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Unveiling The Decentralization Illusion Of Bitcoin And Lightning Network.
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Here is what I'm up to, kicking off 2024.
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Announcing Bitcoin Cash Node v26.0.0
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Easiest Way to Use BCHBull: The Paytaca and Anyhedge Epic Integration
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The Resolution of the smartBCH Experiment.
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"The Resolution of the smartBCH Experiment."
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"AnyHedge: The Final Countdown for Bitcoin Cash Adoption"
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AnyHedge: The Final Countdown for Bitcoin Cash Adoption
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Oracles
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"General Protocols, building & banking the freedom on top of the Bitcoin Cash"
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General Protocols, building & banking the freedom on top of the Bitcoin Cash
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Bitcoin Cash In the Biggest CryptoCurrency event of Brazil 2022
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The Flipstarter Origin Story
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General Protocols' Bitcoin Cash Strategy: An Update
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"Create Flipstarter with Crypto Hosting Only"
2 years ago: commented on the article "Withdraw VIS to Local Bank Account Easily Using Mi..."
I would suggest using https://sideshift.ai/ and convert Matic -> BCH directly, without going through SmartBCH. The Mist bridge uses sideshift and hop.cash internally, so your example above ends up mov...
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Withdraw VIS to Local Bank Account Easily Using Mist Bridge
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Announcing Bitcoin Cash Node v24.0.0
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"New Improvements to the Flipstarter Software by a Dev who Joined the Community Recently"
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New Improvements to the Flipstarter Software by a Dev who Joined the Community Recently
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AnyHedge Case Study: The Positive Impact of Native Introspection and Better Math
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Introducing the BCH Bull
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Bitcoin Cash Protocol News
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Stability Solutions: An Overview
3 years ago: commented on the article "The Road to AnyHedge"
Yes, that is what I meant with "they act as the counterparty"
3 years ago: commented on the article "The Road to AnyHedge"
> So can we all be both Alice and Bob?
Yes, but not at the same time. (or, you could, but no point in doing it)
> Does Alice and Bob have to know each other?
No, but they need some way to coordinat...
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
How my RPi4 handles mining 1GB blocks
3 years ago: published the article
CashAccount Report: May2021
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"Can I mine 256MB blocks on my RPi4"
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Can I mine 256MB blocks on my RPi4
3 years ago: commented on the article "Social Media influence on sex workers in Thailand "
As an adult, privilegied, white man I find it shameful that despite the fact that a significant amount of humanities use of bandwidth on the internet is related to porn, and that in the western world...
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Social Media influence on sex workers in Thailand
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Announcing Bitcoin Cash Node v23.0.0
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【Recap】What is smartBCH? How will it change the overall fundamentals of BCH?
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Implementation Diversity is Vital to the BCH Network
3 years ago: commented on the article "electrum-cash: connecting to a server"
Try this:
import { ElectrumClient } from 'electrum-cash';
3 years ago: commented on the article "electrum-cash: connecting to a server"
Before you can use the library, you first need to add it to your project.
use "npm install electrum-cash", then in your source code add something like:
> const { ElectrumClient } = require('electrum...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Blockchain Energy Use: A Media Package"
Overall, great article.
I'm looking forward to more growth so that the more energy efficient alternatives end up getting more market share.
3 years ago: commented on the article "Blockchain Energy Use: A Media Package"
> Given a stable price, Bitcoin’s energy use will halve every 4 years
This one isn't necessarily correct, right? Assuming bitcoin manage to attract fees to cover, or outperform, the reduction in bloc...
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"A Simple, Elegant Way to Solve Instant Transactions on BCH"
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A Simple, Elegant Way to Solve Instant Transactions on BCH
3 years ago: commented on the article "A Simple, Elegant Way to Solve Instant Transaction..."
One problem with this is that it actually does not resolve the miner collusion version - as long as the miner is willing to keep the transaction a secret and not relay it, no one will be able to creat...
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General Protocols Raised a $3M Series A Round Led by Strategic Investors
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"Bitcoin Cash awareness in Africa [images/graphics: BCH accepted here]"
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"Earning a Brazilian Minimum Wage on read.cash - The power of Bitcoin Cash"
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Earning a Brazilian Minimum Wage on read.cash - The power of Bitcoin Cash
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"The Wonders of AnyHedge - Stabilize Synthetic Assets on the BCH Blockchain"
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The Wonders of AnyHedge - Stabilize Synthetic Assets on the BCH Blockchain
3 years ago: commented on the article "What happens to BCH once we close the payment loop..."
