TFTC / Marty Bent
The Commoner
Truth for the Commoner, every weekday. Money, machines, and the people trying to control both.
Independent writing by Marty Bent at TFTC since 2017. Commentary on money, markets, AI, energy and privacy.
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Issue #377: Read this thread + presentation
Delphia Digital says it for all of us.
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Issue #376: Got Bitcoin?
Russian central bank sends a letter to at least 5 banks advising them to find a replacement for SWIFT.
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Issue #373: Bitcoin, fungibility, and CoinJoins
When it comes to tradeoffs, attempting to achieve fungibility at the wallet level via CoinJoins....
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Issue #372: Money as a social contract
It is really hard to understand bitcoin when first approaching the subject.
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Issue #370: A mining death spiral? Not likely.
Price is the lure that drives capitalists to plug in miners and chase tokens to be liquidated for a slight profit (hopefully).
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Issue #369: Very important thread
In case some of you freaks haven't heard yet, yesterday the market became aware that OFAC, the Office of Foreign Asset Control, had sanctioned two bitcoin addresses belonging to tw…
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Issue #366: Working towards ideals
The narrative that persisted last year was that Bitcoin is boring, slow, and rudimentary while ICOs are the wave of the future, and the mania around this hot toy + narrative drove…
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