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Business

Coinbase Leads Users Astray By Recommending Everything Besides Bitcoin

By Marty Bent16 hours ago
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 BentMay 17, 2022
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.
Culture

Reminder: Withdraw Your Bitcoin Off Exchanges

By Marty BentMay 11, 2022
Marty's Bent
ASICs are used to mine bitcoin by bitcoin miners in order to obtain more bitcoin.
Business

Bitcoin Mining Hash Price Hits Multi-year Lows

By Marty BentMay 10, 2022
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin miners and mining is an activity that involves the use of ASICs and using electricity.
Culture

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

By Marty BentMay 4, 2022
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 BentApr 27, 2022
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 BentApr 26, 2022
Marty's Bent
Miners can get steamrolled by the state through regulation and law but no one can stop bitcoin.
Business

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

By Marty BentApr 21, 2022
Marty's Bent
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 BentApr 19, 2022
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 BentApr 15, 2022
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin is ultimately an open-source software determined by its code.
Technical

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

By Marty BentMar 30, 2022
Marty's Bent
Digital assets - Tether Updates Website
Technical

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

By Marty BentMar 24, 2022
Marty's Bent
Satoshi and anonymous bitcoiners maintain their privacy and security through cryptography.
Technical

Implementing Reusable Payment Codes In Bitcoin Wallets To Improve User Privacy

By Marty BentMar 23, 2022
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 BentMar 22, 2022
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 BentMar 17, 2022
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 BentMar 15, 2022
Marty's Bent
Micropayments are paid out between nodes that host the mesh network.
Culture

Bitcoiners Are Building Mesh Networks In Ukraine

By Marty BentMar 11, 2022
Marty's Bent
In worldwide surveys on Facebook’s Libra, respondents have indicated overwhelming distrust of the digital currency.
Culture

As Trust Is Repriced In Real Time, Bitcoin Is The Only Solution

By Marty BentMar 8, 2022
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

A Possible US Government Attack On Bitcoin

By Marty BentFeb 28, 2022
Marty's Bent
A new mixing protocol called CashFusion challenges the assumption that CoinJoins require equal amounts for the mix to be effective.
Technical

CoinPool: A New Design To Scale Bitcoin And Improve Privacy

By Marty BentFeb 22, 2022
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin can free us from fiat chains, the legacy financial system and censorship.
Culture

Hopefully, Bitcoin Will Increase Incentive For Cooperation

By Marty BentFeb 18, 2022
Marty's Bent
Canada has introduced AML regulations in response to concerns about money laundering and terrorist financing.
Culture

As Freedom Convoy Gets Stronger, Canada Broadens 'Terrorist Financing' Rules

By Marty BentFeb 15, 2022
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin is ultimately an open-source software determined by its code.
Culture

With Bitcoin, Open-Source Money Is Enhancing Open-Source Code

By Marty BentFeb 10, 2022
Marty's Bent
Startups - This Bitcoin Startup Is Working on Free Speech Alternatives to Patreon
Culture

Trucker Convoy Demonstrates Bitcoin Value Prop

By Marty BentFeb 8, 2022
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin is going to the moon because it is global and all over the world.
Culture

Two Developments, On Opposite Ends Of The Earth, Highlight Bitcoin's Range Of Utility

By Marty BentFeb 3, 2022
Marty's Bent
bitcoin on blue and red dollar background
Culture

The 'Make Bitcoin Legal Tender' Momentum Grows

By Marty BentFeb 1, 2022
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin offers libertarians the perfect vehicle for starving the state of its outsized control over personal freedoms.
Culture

Reminder: Reject The Financial Action Task Force

By Marty BentJan 27, 2022
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin will ultimately “fix the money” and enable world peace, but we can bring this future about more quickly through contributions to the Bitcoin charity.
Culture

Abundant Power, Open Trade Enabled By Bitcoin Is Path To Peace

By Marty BentJan 25, 2022
Marty's Bent
ASICs are used to mine bitcoin by bitcoin miners in order to obtain more bitcoin.
Business

Apparently, Intel Is Getting Into The Bitcoin ASIC Game

By Marty BentJan 20, 2022
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin is ultimately an open-source software code run by nodes and computers.
Technical

