Marty's Ƀent Issue #1001: Highlighting fundamentals It's been a hoopla-heavy week, so I figured I'd use today's issue to highlight some fundamentals around development and legislation that have crossed my radar over the last few days.
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 #524: Signs of scaling What is incredibly beautiful about this process is that it is completely voluntary. Individuals opt-in to the creation and utilization of these features by their own volition as Bitcoin draws their attention and leverages their labor to fortify itself.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #478: bip-taproot While it is exciting to finally see a BIP for these improvements, I believe it is important to temper our excitement with a healthy dose of skepticism and adversarial thinking.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #474: If not you, then who? In all seriousness, if you are a developer out there who has been looking to contribute this is a great place to start for many reasons.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #447: A Herculean Effort A huge step forward for Bitcoin on its quest to become more modular was just enabled by a Herculean effort from one man and a nebulous team of reviewers from around the globe.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #445: Android Bitcoin Core Decentralization is an ideal that we strive for and the road towards a more decentralized Bitcoin is pathed by projects like ABCore, which increase the optionality presented to consumers and the potential amount of hardware devices can be used to contribute to Bitcoin's consensus.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #404: Very important to understand It is important to keep this in mind as we continue to build out Bitcoin. Having a protocol driven by economic incentives and cryptography is much different than a protocol driven by the utility of being able to process and present data at incredible speeds.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #350: Coding under fire Depending on what decisions the team behind your blockchain of choice made when designing said blockchain, there's a possibility that you're writing code in a scripting language that is relatively new to the scene and woefully untested.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #349: Bitcoin-Is-Worse-Is-Better What a lot of these "experts" fail to realize is that Bitcoin is more of a monetary phenomenon than a cutting-edge breakthrough in cryptography. And this fact, when it isn't fully understood by said experts, seems to fly right over their heads.