> The problem with hedging and stablecoins is that they are set to fiat value
With anyhedge, once you have a viable price oracle out there, you could hedge in a basket of goods instead. (you know, s...
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"About the AnyHedge protocol and how Bitcoin Cash is already a store of value"
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
About the AnyHedge protocol and how Bitcoin Cash is already a store of value
3 years ago: commented on the article "Can we get native transaction introspection on Bit..."
No, if anything that would be a cost-reduction since you wouldn't have to do the extra signature check.
3 years ago: commented on the article "Can we get native transaction introspection on Bit..."
Yes - the basic idea is to add new opcodes that push transaction information to the stack.
3 years ago: commented on the article "Can we get native transaction introspection on Bit..."
There has been two published draft specs, one by Jason and one by Tobias. They are mostly the same, with only some minor difference. Jason have since implemented his spec in libauth and found out that...
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Can we get native transaction introspection on Bitcoin Cash?
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The Dawn of Bitcoin Cash DeFi: AnyHedge and DeToken
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Could Bitcoin Cash replace VISA?
3 years ago: commented on the article "Knuth's 2020 in numbers"
Well done.
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Knuth's 2020 in numbers
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"Knuth's 2020 in numbers"
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"My 1 Year Bitcoin Cash Journey"
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My 1 Year Bitcoin Cash Journey
3 years ago: commented on the article "Multiple Business with BCH"
Have you made any progress with regards to the sign post? I would love to hear how it worked out.
Also, I tipped you $10 here - feel free to also treat yourself to something along the way.
3 years ago: commented on the article ""Big Boys, Big Blocks" Ep. 4 Recap - Can BCH Compe..."
On the Detoken platform, users who want to take the contract position that is high in demand (say most people want to go long in a bull market, or go short in a bear market) pays a premium to the side...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Raising the Bar on Bitcoin Cash Upgrades"
> covenants are 2nd class citizens
The difference between covenents as 1st class and 2nd class citizen is that when treated as first-class citizens, they are a natural part of the system, documented...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Why Bitcoin Cash needs recurring payments and a ro..."
It went into production about a week ago, so still quite new. There was a public beta before it that lasted a couple months where we had some issues, but they are all worked out now.
https://read.cas...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Why Bitcoin Cash needs recurring payments and a ro..."
Actually, the PUSH/PULL might just be an unnecessary simplification - we have programmable money here and there is plenty of opportunity and tradeofs.
Don't like PULL? How about your wallet gives you...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Why Bitcoin Cash needs recurring payments and a ro..."
> probably requires what developers call an "oracle"
Hey, what do you know, we over at @GeneralProtocols just built a price oracle that can be used for this, and it's in production :)
4 years ago: commented on the article "Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for..."
They did accept EUR though, as a transnational unit, but that kindof came as a result from successfully adding EU into another ISO list of "nations".
They also have units for Gold and Silver and some...
4 years ago: commented on the article "BCHN Financial Report 2020-12-05"
I can't help but smile when I read this kind of boring number-crunching and actually look at number and consider the implications. To see, out in the open, that BCHN has and uses all their funds in BC...
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BCHN Financial Report 2020-12-05
4 years ago: commented on the article "Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for..."
I'm open to suggestions for currency symbol, it would indeed be useful to have on to make presentation short and clean.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for..."
I think the ecosystem **should** take action, because taking action improves on our ability to get adopted in commerce. I don't think we need to force all wallets, exchanges etc to use one over the ot...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for..."
> Having 8 decimals is just one way of displaying and it gives **the best user experience**
I **strongly** disagree with this.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for..."
BTC primary goal is not to be usable as cash and integrate into payment system. We can't do a direct comparison with BTC on this.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for..."
> when people start to label prices in crypto instead of fiat
By staying with 8 decimals and difficulties to integrate into existing infrastructure you delay, if not prohibit entirely, this process....
4 years ago: commented on the article "Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for..."
The ISO4217 standard for currency code dictates that a code must either start with letters representing the issuing country, or with an X to indicate that it's not a national currency code.
XCH is an...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for..."
One $5 coffe with current bitcoin cash prices in...
