Tales from the Crypt: A Bitcoin Podcast

By Marty Bent

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Tales from the Crypt is a podcast hosted by Marty Bent about Bitcoin. Join Marty, Editor in Chief of "the best newsletter in crypto", as he sits down to discuss Bitcoin with interesting people.

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Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin ...

04.08.2021

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - coinbase IPO on april 14th, ticker COIN - NYDIG raises another $100M - African P2P volumes hit new all time highs - Ukrainian civil servants own more than 46k bitcoin - Crypto Council ...

Tales from the Crypt: A Bitcoin Podcast episodes:

04.08.2021 Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.04.05 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - coinbase IPO on april 14th, ticker COIN - NYDIG raises another $100M - African P2P volumes hit new all time highs - Ukrainian civil servants own more than 46k bitcoin - Crypto Council ...
04.07.2021 #243: Regenerative farming, Fiat food and farming, cattle breeds, and plebs running the world with Untapped Growth Join Marty as he sits down with Untapped Growth (Joel) to discuss: - The Fiat Farming system - Top soil - Roundup in everything - Using cattle for regenerative farming - Creating a cattle ranching/land management co-op - Distributed asynchronous ...
04.06.2021 Citadel Dispatch e0.1.6 - bitcoin privacy and coinjoin with chris belcher and waxwing EPISODE: 0.1.6 BLOCK: 678040 PRICE: 1719 sats per dollar TOPICS: bitcoin privacy, coinjoin chris belcher: https://twitter.com/chris_belcher_ Streamed live every tuesday @ 5PM EST \| 2100 UTC: twitch: https://twitch.tv/citadeldispatch youtube: https://youtube.com/tftc21 telegram: https://t.me/citadeldispatch
04.01.2021 Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.03.29 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - coldcard physical attack - Kentucky signs bitcoin mining incentives - Strike launches in El Salvador without banking partners - Azteco adds lightning - Goldman to start offering bitcoin exposure to rich clients - ...
03.30.2021 Citadel Dispatch e0.1.5 - bitcoin privacy and coinjoin with @nopara73 and @openoms EPISODE: 0.1.5 BLOCK: 677022 PRICE: 1701 sats per dollar TOPICS: bitcoin privacy, coinjoin nopara73: https://twitter.com/nopara73 openoms: https://twitter.com/openoms Streamed live every tuesday @ 5PM EST \| 2100 UTC: twitch: https://twitch.tv/citadeldispatch youtube: https://youtube.com/tftc21
03.29.2021 #242: Ledn.io, Proof of Reserves, risk management, hyperinflation, and the Petro with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo Join Marty as he sits down with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo to discuss: - Ledn's recent raise - Proof of Reserves - Risk Management - Duration matching - Hyperinflation - Good people succeeding - Bitcoin scaling in layers - Ledn users ...
03.26.2021 #241: Mining pools, Braidpool, resistance to attacks, adversarial thinking, and dev funding with Bob McElrath Join Marty as he sits down with Bob McElrath to discuss: - NY BitDevs - Mining pools - P2Pool - Braidpool - Making decentralized pools viable - How they may fail - Adversarial thinking - Bob's Bitcoin journey - much ...
03.25.2021 Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2021.03.22 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Tesla now accepting bitcoin and will hodl - Podcasting 2.0 on breez - Microsoft launches layer 2 decentralized identity on top of bitcoin mainnet - FTX closing $7M per year deal for Miami ...
03.24.2021 Citadel Dispatch e0.1.4 - lightning powered gaming with andreneves and sputn1ck EPISODE: 0.1.4 BLOCK: 675990 PRICE: 1820 sats per dollar TOPICS: lightning network, video games andreneves: https://twitter.com/andreneves sputn1ck: https://twitter.com/sputn1ck Streamed live every tuesday @ 5PM EST \| 2100 UTC: twitch: https://twitch.tv/citadeldispatch youtube: https://youtube.com/tftc21
03.23.2021 #240: Bullishness, timing births with bull cycles, Bitcoin 2021, and the youths with David Bailey Join Marty as he sits down with David Bailey, founder of BTC Media, to discuss: - How bullish is David? - How high will bitcoin go? - Timing the birth of his children up with bull markets - Bitcoin 2021 ...
