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Joined 17 November 2019 · 90 posts

Founder @BCH🐆Ghana | Founder @BCH🔥Ignite

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@Koush

Searching for moderators for the Read.Cash (and other) communities, since I am not able to go on moderating submissions going forward. If you have time and an idea on how to keep the communities clean from OFFTOPIC or SCAMS or PLAGIARISMS, then please apply in the comments. thank you.

@Koush

Rest in Peace Nyutcse You were an incredibly beautiful dog. You left this place wise and old. You told me nature is calling you. I could hear you say it, whenever you stood by the balcony, listening to the wind taking its course and breathing in, smelling your surroundings. You kept your mind and your senses until your last breath. I feel incredibly sorry, for making the decision. I will never know if it was the right one. I hope you can tell me, when I meet you on the other side. I hope you forgive me. Rest in Peace Nyutcse, I never loved anyone as much as you.

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@Koush

How to be a good mod on r/btc Ban a 'troll' from r/btc. so far so good. **That was the easy part** Go out of your way to **get him cancelled** in other subs, you just have to! **Report him on r/commucurrency for "inciting violence"** because he called for a "meme-war". hope reddit mods don't notice. Or something. You don't get it yourself, what you are trying to achieve...but you do it anyway. You gotta show'em! Go back to the other subs to **cry** about him saying "war", you are getting the kick of this... People are still **not impressed**, they want you to resolve the matter in private, you finally realize, you annoyed them too much with your **petty games** **Mod of commucurrency** comes across your report about "inciting violence" and **laughs out loud**. He asks, **"which p***y reported this? was it bitcoinxio?"** Notice, he has not even tagged you. Hmm, how to spin this...? **You feel a bit weird about yourself** as you either reported it yourself or one of your mobsters from r/btc, but anyway! You are justified, whatever you do! Immediately reply and lie as you say **"it wasn't me, p***y!"** That got him **good**, definitively! Mod of commucurrency laughs again, **gives you an upvote**, as he thinks these silly games are beyond him and wants the rest of the mob to see, so maybe one of them realizes who is the real drama-stirrer here. Too bad, you got reported by that 'troll' for breaking your own rules which at this point is just tid for tad and basically nothing but you butting heads with him and **abusing your mod powers in the process.** Simply **because you can** and no one else cares Have **the main reddit mods** suspend you on the "p**y" insult, as they have fairly **strict standards that you break periodically**. That's **100%** on you and has **ZERO** involvement with either mod of commucurrency. You have to reconcile... **Cry a bit as your reporting game backfired** on you, as you couldn't abide by your own friggin' rules. You were this close, god dammit! **You realize for a second, you really DO suck as a mod.** But hey, best to let that thought quickly fade away. There must a way outta this! **To somehow come out of this mess** with the upper hand, start immediately blaming Kousha and Shammah for creating a situation where **"they baited you to insult them"**, while both of them did not care or even engage you. Shammah apologizes, he, as most other people don't like the fact that you got suspended. Clearly they understand your point, **that somehow you are justified to do anything you want**, it is for the **common good** and to **keep r/btc clean** **of trolls, at least those with the wrong opinion**... Make up stories about vicious **drama-creating-trolls that are out to get you**, talk about commucurrency as if there is any activity left going on and anybody caring for your stupid, headless comment on there. But hey, you remember **who actually loves these kind of stories:** Your own r/btc mob! **Mobilize the entire conspiracy nutjob riddled forum**. **Act as if you are the victim**, after failing miserably **to get people reported and banning people** left right and center based mainly on their opinion. You almost caught them all. A few more dissenting opinions to go, you can do it! **Write an appeal** and think, as you know you fucked up totally and are a hypocrite, that the reddit mods won't look past that. Surprise, reddit mods bought your story