BCH: 0.01760563
XCH: 17,605.63
If we assume a successful scenario where BCH price goes up significantly:
BCH: 0.00002857
XCH: 28.57
Which do y...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for..."
You understand correctly.
Fractional satoshis may or may not come, and in particular: if we don't serve our users well we shouldn't expect to gain adoption. If we don't gain adoption, then we'll neve...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for..."
> Users will be confused.
Who are your users and what is your target goal?
If you're a trader who wants to speculate and do trading, you're right. Is that the purpose and goal of Bitcoin Cash?
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Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for 1/1,000,000th of a Bitcoin Cas...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The crazy ex-girlfriend."
All 100% goes to the address defined by ABC in their node software.
4 years ago: commented on the article "The crazy ex-girlfriend."
I have no stake in what ABC does with their software. For the sake of those who do have stake, I would want ABC to deliver on their roadmap. My initial comment has nothing to do with the roadmap thoug...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The crazy ex-girlfriend."
Succesful in this context would be "able to redirect significant value that would otherwise have gone to sha256 miners".
4 years ago: commented on the article "The crazy ex-girlfriend."
It appears to be a group, the cost is estimated at ~$7000 / day. They are now enforcing 100% IFP, rather than 8% IFP - so they are intentionally making the signal costly.
As an interesting side-effec...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The crazy ex-girlfriend."
> And now you're saying because you disagree with what he wants to do with the project he started, he isn't allowed to fork?
He is allowed to fork. In fact, he is a free person and is allowed to do w...
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"Multiple Business with BCH"
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Multiple Business with BCH
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Bitcoin Cash – Simple Fundamentals
4 years ago: commented on the article "What just happened to BCH?"
> Despite all that they raised only enough to barely survive another year.
They raised ~55% of $3.3 million, so roughly $1.8million, according to https://fund.bitcoinabc.org/
I'm not saying it's not...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Road to AnyHedge"
Yes, it's been a long journey. We're happy to finally be releasing soon.
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"Big Boys Big Blocks Ep. 3 with Jiang Zhuoer, Founder of BTC.TOP: Recap"
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Big Boys Big Blocks Ep. 3 with Jiang Zhuoer, Founder of BTC.TOP: Recap
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Road to AnyHedge"
You might want to try playing around with this simulator we built, to get a better feel for it:
https://anyhedge.com/how-it-works/#simulator
Alice would be the short side, and Bob would be the long...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Road to AnyHedge"
Yes. As long as the price doesn't fall too low, too fast, in which case the contract liquidates and Alice gets all of it, but now is exposed to further volatility.
In the example above, Bob put in $2...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Road to AnyHedge"
An example:
Lets assume that the price of BCH is $100 for simplicity.
Alice has just received 0.1 BCH ($10) for mowing some grass or something. Next week, Alice wants to go to the movies and the tic...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Road to AnyHedge"
I appreciate the kind words, and it has been an honor to have been part of this.
4 years ago: commented on the article "《我的Anyhedge开发之旅：在BCH上构建智能合约为何这..."
In english: https://read.cash/@JonathanSilverblood/the-road-to-anyhedge-ef149d53
4 years ago: commented on the article "《我的Anyhedge开发之旅：在BCH上构建智能合约为何这..."
In english: https://read.cash/@JonathanSilverblood/the-road-to-anyhedge-ef149d53
4 years ago: commented on the article "《我的Anyhedge开发之旅：在BCH上构建智能合约为何这..."
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4 years ago: commented on the article "《我的Anyhedge开发之旅：在BCH上构建智能合约为何这..."
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4 years ago: commented on the article "《我的Anyhedge开发之旅：在BCH上构建智能合约为何这..."
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4 years ago: commented on the article "《我的Anyhedge开发之旅：在BCH上构建智能合约为何这..."
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4 years ago: commented on the article "《我的Anyhedge开发之旅：在BCH上构建智能合约为何这..."
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4 years ago: commented on the article "《我的Anyhedge开发之旅：在BCH上构建智能合约为何这..."
In english: https://read.cash/@JonathanSilverblood/the-road-to-anyhedge-ef149d53
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Road to AnyHedge"
It allows one person to sell their volatility risk to another person. Another way to say it is that one person puts in $X worth of BCH into the contract, then some days/weeks/months later takes out $X...
