustle pushed him to leave his main hustle and what it's like to get a call from Homeland Security. Follow Alan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alansilbert Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Check out INX Limited: https://www.inx.co Thank you to our sponsors: Cash App, download the app here - https://cash.app/ HoneyMiner, enter to win a GPU here - https://twitter.com/gethoneyminer/status/1052200242781786112 Download Honeyminer here - https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk1:33:23October 18, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.15 Topics of the week: Tether + Bitfinex - >=19 ETH Constantinople hard fork on testnet - https://twitter.com/5chdn/status/1051194779890003974 Liquid Announcement - https://blockstream.com/2018/10/10/liquid-launch.html goTenna unboxing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzZen7ajmKA&feature=youtu.be Fidelity announcement - h-da19b06aa58e Hugo fire flames - e18 Lightning bike - https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1051832593082175488 Nouriel - https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1050766810348445696 Thanks to our sponsor, The Cash App. Download it here: https://cash.app/58:12October 15, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.08 "Bull v. Bear" In this week's episode, Marty and Matt sit down with Murad Mahmudov to discuss: - Murad's bear thesis - Swensen/Yale investments is-said-to-invest-in-crypto-fund-that-raised-400-million) - Supply chain attacks + secure hardware >-top-companies) - Bitcoin Core v0.17.0 release -whats-new/) - Gemini gets asset insurance (https://medium.com/gemini/digital-assets-insurance-adbfb0c44e74) - Bitfinex cut ties with Noble, now with HSBC -its-banking-relationship-to-hsbc/) - SegWit txs almost at 50% work(https://transactionfee.info/charts/payments/segwit) - Eris announces Bakkt competitor exchange-to-create-crypto-market-backed-by-drw-virtu) - Aaron van Wirdum's privacy series ld>=19) - Murad + David Puell's MVRV Ratio mvrv-ratio-3ebc914dbaee) 1:04:04October 8, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.01On this week's episode of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt and Marty discuss - Samourai Wallet + goTenna collab: ld>-issue-330 Siacoin bricks ASICs: https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/955907524317859842 Malta Prime Minister, pretty chay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QzbiMmuO0k&feature=youtu.be 1Broker gets seized: d>=19 ShapeShift: on-wsjs-attack-on-shapeshift-and-crypto/ EOS collusion: old>=19 Thank you to our sponsors: Cash App, we don't use the other apps anymore. Download the app now - https://cash.app/ Honeyminer, start making BTC in one click - https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk1:00:22October 2, 2018Conversations from Riga: Matt Corallo + HasuflyIn this special edition of Tales from the Crypt, Marty sits down with Matt Corallo to discuss CVE-2018-17144, the bug found in Bitcoin last week, and his efforts with the Betterhash mining pool protocol. This is a quick 15-minute conversation that touches on a lot. During the last 2/3 of the episode, Marty sits down with Hasufly, a budding star in the world of Bitcoin content to discuss the practices he used to learn about Bitcoin as quickly as possible. Hasu has an incredible way of creating mental frameworks from which to learn. Tune in to learn about the people, data sources and tools Hasu used to bootstrap his knowledge of Bitcoin in only 10 months. Follow Matt: @TheBlueMatt Follow Hasu: @Hasufl Follow Marty: @MartyBent Links: https://tim.blog/2017/06/04/nick-szabo/ https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/outline Thank you to our sponsor, Honeyminer. Check them out here: https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk49:46September 26, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.24On this week's episode of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt and Marty discuss: CVE-2018-17144: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/20/notice/ Monero bug: ning-bug.html Baltic Honey Badger Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66ZoGUAnY9s https://hodlhodl.com/ Argentina: /bold>-issue-325 "Please stop deploying d-apps to Ethereum.": https://twitter.com/5chdn/status/1042860655114694656 B Foundation: https://twitter.com/TheB_Foundation/status/1043805473949065216 Thank you to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer. Use the ref link below for 1,000 satoshis and use one click to start mining today: honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk 1:09:48September 26, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.17On this week's edition of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt and Marty discuss: NY Attorney General's report - https://virtualmarkets.ag.ny.gov Jesse Powell DGAF - __twitter_impression=true Bitcoin Core bug + v0.16.3 - https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/09/18/ Josh Garza goes to jail - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1040300880170500097 Bancor on EOS - fast-free-transactions/ *Lightning Spotlight* LND Work - https://www.lndwork.com/ BTC volume in Venezuela - https://diar.co/volume-2-issue-37/ Salt Bae :( Laurent's last post - https://medium.com/@laurentmt/electric-money-e2cd34f78f56 Thank you to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer. Use the ref link below for 1,000 satoshis and use one click to start mining today: https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk 57:14September 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #43: Caitlin LongJoin Marty as he sits down with Wall Street veteran Caitlin Long to discuss her journey to Austrian economics via Wall Street, the extent of the shadow banking system, the situation public pensions and social security find themselves in, and Caitlin's efforts to make Wyoming the most Bitcoin-friendly state in the US. Follow Caitlin on Twitter: @CaitlinLong_ Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Caitlin's website: https://caitlin-long.com/1:31:11September 16, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.10In this week's episode Marty and Matt discuss: Gemini & Paxos fiat backed 'stablecoins' - d>=19 Robinhood fueled Doge pump - d>=19 Unraveling of the ICO bubble - -silicon-valley-riches-can-he-survive-the-crash-1536681364?mod=e2tw & d>=19 Laurent's new post in PoW series - https://medium.com/@laurentmt/cliffhangers-cb87ed47124e SEC ETN Suspensions pdf & Bittrex, Malta, and Regulatory Arbitrage - https://support.bittrex.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001354486. & e-eu-is-furious-with-1:00:14September 12, 2018Tales from the Crypt #42: Coinyeezy AKA Elon MoistJoin Marty as he sits down with Coinyeezy to discuss a litany of topics including; Honeyminer, the power of memes, "Bitcoin Generalists", hustling and some trippy theories about the great pyramids. Follow Coinyeezy on Twitter: @coinyeezy Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Peep Honeyminer: www.honeyminer.com 1:26:44September 10, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.03In this edition of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt + Marty discuss: Emerging Market currency crises Iran give Bitcoin mining the go-ahead Ethereum FOMC meeting Infura centralization ShapeShift Casa's new plug and play all-in-one Bitcoin full node + Lightning node Discussions of a new Bitcoin testnet Links: https://twitter.com/WallSt_Dropout/status/1037004709419278336 d>=19 d>=19 bold>-issue-311 apeshift-membership/ https://twitter.com/ConsenSys/status/1037339692981727233 /bold>:01:57September 6, 2018Tales from the Crypt #41: Ryan Selkis Join Marty as he sits down with Ryan Selkis, Founder at Messari, to discuss how Ryan got into Bitcoin, how writing helped him carve out a niche in a budding industry, what it was like to work for Digital Currency Group and CoinDesk, what he learned there, how he's using those lessons while building Messari, and a deep dive into Token Curated Registries. Follow Ryan on Twitter: @twobitidiot Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Messari: https://messari.io/58:59September 4, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.08.27In this episode we discuss: Vitalik Buterin's recent blog post on how to scale with layers The importance of soft forks CNBC's trash coverage WeChat and Alipay banned cryptocurrency commerce and chats The recent jump in hash rate Laurent's piece on measuring the value secured by PoW NIRP in Germany CFTF fine of German Bank for manipulating USD derivatives ETF denial then subsequent "reevaluation" Links: https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/08/26/layer_1.html >=19 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1019675622581391361 https://medium.com/@laurentmt/gravity-10e1a25d2ab2 59:14August 29, 2018Tales from the Crypt #40: Joe Weisenthal Join Marty as he sits down with Joe Weisenthal, Editor at Bloomberg and co-host of "What'd you miss?" on BloombergTV. The two jump into the mind of a skeptic. Joe was notoriously a skeptic of Bitcoin after writing an article titled "Bitcoin is a joke" in 2013. Since then Joe has become less skeptical and he explains why in this episode. Beyond Bitcoin, Marty and Joe discuss economics, the state of the economy, Joe's journey to Bloomberg, and the mainstream media. Follow Joe: @TheStalwart Follow Marty: @MartyBent Check out WDYM?: https://www.bloomberg.com/series/whatd-you-miss Peep Joe's Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/joseph-weisenthal1:55:37August 28, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.08.20Join Marty and Matt Odell markets for top 6 candidates  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:26:58February 13, 2020#134: Jack MallersJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers to discuss: - LN Strike - Lessons learned while building Zap + Olympus - Lightning Privacy - Lightning for exchanges - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:20:44February 11, 2020#133: Whit GibbsJoin Marty as he sits down with Whit Gibbs, Co-Founder and CEO of Hashr8OS, to discuss: - Whit buying the 2017 top - Why he decided to focus on mining - Mining hardware + energy dynamics - What's going to happen after the halving? - Is the US turning into the USSR? - Social credit - much more Follow Whit on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:52:14February 8, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.03This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Casa will no longer sell nodes, gold package reduced to $10 per month  - Wasabi removes fixed fee address  - Samourai Whirlpool usage hits monthly all time high  - Proof Wallet tool released by @hodlwave  - Eclair v0.3.3  - BTCPay Server v1.0.4.156  - Blockstream Green v3.3.3  - BitMex Research estimates 28% of channels are private, 12% of total capacity  - Lolli requiring bank account linked to withdraw bitcoin rewards for some users  - Lightning Labs raised $10M Series A round and launches lighting loop beta   - ColdCard teases new HSM mode  - ShiftCrypto releases results of new tamper evident packaging alpha test - Zoomers fighting back against Instagram tracking  - Bitcoin citadel workshop in SF before bitcoin2020  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 2:17:52February 4, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.27This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coronavirus - Payswap privacy proposal  - Knapsack privacy proposal  - Paxos flags account that used wasabi for previous withdrawals  - 6102bitcoin on CoinJoin flagging  - Cryptocurrency Indicators of Suspicion (CIOS) Working Group aka Project Participate  - KYCP.org update - Bitcoin obsoletes all other money  - New Chaincode podcast  - Casa teases coldcard support for multisig service  - 28% of lightning channels are likely private  - BIP BIP Hooray  - Protonmail and VPN blocked in Russia  - Track internet censorship in real time  - Contribute to open map data, win bitcoin  - Wawa PoS malware compromises 30M+ customer credit cards  - Avast AV has been harvesting and selling user data  - Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers  - BCH mining tax proposal  - Lightning torch privacy PSA - LN Strike Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:16:58January 30, 2020Tales from the Crypt #131: Matt Corallo + Valentine Wallace Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Matt Corallo and Val Wallace from the Square Crypto team to discuss: - How Val came to work on LN - How the Square Crypto team honed in on a Lightning Development Kit - What a Lightning Development Kit would do for developers building on LN - Having a team able to focus on a singular open source project - Are we pawns? - Bitcoin fee elasticity  - Dev funding - Stratum v2  - Matt gives an updated probability of Bitcoin's success - much more Check out the LDK announcement Follow Matt on Twitter Follow Val on Twitter Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv2:22:16January 27, 2020Tales from the Crypt #130: Jeremy RubinJoin Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Jeremy Rubin to discuss: - MIT Digital Currency Initiative - Airdrops - OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (BIP 119) - POWSWAP - Dev funding - Scaling - much more Follow Jeremy on Twitter Check out BIP 119 Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:31:05January 24, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.20This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Ronin Dojo v1.2  - txCast: Randomised Bitcoin (testnet) transaction broadcasting to break timing analysis  - MyNode v0.1.80  - lnd v0.9-beta  - Zeus v0.2.0  - BTCPay Vault  - Liquid support coming to Bisq with next update  - Exchange cold storage analysis  - Square Crypto announces lightning development kit  - Square files bitcoin related US Patent  - LightNite game map and other details released  - Apple iCloud backups are essentially a backdoor to phone data  - ECB paper on central bank digital currencies highlights negative interest rates, helicopter money, and more seignorage  - Clearview app face recognition app uses 3B+ photos scraped from millions of public facing websites - Pentagon accounting debacle - Bezos gets pwnd by the Saudis - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:44:02January 20, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.13This week Marty and Matt discuss: - RIP Tamas Blummer  - Tor Browser 9.0.4  - Zeus v0.2.0-rc1 : Android APK + Dev Signature - Instant VPS powered by lightning  - Liquid support on BTCPayserver  - Kashmir internet shutdown 170+ days now  - BitMEX Research shows more lightning usage than expected  - Samourai Wallet announces OXT Research  - FBI tries to set encryption backdoor precedent once again  - Coincenter reintroduces bill to add tax exemption for small purchases  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies1:01:25January 17, 2020Tales from the Crypt #128: Jamal JamesJoin Marty as he sits down with Jamal James, creator of Polar - a productivity tool for Lightning Network developers, to discuss: - Building Polar - Jamal starting and running a successful business for 15+ years - How he originally got into Bitcoin - Deciding to build for Bitcoin + LN - Building for application devs - Why Bitcoin is inevitable - much more Follow Jamal on Twitter Check out Polar  Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:56:44January 16, 2020Tales from the Crypt #127: Andrew ChowJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Andrew Chow, Bitcoin Core Contributor and Engineer at Blockstream, to discuss: - How Andrew found bitcoin in high school - What life was like before the Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBT) standard - Why PSBT is important - Working on Bitcoin Core's Hardware Wallet Interface - CoinJoins - Coin selection - Hardware wallets - Video games - much more Follow Andrew on Twitter Follow Andrew on GitHub Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 1:31:17January 13, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.06This week Marty and Matt discuss: - River financial only 8 states - https://sphinx.chat/ - Samourai whirlpool dynamics, whirlpool CLI 0.10.2 released  - Clark Moody adds sats per dollar and lightning Tor stats to his dashboard - zeus beta2 released, c-lightning support and iOS - Polar v0.2.0 released, c-lightning support added  - RTL releases a major UX upgrade  - lnd v0.9.0-beta-rc1 released with multi-path payment support  - South Korean government committee recommends adding bitcoin product to national exchange  - Neil Woodfine on how to keep bitcoin running in offline environments: video, slides, & thread - Tessercube PGP on mobile, recommended by @coinsureNZ  - Kraken releases yearly government request transparency report  - Cloud extraction report by privacy international  - Russian state energy company courting bitcoin mining ops  - Elaine makes the case for censorship resistant money  - Video of gold accumulation over the last 20 years overlayed with bitcoin market cap  - Debrief creative video by @CreativeLandRun mentions Marty  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:18:51January 8, 2020Tales from the Crypt #125: Alexander LeishmanJoin Marty as he sits down with Alexander Leishman, Co-Founder of River Financial, to discuss: - Building River - Being a Bitcoin-only business - Dollar Cost Averaging  - Complex systems - Bitcoin and American values - KYC/AML hypocrisy - much more Follow Alexander on Twitter Check out River Financial Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/3:09:47January 3, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.30This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin's first 11 years - NthKey: use your iPhone as part of a multisig setup  - Nodl Dojo first impressions  - Samourai Whirlpool 0.10.0 released  - MyNode adds whirlpool support, dojo coming soon  - Satreon: a non custodial lightning network powered alternative to Patreon  - Metal seed storage reviews  - Introducing A Framework for Privacy in eCommerce via Bitcoin  - Difficulties with verifiable open hardware Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. 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They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies1:13:54January 2, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.23This week Marty and Matt discuss: - BitBox02 brute force vulnerability disclosed, update to firmware V5.0.0 asap (h/t @freedomisntsafe)    - BLW on Android adds support for hosted channels  - Argentina local bitcoins volume hits ATHs amid further capital controls  - As expected CSW makes excuses ahead of "tulip trust" access date  - Ethereum Co-Founder Jeffrey Wilcke dumps $11.5M worth of ETH from premine  - The Venezuelan Petro update  - HK Police freeze $9M raised by activists via Spark Alliance  - Popular chat app ToTok removed from app store due to concerns it is a UAE spy tool  - US gov issues warning to service members asking them not to use DNA testing services  - @dergigi releases 21 Lessons book  - Kiara Bickers (@kiarabickers) releases Bitcoin Clarity book  - Proof of Keys next week - John Newbery thread - German gold capital controls Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies59:49December 27, 2019Tales from the Crypt #124: Dave CollumJoin Marty as he sits down with Dave Collum, Professor of Organic Chemistry at Cornell University, to discuss: - Climate Change - Bitcoin - Jeffrey Epstein - Inflation - The Fed - much more Follow Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum Check out Dave's 2019 Year in Review Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:10:47December 23, 2019Tales from the Crypt #123: Bitcoin Sign Guy on UrbitJoin Marty as he sits down with Urbit ambassador to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Sign Guy, to discuss: - Urbit 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:40:31December 20, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.16This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bottle Pay shuts down rather than implement KYC per upcoming AMLD5 regulation  - Binance Singapore allegedly flagging accounts that CoinJoin after withdrawal  - Phoenix lightning wallet by ACINQ launches on Android  - c-lightning 0.8.0 released  - Wasabi Wallet V1.1.10 released  - Coldcard firmware 3.0.6 released  - Ronin UI for Samourai Dojo  - Trace Mayer on CoinJoin usage - BTCPay integration with M5Stack - cheap point of sale option - Alex Gladstein in Coindesk, Quillette, Tor blog       - Polo adds no KYC option  - Direct deposits delayed nationwide due to Fed glitch - NYTimes report on location tracking using phone apps Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies1:09:05December 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #122: Parker LewisJoin Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis to discuss: - What is QE?  - The Fed's balance sheet over the last decade - Unwinding the balance sheet - Repo market madness - Source of the repo liquidity crunch - Moving forward - much more Follow Parker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/parkeralewis 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/51:50December 15, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.09This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Honeyminer acting sketchy - not your keys, not your coins - Jill Carlson on censorship resistance  - Coinjoin usage Wasabi & Samourai chart  - SquareCrypto gives grant to a nym - ZmnSCPxj   - RIP CryptoDeleted  - Exchange tokens are centralized and high risk  - Malicious relays on the Tor network  - Twitter funding small team to develop a more open platform   - Amazon Ring cameras compromised  - More than 260k documents leaked by Sprint contractor  - War on cash escalates in Greece and Italy  - Repo market demand  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies1:09:31December 12, 2019Tales from the Crypt #121: Hector RosekransJoin Marty as he sits down with Hector Rosekrans, Navy veteran and bitcoiner, to discuss: - Being a Surface Warfare Officer - How the Navy teaches you to think - How Bitcoin may be better at spreading democracy than military might  - Self custody'ing your own data - Bitcoin and the Constitution - Nuclear deescalation via Bitcoin mining  - How should States lean in to Bitcoin? - much more Follow Hector on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HectorRosekrans Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:10:11December 11, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.12.02This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bakkt weekly volume all time high   - Bakkt ceo Kelly Loeffler tapped as new Georgia senator  - The second Boltathon online lightning conference this weekend, tickets are 800k sats  - easypaysy bitcoin accounts proposal  - On The Brink podcast with former head of Circle OTC desk Dan Matuszewski  - Bitfinex adds lightning deposits and withdrawals  - A Look at Innovation in Bitcoin’s Technology Stack by Lucas Nuzzi  - TFTC with Matt Ahlborg  - Interesting reddit discussion about Confidential Transactions  - Wasabi v1.1.10 RC1 released - go test it and earn sats  - Badass BTCPay cleats by Russel Okung  - Great Fold commercial by @bvbtc and @content_noir  - BottlePay chat sats launched  - Tails 4.1 released  - Binance launches no fee Tezos staking undercutting all noncustodial options  - Tron backed Poloniex flexes on DGB founder  - OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. GiveWell. Learn how much good your donation can do by visiting GiveWell.org/tftc. They accept traditional payment methods, Bitcoin, and several other cryptocurrencies 1:04:35December 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #120: Matt AhlborgJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Ahlborg, Data Scientist and Founder of Usefultulips.org, to discuss: - Why Matt is interested in P2P trading specifically - How Bitcoin is being used around the world - Developing the Usage Per Economic (Online) Person metric - What it's like cold calling a P2P trader - Why are people using Bitcoin? - What Matt plans to do in the future - much more Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MattAhlborg 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:15:55December 3, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.25This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin Core 0.19.0 released - s-whats-new - ColdCard firmware 3.0.5 released  - Bakkt daily volume  - =20 - Bitmex research analyzes IBD - https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoins-initial-block-download/ - Telegram's Durov issues scathing statement - https://t.me/durov/109 - Two great pieces from Coindesk's Leigh Cuen https://www.coindesk.com/global-protests-reveal-bitcoins-limitations - ypto-at-thanksgiving - Nigerians + Bitcoin - -you-arent-paying-attention-to-4e699db0c5ca - Great presentation by Alex Gladstein - https://vimeo.com/375118500 - Venezuelans using RuneScape for additional income - rency-is-worthless-so-its-people-seek-virtual-gold - South Korean exchange UPbit allegedly with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/tftc211:12:06October 17, 2019Tales from the Crypt #108: Jared DillianJoin Marty as he sits down with Jared Dillian, Founder & Editor of The Daily Dirtnap newsletter, to discuss: - Jared's reformed skepticism of Bitcoin - Bitcoin v. Gold - What happens if we End The Fed? - Millenial investing - much more  Follow Jared on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailydirtnap Check out The Daily Dirtnap: https://www.dailydirtnap.com/ Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/52:00October 15, 2019Tales from the Crypt #107: American HodlJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with American Hodl to wax poetic about everything. Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:25:57October 11, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.07This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Real Vision upcoming show with Saif - Coldcard adds offline address explorer with new update thanks to @hodlwave https://blog.coinkite.com/address-explorer/ - Zap Android app update 0 - Upcoming Zap desktop update to include node pubkey signing https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-588/ - New KYCP update - kycp.org - https://mempool.observer/monitor/ by @0xB10C - Nodl Samourai announced - https://shop.nodl.it/en/home/38-nodl-samourai-edition.html - Casa Node 2 announced - https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-casa-node-2/ - ACINQ raises $8M in series A - ning-implementation-raises-8m - Tor removes ~800 old relays - ers-for-running-eol-versions/ - Adobe and others cut off Venezuelan users from cloud services - behance-us-sanctions - Multiple corporations bend the knee to China - https://ibb.co/album/eSSKDv - Hong Kong Free Press switches to BTCPay - d>=20 - City of Miami to vote on 30 year contract for cameras and flood sensors on light poles to private company with no data protection >=20 - Surveillance partnerships with Amazon's Ring door cameras -on-elected-officials-to-stop/ - Bitcoin2020 tickets for $50, Szabo is keynote - https://www.bitcoin2020conference.com/ Cash App. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. 