Bitcoin Cash: a new financing plan

The developments of Bitcoin Cash will have a new type of financing: they will be supported through six months of forced fundraising. Supporters of this hypothesis will be committed to its completion.

This is unprecedented news: the miners have made it public and it is a revolutionary proposal in the world of SHA-256.

It is about:

Jiang Zhuoer - BTC.Top;

Jihan Wu - Antpool, BTC.com;

Haipo Yang - ViaBTC;

Roger Ver - Bitcoin.com.

Referring to the great need to bear the costs of developing the Bitcoin Cash code, Jiang Zhuoer's communication is simple:

"Funding from a few companies, have a bad influence on developers."

For this reason, the plan is to build a system of proportional financing borne by the miners. Of rebound this policy could also have costs for Bitcoin Cash users that, although minimal, could see the now very low transaction costs increase.

The vision is for the entire community to bear the costs necessary to make this blockchain grow in competitiveness.

A company based in Hong Kong will manage the proceeds of the collection. The withdrawal will be made through a 12.5% tax on the premium given to miners who add a blockchain to the BHC chain.

Referring to Chinese economic policies, the founder of BTC.Top considers an immediate stance to be essential. The debate according to Jiang is a waste of time that the project cannot afford to support at this stage.

Those who do not comply will be "orphaned", a neologism that indicates that they will be excluded from the Proof of Work lottery that awards the prize for mining.

The power of this group of actors is such as to impose itself on others, forcing the small miners connected to the pools to adapt.

In line with the culture mentioned by the author in the proposal, it is sometimes necessary to make difficult and unpopular choices for the common good. However, the choice of what represents the common good does not seem to be the same for everyone.

The first calculations have begun on the web and there are already those who are concerned about the effects that this dynamic will have on the sector. BitMEX researchers suggest to start the project after the halving, something that seems to have already been considered from the dates indicated.

https://twitter.com/BitMEXResearch/status/1220116094091812864?s=20

Unlike Dash, who finances developments through transaction fees, there will not be a Masternode vote here. The initiative resembles more the Zcash model that has provided in the code a percentage of inflation dedicated to the foundation to support development costs.

The initiative has a duration of 6 months (15 May 2020 - 15 November 2020).

The initiative is under the direction and control of the miners, who may at any time choose not to continue.

This is not a modification of the protocol: it is a decision by the miners on how to spend their revenues.

The activation at the same time and in combination with the protocol update of 15 May. This facilitates a consistent implementation among participants in the ecosystem. The code will soon be ready for the first tests.

This part of the code, therefore, will be added in order to be applied to the participating nodes, those who connect to the pools of proposers will not be exempt from updating the code.

The Bitcoin ABC team and the led developer Amaury Sechet, the head of the most used client on BCH, are happy and optimistic about the effects of the proposal and will certainly enjoy the funding generated by the project.

The Bitcoin Unlimited team, second most important client, does not seem to have expressed itself yet.

Su Reddit Jiang Zhuoer answers questions from the community that is very concerned about the governance model of this new Hong Kong-based company.

The questions we are all asking ourselves are simple:

Who will be responsible for this organization and how will it be decided?

Will the miners, or their representatives, know better than others how to decide the priority and technical improvements that need funding?

How would the organisation be governed?

Those who do not believe in Bitcoin Cash and are not interested in its developments will be led to abandon the network, a risky decision that could migrate part of the hashing power to BTC or BSV based on profitability calculations and the long-term vision of the two blockchain.

As can be seen from the graph, BTC's computational power is much higher and in logarithmic scale we observe a rapprochement to BCH by BSV, a chain generated by a Bitcoin Cash fork.

Jiang Zhuoer's forecasts are positive, the bull run is coming and this project will make BCH's coin appreciate the improvements on developments made possible by the developers' funding.