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A Bitcoin Cash Story I was sitting there minding my own business when this girl sitting at the table next to me leaned over and glanced at my screen. "What's that you're looking at?" she asked. "Excuse me?" I said, mostly out of confusion because I'd never sat in a cafe and had a random stranger talk to me before. "It looks pretty technical," the girl said pointing at the trading view chart I'd been staring at. The girl had this big smile on her face like she was saying,…
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A Bitcoin Cash Story 2 **Continued from** **Part 1** https://read.cash/@Cain/a-bitcoin-cash-story-f6dff7cc "So why am I looking at a Bitcoin Cash chart, you ask?" "I assume you must think it's a good investment," the girl said. "I do, but if I'm being totally honest, it's not just that. I'm invested in stocks and precious metals as well, but I never sit there obsessing over those charts like I do with Bitcoin Cash." "So why are you so enamored with this Bitcoin Cash thing?"…
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A Bitcoin Cash Story 3 Continued from Part 2 https://read.cash/@Cain/a-bitcoin-cash-story-2-a21f0102 "So what'd you think of making your first Bitcoin Cash transaction?" I asked. "I don't know why I got so excited. It wasn't really any different from using my Starbucks app if I think about it," she said. "You're right, for people living in the first world, they probably don't see a need for Bitcoin. We have credit cards, Venmo, Apple Pay, but that's kind of missing the whole…
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I want to prove something. I want to prove that Bitcoin Cash works. I want to show that projects like read.cash can turn into profitable businesses, both for the site itself, as well as its users. I believe this site offers creators a totally new opportunity. This is different from everything that came before. You post something, and immediately, it is out there to be judged, or rewarded. This is the incentive model in its rawest form. Who cares about likes on twitter or…
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Some read.cash tips for new people If you're using the site on your iPhone, you might have noticed you can't hover over your wallet like you can on a desktop browser to reveal the additional links to get to your articles, affiliates, etc. So to get around that, just double tap on your wallet in Safari and it will reveal those links. Now that we are able to see how many people have viewed each post, I ran a little experiment yesterday. First, I posted the article and didn't…
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I'm addicted to read.cash I want to say thank you to the creators of read.cash for making this beautiful site. If you couldn't tell already, I'm hooked. I love writing new articles, then coming back to check if I got any tips, or to see how many views it got. There's also the excitement of seeing new sign-ups by affiliates or sponsors. Basically, the whole site is like the incentive mechanism on steroids. One thing I also realized is I want to do a better job of supporting…
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019 Creating content isn't easy. Especially if you're trying to do it on a daily basis. And I get that it can be discouraging to post something and get zero tips or even any views. But I've decided I'm not going to let that discourage me. It's about putting in the work, and if my effort isn't good enough, so be it. I'll keep posting anyway. So over the weekend the wife and I watched Marriage Story on Netflix. It was written and directed by Noah…
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019 For years I used to read this account on livejournal. I'm talking like 15 years plus. Actually, I would still be reading it but the guy hasn't posted in over six months. He's gone silent for long stretches before, so I'm hoping he comes back, but I don't know. Hopefully nothing bad has happened to him. Though this random stranger lives on the other side of the planet, I found we had quite a lot in common. Through his writing, I was able to…
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Friday, December 13, 2019 I want to write, but I don't know what to write about, so I'll write about this. I'm stuck in my book again. It's embarrassing how long I've been working on it. I'm embarrassed to even talk about it, and yet here I am, talking about it. Luckily, I have a steady job, and a family I love, so this is just a side pursuit, but it's been a side pursuit for the better part of 15 years now. I wonder how many vacation days I've wasted, sitting in a library,…
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Saturday, December 14, 2019 My oldest still gets the occasional night terrors. They're not nearly as bad as they once were, but he still gets them from time to time. He had a small one just now, so I had to go into the boys' room to make sure it wasn't going to get worse. My wife happens to be out with her friends tonight, so it's just me. Anyway, what I usually do is try and gently pat his chest and shush him until he calms down. Whenever my hand taps his chest, I can feel…
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An Open Letter to Roger Ver Dear Roger, I have put off writing this for a variety of reasons. One being I didn't feel I had the right since I'm a nobody, while you, Roger, are Bitcoin Jesus, the first ever investor in Bitcoin related companies, not to mention likely a billionaire (in USD terms but looking forward to the day a person's net worth is valued in BCH). Let me start by saying I have a lot of respect for you as you are clearly a man of conviction, not afraid to…