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Check out www.youtube.com/tftc21 1:01:37October 10, 2019Tales from the Crypt #106: Aleks SvetskiJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Aleks Svetski, founder of Amber, to discuss: - The latest Amber updates - Building out a product road map and prioritizing - Citadels - Separation of money and state - Hypothetical paths to a post-bitcoinization world - much more  Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:08:36October 8, 2019Tales from the Crypt #105: Travis KlingJoin Marty as he sits down with Travis Kling, CIO of Ikigai Asset Management, to discuss: - Travis' journey to bitcoin - Failed narratives/frameworks of years past - How the current system is gamed - Timing - Much more Follow Travis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Travis_Kling Check out Ikigai: https://www.ikigai.fund Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:21:53October 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.30This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Michelle Phan y-she-left.html - Baakt launches with limited volume https://www.bakkt.com/markets - US & UK CLOUD Act Agreement ion-backdoors.shtml - HK - 1967 emergency laws enacted - face masks banned https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-4991888 - host4coins.net - Opendime videos - tftc.tv - Team signing for Casa Diamond Members ($5040 per year) https://blog.keys.casa/team-signing-on-casa-keymaster/ - uesefultulips.org - Wasabi error, rescan required - Crypto Rating Council launched by  Coinbase, Kraken, Poloniex and Bittrex https://www.cryptoratingcouncil.com/asset-ratings - EOS $24M settlement with SEC https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-202 - Keybase impersonator Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/tftc211:03:50October 3, 2019Tales from the Crypt #104: JanineJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Janine, privacy researcher and co-host of Block Digest, to discuss: - Janine's path to Bitcoin - Common privacy blunders - Avoiding big tech - Coinbase's checkered history - CoinJoins - Block Digest - Traveling without Google Maps - Much more Follow Janine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/J9Roem Check out Block Digest: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb53lXz2IzEFT5JNHSbdvPg Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:11:41October 1, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.23This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Lightning Vulnerability disclosed er/002174.html - Maduro rumored to own bitcoin in-stash-and-doesn-t-know-what-to-do-with-it - In device address explorer coming to coldcard /bold>=20 - Erlay BIP draft released https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-578/ - Fold joins the sats back party with Amazon support =20 - tThe "hashcrash" https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1176850968211668994 - ETH gas limit raised it-to-10-million Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. 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Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada.49:49September 27, 2019Tales from the Crypt #103: Mauricio Di Bartolomeo & Adam ReedsJoin Marty as he sits down with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo & Adam Reeds, the co-founders of Ledn.io, to discuss: - Ledn's loan offerings and expansion into Latin America - Bitcoin mining in Venezuela - Stablecoins  - Crossing boarders with Bitcoin - How the Venezuela government buys bitcoin via LocalBitcoins - Sneaking out of the country - The ills of Socialism - much more  Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 2:12:20September 26, 2019Tales From The Crypt #102: John DoeJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with John Doe, an ex-Silk Road vendor who had a four year forced hodl. Learn about what it was really like to use the Silk Road, the ethos of the website + forums, and the absurdness of The Drug War.  Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:05:15September 24, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.16This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Baltic Honeybadger in Riga - [Day 1] rce%3Ddigg [Day 2] e=digg - Reminder that browser extensions can be malicious, act accordingly - Someone is impersonating Matt on Keybase - Olympus fiat to lightning https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-574/ - Sparkswap beta launched >=20 - Square Crypto hires 3 new devs Valentine Wallace, Jeffrey Czyz, Arik Sosman, announces funding for BTCPay https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-570/ - Hash rate all time high again - https://bitcoinvisuals.com/chain-hash-rate - Tor project now using BTCPay - https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency - Bobby Lee launches horrible product BalletCrypto card that nobody should use  - ColdCard multisig plugin merged into electrum, next official version of should have it ready to go, or just build from official sources today - Nodl + Samourai edition designs released, preorders soon /bold>=20 - Bisq adds encrypted chat https://twitter.com/wiz/status/1174104040193413120?s=20 - Repo market / Fed cuts rate / QE4? Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada.56:36September 20, 2019Tales from the Crypt #101: Jack Mallers - Olympus AnnouncementJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers to discuss the launch of Olympus, a non-custodial way to buy bitcoin and immediately receive it on the Lightning Network.  Link to Jack's Medium post on the launch: -ramps-by-zap-1f5349a96ee9 Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:16:58September 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #100: @arbedoutJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Odell and a very special guest, arbedout. Arbedout is a Twitter anon who has some incredible views on Bitcoin. Particularly how the nascent "cryptocurrency boom" shares a lot of eerie parallels with market booms throughout history.  The trio polishes off 3/4 of a bottle of Knob Creek while reminiscing on their experiences within the "cryptocurrency boom".  Follow arbedout on Twitter: https://twitter.com/arbedout Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/  3:22:33September 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #99: Raoul PalJoin Marty as he sits down with Raoul Pal, Founder of Real Vision and Global Macro Investor, to discuss: - Repo markets - The state of the global financial system - Demographics - Behavioral Economics - Tokenizing income streams - much more  Follow Raoul on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI Check out Real Vision: https://www.realvision.com/ Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:06:03September 18, 2019Tales from the Crypt #98: Carla Kirk-Cohen Join Marty as he sits down with Carla Kirk-Cohen, the last of Chaincode Labs' Summer residents to swing through the studio, to discuss: - Carla's journey to Bitcoin - Her passion for the Lightning Network - Life in South Africa - Bringing LN to an exchange - Things that LN enables that weren't possible before  Follow Carla on Twitter: https://twitter.com/actuallyCarlaKC Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:05:29September 17, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.09This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Lightning CVE exploited in the wild, lnd 0.7.0 vulnerable, update! er/002148.html - Digg from the dead https://digg.com/channel/bitcoin - NY payroll company MyPayrollHR exit scam $35M 5-million/ - French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire says Libra will not be allowed in the EU .html - Premier League Club Watford Bitcoin logo on jerseys due to sportsbet.io sponsorship https://www.watfordfc.com/club/bitcoin-confirmed-new-sleeve-partner - Keybase airdrops shitcoin, bitcoiners donate to Tor, almost 17000 XLM donated(~$1020) KGJDMEW6VLOOLBTIFPJIN7XT6KAFXJQPJ?filter=payments - Bitcoin as a nonviolent rebellion by Nic Carter e?sk=c70e2e688cb3c15dfe68f4d2627b1059 - ColdCard firmware update 2.1.4 for multi-sig change outputs https://coldcardwallet.com/docs/upgrade - Bittr adds xpub support =19 - Spencer Dinwiddie of NJ Nets is a bitcoiner and is tokenizing his ~$34 million extension t-that-means/ - ECB cuts rates and announces a new round of QE "Negative rates will not provoke the collapse of the financial system" - Draghi arts-qe-to-fight-slowdown-as-draghi-era-ends Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada.1:07:59September 13, 2019Tales from the Crypt #97: Eric Voskuil Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Eric Voskuil, lead maintainer of the libbitcoin Bitcoin implementation, as they discuss: - libbitcoin - Austrian Economics - Attack vectors - Eric's experience in the Navy  - How Bitcoin fails  - Dust - much more  Check out the libbitcoin Wiki: https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:53:13September 11, 2019Tales from the Crypt #96: Elichai TurkelJoin Marty as he sits down with Elichai Turkel, recent Summer resident at Chaincode Labs, to discuss: - Elichai's path to cryptography and Bitcoin - Schnorr signatures - Taproot  - Miniscript - Cryptography - State of academic papers - much more Follow Elichai on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Elichai2 Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:04:13September 9, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.02This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Portugal is indeed exempting bitcoin from cap gains treatment: oin-tax-code-other-nations-should-take-note - Hash rate all time high - https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-hashrate.html - LocalBitcoins KYC - -privacy-concerns - SNICKER https://gist.github.com/AdamISZ/2c13fb5819bd469ca318156e2cf25d79 - vaneck & solidx pivot to gbtc like structure rather than ETF for their investment product oin-etf-to-institutional-investors - Facebook left phone numbers exposed on server, 419 million records leaked: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/ - Google discloses exploit that allowed malicious sites to retrieve iPhone files and location data: hones-for-years - M5Stack + bitcoin https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-562/ - TFTC Guides: Lightning for beginners with Breez wallet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zhW7ilOjWg&feature=youtu.be - Bridgefy mesh messaging app being used in hong kong: https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-561/ - Argentina implements capital controls, individuals won't be allowed to acquire or wire abroad more than 10,000 dollars per month - turn-to-argentina-as-macri-fights-to-survive - Upgrade your lightning nodes, disclosure of vulnerability in 3 weeks 002130.html - Jack Dorsey Twitter account hijacked due to sim swap + tweets by sms: d>=20 Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada. 1:05:12September 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #95: Gleb Naumenko Join Marty as he sits down with Gleb Naumenko to discuss: - Gleb's experience helping to build an exchange - Bitcoin usage in Ukraine - Gleb's work on Erlay - The Erebus attack  - Movies Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 1:19:30September 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.26This week Marty and Matt discuss: - ColdCard MK3 announced: https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-mark3/ - https://ln.alhur.es/ by @fiatjf - UI for hardware wallet multisig using bitcoin core and HWI released for testing by @justinmoon - https://github.com/justinmoon/junction - Bitcoin realized cap hits ath of ~$100B - https://coinmetrics.substack.com/ - According to Chainalysis, less than 11% of mixed bitcoin are used for illicit purposes - t-used-for-illicit-purposes - CSW rebuked hard in court, judge orders 50% of his bitcoin to be given to Kleinman's estate, unfortunately for them he probably doesn't own any - Bitcoin for safety by @jamesob - https://jameso.be/2019/08/24/bitcoin-is-for-this.html - WTF happened in 1971? https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ - Janey + Cato - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-559/ - Binance adds interest bearing accounts (BNB, ETC, Tether) - o-crypto-as-binance-starts-lending-business - Opennode adds kyc and shopify integration - https://www.opennode.co/blog/how-to-accept-bitcoin-shopify-extension/ - EOS dumped almost 20 mins earlier first: >=20 - Portugal tax exemption. Fake news? Let us know Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber45:39August 29, 2019Tales from the Crypt #94: Fabian Jahr Join Marty as he sits down with Fabian Jahr, current Summer resident at Chaincode Labs, to discuss the RPC call Fabian has been working on this Summer, the Chaincode residency experience, the Bitcoin scene in Berlin, Fabian's experience with the Lightning Network, and much more.  Follow Fabian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fjahr Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:37:54August 28, 2019Tales from the Crypt #93: Rodolfo NovakJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Rodolfo Novak to discuss Coinkite, how Rodolfo approaches making products for Bitcoiners, a little Bitcoin history, Ham Radios, airplanes, and much more.  Check out Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ (Use the promo code "TFTC" for 5% OFF!) Follow Rodolfo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. 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Head over to https://keys.casa/ today.1:23:51August 27, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.19This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - BitBlockBoom - bitsteins talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBAuHv5cPl8 - New Erebus attack paper - https://erebus-attack.comp.nus.edu.sg - Hardware wallets + multisig - https://stephanlivera.com/episode/97/ - Sats the standard - Blockstream Green Wallet adds sats - ld>=20 - All seeds are not cross compatible, be aware - https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1164165702602899456?s=20 - Bitcoin Optech bech32 + RBF compatibility matrix  - https://bitcoinops.org/en/2019-compatibility-matrix/ - Matt Corallo first hire by Square Crypto - =20 - Miniscript - 20 - Hong Kong protesters are distributed not centralized - -brilliance-backed-beijing-into-a-corner/ - 40 straight weeks of anti-macron yellow vest protests - >=20 - Another fake Satoshi, safely ignore - Happy birthday Lolli! Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber 1:10:08August 22, 2019Tales from the Crypt #92: Bryan Bishop & Joseph JacksonJoin 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: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:34:53August 21, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.12 LIVE w/ Pierre Rochard & Michael GoldsteinJoin Marty and Matt as they're joined by the hosts of the Noded Podcast, Pierre Rochard and Michael Goldstein to discuss: - Bakkt Futures - Binance KYC - Liquid Tether - Hong Kong - India - Samsung + Bitcoin - Coinbase negligence - much more Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber47:09August 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #91: Tuur DemeesterJoin Marty as he sits down with Tuur Demeester, Founder of Adamant Capital, to discuss Tuur's journey to Bitcoin, the founding of Adamant Research then Adamant Capital, how to leverage Bitcoin to short USD, Bitcoin's parallels with The Reformation. Follow Tuur on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.43:47August 17, 2019Tales from the Crypt #90: James C.Join Marty as he sits down with James Chiang, currently spending his Summer at Chaincode Labs, to discuss James' journey to Bitcoin, his experience with Libbitcoin, how Libbitcoin compares to Bitcoin Core, working in the renewable energy sector, working on a Python library for Taproot, and much more.  Checkout https://teachbitcoin.io/ Follow James on Twitter - https://twitter.com/digi_james Follow Marty on Twitter - https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.55:13August 15, 2019Tales from the Crypt #89: BitcoinTINA & Alpha Zeta Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with BitcoinTINA & Alpha Zeta to talk about the current market conditions, where Bitcoin sits, whether or not Bitcoin is a risk-on or risk-off trade, and the fact that Bitcoin is a fundamental financial tech innovation.  Check out Alpha Zeta's portfolio tracker: http://www.thewarden.io/index.html Follow BitcoinTINA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinTINA Follow Alpha Zeta on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alphaazeta Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.58:20August 14, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.05This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin vaults - 7229.html - Yuan peg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCH_-fcCoK4&feature=youtu.be - Big blocks and tradeoffs - https://twitter.com/BitMEXResearch/status/1157667091719380992 - Binance KYC leak - s-negotiations-with-its-kyc-hacker - Is anything priced in? Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber46:33August 8, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.29This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - JoinMarket, fidelity bonds, and privacy - 69.html - Capital One data breach - llowing-the-banking-hack/ - Zap update + full node - https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases/tag/v0.5.2-beta - Fold App Kickbacks - - "Stacking sats" - Hong Kong - old>=20 - Fortnite World Cup - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1155838643094917121 - much more  Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:00:56August 1, 2019Tales from the Crypt #88: Richard MyersJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Richard Myers, who is working on "Bitcoin's last mile" via mesh networks at GoTenna and Global Mesh Labs, to discuss: - ByteABit, Richard's P2P mobile Bitcoin exchange - Mesh networks, GoTenn, LOT49, and Global Mesh Labs - Cashless societies - Deflation - much more Follow Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/remyers_ Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 2:05:40July 30, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.22This week Marty and Matt discuss: -BTCPayServer - https://stephanlivera.com/episodes/ - Wasabi & Samourai - Ethereum hashrate down 42% from ATH, bitcoin hashrate at ATH: able-to-attack - Coldcard + Wasabi video, class on the 26th at Chaincode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2uhyROpAQ&feature=youtu.be - New Cash App UI - Ohmm  - =20 - Hong Kong protests take violent turn: ld>=20 - Nodl Electrumx - =20 - Parker Lewis' Gradually, Then Suddenly - https://www.unchained-capital.com/blog/dollar-crisis-to-bitcoin/ Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:03:19July 26, 2019Tales from the Crypt #87: Conner BrownJoin Marty as he sits down with Conner Brown to discuss how he became interested in Bitcoin, philosophy, the intersubjective nature of money, Kanye West, and much more.  Follow Conner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_ConnerBrown_ Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:53:27July 23, 2019Tales from the Crypt #86: Ben HuntJoin Marty as he sits down with Ben Hunt (with a guest appearance from James O'Beirne) to discuss some of the running themes from Epsilon Theory, how they relate to Bitcoin, and why Bitcoiners may be fighting a losing battle.  Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory Follow James on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesob Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:48:18July 19, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.15This week Marty and Matt discuss: - This week in Bitcoin - d>=19 - Wasabi - d>=19 - C-Lightning - ld>-9fca65debeb2 - Binance staking XLM -  https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360030727092 - >=19  - ETH on BCH - er-for-ethereum/5735 - Much more  Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:16:27July 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #85: Paranoid BullJoin Marty as he sits down with DAL, AKA Paranoid Bull, to discuss his journey through the markets, systemic risk, political risk, the world's current disconnection from reality and how Bitcoin play into it all.  Check out Odin River's mission: https://medium.com/odin-river/odin-river-31ddc131a22 Follow DAL on Twitter: https://twitter.com/paranoidbull Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App.  Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:11:53July 16, 2019Tales from the Crypt #84: Bull BitcoinJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Francis Pouliot and BTC Sessions from Bull Bitcoin to discuss the Montreal Bitcoin scene throughout the years, consulting in the "Blockchain" space, SegWit2x, the common mission Bitcoiners have, and much more.  Check out Bull Bitcoin: https://bullbitcoin.com/ Follow Francis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/francispouliot_ Follow BTCSessions on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BTCsessions Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App.  Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  1:08:42July 15, 2019The Trump Tweet Ep: Marty, Matt and Murad MahmudovMarty, Matt and Murad breakdown the implications of Donald J. Trump and Federal Reserve Chairman Powell's comments on Bitcoin.  Links discussed:  https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1149472282584072192 https://twitter.com/StopAndDecrypt/status/1149703537871355904 https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/114962998415726182531:26July 12, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.08This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coldcard  - Nodl update - Wasabi update - Samourai 0.99.81 - ter-the-dojo - Miner trying to inflate the supply - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-523/ - History of the DAO hack - Eclair update - https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/releases/tag/v0.3.1  - Surveillance tech creeps forward https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1148222460724207616 - Much more Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:00:09July 11, 2019Tales from the Crypt #83: Aleks SvetskiJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Aleksander Svetski, founder of Amber, to discuss his journey to Bitcoin, lessons from trading, lessons from being a door to door salesman, why Bitcoin not Blockchain, putting up with scammers, and much more.  Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Liking the show and want to contribute? You can do so by going to https://tftc.io/contribute/54:48July 9, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Freedom Edition Week of 2019.07.01This week Marty and Matt sit down on the 4th of July to discuss: - Bitcoin's revolutionary nature - Sats App announced by Casa https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-sats-app-with-satsback/ - 300 tickets sold for Bitcoin2020 - LND 0.7 released >=19 -Zap desktop 0.5 released ce582 - Coldcard v2.1.1 update adds dice support /bold>=19 - US House of Reps Committee of Financial Services asks Facebook to hold off on Libra pdf - Cloudflare went down due to faulty upgrade es-everywhere/ - Whirlpool desktop 0.7 released with full tor support https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1145998882947682304 - Hong Kong - Chinese border guards put spyware on phones at Xinjiang border rveillance-app-tourists-phones - Bitcoin as a safe haven in FT https://www.ft.com/content/f7643858-98f8-11e9-9573-ee5cbb98ed36 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.1:05:50July 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #82: Ketominer + AskuwheteauJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Ketominer and Askuwheteau, the team behind Nodl.it, to discuss how Nodl came to be, their recent partnership with Samourai Wallet, the freedom that Bitcoin enables, potentially moving from hardware to software in the future, the new Raspberry Pi, and much more.  Check out Nodl: https://nodl.it/ Follow Ketominer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ketominer Follow Askuwheteau on Twitter: https://twitter.com/IAskuwheteau Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app. 1:47:33July 2, 2019Tales from the Crypt #81: Dan HeldJoin Marty as he sits down with Dan Held, Co-Founder of Interchange, to discuss his paper on Bitcoin's future security, the importance of sharpening narratives, the false narratives that seem to persist, and much more.  Follow Dan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DriftwoodPalace/guides - Multisig scenarios - Coinbase o-fiat-debit-card-in-the-uk-filling-gap-left-by-shift-shutdown/ - LND 0.6.0 release https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases - Zap 0.4.1 release https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases - Managing a Lightning Node 75cc3cc28b7ffcde1 - Binance to-up-the-exchanges-compliance-procedures/ - Energy waste https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1116340276463714305 - China bans Bitcoin wants-to-eliminate-bitcoin-mining-idUSKCN1RL0C4 Shout out to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Check out their 2-of3 multisig vaults today! er54:16April 12, 2019Tales from the Crypt #66: Parker LewisJoin Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis, Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital, to discuss Unchained's mission and product suite, and reflect on the Federal Reserve's continuously shifting policy over the last twelve years. Parker's knowledge of what was going on at the Fed as the '07/'08 crisis was unfolding and during its aftermath is rare and something all of you freaks could learn from.  Follow Parker on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/parkeralewis Follow Marty on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/martybent Check out Unchained Capital: https://www.unchained-capital.com 1:21:37April 9, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.01This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Eclair Correction - Price talk - Cumberland OTC desk 10+ bids over 1000 bitcoin on Monday - surge-of-large-btc-orders-in-a-single-hour-late-monday-night/ - Fee talk - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1113949215829430275 - Nodl - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1113806561921708032 - Boltz inbound capacity tool 1432 - Pierre inbound capacity tool https://lightningpowerusers.com/home/ - Veriblock ICO sold out in seconds - https://medium.com/@ambroidcrypto/veriblock-deep-dive-49c533e9c5e7 - Bitcoin 2019 Conference - https://www.bitcoin2019conference.com/ - BitBlockBoom Conference [Promo: RHR] - https://bitblockboom.com/ - NVT Signal - =19 Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Sign up and create a multisig vault and receive a FREE three-month subscription to Dr. Saifedean Ammous'  The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin using this link: er55:07April 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #65: Johnny Dilley, Tom Garrambone & Matt OdellJoin Marty as he sits down with Johnny Dilley (Founder of Mempool Partners), Tom Garrambone (Founder of Tetras Capital), and Matt Odell (Bitcoiner) to have a roundtable discussion covering; Capitalism v. Socialism, Bitmain, 21co, nature, dinosaurs, what could kill Bitcoin, and much more.  Check out mempool.io Check out tetras.capital Follow Tom on Twitter: www.twitter.com/tomgarrambone Follow Matt on Twitter: www.twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Smash that subscribe button, freaks! 