03.18.2021 Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.03.15 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - FTX negotiating naming rights to miami heat arena https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article249892678.html - miner revenue priced in dollars hits all time high https://twitter.com/_Checkmatey_/status/1370901101403238400 - Kentucky passes tax breaks to bitcoin miners https://www.coindesk.com/kentucky-approves-bills-providing-incentives-for-crypto-miners - Pakistani province experimenting ...
03.17.2021 #239: Sphinx Chat, encrypted chat over LN, banking the unbanked, and rearchitecting the Internet with Paul Itoi Join Marty as he sits down with Paul Itoi, co-founder of Stakwork and Sphinx Chat, to discuss: - Sphinx chat - Content monetization without ads - Encrypted chat over the Lightning Network - Paying anons around the world - Banking ...
03.17.2021 #238: Green energy jobs fraud, unreliable renewables, climate catastrophe, and controllable electricity with Alex Epstein Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Epstein, Author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, to discuss: - Green energy jobs v. oil jobs - Subsidies driving energy prices higher - Using fraud as a heuristic to question ...
03.17.2021 Citadel Dispatch e0.1.3 - practical bitcoin privacy and "open source" licenses with @btcxzelko and @likewh0a EPISODE: 0.1.3 BLOCK: 674925 PRICE: 1776 sats per dollar TOPICS: practical bitcoin privacy, open source licenses btcxzelko : https://twitter.com/btcxzelko likewh0a : https://twitter.com/likewh0a Streamed live every tuesday @ 5PM EST \| 2100 UTC: twitch: https://twitch.tv/citadeldispatch youtube: https://youtube.com/tftc21
03.15.2021 #237: Bitcoin Urbanism, Parasitic ideas, real world inflation, the suburban mistake and building Strong Towns with Kelly Lannan Join Marty as he sits down with Kelly Lannan, the mind behind Bitcoin Urbanism, to discuss: - Parasitic ideas - How Bitcoin Urbanism came to be - Being a real estate developer - Building materials inflation - How fiat money ...
03.12.2021 #236: Occupy Wall Street, independent media, being a stock broker in the 80s, flaneuring, and NYC comedy with Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert Join Marty as he sits down with Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert to discuss: - Occupy Wall Street - Wall Street in the 80s - Independent media - Propaganda and gaslighting - Bitcoin as an anti-war movement - Comedy in ...
03.11.2021 Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.03.08 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Norwegian energy giant Aker forms bitcoin unit Seetee - New Taproot Activation Method proposed "Speedy Trial" - Malicious backdoored version of electrum wallet - Whirlpool GUI v0.10.3 - Samourai Wallet v0.99.96e - Zeus ...
03.10.2021 #235: The history of taxes, taxes under a Bitcoin Standard, and gold v. bitcoin with Dominic Frisby Join Marty as he sits down with Dominic Frisby to discuss: - Daylight Robbery - The history of taxes - The future of taxes under a Bitcoin Standard - The State as a coercive evil force - Gold v. Bitcoin ...
03.10.2021 Citadel Dispatch e0.1.2 - the bitcoin lightning network with @r0ckstardev and @suheb__ Join Matt Odell as he sits down with @r0ckstardev and @suheb__ EPISODE: 0.1.2 BLOCK: 673909 PRICE: 1842 sats per dollar TOPICS: Lightning STREAMED LIVE EVERY TUESDAY - 2200 UTC - TFTC.tv
03.08.2021 #234: OPEC, the Shale industry, common sense, and bitcoin as a settlement currency with Anas Alhajji Join Marty as he sits down with Anas Alhajji to discuss: - OPEC dynamics - The politics of oil and gas - The history of the shale industry - Common sense - Bitcoin as a settlement currency for oil trade ...
03.04.2021 Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.03.01 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - bottlepay flagging samourai whirlpool coinjoin deposits - bitstamp flagging wasabi coinjoin usage post withdrawal - I2P network support merged into bitcoin core - Regtest demo of zcash based bitcoin sidechain - Arthur Hayes ...
03.03.2021 #233: Raising money in 2020, hashrate derivative products, why no hashrate growth?, and off-grid mining with Nick Hansen Join Marty as he sits down with Nick Hansen, co-founder and CEO of Luxor Mining, to discuss: - Raising money in 2020 - Building as the price of bitcoin crashed - Hashrate derivative tokens - Why a miner would sell ...
