Marty's Ƀent Issue #1330: Focus is Key Right Now In the midst of all of the bank failures and the ensuing chaotic scramble by governments and central banks bitcoin has performed like a true risk-off asset.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1317: NFC is allowing for more robust security models When it comes to the potential impact a product like TAPSIGNER can have for bitcoin security I think it is going to be massive.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1309: The CBDC will be significantly more inconvenient than bitcoin In recent months I have thoroughly convinced myself that bitcoiners really need to stop running with the narrative that the CBDC world will be more convenient because it is patently false.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1181: BIP21 is a no brainer At the moment there is a massive UX hurdle that exists for users of different bitcoin wallet software providers.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1091: More NFC UX improvements In time, we'll look back at these times and marvel at how far the network has come from a usability perspective.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1087: Bitcoin UX is getting better, Fiat UX is getting worse Bitcoin is a raw open source technology that depends on motivated developers to contribute their time to write code that makes the network stronger and easier to use.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1074: More (safe) NFC UX please Implementing NFC into the bitcoin payment flow UX seems like it could be a massive improvement.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1055: BitMEX adds user verifiable Proof of Reserves This is a novel way to implement a Proof of Reserves system and should raise the bar for the industry.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1054: UX Improvement with Lightning Address This will significantly improve the user experience for individuals looking to receive Lightning tips and those looking to dish them out.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1044: Better receiver privacy coming to Lightning Huge shoutout to Rusty and the other engineers who worked on BOLT 12 with him.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1037: A Chaumian Mint prototype emerges via fedimint.org [https://fedimint.org/MiniMint/architecture/]A few weeks ago, we wrote about [https://tftc.io/martys-bent/issue-1022/] the potential for Chaumian mints to improve Lightning Network wallets.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1033: A simple UX tweak that could go a long way Here's to hoping we get more quality designers focused on building Bitcoin applications.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1032: An LDK implementation has been spotted in the wild Will the market coalesce around one or a few implementations or will each have its own place in the market for specific use cases?
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 #968: Privacy tools coming to more wallets It is extremely encouraging to see more teams implementing payjoin capabilities into their mobile wallet software.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #964: Transactions, mempools, and "redoing" transactions Better communication via high quality user interfaces and direct education of users is necessary.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #924: This is going to happen faster than most people expect Tesla's foray into Bitcoin is simply a continuation of the growing trend of cultural acceptance.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #859: *Lightning Pool has entered the room* This product creates the conditions for a meaningful and actionable yield curve to begin taking form on top of Bitcoin.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #824: The Lightning Network is maturing These improvements increase the utility of the Lightning Network considerably while doubling as an overall UX improvement for users sending and receiving transactions.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #776: Boltz aims to improve Lightning UX The rawness of the Lighting Network is real right now.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #768: Some thoughts on UX No normie is going to care about a majority of the technical details that are written about in this rag.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #747: The UX improves This is a huge step forward for making the UX of verifying the UTXOs you are receiving with your own full node much better by streamlining the process.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #732: Bitcoin is changing how we interact with the Internet > A sneak peek at https://t.co/stDznzM5c0 next release which includes mobile decentralized authentication! Thanks to LNURL-AUTH, identification can be done just with your wallet’s Public Key. No
Marty's Ƀent Issue #683: Square is crushing Those who decide to focus on Bitcoin from the get-go will have more longevity in my opinion.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #667: Lightning Channel Breakdown Your Uncle Marty is extremely bullish on the Lightning Network moving forward. It only seems to be getting more robust and easier to use by the day.
