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Bitcoin weighs more than all of the altcoins (or shitcoins) put together, and is superior to ether, tether and more. Top photo
Technical

DLCs On Lightning Open The Door For Bitcoin Smart Contracts

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
In a world with third-party custody and self-custody, bitcoin is the clear winner for offering protection from government overreach and seizure.
Culture

Trusted Third Parties Continue To Be Security Holes

By Marty Bent
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Toxic Bitcoin Maximalism can serve an important purpose to ward off newcomers from scams and altcoins, but is there a time when the toxicity is too much?
Business

The Warning Signs Were There: The Collapse Of FTX Was Inevitable

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin is money for enemies — it does not matter how you use it, both political spectrums can top photo.
Culture

Forget Politics, Stop Asking For Permission And Lean Into Bitcoin’s Utility Instead

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Companies like Chainalysis offer blockchain analysis services that can monitor and trace blockchain activity of Bitcoin transactions, a form of surveillance. Top photo.
Technical

Another Bug Briefly Took Down Part Of The Lightning Network

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
In addition to the KYC-free units of censorship-resistant internet money, mining bitcoin at home brings unique security threats top photo.
Business

Mining Bitcoin Profitably Has Never Been Harder

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Everything you need to know to install and operate a Bitcoin node connected to the blockchain via satellite, and enjoy full sovereignty top photo.
Technical

Erlay Makes It Easier To Run A Bitcoin Node

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin can free us from fiat chains, the legacy financial system and censorship top photo.
Culture

Why Kanye West And Other Free Speech Advocates Need Bitcoin

By Marty Bent
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Bitcoin is a hourglass of ideas money and cultural significance top photo.
Markets

Is Bitcoin Decoupling From Treasurys, Equities And Bonds?

By Marty Bent
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Charts and analysis can help predict where the bitcoin price is headed using technical indicators top photo.
Markets

Bitcoin Volume Spikes With Market Uncertainty In The UK

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin security starts with private keys and privacy features of hardware wallets top photo.
Technical

Public Fedimint Testnet Launched On Signet

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
BOLT 12 and LNURL seem to accomplish the same things for users of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. But what are the technical differences top photo?
Technical

Validating Lightning Signer Separates Keys From Nodes

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
A developer and an entrepreneur hope to bring community-based custody for Bitcoin to billions of people around the world through Fedimints. Top photo.
Culture

Podcasting 2.0 Will Bring Bitcoin To The Masses

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
After experiencing back-to-back Category 5 hurricanes, one Bitcoiner recognized the clearest way to prepare for an uncertain monetary future.
Markets

Consumers Are In The Eye Of The Inflation Hurricane

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
As surveillance efforts in our society intensify, Bitcoin offers a pseudonymous, even potentially anonymous, lifeline for privacy top photo.
Business

When Companies Track Purchases, Bitcoin Privacy Is More Important Than Ever

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
The journey of Bitcoin toward hyperbitcoinization is a long one of constant adoption top photo.
Culture

Bitcoin's Accumulated Momentum Is Going To Be Hard To Stop

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin and Fossil Fuels are the opposite of altcoins and renewables like wind solar and hydro energy top photo.
Culture

The Energy Crisis Will Turn The Money Printers Back On, But Only Bitcoin Can Solve It

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin is a mature pooh bear sitting on top of a chair fancy top photo.
Culture

Bitcoin Will Find Success Via Ultimate Utility

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
The apocalypse, or burning oil fields, is an image brought to mind by fiat for many in the bitcoin space top photo.
Culture

Most People Are Not Prepared For The Extent Of The Energy Crisis

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Lightning is the future for bitcoin technical operation and cryptography top photo.
Technical

Lightning Network May Have A Channel Jamming Problem

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
As surveillance efforts in our society intensify, Bitcoin offers a pseudonymous, even potentially anonymous, lifeline for privacy top photo.
Culture

The War On Financial Privacy Is Escalating

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
The Monetary Properties Of Bitcoin Bitcoin Diamond In The Rough top photo
Legal

Is Bitcoin A New Type Of Property?

