Tales from the Crypt: A Bitcoin Podcast
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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. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tales-from-the-crypt/support
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#443: Q2 2023 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis
30/08/2023 Duração: 01h47minMarty sits down again with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q2 2023 Monetary Base update. Follow along the charts here: https://twitter.com/1basemoney/status/1696117186236989686 Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/1basemoney 6:05 - eNaira and CBDCs 26:08 - Top 5 currencies 32:30 - Compound annual growth rate 36:06 - FHLB exposure 42:27 - Inflation is impacting people 45:08 - Bitcoin chart 56:49 - Scandinavian physical currency 59:17 - US federal debt 1:15:08 - Canary in the coal mine 1:23:30 - Nations using Bitcoin and BRICS gold 1:40:02 - Optimal outcome Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River Bitcoin Talent Co TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel
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#442: Launching Flex with Bitcoin Talent Co
25/08/2023 Duração: 55minMarty sits down again with Michael Tanguma and Andy Thompson from Bitcoin Talent Co to talk about launching Flex. Michael on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MTanguma Andy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theandytee/ Flex landing page: https://www.bitcointalent.co/flex 5:30 - Welcome back, Bitcoin Talent Co. 8:37 - Flex supply side market 13:39 - Interest on both sides 20:50 - Hiring missteps 25:01 - Hi Trevor! 25:58 - Further mistakes 31:23 - Misallocation of resources 34:56 - Acting with urgency 36:50 - Opportunity for efficiency increasing 41:55 - Talent competition at global level 43:29 - Expanding and iterating 51:02 - Plugs and wrap up Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitcoin Talent Co TFTC Merch is Available:
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#441: Miniscript and Bitcoin Risk Products with Rob Hamilton
24/08/2023 Duração: 01h45minMarty sits down with Rob Hamilton to discuss Anchorwatch and keeping focus on Miniscript and maximizing its potential. Rob on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rob1Ham Anchorwatch: https://www.anchorwatch.com/about 5:30 - Ninja Launch 7:43 - Bluechecks 13:31 - Content models 18:18 - Drivechains and OP_VAULT 22:58 - Miniscript 27:07 - Stepping back on Miniscript 33:50 - Balancing complexity at Anchorwatch 36:17 - Bitcoin risk products 42:52 - Anchorwatch policy construction 47:15 - UX 51:58 - Impatience 55:17 - Get your hands dirty 59:31 - Edge cases 1:06:22 - MPC 1:18:54 - Upgrades with unknown unknowns 1:27:34 - Bullish 1:32:43 - Bitcoin in macro 1:39:59 - Urgency Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitcoin Talent Co TFTC Merch is Available:
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#440: Climate Change Is A Bad Excuse with Anas Alhajji
18/08/2023 Duração: 01h12minMarty sits down with Anas Alhajji to discuss energy markets, climate change regulation and subsidies, and whether de-dollarization will push nations toward Bitcoin. Anas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/anasalhajji Anas on Substack: https://anasalhajjieoa.substack.com/ 5:30 - India and UAE oil trade 13:27 - COP 28 and climate change excuses 27:46 - Climate change religion 31:05 - Dishonest numbers 37:05 - Shale oil underperforming 42:02 - “Green” energy can only win by force 48:11 - Why we Bitcoin 49:46 - Near future energy market 56:16 - Impact of subsidies 58:59 - Immigration and Climate arguments don’t mix 1:03:48 - Dollar shortage and Bitcoin Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitcoin Talent Co TFTC Merch is Available:
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#439: Mining, Memes and Meetups with Thomas Pacchia
08/08/2023 Duração: 01h54minMarty sits down with Thomas Pacchia for a chat before the pubkey mining meetup. Thomas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tpacchia Pubkey: https://pubkey.bar/ 5:30 - Is DeFi borked? 11:13 - Blockspace scarcity 21:56 - Will shitcoin cycles continue? 28:42 - No soft landing 32:01 - Large scale investors 42:27 - Mining meetup 53:06 - What drives hashrate growth from here? 58:18 - Treasury management 1:00:55 - Pool monetization 1:09:51 - Scammers and hamsters 1:12:48 - NYC Bitcoin makes Marty bullish 1:23:05 - Memes and NFTs 1:28:58 - Derailment and riffing 1:36:29 - Bitcoin conferences and new Pubkey locations 1:44:08 - Hex and hardware wallets 1:46:58 - Reminiscing from our prison cells in 2030 Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitcoin Talent Co TFTC Merch is Avail
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#438: Cycling Toward A Bitcoin Boom with Tuur Demeester