1:34:11April 2, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.25This week Marty and Matt Discuss:  - Coinbase, stake is on the menu - Steve Barbour WSJ article - BSV - Bitmain IPO not happening - ryanofsky PR merged - Gemini bech32 + Blockstream explorer - Eclair mainnet full release - Craig Wright is a fraud - Dream Market shutting down - BitMex LN research Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Head over to medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Vault%20Launch and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vault product. If you're in NYC on 4/1, head over to Galvanize to check out a live demo: 4596257746:35March 29, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.18On this week's episode Marty and Matt discuss: - Square Crypto initiative - https://twitter.com/jack/status/1108487911802966017 - Lightning Loop - https://blog.lightning.engineering/posts/2019/03/20/loop.html - BlockstreamGreen - t - Fed shifting posture - https://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1108427995709165573 - Venezuela sanctions payment processors - ns-prohibiting-payment-processing-services-in-venezuela/ - ETH ProgPow - https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1108561560304316421 - Bitcoin Optech - https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/03/19/ - Hash rate - https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty - FUD debunking Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Head over to er and check out their multisig vault setup which let's you maintain control and sovereignty over your BTC while providing a solution that keeps you worry free!  1:01:10March 21, 2019Tales from the Crypt #64: Carl DongJoin Marty as he sits down with Carl Dong, Bitcoin Core contributor currently working at Chaincode Labs, to discuss responsible disclosures, making Bitcoin Core more modular, Guix containers, Dyson spheres and much more!  Follow Carl on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carl_dong Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Check out Carl's PR: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/152771:25:12March 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #63: Zac Prince & Rene van Kesteren Join Marty as he sits down with Zac Prince & Rene van Kesteren from Blockfi to discuss their new interest account product, how they manage risk with this particular offering, the nature of risk disclosures, and the utility that Bitcoin provides the world that wasn't possible before its existence.  Follow Zac on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlockFiZac Follow Renee on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rene_vankest Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Martybent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, 21Lectures. Head over to https://21lectures.com to learn more about their courses aimed at helping developers become more familiar/comfortable with BTC/LN development! 1:38:41March 15, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.11This week Marty and Matt are joined by Adam Ficsor (@nopara73), Founder of Wasabi Wallet, to discuss: - The current dust attack against Wasabi users - https://twitter.com/nopara73/status/1105779583410946049 - CoinJoins  - Privacy - Unchained Capital multisig vaults - Porn KYC in the UK - Drop in BTC transactions  - Trezor vulnerabilities Thanks to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Check out their new multisig vault solution today:  er1:02:43March 14, 2019Tales from the Crypt #62: Jake Chervinsky Join Marty as he sits down with Jake Chervinsky, a lawyer with a focus on government enforcement defense and securities litigation, as they discuss the law and how it pertains to Bitcoin and everything created in its wake. Topics covered include, Jake's path to Bitcoin, the concept of light touch regulation, organizations like Coin Center, how the SEC has been treating ICOs, how the SEC may treat these ICOs going forward, and hope for a less Orwellian future. Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Lolli! Head over to https://lolli.com/ref/tftc right now and start stacking sats as you shop online today! 1:53:37March 12, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.04This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Canadian Revenue Service asking for BTC addresses: https://twitter.com/kyletorpey/status/1103467047412002817 - Ripple, FinCen agreement: ld>=20 - Is Bitcoin Twitter engagement back at 2015 levels?: https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1103673829832970240 - ABCore 0.70 released: old>=20  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greenaddress.abcore - QE, NIRP creeping - BlockFi Interest Account: https://twitter.com/BlockFiZac/status/1103293858283245569 https://twitter.com/vandrewattycpa/status/1102953966537752576 - Coinbase: https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/1103443720307912704 - Facebook going private?: =19 - Facebook 2fa phone number leak: ing-of-phone-numbers-required-for-2fa/ - Chinese database surveillance leak, indow-chinas-digital-surveillance-state - QuadrigaCX update, l-patryn-allegedly-traded-large-positions-on-bitmex/ Shoutout to this week's sponsors: Honeyminer, head over to stackingsats.com and download Honeyminer today. The one-click solution to mining altcoins to stack sats.  Unchained Capital, if you're in the Austin area on Monday March 11th, 2019 Unchained is demo'ing their new multi-sig vault product. If you're not in Austin, do not worry. The event will be live streamed. Link to attend below: 4March 7, 2019Tales from the Crypt #61: Jack DorseyJoin Marty as he sits down with Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, to discuss how Jack came to experiment with Bitcoin, the parallels he sees between Twitter and Bitcoin, dealing with pseudonymity on Twitter, how Bitcoin curbs the State, education in the Information Age, what it's like to be a part of the Casa node club, and much more. Thank you to this week's sponsors: Honeyminer is the easiest way to earn Bitcoin. A simple crypto mining application that uses your computer's CPUs and GPUs to mine cryptocurrencies and pays you in Bitcoin. Go to https://www.honeyminer.com today and start earning BTC now. Lolli lets you earn up to 30% back in BTC when you shop online. Shop from 750+ online retailers including Jet, Overstock, SeatGeek, Priceline, Hotwire, Walmart, CVS, Best Buy, GAP, Macy’s, Hilton, and Mariott and earn BTC via the Lolli extension. Head over to https://lolli.com/ref/tftc today! 35:04March 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.25This week Marty and Matt discuss: -Casa new product lineup g-its-business-and-its-kicking-off-with-two-new-products/ -Facebook coin FUD telegram.html -Venezuela bitcoin article flation-cryptocurrencies.html#click=https://t.co/P8hxu1vqni -Square sold 10k BTC in Q4 2018 of-bitcoin-in-2018/ -Coinomi spellcheck bug 547ca348676b -Trezor and Ledger update reminders -Samourai Whirlpool in testing phases, running on nodl.it -Wasabi, try it out free shill - www.twitter.com/@tweet_stamp is pretty cool, uses OpenTimestamps -Torpedo vulnerable https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/24/new-4g-5g-security-flaws/ -New privacy wiki up by Chris Belcher https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Privacy Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer. Head over to stackingsats.com today, download Honeyminer, and start stacking sats today!  54:23March 1, 2019Tales from the Crypt #60: Misir Mahmudov Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin researcher Misir Mahmudov to discuss many topics including Bitcoin as Time, Bitcoin's amorality, Bitcoin's incentives, and family values.  Follow Misir on Twitter: www.twitter.com/misir_mahmudov Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Thanks to this week's sponsor, BlockFi! Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can avoid selling your BTC today! 2:39:32February 26, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.18This week Marty and Matt discuss: -Galaxy S10 Bitcoin wallet confirmed https://bitcoinist.com/samsung-galaxy-s10-bitcoin-wallet/ -Jack activates tippin.me https://twitter.com/jack/status/1098324828182831104 -Coinbase acquires chain analysis company https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1098275229556768768 -Elon Ark Invest pod https://twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1097905577831862272 -Coinmama KYC breach 450k customer affected https://twitter.com/bitentrepreneur/status/1096549320302776320 -IMF NIRP Blog post  est-rates-work/ Thanks to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer!  Head over to stackingsats.com and download Honeyminer today! The easiest way to begin earning BTC with your spare computing hardware. Now available for Linux (www.honeyminer.com/labs). 48:29February 21, 2019Tales from the Crypt #59: Eric SpanoJoin Marty as he sits down with Eric Spano, Founder of bylls.com, to discuss building a product with little understanding of code, enterprise blockchain consulting, Bitcoin service provider UX, and much more.  Follow Eric on Twitter: www.twitter.com.espano_ Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Peep the Nielsen Norman Group's 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design  https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/ Visit www.bylls.com 2:01:31February 20, 2019Tales from the Crypt #58: André Neves Join Marty as he sits down with André Neves, Co-Founder and Co-CTO of Koala Studio, to discuss everything from BTC/LN adoption via gaming, what it's like to live in the UAE, the Surveillance State, and much more.  Follow André on Twitter: www.twitter.com/andreneves Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Check out Koala Studio: koalastud.io Thanks to our sponsors: BlockFi, head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can avoid selling your BTC this tax season.  Lolli, head over to lolli.com/ref/tftc and download Lolli today so you can begin earning up to 30% cash back in BTC!  1:48:03February 19, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.11This week Marty and Matt discuss: -Tippin.me extension -Lolli extension -Spacebit.live -Venezuela ATH LocalBitcoins volume - 2454 Bitcoin / 8.95 million USD https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/VES/BTC -Bitcoin Ham radio https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1095354354289135617 -Full nodes, block size, offline transactions, 65% of 4000 said no full node -JPM shitcoin -Bitdevs https://www.meetup.com/BitDevsNYC/events/258566808/ -Wasabi update -Coin Center on cash + privacy https://coincenter.org/entry/the-case-for-electronic-cash Shout out to this week's sponsors: Lolli, head over to www.lolli.com/ref/tftc and start earning Bitcoin when you shop on the net today!  Honeyminer, head over to www.honeyminer.com/labs to check out their new Linux compatible software. Or head to stackingsats.com to pump our ref link. 1:02:45February 14, 2019Tales from the Crypt #57: Alex AdelmanJoin 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 Thanks to our sponsor BlockFi! Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can use your bitcoin as collateral to get USD loans in minutes! 2:16:53February 13, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.04This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Matt handing off the LN torch to @jack https://twitter.com/jack/status/1092891165966229509 - Matt Ahlborg's LocalBitcoins analysis and new metric -suggests-bitcoin-is-working-as-satoshi-intended-d8b04d3ac7b2 - Koala Studio Lightning Chess https://koalastud.io/ - Blockstream Proof of Reserve ent-its-proof-reserves-tool/ - ZCash inflation vulnerability disclosed mediated/ - Abra releases new equities exposure product -etfs-using-bitcoin/ Shoutout to our sponsors: BlockFi, head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt and learn how you can avoid selling your BTC today!  Honeyminer, peep www.honeyminer.com/labs to see the new Honeyminer Max implementation for Linux users. Or www.stackingsats.com to pump our ref link. 21Lectures, go to www.21lectures.com and learn more about their Bitcoin developer classes! 1:01:18February 8, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.28This week we are joined by Murad Mahmudov to discuss a litany of topics. Had a bunch of topics planned but didn't get to all of them. A lot of tangents.  Thanks to our sponsors: BlockFi - Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt and learn how to leverage your crypto without selling!  HoneyMiner - Now available for Linux users! HoneyMiner is the easiest way to earn BTC. Peep their site here to learn more - =marty%20bent%20honeyminer1:06:57January 31, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.21This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Venezuela - https://twitter.com/btcven - Post-Soviet LN + Satellite API messages - https://twitter.com/notgrubles/status/1088402776638541827 - Lightning games - old>-issue-402 - Georgia & Bitfury - https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1088816882872926211 - Taproot article by Aaron van Wirdum - -will-benefit-bitcoin/ - ETF withdrawn - https://twitter.com/gaborgurbacs/status/1088173233722089486 Thanks to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer! All you home mining freaks should head over to www.honeryminer.com/labs to check out their new version, now available to Linux users!  54:28January 25, 2019Tales from the Crypt #56: Chris DannenJoin Marty as he sits down with Chris Dannen, co-founder and Partner at Iterative Capital, to discuss a range of topics including the evolution of software development culture, destroying the technostructure, the poison that is mainstream media, and much more.  Follow Chris on Twitter: www.twitter.com/chrisdannen Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out Iterative's thesis: iterative.capital/thesis  Thanks to our sponsor BlockFi! Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to peep the special offer they have for you freaks! 1:53:58January 24, 2019Tales from the Crypt #55: BitcoinTINA aka Rick FlexJoin Marty on this week's edition of Tales from the Crypt as he sits down with BitcoinTINA aka Rick Flex to discuss how bullish he is, past tech trends and how we may use them to guess how Bitcoin adoption may play out, and much much more. Banger of an episode. 2:52:14January 18, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.14In this episode we discuss:  -ETH 2.0 -Constantinople bug and delay -LN network analysis network-has-been-remarkable-but-theres-a-catch/ -Putin bitcoin rumor -Wasabi multi-denominations -ETC was indeed reorged chain wide -China plans on using great firewall to target nodes ficially-try-to-extend-its-great-firewall-to-blockchains/ -Grin launch -Thor from Bitrefill payments-easy -Baakt delayed -Genesis Trading OTC volume up 50% YoY, e-is-up-50-year-over-year/ 1:01:44January 18, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.07This week we discuss: -Deplatforming +  -ETC 51% -ETH Constantinople and progPow forks -10 years since Hal - https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988?lang=en -Zap POS app ld>=19 -Gemini ad campaign - https://twitter.com/Gemini/status/1082726902622797825 -Bitcoin mining pools over time, BetterHash - https://coinmetrics.io/mining-pool-mapping/ -Kraken compliance report =19 -Nodl.it -Bitmain founders rumored to be stepping down, new CEO inbound  ounders-wu-and-zhan-step-aside/ -Norwegian Monero Ransom -ShapeShift lays off 30% of their team, 37 people - Bezos Commencement speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBmavNoChZc Thanks to our sponsors:  BlockFi. Head to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt and check out BlockFi today!  BUIDL Bootcamp - Next course starts January 21st, head over to www.buidlbootcamp.com and sign up today! (Online Courses) 1:10:20January 10, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.31On this week's edition of RHR Marty and Matt come to you live from RiseNY to shoot the shit about Bitcoin's first ten years as well as some current events.  Shoutout to our sponsor Blockfi: Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can leverage your BTC today! 50:43January 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.24This week we discuss:  Trezor + Ledger hacks - wallet.fail - allet-vulnerabilities-at-tech-conference/ Electrum hack - eal-over-700k-from-users-of-a-popular-bitcoin-wallet/ New Joule version out - Pierre Rochard's node launcher Indian gov possibly loosening regs - ossible-rule-change-around-legal-status-of-cryptocurrencies/ Bitcoin Private- https://coinmetrics.io/bitcoin-private/ Facebook + crypto - ok-is-said-to-develop-stablecoin-for-whatsapp-transfers US Government Shutdown Civil token relaunch Tuur Demeester's thread on ETH: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1078682801954799617 Bitmain layoffs - t-up-to-50-of-staff/ Consensys layoffs - yoffs-employees-pending-startup-ethereum GMO exiting mining biz - https://ir.gmo.jp/en/pdf/irlibrary/gmo_disclose_info20181225_e.pdf Difficulty leveling off - nother-9-but-hash-rate-picks-up/ 7-month trading volume highs - g-volume-reached-7-month-highs/ Highest single day trade vol for tether - l-time-high/ Civic takedown - lustrates-why-companies-masquerading-tokens-will-fail/ Iterative Capital NYC Event - bent-aaron-lammer-jay-kang-tickets-51666739609 Shoutout to this week's sponsor, BlockFi. Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can avoid selling BTC or help start that side project you always wanted by leveraging your BTC holdings!  1:02:41December 28, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.17This week Matt and Marty Discuss: RIP Tim May Minisketch - es-about-get-easier/ & https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1075460072786935808 Blockstream satellite - rom-space/#548f7bc75a80 Unchained Capital Dust analysis - https hacked: 9 - Eric Wall write up of "stablecoins"  - d74ee17c25d - DMVs are selling your info -dollar50m-a-year-selling-drivers-personal-information - Jameson Lopp’s IBD research https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-node-performance-sync-tests/ Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo!54:15November 29, 2019Tales from the Crypt #119: Chris ArnadeJoin Marty as he sits down with Chris Arnade, Author of Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America, to discuss: - Traveling through back row America - Cognitive hubs and spatial redistribution - Trading on Wall Street - Connecting with "the other" - Retribution as politics  - The importance of community  - much more Follow Chris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade Pick up Dignity: 733 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:40:23November 26, 2019Tales from the Crypt #118: Will ReevesJoin Marty as he sits down with Will Reeves, Founder of Fold, to discuss:  - How Fold has grown from an app that allowed users to purchase pizza via LN to something much bigger - Building a distributed team - Building on a protocol that is changing and evolving - Bridging the gap between non-technical users and cypherpunks - The switch from ad tech to surveillance tech - California wine - much more Follow Will on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wlrvs Check out Fold: https://foldapp.com/ 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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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:19:36November 22, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.18This week Marty & Matt discuss: - BTCPay vault + BTCPay configurator t%2Fv0.0.3 & =21 - Five corporate sponsors for BTCPay now - Luna node and wallet of satoshi join d>=21 - Coinmetrics & BitMex Research launch txstats.com  - Bottlepay launches developer API https://docs.bottle.dev/ - Matt’s first attempt in front of a camera https://jwp.io/s/O54RhCTj - Donnerlab announces Bitcoin Bounty Hunt FPS game with sats integrated d>=21 - Binance practices responsible UTXO management https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-616/ -  @6102bitcoin launches Bitcoin-intro.com - Upgrade your Trezor T before sending transactions d-its-mitigation-6370ad73ed2a - Zap 0.6.0 desktop released ae597 - @mutatrum launches hodl.camp - How Many Bitcoins Are Permanently Lost? 2e - PlusToken scam chainanalysis - 21 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:11:34November 21, 2019Tales from the Crypt #117: Wiz & Steve JainJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Wiz and Steve Jain from the Bisq project to discuss: - The origins of Bisq - How Bisq works - Mining  - Why KYC/AML does more harm than good - Why privacy is important - The Bisq DAO - much more Check out and download Bisq: https://docs.bisq.network/getting-started.html Follow Wiz on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiz Follow Steve on Twitter: https://twitter.com/m52go 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 1:49:32November 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #116: Trace Mayer Join Marty as he sits down with Trace Mayer to discuss: - Wyoming blockchain legislation  - The institution of the nuclear family - Bitcoin + freedom - An update on Bitcoin's 7 network effects - much more Follow Trace on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TraceMayer 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:17:08November 15, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.11This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Update firmware before using coldcard SD card feature to send transactions https://blog.coinkite.com/troublesome-change/ - Unchained Capital announces Caravan multisig GUI https://www.unchained-capital.com/blog/the-caravan-arrives/ - Stratum V2 initial specs released -overhaul-in-pooled-bitcoin-mining - Unknown fund announces $75M bitcoin investment towards privacy https://www.unknown.fund/press-release - Digital Garage provides third grant to BTCPay Foundation worth $30k https://blog.btcpayserver.org/dg-grant-2019/ - Easily create regtest lightning networks with Polar https://github.com/jamaljsr/polar - Boltathon 2 online lightning conference announced Dec. 6-8 >=20 - Zap iOS 0.5.0 adds Tor support 0 - HUT8 quarterly figures =HUT - Suspicion-less searches of travelers' devices rule unconstitutional earches-travelers-phones-and-laptops - Fed Chair Powell: "The federal budget is on an unsustainable path with high and rising debt." ld>=21 Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo47:02November 14, 2019Tales from the Crypt #115: Dan TapieroJoin Marty as he sits down with Dan Tapiero, Founder of DTAP Capital and Gold Bullion International, to discuss: - Ray Dalio's recent note - Dan's views on the current macro landscape - Why Bitcoin is already established - Why it's hard for institutional investors to approach - Bitcoin + The American Revoultion - Critical thinking - much more Follow Dan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DTAPCAP 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:06:55November 12, 2019Tales from the Crypt #114: Alpha ZetaJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Alpha Zeta to discuss: - Living through hyperinflation - Repo operations. Is it QE?  - Why you shouldn't trade Bitcoin - Stories from Wall Street - Bitcoin's volatility - ETF - HNWI + Bitcoin - much more Follow Alpha Zeta on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alphaazeta 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 1:13:45November 8, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.11.04This week Marty and Matt discuss: - BTC Citadel workshop #2 Thursday December 5th at 6:30 d>=20 - FullyNoded d>=20 - BTCPay update / - Coldcard firmware 3.0.3 https://blog.coinkite.com/Login-Countdown-and-Nickname/ - Square quarterly results - $149M bitcoin sold, first time buyers double - Locha mesh trial in Venezuela use-bitcoin-during-blackouts - Radar Redshift >=20 - EinsteinXchange y-bitcoin-complaints-1.5347104?cmp=rss - BullBitcoin to catch a predator old>=20 - Wasabi to integrate Bitcoin Core directly bold>=20 - CoinJoin usage chart d>=20 - Chat over Lightning =20 - Jack Mallers Twitter AMA ld>=20 - BitMEX leaks 30k passwords >=20 - NodlOne announced https://shop.nodl.it/en/home/43-71-nodl-one-early-bird.html - Tether FUD? - Coinbase adds Tezos staking to consumer facing interface =20 & >=20 - Realt + Uniswap + KYC bold>=20 - Ray Dalio "The World Has Gone Mad and the System is Broken" dalio/ - Cash transactions greater than ~$6000 banned in malaysia to-impose-cash-transaction-limit-of-rm25000-next-year - GEDmatch court case precedent could open up millions of DNA records t.html - Russian "sovereign internet" law control-online Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo1:39:00November 7, 2019Tales from the Crypt #113: Michael Caras AKA The Bitcoin RabbiJoin Marty as he sits down with Michael Caras AKA The Bitcoin Rabbi, Author of Bitcoin Money: A Tale of Bitville Discovering Good Money, to discuss: - Writing Bitcoin Money - Michael's journey to Bitcoin - Charity - Gold's future - much more Check out Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebitcoinrabbi 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:25:18November 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #112: Dhruv BansalJoin Marty as he sits down with Dhruv Bansal, Co-Founder and CSO of Unchained Capital, to discuss: - Multisig - Hardware wallets - SLIP 0039 - Center of Hash - Bitcoin in space - Balancing adaptation and conviction - much more  Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:30:11November 1, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.28This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - 11 years of bitcoin https://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/ - #FastForSatoshi - $1B in fees d>=19 - China blockchain pump s-blockchain-push - Wasabi and Samourai Whirlpool comparison chart d>=19 - Casa Gold 2 of 3 multisig s/ - Coinmetrics nonce analysis 4a - Wired hit piece on sanctions evasion https://www.wired.com/story/cryptocurrency-boom-post-soviet-frontier/ - Cryptosteel capsule hands on ld>=19 & old>=19 - Breez announces Lightning Rod d3e44a - Lightning and privacy & d>=19 - c-lightning 0.7.3 released https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v0.7.3 - Donations to Tor will be matched by Mozilla until November 4th https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency - Coldcard releases full schematics https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-hardware-shared/ - Lebanon institutes ban on cash leaving country USKBN1X60R2 & ins-limitations  - Argentina increases capital controls, $200 per month limit currency-controls-after-fernandez-victory Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo1:16:39October 31, 2019Tales from the Crypt #111: Evan Kaloudis Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Evan Kaloudis, Founder of ZeusLN.app, to drink moonshine and discuss: - Zeus - State of the Lightning Network - Gaming - Why are we doing this? - Security attack vectors to be aware of - Much more Follow Evan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/evankaloudis  Check out Zeus 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:56:32October 30, 2019Tales from the Crypt #110: Saifedean AmmousJoin Marty as he sits down with Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard, to discuss: - Academia - Bitcoinization might not play out how you think - The collective "We" - Building his Economics course - much more Check out Saif's website and academy - https://saifedean.com/ 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/44:55October 25, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.21This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Layer1 mining el-crypto-investment/ - Bakkt hits ATH volume >s=20 - Tails 4.0 old>=20 - Nodl Dojo kill switch 20 - Cryptosteel Capsule https://cryptosteel.com - Zebedee and SatoshisGames - zebedee.io & lightnite.io - Zap updates for iOS and desktop 0 & 0 - Bisq update v1.2, make sure you complete all trades/disputes/offers before upgrading old>=20 - ACINQ announces new mobile lightning wallet called Phoenix =20 - Iterative Capital announces Escher Hub bitcoin on/off ramp et-a-cheap-and-fast-way-to-transact-bitcoin/ - Bittr teases Lightning support with Nodl partnership =20 - FullyNoded iOS app (@fullynoded) allows you to connect to your own full node through Tor and use it with Coldcard PSBTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqKEPpSky2g - Tracking the PlusToken whale through Wasabi by @ergobtc coin-laundering-and-its-impact-on-wasabi-wallet-787c0d240192 - Samourai wallet releases anon set tool onymity-sets-4156a54b0bc7 - NordVPN private keys leaked d>=20 Much more Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo 1:08:05October 24, 2019Tales from the Crypt #109: Justin MoonJoin Marty as he sits down to catch up with Justin Moon. They discuss: - Building Buidl Bootcamp - Mooniversity - BitBoy - Junction - Wallets - Redundancy - Much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:44:36October 22, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.14This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Casa node concerns https://blog.keys.casa/addressing-security-concerns-about-casa-node/ - Realvision with Saifedean -standard?source_collection=07157a6eedda4e78b9dcada0c3bc76c0 - Trezor + Unchained Slip0039 implementation ndividuals-and-groups-cae3e9573410 - Child porn ring brought down shutdown - Oxford English Dictionary adds sats - Blockstream Green Wallet adds integrated Tor support =19 - LND 0.8.0 released ml - Casa covenant inheritance planning rvice-and-protocol/ - Nodl team begins moving everything behind Tor 19 - Tor releases new version of OnionShare e-publish-anonymous-uncensorable-websites-0 - Electrum announces their own lightning implementation - Coldcard Mk3 begins shipping - Rep Warren Davidson on Noded old>=19 - Protests around the world Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral. Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses for their new weekly series, Rabbit Hole Recap, in which they break down the latest news pertaining to Bitcoin. In their inaugural episode, the two discuss Bitmain's IPO and balance sheet, Bitcoin Core's impending release of v0.17, Square's Cash App gaining steam vs. Venmo, Venezuela and the Petro, and Siacoin's decision to hard fork to become ASIC resistant to certain miners. Links discussed in the show: https://twitter.com/btcven/status/1028743266739662849 Complaint-as-Filed-3063362-1.pdf fields-com-cash-48a99b85aad4 https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/VEF/BTC1:08:20August 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #39: Zac PrinceJoin Marty as he sits down with Zac Prince, co-founder of Blockfi, to discuss using Bitcoin as collateral, Fed policy, the fulfilment one gets from working in Bitcoin, and much more. Follow Zac: @BlockfiZac Follow Brad: @BradMichelson Follow Marty: @MartyBent Link to blogpost on taxes we discussed: -and-crypto-tax-treatment/ 1:42:38August 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #38: Nic CarterJoin Marty as he sits down with Nic Carter, Partner at Castle Island Ventures and co-founder of Coinmetrics.io, to dive into the current state of the cryptocurrency landscape, Augur, blockchain data, the evolving narratives in Bitcoin over time, and how Nic and his team approach investing in this space. Follow Nic on Twitter: @nic__carter Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Castle Island Ventures: http://www.castleisland.vc/ Check out Coinmetrics: https://coinmetrics.io/1:46:31August 14, 2018Tales from the Crypt #37: Dhruv BansalJoin Marty as he sits down with Dhruv Bansal, co-founder of Unchained Capital, to discuss HODL waves, using bitcoin as collateral for loans, how the story of Merlin and Arthur in "The Once & Future King" may apply to Bitcoin, and how we may take Bitcoin to space as an intergalactic money. Follow Dhruv: @dhruvbansal Follow Marty: @MartyBent Check out Unchained: https://www.unchained-capital.com/1:54:31August 7, 2018Tales from the Crypt #36: John NewberyJoin Marty as he sits down with John Newbery to discuss Bitcoin Optech, a new initiative to help large economic players within Bitcoin ensure they are following best practices when it comes to using the Bitcoin blockchain efficiently. The two also dive into Schnorr signatures, Taproot, Lightning Network, and get cosmic over some heady Bitcoin theories. Follow John on Twitter: @jfnewbery Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Bitcoin Optech: www.bitcoinops.org1:02:46August 1, 2018Tales from the Crypt #35: Bitcoin Sign GuyJoin Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Sign Guy to talk about the infamous day he held a "Buy Bitcoin" sign behind Janet Yellen as she gave a congressional testimony, what drives him philosophically, and what technologies like Bitcoin and 3D printers will enable in the future. *WARNING* This may be the drunkest TFTC episode to date. Enjoy!1:23:03July 10, 2018Tales from the Crypt #34: Murad MahmudovJoin Marty as he sits down with Murad Mahmudov, angel investor and author of two of the most prolific pieces on Bitcoin this year. The two dive deep into this conversation, discussing why dApp platform tokens shouldn't have any value, why Bitcoin's quest to become the reserve currency of the world has the biggest potential from an investment perspective, and some thoughts on anon coins and stable coins. Follow Murad: www.twitter.com/MustStopMurad Follow Marty: www.twitter.com/MartyBent1:50:58June 27, 2018Tales from the Crypt #33: Saifedean AmmousJoin Marty as he sits down with Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, to discuss the history of money, why sound money is so important, and how fiat currency has caused negative externalities like fiat food.  Follow Saifedean on Twitter: https://twitter.com/saifedean Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Pick up The Bitcoin native-Central/dp/11194736:48June 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #32: Josh OlszewiczJoin Marty as he sits down with a longtime crypto-Twitter and trading legend, Josh Olszewicz AKA @CarpeNoctom, to discuss a range of topics including TA, crypto-Twitter, how "the space" has changed and how the scams have adapted over the years. Tune in for some high qual reminiscing.   Josh's Twitter: www.twitter.com/CarpeNoctem Josh's YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/carpenoctom Read his stuff: https://bravenewcoin.com/authors/josh-olszewicz/ Marty's Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent1:29:13June 12, 2018Tales from the Crypt #31: Matt CoralloThis conversation hits on many topics, but focuses on (de)centralization and the types of centralizing risks that exist in the realm of cryptocurrencies. Matt expounds upon his project to decentralize mining, how UASF proved that Bitcoin is decentralized, why there is a somewhat-urgent need to develop a fee market to subsidize the block reward, and calls out some scams. Follow Matt on Twitter: @TheBlueMatt Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Chaincode Labs: www.chaincode.com1:34:52June 5, 2018Tales from the Crypt #30: Ryan DippmannJoin Marty as he sits down with Ryan Dippmann, co-founder of Azte.co, to discuss Bitcoin on/off ramps, payments, low hanging fruit that entreprenuers can use Bitcoin to exploit, surfing, and much more.  Follow Ryan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/RyanDippmann Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out www.azte.co  Use the code "CRYPT" at www.thecryptocandle.com for 10% of and a chance to buy a whole Bitcoin for $45!1:08:02May 31, 2018Tales from the Crypt #29: Jameson LoppJoin Marty as he sits down with Jameson Lopp to discuss a range of topics including private key management, anarcho-capitalism, SWATting, and why we need to be continually optimistic about freedom enabling technologies like Bitcoin. Follow Jameson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lopp Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Use the promo code "CRYPT" at www.thecryptocandle.com for 10% off a crypto candle at checkout. Buy one and you might win some bitcoin!57:36May 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #28: Joe LooneyJoin Marty as he sits down with Joe Looney, Co-Founder of the Rare Pepe Foundation, to discuss digital collectibles, the history of Rare Pepes, efficiencies provided to power plants via PoW mining, and much more.  Follow Joe on Twitter: @wasthatawolf Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent1:16:57May 15, 2018Tales from the Crypt #27: Alejandro MachadoJoin Marty as he sits down with Alejandro Machado to discuss Bitcoin and Venezuela, how Bitcoin may be able to help the struggling country, and how Venezuela got to this point. The two also venture into discussions about UX in crypto, the weird world we're living in, and how it's getting harder and harder to trust the information we receive on a day-to-day basis. Follow Alejandro on Twitter @alegw Follow Marty on Twitter @MartyBent1:29:01May 9, 2018Tales from the Crypt #26: Charles HwangJoin Marty as he sits down with Charles Hwang, Managing Partner at Lightning Capital and adjunct professor at Baruch College, to discuss what it's like teaching the subject of Bitcoin to college students, how regulators are and should classify Bitcoin, brain wallets, the introduction of a new segment "Freak Questions", and much more!  Follow Charles on Twitter: @cryptocharlesh Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent1:28:58May 2, 2018Tales from the Crypt #25: Patrick StanleyJoin Marty as he sits down with Patrick Stanley, Growth Partner at Blockstack, to discuss Blockstack, decentralizes applications, how Blockstack differs from Ethereum, education in America, and thinking different.  Follow Patrick on Twitter: @PatrickWStanley Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent1:10:11April 24, 2018Tales from the Crypt #24: PompJoin Marty as he sits down with Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano as they dive into a meandering conversation about mining, tokenized securities, memes, and the need for better UX in crypto.  Follow Pomp on Twitter: @APompliano Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent59:31April 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #23: Dylan CurranJoin Marty as he gets off the beaten path with Dylan Curran to talk about data in today's digital world, how we are controlled by it, and how we can change our tendencies to take back some privacy + control of our data. They get a little cosmic towards the end too. Follow Dylan on Twitter: @iamdylancurran Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent46:39April 17, 2018Tales from the Crypt #22: Tom Garrambone Pt. IIIn the second half of their conversation, Marty and Tom dive into leadership centralization, easy money, traditional financial markets, and the ongoing brain drain into crypto.1:06:58April 12, 2018Tales from the Crypt #21: Tom Garrambone Pt. IMarty sits down with Tom Garrambone, co-founder of Tetras Captial in NYC, to talk about his approach to investing in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the differences between a medium of exchange and store of value, and Silicon Valley v. Wall Street.1:05:55April 10, 2018Tales from the Crypt #20: Matt OdellJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Odell to talk about Bitcoin's game theory, the mining landscape, and the need for people to avoid FOMO as hard as they can. Join in on the ramblings of two shitposters who have been observing the space for many years.1:03:42April 3, 2018Tales from the Crypt #19: The Brothers O'Beirne Pt. IIPart II of Marty's conversation with the brothers O'Beirne gets more philosophical as the crew dives into many different topics.1:27:02March 29, 2018Tales from the Crypt #18: The Brothers O'Beirne Pt IJoin Marty as he sits down with brothers James and Will O'Beirne to talk about Bitcoin and Ethereum. James is now a full-time Bitcoin Core contributor, working at Chaincode Labs. Will is a part of the MyCrypto.com team and finally gives us a peek into the mind of someone building on and around Ethereum. The conversation meanders through many topics including prediction markets, Proof-of-Work v. Proof-of-Stake, the philosophy behind these technologies, and the current state of the space.1:31:16March 28, 2018Tales from the Crypt #17: Bobb FoggJoin Marty as he sits down with Bobb Fogg to discuss a litany of topics including; Bitcoin Maximalism, do blockchains have to be decentralized, the concepts of Nassim Taleb, and the state of governance in blockchains and the world.  Follow Bobb on Twitter: @BobbFogg Subscribe. Rate. Review. Share.1:49:16March 13, 2018Tales from the Crypt #16: Ari PaulJoin Marty as he sits down with Ari Paul to discuss a wide range of topics including; the token economy, the range of disciplines that someone investing in this asset class must have (at the very least) a grasp on, how little we know, and how important (not) knowing Satoshi is.  You can find out more about Ari by following him on Twitter @AriDavidPaul.2:11:56March 6, 2018Tales from the Crypt #15: Eduardo Medina and ZahJoin Marty as he sits down with Eduardo Medina to discuss Venezuela, the country's current crisis, the Petro, and how Bitcoin may help. Zah joins us for this episode to help draw parallels between Venezuela's situation and Zimbabwe's run-in with hyperinflation. This is why we Bitcoin.1:29:16February 28, 2018Tales from the Crypt #14: JW Weatherman**Sorry for the poor sound quality on my end of the mic. Recorded on my laptop and the mic wasn't configured properly.** Join Marty as he sits down with JW Weatherman to learn about the cypherpunk movement, JW's definition of modern-day slavery, anarcho-capitalism and how they all relate to Bitcoin. Hold onto your butts, the conversation broaches some controversial topics that will make you think about the systems we've grown up within.  JW is on Twitter under the handle @WeathermanIam. Follow him.1:55:16February 21, 2018Tales from the Crypt #13: Chiefy NduomJoin Marty as he sits down with Chiefy Nduom, a man on a mission to bring Bitcoin to the balance sheets of some of Africa's Central Banks. Topics covered throughout the conversation include the current state of the global financial system, the importance of having Bitcoin in a diversified portfolio, and how Bitcoin will evolve to be the collateral of choice in the future when people take out loans. Tune in, grow your know.1:51:14January 31, 2018Tales from the Crypt #12: Crypto de MediciJoin Marty as he sits down to peek into the mind of Crypto de Medici, a crypto investor and Crypto Twitter must-follow. Throughout the episode Marty and Medici touch on investment process, controlling emotions, the current landscape of crypto, and our archaic education system.1:20:56January 25, 2018Tales from the Crypt #11: Arjun Balaji Pt. IIJoin Marty and crew for the second half of their conversation with Arjun Balaji. They cover Blockstack, how the Internet is broken, and why companies like Facebook and Google may actually be bad.1:07:05January 23, 2018Tales from the Crypt #10: Arjun Balaji Pt. IJoin Marty and crew as they sit down with Arjun Balaji, a young crypto investor with a keen sense for finding value in the budding world of cryptocurrencies. Arjun let's us know the two cryptocurrencies he would hodl if he had to lock them up for 10 years, how these nascent technologies may shape our future, how they have changed people already, and much more.1:06:46January 16, 2018Tales from the Crypt #9: ZahJoin Marty as he sits down with Barstool's resident Zimbabwean, Zah, to talk about the history of Zimbabwe, its political situation, what people use as money during bouts of hyperinflation, and how people are using Bitcoin in the land locked African country north of South Africa.1:01:30January 8, 2018Tales from the Crypt #8: Team Lightswitch breaks down madnessMarty and fellow Team Lightswitch member Matt Brown breakdown the crazy week that was.22:24December 22, 2017Tales from the Crypt #7: Matt Corallo Pt. IICatch Pt. II of Marty's conversation with Matt Corallo to hear them discuss Bitcoin's chances of succeeding, how Bitcoin makes people smarter, and how everyone is ignorant when it comes to Bitcoin + blockchains. Enjoy.1:14:50December 18, 2017Tales from the Crypt #6: Matt Corallo Pt. IJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Corallo, a Bitcoin Core contributor, to discuss Bitcoin, the current altcoin landscape, scaling blockchains, cryptokitties, all time highs + bubbles, and much more. Drink of choice for this Happy Hour was Brooklyn Brewery's Pilsner.1:24:50December 12, 2017Tales from the Crypt #5: John NewberyJoin Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor, John Newbery to dig into some of the technical details of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Core's process, keeping the long-term in mind, and what the average Joe can do to make Bitcoin better.1:20:41December 6, 2017Tales from the Crypt #4: What the hell is going on?Marty is back in the studio with Louis and a special guest, Barstool's resident spider monkey, Nate. In this episode Nate signs a band, PFT makes a cameo to give us a lesson in exponential growth, and Marty answers all the questions Louis and Nate have about the current events in Bitcoin. Tune in to get caught up with all of the news that has been going on in Bitcoin.56:57November 20, 2017Tales from the Crypt #3: Santiago SiriMarty sits down with Santiago Siri, co-founder of Democracy.Earth, to talk about a range of topics including the Silk Road, liquid democracy, a trip to Cuba, Information Theory, and much more.1:41:30November 7, 2017Tales from the Crypt: Pierre Rochard Pt. IIIMarty and Pierre round out their conversation by hitting on "where we are now", crypto hedge funds, and Bitcoin storage. Links discussed: Kyle Bass interview - http://adventuresinfinance.realvision... Cold storage guide - https://github.com/rustyrussell/bitco...43:24November 2, 2017Tales from the Crypt: Pierre Rochard Pt. IIJoin Marty and Pierre in Pt. II of Episode 2 as they continue their conversation about speculative attacks, Bitcoin v. Ethereum, this year's ICO mania, and quality v. quantity.  Show notes: Grant Williams' interview with Kyle Bass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZdtL1YrRYo Satoshi Nakamoto Institute: www.nakamotoinstitute.org  Pierre Twitter: www.twitter.com/pierre_rochard Marty Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent1:11:28October 26, 2017Tales from the Crypt: Pierre Rochard Pt. IMarty sits down with Pierre Rochard, co-founder of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, to discuss a litany of topics. Tune into Pt. I of the three part episode to learn about Austrian Economics, the Tezos debacle, Bitcoin's governance, Linux, hyperbitcoinization, and speculative attacks.1:23:12October 25, 2017Tales from the Crypt Ep1: The History of Bitcoin pt. IIJoin Marty and Louis as they pick up the history of Bitcoin in 2012 and run through everything that's happened through today. Learn about Bitcoin's supply schedule, why people dislike Coinbase, and the first attempt to dethrone the Core team. This week's tangents include the Sixers, a Japanese word of the day, Louis' journey to find the Deep Web, and parking tickets in Chicago.1:11:47October 11, 2017Tales from the Crypt Ep1: The History of Bitcoin pt. IMarty and Louis discuss the history of Bitcoin, where they were when the Phillies won the world series, Brad Pitt, and Brock Lesnar.28:42October 3, 2017

sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. 1:50:28May 14, 2019Tales from the Crypt #70: Ruben WatermanJoin Marty and Matt Odell as they sit down with the one man team behind Bittr, the easiest way to stack sats in Europe. We discuss Ruben's path to Bitcoin, his experience getting a Masters in Blockchain from the University of Nicosia, why he built Bittr, what it's like bootstrapping a company, and much more.  Check out Bittr: https://www.getbittr.com/ Follow Ruben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/watermaniak Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent Shoutout to our sponsor, Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today.1:29:38May 13, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.05.06This week Marty and Matt are joined by Murad Mahmudov from Adaptive Capital to discuss: - Binance hack - onlynet=onion in config file - h/t Evan Kaloudis - TFTC.io launch - Our Lightning node was stolen 75cc3cc28b7ffcde1 - bip-taproot https://github.com/sipa/bips/blob/bip-schnorr/bip-taproot.mediawiki - Wasabi guide bitcoin-only.com @6102bitcoin  https://github.com/6102bitcoin/FAQ/blob/master/wasabi.md - Honeyminer Mac release - One entity is responsible for 50% of BCH transactions - Whirpool - Andrew Chow on PSBT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6xZSRDXUiU&feature=youtu.be Shoutout to this week's listener contributor, Pedro. Here's the video he shared https://youtu.be/NO1aDZ6L4NQ?t=1118 Thank you to this week's sponsors. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. 1:15:45May 9, 2019Tales from the Crypt #69: Juthica ChouJoin Marty as he sits down with Juthica Chou, Co-Founder and COO of LedgerX, to discuss Bitcoin options, what it was like for LedgerX to navigate the regulatory waters throughout the years, LedgerX's Omni platform, and much more. Learn about futures contracts based on block height, backing into projected price probabilities, and how miners hedge their risk. Check out LedgerX: https://ledgerx.com/ Follow Juthica on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juthica Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martybent Shout out to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Download the Cash App today from the App Store or Google Play Store and start #stackingsats 42:17May 7, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.29This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Bitcoin v.0.18.0 released hats-new/ - Bitfinex spread increases, -1-billion-through-an-ieo-shareholder-says/ - Cashapp $65.5M quarterly bitcoin sales  - Amazon Managed Blockchain ce-available-to-the-public/ - #dropgold campaign - dropgold.com - Ethereum is now money according to ethereum.org - CoinJoins as a Percentage of All Bitcoin Payments Have Tripled to 4.09% Over the Past Year -payments-have-tripled-to-409-over-the-past-year - Samourai Whirlpool enters mainnet testing phase - Nine in 10 Americans have heard about bitcoin, Blockchain Capital survey finds itcoin-survey-finds/ - Fidelity surveys 400 institutional investors, 22% already have exposure, 47% think exposure makes sense: nvestments-likely-to-increase-over-next-5-years-729fb1ca3c52 - eTrade joining the party, plans to offer bitcoin trading to its ~5M customers https://twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/1121868559330598912 Shoutout to this week's sponsors: Cash App, head over to the Apple App Store or Google Play and download it today to start #stackingsats Unchained Capital, check out Unchained's 2-of-3 multisig vaults product today and get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin. er 1:06:11May 2, 2019Tales from the Crypt #68: Patrick DuganJoin Marty as he sits down with Founder and CEO of TradeLayer, Patrick Dugan, to discuss Patrick's run in with pot smoking bandits in Argentina, what he's building on TradeLayer, how decentralized derivatives markets may help drive demand for Bitcoin, the flow of money, and sovereignty in the Information Age.  Check out TradeLayer: http://tradelayer.org/ Follow Patrick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/duganist Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent 2:13:51April 30, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.22This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitfinex gets sued - d=vIexA1b0spKOnK_PLUS_ZUGTJ3A==&system=prod  -  https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/356 - Erisx and TdAmeritrade - market/ - Ledger Windows phishing attack - 0 - Wasabi update - https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/releases - d>=20 - Lightning Labs releases Beta Neutrino Lightning App for desktop - >=20 - assumutxo proposal by James O'Beirne - https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/04/09/ - Satoshi's Treasure update - tinyurl.com/dpravengers - Samsung invests 2.9M into Ledger  - ger/ - Gemini integrates SegWit fully - egwit-protocol/ - Bitmain rumored to be abandoning BCH - https://twitter.com/btcking555/status/1121699148523352064 - Casa privacy campaign + tor update - https://blog.keys.casa/casa-privacy-and-data-protection-policy/ - finalmessage.io - Run a tor relay node! - https://blog.torproject.org/new-guide-running-tor-relay Shoutout to this week's sponsor, 21Lectures! If you're looking to learn how to build on top of Bitcoin and LN check out 21Lectures.com today!  1:29:53April 26, 2019Tales from the Crypt #67: Nik Bhatia Join Marty as he sits down with Nik Bhatia, who has pushed forward the theory of Lightning Network Reference Rates, to discuss a range of topics including reference rates in the traditional financial sector, LNRR, Bitcoin + Real Estate escrow, Nik's experience producing rap albums and much more.  Check out Nik's writing on LNRR:  https://medium.com/@timevalueofbtc Follow Nik on Twitter: www.twitter.com/timevalueofbtc Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital! Sign up for their multisig vault product today by using the link below and receive a free three-month subscription to Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin.  er1:39:36April 23, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.15 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Satoshi's Treasure https://satoshistreasure.xyz/ & M4Gor240vH_yVN9Urni7VjPYlh4Z5rlRA/viewform?usp=sf_link - Reports from CoinMetrics and TradeBlock dispute Reuters $100M whale story - and ld>=20 - Wasabi Wallet hardware wallet support in testing - mentation/Guides/20190416HardwareWalletTestingGuide.md - lLND 0.6.0 - static channel backup --- release notes: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases --- Channel backup guide: >channel-backups  - Lightning Powernode Launcher will default to Tor /bold>=20 - Nodl update- 5804c08420230e23c7c - hodlnaut BTCPay fundraiser - https://weareallhodlonaut.com/ - US Sanction Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua - s-measures-against-cuba-venezuela-and-nicaragua - Proof of Solvency piece - a-thing-bc4750dd16c7 & t-60-march-2019 - paywall.link and lightningscratchcard.io Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Check out their 2-of-3 multisig vault service today! er1:04:40April 18, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.08This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Julian Assange d>-issue-460 - HODL guide https://github.com/DriftwoodPalace/guides - Multisig scenarios - Coinbase o-fiat-debit-card-in-the-uk-filling-gap-left-by-shift-shutdown/ - LND 0.6.0 release https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases - Zap 0.4.1 release https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases - Managing a Lightning Node 75cc3cc28b7ffcde1 - Binance to-up-the-exchanges-compliance-procedures/ - Energy waste https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1116340276463714305 - China bans Bitcoin wants-to-eliminate-bitcoin-mining-idUSKCN1RL0C4 Shout out to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Check out their 2-of3 multisig vaults today! er54:16April 12, 2019Tales from the Crypt #66: Parker LewisJoin Marty as he sits down with Parker Lewis, Head of Business Development at Unchained Capital, to discuss Unchained's mission and product suite, and reflect on the Federal Reserve's continuously shifting policy over the last twelve years. Parker's knowledge of what was going on at the Fed as the '07/'08 crisis was unfolding and during its aftermath is rare and something all of you freaks could learn from.  