TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
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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#694: Why Trump Is Fighting the City of London with Tom Luongo
Marty sits down with Tom Luongo to discuss the Trump administration's multi-front war against globalist power structures, drug cartels, and rogue inte...
#693: The War for the World's Reserve Asset with Ryan Gentry
Marty sits down with Ryan Gentry to discuss his new $220 million SPAC aimed at taking Bitcoin operating companies public, the five-year evolution of t...
#692: Free Samourai with Keonne Rodriguez
Marty sits down with Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of Samourai Wallet, to discuss his decade-long mission to bring privacy to Bitcoin, the DOJ prosecut...
#691: Understanding the Real Globalist Power Structure with Susan Kokinda
Marty sits down with Susan Kokinda to discuss the City of London's centuries-long financial control over global affairs, its connection to modern narc...
#690: Why Billionaires Shouldn't Give It All Away with Johann Kurtz
Marty sits down with Johann Kurtz to discuss the cultural shift away from intergenerational wealth transfer, the moral framework of duty that once gui...
#689: Q3 2025 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis
Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss Bitcoin's power curve growth model, why recent price volatility shouldn't cause panic, and how under...
#688: The Housing Crisis Neither Party Wants to Solve with Mark Mitchell
Marty sits down with Mark Mitchell, an independent pollster, to discuss the growing disconnect between America's political class and younger generatio...
#687: How Fiat Money Exploits the Working Class with Erik Cason
Marty sits down with Erik Cason to discuss the dangers of centralized AI systems, the need for decentralized technology, Bitcoin as a tool against fia...
#686: Living on a Bitcoin Standard in 2026 with Steve Lee
Marty sits down with Steve Lee to discuss Bitcoin's path to becoming everyday money through Lightning infrastructure development, the importance of da...
#685: Why Bitcoin Policy Activism Matters Now with Kyle Olney
Marty sits down with Kyle Olney to discuss his journey from seizing banks during the financial crisis to becoming a Bitcoin policy advocate, the urgen...
#684: Bringing Bitcoin to Every Square Seller in America with Miles Suter
Marty sits down with Miles Suter to discuss Block's eight-year journey building Bitcoin infrastructure across Cash App, Square, and BitKey, culminatin...
#683: Bitcoin in the Age of AI and Abundance with Jordi Visser
Marty sits down with Jordi Visser to discuss why Bitcoin's current price consolidation mirrors the post-dot-com bubble IPO period, the democratization...
#682: Why Assault Weapons Bans Don't Work with John Lott
Marty sits down with Dr. John Lott to discuss why gun registries fail to solve crimes, how media misrepresents gun violence data, the ineffectiveness...
#681: The Health Insurance Death Spiral Is Here with Andy Schoonover
Marty sits down with Andy Schoonover, founder of CrowdHealth, to discuss the ACA health insurance death spiral, skyrocketing premiums forcing families...
#680: Fighting for Bitcoin Policy in Washington DC with Conner Brown
Marty sits down with Connor Brown to discuss his work as a Bitcoin policy advisor on Capitol Hill, the strategic Bitcoin reserve legislation, America'...
#679: Why Central Banks Are Panic Buying Gold at Any Price with Gary Brode
Marty sits down with Gary Brode to discuss tariffs and manufacturing reshoring, dollar debasement and the BRICS coalition threat, New York's exodus of...
#678: Building Privacy-First AI in an Age of Surveillance with Mark Suman
Marty sits down with Mark Suman to discuss the critical importance of building privacy-preserving AI systems, the risks of centralized AI models acces...
#677: How Bitfury Survived the Early Bitcoin Wars with George Kikvadze & Bill Tai
Marty sits down with George Kikvadze and Bill Tai to discuss the early days of building Bitfury, the resilience required to scale Bitcoin infrastructu...
#676: Building the First Bitcoin-Focused SPAC on NASDAQ with Andrew Hohns & Jonathan Kirkwood
Marty sits down with Andrew and Jonathan to discuss their newly launched NASDAQ-listed SPAC, BTC Development Co., which aims to merge with successful...
#675: Why Multi-Sig Bitcoin Beats All Other Assets with Peter Dunworth
Marty sits down with Peter Dunworth to discuss Australia's unrealized capital gains tax threat, Bitcoin's unique advantages for wealth protection and...