31/07/2023 Duração: 01h48minMarty sits down with Tuur Demeester to discuss the factors pushing Bitcoin forward in its cycle. Tuur on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester 0:00 - Intro 5:30 - Aliens 11:35 - Bitcoin cycles 18:04 - Is the next cycle different? 20:21 - Will crypto stay dead? 24:12 - Old ideas, new ideas, and startups 33:44 - Regulatory landscape 38:27 - Financial “innovations” from crypto 42:31 - Bitcoin politics 46:29 - Implications of decentralized custody 54:23 - Multiple fronts of chaos 1:02:04 - How far can inflation go? 1:10:04 - Bitcoin is the escape hatch 1:12:13 - Nation state adoption 1:15:29 - Next bull market 1:26:29 - Fedimints and AI 1:34:38 - Bullish on Texas 1:47:28 - We’re gonna win Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitcoin Talent Co TFTC Merch is Available:
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#437: History Doesn't Rhyme, It Repeats with Dave Collum & Rudy Havenstein
25/07/2023 Duração: 03h08minMarty sits down with Dave Collum and Rudy Havenstein and tries to keep Marty Jones under control. Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidBCollum Rudy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RudyHavenstein 5:30 - Bants 11:41 - Background 27:20 - Banking crisis lull 33:12 - Media collapse and Twitter 48:43 - Evil rulers 1:15:10 - Corporate press and those they hate 1:22:35 - Younger generations 1:30:21 - Forth turning and inflation 1:58:20 - CBDCs vs Bitcoin 2:03:49 - Final words from Rudy 2:05:39 - Rabbit holes on rabbit holes Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitcoin Talent Co TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips
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#436: Building Sound Finance For Sound Money with Atomic Finance
24/07/2023 Duração: 01h25minMarty sits down with Tony Cai and Matt Black from Atomic Finance to discuss returns on Bitcoin, DLCs, and the future of Bitcoin's scaling. Tony on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TonyCai_ Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthewjablack Atomic Finance: https://atomic.finance/ 5:30 - Atomic Finance origins 15:44 - What’s wrong with defi? 21:15 - Explaining DLCs 25:26 - How Atomic uses DLCs 28:39 - Risks 34:13 - Atomic’s oracle 37:39 - State of DLCs and lightning 44:51 - Plans for Atomic 47:46 - Ethereum’s centralization 50:26 - Order of operations in Bitcoin adoption 54:04 - Scaling Bitcoin and ossification 1:04:59 - Staking reputation on BIPs 1:14:28 - A lot at stake 1:21:00 - Wrapping Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitcoin Talent Co TFTC Merch is Available:
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#435: Bitcoin Solves the Payments Problem in AI with Kody Low
19/07/2023 Duração: 02h09minMarty sits down with Kody Low to discuss Fedimints, Lightning, and how they can be applied to power AI tools. Kody on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kodylow Check out Fedi: https://www.fedi.xyz/ Join the #Ai4ALL hackathon https://bolt.fun/tournaments/ai4all/overview 0:00 - Intro 5:30 - Marty Barbell Bender 7:10 - Kody’s background, every Bitcoiner a dev 13:59 - What layer is Fedi? 19:38 - Explaining Fedimint 25:43 - What do Fedimints fix about lightning? 30:23 - Expanding on federation 34:46 - Scaling Bitcoin for the world 38:56 - Federated operating system 49:23 - How it works for guardians 57:57 - Privacy 1:00:41 - Synth dollar trading 1:11:18 - AI/Lightning intersection 1:20:33 - L402 and M2M payments 1:35:53 - Lightning’s headstart on crypto 1:38:24 - Avoiding Bitcoin’s volitility with Fedi 1:41:02 - Bitcoin is the best money 1:49:10 - Pushing AI companies to Lightning 1:52:02 - Answer the call, freaks 1:55:25 - Privacy and gpu hosting 2:05:27 - Wrapping up Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchaine
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#434: Capital in the 21st Century with Allen Farrington
17/07/2023 Duração: 01h44minMarty sits down with Allen Farrington from Axiom to discuss his perspective on capital allocation and how it is affected by Bitcoin. Allen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/allenf32 Allen on Medium: https://allenfarrington.medium.com/ 5:30 - Introducing Axiom 9:43 - Cost of capital 14:26 - Debt is not universally bad 16:59 - Capital as a tool 18:51 - The goal of capital allocation 22:13 - Affecting individual savings 26:06 - Capital flowchart and long term thinking 37:18 - Bitcoin doesn’t allow fiat games 44:47 - Bitcoin mining illustrating the point 58:09 - Impact of lightning’s instant settlement 1:06:26 - Building a long term company 1:14:46 - Temperance during the boom 1:18:46 - Liquid BTC 1:27:28 - Axiom and further upcoming writing 1:41:04 - Wrapping up Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitcoin Talent Co
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#433: Lightning Network at the Enterprise Level with Jose Lemus