Follow Parker on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/parkeralewis Follow Marty on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/martybent Check out Unchained Capital: https://www.unchained-capital.com 1:21:37April 9, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.04.01This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Eclair Correction - Price talk - Cumberland OTC desk 10+ bids over 1000 bitcoin on Monday - surge-of-large-btc-orders-in-a-single-hour-late-monday-night/ - Fee talk - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1113949215829430275 - Nodl - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1113806561921708032 - Boltz inbound capacity tool 1432 - Pierre inbound capacity tool https://lightningpowerusers.com/home/ - Veriblock ICO sold out in seconds - https://medium.com/@ambroidcrypto/veriblock-deep-dive-49c533e9c5e7 - Bitcoin 2019 Conference - https://www.bitcoin2019conference.com/ - BitBlockBoom Conference [Promo: RHR] - https://bitblockboom.com/ - NVT Signal - =19 Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Sign up and create a multisig vault and receive a FREE three-month subscription to Dr. Saifedean Ammous'  The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin using this link: er55:07April 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #65: Johnny Dilley, Tom Garrambone & Matt OdellJoin Marty as he sits down with Johnny Dilley (Founder of Mempool Partners), Tom Garrambone (Founder of Tetras Capital), and Matt Odell (Bitcoiner) to have a roundtable discussion covering; Capitalism v. Socialism, Bitmain, 21co, nature, dinosaurs, what could kill Bitcoin, and much more.  Check out mempool.io Check out tetras.capital Follow Tom on Twitter: www.twitter.com/tomgarrambone Follow Matt on Twitter: www.twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Smash that subscribe button, freaks! 1:34:11April 2, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.25This week Marty and Matt Discuss:  - Coinbase, stake is on the menu - Steve Barbour WSJ article - BSV - Bitmain IPO not happening - ryanofsky PR merged - Gemini bech32 + Blockstream explorer - Eclair mainnet full release - Craig Wright is a fraud - Dream Market shutting down - BitMex LN research Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Head over to medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Vault%20Launch and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vault product. If you're in NYC on 4/1, head over to Galvanize to check out a live demo: 4596257746:35March 29, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.18On this week's episode Marty and Matt discuss: - Square Crypto initiative - https://twitter.com/jack/status/1108487911802966017 - Lightning Loop - https://blog.lightning.engineering/posts/2019/03/20/loop.html - BlockstreamGreen - t - Fed shifting posture - https://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1108427995709165573 - Venezuela sanctions payment processors - ns-prohibiting-payment-processing-services-in-venezuela/ - ETH ProgPow - https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1108561560304316421 - Bitcoin Optech - https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/03/19/ - Hash rate - https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty - FUD debunking Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Head over to er and check out their multisig vault setup which let's you maintain control and sovereignty over your BTC while providing a solution that keeps you worry free!  1:01:10March 21, 2019Tales from the Crypt #64: Carl DongJoin Marty as he sits down with Carl Dong, Bitcoin Core contributor currently working at Chaincode Labs, to discuss responsible disclosures, making Bitcoin Core more modular, Guix containers, Dyson spheres and much more!  Follow Carl on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carl_dong Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Check out Carl's PR: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/152771:25:12March 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #63: Zac Prince & Rene van Kesteren Join Marty as he sits down with Zac Prince & Rene van Kesteren from Blockfi to discuss their new interest account product, how they manage risk with this particular offering, the nature of risk disclosures, and the utility that Bitcoin provides the world that wasn't possible before its existence.  Follow Zac on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlockFiZac Follow Renee on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rene_vankest Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Martybent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, 21Lectures. Head over to https://21lectures.com to learn more about their courses aimed at helping developers become more familiar/comfortable with BTC/LN development! 1:38:41March 15, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.11This week Marty and Matt are joined by Adam Ficsor (@nopara73), Founder of Wasabi Wallet, to discuss: - The current dust attack against Wasabi users - https://twitter.com/nopara73/status/1105779583410946049 - CoinJoins  - Privacy - Unchained Capital multisig vaults - Porn KYC in the UK - Drop in BTC transactions  - Trezor vulnerabilities Thanks to this week's sponsor, Unchained Capital. Check out their new multisig vault solution today:  er1:02:43March 14, 2019Tales from the Crypt #62: Jake Chervinsky Join Marty as he sits down with Jake Chervinsky, a lawyer with a focus on government enforcement defense and securities litigation, as they discuss the law and how it pertains to Bitcoin and everything created in its wake. Topics covered include, Jake's path to Bitcoin, the concept of light touch regulation, organizations like Coin Center, how the SEC has been treating ICOs, how the SEC may treat these ICOs going forward, and hope for a less Orwellian future. Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Lolli! Head over to https://lolli.com/ref/tftc right now and start stacking sats as you shop online today! 1:53:37March 12, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.03.04This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Canadian Revenue Service asking for BTC addresses: https://twitter.com/kyletorpey/status/1103467047412002817 - Ripple, FinCen agreement: ld>=20 - Is Bitcoin Twitter engagement back at 2015 levels?: https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1103673829832970240 - ABCore 0.70 released: old>=20  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greenaddress.abcore - QE, NIRP creeping - BlockFi Interest Account: https://twitter.com/BlockFiZac/status/1103293858283245569 https://twitter.com/vandrewattycpa/status/1102953966537752576 - Coinbase: https://twitter.com/coindesk/status/1103443720307912704 - Facebook going private?: =19 - Facebook 2fa phone number leak: ing-of-phone-numbers-required-for-2fa/ - Chinese database surveillance leak, indow-chinas-digital-surveillance-state - QuadrigaCX update, l-patryn-allegedly-traded-large-positions-on-bitmex/ Shoutout to this week's sponsors: Honeyminer, head over to stackingsats.com and download Honeyminer today. The one-click solution to mining altcoins to stack sats.  Unchained Capital, if you're in the Austin area on Monday March 11th, 2019 Unchained is demo'ing their new multi-sig vault product. If you're not in Austin, do not worry. The event will be live streamed. Link to attend below: 4March 7, 2019Tales from the Crypt #61: Jack DorseyJoin Marty as he sits down with Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, to discuss how Jack came to experiment with Bitcoin, the parallels he sees between Twitter and Bitcoin, dealing with pseudonymity on Twitter, how Bitcoin curbs the State, education in the Information Age, what it's like to be a part of the Casa node club, and much more. Thank you to this week's sponsors: Honeyminer is the easiest way to earn Bitcoin. A simple crypto mining application that uses your computer's CPUs and GPUs to mine cryptocurrencies and pays you in Bitcoin. Go to https://www.honeyminer.com today and start earning BTC now. 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Head over to https://lolli.com/ref/tftc today! 35:04March 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.25This week Marty and Matt discuss: -Casa new product lineup g-its-business-and-its-kicking-off-with-two-new-products/ -Facebook coin FUD telegram.html -Venezuela bitcoin article flation-cryptocurrencies.html#click=https://t.co/P8hxu1vqni -Square sold 10k BTC in Q4 2018 of-bitcoin-in-2018/ -Coinomi spellcheck bug 547ca348676b -Trezor and Ledger update reminders -Samourai Whirlpool in testing phases, running on nodl.it -Wasabi, try it out free shill - www.twitter.com/@tweet_stamp is pretty cool, uses OpenTimestamps -Torpedo vulnerable https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/24/new-4g-5g-security-flaws/ -New privacy wiki up by Chris Belcher https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Privacy Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer. Head over to stackingsats.com today, download Honeyminer, and start stacking sats today!  54:23March 1, 2019Tales from the Crypt #60: Misir Mahmudov Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin researcher Misir Mahmudov to discuss many topics including Bitcoin as Time, Bitcoin's amorality, Bitcoin's incentives, and family values.  Follow Misir on Twitter: www.twitter.com/misir_mahmudov Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Thanks to this week's sponsor, BlockFi! Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can avoid selling your BTC today! 2:39:32February 26, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.18This week Marty and Matt discuss: -Galaxy S10 Bitcoin wallet confirmed https://bitcoinist.com/samsung-galaxy-s10-bitcoin-wallet/ -Jack activates tippin.me https://twitter.com/jack/status/1098324828182831104 -Coinbase acquires chain analysis company https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1098275229556768768 -Elon Ark Invest pod https://twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1097905577831862272 -Coinmama KYC breach 450k customer affected https://twitter.com/bitentrepreneur/status/1096549320302776320 -IMF NIRP Blog post  est-rates-work/ Thanks to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer!  Head over to stackingsats.com and download Honeyminer today! The easiest way to begin earning BTC with your spare computing hardware. Now available for Linux (www.honeyminer.com/labs). 48:29February 21, 2019Tales from the Crypt #59: Eric SpanoJoin Marty as he sits down with Eric Spano, Founder of bylls.com, to discuss building a product with little understanding of code, enterprise blockchain consulting, Bitcoin service provider UX, and much more.  Follow Eric on Twitter: www.twitter.com.espano_ Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Peep the Nielsen Norman Group's 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design  https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/ Visit www.bylls.com 2:01:31February 20, 2019Tales from the Crypt #58: André Neves Join Marty as he sits down with André Neves, Co-Founder and Co-CTO of Koala Studio, to discuss everything from BTC/LN adoption via gaming, what it's like to live in the UAE, the Surveillance State, and much more.  Follow André on Twitter: www.twitter.com/andreneves Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Check out Koala Studio: koalastud.io Thanks to our sponsors: BlockFi, head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can avoid selling your BTC this tax season.  Lolli, head over to lolli.com/ref/tftc and download Lolli today so you can begin earning up to 30% cash back in BTC!  1:48:03February 19, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.11This week Marty and Matt discuss: -Tippin.me extension -Lolli extension -Spacebit.live -Venezuela ATH LocalBitcoins volume - 2454 Bitcoin / 8.95 million USD https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/VES/BTC -Bitcoin Ham radio https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1095354354289135617 -Full nodes thesis - Swensen/Yale investments is-said-to-invest-in-crypto-fund-that-raised-400-million) - Supply chain attacks + secure hardware >-top-companies) - Bitcoin Core v0.17.0 release -whats-new/) - Gemini gets asset insurance (https://medium.com/gemini/digital-assets-insurance-adbfb0c44e74) - Bitfinex cut ties with Noble, now with HSBC -its-banking-relationship-to-hsbc/) - SegWit txs almost at 50% work(https://transactionfee.info/charts/payments/segwit) - Eris announces Bakkt competitor exchange-to-create-crypto-market-backed-by-drw-virtu) - Aaron van Wirdum's privacy series ld>=19) - Murad + David Puell's MVRV Ratio mvrv-ratio-3ebc914dbaee) 1:04:04October 8, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.01On this week's episode of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt and Marty discuss - Samourai Wallet + goTenna collab: ld>-issue-330 Siacoin bricks ASICs: https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/955907524317859842 Malta Prime Minister, pretty chay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QzbiMmuO0k&feature=youtu.be 1Broker gets seized: d>=19 ShapeShift: on-wsjs-attack-on-shapeshift-and-crypto/ EOS collusion: old>=19 Thank you to our sponsors: Cash App, we don't use the other apps anymore. Download the app now - https://cash.app/ Honeyminer, start making BTC in one click - https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk1:00:22October 2, 2018Conversations from Riga: Matt Corallo + HasuflyIn this special edition of Tales from the Crypt, Marty sits down with Matt Corallo to discuss CVE-2018-17144, the bug found in Bitcoin last week, and his efforts with the Betterhash mining pool protocol. This is a quick 15-minute conversation that touches on a lot. During the last 2/3 of the episode, Marty sits down with Hasufly, a budding star in the world of Bitcoin content to discuss the practices he used to learn about Bitcoin as quickly as possible. Hasu has an incredible way of creating mental frameworks from which to learn. Tune in to learn about the people, data sources and tools Hasu used to bootstrap his knowledge of Bitcoin in only 10 months. Follow Matt: @TheBlueMatt Follow Hasu: @Hasufl Follow Marty: @MartyBent Links: https://tim.blog/2017/06/04/nick-szabo/ https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/outline Thank you to our sponsor, Honeyminer. Check them out here: https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk49:46September 26, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.24On this week's episode of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt and Marty discuss: CVE-2018-17144: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/20/notice/ Monero bug: ning-bug.html Baltic Honey Badger Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66ZoGUAnY9s https://hodlhodl.com/ Argentina: /bold>-issue-325 "Please stop deploying d-apps to Ethereum.": https://twitter.com/5chdn/status/1042860655114694656 B Foundation: https://twitter.com/TheB_Foundation/status/1043805473949065216 Thank you to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer. Use the ref link below for 1,000 satoshis and use one click to start mining today: honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk 1:09:48September 26, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.17On this week's edition of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt and Marty discuss: NY Attorney General's report - https://virtualmarkets.ag.ny.gov Jesse Powell DGAF - __twitter_impression=true Bitcoin Core bug + v0.16.3 - https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/09/18/ Josh Garza goes to jail - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1040300880170500097 Bancor on EOS - fast-free-transactions/ *Lightning Spotlight* LND Work - https://www.lndwork.com/ BTC volume in Venezuela - https://diar.co/volume-2-issue-37/ Salt Bae :( Laurent's last post - https://medium.com/@laurentmt/electric-money-e2cd34f78f56 Thank you to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer. Use the ref link below for 1,000 satoshis and use one click to start mining today: https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk 57:14September 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #43: Caitlin LongJoin Marty as he sits down with Wall Street veteran Caitlin Long to discuss her journey to Austrian economics via Wall Street, the extent of the shadow banking system, the situation public pensions and social security find themselves in, and Caitlin's efforts to make Wyoming the most Bitcoin-friendly state in the US. Follow Caitlin on Twitter: @CaitlinLong_ Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Caitlin's website: https://caitlin-long.com/1:31:11September 16, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.10In this week's episode Marty and Matt discuss: Gemini & Paxos fiat backed 'stablecoins' - d>=19 Robinhood fueled Doge pump - d>=19 Unraveling of the ICO bubble - -silicon-valley-riches-can-he-survive-the-crash-1536681364?mod=e2tw & d>=19 Laurent's new post in PoW series - https://medium.com/@laurentmt/cliffhangers-cb87ed47124e SEC ETN Suspensions pdf & Bittrex, Malta, and Regulatory Arbitrage - https://support.bittrex.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001354486. & e-eu-is-furious-with-1:00:14September 12, 2018Tales from the Crypt #42: Coinyeezy AKA Elon MoistJoin Marty as he sits down with Coinyeezy to discuss a litany of topics including; Honeyminer, the power of memes, "Bitcoin Generalists", hustling and some trippy theories about the great pyramids. Follow Coinyeezy on Twitter: @coinyeezy Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Peep Honeyminer: www.honeyminer.com 1:26:44September 10, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.09.03In this edition of Rabbit Hole Recap Matt + Marty discuss: Emerging Market currency crises Iran give Bitcoin mining the go-ahead Ethereum FOMC meeting Infura centralization ShapeShift Casa's new plug and play all-in-one Bitcoin full node + Lightning node Discussions of a new Bitcoin testnet Links: https://twitter.com/WallSt_Dropout/status/1037004709419278336 d>=19 d>=19 bold>-issue-311 apeshift-membership/ https://twitter.com/ConsenSys/status/1037339692981727233 /bold>:01:57September 6, 2018Tales from the Crypt #41: Ryan Selkis Join Marty as he sits down with Ryan Selkis, Founder at Messari, to discuss how Ryan got into Bitcoin, how writing helped him carve out a niche in a budding industry, what it was like to work for Digital Currency Group and CoinDesk, what he learned there, how he's using those lessons while building Messari, and a deep dive into Token Curated Registries. Follow Ryan on Twitter: @twobitidiot Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Messari: https://messari.io/58:59September 4, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.08.27In this episode we discuss: Vitalik Buterin's recent blog post on how to scale with layers The importance of soft forks CNBC's trash coverage WeChat and Alipay banned cryptocurrency commerce and chats The recent jump in hash rate Laurent's piece on measuring the value secured by PoW NIRP in Germany CFTF fine of German Bank for manipulating USD derivatives ETF denial then subsequent "reevaluation" Links: https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/08/26/layer_1.html >=19 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1019675622581391361 https://medium.com/@laurentmt/gravity-10e1a25d2ab2 59:14August 29, 2018Tales from the Crypt #40: Joe Weisenthal Join Marty as he sits down with Joe Weisenthal, Editor at Bloomberg and co-host of "What'd you miss?" on BloombergTV. The two jump into the mind of a skeptic. Joe was notoriously a skeptic of Bitcoin after writing an article titled "Bitcoin is a joke" in 2013. Since then Joe has become less skeptical and he explains why in this episode. Beyond Bitcoin, Marty and Joe discuss economics, the state of the economy, Joe's journey to Bloomberg, and the mainstream media. Follow Joe: @TheStalwart Follow Marty: @MartyBent Check out WDYM?: https://www.bloomberg.com/series/whatd-you-miss Peep Joe's Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/joseph-weisenthal1:55:37August 28, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.08.20Join Marty and Matt Odell for their new weekly series, Rabbit Hole Recap, in which they break down the latest news pertaining to Bitcoin. In their inaugural episode, the two discuss Bitmain's IPO and balance sheet, Bitcoin Core's impending release of v0.17, Square's Cash App gaining steam vs. Venmo, Venezuela and the Petro, and Siacoin's decision to hard fork to become ASIC resistant to certain miners. Links discussed in the show: https://twitter.com/btcven/status/1028743266739662849 Complaint-as-Filed-3063362-1.pdf fields-com-cash-48a99b85aad4 https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/VEF/BTC1:08:20August 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #39: Zac PrinceJoin Marty as he sits down with Zac Prince, co-founder of Blockfi, to discuss using Bitcoin as collateral, Fed policy, the fulfilment one gets from working in Bitcoin, and much more. Follow Zac: @BlockfiZac Follow Brad: @BradMichelson Follow Marty: @MartyBent Link to blogpost on taxes we discussed: -and-crypto-tax-treatment/ 1:42:38August 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #38: Nic CarterJoin Marty as he sits down with Nic Carter, Partner at Castle Island Ventures and co-founder of Coinmetrics.io, to dive into the current state of the cryptocurrency landscape, Augur, blockchain data, the evolving narratives in Bitcoin over time, and how Nic and his team approach investing in this space. Follow Nic on Twitter: @nic__carter Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Castle Island Ventures: http://www.castleisland.vc/ Check out Coinmetrics: https://coinmetrics.io/1:46:31August 14, 2018Tales from the Crypt #37: Dhruv BansalJoin Marty as he sits down with Dhruv Bansal, co-founder of Unchained Capital, to discuss HODL waves, using bitcoin as collateral for loans, how the story of Merlin and Arthur in "The Once & Future King" may apply to Bitcoin, and how we may take Bitcoin to space as an intergalactic money. Follow Dhruv: @dhruvbansal Follow Marty: @MartyBent Check out Unchained: https://www.unchained-capital.com/1:54:31August 7, 2018Tales from the Crypt #36: John NewberyJoin Marty as he sits down with John Newbery to discuss Bitcoin Optech, a new initiative to help large economic players within Bitcoin ensure they are following best practices when it comes to using the Bitcoin blockchain efficiently. The two also dive into Schnorr signatures, Taproot, Lightning Network, and get cosmic over some heady Bitcoin theories. Follow John on Twitter: @jfnewbery Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Bitcoin Optech: www.bitcoinops.org1:02:46August 1, 2018Tales from the Crypt #35: Bitcoin Sign GuyJoin Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Sign Guy to talk about the infamous day he held a "Buy Bitcoin" sign behind Janet Yellen as she gave a congressional testimony, what drives him philosophically, and what technologies like Bitcoin and 3D printers will enable in the future. *WARNING* This may be the drunkest TFTC episode to date. Enjoy!1:23:03July 10, 2018Tales from the Crypt #34: Murad MahmudovJoin Marty as he sits down with Murad Mahmudov, angel investor and author of two of the most prolific pieces on Bitcoin this year. The two dive deep into this conversation, discussing why dApp platform tokens shouldn't have any value, why Bitcoin's quest to become the reserve currency of the world has the biggest potential from an investment perspective, and some thoughts on anon coins and stable coins. Follow Murad: www.twitter.com/MustStopMurad Follow Marty: www.twitter.com/MartyBent1:50:58June 27, 2018Tales from the Crypt #33: Saifedean AmmousJoin Marty as he sits down with Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, to discuss the history of money, why sound money is so important, and how fiat currency has caused negative externalities like fiat food.  Follow Saifedean on Twitter: https://twitter.com/saifedean Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Pick up The Bitcoin native-Central/dp/11194736:48June 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #32: Josh OlszewiczJoin Marty as he sits down with a longtime crypto-Twitter and trading legend, Josh Olszewicz AKA @CarpeNoctom, to discuss a range of topics including TA, crypto-Twitter, how "the space" has changed and how the scams have adapted over the years. Tune in for some high qual reminiscing.   Josh's Twitter: www.twitter.com/CarpeNoctem Josh's YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/carpenoctom Read his stuff: https://bravenewcoin.com/authors/josh-olszewicz/ Marty's Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent1:29:13June 12, 2018Tales from the Crypt #31: Matt CoralloThis conversation hits on many topics, but focuses on (de)centralization and the types of centralizing risks that exist in the realm of cryptocurrencies. Matt expounds upon his project to decentralize mining, how UASF proved that Bitcoin is decentralized, why there is a somewhat-urgent need to develop a fee market to subsidize the block reward, and calls out some scams. Follow Matt on Twitter: @TheBlueMatt Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent Check out Chaincode Labs: www.chaincode.com1:34:52June 5, 2018Tales from the Crypt #30: Ryan DippmannJoin Marty as he sits down with Ryan Dippmann, co-founder of Azte.co, to discuss Bitcoin on/off ramps, payments, low hanging fruit that entreprenuers can use Bitcoin to exploit, surfing, and much more.  Follow Ryan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/RyanDippmann Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out www.azte.co  Use the code "CRYPT" at www.thecryptocandle.com for 10% of and a chance to buy a whole Bitcoin for $45!1:08:02May 31, 2018Tales from the Crypt #29: Jameson LoppJoin Marty as he sits down with Jameson Lopp to discuss a range of topics including private key management, anarcho-capitalism, SWATting, and why we need to be continually optimistic about freedom enabling technologies like Bitcoin. Follow Jameson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lopp Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Use the promo code "CRYPT" at www.thecryptocandle.com for 10% off a crypto candle at checkout. Buy one and you might win some bitcoin!57:36May 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #28: Joe LooneyJoin Marty as he sits down with Joe Looney, Co-Founder of the Rare Pepe Foundation, to discuss digital collectibles, the history of Rare Pepes, efficiencies provided to power plants via PoW mining, and much more.  