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 #509: Tradeoffs are important to consider Bitcoin has decided to take the hard route on its journey towards sufficient decentralization, and this makes people very uncomfortable.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #497: Scaling with Utreexo and Statechains It's small, incremental, boring changes like Utreexo and Statechains that get ya boi all hot an bothered when observing Bitcoin's proliferation throughout our world and beyond.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #470: assumeutxo proposal Friend of the Ƀent and fellow Beefy Bitcoin Boy, James O'Beirne, recently took to the [bitcoin-dev] mailing list to propose the inclusion of an assumeutxo functionality within Bitcoin Core.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #467: Very important to understand A common topic that we have harped on around these parts for the last two years has been the fact that Bitcoin is an amoral protocol that has no idea what we humans are attempting to use it for.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #440: Schnorr refresher A couple topics of conversation that frequently pop up in the Ƀent are privacy and multisig solutions. When they are brought up it is usually because Uncle Marty is opining on the inherent shortcomings of what I deem to be imperative for the long-term success and survival of the Bitcoin network.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #339: Patience is 🔑 That's one of my biggest problems with this "industry" at the moment, no one is patient. Everyone wants every functionality ever conceived out of the box or they deem these blockchains "inadequate" or "rudimentary".
Marty's Ƀent Issue #314: The BIS, some fuccbois 1/ There's a lot of opinions about what we are fighting against with Bitcoin. Warren Buffet famously called Bitcoin "rat poison", so let's dissect the rat. Safe to say it's not retail banking, rather we are