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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#769: Freedom Money In Your Private Chat with Vik Sharɱa & Seth For Privacy

Jul 11, 2026 · 1h 26m

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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:…