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Doing things for others versus doing things for yourself ***Wednesday, July 1st, 2020*** Something I love about Bitcoin Cash is how much it makes me think. And one thing I've been thinking about recently is why we do things for the benefit of other people versus doing things only for our own benefit. I'm not talking about other people as in loved ones, but for complete strangers, people we would never consider more than just a comrade. That's what they call each other in…
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Looking For Conflict Theorists ***Thursday, July 2nd, 2020*** About a week ago, I saw this story going around social media about this blogger named Scott Alexander and his site slatestarcodex.com. https://slatestarcodex.com/ I'd never heard of Scott Alexander or his site before, but I've since learned he's a psychiatrist from San Francisco who wrote about all kinds of interesting subjects like tribalism, racism, libertarianism, Trump, and so on.…
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How conflict theorists think ***Friday, July 3rd, 2020*** This wasn't the article I was planning on writing for today, but in the BCH world, life moves fast. Yesterday Shammah Chancellor posted an article sharing what he remembers of how the DAA was implemented: https://read.cash/@micropresident/a-story-of-how-amaurys-broken-difficulty-adjustment-algorithm-came-to-be-776afff3 It's a great read, and I highly recommend it to anyone who cares about the future of BCH protocol…
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An interview with Shammah Chancellor about his new project: Stamp ***Saturday, July 4th, 2020*** *(If you're only interested in the interview and would rather not read my long introduction, feel free to scroll down to the second half of this article.)* 244 years ago today, America declared its independence from Britain to become free and independent states. Every year, people in the US celebrate this national holiday with fireworks, barbecues, and parades, but do we still…
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Wen 100K read.cash users? ***Sunday, July 5th, 2020*** On June 13th I announced a contest to see who could guess the day **read.cash** reaches 100,000 users. The person with the closest guess receives .1 BCH. https://twitter.com/BCHcain/status/1271848575513669632 At the time we were at 5,114 users. Less than a month has passed and we are now at 8,466. Predictably, the growth slowed when the incentives to create fake accounts was removed, but the site is still adding over 100…
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My interview with Deadalnix ***Monday, July 6th, 2020*** It's no secret that I'm a vocal supporter of Amaury Sechet (aka Deadalnix) and his team at Bitcoin ABC. If you don't know who he is, he was integral in the creation of Bitcoin Cash and has dedicated the last three years of his life to working full time on the BCH project. The four years prior to that, he was a software engineer at Facebook working on product development and infrastructure. https://twitter.com/deadalnix…
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The Random Rewarder is such a great name, and I think the points should always be visible as well like your account balance is. Would love to see a feature where if you're on the site and anytime you're randomly rewarded with points, you can see your points change with some kind of animation. Just an idea =)
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What August 1, 2017 represents for BCH ***Saturday, July 11th, 2020*** The other day, I finally watched the acclaimed musical Hamilton for the first time. I wish I'd been able to see it in person because even while watching at home on my TV I couldn't help but be amazed at all the hard work that must have gone into creating this show. The hours spent on writing the music and the choreography, on memorizing every line and movement so it could be performed flawlessly on stage.…
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Would be interesting to see the number of daily/weekly/monthly active users on read.cash in addition to total users.
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BCH is for everyone ***Sunday, July 12th, 2020*** Diversity. It's a word we use a lot in the US, especially over the last decade or so. Big corporate and mainstream media have pushed this narrative of diversity and inclusion to enhance their brands and present themselves and their products as being for everyone. Inclusive, not exclusive. I see nothing wrong with that sentiment in and of itself. Who doesn't want a world where people aren't judged by the color of their skin,…
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Why aren't we able to see the number of views a short post gets?
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Bitcoin Cash for beginners ***Wednesday, July 15th, 2020*** Recently I keep seeing people commenting on articles saying they're new to Bitcoin Cash and want to learn more. If you're one of those people, this article is for you. In order to really understand what Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is all about, let's briefly talk about money in general. For as long as any of us have been alive, none of us have really had a choice when it comes to the money we use. Whether it's the US Dollar,…
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July challenge stats so far ***Thursday, July 16th, 2020*** I recently surpassed 25,000 views! Thank you to everyone for reading my articles and encouraging me to write. As we pass the halfway mark in my July challenge, here are my stats from 7/1 - 7/15: https://read.cash/@Cain/july-readcash-challenge-e1216a46 Total articles published: 9 Total views: 2,757 Most views on a single article: 786 Lowest views on a single article: 114 Total points: ~12,500 Highest points earned in…
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The Patriot Way ***Saturday, July 18th, 2020*** If you're a sports fan in the US, you're probably familiar with the New England Patriots. Led by their quarterback Tom Brady, they have made the playoffs in 17 of the last 19 years, the Superbowl in 9 of the last 19 years, and won the Superbowl a staggering 6 times in that same span. Over the past two decades, no other team in any sport has come close to matching the Patriots' level of dominance. So what sets the Patriots…
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To my fellow read.cash community members ***Monday, July 20th, 2020*** As of today, we are now 11,000 users strong, but that's still less than 1% the size of Steem (another crypto-based blogging platform), and let's not even try to compare the size of **read.cash** to that of Reddit or Twitter. Of course that doesn't mean we can't one day compete with those communities, but in order to even have a chance to grow to those levels, we need to stop thinking small and start…
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Something worth remembering ***Thursday, July 23rd, 2020*** It's hard trying to think of new things to write. On the flip side, it's easy to convince yourself that nobody cares about anything you have to say, especially if you're not sure yourself. Maybe that's what they mean when they say to write for yourself, because if you don't care, who will? Unfortunately, that still leaves me right where I started: what should I write? However there's also another way of looking at…
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I wonder at what point the daily fund payout is going to get increased. Let’s say BCH price doubled next month, would the daily fund payout be doubled to $274?
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To drift or not to drift: Part 1 ***Tuesday, July 28th, 2020*** One thing I love about Bitcoin Cash is how much it makes me think, and the last several days I've been doing a lot of thinking. I've read the two DAA proposals put on the table, and as far as I can tell, they are almost the same except one is proposing we fix the drift going all the way back to the genesis block, while the other sees no need to make things more complex than they have to be. I've also watched…
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To drift or not to drift: Part 2 ***Tuesday, July 28th, 2020*** Some have implied that in announcing the Grasberg DAA, Amaury has somehow stolen the work of Mark Lundeberg and Jonathan Toomin. But I've seen him acknowledge their efforts and the amount of work they did to move this DAA forward in multiple places. What more can he do? Also, how do you steal something that's open source? Amaury would have to be a moron (or CSW) to try and act like the Grasberg DAA was all him…
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My Past, Present, and Future in Bitcoin Cash ***Friday, July 31st, 2020*** I bought my first Bitcoin in July 2017. It was two weeks before the split, and at the time I really had no clue what I was buying. I also had no idea how much my purchase would end up impacting my life. But before I knew it I had fallen down the Bitcoin rabbit hole and suddenly found myself surrounded by all kinds of crazy people known as Bitcoiners. Not long after BCH forked from BTC, it was clear to…