Follow Joe on Twitter: @wasthatawolf Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent1:16:57May 15, 2018Tales from the Crypt #27: Alejandro MachadoJoin Marty as he sits down with Alejandro Machado to discuss Bitcoin and Venezuela, how Bitcoin may be able to help the struggling country, and how Venezuela got to this point. The two also venture into discussions about UX in crypto, the weird world we're living in, and how it's getting harder and harder to trust the information we receive on a day-to-day basis. Follow Alejandro on Twitter @alegw Follow Marty on Twitter @MartyBent1:29:01May 9, 2018Tales from the Crypt #26: Charles HwangJoin Marty as he sits down with Charles Hwang, Managing Partner at Lightning Capital and adjunct professor at Baruch College, to discuss what it's like teaching the subject of Bitcoin to college students, how regulators are and should classify Bitcoin, brain wallets, the introduction of a new segment "Freak Questions", and much more!  Follow Charles on Twitter: @cryptocharlesh Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent1:28:58May 2, 2018Tales from the Crypt #25: Patrick StanleyJoin Marty as he sits down with Patrick Stanley, Growth Partner at Blockstack, to discuss Blockstack, decentralizes applications, how Blockstack differs from Ethereum, education in America, and thinking different.  Follow Patrick on Twitter: @PatrickWStanley Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent1:10:11April 24, 2018Tales from the Crypt #24: PompJoin Marty as he sits down with Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano as they dive into a meandering conversation about mining, tokenized securities, memes, and the need for better UX in crypto.  Follow Pomp on Twitter: @APompliano Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent59:31April 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #23: Dylan CurranJoin Marty as he gets off the beaten path with Dylan Curran to talk about data in today's digital world, how we are controlled by it, and how we can change our tendencies to take back some privacy + control of our data. They get a little cosmic towards the end too. Follow Dylan on Twitter: @iamdylancurran Follow Marty on Twitter: @MartyBent46:39April 17, 2018Tales from the Crypt #22: Tom Garrambone Pt. IIIn the second half of their conversation, Marty and Tom dive into leadership centralization, easy money, traditional financial markets, and the ongoing brain drain into crypto.1:06:58April 12, 2018Tales from the Crypt #21: Tom Garrambone Pt. IMarty sits down with Tom Garrambone, co-founder of Tetras Captial in NYC, to talk about his approach to investing in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the differences between a medium of exchange and store of value, and Silicon Valley v. Wall Street.1:05:55April 10, 2018Tales from the Crypt #20: Matt OdellJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Odell to talk about Bitcoin's game theory, the mining landscape, and the need for people to avoid FOMO as hard as they can. Join in on the ramblings of two shitposters who have been observing the space for many years.1:03:42April 3, 2018Tales from the Crypt #19: The Brothers O'Beirne Pt. IIPart II of Marty's conversation with the brothers O'Beirne gets more philosophical as the crew dives into many different topics.1:27:02March 29, 2018Tales from the Crypt #18: The Brothers O'Beirne Pt IJoin Marty as he sits down with brothers James and Will O'Beirne to talk about Bitcoin and Ethereum. James is now a full-time Bitcoin Core contributor, working at Chaincode Labs. Will is a part of the MyCrypto.com team and finally gives us a peek into the mind of someone building on and around Ethereum. The conversation meanders through many topics including prediction markets, Proof-of-Work v. Proof-of-Stake, the philosophy behind these technologies, and the current state of the space.1:31:16March 28, 2018Tales from the Crypt #17: Bobb FoggJoin Marty as he sits down with Bobb Fogg to discuss a litany of topics including; Bitcoin Maximalism, do blockchains have to be decentralized, the concepts of Nassim Taleb, and the state of governance in blockchains and the world.  Follow Bobb on Twitter: @BobbFogg Subscribe. Rate. Review. Share.1:49:16March 13, 2018Tales from the Crypt #16: Ari PaulJoin Marty as he sits down with Ari Paul to discuss a wide range of topics including; the token economy, the range of disciplines that someone investing in this asset class must have (at the very least) a grasp on, how little we know, and how important (not) knowing Satoshi is.  You can find out more about Ari by following him on Twitter @AriDavidPaul.2:11:56March 6, 2018Tales from the Crypt #15: Eduardo Medina and ZahJoin Marty as he sits down with Eduardo Medina to discuss Venezuela, the country's current crisis, the Petro, and how Bitcoin may help. Zah joins us for this episode to help draw parallels between Venezuela's situation and Zimbabwe's run-in with hyperinflation. This is why we Bitcoin.1:29:16February 28, 2018Tales from the Crypt #14: JW Weatherman**Sorry for the poor sound quality on my end of the mic. Recorded on my laptop and the mic wasn't configured properly.** Join Marty as he sits down with JW Weatherman to learn about the cypherpunk movement, JW's definition of modern-day slavery, anarcho-capitalism and how they all relate to Bitcoin. Hold onto your butts, the conversation broaches some controversial topics that will make you think about the systems we've grown up within.  JW is on Twitter under the handle @WeathermanIam. Follow him.1:55:16February 21, 2018Tales from the Crypt #13: Chiefy NduomJoin Marty as he sits down with Chiefy Nduom, a man on a mission to bring Bitcoin to the balance sheets of some of Africa's Central Banks. Topics covered throughout the conversation include the current state of the global financial system, the importance of having Bitcoin in a diversified portfolio, and how Bitcoin will evolve to be the collateral of choice in the future when people take out loans. Tune in, grow your know.1:51:14January 31, 2018Tales from the Crypt #12: Crypto de MediciJoin Marty as he sits down to peek into the mind of Crypto de Medici, a crypto investor and Crypto Twitter must-follow. Throughout the episode Marty and Medici touch on investment process, controlling emotions, the current landscape of crypto, and our archaic education system.1:20:56January 25, 2018Tales from the Crypt #11: Arjun Balaji Pt. IIJoin Marty and crew for the second half of their conversation with Arjun Balaji. They cover Blockstack, how the Internet is broken, and why companies like Facebook and Google may actually be bad.1:07:05January 23, 2018Tales from the Crypt #10: Arjun Balaji Pt. IJoin Marty and crew as they sit down with Arjun Balaji, a young crypto investor with a keen sense for finding value in the budding world of cryptocurrencies. Arjun let's us know the two cryptocurrencies he would hodl if he had to lock them up for 10 years, how these nascent technologies may shape our future, how they have changed people already, and much more.1:06:46January 16, 2018Tales from the Crypt #9: ZahJoin Marty as he sits down with Barstool's resident Zimbabwean, Zah, to talk about the history of Zimbabwe, its political situation, what people use as money during bouts of hyperinflation, and how people are using Bitcoin in the land locked African country north of South Africa.1:01:30January 8, 2018Tales from the Crypt #8: Team Lightswitch breaks down madnessMarty and fellow Team Lightswitch member Matt Brown breakdown the crazy week that was.22:24December 22, 2017Tales from the Crypt #7: Matt Corallo Pt. IICatch Pt. II of Marty's conversation with Matt Corallo to hear them discuss Bitcoin's chances of succeeding, how Bitcoin makes people smarter, and how everyone is ignorant when it comes to Bitcoin + blockchains. Enjoy.1:14:50December 18, 2017Tales from the Crypt #6: Matt Corallo Pt. IJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Corallo, a Bitcoin Core contributor, to discuss Bitcoin, the current altcoin landscape, scaling blockchains, cryptokitties, all time highs + bubbles, and much more. Drink of choice for this Happy Hour was Brooklyn Brewery's Pilsner.1:24:50December 12, 2017Tales from the Crypt #5: John NewberyJoin Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor, John Newbery to dig into some of the technical details of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Core's process, keeping the long-term in mind, and what the average Joe can do to make Bitcoin better.1:20:41December 6, 2017Tales from the Crypt #4: What the hell is going on?Marty is back in the studio with Louis and a special guest, Barstool's resident spider monkey, Nate. In this episode Nate signs a band, PFT makes a cameo to give us a lesson in exponential growth, and Marty answers all the questions Louis and Nate have about the current events in Bitcoin. Tune in to get caught up with all of the news that has been going on in Bitcoin.56:57November 20, 2017Tales from the Crypt #3: Santiago SiriMarty sits down with Santiago Siri, co-founder of Democracy.Earth, to talk about a range of topics including the Silk Road, liquid democracy, a trip to Cuba, Information Theory, and much more.1:41:30November 7, 2017Tales from the Crypt: Pierre Rochard Pt. IIIMarty and Pierre round out their conversation by hitting on "where we are now", crypto hedge funds, and Bitcoin storage. Links discussed: Kyle Bass interview - http://adventuresinfinance.realvision... Cold storage guide - https://github.com/rustyrussell/bitco...43:24November 2, 2017Tales from the Crypt: Pierre Rochard Pt. IIJoin Marty and Pierre in Pt. II of Episode 2 as they continue their conversation about speculative attacks, Bitcoin v. Ethereum, this year's ICO mania, and quality v. quantity.  Show notes: Grant Williams' interview with Kyle Bass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZdtL1YrRYo Satoshi Nakamoto Institute: www.nakamotoinstitute.org  Pierre Twitter: www.twitter.com/pierre_rochard Marty Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent1:11:28October 26, 2017Tales from the Crypt: Pierre Rochard Pt. IMarty sits down with Pierre Rochard, co-founder of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, to discuss a litany of topics. Tune into Pt. I of the three part episode to learn about Austrian Economics, the Tezos debacle, Bitcoin's governance, Linux, hyperbitcoinization, and speculative attacks.1:23:12October 25, 2017Tales from the Crypt Ep1: The History of Bitcoin pt. IIJoin Marty and Louis as they pick up the history of Bitcoin in 2012 and run through everything that's happened through today. Learn about Bitcoin's supply schedule, why people dislike Coinbase, and the first attempt to dethrone the Core team. This week's tangents include the Sixers, a Japanese word of the day, Louis' journey to find the Deep Web, and parking tickets in Chicago.1:11:47October 11, 2017Tales from the Crypt Ep1: The History of Bitcoin pt. IMarty and Louis discuss the history of Bitcoin, where they were when the Phillies won the world series, Brad Pitt, and Brock Lesnar.28:42October 3, 2017Tales from the Crypt: A Bitcoin PodcastBy Marty BentTales 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.Starting in undefined…00:001:08:411x#161: Misir MahmudovJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Misir Mahmudov to discuss: - This Book Will Save You Time - Inflation - How inflation data is manipulated - How shrinkflation works - Self Help - much more Follow Misir on Twitter Buy the book Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.56:32May 16, 2020#160: Brian HarringtonJoin Marty as he sits down with fellow Bitcoiner Brian Harrington to discuss: - Civil Liberties and the shutdown - Three sides of your balance sheet - Should we stop paying taxes? - Using your bitcoin in different ways  - Enacting change via local government - Jesus - much more Follow Brian on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.1:08:41May 12, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.05.04This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Paul Tudor Jones announces bitcoin investment  - Nodl Dojo adds keysend support and btc-rpc explorer nodl.it - CashApp quarterly bitcoin sales ATH  - CoinKite announces BlockClock Mini and steel backup plates  - Foundation Devices announces intention to build new hardware wallet in US  - Blockstream satellite v2  - BlueWallet v5.3.5  - c-lightning v0.8.2  - eclair v0.4  - the perpetual one way peg  - Lebanon and bitcoin  - Zoom buys keybase  - Duterte shutsdown major news network in the Phillipines  - Marty's Bent RSS Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.2:03:08May 7, 2020#158: Marshall HolbrookJoin Marty as he sits down with Marshall Holbrook, founder of BitG@s, to discuss: - Marshall's experience with natural gas over the last two decades - How natural gas gets delivered to the grid - The decrease in nat gas prices - Using Bitcoin mining to get more money for his gas - The design of a bitcoin mining shed on a nat gas field - Mining with S9s - Trying to convince other nat gas producers to get into mining - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.50:28May 6, 2020#157: Ben Prentice + Heavily Armed ClownJoin Marty as he sits down with Ben Prentice and Heavily Armed Clown to discuss: - WTF happened in 1971?!  Follow Ben on Twitter Follow Heavily Armed Clown on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:08:45May 5, 2020#156: Matt AhlborgJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Ahlborg, founder of UsefulTulips.org, to discuss: - How the rolling blackouts in Venezuela last year affected bitcoin trading in LatAm + the US - How Venezuelan's are using bitcoin as a rail to move money - Why we've seen an increase in bitcoin exchange volume in Argentina - Argentina's history of capital controls - Cuevas - Do individuals using bitcoin in LatAm believe in its long-term viability as a digital money? - Increased bitcoin exchange volume in Kenya - Bitcoin usage in India - much more Follow Matt on Twitter Check out UsefulTulips   Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:06:41May 1, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.27This week Marty and Matt as they discuss: - HWI updated to fix new Trezor firmware compatibility issues  - Laurent on payjoin and deception tools  - Ministry of Nodes RoninDojo video  - Argentina bitcoin usage by Matt Ahlborg  - Kenyan P2P bitcoin volume hits ATHs  - CardCoins sponsoring core developer  - BTCPay Server v1.0.4.2  - ColdCard Kitchen  - OXT Research Report on North Korean cybercrime group  - ColdCard v3.1.3 firmware  - LND v0.10-beta  - Learn using comics with Amiti  - Dressing for the surveillance age  - CryptoCloaks Honey Badger hidden box  - Harvard authoritarians + NIH funding of research on the virus - Lebanese Banking crisis Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.2:08:55April 30, 2020#155: OpenomsJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with developer Openoms to discuss: - How Openoms came to find Bitcoin - Why he started building apps and hardware products for bitcoiners - JoininBox - JoinMarket - Fidelity Bonds - Privacy on Lightning - Broadcast transactions privately - much more Follow Openoms on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:27:34April 29, 2020#154: Amiti Uttarwar Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Amiti Uttarwar, Bitcoin Core contributor at Xapo, to discuss: - How Amiti came to find Bitcoin - Getting into Bitcoin Core development - Learning C++ - Amiti's work on rebroadcasting - Protecting privacy at the P2P level - Nuance of mempools - Current state of Bitcoin - much more Follow Amiti on Twitter Check out her post, Onboarding to Bitcoin Core Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:09:44April 28, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.20Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Unchained Capital caravan update inbound - mynode v0.2.03  - SLP Chris Belcher  - Upcoming eps with Amiti and Openoms - YouTube taking down any content not in line with WHO - Should we reopen the economy? - much more  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:28:00April 23, 2020#153: ZubyJoin Marty as he sits down with Zuby, Rapper/Author/Podcaster/Free thinker, to discuss: - How to use Twitter correctly - How people waste time on Twitter with hate - Why you shouldn't let people you've never met dictate your happiness - People losing their own humanity - Only you control your success - Bitcoin and why it may have limited upside - The importance of healthy living - much more Follow Zuby on Twitter Check out Zubymusic.com Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:03:14April 22, 2020#152: Ben HuntJoin Marty as he sits down with Ben Hunt, founder of Epsilon Theory, to discuss: - How institutions have failed us across the board in the wake of coronavirus - Why we need to burn it the f*ck down - How we can create grass roots movements to turn away from our failing institutions - Ben's work with frontlineheroes.com - Why we probably won't have a 'V' shaped recovery - much more  Follow Ben on Twitter Check out Frontline Heroes Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.50:36April 21, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap Stimulus Package: 2020.04.20Join Marty & Matt as they discuss: - BTCPay Server adds payjoin support  - Trezor update breaks HWI support   - Cobra and Theymos split ownership of bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org - Purse.io shuts down  - Breez wallet adds keysend support  - Nodl adds keysend support Nodl OG  - Juggernaut messenger  - Oil markets - MMT - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:32:34April 21, 2020#151: Marshall LongJoin Marty as he sits down with long time bitcoiner + miner Marshall Long to discuss: - How Marshall got into Bitcoin mining - Why he only mines Bitcoin now - Evolution of chips - Chip fabrication foundries  - Stories of procuring miners in China - The evolution of culture in China - The future of Bitcoin mining - much more Follow Marshall on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:13:05April 18, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.13This week Marty & Matt discuss: - Bryan Bishop releases bitcoin vaults prototype  - Ransomware operator now defaults to monero payments  - Utreexo explainer  - Trezor Model T v2.3.0  - Samourai Wallet v0.99.93  - Whirlpool CLI v0.10.5 released  - Apple and Google bluetooth based tracking system integrated at the mobile OS level  - Graphene OS guide  - Protesting is a "non essential activity" - Masks now required in NYC lol - Surveillance programs escalate worldwide using coronavirus as an excuse  - Most popular ethereum chain explorer has added a blacklist tool  - Maker foundation lawsuit  - Central banks recommend global stablecoin ban, notable ethereum stakeholders caught off guard but they shouldn't be - Libra pivots to simple single currency stablecoin model  - 9th anniversary of online poker Black Friday  - Mullvad.net VPN releases mobile wireguard compatible apps - SLP Rafael Yakobi  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:14:09April 15, 2020#149: Steve Barbour Join Marty as he sits down with Steve Barbour, founder of Upstream Data, to discuss: - Steve's experience in the Oil & Gas industry before Bitcoin - Difference between an electrical and mechanical engineer - The problem Bitcoin mining solves for the O&G industry - Difference between building on the grid and off the grid - Why Bitcoin is so important - Building a business slowly - much more Follow Steve on Twitter Check out Upstream Data Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:29:26April 14, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.04.06Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - 16.5M Americans unemployed - Today's Fed announcements  - Dave Portnoy calling the dollar Schrute Bucks  - Bisq security vulnerability  - ACINQ Phoenix v1.3.0 adds Tor support - BlueWallet v5.3.0 - Samourai Dojo v1.5  - Ronin Dojo v1.4  - All Nodls now support dojo and whirlpool - Method to provide clearnet access to Tor lightning nodes proposed  - Fold announces sats back visa debit card  - Zane Pocock on the EARN IT Act  - Stephan Livera with Gleb Naumenko on erlay  - Chainalysis CoFounder on WBD  - Shoutout to @jamesbtcbond for setting up his node with electrum  - Rodolfo bitcoin-dev keychain email Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.  1:27:12April 9, 2020#148: Matt D'SouzaJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt D'Souza from Blockware Solutions to discuss: - Blockware's recent research paper on mining - Running a mining operation - How Matt came to realize Bitcoin is King - The State of the Economy - Why Bitcoin isn't "backed by nothing" - much more Follow Matt on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:12:15April 8, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap Stimulus Package: 2020.04.06Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - CDC finally recommends face coverings  - CoolWallet S security flaw  - MutantC RPi4 mobile build  - Whirlpool CLI v0.10.4 released  - Eclair v0.3.4 released  - OC Bitcoin Network talk on samourai wallet and privacy  - Tor Browser v9.0.8 released  - RaspiBlitz v1.5 RC1 adds joinmarket CLI support  - Wasabi Wallet v1.1.11 released  - MyNode v0.2.01 - Janet Yellen wants the Fed to buy stocks - Japanese family formation - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:19:19April 6, 2020#147:Alex GladsteinJoin Marty & Matt as they sit down with Alex Gladstein from the Human Rights Foundation to discuss: - Government overreach during the response to COVID19 - The capture of the World Health Organization - Censorship in China as COVID19 was spreading - The economic impact of forced quarantine  - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:33:09April 3, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: 2020.03.30This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Breez Point of Sale mode added to lightning wallet  - LSAT Authentication  - Samourai Whirlpool GUI v0.10.1 and CLI v0.10.3    - MyNode v0.2.0  - Bitmex research bitcoin development funding analysis  - Bitmex renews and increases grant to Bitcoin Core maintainer Michael Ford  - Mulit-location backup scheme spec released by @openoms  - Whirlpool March volume totaled 1523.45 bitcoin  - Multi sig betting with caravan  - Binance makes a distinction between coinjoin and custodial mixers in recent blog post  - Coinkite begins selling power only magnetic usb cables  - Surveillance companies pivot to coronavirus tracking to increase their reach  - UK PM hosts cabinet meeting on Zoom  - StandardNotes.org and meet.jit.si shoutouts - Calling out pedos  - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:17:39April 1, 2020#145: Roy SebagJoin Marty as he sits down with Roy Sebag, Founder of Goldmoney and Menē, to discuss: - The mechanics of paper and physical bullion markets - The history of paper gold being used to suppress the price of physical gold - The Fed has man-in-the-middle attacked US citizens - Why the Internet isn't decentralized - Why Sound Money is so important and why bitcoiners and gold holders need to join forces - The reaction to COVID19. Are we being put in our pods? - Political framing and mental pods - The common man - The importance of unplugging - What Gen Z thinks - much more Follow Roy on Twitter Check out Goldmoney Check out Menē Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:37:34March 30, 2020#144: Michael KriegerJoin Marty as he sits down with Michael Krieger, founder of Liberty Blitzkrieg to discuss: - Gold markets - The Empire - Most recent bailout - Great Awakening - Why Michael is still bullish on Bitcoin - Bitcoin + Oil & Gas Industry - Un-schooling - much more Follow Michael on Twitter Check out Liberty Blitzkrieg Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:22:45March 27, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.23This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin and Venezuela  - Coinkite Coldpower  - Zebedee releases bitcoin gaming SDK explainer video  - Tails OS v4.4.1  - Graphene OS v2020.03.23.22 released  - TFTC Guides: Graphene OS installation  - BTCxZelko on Stephan Livera - $500M of US stimulus bill dedicated to increased surveillance capabilities  - Disturbing video shows coronavirus phone tracking tool  -Taiwan coronavirus surveillance escalates  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:12:55March 26, 2020#143: JW Weatherman & Giacomo ZuccoJoin Marty as he sits down with JW Weatherman and Giacomo Zucco to discuss: - Separating people from their State - Overt v. covert evil empires - Heuristics one can use to gauge the severity of COVID19 - much more Follow JW on Twitter Follow Giacomo on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:54:13March 25, 2020#142: Elisabeth PréfontaineJoin Marty as he sits down with Elisabeth Préfontaine, founder of Octonomics, to discuss: - Elisabeth's experience in the banking + financial worlds - Problems with transparency in the traditional financial world - Bad incentives in the traditional financial system - Why Bitcoin only? - How Quebec messed up their opportunity to court bitcoin entrepreneurs - Defining Bitcoin - Why bitcoin isn't a security - PC creep into the boardroom - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  1:02:59March 24, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Stimulus Package 2020.03.23Join Marty and Matt as they discuss:  - Markets down, bitcoin up - Sunday futures limit down in 3 mins - 60 Minutes interview Kashkari "infinite amount of cash"  - Fed announces unlimited QE  - Russian central bank added 400k ounces of gold to its reserves in february  - TFTC.tv guides - Graphene & MyNode - JoinMarket v0.6.2  - JoinMarket PR for fidelity bonds  - Nodl Dojo v0.0.8  - March Whirlpool volume higher than last 3 months combined  - LN Markets released on mainnet  - CashApp adds option to display in sats  - Magic Internet Gathering bitcoin gaming initiative announced  - HRF deep dive into buying bitcoin anonymously  - DOJ seeks permission to detain people indefinitely without trial  - Israel to go into full lockdown with phone location monitored and Ministry of Health to release new tracking app - The Chula Vista Police Department to use 4 drones to monitor Coronavirus shutdown - Nascar virtual races on fs1  - much more  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. 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Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. 