Marty's Ƀent Issue #1324: Anti-Money Laundering Laws: Protecting Incumbents, Not Consumers It's time to begin pushing back against the ghouls at FATF. They should not be able to restrict financial freedom while consolidating power among those who are the biggest facilitators of financial crimes.
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.
TFTC Podcast 392: Resisting online surveillance with Viktor Vecsei If you're looking to increase your understanding of VPNs this is the rip for you.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1305: A few notes on the Gathering of the Ghouls This is why I write the rag. This is why I bitcoin. This is why I am building and investing in companies that bring more sovereignty to the individual.
Marty's Ƀent #1287: Lightning Network Privacy Research I highly recommend you freaks take some time to check the research project out and grow your know about the privacy shortcomings of the Lightning Network and how they can be and may be resolved in the future.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1285: The Best Desktop Wallet When it comes to managing your UTXOs via a desktop application, there is no better option on the market than Sparrow Wallet.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1284: Chain analysis companies whiffed with FTX Why should companies be paying all of this money if these companies can't even identify a $10B+ fraud.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1277: Fascism is here and both sides of the aisle are guilty But what do I know? I'm just a conspiracy theorist spreading misinformation.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1274: Erlay support signaling has been merged into Bitcoin Core It's been a little over three years and exactly 696 issues since we last talked about Erlay in this rag. Back in September of 2019 we wrote about Pieter Wuille
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1266: A Fedimint signet appears out of the wild If this experience can be replicated on mainnet, it isn't hard to see how these federated mints can become popular in a relatively short amount of time.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1260: They're using debit and credit card purchases to make lists This is why it is extremely important to educate current and future bitcoin users on best practices when it comes to receiving and sending bitcoin as privately as possible.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1254: You are the subject of a massive humiliation ritual Doublespeak. Doublespeak everywhere.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1248: The privacy wars have escalated The stakes have never been higher. The state is losing its grasp of control over the people and it is doubling, tripling and quadrupling down on utter incompetence and nefariousness.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1241: Fedi is here to bring a consumer app building on FediMint It will be interesting to see what the Fedi team brings to market with their commerical products.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1233: Loser mentalities, get them out of here Can't defend the line with a loser's mentality.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1231: BIP 324 would bring encryption to bitcoin's P2P layer and it needs some review There are aspects of bitcoin that can be significantly improved.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1214: Silent payments This would provide increased utility for those looking to receive bitcoin payments with better privacy assurances and less interactivity with the chain.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1193: I am very bullish on Chaumian Mints Fedimint, if successful, could provide the stack with an opensource, distributed, censorship resistant custody layer.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1182: BDK plans to add BIP47 support It will be interesting to see how many wallets begin implementing BIP47 once support is officially merged into the BDK.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1179: Stratum V2 progress spotted in the wild This is important work that cannot be overstated.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1167: A detailed CoinPool design emerges If possible, CoinPools would enable billions of people to claim ownership to on-chain bitcoin in the form of a slice of a UTXO.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1166: This week has been a great learning experience There is no doubt that the increasing tyranny on display in Canada at the moment has highlighted one of Bitcoin's unique value propositions.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1152: Reminder: reject the Financial Action Task Force Are you ready to disobey these ineffective and deceptive tyrants? Your Uncle Marty sure is.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1128: A payment pool proposal pops up We'll be keeping you freaks abreast of the progress of payment pools as more information comes in.
