TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
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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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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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Episodes
#500: Investigating Fiat Food with Matthew Lysiak
4/23/2024
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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Duration:01:38:14
#499: Debt Slavery and the Carbon Credit Coup with Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin
4/17/2024
Marty sits down with Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin to discuss the latest methods employed by the digital panopticon.
Whitney on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_whitneywebb
Mark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/markgoodw_in
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Explaining the article
13:33 - Satellogic
17:41 - Private/public cabal
26:51 - Steve Mnuchin
38:40 - Highlighting the public/private smokescreen
48:06 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
48:45 - RSK
57:34 - Carbon dictatorship
1:20:41 - Stablecoin mafia
1:36:08 - Preventing bitcoin’s corruption
1:50:40 - Bitcoin ethos whitepill
2:01:51 - Fear tactics and censorship
2:14:12 - Final thoughts
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Duration:02:19:15
#498: Musings Of A “Right Wing Radical” with Ben Braddock
4/15/2024
Marty sits down with Ben Braddock to discuss everything from micro to macro.
Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen
IM—1776: https://im1776.com/
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - MS-13
8:13 - El Salvador and rule of law
12:47 - Media control and narrative shifts
30:51 - Covid lockdown’s financial motives
36:35 - Places to escape to
41:11 - Inflation is exhausting
52:37 - MAID and spiritual starvation
55:25 - They’re not sending their best
1:02:16 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
1:02:56 - Manosphere and nationalism
1:14:54 - Connecting over distance
1:22:35 - Cities and aesthetics
1:34:10 - Environmentalism
1:42:12 - IM—1776 and journalism
1:48:46 - Politicians
1:58:03 - Austin
2:06:41 - California water cycle
2:12:39 - Energy/mining
1:18:31 - Competency crisis and price system interference
2:36:47 - Eclipse and final thoughts
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Duration:02:42:40
#497: Bitcoin Will Power Up The Future Of Finance with Andrew Hohns
4/10/2024
Marty sits down with Andrew Hohns to discuss how Bitcoin changes the world of finance.
https://www.unicefusa.org/about-unicef-usa/leadership/national-board-directors/andrew-hohns
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Andrew’s background
19:30 - Discovering bitcoin
25:44 - Alloying bitcoin with credit
34:49 - Positive impact of Bitcoin’s unique use cases
49:18 - Debt crisis
58:15 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
58:54 - High/low time preference
1:04:32 - Applying bitcoin to financing
1:12:49 - Inflation
1:29:16 - Americans should embrace their bitcoin advantage
1:45:46 - Wrapping on Bitcoin Jawn
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Duration:01:52:19
#496: The World’s First Blue Light Free Computer with Anjan Katta & Tristan Scott
4/8/2024
Marty sits down with Anjan Katta and Tristan Scott to discuss the Daylight computer.
Anjan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnjanKatta
Tristan Scott: https://twitter.com/bitcoinand_beef
Daylight: https://daylightcomputer.com/
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Light and temperature
16:31 - Honesty
21:57 - Wisdom
25:56 - Creating Daylight
32:12 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
32:52 - Hardware has more impact than software
41:44 - Don’t start a hardware company
47:02 - Getting the screen made
59:10 - Fiat culture
1:06:42 - How Daylight succeeds
1:17:41 - Amusing Ourselves To Death
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Duration:01:21:31
#495: What’s REALLY Going On In The Oil Wars with Anas Alhajji
4/5/2024
Marty sits down with Anas Alhajji to discuss the many facets of the global conflict over energy.
Anas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/anasalhajji
Anas's Website: https://www.anasalhajji.com/
Daily Energy Report: https://afalhajji.substack.com/
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Strategic petroleum reserves
20:30 - LNG
40:04 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
40:43 - Media portrayal and OPEC+ view of Russia
48:32 - Red Sea
59:12 - Venezuela and Guyana
1:08:31 - Media narrative battles
1:13:07 - Predictions
1:19:16 - Wrapping up
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Duration:01:21:17
#494: Adding Fifteen Years To Your Life with P.D. Mangan
4/2/2024
Marty sits down with P.D. Mangan to discuss metabolic health, the consequences of easy fixes, fiat food, and more.
P.D. Mangan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mangan150
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Metabolic health
10:41 - Workout intensity
16:03 - Ozempic
23:27 - Hunger and eating patterns
28:56 - Meat myths, studies, and unhealthy experts
35:43 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
36:22 - Advice and misconceptions
46:00 - Chronic disease and fiat food
58:13 - A health crisis is expensive
1:02:37 - Years gained/lost
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Duration:01:11:24
#493: Fixing Big Ag with Jeff Smith
3/26/2024
Marty sits down with Jeff Smith to discuss the state of ranching and the agriculture industry.
