MartyBent
Marty Bent

https://tftc.io

Founder of TFTC.io, co-host of Rabbit Hole Recap, Managing Partner at Ten31

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2025-03-27 19:21:26

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2025-03-26 21:24:35

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2025-03-19 14:12:01

The Tesla terrorists are the weirdest form of NPC that has manifested in recent decades.

2025-03-16 16:11:54

As someone who would like to see the federal government in the US shrunk dramatically, I believe a strategic bitcoin reserve accumulated via a mechanism like Bit Bonds is the only viable path to make a smaller government possible.
This may seem counterintuitive - "if the US government acquires bitcoin it makes them stronger." However, when you take a step back and think of the problem of the ever expanding federal government you realize that a large part of the problem is driven by the need to roll over debt by issuing new debt to pay it back.
This leads to a forced expansion of the federal government that can only be reversed if something new is introduced that can defease the debt without having to issue new paper. As it stands today, bitcoin is the only thing that can practically produce this defeasment.
The beauty of the bit bond idea is that it expedites the debt pay back by enabling the Tresury to issue longer-term bonds at lower rates, which works to decrease interest payments on debt that is being rolled over. An incredible kickstarting mechanism that provides immediate results. Imagine being able to point at the chart of the interest expense on the debt and show that the number is falling.
Bitcoin is for anyone, including governments, and it is a great asset that enables individuals, businesses and governments to think creatively by leveraging the benefits that come with adopting it during its monetization phase.
The path to shrinking the federal government dramatically over the next few decades only exists in a world in which the government adopts bitcoin as a strategic asset to begin paying back the debt.

2025-03-12 03:01:04

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2025-03-11 00:00:43

The Bitaxe is a 21st century lottery ticket with better odds that also helps decentralize bitcoin hashrate ownership, which makes the network fundamentally more robust and valuable. A beautiful thing to see.
https://m.primal.net/PbVS.jpg

2025-03-10 20:42:18

If the plan is to let the stock market go and drive bond yields lower to make the trillions in debt that needs to be rolled over this year more manageable, it is being executed flawlessly by Trump and Bessent.
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2025-03-10 17:13:43

Do you hear that? That’s the sound of the dusty tarps being ripped off money printers around the world.
The big print is coming.
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2025-03-10 15:29:29

Need to make Nostr top of mind when X goes down like this.

2025-03-10 14:44:13

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on the privacy nightmares that agentic AI introduces.
https://m.primal.net/Pasq.mov

2025-03-10 14:37:38

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on the privacy nightmares that agentic AI introduces.

2025-03-09 22:13:16

Europe strays closer to the dystopian hellscape many have been warning about.
#nevent1q…rp4p

2025-03-08 19:37:44

Bringing this truck to the US may be a necessary move by the Trump admin as it re-shores manufacturing and tries to build back the middle class.
Business owners being able to buy a $10k truck instead of one for $120k would be massive for businesses.
He could slap a 25% tariff on it and it would still be incredibly beneficial to the US economy.
https://m.primal.net/PYhe.mov

2025-03-07 19:44:11

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Appreciate you, king.

2025-03-07 19:42:15

As the Trump admin guts the administrative state you are going to see a severe reduction in GDP and a rise in unemployment. This is because government theft currently contributes to GDP. Prepare for these bad prints.
Gary Brode joined me on TFTC to discuss this and a bunch of other things.
https://youtu.be/hFR6CTu9YHE

2025-03-06 06:35:54

Europe seems to be utterly screwed from every angle.
- Killed their energy sector
- Weak economy
- Infected with Communism
- Killing free speech
- Regulatory hellscape
- Abysmal immigration policy
- Pushing for WWIII
Markets are calling bullshit.

2025-03-05 22:52:33

Giving up drinking for Lent. Using this note as an accountability mechanism.

2025-03-05 16:40:41

Bitcoin is Money AND Currency. This is the first time in human history that we have a single system that encompasses both functions.
I sat down with @nprofile…vuws to discuss why this is the case, real world examples of bitcoin competing with the dollar and how to think of capital gains tax while transacting.
Don't shy away from what bitcoin is. It is a revolution in accounting and economic coordination that should be embraced and celebrated.
Many think that admitting that bitcoin competes with the dollar is "poking the bear". These people are wrong. They are simply enabling the emperor with no clothes. Acknowledging that bitcoin competes with the dollar is the correct frame, especially as Washington DC is motivated to create regulatory structures around it.
How Bitcoin Replaces the Dollar - Parker Lewis
https://youtu.be/nRBQmmclBh8

2025-03-04 22:05:31

I sat down with Dr. Jack Kruse to discuss SV-40, DARPA, EMF attacks and how to become a bitcoin savage.
Epic stream of consciousness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLfbC2X8g2w

2025-03-03 18:56:15

The real bitcoin strategic reserve in the US sits in the wallets of individuals and businesses.
If the Trump admin wants to win the bitcoin race the best way to do that is to unleash the private market.
Admit that bitcoin is an emerging currency. Eliminate the capital gains tax. Enshrine the right to self custody and private usage into law.
If Trump does these three things it won't matter how much bitcoin the federal government holds. The American private market will ensure that the US wins the bitcoin race.
https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-strategic-reserve-public/

2025-03-02 15:36:23

My Summer 2021 peak clown world call gets more comical by the day.
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2025-02-26 15:24:39

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Zion Marty?!