of being a victim, **because you are very good at crying out in pain while striking people**. You are back! You can't believe they believe you, as you told them, that you were viciously trolled for ever by these **ominous conspirators**, that are out to get you and somehow always one step ahead! Those pesky plans of the evil conspirators (who have in fact ZERO to do with any of this and not even any affiliation with that 'troll' whatsoever) have failed! **You are victorious**! They must be very pissed right now, oh boy. You still have it in you, you are a fighter! **And a SURVIVOR**! You feel equipped for the next battle against Kousha's sockpuppets and baits. He probably already created **at least** 5million sockpuppet accounts to mass-report you. Yes, this is what he is doing all day long. **THIS MUST BE IT**! But there is no time to lose. Go on r/btc and repeat your fantastical story, that has nothing to do with reality. You know as sole witness what actually happened, but you had to do it. You really had to fight for the common decency on your subreddit, that you are **trying to uphold all alone**. Come up with a grandiose "don't feed the trolls" wisdom-take, even if it makes **you feel a bit like a manipulative, lying hypocrite**; Just remember, **the reddit mob doesn't care for what events really take place, as long as you sell them a good story** to get hysterical about and feel better about themselves. This one even has an happy end! **Truly motivational**. You know your "Pappenheimers". They feed off your hand for years now. You finally showed that **meanie head**, Shammah, who doesn't give a flying plug about you and that vicious troll, **Kousha**, who never really did anything remotely off putting as you **do periodically** and not at even tried to engage you to "troll", "harass", "abuse" or "bait" you into breaking the reddit TOS. You know this is on you, **but no one else needs to know**. Your fface is at stake. You just had to and you know, most people will understand, for some weird reason that no one can really make out: **you are justified**, simple as that. Yes... next time, those meanie heads will think twice before ..... *checks note* **upvoting you** and laughing at you for being nothing more than an annoying **spin doctor who believes his own crap, banns people for doing things you do yourself time and again and falsely reports people for inciting violence**, like the cook, that you are. Call them c**ks yourself btw. It helps looking like a real High-T chad, while acting like a hypocritical cancel-mob, at least you read about this somewhere on "**how to LARP an Ancap**" **These are the steps you have to take,** my friends and foes, if you want to be a caring and agreeable, yet strict and consequent mod on r/btc. **And remember, you can be as biased and hypocritical as you want, as long as you simply lie your way out and gain some extra victim points for it.** **The mob loves that stuff.** Some might point to it and call it out as the exact self-righteous hypocritical, entirely **mob driven** **cancel culture** and what Kousha himself termed "**BCHAZ**" or other sjw and communist mobster related analogies from other onlookers, who see through your bs. But fear not: These are already known as **tactics by the evil mods of r/commucurrency and criminal spins by Vin** to misrepresent your truly heroic cause. You just know these people put in all their resources in a **giant conspiracy** of epic proportion to get you either banned.... **OR EVEN KILLED THROUGH INCITING VIOLENCE!** Yes, life of r/btc subreddit mod is hard and dangerous. Thank god we have bitcoinxio. Thank god he is back! **What would we friggin' do without him even?** ***Note:*** I officially apologize for conspiring against bitcoinxio to...uhm...upvote him. It was clearly indecent behavior and I feel a lot of shame for doing so! It was really uncalled for. Like TOTALLY. I don't even know what got into me, to do such a barbarous act. Sorry again, David. **I have learned my lesson, you gave me good!** 😉 I am ready to receive your retaliation reporting on one of the many instances I call out the bs of each and every single one of the mobsters and otherwise impaired people on reddit to get me completely suspended on there. If someone deserves it, it is me, definitely. **It also explains perfectly why I wouldn't receive my BCH Ghana or Ignite flair** from the very start of my engagement as David already knew in advance, that I am a "bad actor" unworthy of any status as BCH contributor.