How Blockchain Commons Is Improving Individual Access To The Bitcoin Network

By Marty BentJan 13, 2022
To HODL, or hold on to your bitcoin, is to store it in a wallet and not sell it.
Culture

The Fear Around $41,000 Bitcoin Is A Sign Of Success

By Marty BentJan 11, 2022
Bitcoin on chain security is important because it provides privacy for your private keys.
Technical

As Bitcoin Turns 13, The Network Is More Secure Than Ever

By Marty BentJan 4, 2022
Published research shows Bitcoin mining produces a mere fraction of the carbon emissions coming from the world’s military-industrial complex.
Culture

What Military Budget Expansion Says About Our Broken Financial System

By Marty BentDec 29, 2021
BitMEX Research has confirmed that the Lightning Network’s Justice Transactions system can effectively prevent cheating.
Business

Media Is Adopting A Bitcoin Standard

By Marty BentDec 21, 2021
Bitcoin is a superior choice to fiat, like the U.S. dollar, which some enthusiasts would burn if given the chance.
Markets

"Weimar Signs" In Brooklyn Show The Money Is Broken

By Marty BentDec 17, 2021
Bitcoin Core and Lightning Network nodes are integral to the network.
Markets

The Bitcoin Lightning Network Is Creating Efficiency For Traders

By Marty BentDec 15, 2021
Fiat, dollars, shredding
Markets

Countries Are Leaving The USD Standard, They Need A Bitcoin Strategy

By Marty BentDec 9, 2021
Bitcoin miners and mining is an activity that involves the use of ASICs and using electricity.
Business

Bitcoin Is Approaching Hash Rate All-Time Highs

By Marty BentDec 7, 2021
A Bitcoin Socratic Seminar fosters cooperative yet argumentative dialogue with participants asking questions and challenging their answers.
Culture

They Haven't Been Teaching Monetary History Accurately

By Marty BentDec 2, 2021
As bitcoin bulls increasingly drive away fiat currency like the U.S. dollar, printed by Uncle Sam, they will bring about hyperbitcoinization.
Culture

As Ruling Class Plunder Becomes The Norm, Bitcoin Lets Individuals Stand Up

By Marty BentNov 30, 2021
With the international attention on El Salvador’s historic adoption of Bitcoin, some critical myths have emerged that are in need of busting.
Markets

The Emergence Of Bitcoin-Native Bonds

By Marty BentNov 23, 2021
Bitcoin security starts with private keys and privacy features of hardware wallets.
Technical

Bitcoin Multisig Security Options Are Expanding

By Marty BentNov 19, 2021
bitcoin nodes
Culture

Taproot Kicks Jevons Paradox For Bitcoin UTXOs Into Another Gear

By Marty BentNov 17, 2021
Technical - Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 Is Released: Here’s What’s New
Technical

Taproot Activation Is Upon Us

By Marty BentNov 12, 2021
Bitcoin Core and Lightning Network nodes are integral to the network.
Technical

A Neural Network Is Developing Between Bitcoin Lightning Network Nodes

By Marty BentNov 10, 2021
Lightning is the future for bitcoin technical operation and cryptography.
Technical

Solving For Jamming Attacks On The Lightning Network

By Marty BentNov 4, 2021
Bitcoiners recommending holding your bitcoin, or HODLing that BTC, no matter what happens to the price or market dips.
Markets

Don't Buy Bitcoin ETFs

By Marty BentOct 20, 2021
Regulators attempt to regulate, even ban, bitcoin, which is not possible. Even the U.S. government has attempted to make bitcoin use a crime.
Culture

The U.S. Government Does Not Respect Autonomy. Bitcoin Does.

By Marty BentOct 14, 2021
Satoshi Nakamoto, pseudonymous (not anonymous) founder of Bitcoin and its Genesis Block, is often depicting with a Guy Fawkes mask.
Culture

It Is Our God-Given Right To Alter Or Abolish Our Government

By Marty BentOct 12, 2021
Bitcoin is a key that unlocks a metaphorical prison cell.
Culture

Tired Of COVID Lockdowns? Well, A Cyber Pandemic Seems To Be Next

By Marty BentOct 5, 2021