2025-02-26 15:17:50

Caught up with @nprofile…wmjm last week.
We discussed bitcoin, the degeneracy of memecoins, digital IDs and much more.
Vibes were high.
https://youtu.be/pA3sR_8yw6c?si=5r6MekM7EBRt2dZF

2025-02-25 14:28:44

As my good friend @nprofile…vuws likes to say, "There's too much debt and not enough dollars." At some point, QT will hit a point where it cannot be sustained because too many dollars have been pulled out of a system with ever increasing amounts of debt that need to be serviced with dollars. Whether it happens when the reverse repo market is drained or at some point after the Fed starts unwinding the excess liquidity on bank balance sheets isn't really that important.
#naddr1qv…hacm

2025-02-25 02:53:06

Reverse Repo has ~$71B left until it is fully drained. QT continues unabated.
The question that remains is whether this will cause a September 2019-like overnight rate spasm that forces the Fed to step in with extraordinary measures or whether the structural changes they've made over the last 5+ years will work. If the reverse repo market drains without any rate spasms, QT will move its focus to bank balance sheets.
Something to pay attention to.
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2025-02-25 00:30:38

Jamie Dimon sold $233.7m in JPM stock last Friday.
Demand for physical gold is skyrocketing.
The VIX surged above 20 this morning.
Bitcoin dumping after market close.
Feels like something is breaking behind the scenes.
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2025-02-24 23:52:05

Should be an interesting market open tomorrow if bitcoin is acting as a leading indicator alarm bell right now.

2025-02-24 16:03:32

Late stage fiat dystopia is upon us. Very sad.
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2025-02-23 22:56:11

Am I correct in understanding that this guy is somewhat popular in the UK?
Hilarious if true.
https://m.primal.net/PIli.mov

2025-02-22 16:23:43

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Appreciate you.

2025-02-21 02:30:53

This should end well.
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2025-02-20 18:32:54

They pulled the paper @nprofile…hkf3 and I discussed in this @nprofile…dmyk episode.
How can Nostr fix this?
#nevent1q…7sm9

2025-02-20 16:42:44

The economy is fundamentally broken. This is because the money is broken.
People shouldn't have to panhandle at concerts to get by. They should be afforded the ability to store the fruits of their labor in a money that isn't being constantly debased.
They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. The story being told in this picture is incredibly depressing and dystopian.
Bitcoin is essential for human dignity in the 21st century. Luckily, more people are waking up to this fact every day.
https://m.primal.net/PEUQ.jpg

2025-02-20 03:48:41

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Found it! https://m.primal.net/PDkx.png

2025-02-20 03:46:32

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Couldn't find it via a quick search but I'll track it down.

2025-02-20 03:06:40

We are truly blessed to have @nprofile…e8v7 and @nprofile…dzya back behind the mics to educate the masses about bitcoin through the lens of Austrian economics.
Fundamentals are important and this is the best resource to learn about these concepts from first principles.
#nevent1q…tw9t

2025-02-18 19:53:18

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Pretty sick NGL

2025-02-18 02:40:46

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https://x.com/MartyBent/status/1259927715614019586

2025-02-18 01:52:52

Stop setting expectations that bitcoin is going to rise when people find out the gold isn't in Fort Knox. I wouldn't be surprised if the Trump admin makes sure it's filled before going in there to signal economic strength as the world is scrambling for physical gold.
Banking on an empty vault for a bitcoin price pump is setting the market up for disappointment.
The correct framing is: we shouldn't have to wonder whether or not the gold is in Fort Knox, we should be able to publicly audit the country's reserves 24/7/365 and bitcoin enables that. It is very hard to do that with gold, as the last five decades have proven.

2025-02-18 00:05:00

The longer bitcoin coils in this range, the more bullish I become.

2025-02-17 16:03:25

The memecoin people are the most economically illiterate people on the planet and they’ve conned otherwise sensible leaders to allow them to leverage their names to scam poor people.
https://m.primal.net/PAYl.mov

2025-02-14 15:03:24

Always great catching up with @nprofile…cn9n
We discussed:
- Mempools clearing and what that means
- Lightning's quiet success
- @nprofile…5flv
- The importance of timing in bitcoin
- Bitcoin touches grass
Grow your know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-lBtCWJF-I

2025-02-14 01:34:54

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A @nprofile…lx7q sighting on Nostr!

