Marty's Ƀent Issue #1318: Fedipools as a potential solution to centralization risk It is still early days and this is nothing more than an idea at the moment. But your Uncle Marty thinks it is a very good idea that should gain traction.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1278: Another LND/btcd bug emerges This is the nature of open source distributed systems.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1253: Channel jamming research you should read This may not make you feel great, but it is the reality we find ourselves in today.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1248: The privacy wars have escalated The stakes have never been higher. The state is losing its grasp of control over the people and it is doubling, tripling and quadrupling down on utter incompetence and nefariousness.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1170: This is what a real attack on Bitcoin would look like In a world filled with weak men driven by profits, it isn't hard to imagine that many corporate miners in the West would bend the knee to try to accommodate this so they can stay in business.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1119: An interesting mining pool attack vector gets exposed In light of these events, I'm very interested to learn how systemic of a problem this could potentially be for mining pools moving forward.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1106: Jamming attacks on the Lightning Network and proposed solutions To date, this attack vector hasn't been exploited to the best of my knowledge.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1036: The attempts to inject the Travel Rule into the protocol level have begun Expect more of this moving forward. The network is going to be constantly attacked via avenues like this by Bitcoin businesses that feel the pressure from regulators and public market capital.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1015: The noise is only going to get louder. Put your blinders on. Taking the blinders off and screeching back at the screechers takes away from the things I should be focused on.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1002: Mining will get pushed off the grid Buckle up freaks, the War on Bitcoin is only going to heat up from here.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #957: How do we decentralize mining pools? These are things to think about and discuss.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #942: Stratum V2 update The time to make the mining pool layer of Bitcoin as resilient and robust as possible is right now.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #941: They should have attacked years ago Be aware. Stay vigilant. Freedom awaits us.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #930: Coins flying out of exchanges It would be a shame if big players didn't take advantage of these inherent properties of the Bitcoin network.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #914: Bitcoin empowers everyone Yes, Bitcoin enables peer-to-peer transactions that are hard to censor and both myself and some of those the US deems as enemies use Bitcoin.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #910: A griefing attack in the wild Shoutout to Jestopher, Joost, Clark and Phillip for adding valuable data points to these research efforts.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #892: REMINDER: Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes Something needs to change. A revolt is in order freaks.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #888: Are multicoin exchanges attacks on Bitcoin scaling? Those exchanges who have implemented SegWit and Lightning seem to be exchanges who have a focus on Bitcoin.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #867: Extreme ownership brings extreme motivation This is a completely different paradigm when compared to the traditional financial system.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #833: Articulating priorities; perspective of a Bitcoin Core/Lightning Dev As Antoine says in his piece, this build out will probably take a generation. Be prepared to tough this out for the long haul.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #829: Problem identified. Solution proposed. If you are developer interested in Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, consider contributing to the work being started by Joost on Circuit Breakers.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #801: Bitcoin users are being targeted on Tor We are still very early in this game. Be aware of the risks that exist out there.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #782: Mining is more distributed than previously thought For many years now, the amount of hashrate in China that has been quoted by many in the public has hovered between 60-65%.
