Marty's Ƀent Issue #1382: Bitcoin Mining Should Be Incentivizing Reliable Base Load Unfortunately, at the moment it is hard to build out more reliable energy infrastructure because the unreliable infrastructure is being heavily subsidized, which is artificially manipulating opportunity costs and pricing new reliable generation sources out of the market.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #800: Slow bleed, meet currency crises Resistance is futile and this will become very apparent as we continue to transition into the "currency crises" phase of bitcoin adoption.
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 #436: Multisig will be very important When you move UTXOs from an exchange to a personal wallet, whether it be a brain wallet, paper wallet, air-gapped machine, or hardware wallet, you are fully responsible for handling and storing your private keys.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #434: Give the bare minimum As Bitcoin continues to succeed massively, become more popular, and appreciate in price, the safety of Bitcoin holders should be of the utmost importance for exchanges.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #431: An eloquent explanation of bitcoin In it, Misir does an incredible job of succinctly describing Bitcoin as a vastly superior measure of our time when compared to fiat currencies. A great podcast to send anyone looking to understand the fundamentals of Bitcoin and sound money philosophy.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #374: tick...tock... So it seems as if the countries deadset on "economic sovereignty" are probably going to attempt to create some dystopian centralized payment system as a replacement of the incumbent system.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #343: Buyers of last resort For as much contempt and scorn as some people have thrown towards "HODLers", they are an integral part of setting a price floor that stops the panic selling that ensues after a parabolic move.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #336: Are reward halvings priced in? Unless you've been through one before, you don't really understand the FOMO that begins to spread as soon as the halving occurs. The crunch is real, especially for miners and OTC desks that help miners liquidate the BTC they earn.
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.