Marty's Ƀent Issue #1318: Fedipools as a potential solution to centralization risk It is still early days and this is nothing more than an idea at the moment. But your Uncle Marty thinks it is a very good idea that should gain traction.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #867: Extreme ownership brings extreme motivation This is a completely different paradigm when compared to the traditional financial system.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #679: US Election Prediction Market + Bitcoin The future is here, and it's way more efficient.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #630: The War on Cash is heating up The choices lay before you. Action is required.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #537: The threat of KYC/AML Can we honestly look at the data and say that KYC/AML compliance has been a net good for individuals? I don't think so. How much economic harm had been wrought due to data falling into the wrong hands?
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 #479: Hacks, insurance funds, and reorgs To pull this off, Binance would have needed to coordinate with miners to rewrite the chain to change the transaction executed by the hacker. Now, that doesn't seem very decentralized or trustless, does it? Nor does it seem very practical.
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 #451: Stake is on the menu This, naturally, leads to pointing out the glaringly obvious vulnerability of these types of services heavily centralizing Proof of Stake chains since exchanges are able to offer interest rates above the market rate due to their economies of scale.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #417: We have become detached from reality It has long been my contention that we are in the midst of an extremely slow process of detachment from reality in our society, especially in the financial world.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #414: Well, that happened... Upon passing off the torch, Jack proceeded to go on a tweet spree responding to users with strong support for Bitcoin, an extremely resilient network, while expressing disinterest in other "crypto" projects when asked about them.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #408: Actually pretty messed up The irony of learning that "inflation is subdued around 2% due to active monetary policy and the actions of the Fed" while sitting in a classroom that's price has increased 500% in 30-years just hit me so hard that I honestly feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
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 #310: Read up on BTC privacy tech If there is one thing to take from this article, it's that we should be happy that so many people care about privacy for all and are working on many different angles through which that can be provided to Bitcoin users.