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My Bitcoin Cash Journey: Chapter 3 [continued from Chapter 2] https://read.cash/@Cain/my-bitcoin-cash-journey-chapter-2-d066883c Fomo might have been what got me into bitcoin, but it was the technology that kept me interested. As I mentioned before, only after making my first real bitcoin transaction did I begin to understand why people were excited by what Satoshi Nakamoto created. In fact, I was so excited to share my new discovery with the world that I recorded a video…
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My Bitcoin Cash Journey: Chapter 4 [continued from chapter 3] https://read.cash/@Cain/my-bitcoin-cash-journey-chapter-3-c77505fe So who was she? It turns out the girl I met that night was none other than Uyen Nguyen. If you're unfamiliar with the name, she's linked to both Craig Wright and Dave Kleiman and is supposedly the trustee of the infamous Tulip Trust. In publicly available documents, she is listed as an agent of the W&K Defense Research LLC, and as a director of…
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My Bitcoin Cash Journey: Chapter 5 [continued from Chapter 4] https://read.cash/@Cain/my-bitcoin-cash-journey-chapter-4-2a9d4c3a In December of 2018, I was dropping off my oldest at his school one morning, when a friend of mine spotted me on the corner, waiting for the crossing guard to let us cross. I must have looked like someone staring into the abyss because my friend approached me and said, "What's up Cain? You look like a zombie. Everything okay?" I played it off and…
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3 Animals I want you to think of an animal, the first animal that comes to your head. Got it? Now think of a second animal. And now a third and final animal. Write them down, or feel free to post a comment below with the three animals you came up with. Here are mine: wolf, coyote, skunk I was at a gathering when someone asked each of us to do what I just asked of you. According to them, the first animal is how you perceive yourself, the second animal is how others perceive…
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Dear Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) Recently, I saw the above tweet from BU's chief scientist, Peter Rizun, and I admit it triggered me. Sadly, this wasn't even the first time. The first time was after hearing his remarks during an interview on Peter McCormack's podcast where he stated: “Yeah, I think most BCH enthusiasts still hold lots of BTC. Because, you know, maybe BTC gets their act together, realizes that we have to increase the blocksize limit, and I think that would really…
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Motive Power There appears to be this notion by certain people in the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) community that it’s less about supporting BCH the coin, and more about supporting the idea of peer to peer electronic cash. Similarly, there are those that wish to frown upon anyone wanting to see the fiat value of BCH increase, aka “number go up”. In this article, I’d like to talk about both. First off, I think it's been established that BCH and peer to peer electronic cash are one and…
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The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin Cash: Part 1 If you're new to Bitcoin Cash and don't know where to start, here's a simple guide put together by someone who was in your shoes not long ago. There's obviously no right or wrong way to go about this, but I was hoping this article could be an easy first step. Before we begin, keep in mind this article isn't going to teach you how Bitcoin Cash works on a technical level. This is meant to be a practical guide to introduce…
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The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin Cash: Part 2 (the community) In Part 1, we learned how to make a transaction using a Bitcoin Cash wallet, as well as how to back up and restore your private keys using a 12 word seed phrase. In Part 2, I want to do something a little different. https://read.cash/@Cain/the-ultimate-beginners-guide-to-bitcoin-cash-part-1-14f54c78 In the middle of last year, I tried to take myself outside of the BCH echo chamber and investigate what…
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My read.cash stats First article was posted to read.cash on November 9, 2019. It's now been a little more than two months, and I thought I'd share some numbers in case anyone's interested. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to put the amounts in BCH since the site tracks everything in USD. I could go back to all my transactions but because of change outputs, it would take forever to figure out. Just know that whatever dollar amounts you see here, you can probably increase it…
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BCH Privacy using CashFusion for dummies Recently we've seen several articles on CashFusion. In this article, I'm going to try and explain how this new tool can enable better privacy for those of you who are non-technical like myself. Let's start by looking at how Bitcoin Cash transactions work in general. Here's a simple transaction I recently made: What you're seeing here is a transaction where I upvoted one of my own articles by generating an anonymous one-time QR code.…
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Last night I tweeted that I was looking to start a regular column here on read.cash. I offered up .25 BCH for a logo I could use (.3 if I really liked it). A few people have already reached out, but I'm afraid my request was too vague, so I thought I'd try and clarify what I'm looking for. First of all, logo was probably not the right word. What I'm envisioning is more like a masthead fused with a background image that is both colorful and…
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An average joe's thoughts on the new infrastructure funding plan for Bitcoin Cash ***Thursday, January 23, 2020*** There have been plenty of articles written on this subject already, so I'm going to try and keep this short and simple. Here are my thoughts: ****Concerns**** These are mining pools proposing this plan, not actual miners. What if the individual miners leave to a BTC only pool? BCH could become extremely susceptible to 51% attacks. The counter to this is that…
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What I want to see with Bitcoin Cash First and foremost, I see Bitcoin Cash as a new technology, and just as the internet decentralized information, I'm hoping Bitcoin Cash can decentralize money. Those who are against the new funding initiative appear to have a problem due to what it represents, mainly due to the centralized nature of the plan. And how can you have decentralized money that runs on a centralized network? You can't. But the fact is, BCH was already shown to…
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Am I allowed to change my mind? ***Monday, January 27, 2020*** The other day I tweeted the above as a joke. It was meant to be funny because the amount of debate surrounding the funding initiative was so insane. Just take a look at the front page of read.cash and you'll get a hint of what I'm talking about. Between here, Twitter, r/BTC, and the various BCH related Telegram channels, I wouldn't be surprised if over a million words have been written "debating" the new funding…
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A great way to promote read.cash and gain valuable affiliates So earlier today I read this article regarding CashFusion on Medium: https://medium.com/@james.waugh28/is-cashfusion-really-anonymous-352164a071c2 After finishing the story, I thought it was too bad he didn't post on read.cash or he could have earned some money for his efforts. That's when I realized I should just comment and let him know that's what he should do. On top of that, I chose to give him an example by…