Marty's Ƀent Issue #1347: Bitcoin transaction relay over Nostr gaining some attention No matter what comes of this, I think it is encouraging to see bitcoin beginning to experiment with alternative communications protocols like Nostr to create some redundancies so that bitcoin is as robust as possible.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1339: Bull market for alternative tx relay and broadcast mechanisms To any of the freedom hating governments out there reading this on our dirty corner of the internet, good luck!
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 #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 #1177: Pressure forcing alternative transaction relay solutions Here's to the builders. They're making the world a better place.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1140: A lesson from Kazakhstan How can miners and the industry at large act to ensure this type of attack doesn't perturb block production in the future?
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1005: Moon bouncing transactions are here If bitcoiners have limited avenues through which they can relay transactions it becomes easier to attack the network.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1004: Mempools cleared this morning If you're looking to consolidate UTXOs or open up Lightning Channels today is a great day to get that done.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #940: Another anonymous P2P communications layer added to Core There are many layers to privacy considerations when using Bitcoin. The addition of I2P aids in the privacy of users as they relay transactions between each other.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #766: AltNet proposal via GitHub [https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/18988]Short and late rip today due to the fact that I am packing up my apartment. Here's a cool proposal from
Marty's Ƀent Issue #648: Hardware is key for this revolution Everything is all well and good until Amazon is forced to stop running code associated with any GitHub repository holding code that makes cryptocurrencies operational.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #639: Run Bitcoin from space: a tutorial We could be sent to the Stone Ages for an extended period of time with very little effort.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #578: Erlay may be on the way Erlay would be a huge level up for Bitcoin's P2P layer as it would help reduce bandwidth requirements by 40% (!!), increase network connectivity, and increase privacy.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #554: Highlighting an interesting attack vector Regardless of who initiates the attack, this is something that one should be very aware of if they truly care about Bitcoin's long term survival.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #493: Erlay, a step towards an ideal? As you can see, Erlay could severely reduce the amount of bandwidth needed to connect to other nodes when compared to the current transaction relay method. Currently, if you are connected to 32 nodes it would take 17.3GB of bandwidth per month to relay transactions via your node.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #482: Decentralization intensifies People who live in remote areas with no Internet connection, or who have been subjected to some sort of displacement via a natural disaster or war will not be exiled from the Bitcoin network.
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 #442: Offline transactions As someone who lives in many ant farm-like apartment buildings (depending on what year it is) in one of the most densely populated cities on Earth, I find this type of setup to be daunting and cumbersome, but something I eventually would like to have as my go-to setup at some point in the future.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #423: Always triple check It's a slow news day out there in the world of Bitcoin, but no day is ever a bad day to remind everyone of the need to double, triple and quadruple check your transactions before hitting 'send', especially the fee your tagging onto your transaction.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #419: Why do we put up with this? You work your ass off to have almost half your paycheck taken so the government can turn around and completely spit in your face by paying an exorbitant amount of money for some face cream.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #335: More on mesh networks & TxTenna In Bitcoin, we are constantly and actively working to decentralize development, mining pools, chip manufacturing, custody, full node users, the way transactions are broadcasts and relayed to the network, and much more.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #330: Mesh networks are cool The actual tidbits of information that matter in the long-run because they, combined, will help mold Bitcoin into the multi-trillion dollar economic system that we envision it could potentially become.
