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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast Marty Bent
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TFTC 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.
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#505: Jerome Powell, Tether and Peak Oil with Tom Luongo
Tom Luongo returns once again to discuss geopolitics.
Tom on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TFL1728
Tom's Website: https://tomluongo.me/
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Larry Fink
6:18 - Sovereigntists vs Davos
14:00 - Sponsors 1
15:16 - Powell’s domestic concerns
18:39 - Bank of Japan
25:22 - Gold
30:00 - Tether
34:40 - Tom’s hivemind
36:31 - Sponsors 2
38:08 - KYC
44:31 - Yuval Harari clip
49:23 - The cracks are showing
58:32 - Sound money
1:06:30 - Oil
1:15:35 - Throw out the spreadsheet
1:21:42 - Israel parallels with Russia
1:29:26 - Recognizing manipulation
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#504: Bitcoin Is More American Than The Dollar with Parker Lewis
Marty sits down with Parker Lewis to discuss how fiat money corrupts the structure of the US government and how bitcoin fixes this.
Parker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/parkeralewis
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Welcome back to Tales From The Fridge
1:49 - US/Japan swap line
7:32 - Dollar is undermining the US
10:14 - Sponsors 1
11:30 - Framing bitcoin and the dollar correctly
17:37 - Importance of America’s government structure
26:59 - Hamilton describing the slippery slope
34:46 - Self-funding uniparty
41:44 - Sponsors 2
43:21 - Owning the frame
52:43 - How bitcoin decentralizes power
1:03:07 - Sticking to truth
1:14:00 - Final message
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#503: The Bitcoin Stack with Dhruv Bansal,Ryan Gentry & Allen Farrington
Marty sits down with Dhruv, Ryan and Allen to discuss their new article on decentralizing the internet with Bitcoin.
Dhruv on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhruvbansal
Ryan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RyanTheGentry
Allen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/allenf32
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Adding context
9:47 - Layer Zero
17:15 - Difficulty adjustment
23:32 - Layer One
32:42 - Layer Two - Lightning
43:31 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
44:10 - High layers improve low layers
50:40 - Unlocking the potential of lightning
55:40 - Design methodology
1:00:50 - Ordinals, out-of-band transactions
1:06:25 - Nostr
1:12:20 - Sphinx chat
1:17:24 - Ethereum’s backwards priorities
1:19:49 - AI interaction with bitcoin
1:25:09 - Unforseeable use cases
1:36:23 - Wrapping up
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#502: How Bitcoin Fixes Elections with Carliño
Marty sits down with Carliño to discuss the events that led to Simple Proof and bitcoin being used to verify Guatemala's election.
Carliño on Twitter: https://twitter.com/carlostoriello
Digital Witness: https://digitalwitness.io
Find Carliño on Nostr: npub14advhxua8w78gl2z7q8c4s20htxkzq4cu5mhj34ep0puf7smyqzszrd7qq
0:00 - Intro5:05 - Riffing9:24 - Poverty is the enemy15:57 - Getting OFAC listed and discovering bitcoin24:03 - Austrian influence and the state of Guatemala29:21 - Events leading to Simple Proof42:31 - Simple Proof in practice49:09 - Utilizing Stakwork54:39 - Mitigating bias1:00:05 - After the election1:09:04 - Funneling gamified auditors to bitcoin1:14:09 - Next elections and implementing in American counties1:26:05 - Election statistics, bleep the thing1:31:39 - Reciepts of truth1:39:18 - Darkest before the dawn
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#501: Bitcoin Mining Pools Are Critically Centralized with Matt Corallo
Marty sits down with Matt Corallo to discuss the Antpool situation and how the centralization issue can be solved.
Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheBlueMatt
0:00 - Intro
1:27 - The pool problem
14:42 - Miners haven’t switched
22:04 - Miner priorities
27:38 - Taking action
40:11 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
40:50 - Addressing bias
42:59 - Is switching difficult?
46:14 - Nuclear option if someone takes control
51:30 - Solutions
1:00:51 - Complacency
1:06:40 - Go test StratumV2
1:09:48 - Bitcoin success percentage and wrapping up
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#500: Investigating Fiat Food with Matthew Lysiak
Marty sits down with Matthew Lysiak to discuss his new book, Fiat Food.
Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewlysiak
Buy Fiat Food: https://academy.saifedean.com/product/fiat-food-hardcover/
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Mass shootings and mental illness
9:58 - Origins of Fiat Food and The Saif House
15:04 - 7th Day Adventists and Kellogg
19:37 - How 1971 corrupted science
32:06 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
32:45 - Legacy media distortion
42:21 - Environmental guilt
48:48 - Heart health psyop and food pyramid
1:00:21 - Friends of the money printer
1:06:25 - Covid and food as methods of control
1:20:35 - Media defection
1:27:39 - Modern obesity
1:31:12 - Reception of the book
1:37:24 - Book plug
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