Thoughts on BUIP166 *This is a response to* *BUIP166, a Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) proposal to launch a new cryptocurrency**.* https://forum.bitcoinunlimited.info/t/buip-166-launch-a-new-cryptocurrency/35 For BTC developers, there's Groestlcoin. Does the Groestlcoin economy have any significance? Does it really provide more value to BTC developers than a testnet? Previously, Litecoin activated SegWit before BTC, did that actually yield any helpful feedback or funding to BTC…
Bitcoin ABC (BCHA) Deep Reorganisation incident 29 March 2021 On 29 March 2021, Bitcoin ABC experienced a deep reorg. The following is a reconstruction of events, based on blockchain data. Due to its low price compared to other bitcoin forks, the BCHA network has a rather low hashrate compared to the overall double-SHA256 mining market. A large majority of hashrate is controlled by one single pool: ZULUPooL. ZULUPooL is a merge-mining pool, which mines BCHA simultaneously…
CHIP-2021-03-12 Multiple OP_RETURNs for Bitcoin Cash https://bitcoincashresearch.org/t/multiple-op-returns-this-time-for-real/315/12?u=bigblockiftrue We would like to move forward with this CHIP rapidly, so please raise any issues quickly.
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This conversation was marked as resolved And no, when closing this conversation, the new coinbase rule was not removed from the BCH spec on bitcoincash.org. Of course not! Everyone clearly agrees with Jason here. For specifications with actual community support, see here. https://upgradespecs.bitcoincashnode.org/2020-11-15-upgrade/
Bitcoin (Cash) historic and forecasted drift These graphs show Bitcoin's and Bitcoin Cash's systematic deviation from the (purely) theoretical schedule of 10-minute blocks since genesis. They are similar to Jonathan Toomim's graph, but also shows the underlying mechanisms, and includes future drift induced by future hashrate increases. This drift estimation is based on Bitcoin's drift between 13 November 2017 and now, ASERT's drift being about 4.26× times smaller (assuming…
**BigBlockIfTrue statement on Read.cash meme ban threat** I don't think it is helpful to threaten immediate bans and encourage self-censorship when this is frankly a grey area, despite the claimed simplicity of the rules. What one sees as legitimate criticism of someone's behaviour, someone else sees as a personal attack. Moreover, many memes are not ridiculing arbitrary people, but people in positions of power, and it would be absurd to ignore that. I won't be deleting my…
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BCH UX Recommendation: Mandatory CashAddr for P2SH *This article was originally published on 9 January 2019 on* *Honest.cash**.* https://honest.cash/v2/BigBlockIfTrue/bch-ux-suggestion-mandatory-cashaddr-for-p2sh-1214 Background Bitcoin Cash split from Bitcoin Core when the latter was about to activate SegWit. It also shared the same address format, and SegWit addresses are often in the pay-to-script-hash (P2SH) form (starting with *3*) that also works on Bitcoin Cash, but…
There is no such thing as permissionless transfer of redeemable tokens *This article was originally published in 2018 on* *Yours.org**.* https://www.yours.org/content/7c1714cff413 I've watched a large part of the July 5th discussion on the GROUP proposal for tokens on Bitcoin Cash, which sort-of devolved into Andrew Stone and Emil Oldenburg versus (most of) the rest. I think I've figured out the fundamental argument why "the rest" opposes GROUP, which surfaced roughly…
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Online API documentation for Bitcoin Cash Node Good news for Bitcoin Cash developers! Two sets of Bitcoin Cash Node API documentation are now published on the project website: **Command-line interface documentation** https://docs.bitcoincashnode.org/cli/bitcoind/ **JSON-RPC interface documentation** https://docs.bitcoincashnode.org/json-rpc/ I wrote code to automatically generate these webpages from CLI/RPC help text embedded in the application. I also integrated this code…
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt Peter Rizun repeatedly emphasises that he wants "P2P ecash", and he only supports Bitcoin Cash (BCH) because it is "the most promising means of achieving that end". https://twitter.com/PeterRizun/status/1199446780670181376 His latest Twitter poll is a manifestation of this. In addition to BTC and BCH as two implementations of the "P2P ecash" idea - with differing degrees of success - Rizun feels the need to explicitly offer the generic idea of…
Can you steal bitcoins? There is some discussion in the Bitcoin Cash community whether bitcoin itself (i.e. BCH) could qualify as money. Amaury Séchet clearly believes it does - in his famous speech announcing the Bitcoin Cash project, he even said it's the best money ever. On the other side of the debate, Vin Armani claims bitcoin is not money. Somewhere in between there is Tobias Ruck's position that improving bitcoin's intrinsic utility will improve its chance of becoming…
Grand Theft Read.Cash Earlier today, the people behind Read.Cash drafted a proposal for a smart contract allowing password-based wallet recovery. I think this has both positive and negative aspects. I like the general idea of ... https://read.cash/@Read.Cash/recoverable-bitcoin-cash-wallets-2918c893 The tools Bitcoin ABC (required, blockchain history not needed) https://www.bitcoinabc.org/ text editor (required) Electron Cash (optional) https://electroncash.org/ Mission…
Achievement unlocked: Bitcoin Cash fixed all common third-party transaction malleation vectors **Canonically encoded ECDSA signatures**: Non-DER encoded ECDSA signatures are prohibited since the activation of BIP 66 in July 2015. **Non-push operations in scriptSig**: Non-push operations in signature scripts are prohibited since the November 2018 Bitcoin Cash network upgrade. Bitcoin Core still accepts them. **Push operations in scriptSig of non-standard size type**:…
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