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The Road to AnyHedge
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"The Build.Cash First Flipstarter Postmortem"
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The Build.Cash First Flipstarter Postmortem
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275 Days
4 years ago: commented on the article "Javascript Electrum Library"
Plenty of updates since this article was written, yes.
You can read up on the changelogs: https://gitlab.com/GeneralProtocols/electrum-cash/library/-/tags
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Flowee/P2PNet
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BCH Weekly News - Nov 9
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"When and how to spam scalenet"
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When and how to spam scalenet
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If the IFP in Bitcoin Cash activates, it suggests that cryptocurrencies are doomed to centralization
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash (BCH) November 2020 Upgrade statement"
There will be no coinbase rule on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) chain, it does not have consensus.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash November 15th Upgrade - What price is..."
I personally see that as somewhat misleading - the hard fork and the entire setup is a manual construction and saying that *THE* chain split condition is "10 blocks ahead" entirely ignores a large num...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash November 15th Upgrade - What price is..."
Yes, but with "low probability", it is actaully much **much** higher than you present here. Add in that this won't even be a matter of probability in the end, since the non-IFP isn't just math and sof...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash November 15th Upgrade - What price is..."
It should be "coinbase funding" and "non-coinbase funding" to be clear. There are on-chain ways to fund projects that doesn't come from the coinbase, and there are on-chain ways govern or distribute f...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash November 15th Upgrade - What price is..."
Contrarian worked out the probability of the math on reddit, but I can't find the link at the moment.
The relevant part is that you need to get 10 block in a row, but it doesn't have to be the first...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash November 15th Upgrade - What price is..."
> Do you mind to share me a couple of agenda from each team?
Shared between all: Mining validation, double-spend proofs, DAA, unconfirmed chains, better testnets, improved propagation protocol (xth...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash November 15th Upgrade - What price is..."
Again, they are not "free from vision" or "building blindly". Each team has their own agenda and they have presented that publicly. Each team is talking about what they are doing, so as a builder I do...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash November 15th Upgrade - What price is..."
> Same for Chain wipeout risk
Yes. You still base this on the incorrect assumption that all that would determine the outcome is "hashrate + longest chain", when the coinbase rule is very much a chang...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash November 15th Upgrade - What price is..."
> chain creation conditions: at scale, the condition to cause the split is 50% of hashrate going to BCHN. Yes, the split can occur with even tiny variance in mining, but the software is usually design...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash November 15th Upgrade - What price is..."
> Decision making is meant on how money is distributed to projects, BHCN is more like no centralised decision making on how money is distributed, but rather via various means such as flipstarters and...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash November 15th Upgrade - What price is..."
You might want to read the full letter from the CEO.
When you have, it should be clear that Rick is in no way the CEO, because there can be no CEO of something that is decentralized.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash November 15th Upgrade - What price is..."
You don't need a roadmap to know what to expect - you need communication. A roadmap is one way to communicate, but it's not the only way.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash November 15th Upgrade - What price is..."
> If you find anything is incorrect or any critical information is missed out, kindly let me know.
- Either the non-IFP side does not have a lead developer, or the BCHN side does not have "core team...
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A tale of two coins
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"Big Boys Big Blocks Ep. 2 - Mike Komaransky (Grapefruit Trading) & John Ge (Matrixport): Transcript"
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Big Boys Big Blocks Ep. 2 - Mike Komaransky (Grapefruit Trading) & John Ge (Matrixport): Transcript
4 years ago: commented on the article "Pylon Signage For My BCH Business"
I would go with the cheaper option, it seems to be more versatile and easier to maintain.
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Pylon Signage For My BCH Business
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin ABC v. BCHN bchd BU"
You might want to re-look at the context. We're talking about a report that
> should come from an independent party
Specifically, I'm voicing my interest for a report by someone like @cain.
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Scaling Bitcoin Cash
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin ABC v. BCHN bchd BU"
We? That made me curious, so I looked at your profile, and you made the account and answered this, 6 hours ago. Since there is no articles, bio or backstory, let me just ask the question instead of m...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin ABC v. BCHN bchd BU"
I'd be interested in a monthly report for the state of the ABC network after the nov 15 split.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin ABC v. BCHN bchd BU"
> Why not give ABC an opportunity to show what they can do with proper funding?