@Koush

A Plea for Help from Palestine Hello, I came across this charity plea from Ahmed in Gaza. He launched a donation campaign to improve the living conditions for his family. I asked him if he accepts Bitcoin Cash and if he may be able to convert it to national currency with a Sarrafi (money changer) over there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWrhBTR9HBI&feature=youtu.be **Ahmed is willing to accept BCH** and so I want to send him whatever I can scrap together. If you want to help me, just upvote or tip me here and I make sure that all the money I get for this article, I will send to his address. If you want to send money to him directly, please use this bitcoincash address: **bitcoincash:qq2un8wwpasn99kqvk3tm4sw5qsjfcd5rvfhpazk5k** **This is his "GoGetFunding" campaign**, where he gives us more details 👉 https://gogetfunding.com/ahmedshameya995/ **Thank you for considering!** 🙏

@Koush

Presentation Bitcoin Cash House Ghana 🐆 | BCH is Bitcoin with #Utility Hello my brothers, sisters and friends I have a quick update on our projects to share as I was asked to make a presentation for DeFi Africa and introduce our Bitcoin Cash House to them and talk about the **Power of BCH** 💪🏻💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿 **#BuildBCH #P2PCashForTheWorld #BCHTribe** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLe8dNaoivc&feature=emb_title As always, all donations for this post go to **Bitcoin Cash House Ghana** You can support Mustapha Yakubu directly via the official BCH Ghana donation address: cashaddr: qpw0wptyh34sp897xg5nclafufw55gusw5dd9h8485 **Thank you!**💚

@Koush

Now there is even a 'Charity' community with the exact same name as the charity community I made. I understand, that everyone can create their own, but there is zero distinctiveness between these two communities and no reason to create a new one. It's not that I am censoring anyone. Should I start doing stuff like that, feel free to create your own. But why divert people away from the established general community to create a smaller community with the exact same ruleset? You can simply ask to join as a mod, if this is important to you. I am happy to give you moderator status, if you curate the platform accordingly. I really don't get this. Thanks for dividing even the Charity topic so that more people miss out on specific charity posts, that are not submitted to one or the other. @Evelu , Do you know there is already a Charity community made by me?

@Koush

Something I want to say about communities: I have this cooking recipe community and I made it long ago, because I thought it would be a good topic to curate and moderate. We have 200+ members and I believe it is one of the biggest communities. that is pretty cool, but... What is sad is, that there are suddenly so many other 'cooking recipe' communities. Some of them small, others with more than 100 users. The moderators, instead of joining my community as a moderator and helping me curate, create their own almost identical community and now we have people submitting their recipes in different groups. I am actually very annoyed by that fact. I understand, that there are good reasons to let people create different communities and compete with each other by quality of curation, but in this instance, there is no competition and no distinguishable changes at all. My community has no specific rules, that would make it sensible to create a new one, with almost the exact same name and same ruleset. What is the difference between General 'Cooking Recipes" and "Cooking Daily Recipes", you tell me. For me, this is not about gaining points from submissions, everyone is free to help me as a moderator and get the same share of points, if he or she won't accept off-topic articles and thus earn as much or even more points, as we would share points of an even bigger community, instead of competing over submissions, as if there is any reason to compete on this. You could have joined and helped me as a moderator and received all the points you wanted in a bigger community. Now users have to switch between two almost identical communities, because recipes are scattered around different communities. I would really ask @Read.Cash, also because of other reasons, to allow submissions into 2 or 3 communities. So I don't need to actively hunt for articles and cross post and also have the ability to submit articles, that fit in two seperate communities. I shared an informational article on Bitcoin and think it would fit very well in Bitcoin Cash general as it would fit in my special Bitcoin Cash Africa group. Many users won't get to see it, if I do not put it in the general Bitcoin Cash article, yet I don't want this article to be missing in the Bitcoin Cash Africa community. The idea of subcommunities like that doesn't work out this way. Any solution to this would be appreciated. Either a crosspost feature or simply submission to a limited set of maybe 2 or 3 communities (all reverting to the one article, not seperate tabs). You could also use topics to make people see what fitting community is there for a topic and also suggest, when someone makes an almost identical group, that they can instead ask to join the other community as a mod. It would help me with curation and would also give users a better listing and curation. Thank you

