TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty sits down with Alex Bergeron to discuss Ark Labs. Alex on Twitter: https://x.com/bergealex4 Ark Labs: https://arklabs.to/ 0:00 - Intro 0:36 - Will the strategic reserve stop soft forks? 15:50 - Unchained 16:50 - Ark 25:10 - Zaprite & SOTE 26:43 - How Ark works 1:03:57 - Product market fit 1:13:31- Things take time to build 1:20:31 - Meta protocols 1:26:35 - Wrap up Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained https://unchained.com/tftc/ Zaprite https://zaprite.com/tftc Salt of the Earth https://drinksote.com/tftc Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TFTC21/videos Clips YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQcW3jxfQfEUS8kqR5pJtQ Website https://tftc.io/ Twitter https://twitter.com/tftc21 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tftc.io/ Nostr https://primal.net/tftc Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/martybent Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://www.tftc.io/tag/podcasts/

Marty sits down with John Carvalho to discuss his BIP on bitcoin units and an update on Pubky. Links: https://pubky.app/ https://pubky.org/ https://x.com/BitcoinErrorLog 0:00 - Intro 0:36 - John's BIP 10:16 - Millisats 14:30 - Unchained 15:30 - Optimizing against govt controlled btc 22:30 - OP_VAULT and fork consensus 36:53 - Zaprite & SOTE 38:26 - Pubky 45:21 - Government digital ID 54:10 - Nostr's vs X vs Bluesky 1:00:00 - Why Nostr needs an ID solution 1:03:13 - Atomic Economy 1:08:08 - Tether 1:12:15 - Bitfinex stolen coins 1:14:13 - MSTR 1:21:20 - Core dev incentives 1:25:39 - John's hot take history 1:29:29 - Bluesky culture 1:33:15 - Giving people what they don’t know they want 1:35:52 - Wrapup Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained https://unchained.com/tftc/ Zaprite https://zaprite.com/tftc Salt of the Earth https://drinksote.com/tftc Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TFTC21/videos Clips YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQcW3jxfQfEUS8kqR5pJtQ Website https://tftc.io/ Twitter https://twitter.com/tftc21 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tftc.io/ Nostr https://primal.net/tftc Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/martybent Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://www.tftc.io/tag/podcasts/

Marty and Will Cole sit down to orange pill Bill and Spud from WAR MODE. WAR MODE: https://warmode.libsyn.com/ 0:00 - Intro 0:36 - Here to be orange pilled 4:35 - Don’t F up the money 11:03 - Unchained 12:04 - Early bitcoin and basic value prop 17:07 - Inflation lies 25:09 - How we got to the modern system 31:19 - Zaprite & SOTE 32:52 - Bitcoin’s good for everyone and everything’s good for bitcoin 40:27 - Bitcoin, not blockchain 47:30 - Monetization & Triffin dilemma 50:21 - Mining, energy and the halving 56:52 - Fixing the money 1:00:38 - What miners and nodes do 1:10:42 - Emergent organization and early internet 1:15:01 - Bitcoin storage and risks of bank custody 1:24:32 - Big banks are far more criminal than bitcoin users 1:28:11 - The financial system is a web of lies 1:38:31 - Bitcoin is the white pill, it’s never too late 1:51:19 - F you money beats censorship 1:59:13 - The only winning move is to play 2:07:30 - Volatility - Weimar gold 2:09:11 - Bitcoin lending and regulatory attack 2:16:27 - China ban and Texas energy 2:21:41 - Q 2:23:54 - Divine intervention 2:28:52 - Conspiracy theories 2:34:49 - Freeing the enslaved American people Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained https://unchained.com/tftc/ Zaprite https://zaprite.com/tftc Salt of the Earth https://drinksote.com/tftc Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TFTC21/videos Clips YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQcW3jxfQfEUS8kqR5pJtQ Website https://tftc.io/ Twitter https://twitter.com/tftc21 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tftc.io/ Nostr https://primal.net/tftc Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/martybent Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://www.tftc.io/tag/podcasts/

The Ten31 crew sit down with Matt Corallo to talk about Google's Willow quantum chip. 0:00 - Disclaimer 0:24 - Matt Corallo addresses the quantum chip scare 34:19 - Expected value calculation in quantum scenario 45:34 - Bitcoin MENA and nation state adoption 56:45 - Bitcoinization of finance 1:02:18 - MSTR 1:11:00 - Yield is a scary word in bitcoin 1:17:35 - 100k milestone