Marty's Ƀent Issue #890: More hashrate derivatives coming to market In the decade since Slush Pool was launched, the mining pool industry has proven to be one of the most ruthlessly competitive landscapes within the industry that has been erected around the Bitcoin network.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #874: Viewing hashpower as a portfolio There are many factors to take into consideration when building a mining operation.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #854: Miners unplug, a Singapore bank opens an on ramp, and more gold is discovered There's a lot going on in the Bitcoin world this week.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #827: Mining Market Dynamics Hard lessons are learned in this new Wild West. It is truly something to marvel at.
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 #789: The market for hashpower explained If you're interested in learning more about the mining industry, I highly recommend you peep this piece today.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #760: Capitalism in the US is nothing more than an idea at this point Capitalism is nothing more than an idea that is given lip service by people who like to pretend that what the Fed is doing is natural and necessary.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #758: Another exciting week for Bitcoin fundamentals It's been an economics-heavy and bitcoin-light week here at The Bent, so I figured I'd brain dump some interesting things that caught my eye over the last few days that show that Bitcoin's fundamentals are only improving.
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 #730: Mining basics It feels like as good a time as ever to get back to our roots here at The Bent.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #717: GAM: Bringing Hash Power to North America If executed correctly, this will be a huge benefit for everyone involved.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #654: POWSWAP, REAL DeFi Truly smart contracts and DeFi brought to Bitcoin. Done correctly with minimalist design that doesn't rely on a 3rd party oracle. Bitcoin is the oracle. The haters are in disbelief!
Marty's Ƀent Issue #652: Fundamental refresh Wednesday Why do individuals decide to put in the effort to acquire hardware to mine bitcoin?
Marty's Ƀent Issue #610: State of Bitcoin mining Is Hut 8 proving the haters wrong? Or are they an anomaly that cannot be replicated?
Marty's Ƀent Issue #577: Was there a hashrate crash yesterday? Yesterday's "hashrate crash" is probably more accurately described as "normal and expected interblock time variance".
Marty's Ƀent Issue #573: Recent hashrate surge in perspective Despite what some might say about Bitcoin's "shortcomings" and immaturity for the world stage, the Wiley entrepreneurs in the mining industry seem not to care one bit.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #563: Turning into Fall In case some of you freaks didn't notice, the network hash rate reached an all-time high of 88 exahash per second two days ago.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #516: Monday madness roundup There seems to be a palpable discontent throughout the world right now. You can feel the tension on all fronts. Hong Kongers fighting hard for their freedom. Americans getting violent as the middle class continues to be completely eroded away.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #495: Something might be going on Is DB too big to fail? Everyone I speak with seems to believe so. Uncle Marty thinks we're about to find out. And if they are TBTF, we're about to see QEinfinity go into full effect. The merry-go-round goes round and round.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #476: The plumbing has been reinforced As the price of Bitcoin begins to climb out of the depths of the bear market, it's crazy to look back and reflect on where we were the first time prices reached these levels and how much has been built in the 18-months since.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #472: This should end well A system addicted to debt sows its own demise at a certain point because it creates too much opportunity costs, forcing people to choose work over breeding, setting in play a long-term decay in the funding base of the system.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #444: GreenAddress --> BlockstreamGreen With the rebrand and redesign comes some cool new features, including hardware wallet compatibility for users who fall into the Android + Trezor One or Ledger Nano S owners' circle in the Venn diagram.
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 #386: Alien technology It looks like after a couple of months of a continued decrease in the mining difficult has caused hashrate to level off and even begin to increase a bit as the price stabilizes in the $3,200 - $4,500 range for a bit here.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #366: Working towards ideals The narrative that persisted last year was that Bitcoin is boring, slow, and rudimentary while ICOs are the wave of the future, and the mania around this hot toy + narrative drove prices into irrational levels.
