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My thoughts on Roger's interview with Omar: Part 1 ***Wednesday, September 30th, 2020*** I just watched Roger's latest interview on YouTube, and I have some thoughts. In fact, I have many thoughts, but I'll just limit it to three. So this is going to be a trilogy, I suppose. Tonight I'd like to highlight one segment from the interview, and I want you to tell me in the comments what you think. Let me add that the entire interview is worth a listen, and Omar is a fantastic…
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My thoughts on Roger's Interview with Omar: Part 2 ***Thursday, October 1st, 2020*** As stated in Part 1, I am highlighting 3 specific portions of Roger's recent interview with Omar Bham regarding the current situation facing BCH. In today's installment, he is asked a question about BCHN and other full node development teams working on Bitcoin Cash, and once again he sidesteps answering that question to go on yet on another Amaury digression:…
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What many BCH supporters don't understand ***Friday, October 2nd, 2020*** I‘m afraid too many in the Bitcoin Cash community believe in something that is simply not true. I don't blame them, because I used to believe this as well, this notion that BCH is already positioned to become world money and replace state backed fiat when needed. If someone as knowledgeable about this space as @ColinTalksCrypto thinks the above, then it's likely that many others feel the same way.…
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My thoughts on Roger's interview with Omar: Part 3 ***Saturday, October 3rd, 2020*** In the final installment of this series, I want to compare the difference between Roger and Amaury's commitment to BCH by highlighting two things Roger states during his interview. Exhibit A: *"Even in my own life, I've been selling a lots of different cryptocurrency options. And you can earn money from the options and you can buy other options. And so what I had been doing for a long, long…
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The IFP: Part 1 ***Monday, October 5th, 2020, 40 Days before the fork*** I support the Infrastructure Funding Plan for a number of reasons, and I'll get to those in future articles, but there's one in particular I think is a little different from the rest. For me the IFP represents more than just a funding mechanism. I also see it as a unique opportunity for the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem to demonstrate to the world what this project is all about. It's a symbol, a chance to do…
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The IFP: Part 2 ***Wednesday, October 7th, 2020, 38 days before the fork*** In Part One of this series, I wrote about the IFP as a symbol, but now I want to discuss it in more practical terms. Specifically, why I think it will work, why I'm not worried about it killing Bitcoin Cash, and why it would be an utter failure if we didn't try it. https://read.cash/@Cain/the-ifp-part-1-d103ef13 First, I want to focus on why I think the IFP will work. It's widely agreed that there…
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The IFP: Part 3 ***Friday, October 9th, 2020, 36 days before the fork*** The main argument *against* the IFP is that it gives Bitcoin ABC too much power. Some are afraid that Amaury is going to use the new coinbase rule to turn himself into some tyrannical dictator destined to destroy BCH. Others believe he's going to be a parasite who works as little as possible while milking the IFP money for as long as he can. Let's consider the second scenario for a moment, the one where…
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Read.cash badly needs a new curation algorithm. I come here to look for interesting articles but the front page is mostly full of random posts that have only a couple of views.
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The IFP: Part 4 ***Tuesday, October 13th, 2020, 32 days before the fork*** In case you might be wondering, writing these articles is hard. They take me quite a bit of time and effort, and believe me, what I earn in upvotes wouldn't be enough for minimum wage (though I appreciate every single satoshi). So it's only natural to wonder why I even bother? Why do I spend hours at my computer writing these essays that hardly anyone reads, other than a small subset of the BCH…
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Amaury Séchet: Part 1 ***Friday, October 16th, 2020, 30 days before the fork*** Why do so many people think so little of Amaury? I find this difficult to understand. According to some, he doesn't have the best interests of Bitcoin Cash in mind. Others say he's holding the BCH network hostage, or that he's trying to do as much damage as he can on his way out the door. One person tweeted that the activation of the new coinbase rule will now incentivize ABC to "only wait for…
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Amaury Séchet: Part 2 ***Tuesday, October 20th, 2020, 26 days before the fork*** Do I know for a fact that Amaury is going to lead Bitcoin Cash to the promised land? No, of course not. But I do think he's the best shot we have. Maybe even our only shot. Let me start by saying that I'm not here to deify anyone. I don't worship at the feet of Amaury, but I do have a great deal of respect for him, which is why I asked him on Telegram the other day what he thought was going to…
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Why I write. ***Wednesday, October 21st, 2020, 24 days before the fork*** What am I trying to achieve with my numerous articles? That's a reasonable question. I guess the truth is a little of everything, but if I had to choose, I'd say what I hope to accomplish more than anything else is to influence BCH stakeholders to see that supporting both the IFP and Bitcoin ABC gives us the best opportunity of making Bitcoin Cash into world money. The comment above goes on to suggest…
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Bitcoin ABC v. BCHN bchd BU ***Thursday, October 22nd, 23 days before the fork*** I was asked in a comment to my last article what the difference is between Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin ABC. Simply put, Bitcoin Cash is the name of the cryptocurrency we all love to use here on read.cash and the network it is transacted on. Meanwhile, Bitcoin ABC is the name of a specific full node implementation that runs the Bitcoin Cash protocol, aka the software that is used by computers on…