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New to read.cash? If you're just now discovering **read.cash**, prepare yourself to expand your mind. This isn't just any old blogging platform. This could be the next evolution of blogging. At its most basic, **read.cash** is a platform that allows you to publish content and have it be seen by others in the community. But it's also so much more than that. If you're a content creator, I can't think of another site that offers you so many different ways of getting such…
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A writin' and a gamblin' ***Saturday, May 2, 2020*** I can't remember exactly when I started gambling. I suppose it was when I began playing the occasional home game back in college, though I probably didn't get really sucked in until after my first trip to Vegas during my senior year in college. Ever since, I've spent countless hours playing poker, and blackjack, and watching random sporting events I had absolutely no interest save for the fact that my money was on the…
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The 3 Greatest TV Shows Ever (IMHO) ***Sunday, May 4, 2020*** In addition to writing and gambling, my other favorite hobby is probably watching TV, and since everyone loves lists, I thought I'd put together a list of what I consider to be the greatest TV shows of all time. Obviously any list of this kind will be totally subjective, but here's how I came up with mine. First, I excluded all sitcoms or procedurals because, as rewatchable as some of them are, I can't ever see…
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Mechanical v. Digital ***Monday, May 4, 2020*** Years ago, my wife and I went on a date to the Griffith Observatory, and while walking around that evening we came upon a guy set up on the grass with this fancy telescope pointed at the night sky. "Hey, you guys want to see Saturn?" he asked. "Okay, sure," I said. So my wife and I both took a look through the telescope and we were amazed by how clear the image was. It was as crystal clear as the lead image of this article. In…
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Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Future of the Internet I just finished watching the new documentary “Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Future of the Internet”, and I've decided to write not one, but two separate articles on it. This first article will be a general review of the film, while the second article will be a running diary highlighting specific moments I want to discuss in more detail. https://read.cash/@Cain/cryptopia-a-running-diary-75580231 Let me…
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Cryptopia: A running diary In the review I posted earlier today, I wanted to remain as objective as possible, but as someone who believes in the vision of peer to peer electronic cash, it was hard not to see the new documentary through the lens of a Bitcoin Cash supporter. https://read.cash/@Cain/cryptopia-bitcoin-blockchain-and-the-future-of-the-internet-61c574d0 Here's my running diary of "Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains, and the Future of the Internet". **8:20** We are…
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Bitcoin Cash as a Protest Movement What follows is a transcription of part 3 of the Coinspice interview of Amaury Sechet, lead developer of Bitcoin ABC, by C. Edward Kelso that can be heard here. A big thank you to @ElGrido on twitter for stepping up and doing a great job on the transcription and accepting BCH as payment. https://coinspice.io/amaurysechet/podcast-amaury-sechet-may-2020-upgrade-part-3-bitcoin-cash-as-a-protest-movement/ https://twitter.com/ElGrido ===…
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Leaders and Followers I've always considered myself more of a follower than a leader. Although I suppose in order to be a follower, you kind of need a leader to begin with, which I've never had. Sure, I've had bosses, and I have a new president every four to eight years, but I've never seen any of those people as someone I wanted to follow. Maybe for a brief moment when Obama gave his inauguration speech, I admit I felt like maybe something was finally going to change, but…
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The 5 worst replies to J.K. Rowling's Bitcoin tweet Earlier today, J.K. Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter and perhaps the most famous and wealthiest author on the planet, tweeted about Bitcoin. What happened next is exactly what you'd expect to happen. Every BTC maximalist became a reply guy. Here are the 5 worst replies from some of BTC's most famous luminaries. I chose this Luke Dash Jr. tweet because for one thing, I can picture him sitting at home in a Harry Potter…
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read.cash needs to be a MeRiToCrAcY Dear @read.cash, I love the idea of the read.cash fund, but I think it can be dramatically improved. Currently the fund is distributed based on a complicated points system that rewards users for interacting with the site. For example, you earn 20 points for posting an article over 500 characters and 4 points for posting comments with 60 characters or more. If your article gets 100 views, you get another 20 points, and 50 points for 10…
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The Blockchain.Poker Chronicles ***Sunday, May 17, 2020*** Poker fund: .801 BCH Hands played: 0 Tournaments entered: 0 Tournaments finishing ITM: 0
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The Blockchain.Poker Chronicles #2 ***Wednesday, May 27, 2020*** I don't know what I intend to do with this column, or how long I intend on writing it. We'll see how many views it gets over time. I actually considered scrapping the idea altogether when it dawned on me just how much time I spend on blockchain.poker, time I should instead be spending on pursuing more worthwhile goals. https://blockchain.poker/#/?affiliate=1d9b04c3e215d654ef6a5a83ddddb240%23cash But I am who I…
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To my friends who want to know why I'm so pro BCH *(Update: This article has now been translated into Chinese by someone in the Chinese BCH community)* https://www.weibo.com/ttarticle/p/show?id=2309404511066250936534 Most of my friends know I'm a big proponent of Bitcoin Cash (BCH). But I don't think any of them really understand why. This article is my attempt to explain to my in real life friends the many reasons why I support the big block version of Bitcoin. First of…