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Tales from the Crypt 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.https://anchor.fm/tales-from-the-crypt
Recent Episodes
⚡️ Rabbit Hole Recap #174: Much to be thankful for
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - el salvador announces bitcoin city and a bitcoin bond - US 'pauses' relations with el salvador - OBJ to convert his entire yearly salary to bitcoin - samsung to build $17B chip factory in texas - fold partners with pokemon go creator niantic - lnd v0.14.0-beta - electrs v0.9.3 - btcpayserver v1.3.6 - mercury wallet v0.4.53 - simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.19 - seedsigner v0.4.5 - btcpayserver v1.3.6 - sphinx relay v2.2.2 - ledger live desktop v2.35.2 - lnd v0.14.0 is not compatible with other implementations - gemini sponsors fanquake - how to verify dice rolls on seedsigner - compact block filters deep dive - amazon does not want you to have privacy Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins - Daniel's thread Compass Mining
⚡️ Citadel Dispatch e45 - the future of mobile lightning wallets with @ericsirion, @akumaigorodski, and @fiatjaf
EPISODE: 45 BLOCK: 711009 PRICE: 1752 sats per dollar TOPICS: the future of mobile lightning wallets, federated chaumian ecash, el salvador experience, hosted channels, IMMORTAN, simple bitcoin wallet, lightning liquidity, private routing, user experience, better wallet names, jupiter has a lot of moons @ericsirion: https://twitter.com/@ericsirion @akumaigorodski: https://twitter.com/akumaigorodski @fiatjaf: https://twitter.com/fiatjaf Streamed live every tuesday: https://citadeldispatch.com twitch: https://twitch.tv/citadeldispatch bitcointv: https://bitcointv.com/video-channels/citadeldispatch/videos telegram: https://t.me/citadeldispatch support the show: https://tippin.me/@odell stream sats to the show: https://podcastindex.org/apps join the sphinx tribe: https://tribes.sphinx.chat/t/citadeldispatch
⚡️ #287: EmbassyOS v0.3.0, building out the independent stack, and philosophy with Matt Hill
Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Hill, co-founder of Start9 Labs, to discuss: - EmbassyOS v0.3.0 - Lessons learned from v0.1.0 and v0.2.0 - Focusing on onboarding younger people - Personal AI - Philosophy - Nihilism v. Optimism - much more Follow Matt on Twitter - https://twitter.com/_MattHill_ Check out Start9 Labs - https://start9.com/ Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins - Daniel's thread Compass Mining
⚡️ Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.11.15
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - taproot activates successfully at block 609732 - muun wallet adds taproot support - SEC rejects VanEck spot bitcoin etf - Perth Heat baseball team adopts the bitcoin standard - crypto dot com spends $700M to rename Staples Center for 20 years - tether announces new subsidiary 'Synonym' to bring tokens and other features to lightning - Senators Wyden and Lummis submit bill to restrict bitcoin tax reporting rules in infrastructure bill - Senator Cruz submits bill to repeal bitcoin portion of infrastructure bill - IRS expects billions of dollars worth of 'crypto' seizures next year - btcpayserver v1.3.5 - lnd v0.14.0-beta - mercury wallet v0.4.51 - simple bitcoin wallet v2.4.18 - immortan v0.5.6 - fully noded v0.2.30 - umbrel v0.4.8 - hexa wallet v2.0.2 - ledger live desktop v2.35.1 - bitcoin banking for communities - reason minidoc on environmental impact of bitcoin Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins - Daniel's thread Compass Mining
⚡️ #286: Securitizing natural assets and manufactured energy and food shortages with Whitney Webb
Join Marty as he sits back down with Whitney Webb to discuss: - The plan to securitize the natural world - Why a botched vaccine passport rollout is important - The looming food and energy shortages - How to reach both sides of the political aisle - The plan to monopolize the extraction of rare earth metals - Bankers taking over governments - much more Follow Whitney on Twitter Support her work Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins - Daniel's thread Compass Mining
⚡️ #281b: Announcing Synonym with John Carvalho
Join Marty as he sits down with John Carvalho to discuss Synonym's emergence from stealth mode. - Why did he build Synonym - What is it? - Building reputation systems - Tokens on Lightning - Slashtags - Building truly unstoppable apps - much more Check out Synonym Follow Synonym on Twitter Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins - Daniel's thread Compass Mining
⚡️ Citadel Dispatch e44 - using secure random number generators to generate bitcoin keys with waxwing and @raw_avocado
EPISODE: 44 BLOCK: 710040 PRICE: 1647 sats per dollar TOPICS: random number generators and why they are important when securing bitcoin, history of backdoors, compromises, and poor implementations, multisig tradeoffs, hardware wallet tradeoffs, mitigations to reduce your risk @waxwing: https://x0f.org/@waxwing @raw_avocado: https://twitter.com/raw_avocado Streamed live every tuesday: https://citadeldispatch.com twitch: https://twitch.tv/citadeldispatch bitcointv: https://bitcointv.com/video-channels/citadeldispatch/videos telegram: https://t.me/citadeldispatch support the show: https://tippin.me/@odell stream sats to the show: https://podcastindex.org/apps join the sphinx tribe: https://tribes.sphinx.chat/t/citadeldispatch
⚡️ #285: From bars to Bitcoin with Justin Rhedrick
Join Marty as he sits down with Justin Rhedrick, author of From Bars to Bitcoin, to discuss: - How a high time preference decision landed Justin in prison - The prison economy - Getting out of prison and diving into Bitcoin - Teaching people about low time preference - How Bitcoin has changed Justin's life - How to explain Bitcoin - much more Follow Justin on Twitter Check out From Bars to Bitcoin Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins Compass Mining
⚡️ Rabbit Hole Recap: Bitcoin Week of 2021.11.08
This week Marty and Matt discuss: - taproot activates in two days (block 709632) - new bitcoin all time high - miami to airdrop bitcoin to residents - complaints about compass mining - btcpayserver v1.3.4 - specter desktop v1.7.1 - mercury wallet v0.4.48 - lnd v0.13.4-beta - umbrel v0.4.7 - nix bitcoin v0.0.58 - bitcoinblackfriday.org - robinhood data breach impacts 7 million customers Shoutout to our sponsors: Cash App Unchained Capital Braiins Compass Mining
⚡️ Citadel Dispatch e43 - bitcoin for beginners with @BitcoinQ_A
EPISODE: 43 BLOCK: 708970 PRICE: 1501 sats per dollar TOPICS: bitcoin for beginners, acquiring bitcoin, tradeoffs, dangers of KYC, holding your own keys, using your own node, transaction fees, utxo management and labeling, coinjoin, lightning, multisig, common mistakes and questions @BitcoinQ_A: https://twitter.com/BitcoinQ_A https://citadeldispatch.com/help/ https://bitcoiner.guide/ Streamed live every tuesday: https://citadeldispatch.com twitch: https://twitch.tv/citadeldispatch bitcointv: https://bitcointv.com/video-channels/citadeldispatch/videos telegram: https://t.me/citadeldispatch support the show: https://tippin.me/@odell stream sats to the show: https://podcastindex.org/apps join the sphinx tribe: https://tribes.sphinx.chat/t/citadeldispatch