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin private key storage and management is a key part of keeping protection privacy and security of your vaults and wallets top photo.
Technical

Expanding Bitcoin Custody Models With FediMint

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Reviewing the difficulty changes in Bitcoin’s history demonstrates that the practice of mining is near-perfectly competitive and is becoming increasingly so top photo.
Technical

Three Bitcoin Mining Downward Difficulty Adjustments In A Row

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
There are numerous factors to consider in weighing the centralization of bitcoin mining, and the industry can only be as decentralized as any one.
Business

Ignore The Unproductive Central Planners And Use Bitcoin

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Privacy & security - Blockstream Open Sources Development of Its Proof of Reserves Tool
Technical

Blockstream Announces Progress On Signature Aggregation Research

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Satoshi and anonymous bitcoiners maintain their privacy and security through cryptography top photo.
Technical

We Need To Encrypt The Peer-To-Peer Layer Of Bitcoin For Privacy

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Regulators attempt to regulate, even ban, bitcoin, which is not possible. Even the U.S. government has attempted to make bitcoin use a crime top photo.
Business

What Does The Financial Action Task Force Have In Store For Bitcoin?

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Politicians around the world are adopting laser eyes on their Twitter profile pictures to signal support for Bitcoin top photo.
Markets

Is Bitcoin A Warning Sign For Global Deleveraging?

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve or Fed, is seen by many as a clown for fiat money inflation.
Markets

End The Fed And Opt Out With Bitcoin

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
As we enter hyperbitcoinization, legacy financial institutions like the federal reserve or Fed will be painted orange.
Business

New Tools To Measure Prices In Bitcoin

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Books and culture are important to bitcoin and the way we educate people on bitcoin top photo.
Culture

Block Inc. Reports Increasing Bitcoin Awareness

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin stands out in a sea of fiat currency, U.S. dollars and cents top photo.
Markets

Bitcoin Stumbles Down The Ranks As A Global Base Money

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
As surveillance efforts in our society intensify, Bitcoin offers a pseudonymous, even potentially anonymous, lifeline for privacy top photo.
Technical

Improving Bitcoin Privacy With Silent Payments

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Coinbase
Business

Coinbase Leads Users Astray By Recommending Everything Besides Bitcoin

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
As we enter hyperbitcoinization, legacy financial institutions like the federal reserve or Fed will be painted orange.
Culture

Bitcoin Gives Users Total Control Of Their Money

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
On February 24, 2014, infamous bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox went offline after 744,000 BTC — worth billions of dollars today — was stolen top photo.
Culture

Reminder: Withdraw Your Bitcoin Off Exchanges

By Marty Bent
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ASICs are used to mine bitcoin by bitcoin miners in order to obtain more bitcoin top photo.
Business

Bitcoin Mining Hash Price Hits Multi-year Lows

By Marty Bent
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Bitcoin miners and mining is an activity that involves the use of ASICs and using electricity top photo.
Culture

Bitcoin Will Use Energy And It Doesn’t Need To Be Renewables

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Law & justice - Australian Civil Servant Caught Mining Crypto With Government Hardware
Markets

One Step Closer To Municipal Bitcoin Permanent Funds

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
The Bitcoin Core PR review club meets weekly to onboard new contributors to Bitcoin Core by reviewing and testing pull requests.
Technical

Is Speedy Trial The Best Way To Change Bitcoin?

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Miners can get steamrolled by the state through regulation and law but no one can stop bitcoin top photo.
Business

The Politicization Of Hash Rate Is An Attack Vector On Bitcoin Miners

By Marty Bent
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The debate over the resource cost of gold is critical in understanding the present-day fixation with Bitcoin’s energy costs.
Business

The Rising Cost Of Energy Impacts Bitcoin Mining Profitability

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
There are numerous factors to consider in weighing the centralization of bitcoin mining, and the industry can only be as decentralized as any one.
Technical

Federated Chaumian Mints Provide A Way For Bitcoin Users To Distribute Trust

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin is ultimately an open-source software determined by its code top photo.
Technical

Bitcoin's Code Is Immutable And Can Withstand Attempts To Make It Proof Of Stake

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Digital assets - Tether Updates Website
Technical

Will Tether Migrate To The Bitcoin Blockchain With Advances In The Lightning Network?

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Satoshi and anonymous bitcoiners maintain their privacy and security through cryptography top photo.
Technical

Implementing Reusable Payment Codes In Bitcoin Wallets To Improve User Privacy

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
Layer 2 protocols like the Lightning Network and the Liquid sidechain can make it easier for those who leverage bitcoin for remittances.
Technical

Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 21 Helps Users

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
There are numerous factors to consider in weighing the centralization of bitcoin mining, and the industry can only be as decentralized as any one.
Technical

Bitcoin Mining Pool Protocol Stratum V2 Is Making Progress

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent
As a project in Northern Sweden shows, Bitcoin’s reliance on energy consumption could bring a more sustainable future.
Business

Energy Producers Can Lead The Transition To A Bitcoin Standard

By Marty Bent
Marty's Bent