Because more funding would exarcebate their already existing behaviours - they have shown very clearly that their words...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Yield Farming in Bitcoin Cash - A practical guide"
So, if someone can make a separate contract that can:
1) forward funds to a recipient if a threshold is met (assurance part of the flipstarter model)
2) return funds to a pledger by burning the rewar...
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Yield Farming in Bitcoin Cash - A practical guide
4 years ago: commented on the article "First demo of Mainnet Bitcoin Cash library"
Instead of:
```
while((await wallet.getBalance('usd')) < 0.05) {
await sleep(0.1);
}
```
You should probably just bake that into the libary and let users:
```
await wallet.waitForBalance('usd',...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The IFP: Part 2"
Kindof, but now quite. Like taxes or social norms: you don't have to pay your taxes, and you don't have to follow social etiquette, but no doing so comes with consequences.
Either way, I'll agree tha...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The IFP: Part 2"
Not entirely mischaracterized, but also not quite fair.
Both Marc and Roger have contributed significantly to ABC in the past and now choose not to - why is that? Why did they go from wanting to cont...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The IFP: Part 2"
That is what is happening right now.
4 years ago: commented on the article "The IFP: Part 2"
I believe the value they provided early on was highly important, but I'm not convinced the net value the last 1~2 years have been. I've heard plenty of stories about developers who tried to work with...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The IFP: Part 2"
> but what I do know is that the miner with "Hath" in their coinbase text will now be less incentivized to mine BCH once the IFP kicks in
This moves hashrate, and by extension security, to competing...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The IFP: Part 2"
> Do we really expect a 10x software engineer to want to work on BCH so he can at some point ask the community for a handout?
I expect such an engineer to demonstrate value and then let those who ben...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The IFP: Part 2"
> what better way to attract and retain those people other than signaling to them how much this ecosystem values their work.
The stated mechanic to getting paid out of the coinbase rule for other nod...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The IFP: Part 2"
> Working for donations is completely different from charging for your services.
The alternative to the IFP isn't charity. Voluntary funding can include charity, but it is not limited to it - and any...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The IFP: Part 2"
> But what makes you think the work of BCHN, Knuth, BU, Flowee will make number go up? These are all the same people who have been around since the beginning of BCH, the same people who have contribut...
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Bitcoin.com Recommended Node Implementation for Bitcoin Cash prior to November 15th, 2020
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"The OG Bitcoin business model works fine"
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The OG Bitcoin business model works fine
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash Network Discussion October 2020 - Rec..."
Great write-up. There's a few point where I feel a word that was said is missing, but it's no big deal and the overall points come across well.
It's particulary good to have this writeup for discover...
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Bitcoin Cash Network Discussion October 2020 - Recap
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Bitcoin Cash Leaders
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"Sowing Bitcoin Cash"
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Sowing Bitcoin Cash
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Have I tipped you?
4 years ago: commented on the article "We must take ABC's misinformation campaign serious..."
I don't think the issue is as black and white as some paint it, but I do agree that the communication from ABC is heavily promiting a one-sided view in this case.
Regardless of which side one is on,...
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We must take ABC's misinformation campaign seriously
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"Tax-free Infrastructure Development Plans (IDPs)"
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Tax-free Infrastructure Development Plans (IDPs)
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Random thoughts on parenting: control and influence over others.
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Summary of Today's BCH Governance Discussion
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"BitCoin Cash a dream for All"
4 years ago: commented on the article "Understanding Amaury"
I think you may have missed it - but it certaintly have been happening and multiple iterations of foundations have been discussed, on-chain voting, stakeholding and many more viewpoints for governance...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Understanding Amaury"
> Until proven otherwise at this point the only viable option left is to use a share of the coinbase
Bitcoin ABC have already raised almost 2 million alone, through their 2020 fundraiser: https://fun...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Understanding Amaury"
> use a share of the coinbase which could decrease as the token valuation grows.
I consider this as wishful thinking - power structures like this rarely voluntary give up their power.
Furthermore, w...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Understanding Amaury"
> ABC only asked for 1 kBCH in their fundraiser and couldn't get it filled [5].
> Until proven otherwise at this point the only viable option left is to use a share of the coinbase
But the total rai...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Analysis of "The Global Network Council framework""
Not to mention that ABC has in words proclaimed being for a multi-node ecosystem for a very long time, but have in action worked against it.
This action is further confirmation of that direction.
