Marty's Ƀent Issue #1080: Nothing like the smell of credit risk contagion on a Monday morning The world is witnessing another Lehman moment, but this time it is emanating from China and not New York City.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #629: The repo market demand has been identified Think about how far away the Fed has gotten from its original mandate. The Fed was originally forced upon us under the guise that it would only intervene to lend to the banking system when the economy needed to be stoked.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #618: If you're interested in learning more about mining, mining pools, and how they operate at a technical level, I would not miss this AMA.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #572: Signs of a liquidity crunch The Fed feels compelled to intervene within hours to a market hiccup and continue that accommodation into a second day. Essentially conducting QE without officially conducting QE.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #540: Bitcoin is a safe haven The price of Bitcoin reacted very positively as the Chinese Yuan depreciated sharply against the Dollar yesterday afternoon.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #510: The race to the bottom is back on Stay vigilant out there. Uncle Marty thinks things are only just starting to heat up on the global stage.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #495: Something might be going on Is DB too big to fail? Everyone I speak with seems to believe so. Uncle Marty thinks we're about to find out. And if they are TBTF, we're about to see QEinfinity go into full effect. The merry-go-round goes round and round.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #472: This should end well A system addicted to debt sows its own demise at a certain point because it creates too much opportunity costs, forcing people to choose work over breeding, setting in play a long-term decay in the funding base of the system.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #468: Heavy accumulation As we can see, it seems as if these two bedfellows have been in a heavy accumulation phase for the last couple of decades, with China increasing their stash by more than 4.5x and Russia more than 5x'ing their bag.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #450: Read this At the moment, being a good liquidity provider and profitable routing node is a very manual process that is not a very friendly user experience if you are not very technical.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #325: An Argentinian story in 3 tweets Argentina is a very interesting place for Bitcoin to prove its use cases out and it looks like some Argentinians are utilizing it as an alternative to the peso alreasy, as evidenced from the above tweet from our friend Santi.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #322: A lesson from bubbles past The main similarity being the presence of "experts" who proclaimed to retail investors and the masses at large that these new forms of organizing and raising funds (ICOs) were as revolutionary as the Internet itself.