Tales from the Crypt is a podcast hosted by Marty Bent about Bitcoin. The podcast tends to focus more on the technical side of Bitcoin as well as security and the growing tech landscape supporting the Bitcoin ecosystem.
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What Is The Snail Mail Hardware Wallet Scam?
The internet is filled with scams that arrive via email, text message, or social media, and we’ve become desensitised to them, despite monthly news stories
Bithumbs Fat Thumb
On the evening of February 6, 2026, a Bithumb employee made what can only be described as the most expensive typo in cryptocurrency history. During
Nostr Wallet Connect: The Convenience That Could Drain Your Wallet
Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) is one of the most elegant solutions to a persistent problem in Bitcoin’s Lightning Network ecosystem: how to seamlessly integrate payments
Iran’s Rial Collapse and Why Bitcoin Is the Only Lifeboat
On January 12, 2026, the Iranian Rial crossed a threshold that marked it as one of the world’s least valuable currencies: one million rials to
Bitcoin Core v30 Has To Rollback
In an extraordinary egg-on-face moment (or moemish, as we call it in my native South Africa), Bitcoin Core developers issued an urgent warning on January
The Fall of FreeBitco.in
For over twelve years, FreeBitco.in stood as one of Bitcoin’s most enduring success stories—a simple faucet site that paid out free satoshis to millions of