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"Analysis of "The Global Network Council framework""
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Analysis of "The Global Network Council framework"
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"On the IFP: How will the artists get paid?"
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BCHN Financial Report 2020-09-03
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Suggestion for the Rational and Harmonious For..."
That is sadly what it looks like. Personally, I would be willing to not have a war and also let ABC experiement with IFP, **if** they retract it now, then resolves the issues you write about in this a...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Suggestion for the Rational and Harmonious For..."
No, if more than 50% of the hashrate mines with ABC, they will be the longer chain with most proof of work, and will cause non-ABC miners to extend it as the longest legit chain, but as soon as they m...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Suggestion for the Rational and Harmonious For..."
Wouldn't it be better if this plan was properly formulated and peer reviewed first, before these kinds of changes are pushed on the users and businesses trying to use the chain?
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Suggestion for the Rational and Harmonious For..."
> The ABC’s IFP governance plan is still not mature yet. A bad governance plan will make this fork meaningless. Under the premise of accepting the fork, we should discuss and improve upon the governan...
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Why I'm Bullish on Bitcoin Cash Right Now
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Protocol upgrades: A simplified, practical guide
4 years ago: commented on the article "Why I Recently Converted From ABC to BCHN"
I particulary like how the flipstarter campaing that BCHN did provided such clear and measurable deliverables. That allows the pledgers (and the rest of the community) to look at the commitments made,...
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Why I Recently Converted From ABC to BCHN
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Flipstarter for Mobile & Web has arrived! (no plugins required)
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How Bitcoin Cash should defend against the hostile takeover attempt by rogue developer Amaury Séchet
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash was going GREAT until this IFP nonsen..."
Well said!
Lets add to the list above:
CashAccount (and according to my count, 100% of all of the indexing servers)
Fulcrum and Electrs (the backend servers for electron-cash)
Insight (explorer and...
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Bitcoin Cash was going GREAT until this IFP nonsense.
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Searching For Peace
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BTC.TOP, Binance, OKEx, and Huobi are running BCHN node, that is 55%+ BCH hashrate combined!
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"Double Spend Proofs, phase 2"
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I'll add that I'm talking with calin and dagur and there's some progress on how to add this to the electrum, see these two issues on fulcrum for details (similar issues has been raised for electrscash...
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Double Spend Proofs, phase 2
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin.com Recommended Node Implementation for Bi..."
The incentives involved are truly complex and includes the fact that the orphaned block can still be salvaged if extended on, that block rewards cannot be moved until after 100-block maturity, that ha...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin.com Recommended Node Implementation for Bi..."
> Or maybe they know something I do not.
This is not only the simplest explanation, fitting well with occams razor, but also the actually stated explanation.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin.com Recommended Node Implementation for Bi..."
The competing implementations have pretty much all made public commitments to what they intend to work on, and are delivering on that work.
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"Nodo recomendado por Bitcoin.com para Bitcoin Cash antes del 15 de noviembre de 2020"
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Nodo recomendado por Bitcoin.com para Bitcoin Cash antes del 15 de noviembre de 2020
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Governance Pre-Consensus Can Bring Stability to Bitcoin Cash
4 years ago: commented on the article "The IFP is evolution. Vive la évolution!"
Have you reached out and talked with the other node teams about why there's been less progress than you'd expect?
I've talked with some, and they claim it's a case of "perfect is the enemy of good"....
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Rogue Bitcoin Cash developer adds contentious code attempting to syphon $8m per year
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"How I envision Decentralized Cooperation on Bitcoin Cash"
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Preparing for the Best Outcome of the Nov 15th Fork
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"CashID - OIDC Gateway"
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"Request for comments: An evidence-based process for Bitcoin Cash"
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Request for comments: An evidence-based process for Bitcoin Cash
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BCHN就11月份BCH升级的常见问题集锦
4 years ago: commented on the article "To Our Customers, Regarding the Bitcoin Cash Netwo..."
> Aren't these implementations mostly porting ABC upgrades?
No.
BCHD is written in Go, Verde is written in Java, Knuth is written in rust(?).
Flowee, BU and BCHN are written in the same language a...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Beta Price Oracle: Requesting current price"
> would this Oracle eventually replace that?
Kindof. It makes a lot of sense to use the same source for the price when you set up the contract, as when the contract settles.