03.03.2021 Citadel Dispatch e0.1.1 - Trading vs Stacking, Open Source Dev, and Taproot Activation with @jamesob and @evankaloudis EPISODE: 0.1.1 BLOCK: 672886 PRICE: 2107 sats per dollar TOPICS: Trading vs Stacking, Open Source Dev, and Taproot Activation STREAMED LIVE EVERY TUESDAY - 2200 UTC - TFTC.tv
02.26.2021 Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.22 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Taproot LOT OF LOTS - BitPay Sanctions Violations - Bitfinex and Tether settle with NY AG without admitting fault - MicroStrategy bought another ~19.5k bitcoin for a ~$1.03B, they now hold 90.5k bitcoin ...
02.24.2021 #232: Treasuries, inflation, history lessons, and Bitcoin & energy with Lyn Alden Join Marty as he sits down with Lyn Alden, Founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, to discuss: - Current market environment - Commodities pumping - Rates jumping - Repo markets - Inflation - Historical inflationary event - Bitcoin + energy ...
02.24.2021 Citadel Dispatch e0.1.0 - Bitcoin Self Custody, Security, and Privacy with @craigraw and @econoalchemist EPISODE: 0.1.0 BLOCK: 671870 PRICE: 2085 sats per dollar TOPICS: Bitcoin Self Custody, Security, and Privacy STREAMED LIVE EVERY TUESDAY - 2200 UTC - TFTC.tv
02.19.2021 #231: Mining trends, bitcoin liquidity crunch, and money printer go brrr with Mason Jappa & Sam Chwarzynski Join Marty as he sits down with Mason Jappa & Sam Chwarzynski from Blockware Solutions to discuss: - Mining trends - Hosting - Bitcoin as a messaging protocol - The bitcoin liquidity crunch - The macro factors lining up for ...
02.18.2021 Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.15 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Taproot activation timeline released - Dread admins discuss issues with ongoing Tor attack - Jack and Jay Z announce 500 bitcoin development endowment - Canadian Bitcoin ETF gets green light - BlackRock "dabbling" ...
02.17.2021 Citadel Dispatch e0.0.9 - Bitcoin Transactions, Mempools, and Self Hosting with @wiz and @softsimon_ EPISODE: 0.0.9 BLOCK: 670895 PRICE: 2055 sats per dollar TOPICS: Transaction Fees, Mempools, and Self Hosting STREAMED LIVE EVERY TUESDAY - 2200 UTC - TFTC.tv
02.16.2021 #230: Layered Money, Complexity of USD, and a New Financial Stack with Nik Bhatia Join Marty as he sits down with Nik Bhatia, Author of Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and CBDCs, to discuss: - Writing the book - Fed money printing - History of layered money systems - Different reserves ...
02.12.2021 #229: Black Bitcoin Billionaires, Marketing Bitcoin, and Freedom Money with Lamar Wilson Join Marty as he sits down with Lamar Wilson to discuss: - Black Bitcoin Billionaires club on Clubhouse - Marketing bitcoin - Empowering individuals with bitcoin - Bringing back strong families - Getting people off zero on their way to ...
02.11.2021 Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.08 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Coldcard multisig vulnerability https://nunchuk.medium.com/the-missing-multisig-standard-5b4092e3ea92 - Tesla buys $1.5B worth of bitcoin https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459021004599/tsla-10k_20201231.htm - Bitcoin Hash Rate New ATH - Samourai Wallet v0.99.96c https://docs.samourai.io/en/wallet/releases#v09996c - Nunchuk v0.9.7 https://nunchuk.medium.com/nunchuk-0-9-7-6b74b3848c3d - Joinmarket v0.8.1 https://github.com/joinmarket-org/joinmarket-clientserver/releases/tag/v0.8.1 - Sparrow ...
02.10.2021 #228: UASFs, BIP 148, BIP 91, and Taproot Activation with Matt Corallo Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Corallo to discuss: - The history of SegWit2x - How SegWit actually got activated - BIP 148 - BIP 91 - Preventing a split - Fork futures - Lessons learned - UASF ...
02.10.2021 Citadel Dispatch e0.0.8 - Corporate FOMO, BIPs, and Taproot with @futurepaul and @nvk EPISODE: 0.0.8 BLOCK: 669903 PRICE: 2107 sats per dollar TOPICS: Corporate FOMO. BIPs, and Taproot STREAMED LIVE EVERY TUESDAY - 2200 UTC - TFTC.tv
02.05.2021 #227: Mining, energy, central banks of the future and capital allocation with Harry Sudock Join Marty as he sits down with Harry Sudock, VP of Strategy at GRIID, to discuss: - Meeting in NYC - Stumbling into the mining industry - The merging of the bitcoin mining and energy industries - Energy delivery problems ...
02.04.2021 Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.02.01 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Elon playing games - Senator Lummis appointed Senate Banking Committee - Microstrategy Bitcoin Summit - Grayscale GBTC premium goes negative for first time - California pension fund goes HAM on RIOT - Darknet ...
