Well, hi there, Freaks. It's your boy, Marty Ben, here to introduce this week's episode of Tales from the Crypt.

Got somebody who's running up the stat board here at TFTC, sat down with Jack Mallors, joined by Matt O'Dell, to talk about the strike app that he just launched, an app that allows individuals to pay lightning network invoices directly from their bank account using the Strike app.

It's a very promising development in the space that I love to see coming to the market.

This is a great episode because we talk about pretty candidly the limitations of Lightning Network

and maybe some mistakes that Jack and

has made with Zapp and Olympus along the way, finding out how to use Lightning Network,

the Lightning Network correctly when you're taking everything into consideration,

like volatility, privacy, ease of use, and stuff like that.

It's a very candid conversation.

Jack is somebody who, as you freaks know, I love a huge fan of him and all the work that

he's been doing over the years to make Bitcoin more usable.

And yeah, again, this is a very honest conversation,

talking about some hard truths that exist with limitations of these networks.

And as we say in the podcast, we're figuring out how these networks work

and how we can best use them and leverage them.

So I think you guys are really going to enjoy this episode.

As a side note, some of you may notice if you follow me on Twitter and see what I

post there.

Yesterday I announced the Bitcoin channel on Dig.

Some of you may know I've been curating that channel for a few months now, but we're

actually going to turn it up a notch.

We're going to try and create a

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