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 #954: Bitcoin; fulfilling the vision of "Web 3.0" It's getting increasingly hard for the grifting shitcoiners to justify the existence of their tokens in a world in which Sphinx and similar apps exist.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #837: Thread on different scaling tradeoffs It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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 #792: Bitcoin scripting just got easier Huge shoutout to Nadav Ivgi and others who contributed to Minsc for the incredible work. Bitcoin is better off for it.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #646: Some action on the Liquid sidechain We may be witnessing the beginning of another Tether migration from ERC20 to Liquid.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #549: Reminder: Bitcoin distribution is fair Everyone's a scammer, freaks. Especially those selling knock-offs that attempt to denigrate Bitcoin over a non-existent "distribution problem".
Marty's Ƀent Issue #396: A quick path to centralization The burden of running a full node has become too cumbersome for the average user as the size of the blockchain and, more importantly, the need for fully synced nodes to constantly verify state changes requires more and more powerful hardware at an accelerated pace.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #346: Put me out of my "open finance" misery The concept of "open finance", at least to me, revolves around the fact that anyone can download software and begin benefiting from/participating in a digital monetary system that has no leaders, no censorship, and very little barriers to entry.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #316: Matt called it We should all be watching this closely as I believe this will be a growing trend, especially if Ethereum ever successfully transitions to PoS (I don't think that will happen).
Marty's Ƀent Issue #123: I can't believe I have to write about "cryptokitties" My bearish thesis on Ethereum revolves around the fact that they shot themselves in the foot by over marketing their platform before figuring out the tech.