They Brought 20M to Bitcoin Quietly. What They Just Launched Is 10X Bigger

Show Notes

Marty sits down with Miles Suter to discuss Block's eight-year journey building Bitcoin infrastructure across Cash App, Square, and BitKey. Miles explains how the company integrated Bitcoin buying and selling into Cash App in 2018, launched Lightning payments, and now brings Bitcoin acceptance to every Square seller in America. They reflect on the lonely early days of Bitcoin adoption from 2013-2019, the importance of open source development through Spiral, and Block's Bitcoin-only strategy. Miles details the philosophy behind building in public, funding projects like BTC Pay Server and LDK, and the recent BitKey security upgrade enabling chain code delegation for enhanced privacy. He shares his vision for revitalizing Cash App Bitcoin and making Bitcoin everyday money. STACK SATS hat: https://tftcmerch.io/ Our newsletter: https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ TFTC Elite (Ad-free & Discord): https://www.tftc.io/#/portal/signup/ Discord: https://discord.gg/VJ2dABShBz Opportunity Cost Extension: https://www.opportunitycost.app/ Miles on Twitter: https://x.com/milessuter Miles on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milessuter/ Bitkey https://bit.ly/TFTCBitkey20 Unchained https://unchained.com/tftc/ Obscura VPN https://obscura.net/ SLNT https://slnt.com/tftc CrowdHealth https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/tftc 0:00 - Intro 0:20 - Cashapp announcement 2:04 - Early bitcoiners 5:29 - Cashapp early days 12:36 - Bitkey & SLNT 14:25 - Lending legitimacy 19:26 - Cashapp pay bitcoin invoice 21:56 - Why bitcoin is everyday money 26:08 - Merchant benefits 29:20 - Obscura & Unchained 31:29 - Fix the money, fix the world 37:39 - Value demo & bitcoin maps 44:45 - Timeline 53:14 - Vibe coding and automation 58:02 - Taking a bold stance and open sourcing 1:07:31 - BitKey chaincode delegation 1:09:30 - Final pitch Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TFTC21/videos Clips YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQcW3jxfQfEUS8kqR5pJtQ Website https://tftc.io/ Twitter https://twitter.com/tftc21 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tftc.io/ Nostr https://primal.net/tftc Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/martybent Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://www.tftc.io/tag/podcasts/