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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#292: Diving into tbDEX with Mike Brock

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8804 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty and Matt as they sit down with Mike Brock, lead at TBD, to discuss:

- What "is" and what "ought" to be

- Mike's history at Block

- How bitcoin got integrated at Cash App

- How TBD came to be

- Creating a decentralized system with limited trust in tbDEX

- Creating bitcoin on-ramps for people is a massive hurdle right now

- Is tbDEX transitional?

- much more

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up, Freaks? It's your boy, Marty Ben, here to introduce this rip of Tales from the Crypt.

0:05.4

Matt joined me for this interview. We sat down with Mike Brock, who's the head of TBD under the block umbrella.

0:12.0

And we talked about TB decks, the decentralized exchange, their building at TBD to create better on-ramps for people looking to get into Bitcoin.

0:23.9

Fascinating conversation.

0:25.5

You know, philosophy, hit on history, and on a bunch of things.

0:29.0

I think you guys are going to like it.

0:29.8

It was brought to you by good friends at the motherfucking cash-up.

0:33.4

Cash-ups help you stack sats, send sats, receive sats, and sell sats.

0:36.1

If you so please, sats are the standard on the app. There's 100 million sats in one whole Bitcoin. You don't

0:41.0

have to buy a whole Bitcoin. You don't have to buy a fraction of a Bitcoin. You can stack whole

0:43.7

sats. Instead, cash app makes it very easy. Cash app can also be your bank account. They're offering

0:48.5

account numbers and routing numbers to get your paychecks direct deposited into the app. They have their cash card, which is incredible.

0:55.5

I use it every day.

0:56.4

If you haven't downloaded the app, make sure you do so using the code stacking

0:59.1

SaaS.

0:59.9

St-A-C-K-I-N-G-S-A-T-S.

1:01.5

You're going to get $10.

1:02.4

$10, you're going to go to our good friends at Owls LaCross.

1:04.6

That's Owls LaCross. This rip was also brought to you by good friends at Unshane Capital. Unshane Capital is here to be a partner with you.

1:13.2

They're not an app, not a faceless business.

1:15.3

They want to help you secure your Bitcoin, not only for you, but for your children,

1:20.2

your grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and beyond.

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