4 years ago: commented on the article "To Our Customers, Regarding the Bitcoin Cash Netwo..."
Currently, if we ignore ABC, the following projects:
- BCHD: is already being maintained
- BCHN: Is already being maintained
- BU: Is already being maintained
- Flowee: Is already being maintained...
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Member.Cash Theme Dev progress and thoughts #1
4 years ago: commented on the article "To Our Customers, Regarding the Bitcoin Cash Netwo..."
Questions:
1) Will the Bitcoin.com wallet follow the IFP or non-IFP chain, in the case of a split?
2) Will the Bitcoin.com register app follow the IFP or non-IFP chain, in the case of a split?
3) W...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Beta Price Oracle: Requesting current price"
Currently, the Beta price oracle is using bitpay as the price source. This has a good symbolic representation of actual purchasing power of the coins and fit well with the idea of AnyHedge being a con...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Websites & services where you can Use BCH |Updated..."
Video games: https://www.keys4coins.com/
Phone topups: https://alfa.top/
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The mistakes of 3dfx
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Beta Price Oracle: Requesting current price
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How to ensure income for Crypto-currency infrastructure development
4 years ago: commented on the article "Mainnet.cash: at 92.5% of goal! Pledge min $28. <..."
I don't understand your viewpoint here. The campaign linked to clearly states that they think this is enough to get started, and they are also upfront and honest about that it is not going to be enoug...
4 years ago: commented on the article "What to learn from today's disagreement in the BCH..."
These diplomats you speak of, they have developed code for the following software:
Bitcoin Verde, BCHD, Knuth, Bitcoin Unlimited, BCHN, ElectronCash, BitcoinCashJ, CashAccounts, CashID, Fulcrum, Elec...
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What to learn from today's disagreement in the BCH ecosystem
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Mainnet.cash: at 92.5% of goal! Pledge min $28. < 9 hours to go.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Joint Statement from BCH Miners regarding Bitcoin..."
If a tree falls in the woods, and you did not observe it, did it still fall?
Or are you claiming that someone else who did observe and told the story would be a liar, because they are unable to provi...
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Simple Ledger Protocol's Joint Statement Regarding Bitcoin ABC on BCH's November 2020 Upgrade
4 years ago: commented on the article "Joint Statement from BCH Miners regarding Bitcoin..."
What are you talking about?
Getting verification by contacting the signatories out of band validates that they are who they are and that they signed the statement. It's a reasonable-cost effort if yo...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Joint Statement from BCH Miners regarding Bitcoin..."
Why not make a call to one of the companies, or send them an email to ask them to verify?
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Joint Statement from BCH Miners regarding Bitcoin ABC and the November 2020 BCH Upgrade.
4 years ago: commented on the article "A Manifesto for the Next 10 Years of Bitcoin (Cash..."
Lets see what David R Allen does. If he continoues to chair developer and other meetings under fair conditions, then that is a good basis to start from. More is better though, and once corona slows do...
4 years ago: commented on the article "A Manifesto for the Next 10 Years of Bitcoin (Cash..."
The discussion should happen in a multitude of places, and more importantly I think it should happen face-to-face or on-video reasonable often.
the developers meetings have been a great source of det...
4 years ago: commented on the article "A Manifesto for the Next 10 Years of Bitcoin (Cash..."
I love discord. It has great management features designed to help people collaborate to overcome obstacles for shared goals.
Games and life aren't that different. <3
4 years ago: commented on the article "AnyHedge Beta is Live!"
End-to-end, like this? https://gitlab.com/GeneralProtocols/anyhedge/library/-/blob/development/examples/custodial.js
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A Manifesto for the Next 10 Years of Bitcoin (Cash)
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash (BCH) November 2020 Upgrade statement"
I think he meant something like a name, project or company you would like to be known as or have attached ith your signature.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash (BCH) November 2020 Upgrade statement"
From what I remember, the prediction was that BCHN would fork, and the motivation was because they removed the "poison pill" code.
If I remember correctly, then that prediction does not match this st...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash (BCH) November 2020 Upgrade statement"
I assume this file content. or possible a hash of it:
https://github.com/RowanSkie/bitcoincashstatement/blob/master/signature.txt
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BCHN FAQ on November 2020 Bitcoin Cash network upgrade
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash (BCH) November 2020 Upgrade statement"
Actually, if you look back further to the other articles by jtoomim, you will find that ASERT is upwards of 20 times better at estimating the current hashrate and improves significantly on the current...
