Marty's Ƀent Issue #1332: There is blood in the water The United States federal government may be a lost cause, but many of us Americans have a lot left to give in terms of innovation, productivity and prosperity.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1331: "risk-free" doesn't exist The idea that treasuries are "risk-free" stems from the brain dead Keynesian theory that debt is just "money we owe ourselves".
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1330: Focus is Key Right Now In the midst of all of the bank failures and the ensuing chaotic scramble by governments and central banks bitcoin has performed like a true risk-off asset.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1329: Musings on the bank runs Essentially, the Fed's chaotic policy bakes in sudden cascading sells into the balance sheets of the banks.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1327: A reminder that shrinkflation isn't included in the CPI It's much worse than they're leading on and it's happening across the world right now.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1326: A good primer on the path from Bretton Woods to the Dollar Endgame As Peruvian Bull highlights in his series, there is no way of solving this debt problem.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1325: Mastercard is falling prey to the innovator's dilemma The bitcoin network has provided the world with a closed loop payments and settlement network that can do what Mastercard does in a peer-to-peer fashion.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1324: Anti-Money Laundering Laws: Protecting Incumbents, Not Consumers It's time to begin pushing back against the ghouls at FATF. They should not be able to restrict financial freedom while consolidating power among those who are the biggest facilitators of financial crimes.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1323: Interesting joint statement on banking the bitcoin industry I can say that this type of statement was something I was not expecting.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1322: Debt slavery via treasuries A slave to the whims of the tax man and his money printer.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1321: Inscriptions and the chain state The decision to activate SegWit, which increased the block size limit to 4MB, coupled with the decision to activate Taproot, which made it cheaper to create certain transactions, made all of this possible.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1320: It will all accelerate Once you accept that the acceleration is upon us you can begin to explore how you can use the acceleration to your advantage.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1319: Reminder: there are no reserve requirements in the banking system A textbook "blind leading the blind" scenario.
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 #1317: NFC is allowing for more robust security models When it comes to the potential impact a product like TAPSIGNER can have for bitcoin security I think it is going to be massive.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1316: Bitcoiners are changing the way we interact with applications Our excitement over this development has only grown since we first wrote about it in May of 2020.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1315: The deepfakes are coming faster than you realize This is a very creepy trend that will only continue to escalate from here.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1313: The production does not justify the subsidies With significantly less subsidies fossil fuels are producing far more reliable energy. These are the facts.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1312: The Lightning network is gaining momentum during the bear market Most of the world may be fading bitcoin and the layered stack being built on top of it at the moment, but it doesn't seem like those who realize its potential really seem to care all that much.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1311: When money breaks down so does the social fabric Fix the money, fix the world.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1310: The potential power of Nostr This is what the "Web 3.0" bros think they're building, but instead it's enabled by open-source protocols that make sense for the use cases and not some Frankenstein blockchain with a speculative token attached to it.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1309: The CBDC will be significantly more inconvenient than bitcoin In recent months I have thoroughly convinced myself that bitcoiners really need to stop running with the narrative that the CBDC world will be more convenient because it is patently false.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1308: More discrimination against bitcoin miners This type of repulsive and counterproductive discrimination needs to end.
