Trusted Third Parties Are Security Holes – Bitcoin Magazine
[ad_1] The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1283: “Trusted third parties are security holes.” Sign up for the newsletter here. The contagion event that has dragged on for the better part of 2022 seems to be materially affecting Genesis Trading and its parent company, Digital Currency Group (DCG). It has become […]
The Collapse Of FTX Was Inevitable – Bitcoin Magazine
[ad_1] The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1282: “The personification of dirty grift.” Sign up for the newsletter here. Every once in a while, the world is reminded of how easy it is for some people to get completely duped by a con man. The last week has been one such […]
Lean Into Bitcoin Utility Instead Of Politics – Bitcoin Magazine
[ad_1] The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1281: “Posture from a position of strength.” Sign up for the newsletter here. (Source) Monday night was the inaugural Bitcoin Jawn meetup in Philadelphia. I had the pleasure of being in attendance and participating in the discussion. The topic of the first gathering was […]
Bug Took Down Part Of The Lightning Network – Bitcoin Magazine
[ad_1] The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1278: “Another LND/btcd bug emerges.” Sign up for the newsletter here. via GitHub For the second time in less than a month, btcd (an alternative implementation of Bitcoin) and, by extension, LND (one of the Lightning implementations) became incompatible with the rest of the […]
Bitcoin Mining Has Never Been Harder – Bitcoin Magazine
[ad_1] The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1275: “Miners are in a world of hurt.” Sign up for the newsletter here. The pain in the mining world continues as hash rate skyrockets, the difficulty adjusting upwards as a result and hash price craters as the price of bitcoin has remained in […]
Erlay Running Easy Bitcoin Node – Bitcoin Magazine
[ad_1] The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1274: “Erlay support signaling has been merged into Bitcoin Core.” Sign up for the newsletter here. via GitHub It’s been over three years and exactly 696 issues since we last talked about Erlay. In September 2019, we wrote about Pieter Wuille and Gleb Naumenko […]
Why Kanye West And Free Speech Advocates Need Bitcoin – Bitcoin Magazine
[ad_1] The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1272: “De-banking as an attack on speech.” Sign up for the newsletter here. On October 12, Candace Owens made the world aware of the fact that Ye West, more commonly known as Kanye West, had his corporate bank account shut down by JPMorgan Chase. […]
Is Bitcoin Decoupling From The Economy? – Bitcoin Magazine
[ad_1] The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1271: “Soaring rates, begging and bitcoin’s relative strength.” Sign up for the newsletter here. Last week, we discussed the fact that credit default swap spreads for sovereign nations are becoming completely detached from their historical averages. In that piece, we highlighted that rapidly rising […]
Bitcoin Volume Spikes In United Kingdom – Bitcoin Magazine
[ad_1] The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1269: “Interesting reaction out of the U.K.” Sign up for the newsletter here. via Coinshares Here’s a chart that has been lingering in my mind throughout the week. It was shared by the team from Coinshares and highlights bitcoin trading volume in the U.K. […]
Public Fedimint Testnet Launched On Signet – Bitcoin Magazine
[ad_1] The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1266: “A Fedimint signet appears out of the wild.” Sign up for the newsletter here. User display on the Fluttermint mobile app after receiving signet ecash tokens. Earlier this week, Eric Sirion announced the official launch of the first public signet (a testnet) for […]