#717: Building The Financial Rails Bitcoin Deserves with Jesse Shrader
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Marty sits down with Jesse Shrader, co-founder and CEO of Amboss, to discuss the evolution of the Lightning Network, how Taproot Assets are bringing stablecoins and multi-asset trading to Bitcoin, the launch of Amboss's RailsX peer-to-peer exchange and Magma MCP tool for AI agents, and why Bitcoin is positioned to become the backbone of global commerce and foreign exchange settlement.
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| 0:00.0 | You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free. |
| 0:10.0 | If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts. |
| 0:16.0 | So it's all acting like safe haven. |
| 0:18.0 | I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency, |
| 0:24.4 | Bitcoin wins. |
| 0:25.3 | In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor. |
| 0:29.2 | I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin. |
| 0:31.9 | If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. |
| 0:36.3 | Jesse Schrader, Bitcoin just passed $69,000, but it's back down below. |
| 0:41.5 | How far are you, sir? |
| 0:44.1 | Doing great, Marty. |
| 0:45.6 | Despite the Bitcoin price, we should be higher, but in due time. |
| 0:51.8 | Well, as they say, building happens in the bare markets. |
| 0:54.5 | That's what we're here to talk about today. |
| 0:55.8 | You guys have been building at Ambos. |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah, nonstop building. |
| 0:59.8 | I think it's five years in the making. |
| 1:01.7 | It really has all built up to this, to this moment where Bitcoin can become the medium of exchange. |
| 1:08.8 | Before we talk about RailsX and sort of MCP server plugin, |
| 1:12.6 | you guys have built for the agentic economy, |
| 1:15.6 | let's talk about the history of Ambos. |
| 1:17.6 | Like, why did you start the company? |
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