Marty's Ƀent Issue #829: Problem identified. Solution proposed. If you are developer interested in Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, consider contributing to the work being started by Joost on Circuit Breakers.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #824: The Lightning Network is maturing These improvements increase the utility of the Lightning Network considerably while doubling as an overall UX improvement for users sending and receiving transactions.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #776: Boltz aims to improve Lightning UX The rawness of the Lighting Network is real right now.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #746: Firehose Wednesday A lot has been going on over the last week. There are a number of topics I want to cover and I can feel the creep of decision paralysis creep
Marty's Ƀent Issue #737: In-game assets on Liquid Bitcoin can support use cases that many altcoin scammers have tried to say it cannot.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #732: Bitcoin is changing how we interact with the Internet A sneak peek at https://t.co/stDznzM5c0 next release which includes mobile decentralized authentication! Thanks to LNURL-AUTH, identification can be done just with your wallet’s Public Key. No
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 #718: WeChat, but without the surveillance If the vision is executed, Sphinx will enable a peer-to-peer economy run on cell phones that preserves privacy and is censorship resistant.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #706: 402 Errors No More via Lightning LabsYour Uncle Marty was beginning to think that all of this virus and economic collapse hysteria was putting a damper on productive development on top on Bitcoin. Luckily
Marty's Ƀent Issue #667: Lightning Channel Breakdown Your Uncle Marty is extremely bullish on the Lightning Network moving forward. It only seems to be getting more robust and easier to use by the day.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #643: Shedding the booster rockets We are still very much in the middle of "The Great Build Out". Luckily, the booster rockets are helping to secure the network as The Great Build out of the Cypherpunk Field of Monetary Dreams is underway.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #627: Confidential transactions Personally, I think we'll be able to achieve privacy on layers above the base protocol.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #625: Bitcoin's stack mapped out When combined and consolidated into a beautiful chart, these seemingly boring innovations paint a pretty exciting picture. A developing stack of efficient, fast, expressive, and profitable applications,
Marty's Ƀent Issue #611: The tooling improves This may not seem like that big of a deal, but it's a sign of the maturation you'd want to see from an open source project like the Lightning Network.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #605: A messaging app on the Lightning Network After seeing the WHATSAPP demo, it's not hard to envision people building apps and user interfaces on top of these primitives that allow users to send payable invoices with messages attached in a P2P fashion
Marty's Ƀent Issue #598: A new on-ramp emerges Escher Hub is particularly cool because the product has the goal of cutting down fiat and bitcoin settlement times while buying/selling bitcoin while increasing buy limits dramatically.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #595: Global unrest, so hot right now Gaming is so hot right now, and there is so much money being made and yet to be made that it is hard to imagine a world in which automatic payouts via the Lightning Network do not come to fruition.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #590: Another Lightning implementation appears in the wild The fact that a Python implementation now exists, again, means that there are now more potential people that can build on LN.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #574: Olympus has risen I can see this particular feature being utilized by dedicated Bitcoin pubs looking to prove a use case, but also by companies and influencers who have been deplatformed by payments providers and need a way to monetize.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #571: Who's going to do it? Hey Bloomberg (I know you're reading), this is a win-win for you. If it works, you're making more money and driving more traffic to your writers. If it doesn't, you get to write another hit piece on how Bitcoin is bad.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #566: A note on Lightning Network data This all begs the question, how the hell do we gauge the economic activity on the lightning network? Is it even possible?
Marty's Ƀent Issue #522: Usability is getting so much better I sent a message to space for a little more than half a penny...
Marty's Ƀent Issue #505: Joule Allowances are on the way Joule Allowances will allow Joule users to set parameters when visiting certain Lightning Network-enabled websites that make it so the extension automatically pays invoices that fall within the defined parameters.
