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.orgA few weeks ago, we wrote about the potential for Chaumian mints to improve Lightning Network wallets. Particularly custodial wallets that make a big privacy tradeoff to provide
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.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #642: Oh how far we've come Take a step back. Put things in perspective. Think. You'll realize Bitcoin's success may be inevitable.
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 #599: How not to CoinJoin Something that can never be understated is that Bitcoin's privacy assurances are extremely subpar at the moment. It is possible to transact privately, but it is extremely hard.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #598: A new on-ramp emerges Escher Hub is particularly cool because the product has the goal of cutting down fiat and bitcoin settlement times while buying/selling bitcoin while increasing buy limits dramatically.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #553: Recovery techniques for different wallets With this in mind, we should encourage these individuals to go the extra mile to over-communicate with their userbase and provide proper documentation on how they can recover their seeds.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #544: Bitcoin vaults. Yes, please! Slowly but surely, the vision comes together, usability and security seem to be on the up and up, and this system may turn out to be more idiot-proof than we thought.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #522: Usability is getting so much better I sent a message to space for a little more than half a penny...
Marty's Ƀent Issue #507: Cash App opens up BTC deposits In the midst of the mania surrounding the official announcement of Facebook's fake blockchain, Cash App started rolling out the ability to deposit bitcoin onto their app to some of their users.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #505: Joule Allowances are on the way Joule Allowances will allow Joule users to set parameters when visiting certain Lightning Network-enabled websites that make it so the extension automatically pays invoices that fall within the defined parameters.
