Tales from the Crypt: A Bitcoin Podcast

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.

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Trezor releases firmware update and bug disclosure - Coinkite blog on the vuln disclosure - BTCPay says new trezor firmware breaks support - ShiftCrypto announces they are no longer working on their node product - ShiftCrypto liquidation goes unmentioned - Bitcoin Core v0.20.0 released - Square Crypto's sixth bitcoin development grant - Bitmex parent company provides $100k development grant to Gleb Naumenko - Will Cole's mother in law is running for Senate in Wyoming - Chainalysis Webinar Archive Dump - Unconfirmed Europol Wasabi Wallet Report leaked - Time-Dilation attacks on the Lightning Network - 3M+ bitcoin currently being held on exchanges - OXT Research: Joinmarket Report - Coinsquare private user data stolen due to rogue employee - Tor Browser v9.5 adds human readable addresses - Signal adds photo blur feature - 6102 on SLP - Matt + Alex Gladstein - TFTC Bingo Shoutout to this week's sponsors. Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo co

Join Marty as he sits down with Karim Helmy, data scientist at Coinmetrics, to discuss: - What's a nonce? - What we can learn from nonce distribution data - Mining hardware evolution - Getting into Bitcoin in 2017 - Bitcoin as black market money - Hash rate indices from Coinmetrics - Viability of DeFi - much more Follow Karim 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.

Join Marty as he sits down with Cory Klippsten, co-founder and CEO of Swan Bitcoin, to discuss: - Founding Swan - Bitcoin education - Dollar cost averaging - Cory's experience with tech startups + consulting - Bitcoiner Ventures - much more Follow Cory 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 Dave Collum to discuss everything under the sun. 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: - trezor and ledger web shop alleged breach - chris belcher coinswap proposal, consider donating - photo-lib libray for building react-native bitcoin wallets - use bitcoin core with electrum directly using Bitcoin Wallet Tracker plugin - blockstream green desktop - okcoin provides $100k grant to btcpay server - michael ford on bitcoin core security - 8GB RasPi 4 - StrandHogg 2.0 Android Vuln - raspiblitz quick thoughts - no more fee fomo - hong kong - spacex + nasa collab 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 Brandon Quittem to discuss: - Fungi - Psychedelic mushrooms - Smart networks - Gall's Law - The Fourth Turning - Generational archetypes - Learning what hard work is while young - much more Follow Brandon 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.