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Profile links Now you can add **multiple links** (Reddit, Twitter, 2 websites, memo) on your page (click "Your articles" in right-top menu or your name anywhere) Here's how to do it: Did we miss some kind of a link that needs to be added? Let us know in the comments. Oh and we display **the** **number of subscribers** now. Actually, we thought we were doing that for about a month, turns out there was a bug that nobody have noticed.
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Download your articles and self-host Note: The link to this post is in the footer of every page ("Self-host") One of the important things that we decided we wanted to have from the start was **the ability to download all of your content**, just in case read.cash goes out-of-business or the servers are confiscated or something like that. Now you can do that. You won't get the exact copy of the articles *as you see them here*, more like a "*bare bones HTML with all classes and…
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Let Bitcoin Cash Ror! Yes, "Ror"... I'll explain. As probably every cryptocurrency fan I want my favorite cryptocurrency to become the world money. **Theory:** In order to stop depending on US Dollars or whatever local or reserve currency people use now, people need to start thinking in terms Bitcoin Cash denominations, not in US dollars and cents. There's obviously a problem in Bitcoin Cash that prevents this. (There might be more problems, like volatility, but this one is…
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Better main page **EDIT 7 Dec 2019**: The home page was updated once again thanks to the constructive criticism by @jsmith_dev on Reddit. https://read.cash/@jsmith_dev https://old.reddit.com/r/readcash/comments/e77ytw/new_ui_eeeek/ The new and (hopefully) improved home page is up and topics pages are also updated. This improves discoverability quite a lot. If your article has a nearly gray image - that's the default thumbnail that uses some word in the title and…
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Explanation of Bitcoin Cash... for normal people **Bitcoin Cash** is "you are your own bank" money. It exists solely on the Internet. It's the money that **nobody can print** out of thin air **destroying your savings**. It's the money that **can't be taken away from you** by anyone **without you cooperating**. It's the money that you can **hide in your brain**. It's the money that can be moved in **billions** in seconds **for less than one US cent**. It's the money that…
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Affiliate by default As of today you'll find this below every article: Unlike other places, if you are logged in, these **will share your affiliate links** **by default**. read.cash is growing nicely, but so far **only 9 people** discovered the benefits of the affiliate program. This is our failure.. the failure of the user interface that we've built, that doesn't make it obvious how to share the affiliate links. Hopefully, this changes today! The good news: our top…
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Number of views and better visibility for older articles Today we have started showing the number of views of the articles: Behind the scenes we've also started tracking the number of views and clicks on the article. That should help us somewhat with determining which articles are interesting and which are not so much. That should help us with the problem of "old, but still good" content. The problem is that we are now closing to 500 published articles. Some of the older…
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Saved articles This has been requested by @GeukensMathieu. https://twitter.com/GeukensMathieu/status/1201594459231838210 You can now save articles to your personal "Saved articles" list. https://read.cash/saved Which looks like this: Have fun! [sponsors]
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1000 upvotes 🎉 A small victory for us and the whole Bitcoin Cash ecosystem! **1000 paid upvotes** have been given as on-chain transactions to support the writers and creators on the 53rd day of existence of read.cash. A personal thank you goes to every participant - both the authors and the generous tippers! Hooray! [sponsors]
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Size estimation of read.cash Reddit asked us: "How big is read.cash compared to other similar sites?" https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/e7ljlz/interesting_stats_number_of_articles_published/fa1de1e/ Well, here's our best estimate on the 53rd day of existence of read.cash: [**BREAKING NEWS:** Due to the late discovery, *publish0x.com* was added to the first slide, but not to the rest] Hard to see, let me show you our proud little dot a bit closer: How did we come up with…
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Lead image Finally, you have an ability to select an image that will be displayed on the main and topic pages. Actually you even have to select one now. Luckily it's pretty easy with Unsplash integration - just search for some nice image and be done with it. Yeah, it's called "lead image", because someday we'll give you the ability to have a nice big header image as a background or something like that. But for now it's used only as a thumbnail for the main/topic pages. You…
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A reason to upvote people's "first posts" on read.cash if you believe in Bitcoin Cash It might seem unreasonable that we (read.cash) give paid upvotes to many posts where people simply introduce themselves. These posts add nothing of value, right? We think it's **pretty important** for Bitcoin Cash ecosystem. First of all, of course, its for people to feel welcome. Cryptocurrency communities have enough feuds going on to turn away any newbies. But, there are even more…
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How to actually make money blogging (on read.cash or anywhere) In short Do: Write about something that **interests** people Write **periodically**: every day, every few days, every week **Engage** your audience to do some action to stay with you Be **readable**, use correct grammar Have **patience** - blogging takes time **Promote** your articles Prefer writing in a **language** you know well Don't: **Don't** write about something that **has millions of other authors**…
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Two months of read.cash December 18th would mark exactly two months since the first line of code for read.cash was written. **What have we achieved?** **Not much**. Sorry! That'd be the end of this article. Thank you for staying with us! No? Need more? Ok... Let's see... We're still tiny, but we're bigger than we were one month ago. https://read.cash/@Read.Cash/size-estimation-of-readcash-7c0b1859 https://www.similarweb.com/website/read.cash **Take that** website with…
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Legal images Dear writers, as you are often **in need of images for your articles**, please note that you can't just go to Google Search and take images that you like - it's not legal. You might get sued for that and pay big amounts of money to copyright owners. Here are a few places where you can get a lot of images **legally**: https://pixabay.com https://unsplash.com https://pexels.com (These three sites are the most interesting, since they don't require links back to…
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Why read.cash doesn't work in Tor Browser **UPDATE2:** read.cash now works in Tor Browser! **UPDATE:** We have removed the dependency on api.coingecko.com (though, we still use their data). One step closer to supporting Tor browser. https://www.coingecko.com/en/api Some people using Tor Browser asked us the reasons why read.cash didn't work in Tor Browser. It's not our decision. We are using an external API rest.bitcoin.com for connectivity to the Bitcoin Cash network.…
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Sponsorship embed As of today, you can now embed your sponsors on read.cash into your other sites and GitHub. Though, GitHub presents a bit of a problem, since it doesn't allow any interactivity and also seems to cache the image (hopefully, not forever, but we don't know). If you control your own site - you can easily embed an interactive version with clickable logos, like this. https://rcimg.net/images/sponsors/svg/Read.Cash.html Here's an example embed on GitHub (it links…
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Security issue on read.cash (post-mortem) Yesterday, we were alerted about a security issue affecting CashID login (via Badger Wallet). Under some conditions, a user was able to log in into other random user's account. The issue has since been fixed. The issue was with our CashID implementation. Before you start the process of identifying a user with CashID, you create a "nonce" - basically, a random string. During the process, CashID client returns that this nonce should be…
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Somebody is preparing something nasty on read.cash Today, we have discovered this in our list of users: **838 users** registered like that. Usually it wouldn't be ok to publish someone's email, but in this case these are so obviously fake. It seems read.cash got so interesting that people are taking time to craft some custom attacks. We don't really understand what could it achieve, since you can only earn money if you do something useful and people actually send you…
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Language filters Today, we have added the language filters. The main page was getting a little crowded with all the different languages, so hopefully these help a bit with reading only the things you can understand.
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$600 (in BCH) in upvotes So, I was looking at the read.cash's "total upvotes given in USD equivalent" chart and almost spilled my coffee... Something seemed way off... I mean... That can't be right! A few days ago @unitedstatian published the book called "The Bitcoin Wars: how it was seized by unknown attackers in a brilliant scheme", which was a very interesting read. https://read.cash/@unitedstatian…