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Marty Bent discusses privacy-preserving tools and Bitcoin Lightning payments with Seth For Privacy and Vik Sharɱa.

Marty Bent talks with Seth For Privacy and Vik from Cake Wallet about Radar, a new Signal fork that adds self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning payments to private messaging. They cover why Signal was the right base, how Spark enables seamless UX without custody, the growing EU surveillance threat, vibe coding, AI privacy risks, and why freedom tech needs to compete on convenience. A deep dive on building privacy preserving tools that normal people actually want to use. Find the Home Mining Playbook here: https://www.tftc.io/home-mining-energy-playbook STACK SATS hat: https://tftcmerch.io/ Our newsletter: https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ TFTC Elite (Ad-free & Discord): https://www.tftc.io/#/portal/signup/ Discord: https://discord.gg/yHGkvYxdqT Opportunity Cost Extension: https://www.opportunitycost.app/ Shoutout to our sponsors: Block: Cash App : For a limited time, new customers can get $21 added to their balance. Just use code TFTC10 when you sign up, and send at least $5 to a friend in the first two weeks. Terms apply. Bitcoin services by Block, Inc. See the Bitcoin disclosures at cash.app/legal/podcast. Square : Visit http://square.com/go/**tftc** for up to $200 off eligible…

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