1:28:07March 19, 2020#141: Charles MarohnJoin Marty as he sits down with Charles Marohn, Author of Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity, to discuss: - How America has been very wasteful with resources for the last five decades - The problems with top-down decision making - Why centralized economies "on the bike" don't work in the long-run - The morality of Fed policy - Parallels between modern day America and the Weimar Repulic - How small towns can start over and stand on their own two feet - Value per acre - Creating community - Bringing design thinking to city building - Activating unused spaces - much more Follow Charles on Twitter Buy the book Check out the Strong Towns podcast Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App sponsor: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:30:11November 1, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.28This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - 11 years of bitcoin https://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/ - #FastForSatoshi - $1B in fees d>=19 - China blockchain pump s-blockchain-push - Wasabi and Samourai Whirlpool comparison chart d>=19 - Casa Gold 2 of 3 multisig s/ - Coinmetrics nonce analysis 4a - Wired hit piece on sanctions evasion https://www.wired.com/story/cryptocurrency-boom-post-soviet-frontier/ - Cryptosteel capsule hands on ld>=19 & old>=19 - Breez announces Lightning Rod d3e44a - Lightning and privacy & d>=19 - c-lightning 0.7.3 released https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning/releases/tag/v0.7.3 - Donations to Tor will be matched by Mozilla until November 4th https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency - Coldcard releases full schematics https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-hardware-shared/ - Lebanon institutes ban on cash leaving country USKBN1X60R2 & ins-limitations  - Argentina increases capital controls, $200 per month limit currency-controls-after-fernandez-victory Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo1:16:39October 31, 2019Tales from the Crypt #111: Evan Kaloudis Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Evan Kaloudis, Founder of ZeusLN.app, to drink moonshine and discuss: - Zeus - State of the Lightning Network - Gaming - Why are we doing this? - Security attack vectors to be aware of - Much more Follow Evan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/evankaloudis  Check out Zeus 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: tftc.tv Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:56:32October 30, 2019Tales from the Crypt #110: Saifedean AmmousJoin Marty as he sits down with Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard, to discuss: - Academia - Bitcoinization might not play out how you think - The collective "We" - Building his Economics course - much more Check out Saif's website and academy - https://saifedean.com/ 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. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/44:55October 25, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.21This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Layer1 mining el-crypto-investment/ - Bakkt hits ATH volume >s=20 - Tails 4.0 old>=20 - Nodl Dojo kill switch 20 - Cryptosteel Capsule https://cryptosteel.com - Zebedee and SatoshisGames - zebedee.io & lightnite.io - Zap updates for iOS and desktop 0 & 0 - Bisq update v1.2, make sure you complete all trades/disputes/offers before upgrading old>=20 - ACINQ announces new mobile lightning wallet called Phoenix =20 - Iterative Capital announces Escher Hub bitcoin on/off ramp et-a-cheap-and-fast-way-to-transact-bitcoin/ - Bittr teases Lightning support with Nodl partnership =20 - FullyNoded iOS app (@fullynoded) allows you to connect to your own full node through Tor and use it with Coldcard PSBTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqKEPpSky2g - Tracking the PlusToken whale through Wasabi by @ergobtc coin-laundering-and-its-impact-on-wasabi-wallet-787c0d240192 - Samourai wallet releases anon set tool onymity-sets-4156a54b0bc7 - NordVPN private keys leaked d>=20 Much more Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo 1:08:05October 24, 2019Tales from the Crypt #109: Justin MoonJoin Marty as he sits down to catch up with Justin Moon. They discuss: - Building Buidl Bootcamp - Mooniversity - BitBoy - Junction - Wallets - Redundancy - Much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:44:36October 22, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.14This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Casa node concerns https://blog.keys.casa/addressing-security-concerns-about-casa-node/ - Realvision with Saifedean -standard?source_collection=07157a6eedda4e78b9dcada0c3bc76c0 - Trezor + Unchained Slip0039 implementation ndividuals-and-groups-cae3e9573410 - Child porn ring brought down shutdown - Oxford English Dictionary adds sats - Blockstream Green Wallet adds integrated Tor support =19 - LND 0.8.0 released ml - Casa covenant inheritance planning rvice-and-protocol/ - Nodl team begins moving everything behind Tor 19 - Tor releases new version of OnionShare e-publish-anonymous-uncensorable-websites-0 - Electrum announces their own lightning implementation - Coldcard Mk3 begins shipping - Rep Warren Davidson on Noded old>=19 - Protests around the world Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral. Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/tftc211:12:06October 17, 2019Tales from the Crypt #108: Jared DillianJoin Marty as he sits down with Jared Dillian, Founder & Editor of The Daily Dirtnap newsletter, to discuss: - Jared's reformed skepticism of Bitcoin - Bitcoin v. Gold - What happens if we End The Fed? - Millenial investing - much more  Follow Jared on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailydirtnap Check out The Daily Dirtnap: https://www.dailydirtnap.com/ Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/52:00October 15, 2019Tales from the Crypt #107: American HodlJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with American Hodl to wax poetic about everything. Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/2:25:57October 11, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.10.07This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Real Vision upcoming show with Saif - Coldcard adds offline address explorer with new update thanks to @hodlwave https://blog.coinkite.com/address-explorer/ - Zap Android app update 0 - Upcoming Zap desktop update to include node pubkey signing https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-588/ - New KYCP update - kycp.org - https://mempool.observer/monitor/ by @0xB10C - Nodl Samourai announced - https://shop.nodl.it/en/home/38-nodl-samourai-edition.html - Casa Node 2 announced - https://blog.keys.casa/announcing-casa-node-2/ - ACINQ raises $8M in series A - ning-implementation-raises-8m - Tor removes ~800 old relays - ers-for-running-eol-versions/ - Adobe and others cut off Venezuelan users from cloud services - behance-us-sanctions - Multiple corporations bend the knee to China - https://ibb.co/album/eSSKDv - Hong Kong Free Press switches to BTCPay - d>=20 - City of Miami to vote on 30 year contract for cameras and flood sensors on light poles to private company with no data protection >=20 - Surveillance partnerships with Amazon's Ring door cameras -on-elected-officials-to-stop/ - Bitcoin2020 tickets for $50, Szabo is keynote - https://www.bitcoin2020conference.com/ Cash App. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com to check out their collaborative custody and loan products as well as their open source contributions. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Check out www.youtube.com/tftc21 1:01:37October 10, 2019Tales from the Crypt #106: Aleks SvetskiJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Aleks Svetski, founder of Amber, to discuss: - The latest Amber updates - Building out a product road map and prioritizing - Citadels - Separation of money and state - Hypothetical paths to a post-bitcoinization world - much more  Shoutout to this week's sponsors, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:08:36October 8, 2019Tales from the Crypt #105: Travis KlingJoin Marty as he sits down with Travis Kling, CIO of Ikigai Asset Management, to discuss: - Travis' journey to bitcoin - Failed narratives/frameworks of years past - How the current system is gamed - Timing - Much more Follow Travis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Travis_Kling Check out Ikigai: https://www.ikigai.fund Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:21:53October 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.30This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Michelle Phan y-she-left.html - Baakt launches with limited volume https://www.bakkt.com/markets - US & UK CLOUD Act Agreement ion-backdoors.shtml - HK - 1967 emergency laws enacted - face masks banned https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-4991888 - host4coins.net - Opendime videos - tftc.tv - Team signing for Casa Diamond Members ($5040 per year) https://blog.keys.casa/team-signing-on-casa-keymaster/ - uesefultulips.org - Wasabi error, rescan required - Crypto Rating Council launched by  Coinbase, Kraken, Poloniex and Bittrex https://www.cryptoratingcouncil.com/asset-ratings - EOS $24M settlement with SEC https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-202 - Keybase impersonator Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral. Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/tftc211:03:50October 3, 2019Tales from the Crypt #104: JanineJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Janine, privacy researcher and co-host of Block Digest, to discuss: - Janine's path to Bitcoin - Common privacy blunders - Avoiding big tech - Coinbase's checkered history - CoinJoins - Block Digest - Traveling without Google Maps - Much more Follow Janine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/J9Roem Check out Block Digest: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb53lXz2IzEFT5JNHSbdvPg Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. Use promo code “TFTC” to get up to $250 off your Casa membership … or hit their team up membership@team.casa for a free demo, or to put them to the test with your hardest OpSec questions! Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:11:41October 1, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.23This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Lightning Vulnerability disclosed er/002174.html - Maduro rumored to own bitcoin in-stash-and-doesn-t-know-what-to-do-with-it - In device address explorer coming to coldcard /bold>=20 - Erlay BIP draft released https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-578/ - Fold joins the sats back party with Amazon support =20 - tThe "hashcrash" https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1176850968211668994 - ETH gas limit raised it-to-10-million Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. If you need liquidity but don't want to sell your bitcoin, they offer easy access to loans using bitcoin as collateral. Collateral is always stored on-chain in dedicated multisig addresses with the option for you to hold a key, and your bitcoin is never rehypotheticated. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada.49:49September 27, 2019Tales from the Crypt #103: Mauricio Di Bartolomeo & Adam ReedsJoin Marty as he sits down with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo & Adam Reeds, the co-founders of Ledn.io, to discuss: - Ledn's loan offerings and expansion into Latin America - Bitcoin mining in Venezuela - Stablecoins  - Crossing boarders with Bitcoin - How the Venezuela government buys bitcoin via LocalBitcoins - Sneaking out of the country - The ills of Socialism - much more  Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 2:12:20September 26, 2019Tales From The Crypt #102: John DoeJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with John Doe, an ex-Silk Road vendor who had a four year forced hodl. Learn about what it was really like to use the Silk Road, the ethos of the website + forums, and the absurdness of The Drug War.  Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:05:15September 24, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.16This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Baltic Honeybadger in Riga - [Day 1] rce%3Ddigg [Day 2] e=digg - Reminder that browser extensions can be malicious, act accordingly - Someone is impersonating Matt on Keybase - Olympus fiat to lightning https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-574/ - Sparkswap beta launched >=20 - Square Crypto hires 3 new devs Valentine Wallace, Jeffrey Czyz, Arik Sosman, announces funding for BTCPay https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-570/ - Hash rate all time high again - https://bitcoinvisuals.com/chain-hash-rate - Tor project now using BTCPay - https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency - Bobby Lee launches horrible product BalletCrypto card that nobody should use  - ColdCard multisig plugin merged into electrum, next official version of should have it ready to go, or just build from official sources today - Nodl + Samourai edition designs released, preorders soon /bold>=20 - Bisq adds encrypted chat https://twitter.com/wiz/status/1174104040193413120?s=20 - Repo market / Fed cuts rate / QE4? Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada.56:36September 20, 2019Tales from the Crypt #101: Jack Mallers - Olympus AnnouncementJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers to discuss the launch of Olympus, a non-custodial way to buy bitcoin and immediately receive it on the Lightning Network.  Link to Jack's Medium post on the launch: -ramps-by-zap-1f5349a96ee9 Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:16:58September 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #100: @arbedoutJoin Marty as he sits down with Matt Odell and a very special guest, arbedout. Arbedout is a Twitter anon who has some incredible views on Bitcoin. Particularly how the nascent "cryptocurrency boom" shares a lot of eerie parallels with market booms throughout history.  The trio polishes off 3/4 of a bottle of Knob Creek while reminiscing on their experiences within the "cryptocurrency boom".  Follow arbedout on Twitter: https://twitter.com/arbedout Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/  3:22:33September 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #99: Raoul PalJoin Marty as he sits down with Raoul Pal, Founder of Real Vision and Global Macro Investor, to discuss: - Repo markets - The state of the global financial system - Demographics - Behavioral Economics - Tokenizing income streams - much more  Follow Raoul on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI Check out Real Vision: https://www.realvision.com/ Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:06:03September 18, 2019Tales from the Crypt #98: Carla Kirk-Cohen Join Marty as he sits down with Carla Kirk-Cohen, the last of Chaincode Labs' Summer residents to swing through the studio, to discuss: - Carla's journey to Bitcoin - Her passion for the Lightning Network - Life in South Africa - Bringing LN to an exchange - Things that LN enables that weren't possible before  Follow Carla on Twitter: https://twitter.com/actuallyCarlaKC Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:05:29September 17, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.09This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Lightning CVE exploited in the wild, lnd 0.7.0 vulnerable, update! er/002148.html - Digg from the dead https://digg.com/channel/bitcoin - NY payroll company MyPayrollHR exit scam $35M 5-million/ - French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire says Libra will not be allowed in the EU .html - Premier League Club Watford Bitcoin logo on jerseys due to sportsbet.io sponsorship https://www.watfordfc.com/club/bitcoin-confirmed-new-sleeve-partner - Keybase airdrops shitcoin, bitcoiners donate to Tor, almost 17000 XLM donated(~$1020) KGJDMEW6VLOOLBTIFPJIN7XT6KAFXJQPJ?filter=payments - Bitcoin as a nonviolent rebellion by Nic Carter e?sk=c70e2e688cb3c15dfe68f4d2627b1059 - ColdCard firmware update 2.1.4 for multi-sig change outputs https://coldcardwallet.com/docs/upgrade - Bittr adds xpub support =19 - Spencer Dinwiddie of NJ Nets is a bitcoiner and is tokenizing his ~$34 million extension t-that-means/ - ECB cuts rates and announces a new round of QE "Negative rates will not provoke the collapse of the financial system" - Draghi arts-qe-to-fight-slowdown-as-draghi-era-ends Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada.1:07:59September 13, 2019Tales from the Crypt #97: Eric Voskuil Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Eric Voskuil, lead maintainer of the libbitcoin Bitcoin implementation, as they discuss: - libbitcoin - Austrian Economics - Attack vectors - Eric's experience in the Navy  - How Bitcoin fails  - Dust - much more  Check out the libbitcoin Wiki: https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:53:13September 11, 2019Tales from the Crypt #96: Elichai TurkelJoin Marty as he sits down with Elichai Turkel, recent Summer resident at Chaincode Labs, to discuss: - Elichai's path to cryptography and Bitcoin - Schnorr signatures - Taproot  - Miniscript - Cryptography - State of academic papers - much more Follow Elichai on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Elichai2 Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to this week's sponsor, Cash App. Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:04:13September 9, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.09.02This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Portugal is indeed exempting bitcoin from cap gains treatment: oin-tax-code-other-nations-should-take-note - Hash rate all time high - https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-hashrate.html - LocalBitcoins KYC - -privacy-concerns - SNICKER https://gist.github.com/AdamISZ/2c13fb5819bd469ca318156e2cf25d79 - vaneck & solidx pivot to gbtc like structure rather than ETF for their investment product oin-etf-to-institutional-investors - Facebook left phone numbers exposed on server, 419 million records leaked: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/facebook-phone-numbers-exposed/ - Google discloses exploit that allowed malicious sites to retrieve iPhone files and location data: hones-for-years - M5Stack + bitcoin https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-562/ - TFTC Guides: Lightning for beginners with Breez wallet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zhW7ilOjWg&feature=youtu.be - Bridgefy mesh messaging app being used in hong kong: https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-561/ - Argentina implements capital controls, individuals won't be allowed to acquire or wire abroad more than 10,000 dollars per month - turn-to-argentina-as-macri-fights-to-survive - Upgrade your lightning nodes, disclosure of vulnerability in 3 weeks 002130.html - Jack Dorsey Twitter account hijacked due to sim swap + tweets by sms: d>=20 Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Bull Bitcoin.  Canadian freaks need to check out Bull Bitcoin (https://bullbitcoin.com/). Canada's only Bitcoin maximalist brokerage. Also, check out BitcoinOutlet.com for some of their dope swag if you're outside of Canada. 1:05:12September 5, 2019Tales from the Crypt #95: Gleb Naumenko Join Marty as he sits down with Gleb Naumenko to discuss: - Gleb's experience helping to build an exchange - Bitcoin usage in Ukraine - Gleb's work on Erlay - The Erebus attack  - Movies Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/ 1:19:30September 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.26This week Marty and Matt discuss: - ColdCard MK3 announced: https://blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-mark3/ - https://ln.alhur.es/ by @fiatjf - UI for hardware wallet multisig using bitcoin core and HWI released for testing by @justinmoon - https://github.com/justinmoon/junction - Bitcoin realized cap hits ath of ~$100B - https://coinmetrics.substack.com/ - According to Chainalysis, less than 11% of mixed bitcoin are used for illicit purposes - t-used-for-illicit-purposes - CSW rebuked hard in court, judge orders 50% of his bitcoin to be given to Kleinman's estate, unfortunately for them he probably doesn't own any - Bitcoin for safety by @jamesob - https://jameso.be/2019/08/24/bitcoin-is-for-this.html - WTF happened in 1971? https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ - Janey + Cato - https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-559/ - Binance adds interest bearing accounts (BNB, ETC, Tether) - o-crypto-as-binance-starts-lending-business - Opennode adds kyc and shopify integration - https://www.opennode.co/blog/how-to-accept-bitcoin-shopify-extension/ - EOS dumped almost 20 mins earlier first: >=20 - Portugal tax exemption. Fake news? Let us know Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber45:39August 29, 2019Tales from the Crypt #94: Fabian Jahr Join Marty as he sits down with Fabian Jahr, current Summer resident at Chaincode Labs, to discuss the RPC call Fabian has been working on this Summer, the Chaincode residency experience, the Bitcoin scene in Berlin, Fabian's experience with the Lightning Network, and much more.  Follow Fabian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fjahr Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber Contribute to the show: https://tftc.io/contribute/1:37:54August 28, 2019Tales from the Crypt #93: Rodolfo NovakJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Rodolfo Novak to discuss Coinkite, how Rodolfo approaches making products for Bitcoiners, a little Bitcoin history, Ham Radios, airplanes, and much more.  Check out Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ (Use the promo code "TFTC" for 5% OFF!) Follow Rodolfo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Casa. 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Head over to https://keys.casa/ today.1:23:51August 27, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.19This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - BitBlockBoom - bitsteins talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBAuHv5cPl8 - New Erebus attack paper - https://erebus-attack.comp.nus.edu.sg - Hardware wallets + multisig - https://stephanlivera.com/episode/97/ - Sats the standard - Blockstream Green Wallet adds sats - ld>=20 - All seeds are not cross compatible, be aware - https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1164165702602899456?s=20 - Bitcoin Optech bech32 + RBF compatibility matrix  - https://bitcoinops.org/en/2019-compatibility-matrix/ - Matt Corallo first hire by Square Crypto - =20 - Miniscript - 20 - Hong Kong protesters are distributed not centralized - -brilliance-backed-beijing-into-a-corner/ - 40 straight weeks of anti-macron yellow vest protests - >=20 - Another fake Satoshi, safely ignore - Happy birthday Lolli! Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber 1:10:08August 22, 2019Tales from the Crypt #92: Bryan Bishop & Joseph JacksonJoin 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: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:34:53August 21, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.12 LIVE w/ Pierre Rochard & Michael GoldsteinJoin Marty and Matt as they're joined by the hosts of the Noded Podcast, Pierre Rochard and Michael Goldstein to discuss: - Bakkt Futures - Binance KYC - Liquid Tether - Hong Kong - India - Samsung + Bitcoin - Coinbase negligence - much more Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber47:09August 19, 2019Tales from the Crypt #91: Tuur DemeesterJoin Marty as he sits down with Tuur Demeester, Founder of Adamant Capital, to discuss Tuur's journey to Bitcoin, the founding of Adamant Research then Adamant Capital, how to leverage Bitcoin to short USD, Bitcoin's parallels with The Reformation. Follow Tuur on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.43:47August 17, 2019Tales from the Crypt #90: James C.Join Marty as he sits down with James Chiang, currently spending his Summer at Chaincode Labs, to discuss James' journey to Bitcoin, his experience with Libbitcoin, how Libbitcoin compares to Bitcoin Core, working in the renewable energy sector, working on a Python library for Taproot, and much more.  Checkout https://teachbitcoin.io/ Follow James on Twitter - https://twitter.com/digi_james Follow Marty on Twitter - https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.55:13August 15, 2019Tales from the Crypt #89: BitcoinTINA & Alpha Zeta Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with BitcoinTINA & Alpha Zeta to talk about the current market conditions, where Bitcoin sits, whether or not Bitcoin is a risk-on or risk-off trade, and the fact that Bitcoin is a fundamental financial tech innovation.  Check out Alpha Zeta's portfolio tracker: http://www.thewarden.io/index.html Follow BitcoinTINA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinTINA Follow Alpha Zeta on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alphaazeta Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.58:20August 14, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.08.05This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bitcoin vaults - 7229.html - Yuan peg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCH_-fcCoK4&feature=youtu.be - Big blocks and tradeoffs - https://twitter.com/BitMEXResearch/status/1157667091719380992 - Binance KYC leak - s-negotiations-with-its-kyc-hacker - Is anything priced in? Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: view_as=subscriber46:33August 8, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.29This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - JoinMarket, fidelity bonds, and privacy - 69.html - Capital One data breach - llowing-the-banking-hack/ - Zap update + full node - https://github.com/LN-Zap/zap-desktop/releases/tag/v0.5.2-beta - Fold App Kickbacks - - "Stacking sats" - Hong Kong - old>=20 - Fortnite World Cup - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1155838643094917121 - much more  Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.  Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and checkout their 2-of-3 multisig vaults. You get 3-months free of Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard Research Bulletin when you sign up. 1:00:56August 1, 2019Tales from the Crypt #88: Richard MyersJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Richard Myers, who is working on "Bitcoin's last mile" via mesh networks at GoTenna and Global Mesh Labs, to discuss: - ByteABit, Richard's P2P mobile Bitcoin exchange - Mesh networks, GoTenn, LOT49, and Global Mesh Labs - Cashless societies - Deflation - much more Follow Richard on Twitter: https://twitter.com/remyers_ Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_odell Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Shoutout to our sponsor: Cash App. Head over to the App Store or Google Play Store, download cash.app and start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $5 and contribute $5 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 2:05:40July 30, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.07.22This week Marty and Matt discuss: -BTCPayServer - https://stephanlivera.com/episodes/ - Wasabi & Samourai - Ethereum hashrate down 42% from ATH, bitcoin hashrate at ATH: able-to-attack - Coldcard + Wasabi video, class on the 26th at Chaincode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2uhyROpAQ&feature=youtu.be - New Cash App UI - Ohmm  - =20 - Hong Kong protests take violent turn: ld>=20, block size, offline transactions, 65% of 4000 said no full node -JPM shitcoin -Bitdevs https://www.meetup.com/BitDevsNYC/events/258566808/ -Wasabi update -Coin Center on cash + privacy https://coincenter.org/entry/the-case-for-electronic-cash Shout out to this week's sponsors: Lolli, head over to www.lolli.com/ref/tftc and start earning Bitcoin when you shop on the net today!  