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Issue #985: Bitcoin Fundamentals Pumping

While everyone and their mother is having fun playing the altcoin casino game yet again, the fundamentals around the Bitcoin network are only getting stronger.

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Issue #973: Hashrate shock

This incident is an illuminating case study for the bitcoin mining industry for many reasons.

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Issue #958: Censorship is inevitable with trusted third parties

The future is here, it's decentralized, and it is not yet evenly distributed.

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Issue #957: How do we decentralize mining pools?

These are things to think about and discuss.

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Issue #956: Mobile mining FT(long-term)W

If Bitcoin is to be a sufficiently decentralized network in the long-run mobile mining operations are an imperative.

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Issue #942: Stratum V2 update

The time to make the mining pool layer of Bitcoin as resilient and robust as possible is right now.

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Issue #920: This is not okay. Change is coming.

How did we get to this point? Centralization, complacency, and a detachment from monetary reality.

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Issue #919: Great Stratum V2 explainer

The benefits of transitioning existing mining pool protocol infrastructure to Stratum V2 cannot be overstated.

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Issue #913: Distributing the layer below the base layer

The silver lining of this litigious asshole running amok is that it seems to have produced an urgency to harden the layer below the base layer Bitcoin code.

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Issue #834: GLV Endomorphism, efficiency, and patents

This is one of those under-appreciated improvements to Bitcoin that gets your Uncle Marty all hot and bothered.

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Issue #826: A Know Your Hash mitigation solution?

Solutions seems to be out there. If they aren't, I am confident they will materialize.

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Issue #805: China floods affecting hash rate

Yet again, this year's rainy season in China is highlighting the pressing need to geographically distribute hash rate outside of the country.

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Issue #798: To self verify, simply run the numbers

None of this makes sense or is worthwhile if individuals can't verify blockchain data for themselves. One must be able to run the numbers.

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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%.

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Issue #762: Bitcoin doesn't care about governments

It would be a bad sign if these kleptocrats weren't scared of Bitcoin.

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Issue #748: Focus on what you can control so you can regain some sense of control

Stop depending on people you've never met to fix your problems.

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Issue #688: More mining in America

Do you hear that? Can you feel the buzzing?

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Issue #655: In defense of assholes

Nice people looking to "do good things" should be met with heavy skepticism. They trend to ruin good things.

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Issue #613: *decentralization intensifies*

Things like this are what get your Uncle Marty all hot and bothered. Dedicated individuals working hard over the course of years to design a new mining pool protocol for the benefit of Bitcoiners everywhere.

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Issue #612: Trump is an accelerationist...

It's almost as if 2012 Trump has been sitting on President Trump's shoulder saying, "F*** it, man. Just send it. End this experiment as quickly as possible."

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Issue #609: The Bitcoin Reformation

History can teach us a lot about what we're experiencing today. The adage rings true, history doesn't repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes

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Issue #527: BetterHash explainer

Let's break away from the madness of the current macro environment and pivot back to "the tech" that is Bitcoin. Specifically, Bitcoin mining. And, more specifically, Bitcoin mining pools. Bitcoin mining pools have long been the crux of many detractors' arguments against the nascent

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Issue #509: Tradeoffs are important to consider

Bitcoin has decided to take the hard route on its journey towards sufficient decentralization, and this makes people very uncomfortable.

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Issue #497: Scaling with Utreexo and Statechains

It's small, incremental, boring changes like Utreexo and Statechains that get ya boi all hot an bothered when observing Bitcoin's proliferation throughout our world and beyond.

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Issue #493: Erlay, a step towards an ideal?

As you can see, Erlay could severely reduce the amount of bandwidth needed to connect to other nodes when compared to the current transaction relay method. Currently, if you are connected to 32 nodes it would take 17.3GB of bandwidth per month to relay transactions via your node.