Tales from the Crypt: A Bitcoin Podcast

Join Marty as he sits down with Ethan Vera, Hashrate Merchant at Luxor Mining, to discuss: - Mining pools - Their historical lack of transparency - Pool fee negotiations - ASIC hardware lifecycles and their effect on decentralization - Market making for hashrate futures + their effect on transparency - Profit switching between chains - Whitelisted pools - Hashrateindex.com - much more Follow Ethan on Twitter Check out Luxor Mining 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.

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - samourai post mix address reuse disclosure & patch samourai team shinobi - Timing attacks on Lightning Network - Twitter hacked - difficulty hits new ATH - taproot activation - coinbase selling surveillance software to Secret Service and [IRS](https://www.theblockcrypto.com/amp/post/71261/coinbase-is-selling-blockchain-analytics-software-to-the-us-secret-service & https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/71890/irs-coinbase-blockchain-analytics) - Zap Desktop v07.0 & v0.7.1 - Zeus v0.3.0 - Bisq v1.3.6 - BTCPay Server v1.0.5.3 - Specter v0.5.5 - Ronin Dojo v1.5 - Samourai Dojo v1.7.0 - Tallycoin v2.1 - blockchain dot com wallet fingerprinting analysis of marketshare - Bitcoin Mining Hashrate and Power Analysis - Zap raises $3.5M - Paradigm provides funding to Anthony Towns - List of ongoing dev funding by @polylunar_ - Animated QR code demo by Blockchain Commons - Russian Activists using bitcoin - Microsoft and the police state - Mitre Corp surveillance p

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Kevin Mulcrone, founder of Lily Wallet, to discuss: - Free Banking Systems of the past - The Civil War + banking in America - Building Lily Wallet - Lily's plans for the future - Live music + blue grass - much more Follow Kevin on Twitter Checkout his website Checkout Lily Wallet 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.

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Square crypto provides grant to steve myers - IRS is seeking surveillance tools to track lightning network transactions - Coldcard 101 by bitcoinqna - Coldcard guides by kisbitcoin - myNode v0.2.11 - Samourai Whirlpool CLI v0.10.7 - Electrum v4.0.2 - Eclair v0.4.1 - RTL v0.8.0 - Raspiblitz v1.6 RC2 - @getumbrel teases new dedicated node software suite - UK FCA bitcoin research report - hardmoneyfilm.com - Iran gives bitcoin miners one month to register with the state - Venezuelan military seize 315 ASICs - PSBT signing in fully noded - PSBT Toolkit by benthecarman - Coincenter bitcoin privacy explainer - Crowdfunded distributed bitcoin awareness project - Coinbase trying to IPO - Signal downloads surge in HK as new draconian laws go into effect - USDC blacklists address with $100k USD - Tether has blacklisted $5.5 million in USDT this year - Marty's favorite app Tiktok pumps doge - Boltz Channel Creation Swap Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App.

Join Marty as he sits down with Jeff Vandrew, Founder of The KeyKeeper IRA, to discuss: - COVID-19 - The government's reaction to the virus - Masks as a way to isolate - The media and COVID19 data - Herd immunity - The bubbling Cultural Revolution - The professional managerial class - Elite overproduction - Why this is all a class issue - MMT - much more Follow Jeff on Twitter Reading materials that Jeff mentioned: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/20/reed-d20.html http://communia.blog/why-are-stocks-going-up-when-everything-is-going-awry/ https://nationalpost.com/opinion/peter-turchin-how-elite-overproduction-and-lawyer-glut-could-ruin-the-u-s 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.

Join Marty as he sits down with Randy Brito, Co-Founder of Locha Mesh and Bitcoin Venezuela, to discuss: - Starting Bitcoin Venezuela - Co-founding Locha Mesh - The importance of mesh networks - How mesh networks have been used in Venezuela - How to incentivize individuals to use mesh networks - The Turpial device - Bitcoin as a tool to find individual happiness - Getting funding - much more Follow Randy on Twitter Check out Locha Mesh Check out to Bitcoin Venezuela

Join Marty as he sits down with Corey DeAngelis, Director of School Choice at the Reason Foundation, to discuss: - The push to ban homeschooling from some Harvard professors - Why their reasoning for trying to ban homeschooling is flawed - School choice as a civil liberty - Myths about homeschooling and socialization - Myths about school funding decreasing - much more Follow Corey 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.

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Liquid UTXO expiration incident - Lightning vulnerability: Flood & Loot - HWI v1.1.2 - Electrum v4.0-beta1 - BTCPay server v1.0.5.0 - Zeus v0.3.0-rc1 - Polar v1.0.1 - Blue Wallet v5.4.4 - Joinmarket v0.6.3.1 - Tails v4.8 - Tor Browser v9.5.1 - Fully Noded updated adds easy wallet recovery mode - Australia tax letters - This month in bitcoin privacy by Janine - Words bitcoin journal - Using postal orders with bisq by @heady_wook - New coldcard bags - Chinese ASIC manufacturer Ebang IPO - ticker EBON - OCBTCN MyNode Special - Fake gold in China - Three Gorges Dam 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.

Join Marty as he sits down with Preston Byrne, Partner at Anderson Kill, to discuss: - Why the law is slow - Freedom of speech - Coordinated rioting - How scalable are societies? - Speech on social media platforms - Deplatforming - Bitcoin as free speech - Mining pools as an attack vector - much more Follow Preston 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.

Join Marty as he sits down with Bitcoin Core contributor Antoine Riard to discuss: - Onboarding millions onto the Lightning Network - BIP 157 - Full nodes - Bitcoin Core wallet refactoring - AltNet - Time-dilation attacks on the LN - CoinPool - Schnorr + Taproot - much more Find Antoine on the bitcoin-dev mailing list and in IRC 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.