Colorado Craft Beef: https://coloradocraftbeef.com/
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Bitcoin and ranching
13:37 - Starting Colorado Craft Beef
23:41 - Regulatory risk
29:04 - Taking care of the land
33:23 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
34:02 - Scaling in competition with large corps
39:00 - Orange pilling
55:34 - Weaponized fiat and food
1:00:34 - Competency crisis
1:12:32 - Yummy steaks
1:18:30 - Back to scaling
1:27:43 - Perspective and hope
1:32:59 - Wrapping up
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Duration:01:33:55
#492: Open Source AI Is Winning with NVK
3/20/2024
Marty sits down with NVK to discuss Coinkite, AI, tradeoffs in bitcoin, and more.
NVK on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvk
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Signing devices and the Coldcard Q
13:13 - ETFs vs self custody
17:38 - SIM swaps and AI fakes
23:59 - Meatspace KYC
26:55 - AI tools, Unleashed.chat
32:04 - AI and bitcoin for businesses
42:18 - How AI will impact the world
50:14 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
50:52 - What will our children need to know?
55:10 - Covenants
1:03:10 - Tradeoffs of bitcoin scaling layers
1:13:45 - Bitcoin’s multiple value props
1:17:29 - Nostr
1:25:26 - Pace of adoption
1:36:44 - Keynesian lies
1:40:09 - Commie Canada
1:50:25 - We’re winning because they can’t meme
1:55:13 - Coinkite stuff
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Duration:01:58:52
#491: Bitcoin Urbanism with Tuur Demeester, Kelly Lannan & Austin Tunnell
3/18/2024
Marty sits down with the Tuur, Kelly and Austin after the Bitcoin Urbanism panel for an extended chat about fiat real estate, walkable cities, beautiful architecture, and more.
Tuur on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester
Kelly on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ktlannan
Austin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AustinTunnell
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Introducing guests
14:03 - Fiat real estate and centralized planning
22:48 - Environment and psychology
34:33 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
35:12 - Efficiency can be bad for your health
44:15 - Real estate is a shitcoin
55:14 - Social breakdown and families
58:48 - Suburbs becoming slums
1:02:52 - Municipal infrastructure
1:07:43 - Community
1:17:09 - Definancializing real estate
1:22:43 - Sustainability
1:28:55 - Wrapping up
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Duration:01:32:09
#490: How Woke Took Over America with Andrew Gutmann
3/15/2024
Marty sits down with Andrew Gutmann to discuss his Substack article on the link between fiat money and woke ideology.
Andrew's website: https://andrewgutmann.com/
Andrew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewGutmann
Andrew's Substack article: https://andrewgutmann.substack.com/p/how-woke-took-over-america
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Andrew’s background
11:30 - Andrew’s Substack piece
17:54 - Commercial banks and the Fed
21:34 - How fiat causes wealth disparity
28:30 - Turning the tide
31:40 - Gradually, Then Suddely
32:19 - Point of no return
34:57 - Bitcoin and energy
41:17 - Educational institutions
49:31 - Competency crisis
51:57 - Homeschooling
54:13 - Powell
59:20 - Hyperinflation
1:01:04 - Wrapping up
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Duration:01:02:32
#489: Bitcoin Fixes Scientific Peer Review with Kevin McKernan
3/13/2024
Marty sits down with Kevin McKernan to discuss covid jabs and how Bitcoin can be leveraged to incentivize and improve peer review.
Kevin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan
Kevin's Substack: https://anandamide.substack.com/
Kevin's Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Kg5gDtmSg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Kg5gDtmSg
The Indoctrinated Brain: https://www.amazon.com/Indoctrinated-Brain-Successfully-Global-Freedom/dp/1510778365
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Capitol Hill presentation
15:08 - P2P review and publication
19:43 - Hiding SV40 DNA
28:00 - Gene therapy
34:04 - Industry saving face
42:47 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
43:26 - Bitcoin and the timechain
57:24 - Incentivizing high quality peer review
1:07:56 - Bitcoin parallels biology
1:13:43 - Medical community catching on
1:18:50 - Reactions to Capitol Hill message
1:24:20 - Wrapping up
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Duration:01:26:51
#488: Freedom Money Will Revive Rural America with Dr. Brooke Miller
3/11/2024
Marty sits down with Dr. Brooke Miller to discuss the damage of mRNA vaccines, the media's attacks on rural America, and scaling local food and health models.
Dr Miller on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Brookemillermd
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Vaccine data
15:58 - Nefarious intentions
21:47 - Media attacking ranchers
27:11 - mRNA food
31:56 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
32:34 - Counter attack
37:18 - Freedom money
45:10 - Rural America
50:06 - Local food
53:09 - Scaling and centralization
1:01:21 - Momentum against the rulers
1:05:47 - We’re on a list
1:12:24 - Orange pilling politicians
1:15:16 - Wrapping up
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Duration:01:20:52
#487: Bitcoin Mining Industry v. Elizabeth Warren with Pierre Rochard
3/8/2024
Marty sits down with Pierre Rochard to discuss the mining industry's response to the EIA registry.
Pierre on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitcoinPierre
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - AI tools
18:11 - AI competing with Bitcoin for energy
26:05 - EIA registry
1:02:20 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
1:02:59 - Liz’s goals
1:08:23 - Environmentalism
1:15:48- Nat gas and context for renewables
1:31:24 - Current market and speculative attack
1:43:28 - Good time to be a bitcoiner
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Duration:01:50:35
#486: How Bitcoin Can Solve The Competency Crisis with Axel Raven
3/4/2024
Marty sits down with Axel Raven to discuss the the root causes of the competency crisis in fiat currency.
