The Commoner

Issue #1326: A good primer on the path from Bretton Woods to the Dollar Endgame

As Peruvian Bull highlights in his series, there is no way of solving this debt problem.

Marty Bent

·March 2, 2023·3 min read

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.

Marty Bent

·March 1, 2023·3 min read

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…

Marty Bent

·February 27, 2023·4 min read

Issue #1323: Interesting joint statement on banking the bitcoin industry

I can say that this type of statement was something I was not expecting.

Marty Bent

·February 24, 2023·4 min read

Issue #1322: Debt slavery via treasuries

A slave to the whims of the tax man and his money printer.

Marty Bent

·February 23, 2023·3 min read

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…

Marty Bent

·February 21, 2023·4 min read

Issue #1319: Reminder: there are no reserve requirements in the banking system

A textbook "blind leading the blind" scenario.

Marty Bent

·February 16, 2023·4 min read

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.

Marty Bent

·February 14, 2023·5 min read

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 Bent

·February 14, 2023·3 min read

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.

Marty Bent

·February 8, 2023·3 min read

Issue #1315: The deepfakes are coming faster than you realize

This is a very creepy trend that will only continue to escalate from here.

Marty Bent

·February 8, 2023·4 min read

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