02.03.2021 Citadel Dispatch e0.0.7 - Self Hosting, Open Source Software, and Freedom with @_k3tan and @BTCSchellingPt Join Matt Odell as he sits down with _k3tan and BTCSchellingPt EPISODE: 0.0.7 BLOCK: 668805 PRICE: 2792 sats per dollar TOPICS: Self Hosting, Open Source Software, and Freedom STREAMED LIVE EVERY TUESDAY - 2200 UTC - TFTC.tv SUBMIT QUESTIONS LIVE ...
01.29.2021 Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.01.25 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Wall Street Mayhem - Tor v3 DoS attacks continue - Tighter KYC regs in Netherlands - Marathon buys $150M in bitcoin - Sparrow Wallet v1.0.0 - Tails v4.15 - Fully Noded v0.2.11 - ...
01.27.2021 Citadel Dispatch e0.0.6 - Lightning, Encryption, and Bitcoin Hardware with openoms and evankaloudis Join Matt Odell as he sits down with openoms and evankaloudis EPISODE: 0.0.6 BLOCK: 667811 PRICE: 3117 sats per dollar TOPICS: Lightning, Encryption, and Bitcoin Hardware
01.25.2021 #226: Sovereign default swap markets as a proxy for Bitcoin's fair value with Greg Foss Join Marty as he sits down with long time credit trader Greg Foss to discuss: - Surfing culture - Greg's experience trading credit markets - Using the CDS market for sovereign bonds as a way to calculate Bitcoin's fair value ...
01.22.2021 #225: Whitney Webb Join Marty as he sits down with independent journalist Whitney Webb to discuss: - Solar Winds - Q Anon - Operation Warp Speed - Incoming Secretary of State - WEF's Great Reset - Independent Journalism - Opting out - much ...
01.21.2021 Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.01.18 This week in Bitcoin Marty and Matt discuss: - bitcoin reorg confusion: BITMEX & Blockstream Explorer & Deribit Dissection & Peter Todd - CSW sues bitcoin.org and bitcoincore.org over whitepaper copyright - Energy usage FUD smacks marty in the face ...
01.20.2021 Citadel Dispatch e0.0.5 - Encryption, Mining, and No KYC Bitcoin with @diverter_nokyc and @maxtannahill Join Matt Odell as he sits down with @diverter_nokyc & @maxtannahill EPISODE: 0.0.5 BLOCK: 666809 PRICE: 2731 sats per dollar TOPICS: Encryption, Mining, and No KYC Bitcoin STREAMED LIVE EVERY TUESDAY - 2200 UTC - TFTC.tv SUBMIT QUESTIONS LIVE VIA ...
01.15.2021 #224: How to cancel yourself with Michael Krieger Join Marty as he sits down with Michael Krieger to discuss: - Cancel yourself before they cancel you - Free and open source software - Censorship - History - Bitcoin as a way to exit - The illegitimacy of the ...
01.15.2021 Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.01.11 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Tor v3 Onion addresses unreachable after apparent attack on Tor network - Ledger discloses new data leak and steps they are taking to mitigate issues going forward - Analysis of Solar Winds attack ...
01.13.2021 #223: Talking Oil, Gas & Bitcoin with @chigrl Join Marty as he sits down with Tracy Shuchart (@chigrl) from Hedge Fund Telemetry to discuss: - Oil Markets - Misallocation of capital - PE + O&G; - Fragile supply chains - Rare Earth metals - Bitcoin mining with flare ...
01.13.2021 Citadel Dispatch e0.0.4 - Censorship, Privacy, and Open Source Software with J9Roem and benthecarman Join Matt Odell as he sits down with J9Roem and benthecarman EPISODE: 0.0.4 BLOCK: 665779 PRICE: 2885 sats per dollar TOPICS: Censorship, Privacy, and Open Source Software STREAMED LIVE EVERY TUESDAY - 2200 UTC - TFTC.tv SUBMIT QUESTIONS LIVE VIA ...
01.08.2021 #222: Beefing with the NFL with Jack Mallers Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Jack Mallers, Founder and CEO of Strike, to discuss: - Athletes getting paid in sats - Beef with the NFL - bitcoin the hard asset - Bitcoin the Network - Strike ...
01.07.2021 Rabbit Hole Recap: Week of 2020.01.04 This week Marty and Matt discuss: - OCC letter on banks using stablecoins - Pro censorship American mining pool gains steam - Iranian mining crackdown - Strike Global - Blockstream Jade - Bitcoin Core v0.21.0 RC5 - Fully Noded v0.2.8 ...
01.06.2021 #221: DLCs, transaction fees, and PEMDAS with Chris Stewart Join Marty as he sits down with Chris Stewart, CEO of Suredbits, to discuss: - An update on DLCs - The US Presidential Election DLCs - Oracle problems and solutions - DLCFDs - Stablecoins - Transaction fees - Is Ethereum ...

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