@Koush

Simplified explanation of Bitcoin Hey, I've written this short post as explanation for user @Nish who asked a few questions about what Bitcoin Cash is, as there didn't seem to be enough visibility for BCH tutorials at that point. Here is my take on how to explain how Bitcoin works in a simplified manner. Nish asked if it was a company of some sorts, so let's just start right there: **Bitcoin is not run or created by a company.** It is an **open-source,** **permissionless software**, that anybody can run on computer hardware to connect and interact with it. The software of Bitcoin was developed by an anonymous developer, who is known under the pseudonym of **Satoshi Nakamoto**. We have a few guesses, but have yet to find out or prove, who he really is or if he is even alive, as no one has contact to this person anymore. You can learn about him by searching about his name. Please don't believe the next best guy, that he can 'prove' to be Satoshi. Be vigilant, if you look up his name and want to learn more about him and his invention. 👉🏽*Permissionless software means that it is accessible to anyone at anytime who wishes to run the software and no entity of any kind can hold anyone back from doing so. There is no central server or company or institution, that could be able to hold you or anyone back from accessing it.* In other words, if you make transactions on Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash, you are for the most part **directly communicating with the network itself** and there is no central server or middleman in between, that could grant or deny you access. The network consists of '**nodes**', which we also often refer to as '**miners**'. These miners are nothing more than specialized computers, that run Bitcoin software and is connected to the internet. Let's distinguish correctly now by calling the person or company running the node a miner and the hardware used as 'mining rig'. More on miners later... 👉🏽*Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin are two distinct Bitcoin versions, running a different protocol and thus are distinct from another. But they, as you rightly guessed it, share the the same 'genesis transaction' and transaction history up to some point in 2017. Let me explain in a simplified way, what all of this means and the implications of it, by explaining a bit more about how Bitcoin works.* You might have heard about '**Blockchain technology**'. With the invention of Bitcoin, a system running like it is considered a blockchain. **You can imagine this as a fancy type of digital ledger.** It is in essence not much more than a file, containing a list of all transactions ever made, from the beginning of the chain up to the present and coming. The first transaction ever, is the so called 'genesis transaction', I spoke of before. There is a bit more to that, but let's just revise the history of how Bitcoin came to be. So Satoshi Nakamoto wrote the software and started running it. **He basically was the first miner with a single node with just a laptop as a mining rig**. He contacted other developers and **cryptography-experts** and some of them joined in over time and connected with their computers running the same node-software as him, making all of them miners as well. And so the network grew. Some of them, actually quite a few, also **helped him develop his software further**. Some even wrote their own Bitcoin node software, which might have been written in a totally different manner and with other minor differences in execution, but regardless of that still following the same base protocol as the node software, that Satoshi and others were using to communicate over the network. As long as every node/miner follows the same protocol, everybody is connected to the same blockchain and contributes towards the same fancy ledger of transactions. The downside to normal digital systems is clear, it's easy to copy and manipulate digital data. Without getting too specific, **using a digital database for financial activity always involves trust** of the users, that the maintainer of this database doesn't simply 'forge' a transaction he has central access to. That's why you couldn't simply email someone money. You wouldn't accept it, just because your friend wrote you an email with '$500' in the subject, right? Only big financial institutions could establish the trust of the people over decades if not centuries and have the privilege to be custodian of peoples funds. When they send us $500 via digital means, we trust them, that there is real value behind those numbers and that they do not forge transactions behind our backs in their own network. But with Bitcoin, we don't need to trust them anymore. That's why it is called a **'trustless system**', by the way. One fancy part of this digital ledger file of Bitcoin is, that it makes the weakness of digital data to its core strength. **Every participant on the network simply has a** ***copy*** **of this file**. This ever increasing file is constantly being updated and synced by the entire network of nodes. New nodes joining in simply download the shared file from the majority of the nodes and once they have the entire file stored, they can start adding to it, just as any other node. This way, whenever a miner would try to make a 'forged' transaction, for example spending the money he has at two places at the same time (so called '**double-spend problem**'), all the other miners can match their ledger with the proposed fake transaction and expose the 'rogue node' as a fraudulent, or hostile miner and stop accepting his version of the ledger. To 'fool' the network with such a double-spend attack, the hostile miner would have to have **at least half the computing power of the entire Bitcoin Cash network**, or half the 'hashpower' of all the nodes on the network. The bigger the Bitcoin Cash network gets, the more costly it will be for a mining node, to try to 'overpower' the entire network. Hashpower is computing power and computing power needs electricity. The mining rigs used are highly specialized and, simply put, put a lot of energy into maintaining the ledger. We won't talk about why exactly they do it just yet, but just note, that **participating in the network for a miner is tied to the cost of electricity** and since these miners need a lot of energy, it is very costly to run a decent amount of such mining rigs. **It is only viable, because these nodes produce new Bitcoins over time**, with every update cycle of the ledger. This is also known as the 'Block reward'. The miners make profit, as long as the new Bitcoins, they are rewarded with over time, are more valuable, than the electricity they put in the network. On top of that, the more hashpower they put into the network, the stronger the network gets. Remember, a hostile miner has to have at least 51%+ of the hashpower directed to the network, to have a chance to mess with the ledger. This means the more honest miners participate in the network with their hashpower, the harder it gets for the hostile miner to overpower the network. 👉🏽*It is far more profitable for a miner to direct the amount of hash power towards strengthening the network to get money in transaction fees and block rewards, simply by following the network-protocol aligned with the majority of the network while forwarding of user transactions, than it is to attack it.* **Bitcoin participation is indeed all about incentives.** If you are a miner with a lot of hashpower, you have the choice to 'attack' the system and **pay a lot** of money in form of hash power/ electricity to overtake and manipulate it, or you simply direct that hash power towards honest mining and **earn a lot** of money for it. What do you think miners chose to do? Paying let's say $100.000 per day in electricity bills to defraud the network, destroy the value proposition of it and make the money you have stolen worthless in the process? Or simply earning money by securing the network with honest hash power? It's pretty clear, what sane and smart people would rather chose to do. **Now what's the fancy part in detail about that revolutionary invention?** How does a system like that update its ledger in sync and how does it keep it identical with all other nodes all over the world? And why is this data not called a *fancy-ledger* instead of *block-chain*, anyway? 👉🏽*We are now emphasizing on the revolutionary aspect of Bitcoin and the core aspects of blockchain-technology. What miners actually do, when they participate with 'hashpower' and the method we call 'Proof Of Work' to reach consensus on what is perceived by the entire network as 'true' and what's not.* That's the point, where I can share a good video with you. Kindly watch this. It may make sense, it may not. And maybe both at the same time. Be sure to revisit this video as you learn more details about how Bitcoin works or why it is so groundbreaking. Just be sure, if you understand Proof of Work, you understand Bitcoin. Good luck! https://youtu.be/0fm1_W7mbAQ