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Waxwing responds to OXTResearch Joinmarket analysis - Gladstein and Elliptic Cofounder debate during messari virtual conference - Venezuelan government is now using btcpay server for passport applications - Glupteba malware uses bitcoin for communication - Mobile wallet comparison by bitcoinqna - Bitcoin Wallet Tracker v0.1.4 - Electrum v4.0-beta - Lily Wallet multisig beta wallet for coldcard users - Guide for using LND with dojo by dammkewl - Gladstein bitcoin and human rights video - Square Crypto design initiative and grants - Kraken grant to btcpay server for $150,000 - Sci-Hub accepts bitcoin donations because paypal blocked them - Paypal/Venmo may start offering bitcoin purchases - Bitmain power struggle continues - NY Bitlicense gets a little less shitty - Oracle BlueKai corporate surveillance data leaks - The US Senate has a new anti-encryption bill - FBI used social media to arrest protesters/looters - Facebook and the FBI hacked Tails OS yet ne

Join Marty as he sits down with Mike Peterson from Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte, El Salvador to discuss: - Why Mike started giving out Bitcoin in El Zonte - Creating a bitcoin circular economy - Using Lightning to achieve this goal - Educating individuals about bitcoin - Airdrops, do they work? - Price volatility - Custodial v. non-custodial - Interesting externalities from the experiment - The youths understand Bitcoin more innately - much more Follow the project on Twitter Checkout the BitBlockBoom Conference use the promo code "RHR" 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.

Join Marty as he sits down with Gary Leland, organizer of the BitBlockBoom conference, to discuss: - Growing up on James Island in South Carolina - Surfing - The development of cable TV - Early days of podcasting - BitBlockBoom - much more Follow Gary on Twitter Checkout the BitBlockBoom Conference use the promo code "RHR" 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.

Join Marty and Matt as they discuss: - Coldcard v3.1.6 firmware - Bisq v1.3.5 - Tallycoin v2 - Automated BIP39 recovery in Electrum - ASIC industry breakdown by bitmexresearch - Blockstream Esplora now bundles in a custom version of electrs - PR to split the bitcoin core GUI - bitcoinqna releases explainer on coinjoin toxic change and dedicated full node comparison [chart](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19071 and https://www.bitcoinqna.com/nodecompare) - Bitmex and OKCoin provide grant to Amiti Uttarwar - River Financial raises $5.7M - John Cantrell breaks Alistair Milne's engagement buying scheme - Rajarshi Maitra explains his journey contributing to bitcoin core - KYCnot.me website launches - a discussion about open source software - Consensys partnering with major exchanges to help them stake ETH + Matt's thread - Zoom will offer end to end encryption to all users - Capitalism doesn't exists Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "st

Join Marty as he sits down with Andy Edstrom, author of Why Buy Bitcoin, to discuss: - Why Andy decided to write a book - Pitching bitcoin to institutional investors - How Bitcoin's monetary theory differs from the monetary theory that dominated the 20th century - Inflation - Bitcoin's correlation to other asset classes - Why pay taxes? - much more Follow Andy 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.

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Shiftcrypto makes restructuring public plans to continue support of hardware wallet - Updates on BIP143 hardware wallet vuln disclosed last week - BIP85 support coming to coldcard - Zeus v0.3.0-beta1 adds c-lightning Spark and LNDhub support - electrum persoanl server v0.2.1.1 - Coinbase is selling surveillance software to the IRS and DEA - Using ASICs to stack sats without KYC - Bisq guide by @bitcoinQ_A - List of no kyc P2P services - HRF starts privacy focused bitcoin dev grant program with $50K grant to Chris Belcher as first recipient - Microsoft's decentralized ID protocol moves to bitcoin mainnet - CoinPool privacy and scaling proposal released - Three Arrows Capital discloses 6.25% ownership of GBTC shares - China OTC crackdown - Brave browser ref link autocomplete - Pentagon War Game ZBellion - Signal blog on their core principles and design philosophy - Stephan has IAMTHECHARACTER on pod Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stacki

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Chris Belcher, the developer behind JoinMarket and the first CoinSwap implementation, to discuss: - JoinMarket - Fidelity Bonds - Chain analysis heuristics - Chris' CoinSwap design - A "privacy threshold" - Why CoinSwaps are > CoinJoins - much more Follow Chris on Twitter Support Chris' work on a CoinSwap implementation here 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.

Join Marty as he sits down with Alex Bosworth, Lead Infrastructure Developer at Lightning Labs, to discuss: - Why exchanges should use Lightning - Lightning as a tool that can thwart spam - Managing a Lightning routing node - The nuance of payment channels - Lightning Loop - Lighting's evolution with the fee market - Creating standards for Lighting - Lighting + privacy - much more Follow Alex on Twitter Check out Lightning Labs 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.

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Will Cole, Chief Product Officer at Unchained Capital, to discuss: - Will's work in Wyoming that benefits Bitcoin - Wyoming as a Citadel haven - Working at Stack Overflow - Bitcoin Stack Exchange - Joining Unchained Capital - Working on collaborative custody products - Caravan Version 2 - Hermit - Future bitcoin products - much more Follow Will 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. Unchained Capital. Head over to www.unchained-capital.com/vaults and check out their 2-of-3 multisig vaults.

Join Marty as he sits down with Dr. James Todaro, founder of Medicine Uncensored and Managing Partner at Blocktown Capital, to discuss: - Dr. Todaro's research on hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 - The media backlash he's experienced - The censorship he and others have experienced - Debunking the recent study in The Lancet that claimed that hydrochloroquine increased chances of death - The shady company behind the study - Perverse incentives in the medical industry - The World Health Organization - Medicine Uncensored - much more Follow Dr. Todaro on Twitter Checkout the newsletter we discussed 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.