#220: Matt Hill
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Join Marty as he sits down with Matt Hill, co-founder and CEO of Start9 Labs, to discuss:
- Founding Start9 Labs
- The Embassy
- Routing around Apple's App Store
- Why personal hardware is an imperative moving forward
- Self-sovereign surveillance
- Making all of this easy
- much more
Follow Matt on Twitter
Check out Start9 Labs' Embassy
Shoutout to this week's sponsors.
Cash App. Start #stackingsats today. Use the promo code: "stackingsats" to receive $10 and contribute $10 to OWLS Lacrosse when you download the app.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | So, freaks, it's your boy Marty here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypt. |
| 0:06.4 | Sat down with Matt Hill from Start 9 Labs. |
| 0:08.7 | A couple weeks ago at this point. |
| 0:11.4 | Had a great conversation about the hardware that they're building, the software that they're building, more importantly, self-sovereign computing servers, Bitcoin notes, communication, |
| 0:27.3 | tour access in your home. They're working on a pretty cool roadmap, building some dope |
| 0:33.0 | hardware, and the reason behind it is an important one. |
| 0:38.7 | We either go down the digital Panopticon route, |
| 0:42.2 | road, or we get self-sovereignty in the digital age. |
| 0:47.4 | People like start nine labs are fighting for that. |
| 0:49.3 | So I think you guys are going to enjoy this episode. |
| 0:51.8 | This episode brought to you by good friends at the motherfucking |
| 0:53.6 | Kasp! I think you guys have heard this read before. We got the cash shop, |
| 0:58.9 | help me stack sets, send sets, receive sets and sell sats, if you so please. We're saying |
| 1:02.9 | sat, sat, sat, sat, sat, because sats are the standard. 100 million sats per one Bitcoin. |
| 1:10.2 | There's a bunch of people out there right now really getting confused. |
| 1:14.1 | They're like, oh, Bitcoin is not scarce because you can divide it into 100 million units, |
| 1:18.7 | known as Satoshes or Sats. |
| 1:21.0 | Francis Coppola, Amy Kaster, that dude from the Zikez movie. |
| 1:27.3 | They think that this makes it so Bitcoin isn't scarce, |
| 1:29.8 | the fact that you can give it down to 100 million units. |
| 1:31.9 | It just makes it more granular, not less scarce. |
| 1:35.5 | If you cut a pizza into 100 million pieces, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marty Bent, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Marty Bent and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