@Koush

Hi, now that communities do not get rewarded, would it be okay if I could submit articles I find interesting for my community, like it was before? I want to add articles to Bitcoin Cash Africa which are on topic and should be part of my list, but are submitted to other communities. It can also be like a crosspost or whatevr, I don't really care. I just want to have a reference to his article, that is more than just a link in a shortpost. thank you @Read.Cash

@Koush

Dear Moderators, please do not accept OFF-topic articles to this community. Strictly on topic. No economics news and no personal motivation posts. Posts about managemend, creating business, business proposals etc. please take care, so we don't lose our featured status. thank you.

@Koush

I have rejected a submission of one of you, because I thought it was wrong information. I am sorry, it was a mistake. Please resubmit, I can't remember who it was. thank you!

@Koush

watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkPGfTEZ_r4 'What If There Were No Prices?' - By Learn Liberty Learn about the economic calculation problem. An issue striking at the very core challenge of efficient distribution of materials, labor and goods within an economy.

@Koush

I just wanted to give a Shout out to @Read.Cash, as he (and his team?) single handedly onboarded 6600+ users to Bitcoin Cash. And not only that, many if not all of them are actively using BCH each day with their activities on Read.Cash. Kudos! This is the Wae...

@Koush

Mises Wire: Why You Should Read Human Action—Very Carefully https://mises.org/wire/why-you-should-read-human-action-very-carefully There are many good reasons why those who aspire to learn and practice sound economics should read Human Action. However, the reader should approach the book with care and humility. For a book as subtle and profound as Human Action presents several pitfalls for the careless or superficial reader...