Axel on Twitter https://twitter.com/FinancialPhys
Axel's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@financialphysics7541
0:00 - Intro
5:05 - Competency crisis and essential work
22:09 - Sound money
30:05 - Time and the purpose of money
36:35 - Keynesian trickery
46:28 - Real estate and northern weather
50:38 - Trucking
1:04:44 - Automation fantasies
1:09:37 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
1:10:16 - Technial debt
1:16:36 - Nuclear
1:21:44 - Fiat delusion and scrooges
1:32:16 - Bitcoin replacing the dollar
1:38:57 - Truth For The Commoner
1:46:27 - Wrapping up
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Duration:01:49:21
#485: Will Bitcoin Hit $1,000,000 This Cycle? with Tuur Demeester
3/4/2024
Marty sits down with Tuur Demeester the bull run, the mindsets that perpetuate controlling regimes, AI, and more.
Tuur on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester
Adamant Research: https://adamantresearch.com/
0:00 - Intro
5:07 - Tuur is bullish
12:08 - Public is catching on to money printing
17:01 - Effect of newbie influx
22:57 - Regulatory and centralization risk
29:04 - Totalitarian regimes
41:06 - Belgium and helpless mindset
51:32 - AI and information accessibility
1:00:55 - Gradually, Then Suddenly
1:01:34 - How high are we going?
1:18:14 - Building, form and function
1:32:13 - Wrapping up
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Duration:01:35:46
#484: Bitcoin And The Long March with Ben Hart
3/1/2024
Marty sits down with Ben Hart to discuss his recent viral popularity, victim culture, and the hope Bitcoin brings for the future.
Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenHart_Freedom
0:00 - Intro
6:21 - Ben’s daughter
16:46 - Discovering Bitcoin
19:36 - Dartmouth Review
24:38 - Big tech and intelligence agencies
33:22 - College brainwashing
44:23 - Victim narrative and immigration
52:25 - Fiat culture
56:06 - Energy, mining and decentralization
1:01:11 - Sound money and military industrial complex
1:08:39 - Optics and adoption
1:27:18 - Wrapping up
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Duration:01:28:45
#483: Bitcoin Is The 7th Largest Base Money In The World with Matthew Mežinskis
2/21/2024
Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q4 2023 monetary base update.
6:25 - Cloward-Piven and immigration
30:22 - Top currencies
38:45 - Inflation rates
46:59 - NZ bankers go mask off
54:14 - Fedwire vs Bitcoin
1:17:14 - Power trend line
1:26:53 - Does the ETF change things?
1:29:43 - “All assets” chart
1:35:23 - Federal debt
1:48:25 - Building the roads
1:52:21 - Russia
2:07:05 - Wrapping up
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Duration:02:09:40
#483: Bitcoin Is The 7th Largest Base Money In The World with Matthew Mežinskis
2/21/2024
Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss the Q4 2023 monetary base update.
6:25 - Cloward-Piven and immigration
30:22 - Top currencies
38:45 - Inflation rates
46:59 - NZ bankers go mask off
54:14 - Fedwire vs Bitcoin
1:17:14 - Power trend line
1:26:53 - Does the ETF change things?
1:29:43 - “All assets” chart
1:35:23 - Federal debt
1:48:25 - Building the roads
1:52:21 - Russia
2:07:05 - Wrapping up
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Duration:02:09:40
#482: Freedom Fighters Need Bitcoin with Lyudmyla Kozlovska & Bota Jardemalie
2/20/2024
Marty sits down with Lyudmyla Kozlovska and Bota Jardemalie to discuss activism against the EU regulators' attacks on Bitcoin.
- PoW submission to the EU regulators (example of testimonials we want to collect from bitcoin miners and those who socially benefit from it): https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/724499,defend-pow-submission-to-esma/
- EU AML submission: https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/723329,submission-to-fatf-tools-to-prevent-abuse-of-aml-cft-laws/
-Submission to FinCen US: https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/724918,submission-to-fincen-us-digital-asset-aml-act/
- Site / Support OD Foundation: https://en.odfoundation.eu/how-can-you-help/
- LN to donate in Bitcoin and support our advocacy work in the EU and US:
🫡 defendpow@geyser.fund
🫂 donate@bps.odfoundation.eu
- Lyudmyla on X: @LyudaKozlovska
- Bota on X: @jardemalie
0:00 - Intro
8:00 - EU attacks on Bitcoin
18:58 - Abuse of KYC/AML
25:10 - Confronting regulators about their consequences
37:45 - Timeline on preventing EU action
41:15 - What can be done
47:52 - What does the success of Bitcoin look like
50:11 - What it’s like when they come for you
52:50 - The laws are more draconian and less effective
58:04 - Narrative war
1:02:31 - Complacency
1:07:39 - Dealing with the stress
1:12:55 - Wrapping up
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Duration:01:15:39