14/07/2023 Duração: 01h37minMarty sits down with Jose Lemus from Ibex to discuss integrating the lightning network with businesses, barriers to adoption, cross-border payments, and more. Jose on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jllemus Ibex: https://www.poweredbyibex.io/ 5:30 - Bitcoin Park riffing 7:37 - What’s up at Ibex? 22:24 - Impact of instant settlement 26:21 - Lightning Network, AI, Internet of Things 34:07 - What’s taking adoption so long? 36:49 - Bitcoin’s unique combination of properties 45:57 - Burden of compliance 49:45 - Fiat is the money of force 52:44 - KYC is the illicit activity 1:02:38 - Mexico partnership 1:03:44 - The purpose of financial products 1:12:36 - Bitcoin is a tween 1:17:30 - Don’t get distracted by bull markets 1:29:14 - Marty’s excited about energy and AI 1:35:36 - Wrapping up Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitco
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#432: Jab Injury Event Horizon with Ed Dowd
11/07/2023 Duração: 01h09minMarty sits down with Ed Dowd to discuss jab injuries, RFK Jr, the peak of clown world extending ever upward, and more. Ed Dowd on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DowdEdward 8:33 - The clown world peak keeps rising 15:41 - RFK Jr and the jab injury event horizon 25:17 - Distractions 29:00 - Debt event horizon has already passed 33:26 - Trust in the system degrading 37:05 - Bitcoin 38:42 - The CIA disapproves 38:53- Broken money and psyops 45:46 - Individual state power 49:29 - Three Letter Agencies don’t want this heard 54:31 - Hard times before good times 56:37 - Strong families 1:03:50 - Final note on RFK Jr 1:07:12 - I am Spartacus Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitcoin Talent Co TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main
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#431: Bitcoin Privacy and the Payjoin Dev Kit with Dan Gould
05/07/2023 Duração: 01h24minMarty sits down with Dan Gould to discuss Payjoin Dev Kit, how coinjoins protect privacy, and the experience of developing on Bitcoin. Dan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bitgould Payjoin Dev Kit: https://payjoindevkit.org/ 9:16 - Dan’s history 14:39 - Explaining CoinJoins 21:36 - How Payjoin reduces dox threat and reduces fees 35:09 - TURN servers 39:49 - How are PSBTs involved in Payjoin 42:45 - How coin selection is determined 36:30 - Separating PDK from BDK 50:03 - Completing BDK 53:38 - Payjoin’s role going forward 57:54 - Chain surveillance and prosecuting CoinJoins 1:03:51 - Right to privacy 1:08:18 - Multi receiver PayJoin 1:09:42 - Less frustration on Bitcoin development 1:15:18 - Will Bitcoin reach sufficient ossification? 1:18:25 - Plugs and wrapping Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitcoin Talent Co
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#430: Bitcoin vs the $156 Trillion Global Payments Industry with Sam Wouters
30/06/2023 Duração: 02h01minMarty sits down with Sam Wouters to discuss Bitcoin's rate of adoption for cross-border payments. Sam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SDWouters Sam's report on River blog: https://blog.river.com/bitcoin-vs-the-156-trillion-global-payments-industry/ 0:00 - Intro 2:30 - Finding bitcoin through Runescape 9:22 - New educational resources in Bitcoin 13:27 - Diving into Sam’s report 17:51 - Structure of the report 21:39 - Chapter 1: Cross-border payments industry 31:53 - Comparing Bitcoin and internet adoption 41:37 - Remittance education 48:31 - Getting into charts on remittance volume 56:18 - Chapter 2: Global bitcoin adoption 1:07:58 - Motivation for adoption 1:13:39 - Chapter 3: Cross-border Bitcoin payments 1:23:13 - What makes bitcoin better for remittance 1:26:28 - Lightning services 1:30:26 - Bitcoin for payments 1:33:32 - Google search traffic for Bitcoin 1:39:17 - B2C 1:44:35 - Chapter 4: Growing cross-border Bitcoin payments 1:51:36 - Adoption funnel 1:55:33 - Marty tries to quote himself before wrappin
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#429: Is The Inflation Problem Really Solved? with Luke Gromen
28/06/2023 Duração: 01h15minMarty sits down with Luke Gromen to discuss inflation catching up with the world. Luke on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LukeGromen 0:00 - Intro 6:33 - UK inflation 11:02 - American banking crisis lull 18:12 - Structural problems in energy 25:56 - Liquidity issues with massive bank accounts 31:33 - Debt ceiling 33:13 - Retirement and target date funds 40:18 The Ukraine distraction 45:54 - Collapse in skilled labor and infrastructure 50:41 - Taking on troubled times 54:55 - Bitcoin’s interaction with energy 57:05 - Landing on the wrong side of stagflation 59:19 - Bitcoin eliminates banking BS 1:01:34 - Treasury bond duration risk 1:06:22 - 40 year bull market over, gold and Bitcoin win 1:13:51 - Wrapping Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitcoin Talent Co TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now