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It's not you, it's me
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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) November 2020 Upgrade statement
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4 years ago: commented on the article "AnyHedge Beta is Live!"
You need to estimate the blockheight at which the contract should mature. The libraries takes a parameter for the number of blocks the contract should run for.
I would be thrilled to see someone make...
4 years ago: commented on the article "ABC are playing chicken with the Bitcoin Cash comm..."
The only influence Grasberg could have on Avalanche, would be to make the regular user experience slightly worse, as to create the "problem" for which Avalanche is the solution.
I don't think that's...
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The story of how BCHs 2020 DAA came to be.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Dark secrets of the Grasberg DAA"
It doesn't need to be the only source of funding. It's one alternative out of many, and it has specific benefits and tradeoffs, and when used in conjunction with other means, it helps create robustnes...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Dark secrets of the Grasberg DAA"
Direct donations require continous effort by the donor and does not provide any guarantees to the donor. This contract method is a one-time setup that doesn't have any cost to the donor unless the don...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Dark secrets of the Grasberg DAA"
The funds would not be a % of the coinbase. It would be voluntary and based on stakeholders choosing to invest part of their appreciation back into the ecosystem.
4 years ago: commented on the article "BCH eDAA, I would like you to meet: 10MBT (10 Mi..."
Right now, cumulative hash is the datapoint that the nodes use to determine what chain to follow, as that is an independently verifiable data point and it's known that if all nodes follow that there w...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Dark secrets of the Grasberg DAA"
Another way to get funding that has shared incentives, is to develop a smart contract where you can whitelist developers and that uses an oracle price such that when the funds stored in the contract a...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Joint Statement On aserti3-2d Algorithm"
For someone to verify that your signature matches, they would need the address it was signed with as well.
4 years ago: commented on the article "ABC are playing chicken with the Bitcoin Cash comm..."
Uhm.. how can you be so sure that BCHD is on ABC's side in this?
4 years ago: commented on the article "Dark secrets of the Grasberg DAA"
From a perspective of fixed-value tokens, I'd agree with you. From the perspective of market-demand-driven token value I think jtoomim is probably right.
I mean, the coins we "save" by not emitting n...
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Dark secrets of the Grasberg DAA
4 years ago: commented on the article "ABC are playing chicken with the Bitcoin Cash comm..."
There was quite a lot of talk some time back from people like Van Armani, about how it would be good with an amicable split - one where people simply agree to walk away in their own directions.
I bel...
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Joint Statement On aserti3-2d Algorithm
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With the exception of Software Verde, who happen to also make a full node, none of the signed are node developers, and none of the signed are miners.
That said, the Grasberg DAA is damaging some part...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Joint Statement On aserti3-2d Algorithm"
My personal signature, because I care about this outside the company as well:
IJCKfLn2PEWN3dC7VFMB4aG3/PBUAAnNRgr+uK+GGKkiHRGrkhbgAMc48XAeLZDEUR8er0nfutKTrGhDcmLj2LM=
My address:
☯ jonathan#100 <qr...
4 years ago: commented on the article "AnyHedge Beta is Live!"
Anyhedge is a risk-trading contract. There is three parties to the contract, the oracle (which has no funds, but is used a trusted price source), the hedge/short (seeks stability, is selling their ris...
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Grasberg will weaken the sound money properties of Bitcoin Cash
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Bitcoin (Cash) historic and forecasted drift
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4 years ago: commented on the article "AnyHedge Beta is Live!"
I guess that's what this readcash post is all about, it linked to the anyhedge-library on npm, which should show this readme file: https://gitlab.com/GeneralProtocols/anyhedge/library/-/blob/developme...
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VenezuelaWorkers.com - A Crypto-Paying Freelancing Platform Powered by BCH
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How NOT to Run a Community Project
4 years ago: commented on the article "BCH in 2020 - trout's Perspective"
You can invest money, or you can invest time. You can also invest social credit, or you can represent opportunity.
A stake holder does not by necessity mean a coin holder or a hasher.
A company that...
4 years ago: commented on the article "AnyHedge Beta is Live!"
This will come, but since we're a new start-up and we need the initial revenue, our priorities right now is to complete the first exchange integration and get a product on the street.
For now, consid...