What This $38B Company Knows About Bitcoin That Others Don't (Here's The Proof)
Show Notes
Marty and Steve Lee dive into Bitcoin's future as everyday money and why daily usage strengthens the network. Steve breaks down Lightning infrastructure development at Spiral, explaining how spending Bitcoin while holding long-term isn't contradictory. They explore merchant adoption, payment rails, the Lightning Development Kit, and why millions of small businesses using Bitcoin creates a powerful voting block. The conversation covers on-chain privacy through PayJoin technology, breaking chain surveillance heuristics, living on a Bitcoin standard, and how price discovery improves with distributed transaction touchpoints. Steve makes the case for why even hardcore hodlers should care about Bitcoin payments and how Block's recent products enable seamless Bitcoin-to-dollar conversions for both merchants and consumers. 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/ Steve Lee on Twitter: https://x.com/moneyball Spiral: https://spiral.xyz/ 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 0:21 - Why spend bitcoin 8:07 - Building payments tech at Spiral 11:34 - Addressing haters 18:14 - SLNT & Unchained 20:03 - Distribution/privacy of LN 24:09 - “Bitcoin is here” narrative 31:03 - CrowdHealth & SOTE 33:14 - Presidio Bitcoin 35:06 - Consumer conversion 46:45 - V4V 49:53 - Vibe coding 53:08 - AI agentic payments 58:38 - BSA 1:05:41 - Payjoin Dev Kit 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/