2025-02-13 23:42:28

The DC parasites don't even know how to use VPNs.
Can't imagine how sloppy their management of the data associated with their corruption is.
The DOGE austists are going to get everything.
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2025-02-13 23:12:52

The U.S. is rolling over a $66B 10-year bond from 2015 with a 2.00% coupon into a new 10-year bond at 4.55%.
This single rollover adds $1.67B per year in extra interest costs.
Debt refinancing at higher rates is just beginning. The real pain is still ahead.
https://primal.net/e/naddr1qqxnzden8y6rsd3hxservwpkqgsgt0d4sa0pz0wvn9yck36xxezf3qhwzksu0q254vruqed5wvuavusrqsqqqa284043ts

2025-02-13 23:01:32

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Smh

2025-02-13 22:45:08

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Keep up the good work, sir!

2025-02-13 21:44:36

You can't DOGE the debt.

2025-02-13 18:22:11

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LFG!

2025-02-13 17:02:39

We're going to win.

2025-02-13 16:49:14

Leonard is the man.
#nevent1q…j7ze

2025-02-13 01:33:54

"Informal industry summits" is a much better approach.
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2025-02-12 19:48:39

The supply of available physical gold at mints and metal exchanges is drying up. People are asking for physical because they don't trust the paper.
Let this be a reminder to make sure you are putting bitcoin in self custody and have a secure set up. Don't wait!
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2025-02-12 05:19:15

The DC parasites know they're absolutely fucked. Keep pushing.
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2025-02-11 23:24:39

Shrink the federal government to its smallest viable size and task the private market with solving these issues.
This is pure insanity.
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2025-02-11 22:07:51

With talk of UAP disclosure, gold repricing, bitcoin strategic reserves and the AI dominance race heating up it's a good time to go back and watch this TFTC rip with @nprofile…uvrk . We discussed all of these topics and Matthew's takes are aging well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyyeEqFVjBY

2025-02-10 15:49:26

I love the no bullshit attitude of Porter Stansberry. We sat down to discuss tariffs, the Treasury, the amount of waste in our government and what assets to hold over the next decade.
Full rip below and here on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/2f8LWO_RmtU

2025-02-09 18:27:23

They are petrified of the American people getting line item details on their overt looting of the treasury.
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2025-02-08 17:16:17

If we do get a sovereign wealth fund it shouldn’t invest directly in companies. The Trump admin and every admin moving forward should work with the legislator to ensure the US produces consistent surpluses and those surpluses should funnel into neutral assets (bitcoin, gold, oil, etc) that sit in the fund.
Getting equity stakes in companies like TikTok and Moderna creates perverse incentives that will lead to incredible abuses of power.

2025-02-08 16:53:45

Had to record with Tom Luongo and get his thoughts on the first three weeks of Trump’s second term, DOGE and the end of the globalist regime.
Enjoy, freaks.
https://youtu.be/TZLY_7L2xkg?si=4q6jpGeP-F0-LejZ

2025-02-07 22:30:12

I sat down with journalist George Webb to discuss DeepSeek, the death of Suchir Balaji, the unveiling of fraud at USAID and much more.
Deep rabbit hole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O21oc47-U_w

2025-02-07 15:58:59

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Wow. That was easy.

2025-02-07 14:11:18

Many think that DOGE is a partisan effort to own the libs, which it is to a certain extent.
However, it will be clear that we’re draining the swamp of libs and boomer cons once we start auditing the defense budget. Massive waste and grift on the republican side there.
https://m.primal.net/OUkX.jpg

2025-02-07 14:10:37

The gold market has been suppressed by paper markets for decades. Gold bugs have been screaming this from the rooftops just as long.
As geopolitical and financial uncertainty rises institutions and individuals alike are calling their gold in kind. It’s being made clear that the vaults don’t have all of the gold. Many people are about to find out the gold they thought they “owned” never existed in the first place.
This is going to cause gold to skyrocket.
Everyone sitting there with paper claims and no actual gold is going to be absolutely pissed. What do you think people are going to do once they realize the world got conned by the gold vaults?
They’re going to flood into bitcoin and, hopefully, take advantage of self custody. Get ready for a bull run like we’ve never seen. The confluence of sovereign debt issues, paper gold and the unveiling of mass theft by governments is going to force people to pile into the most incorruptible neutral reserve asset man has ever come into contact with; bitcoin.
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2025-02-06 17:45:12

We all knew it was happening but now we have hard proof: the US Federal government has been stealing your money and TIME via taxes and debt expansion and using it to destroy the country.
Treason of the highest level. There should be a tax holiday in 2025 and serious conversations about shutting down the IRS.
The amount of pain and suffering people have had to endure over the last few decades while getting lambasted by snobby bureaucrats who were lining their pockets while telling everyone they were "spreading democracy and freedom" is incalculable.
The greatest heist in human history. Pure evil.