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Idea for SLP tokens Here's a random idea I had that someone who is more technically savvy than I am might want to try. Create BCH key opinion leader tokens. For example, you could create 10 Roger Ver tokens, 10 Jihan Wu tokens, 10 Amaury Sechet tokens, etc. The idea being they could become collector's items people might want to trade for. If BCH ever becomes a global reserve currency, these could actually be worth some real money. I remember collecting baseball cards as a…
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Read.cash review It has now been a month since I signed up for read.cash, and I have to say, I'm very happy with what I've seen so far. I got asked on reddit today what's the benefit of read.cash over memo/member, and for me the answer is there are many reasons. For one, it's much easier to post Medium type articles here. Also, I don't want everything I write to be stored on the blockchain. I think there's a place for uncensorable social networks, but I don't think what I…
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Mythbusting: 10-minute confirmation time makes Bitcoin unsuitable as a 'cash' method of payment *(Article also available in* *Spanish**)* https://read.cash/@SofiaCBCH/mythbusting-el-tiempo-de-confirmacion-de-10-min-hace-que-bitcoin-sea-inadecuado-como-metodo-de-pago-5158e9fe Bitcoin Core (BTC) supporters say that Bitcoin isn't meant for buying coffee. They argue Bitcoin's purpose is to be a store of value, not a currency. Digital gold, they say, not digital cash. Bitcoin…
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Looking to market your BCH app? Then you should consider sponsoring content creators here on read.cash. Your logo would appear somewhere in the content creators' posts and link back to any website you designate. As of today, you can sponsor people at virtually no cost to have your logo featured on all of their posts. If you're looking for BCH users, you can't get more targeted advertising than this. Articles regularly get 100s of views today, and hopefully that number will…
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What's in the garage? I just went to the garage to do something. The automatic light came on, or at least it must have, because I wasn't standing in the dark. I was standing in front of the door between our two cars, and I found myself wondering, why am I here? The only thing that made sense was that I was here to get a beer, so I headed to the fridge and grabbed one. As I head back, my wife opens the door and pokes her head in and looks at me. "Just went to grab a beer," I…
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Mythbusting: LN can accommodate the entire world in a reasonable time while keeping blocks small The Lightning Network (LN) is a layer 2 payment protocol that works on top of the Bitcoin Core (BTC) network. It was created as a proposed scaling solution that would enable micropayments to happen through bidirectional payment channels. In order to use the LN, users must first send BTC to fund a channel, which would require an on-chain transaction. (Even if you're using a…
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The Piano Teacher When I was young, I used to take piano lessons from this woman named Carol. I'd had a different teacher before, but I despised her, mostly because of the way she'd slap my hands whenever I dropped my wrists. So I told my parents I didn't want to take lessons anymore, and I quit. Then one afternoon, my parents sat me down and asked if I would reconsider. I must have been seven or eight, because I remember they were both there, sitting on the edge of my…
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The best Christmas gift My sister in law got our son something called a Perplexus for Christmas. I'd never heard of it before, but when we got home and my son asked me to help him do it, instead of helping him, I took over like I was one of those seagulls in Finding Nemo: "Mine! Mine! Mine!" Anyway, this is truly the greatest Christmas gift I've gotten in years. It's fun, challenging, and ingenious at the same time. So what is Perplexus? It's a 3-D puzzle game where you have…
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My Bitcoin Cash Journey: Chapter 1 I'm not sure when I first heard about Bitcoin. I remember hearing little stories here and there, like the one about the guy who held up a QR code at a college football game and made $25,000. But it was probably around the time of the whole Dorian Nakamoto saga that I'd say it first really entered my consciousness. I remember reading an article about them finding Bitcoin's anonymous creator, and not long after that, ended up talking about it…
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My Bitcoin Cash Journey: Chapter 2 [continued from Chapter 1] https://read.cash/@Cain/my-bitcoin-cash-journey-chapter-1-37f40bf2 On November 11, 2017, I went out to dinner with my family to celebrate my birthday. By the end of the night, I was sitting alone in my living room, logged onto Bittrex, learning first hand what it means to panic buy and sell. I don't want to bore you with trading stories, of all my stupid mistakes and the huge gainz I coulda had, but I'll just say…
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Tipping v. Liking *This was originally published in May 2018 on Yours.org, but since I find it relevant to read.cash, I made some changes and thought I'd post here for posterity.* By “tipping” I mean anything that carries with it a financial ramification. This would include all the micro transactions now made possible through sites like **read.cash** and tipping bots like tipprbot and chaintip. On the other side we have “liking”, which encompasses all the ways you are…