Honeyminer, head over to www.honeyminer.com/labs to check out their new Linux compatible software. Or head to stackingsats.com to pump our ref link. 1:02:45February 14, 2019Tales from the Crypt #57: Alex AdelmanJoin 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 Thanks to our sponsor BlockFi! Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can use your bitcoin as collateral to get USD loans in minutes! 2:16:53February 13, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.02.04This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Matt handing off the LN torch to @jack https://twitter.com/jack/status/1092891165966229509 - Matt Ahlborg's LocalBitcoins analysis and new metric -suggests-bitcoin-is-working-as-satoshi-intended-d8b04d3ac7b2 - Koala Studio Lightning Chess https://koalastud.io/ - Blockstream Proof of Reserve ent-its-proof-reserves-tool/ - ZCash inflation vulnerability disclosed mediated/ - Abra releases new equities exposure product -etfs-using-bitcoin/ Shoutout to our sponsors: BlockFi, head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt and learn how you can avoid selling your BTC today!  Honeyminer, peep www.honeyminer.com/labs to see the new Honeyminer Max implementation for Linux users. Or www.stackingsats.com to pump our ref link. 21Lectures, go to www.21lectures.com and learn more about their Bitcoin developer classes! 1:01:18February 8, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.28This week we are joined by Murad Mahmudov to discuss a litany of topics. Had a bunch of topics planned but didn't get to all of them. A lot of tangents.  Thanks to our sponsors: BlockFi - Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt and learn how to leverage your crypto without selling!  HoneyMiner - Now available for Linux users! HoneyMiner is the easiest way to earn BTC. Peep their site here to learn more - =marty%20bent%20honeyminer1:06:57January 31, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.21This week Marty and Matt discuss:  - Venezuela - https://twitter.com/btcven - Post-Soviet LN + Satellite API messages - https://twitter.com/notgrubles/status/1088402776638541827 - Lightning games - old>-issue-402 - Georgia & Bitfury - https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1088816882872926211 - Taproot article by Aaron van Wirdum - -will-benefit-bitcoin/ - ETF withdrawn - https://twitter.com/gaborgurbacs/status/1088173233722089486 Thanks to this week's sponsor, Honeyminer! All you home mining freaks should head over to www.honeryminer.com/labs to check out their new version, now available to Linux users!  54:28January 25, 2019Tales from the Crypt #56: Chris DannenJoin Marty as he sits down with Chris Dannen, co-founder and Partner at Iterative Capital, to discuss a range of topics including the evolution of software development culture, destroying the technostructure, the poison that is mainstream media, and much more.  Follow Chris on Twitter: www.twitter.com/chrisdannen Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out Iterative's thesis: iterative.capital/thesis  Thanks to our sponsor BlockFi! Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to peep the special offer they have for you freaks! 1:53:58January 24, 2019Tales from the Crypt #55: BitcoinTINA aka Rick FlexJoin Marty on this week's edition of Tales from the Crypt as he sits down with BitcoinTINA aka Rick Flex to discuss how bullish he is, past tech trends and how we may use them to guess how Bitcoin adoption may play out, and much much more. Banger of an episode. 2:52:14January 18, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.14In this episode we discuss:  -ETH 2.0 -Constantinople bug and delay -LN network analysis network-has-been-remarkable-but-theres-a-catch/ -Putin bitcoin rumor -Wasabi multi-denominations -ETC was indeed reorged chain wide -China plans on using great firewall to target nodes ficially-try-to-extend-its-great-firewall-to-blockchains/ -Grin launch -Thor from Bitrefill payments-easy -Baakt delayed -Genesis Trading OTC volume up 50% YoY, e-is-up-50-year-over-year/ 1:01:44January 18, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2019.01.07This week we discuss: -Deplatforming +  -ETC 51% -ETH Constantinople and progPow forks -10 years since Hal - https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988?lang=en -Zap POS app ld>=19 -Gemini ad campaign - https://twitter.com/Gemini/status/1082726902622797825 -Bitcoin mining pools over time, BetterHash - https://coinmetrics.io/mining-pool-mapping/ -Kraken compliance report =19 -Nodl.it -Bitmain founders rumored to be stepping down, new CEO inbound  ounders-wu-and-zhan-step-aside/ -Norwegian Monero Ransom -ShapeShift lays off 30% of their team, 37 people - Bezos Commencement speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBmavNoChZc Thanks to our sponsors:  BlockFi. Head to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt and check out BlockFi today!  BUIDL Bootcamp - Next course starts January 21st, head over to www.buidlbootcamp.com and sign up today! (Online Courses) 1:10:20January 10, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.31On this week's edition of RHR Marty and Matt come to you live from RiseNY to shoot the shit about Bitcoin's first ten years as well as some current events.  Shoutout to our sponsor Blockfi: Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can leverage your BTC today! 50:43January 4, 2019Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.24This week we discuss:  Trezor + Ledger hacks - wallet.fail - allet-vulnerabilities-at-tech-conference/ Electrum hack - eal-over-700k-from-users-of-a-popular-bitcoin-wallet/ New Joule version out - Pierre Rochard's node launcher Indian gov possibly loosening regs - ossible-rule-change-around-legal-status-of-cryptocurrencies/ Bitcoin Private- https://coinmetrics.io/bitcoin-private/ Facebook + crypto - ok-is-said-to-develop-stablecoin-for-whatsapp-transfers US Government Shutdown Civil token relaunch Tuur Demeester's thread on ETH: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/1078682801954799617 Bitmain layoffs - t-up-to-50-of-staff/ Consensys layoffs - yoffs-employees-pending-startup-ethereum GMO exiting mining biz - https://ir.gmo.jp/en/pdf/irlibrary/gmo_disclose_info20181225_e.pdf Difficulty leveling off - nother-9-but-hash-rate-picks-up/ 7-month trading volume highs - g-volume-reached-7-month-highs/ Highest single day trade vol for tether - l-time-high/ Civic takedown - lustrates-why-companies-masquerading-tokens-will-fail/ Iterative Capital NYC Event - bent-aaron-lammer-jay-kang-tickets-51666739609 Shoutout to this week's sponsor, BlockFi. Head over to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to see how you can avoid selling BTC or help start that side project you always wanted by leveraging your BTC holdings!  1:02:41December 28, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.17This week Matt and Marty Discuss: RIP Tim May Minisketch - es-about-get-easier/ & https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1075460072786935808 Blockstream satellite - rom-space/#548f7bc75a80 Unchained Capital Dust analysis - modynamics-615dd51f49 Basis - d-to-investors/ Coinbase - and-zilliqa-zil-are-launching-on-coinbase-3065eeb42d5b & 083c62 & https://medium.com/hydro-protocol/why-we-are-forking-0x-97dc48ee0426 & w-digital-assets-92ba4ab7f465 Tether - ypto-mystery-clues-suggest-tether-has-the-billions-it-promised ETH Constantinople fork - ivation-point-for-next-hard-fork Gazprombank - / Japanese tax law - nges-to-ease-crypto-tax-burden Rumor Bitmain IPO not happening The Patreon War Mulvaney a Bitcoiner - https://twitter.com/ObsoleteDogma/status/810957268950859780 - Samourai Dojo - https://samouraiwallet.com/dojo -Mining in Iran - ts-not-as-easy-as-it-sounds Thanks to our Sponsors: BlockFi: Sign up at blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to get $25 in free crypto added to customer collateral for loans under $10k or $50 in free crypto added to customer collateral for loans over $10k. Applying takes less than 2 minutes. Tallyco.in/BTC_Spot/ - Head over to http://tallyco.in and raise funds with some of that unstoppable, censorship-resistant, magic internet money today! 52:34December 19, 2018Tales from the Crypt #54: Yassine Elmandjra Join Marty as he sits down with Yassine Elmandjra, Crypto Analyst at ARK Invest, to discuss Yassine's insanely low time preference decisions post-college, Bitcoin mining, how Bitcoin changes you, and much more. Follow Yassine on Twitter: https://twitter.com/yassineARK Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent 1:23:17December 18, 2018Tales from the Crypt #53: Matthew Mežinskis Join Marty as he sits down with Matthew Mežinskis, co-host of the Crypto Voices podcast, to discuss Base Money, Free Banking, how Bitcoin plays into these concepts, and much more. Follow Crypto Voice on Twitter: www.twitter.com/crypto_voices Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Thank you to our sponsor BlockFi! Go to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to get $25 of free crypto collateral for loans under $10k and $50 of free crypto collateral for loans above $10k!2:07:31December 11, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.12.05This week Matt and Marty are joined by Bitcoin Sign Guy and they discuss: -Rogoff v. White recap -Vertcoin 51% - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1069989819969929218 -International oil contracts - https://twitter.com/arbedout/status/1070323234845925376 -Buy Bitcoin in Paris - https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1069330451695845383 -Pierre Rochard's lnd launcher + Zap + Joule - https://twitter.com/pierre_rochard/status/1070296265806745600 -Wasabi UX update - wasabiwallet.io -Death spiral - ing-death-spiral-debate-explained/ -Coinshares Bitcoin mining research - bitcoin-mining-network-dynamics-f820d6218bdf -RAMP - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Anonymous_Marketplace -Larimer new coin - r 5, 2018Tales from the Crypt #52: Dan HeldJoin Marty as he sits down with Dan Held, co-founder of Picks & Shovels, to discuss the early days of Bitcoin, "Planting Bitcoin", shaping narratives, the beauty of PoW, and much much more. Follow Dan on Twitter: www.twitter.com/danheld Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/martybent Check out Picks & Shovels: https://picks.co/ Shoutout to our sponsor Blockfi! Go to www.blockfi.com/talesfromthecrypt to get $25 of free crypto collateral for loans under $10k and $50 of free crypto collateral for loans above $10k! 2:09:59December 5, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.26 This week we are joined by Dan Held, Co-Founder of Picks & Shovels, to discuss: - lightningjoule.com - Ohio taxes and friendly Treasurer ure-as-a-crypto-owner/ - Hash rate - -f2pool-founder-estimates - Hester Peirce on WhatBitcoinDid https://t.co/aOSPdNAG5f - VanEck OTC index itcoin-otc-index/ - VanEck & Nasdaq futures cash settled january tures-contracts - Tether relaunches direct redemption at tether.to - tion-of-fiat-from-its-platform/ 54:09November 29, 2018Tales from the Crypt #51: Max Keidun & Roman SnitkoJoin Marty as he sits down with Max Keidun & Roman Snitko, co-founders of Hodl Hodl, to discuss how they became interested in Bitcoin, why they decided to start Hodl Hodl, the nature of P2P exchanges, Bitcoin prediction markets, their decision to block US citizens from using their service, and much more. Follow Max on Twitter: https://twitter.com/keidunm Follow Roman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/romansnitko Follow Hodl Hodl on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hodlhodl Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Check out https://hodlhodl.com/ Thanks to our sponsor cash.app! 1:15:19November 27, 2018Tales from the Crypt #50: Jeremy WelchJoin Marty as he sits down with Jeremy Welch, co-Founder and CEO of Casa, to discuss how Jeremy became interested in Bitcoin, how he Casa came to be, and the state of personal data. Follow Jeremy on Twitter: www.twitter.com/jeremyrwelch Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Peep Casa: https://keys.casa/ Use the code "CRYPT" at www.baboontothemoon.com for 10% off a Go-Bag! 1:24:53November 20, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.19This week we discuss: Gold hoarders executed Iran - ctions-hit-iran-executes-gold-currency-speculators - Ledger & Trezor issues - https://blog.trezor.io/psa-non-genuine-trezor-devices-979b64e359a7 https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1062876921787236352 - BCH post mortem -Lolli https://www.lolli.com/ -nodl.it http://www.nodl.it/ -SIM Swapping, App based 2FA psa - https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/130-lizard#episode-player -SEC coming down on ICOs59:01November 19, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.12This week we discuss: - Bitcoin Cash hard fork - Bitcoin price volatility - Coinemine - nd-mint-crypto-money - US Elections, politicians holding BTC - Blockchain voting - EtherDelta fined - nregistered-securities-exchange - Recent Bitcoin Core merge - https://twitter.com/MarcoFalke/status/1060913913221599232 - BitMex v. Hasu - change-f956324b449f rity/ - China Debt situation - old>-issue-356 - MakerDAI Get your Baboon Go-Bag right now! Use the code "CRYPT" for 10% your purchase at www.baboontothemoon.com 1:02:00November 14, 2018Tales from the Crypt #49: Alex LieglJoin Marty as he sits down with Alex Liegl, Founder of Layer1 Capital, to discuss his mental framework for valuing cryptocurrencies, Grin, Bitcoin's inception, what it means to be part of a team, and much more. Follow Alex on Twitter: twitter.com/alexanderliegl Follow Marty on Twitter: twitter.com/MartyBent Download the Cash App today! https://cash.app1:28:26November 13, 2018Tales from the Crypt #48: Pierre RochardJoin Marty as he sits down with Pierre Rochard to reminisce about the year that has past since their first recording, give out free futuristic business ideas, discuss Pierre's Excel plugin that links to the Lightning Network, buyers of last resort, and much more. Follow Pierre: www.twitter.com/pierre_rochard Follow Marty: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out BitcoinACKs: www.bitcoinacks.com Check out Bitcoin Advisory: www.bitcoinadvisory.com Peep the Nakamoto Institute: www.nakamotoinstitute.org Download the Cash App today! cash.app2:10:06November 7, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.11.05This week we discuss: - Bitcoin Cash - Tether + Deltec - lationship-is-authentic/ - Wasabi check-in -Gwyneth Paltrow - https://twitter.com/katherineykwu/status/1059525781163048961 Ron Paul - /bold>/october/29/trump-is-right-the-fed-is-crazy/ - Petro - https://petro.gob.ve/index_eng.html - InitiativeQ Scam - https://twitter.com/matt_odell/status/1057338090392498176 - Unocoin founder arrested - eir-cryptocurrency-atm/ - Coinbase 1.3B in revenue - uments-show - WEX - ed-to-long-troubled-exchange/ - Janet Yellen doesn't own any bitcoin Block height: 548,923 Use the code "CRYPT" for 10% off your Go-Bag at www.baboontothemoon.com!57:30November 5, 2018Tales from the Crypt #47: Jack Mallers Join Marty as he sits down with Jack Mallers, founder of Zap, to discuss Chicago, chess, Jack's path to Bitcoin, what draws him to Lightning, Bitcoin financial products, and much much more. Follow Jack on Twitter: www.twitter.com/JackMallers Follow Marty on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MartyBent Check out Zap: https://zap.jackmallers.com/1:14:58October 31, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.29This week we discuss: -Gab -China social credit -Localbitcoins lead by Russia and Venezuela - https://t.co/VSiTn63psi -Maplechange - not your keys, not your bitcoin -Lightning residency + hackathon -IDEX blocking NY IPs https://twitter.com/Aurora_dao/status/105491741862198476841:46October 30, 2018Tales from the Crypt #46: Justin Moon Join Marty as he sits down with Justin Moon, founder BUIDL Bootcamp, to discuss Bitcoin and life. Follow Justin - https://twitter.com/_justinmoon_ Follow Marty - https://twitter.com/martybent Checkout BUIDL Bootcamp - https://www.buidlbootcamp.com2:24:59October 26, 2018Tales from the Crypt #45: Lightning Koala Join Marty as he sits down with Lightning Koala, creator of satoshis.place and a man dedicated to building on top of the Lightning Network. The two discuss a bunch of different topics spanning from building games on Lightning to the coordination efforts it takes to make something like Bitcoin work at scale. Follow Lightning Koala: https://twitter.com/LightningK0ala Follow Marty: https://twitter.com/LightningK0ala Check out satoshis.place 1:33:20October 23, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.22Topics of the week: - Betty - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45889707 - Venezuela local bitcoin volume new ATHs ($25M per week) - https://twitter.com/louAboudHogben/status/1053086355100581888 - Tether follow up - _stack=true - Unocoin routing around Indian regs - al-bank-crackdown-india/ - Wasabi Wallet - allet-privacy-focused-bitcoin-wallet-for-desktop/ - Ethereum Constantinople hard fork delayed - elayed-until-2019/ -Ransoms - rica-possibly-kidnapped - Neutrino - ino.html -Monero Bulletproofs hard fork - c6408babf - Binance, Chainalysis - -from-chainalysis/ -Bisq ATH volumes - amid-increased-monero-demand/ 58:42October 22, 2018Tales from the Crypt #44: Alan SilbertJoin Marty as he sits down with Alan Silbert, Executive Managing Director of INX Limited, to chat about the old days and his experience starting Bitpremier.com, a site where people could spend BTC to buy luxury goods. Alan explains how he got into Bitcoin, how his side hustle pushed him to leave his main hustle and what it's like to get a call from Homeland Security. Follow Alan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alansilbert Follow Marty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MartyBent Check out INX Limited: https://www.inx.co Thank you to our sponsors: Cash App, download the app here - https://cash.app/ HoneyMiner, enter to win a GPU here - https://twitter.com/gethoneyminer/status/1052200242781786112 Download Honeyminer here - https://honeyminer.com/referred/59rtk1:33:23October 18, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.15 Topics of the week: Tether + Bitfinex - >=19 ETH Constantinople hard fork on testnet - https://twitter.com/5chdn/status/1051194779890003974 Liquid Announcement - https://blockstream.com/2018/10/10/liquid-launch.html goTenna unboxing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzZen7ajmKA&feature=youtu.be Fidelity announcement - h-da19b06aa58e Hugo fire flames - e18 Lightning bike - https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1051832593082175488 Nouriel - https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/1050766810348445696 Thanks to our sponsor, The Cash App. Download it here: https://cash.app/58:12October 15, 2018Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2018.10.08 "Bull v. Bear" In this week's episode, Marty and Matt sit down with Murad Mahmudov to discuss: - Murad's bear. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:14:58March 17, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Stimulus Package 2020.03.16Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - COVID19 + Market reaction - Fed cuts + repo operations - MyNode v0.1.97  - 3D Printing in Italy's corona battle  - VR Socratic Meetup - Jameson Lopp on Bitcoin Core Contributor Challenges - Other stuff Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.49:25March 16, 2020#140: Kyle Bass & Parker LewisJoin Marty as he hops on a call with Kyle Bass and Parker Lewis to discuss: - Recent market chaos - The Fed's response up to this point and what they may do moving forward - The need for a strong fiscal response in conjunction with Fed policy - The dangers of centralizing our supply chain in China - Russia's move in oil markets over the weekend - much more Follow Kyle on Twitter Follow Parker on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.48:40March 12, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.09This week Marty and Matt discuss: - macro and price talk - mining death spiral FUD - Bitcoin Core v0.19.1  - bluewallet node issue  - payjoin support should be added to btcpay soon   - Samourai Wallet Whirlpool hits new monthly ATH   - Specter-Desktop multisig release  - OXT Research PlusToken Report Issue 2  - Electrum v4 release still delayed - MKR/DAI liquidation crisis  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:12:19March 12, 2020#139: George GammonJoin Marty as he sits down with George Gammon to discuss: - Why George started his YouTube channel - The Oil Wars - Was Russia's move over the weekend a kill shot directed at the US? - Corporate Debt - Buybacks - Junk bonds - The Fed's reaction to recent market movements - Fed policy and the erosion of the Nuclear family - Deflation - Sounds money standards of the past - George's thoughts on Gold v. Bitcoin - much more Check out George's YouTube channel Follow George on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:08:01March 10, 2020#138: BitcoinTINA "The Perfect Storm"Join Marty as he sits down with BitcoinTINA to discuss how the macro factors lining up in the world right now are a perfect storm for Bitcoin in the medium to long-term. Follow BitcoinTINA on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:02:36March 6, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.03.02This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coronavirus + Fed Rate Cut - Whirlpool volume PAMPING - VR Presentation by Adam Gibson on PayJoin  - Nodl updated with new RTL - myNode updated with Dojo support - Casa adds Coldcard support  - BlueWallet adds Coldcard support  - BlockFi flagging wasabi deposits  - Square Crypto announces two new grants  - India Supreme Court strikes down bitcoin banking ban  - South Korea passes amendment formalizing bitcoin regulation  - Germany deems bitcoin a financial instrument  - New York Power Plant mining $50K worth of bitcoin per day  - Coinbase tested facial recognition software Clearview AI - EARN IT Act to be introduced in US Congress  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:06:12March 5, 2020#137: Chris Stewart & Nadav KohenJoin Marty as he sits down with Chris Stewart and Nadav Kohen from Suredbits to discuss: - Dairy farming + life in Iowa - The inception of Suredbits - Building products to take Bitcoin to the masses - The Lightning Network - Key management on the Lightning Network - Node fallbacks + redundancy - Discreet Log Contracts - Oracles - BitDevs Chicago - much more Follow Chris on Twitter Follow Nadav on Twitter Check out Suredbits Peep the DLC blog series Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:08:44March 4, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.24This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Trace fall from Grace - FullyNoded corrections - consider donating here - @6102bitcoin infographics on taint, chainalysis, and blacklisting - Zebedee releases developer SDK  - Whirlpool usage second monthly ATH in a row  - Whirlpool mobile released  - Casa bitcoin inheritance solution released  - Coldcard v3.1.1  - Square reports growing bitcoin volume  - Square teases option to display in sats and auto buys  - Suredbits Discreet Log Contracts Demo - Nodl Day - March 24th in SF - Wifi flaw exposed billions of devices - lol progpow - Macro and Coronavirus Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:18:22February 27, 2020#136: Paul SztorcJoin Marty as he sits down with Paul Sztorc, the man behind Drivechains and Bitcoin Hivemind, to discuss: - Proof of Work v. Proof of Stake - Bitcoin's fee market - How it may develop in the future - Is Bitcoin our only shot?  - Drivechains - Why people don't like Drivechains - Why their concerns are valid + invalid - Bitcoin Hivemind - much more Follow Paul on Twitter Check out his blog Check out Drivechains  Check out Bitcoin Hivemind Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 2:29:22February 25, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.17This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Bisq v1.2.6 adds support for L-BTC  - Bisq volume up 2.6x YoY  - Zeus v0.2.1  - RTL v0.6.5  - c-lightning v0.8.1  - ColdCard firmware v3.1.0 adds support for HSM mode called ckbunker  - Fully Noded 2 released on testflight  - BTCSessions mynodebtc.com build your own node walkthrough video  - Microsoft ION distributed identity project  - OpenNode fiat integration  - Peter Thiel backed Layer1 begins mining operation in West Texas  - What Constant Surveillance Does to Your Brain  - hardware wallet threat modeling  - DoD systems (DISA) compromised, PII taken  - Bitcoin's fifth largest hourly price drop in history  - FTX election markets - Thought Police in New Zealand Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:07:37February 20, 2020#135: Leigh CuenJoin Marty as he sits down with Leigh Cuen, Senior Reporter at CoinDesk, to discuss: - Leigh's journey to covering this beat - Competing narratives in the cryptocurrency world - Bitcoin v. Ethereum - How people are using each - How each project is approaching adoption - The state of media - VC funded media incentives - Independent content creation - much more Follow Leigh on Twitter Check out Leigh's reporting on CoinDesk Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.2:47:54February 19, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.10This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Dropbit CEO arrested for running a centralized mixing service called Helix and a dark market search engine called Grams  - Self payments lightning privacy proposal  - Coldcard releases PSBT Faker tool for testing  - Tor Browser v9.0.5  - Tails v4.3  - Wasabi implements Apple Code Sign  - Escher App demos paying any lightning invoice with your connected bank account  - Liquid support on Bisq goes live  - Anon submits Taproot critique to mailing list  - Chainalysis has been paid over $10M by US gov agencies  - A world without bitcoin thought experiment by Alex Gladstein  - US Federal Budget Proposal Mentions More Cryptocurrency regulation and enforcement  - Trump admin to introduce new FinCEN requirements  - Redditor posts IRS audit request  - If US Marshals never sold seized bitcoin they would currently be worth over $1.8B  - Casa releases home defense primer  - CNBC clip  - Coronavirus Close Contact app  - CIA owned encryption company facilitated global spying for decades  - The Chinese Gov allegedly hacked Equifax  - Yandex facial recognition tool  - FTX launches US elections futures markets for top 6 candidates  Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.1:26:58February 13, 2020#134: Jack MallersJoin Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers to discuss: - LN Strike - Lessons learned while building Zap + Olympus - Lightning Privacy - Lightning for exchanges - much more Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app.1:20:44February 11, 2020#133: Whit GibbsJoin Marty as he sits down with Whit Gibbs, Co-Founder and CEO of Hashr8OS, to discuss: - Whit buying the 2017 top - Why he decided to focus on mining - Mining hardware + energy dynamics - What's going to happen after the halving? - Is the US turning into the USSR? - Social credit - much more Follow Whit on Twitter Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse you download the app. 1:52:14February 8, 2020Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.02.03This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Casa will no longer sell nodes, gold package reduced to $10 per month  - Wasabi removes