Marty's Ƀent Issue #1274: Erlay support signaling has been merged into Bitcoin Core It's been a little over three years and exactly 696 issues since we last talked about Erlay in this rag. Back in September of 2019 we wrote about Pieter Wuille
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 #1179: Stratum V2 progress spotted in the wild This is important work that cannot be overstated.
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 #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.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #973: Hashrate shock This incident is an illuminating case study for the bitcoin mining industry for many reasons.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #958: Censorship is inevitable with trusted third parties The future is here, it's decentralized, and it is not yet evenly distributed.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #957: How do we decentralize mining pools? These are things to think about and discuss.
Marty's Ƀent 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.
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 #920: This is not okay. Change is coming. How did we get to this point? Centralization, complacency, and a detachment from monetary reality.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #919: Great Stratum V2 explainer The benefits of transitioning existing mining pool protocol infrastructure to Stratum V2 cannot be overstated.
Marty's Ƀent 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.
Marty's Ƀent 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.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #826: A Know Your Hash mitigation solution? Solutions seems to be out there. If they aren't, I am confident they will materialize.
Marty's Ƀent 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.
Marty's Ƀent 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.
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%.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #762: Bitcoin doesn't care about governments It would be a bad sign if these kleptocrats weren't scared of Bitcoin.
Marty's Ƀent 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.
Marty's Ƀent 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.
Marty's Ƀent 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.
Marty's Ƀent 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."
Marty's Ƀent 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