2025-02-05 22:43:16

At this point the income tax needs to be halted immediately. The mishandling of American taxpayer money that is being laid bare is beyond comprehension.
The people, at the very least, deserve a break from the madness until we figure out what’s going on.

2025-02-05 22:19:16

Autists are in control and I couldn’t be happier.

2025-02-05 22:08:05

The same government that fear mongered about people using bitcoin to launder money, arrested open source developers for creating privacy software and put individuals in harms way by forcing KYC/AML data collection on the market was directly funding terrorists via USAID.
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2025-02-05 15:39:28

Operation Mockingbird has been alive and well.
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2025-02-04 14:34:12

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FAKE NEWS
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2025-02-04 13:46:29

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USAID is an agency overlooked by the Department of State, which is controlled by the Executive Branch. The Executive can manage it how he sees fit.

2025-02-04 13:23:42

To the young lads currently dismantling USAID and, hopefully, many more corrupt bureaucratic agencies; the doxxing is a sign that the parasites are scared.
Blinders. Keep pushing. May God be with you.

2025-02-04 03:35:11

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Love to hear that!

2025-02-03 17:48:34

Some big ETH bagholder had their "Fuck it, I'm out" moment yesterday.
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2025-02-02 00:11:10

The mempool clearing isn’t a good or a bad thing. It just “is”. People fear mongering and trying to cast current or past mempool states onto the future (whether it’s completely flooded or completely empty) are short sighted.
Usage will ebb and flow and so too will mempools.
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2025-02-01 20:12:51

The mempools are clear.
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2025-01-30 03:47:08

THE MEMPOOL WILL CLEAR EVENTUALLY, ALWAYS.

2025-01-29 20:38:36

We're reaching levels of capitulation that I didn't think we'd reach until the 2030s.
#nevent1q…m8pj

2025-01-29 20:09:24

Not your vault, not your gold.
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2025-01-29 19:31:11

God bless RFK Jr. for having the patience to put up with these clowns.
https://m.primal.net/OGaE.mov

2025-01-29 06:08:19

https://m.primal.net/OFdy.mov

2025-01-29 03:19:45

Just bought an annual plan for Maple with bitcoin.
"It's all private between you and the LLM."
#nevent1q…jpxv

2025-01-28 16:01:34

This should end well.
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2025-01-27 18:02:14

DeepSeek dropping two days after the Trump, Altman, Ellison and Masa presser was a direct shot across the bow of the US and its plans during this Trump presidency.
A lot of capital that has already been allocated is about to be evaporated, but with that incredible opportunities are on the horizon.
Individuals and companies need bitcoin now more than ever. A bitcoin treasury is going to be a superpower during this hyper-deflationary time in the tech space.

2025-01-27 17:13:18

If you're a professional money manager who isn't already using bitcoin as your hurdle rate, now would be a good time to sit down and try to understand why it should be.
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2025-01-26 22:32:41

Bitcoin price has been coiling for a week. Feels like a Sunday night breakout or breakdown is coming.

2025-01-24 16:26:45

Bitcoin is primed to make a move very soon.
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2025-01-24 00:39:10

https://m.primal.net/NxHB.mov

2025-01-23 21:04:31

"...propose criteria for establishing such a stockpile, potentially derived from cryptocurrencies lawfully seized by the Federal Government through its lawenforcement efforts."
Looks like they'll look to seize instead of buy. Not great!
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2025-01-22 19:23:39

This is what we’re up against.
#note13u3…z09u

2025-01-21 21:35:43

Narrator: "It actually wasn't nice to have."
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2025-01-20 22:10:38

I think you’re a permanoob.
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2025-01-20 14:51:02

One last “fuck you” from Joe Biden to the American people on his way out the door.
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2025-01-20 02:02:38

We should be grateful that shitcoiners are playing the wrong game. Completely lost class of people.

2025-01-19 19:33:22

The $TRUMP launch is a signal that degenerate acceleration is upon us. A lot of noise on the horizon. Stay the course and focus on building out the infrastructure that leads us to a Bitcoin Standard.

2025-01-18 18:57:32

We’ll know if the Trump admin truly cares about crypto innovation if they let ecash mints proliferate in the US.

2025-01-18 04:24:46

“IDK, mom. Choosing rich may not be the way.”
https://m.primal.net/Nlux.mov

2025-01-18 03:46:46

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2025-01-17 02:52:14

Just witnessed @npub1qny…95gx survive a vicious jungle cat attack.

2025-01-16 13:41:36

gm, we’re winning.