674: How Hedge Funds Became America's Largest Creditor with Infranomics
Marty sits down with Robert from Infranomics to discuss the Fed's recent revelation that hedge funds hold $1.8 trillion in U.S. debt through the basis...
From Residential Solar to Bitcoin Mining | Kent Halliburton, Center of Hash E010
Kent Halliburton, co-founder and CEO of Saz Mining, discusses how his background in residential solar, software and computer engineering ultimately le...
#673: Following The Puck in Real Estate with Chris Drzyzga
Marty sits down with Chris Drzyzga, a commercial real estate professional and Bitcoiner, to discuss the structural crisis facing the commercial real e...
#672: China's Rare Earth Dominance and the End of Dollar Hegemony with Luke Gromen
Marty sits down with Luke Gromen to discuss China's rare earth leverage over the US, the structural shift from Treasury bonds to gold as the primary r...
#671: What's Really in Bitcoin Core Version 30 with Instagibbs
Marty sits down with Instagibbs to discuss the Bitcoin Core version 30 release, covering technical improvements like checkpoint removal and orphanage...
#670: Why Central Banks Are Bringing Gold Home with Vince Lanci
Marty sits down with Vince Lanci to discuss China's strategic gold accumulation through Shanghai warrants, the global dedollarization movement, how go...
#669: Building the Events App That Bitcoin Deserves with Aleks Svetski
Marty sits down with Svetski to discuss AI as a productivity tool rather than AGI, the unsustainable economics of large language models, Nostr's evolu...
#668: The Debasement Trade Goes Mainstream with James Check
Marty sits down with James Check to discuss Bitcoin's structural market transformation, the debasement trade gaining mainstream recognition, treasury...
#667: The Silent Coup with Maryland Hodl
Marty sits down with Maryland HODL to discuss systemic vibrations signaling monetary transition, how bitbonds and stablecoins could facilitate a shift...
#666: Why Legacy Companies Can't Adopt AI with Luke Thomas
Marty sits down with Luke Thomas, founder of Formable and former product manager at Zapier, to discuss how AI is creating "unbounded leverage" for sta...
#665: The Great Reset Rebrand with Whitney Webb & Mark Goodwin
Marty sits down with Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin to discuss the expansion of surveillance infrastructure under the Trump administration, the weaponi...
#664: MicroStrategy's Perpetual Preferred Strategy Explained with Jeff Walton
Marty sits down with Jeff Walton to discuss his transition from reinsurance to Bitcoin treasury strategies at Strive, their cashless acquisition of Se...
From Blackstone to Bitcoin Mining | Sean Milmoe, Center of Hash E009
Sean Milmoe, co-founder and CFO of 360 Energy, discusses his transition from working at Blackstone financing conventional oil and gas businesses as we...
#663: The Canary in the Coal Mine for Credit Markets with Ed Dowd
Marty sits down with Edward Dowd to discuss the Federal Reserve's rate cuts, an impending housing and stock market crisis driven by the end of illegal...
#662: The Housing Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About with Melody Wright
Marty sits down with Melody Wright to discuss the brewing housing crisis, rising mortgage distress, and why she believes real estate speculation has c...
Risks of Mining Pool Centralization | Jimmy Song, Center of Hash E008
Jimmy Song, author of Programming Bitcoin, discusses the importance of more miners participating directly in the peer-to-peer network and the risks of...
#661: We Will Not Live Like This with Tom Luongo
Marty sits down with Tom Luongo to discuss America's potential turning point following recent political violence, the strategy behind Trump's methodic...
#660: Building Amid Chaos with Will Cole
Marty sits down with Will to discuss the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk and its potential political ramifications, Bitcoin's evolving mainstream...
#659: Why America Gets China Wrong with Peter Alexander
Marty sits down with Peter Alexander, an American consultant who has lived in China for 30 years, to discuss why the US fundamentally misunderstands C...
Bitcoin Mining in ERCOT | Brad Cuddy, Center of Hash E007
Brad Cuddy, Director–Energy Operations at Cholla, Inc., discusses the benefits that bitcoin mining is actively providing to the ERCOT grid, why deregu...