The Commoner

Issue #1314: Introducing scrib

We try to practice what we preach here at the Bent.

Marty Bent

·February 7, 2023·4 min read

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…

Marty Bent

·February 2, 2023·2 min read

Issue #1311: When money breaks down so does the social fabric

Fix the money, fix the world.

Marty Bent

·February 1, 2023·4 min read

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…

Marty Bent

·January 31, 2023·4 min read

Issue #1308: More discrimination against bitcoin miners

This type of repulsive and counterproductive discrimination needs to end.

Marty Bent

·January 26, 2023·3 min read

Issue #1307: Momentum is building in the bear market

If you're paying attention you should be more bullish than ever.

Marty Bent

·January 25, 2023·4 min read

Issue #1306: The evolution of miner debt financing

Marty Bent

·January 24, 2023·2 min read

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.

Marty Bent

·January 18, 2023·4 min read

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.

Marty Bent

·January 18, 2023·6 min read

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.

Marty Bent

·January 17, 2023·3 min read

Issue #1300: OP_VAULT: a new vault proposal

With OP_VAULT James is attempting to find a happy medium that makes different tradeoffs that he seems to believe is a more palatable solution than those that have been proposed bef…

Marty Bent

·January 10, 2023·3 min read

Issue #1299: The carnage is not over

When the dust settles those who decided to take the tactical approach of being focused on bitcoin-only, took manageable risk and provide actual utility to users will be cemented as…

Marty Bent

·January 6, 2023·5 min read

Issue #1298: Hashrate recovered from the arctic blast

Bitcoin is beautiful. Most don't realize this yet.

Marty Bent

·January 3, 2023·3 min read

Issue #1297: Reminder: use a dedicated hardware device

There are simple ways to have an extremely high degree of security with your set up and they are getting simpler every year.

Marty Bent

·January 3, 2023·3 min read

Issue #1296: 2022 - The Year of Unraveling Scams

A lot of hard lessons were learned by people across the world in 2022.

Marty Bent

·December 31, 2022·7 min read

Issue #1295: The arctic blast affected Bitcoin's hashrate

As residential demand for electricity jumped some miners shut down their operations to ensure that residential demand could be met without throwing the grids they're mining on into…

Marty Bent

·December 26, 2022·6 min read

Issue #1294: They're mocking you with their shameless greed

This is where your tax dollars are going, freaks.

Marty Bent

·December 21, 2022·3 min read

Issue #1293: Replit + Lighting could open the floodgates to app building

What an exciting time to be alive!

Marty Bent

·December 16, 2022·3 min read

Issue #1292: Perfectly Perverse Incentives

When people can't save their hard work in a good money they will find themselves living lives filled with bad things.

Marty Bent

·December 14, 2022·5 min read

Issue #1291: Breakaway interest payments

Be aware, freaks.

Marty Bent

·December 13, 2022·3 min read