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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#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...
#658: What's Really in the COVID Shots with Jessica Rose
Marty sits down with Jessica Rose, an immunologist and data analyst, to discuss her five years of research into VAERS data showing alarming safety sig...
#657: China's Gold War with Mel Mattison
Marty sits down with Mel Mattison to discuss his bullish predictions for 2025, the merging of Treasury and Fed policy, China's gold accumulation strat...
#656: Q2 2025 Monetary Base Update with Matthew Mežinskis
Marty sits down with Matthew Mežinskis to discuss Bitcoin's power law growth model, why current price action remains on trend despite community concer...
The Difficulty Adjustment (and Target) | Pierre Rochard, Center of Hash E006
Pierre Rochard, CEO of the Bitcoin Bond Company, discusses the functional importance of bitcoin’s difficulty target and adjustment, how it works at a...
#655 Turning ASICs Into Smart Home Heating with Tyler Stevens
Marty sits down with Tyler Stevens, CEO of Exergy, to discuss how Bitcoin mining heat can revolutionize residential heating systems by replacing expen...
Bitcoin Mining Pool (de)Centralization | Mark Artymko, Center of Hash E004
Mark Artymko, President and Co-Founder of Ocean, discusses his nearly two decade career in the power industry as an electrical engineer, how Ocean is...
#654: The Fed Has Painted Itself Into a Corner with Michael Howell
Marty sits down with Michael Howell to discuss the Fed's predicament at Jackson Hole, global liquidity cycles, the structural shift toward collateral-...
#653: Building the Open Internet with Miljan Braticevic
Marty sits down with Miljan Braticevic to discuss the growing importance of open protocols like Nostr in the face of increasing censorship and authori...
Fed Independence Under Fire as SBR Plans Continue | Bitcoin Alpha E010
Trump publicly humiliates Fed Chair Powell on live television, demanding lower interest rates while criticizing Federal Reserve building renovations....
21 million is Non-Negotiable | Phil Geiger, Center of Hash E004
Phil Geiger discusses the economic incentives of the bitcoin network, why there is (and always will be) an incentive for someone to profitably sell po...
#652: How To Position For The Bitcoin Boom with Tuur Demeester
Marty sits down with Tuur Demeester to discuss his updated Adamant Capital report that revises his bullish Bitcoin thesis given new developments like...
#651: Bitcoin-Backed Independent Film Funding with Forager
Marty sits down with Ali Webb and Carlos Flores from Forager to discuss how they're using Bitcoin-backed funding to enable independent filmmakers to c...
Bitcoin Offtake Unlocks Oil Production | Chris Alfano, Center of Hash E003
Chris Alfano, co-founder and CEO of 360 Energy, discusses his firm’s strategy as a service company in oil & gas fields, how bitcoin mining is helping...
#650: The Fed-Treasury Merger and Inflation Reality Check with Dave Collum & Rudy Havenstein
Marty sits down with Dave Collum and Rudy Havenstein to discuss the merger of the Fed and Treasury, real inflation rates versus official statistics, h...
#649: The Golden Age of AI-Powered Entrepreneurship with Rod Roudi
Marty sits down with Rod Roudi to discuss the unprecedented opportunities for entrepreneurs in the current AI-powered landscape, the convergence of Bi...
#648: Simplicity on Liquid with Andrew Poelstra
Marty sits down with Andrew Poelstra from Blockstream to discuss the launch of Simplicity on Liquid mainnet, a formally specified programming language...
Bitcoin Is Not a Battery or a Power Projection | Rob Warren, Center Of Hash E002
Rob Warren, the Head of Research and Education at Bitcoin Park and author of The Bitcoin Miner’s Almanac, discusses the role of bitcoin miners within...
#647: How Globalization Destroyed American Manufacturing with Infra
Marty sits down with Infra to discuss how decades of globalization and financialization have hollowed out American manufacturing, created massive weal...
#646: How Gen Z Can Avoid Millennial Mistakes with Zuby
Marty sits down with Zuby to discuss his recent piece offering 12 pieces of advice for Gen Z men, exploring how the younger generation can avoid the m...
The Convergence of Bitcoin, Energy & Mining | Marty Bent, Center of Hash E001
Parker and Marty discuss the convergence of Bitcoin mining and energy systems, exploring how mining serves as a pioneer species for monetizing strande...
#645: The Lost Art of Dressing Like a Man with O.W. Root
Marty sits down with O.W. Root to discuss the importance of men's style, how clothing reflects and shapes culture and character, and why dressing well...
#644: America is a Corporate-Controlled Crime Syndicate with Gerald Celente
Marty sits down with Gerald Celente to discuss the looming commercial real estate collapse, banking sector vulnerabilities, the decline of the US doll...
#643: The Bitcoin Big Long: Wall Street's Coming Derivatives Crisis with DarkSide2030_
Marty sits down with Scott (@DarkSide2030_), a former Wall Street options trader, to discuss his "Big Long" thesis about how Bitcoin's unique properti...
#642: The Weaponized Bank Secrecy Act with Yaël Ossowski
Marty sits down with Yael, a fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, to discuss the intersection of Bitcoin, AI, and energy policy, the importance of...
#641: Why Bitcoin Collateral Beats Private Credit Markets with Phil Lojacono
Marty sits down with Phil from Berglinde to discuss Bitcoin-backed lending markets, the challenges of bringing institutional capital into the Bitcoin...