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#428: Examining BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF with Townsend Lansing
26/06/2023 Duração: 54minMarty sits down with Townsend Lansing to discuss BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF. Townsend on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TownsendLansing 0:00 - Intro 8:40 - Inflation hitting the UK 11:07 - Introducing Townsend, Blackrock ETF 19:10 - SEC approval 25:23 - APA 26:46 - How Bitcoin market could be affected 29:28 - People becoming aware of crypto risk 31:23 - How the grantor trust works 35:50 - ETF liquidity 42:12 - Bitcoin’s better security 45:30 - Will bitcoin financial products be treated differently? 48:05 - Approval is unlikely 49:52 - Bitcoin’s impact on finance 51:13 - Wrapping up Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitcoin Talent Co TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel
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#427: Killer Whale Liquidity Crisis with John Titus
20/06/2023 Duração: 59minMarty sits down with John Titus to discuss the liquidity crisis caused by the Fed. John's Substack: https://bestevidence.substack.com/ Best Evidence on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@BestEvidence 5:30 - Killer whales and banks lacking liquidity 16:13 - The Fed is at the center 21:01 - Coordinated consolidation effort 26:28- The strength of cash 33:57 - John’s origin story 39:09 - Fix the money, fix the world 42:20 - Dollar endgame 45:06 - John on Bitcoin 49:38 - The system is run by those who hate you 52:54 - Life expectancy decline 55:35 - Tyranny thrives in the fear of resistance 58:39 - Wrapping up Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitcoin Talent Co TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Cha
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#426: Bringing Lightning To Utilities with Synota
06/06/2023 Duração: 01h19minMarty sits down with Austin Mitchell, Lisa Scott, and Alan Schroeder from Synota to discuss bringing energy providers over to Bitcoin and LN. Synota on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Synota_ 6:35 - Meet Synota 14:05 - Payment settlement struggles for utilites 16:56 - How Synota integrates 23:47 - Financing possibilities 26:20 - Utilities grokking bitcoin 34:07 - Effects of decentralizing the grid 45:22 - The team’s orange pilling 49:41 - Mining industry is maturing 55:56 - Efficiency impact of instant payments 1:01:11 - Mining permanent funds 1:05:03 - Issues building on lightning 1:10:57 - Wrapping up Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitcoin Talent Co TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel
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#425: Fiat Crisis with Balaji Srinivasan
02/06/2023 Duração: 04h25minMarty sits down with Balaji Srinivasan for the longest episode of TFTC yet, going in depth on the nature of the incoming fiat crisis. Balaji on Twitter: https://twitter.com/balajis 6:13 - How does the debt ceiling contribute to the fiat crisis? 9:48 - Reality check 21:38 - History is running in reverse 25:09 - The unipolar moment is over 38:05 - America is 3 tribes 44:42 - Democracy has 4 definitions 55:33 - India adopting pragmatic democracy 59:08 - China won’t go away 1:07:03 - USSA 1:36:11 - How America gets its strength back 1:43:16 - Dollar nationalists, social media politics 1:53:20 - It’s not one nation, it’s two parties with verbal footsoldiers 2:07:15 - The Gray tribe 2:35:47 - Blue losing media control 2:39:46 - Recap, Blue’s remaining power 2:45:48 - The tribal filter on the banking situation 3:01:36 - The declining US empire 3:13:13 - Blue America’s infrastructure highlights 3:16:40 - Exiting through Bitcoin 3:20:18 - We’ve lost our moon shoes 3:22:24 - The writing’s on the wall and states have in
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#424: Q1 2023 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis
01/06/2023 Duração: 01h49minFollow along with the charts: https://twitter.com/1basemoney/status/1664179527784734720?s=20 Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/1basemoney 8:12 - Baltic hockey 17:17 - Debt ceiling bye bye 22:55 - New basemoney drop! 36:19 - Bitcoin base vs top fiat, reverse repo 49:41 - Bank failures 1:01:54 - Treasury markets 1:05:34 - Fannie & Freddie debt numbers 1:09:32 - Balaji says FedNow is a CBDC 1:17:02 - Sidebar on children 1:18:19 - Back on topic, centralization will continue 1:23:45 - Sovereign sat and gold stacking 1:34:41 - Quick stats 1:35:56 - Full reserve in Texas 1:45:37 - Wrapping up Shoutout to our sponsors: Unchained River CrowdHealth Bitcoin Talent Co TFTC Merch is Available: Shop Now Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel Clips YT Channel