Marty's Ƀent Issue #948: Bitcoin governance and precedent with Taproot activation Precedents matter and a big one is potentially about to be set in the form of the way Taproot is (or isn't) activated.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #881: The miserable fiat shills are at it again This is something we should all be paying attention to as bitcoiners because it is a Trojan Horse to attempt to ban individuals from being able to run full nodes.
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 #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 #786: Utreexo moves forward Slowly but surely Bitcoin is becoming more robust and scalable. Onward!
Marty's Ƀent Issue #747: The UX improves This is a huge step forward for making the UX of verifying the UTXOs you are receiving with your own full node much better by streamlining the process.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #743: Post-Halving Dynamics The third block subsidy halving is 10-days behind us at this point and your Uncle Marty feels it's a good time to check in on some network data to see how things are going.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #731: Reflecting on the bear market As we approach Bitcoin's third block subsidy halving, it is incredible to take a step back, scan the horizon, and review all of the incredible things that have been built.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #649: Widening the bottom of the funnel The amount of quality content available for people looking to learn about the how and WHY of bitcoin is bountiful.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #596: Quality explainers on how Bitcoin works BP and Exxon are currently capping and consuming LESS THAN A QUARTER of the excess oil and gas they produce on site. This is deplorable. We need to pump these stats and Bitcoin mining is the way this happens.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #554: Highlighting an interesting attack vector Regardless of who initiates the attack, this is something that one should be very aware of if they truly care about Bitcoin's long term survival.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #523: Surveillance tech crawls forward > "Worse yet, the students can’t opt out. “It’s a binary choice for the kids,” Bulger said. “A teacher told me years ago, ‘If you want to opt out of using the Google education suite, then you’ll also need to opt out
Marty's Ƀent Issue #477: Zap is UX porn The vision is coming together, freaks. And it's coming together beautifully. Slowly but surely, wiley entrepreneurs continue to prove the haters wrong by building Bitcoin products that even an idiot like me can use with extreme ease.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #475: Cash App turning into a giant Large, successful companies with established revenue streams are able to leverage BTC as another consistent revenue stream without having to chase revenue via the even riskier altcoin markets as companies like Coinbase have been forced to do.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #470: assumeutxo proposal Friend of the Ƀent and fellow Beefy Bitcoin Boy, James O'Beirne, recently took to the [bitcoin-dev] mailing list to propose the inclusion of an assumeutxo functionality within Bitcoin Core.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #464: Smorgasbord A world in which people have the option of sending transactions via the Internet, a Satellite, a Ham Radio, or a mesh network device is a world in which Bitcoin is an extremely robust, stubborn sunuvabitch that is hard to take down.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #445: Android Bitcoin Core Decentralization is an ideal that we strive for and the road towards a more decentralized Bitcoin is pathed by projects like ABCore, which increase the optionality presented to consumers and the potential amount of hardware devices can be used to contribute to Bitcoin's consensus.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #425: StopAndDecrypt gets it Low hanging fruit, freaks. It's out there to be scooped up by people with enough balls to take the risk of dedicating time and some money to make it happen.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #410: Fundamentals Thursday No better day than today to look at some data on Bitcoin's network fundamentals. Follow me as we take a journey around the Internet from data site to data site, documenting the charts we like along the way.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #393: This is what I like to see > Recently @pwuille [https://twitter.com/pwuille?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw], Gleb Naumenko, & Greg Maxwell revealed the #Minisketch [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Minisketch?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] library for reducing bandwidth requirements when syncing data between #Bitcoin [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bitcoin?src=
Marty's Ƀent Issue #380: Nodl up These are the teams you freaks should be focusing on, not the teams trying to bamboozle you with token scams that market themselves as "the next Bitcoin". Those projects are pure noise IMO.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #323: More news on this Bitcoin bug A world in which the bug was exploited for an extended period of time before being caught and patched seems like a nightmare. However, this incident is another good example of disclosing and patching done right, considering the circumstances.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #320: A Sunday tale for your Tuesday morning What we learned towards the end of last Summer is exactly what Matthew is describing in his thread, node operators ultimately decide what Bitcoin is and miners are contracted out to secure the network and collect block rewards and transaction fees for their service.
