Marty's Bent
Issue #1325: Mastercard is falling prey to the innovator's dilemma
The bitcoin network has provided the world with a closed loop payments and settlement network that can do what Mastercard does in a peer-to-peer fashion.
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Marty's Bent
Issue #1324: Anti-Money Laundering Laws: Protecting Incumbents, Not Consumers
It's time to begin pushing back against the ghouls at FATF. They should not be able to restrict financial freedom while consolidating power among those who are the biggest facilita…
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Issue #1323: Interesting joint statement on banking the bitcoin industry
I can say that this type of statement was something I was not expecting.
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Issue #1322: Debt slavery via treasuries
A slave to the whims of the tax man and his money printer.
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Issue #1321: Inscriptions and the chain state
The decision to activate SegWit, which increased the block size limit to 4MB, coupled with the decision to activate Taproot, which made it cheaper to create certain transactions, m…
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Issue #1319: Reminder: there are no reserve requirements in the banking system
A textbook "blind leading the blind" scenario.
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Issue #1318: Fedipools as a potential solution to centralization risk
It is still early days and this is nothing more than an idea at the moment. But your Uncle Marty thinks it is a very good idea that should gain traction.
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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.
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Issue #1316: Bitcoiners are changing the way we interact with applications
Our excitement over this development has only grown since we first wrote about it in May of 2020.
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Issue #1315: The deepfakes are coming faster than you realize
This is a very creepy trend that will only continue to escalate from here.
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Issue #1314: Introducing scrib
We try to practice what we preach here at the Bent.
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Issue #1312: The Lightning network is gaining momentum during the bear market
Most of the world may be fading bitcoin and the layered stack being built on top of it at the moment, but it doesn't seem like those who realize its potential really seem to care a…
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Issue #1311: When money breaks down so does the social fabric
Fix the money, fix the world.
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Issue #1310: The potential power of Nostr
This is what the "Web 3.0" bros think they're building, but instead it's enabled by open-source protocols that make sense for the use cases and not some Frankenstein blockchain wit…
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Issue #1308: More discrimination against bitcoin miners
This type of repulsive and counterproductive discrimination needs to end.
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Issue #1307: Momentum is building in the bear market
If you're paying attention you should be more bullish than ever.
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Issue #1303: The Saudis are looking to diversify
This move officially broke the severely cracked dam preserving the petrodollar's dominant position in the world of international oil trade.
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Issue 1302: The signs of economic stress are everywhere
Despite what many pundits would lead you to believe, the signs of overwhelming stress throughout the economy are staring you right in the face.
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Issue #1301: New difficulty and hashrate all time high
Bitcoin is reliable and in a world of increasing chaos that reliability is a godsend. I am of the opinion that the world is not properly pricing that reliability at the moment.
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