TFTC Podcast 436: Building Sound Finance For Sound Money with Atomic Finance Matt Black and Tony Cai started Atomic to bring sound finance to sound money by offering individuals the ability to leverage Discrete Log Contracts to create native financial products within bitcoin transactions in a sovereign fashion.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1286: The first mainnet DLC on Lightning has been executed This is a massive step in the right direction.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1113: Taproot kicks Jevons Paradox into another gear The critics, man. They're not very forward thinking in my opinion.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #995: BIP 118 discussion heats up All in all, these improvements sound incredible on paper.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #975: Another type of decentralized mining pool Don't sleep on the Bitcoin developer community.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #819: A Discreet Log Contract in the wild Slowly but surely, Bitcoin's keep it simple stupid/slow and steady development approach is paying off in big ways.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #792: Bitcoin scripting just got easier Huge shoutout to Nadav Ivgi and others who contributed to Minsc for the incredible work. Bitcoin is better off for it.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #684: Discreet Log Contract demo Over the course of the last year, the team at Suredbits has been working to bring the dream of DLCs to fruition on Bitcoin.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #654: POWSWAP, REAL DeFi Truly smart contracts and DeFi brought to Bitcoin. Done correctly with minimalist design that doesn't rely on a 3rd party oracle. Bitcoin is the oracle. The haters are in disbelief!
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.