BCH Weekly News #130 (May 1, 2023)
PAYTACA PREVIEWS NEW WALLET CONNECT FEATURE
Paytaca the BCH super wallet has tweeted a preview of the latest added feature of their wallet. Paytaca plans to leverage the new abilities granted to BCH by the May 15th upgrade to allow 2-way communication between a mobile and desktop wallet through message signing.
EDUCATIONAL BITCOIN CASH MEETUP STREAM ONLINE
On April 28th the InstaCrypto team held an online meetup called "In Crypto We Trust - Blockchain Economics 101 Money" A recording of this introduction is now online on the InstaCryptoIN youtube channel.
BCH BULL HEDGING NOW AVAILABLE IN YUAN AND CHINESE
Chinese language speakers will now have an easier time hedging or leveraging their BCH using BCH Bull thanks to Chinese localization. Also now available is a price oracle denominated in Yuan. (CNY). Users around the globe can now hedge or leverage their BCH against the Yuan on BCHBULL.com
PAYPAL OWNED VENMO USERS CAN NOW TRANSFER BCH TO EXTERNAL WALLETS
60 million Venmo users will now be able to not only buy and sell Bitcoin Cash using their Venmo wallets, but also transfer to external wallets and services as well.
BITCOIN CASH METADATA REGISTRIES UPDATED
Jason Dreyzehner, the brain behind CashTokens in the May 15th BCH upgrade, has updated the Bitcoin Cash Metadata Registries (BCMR) github to include some example authenticated metadata that may be included in future contracts that can be shared between wallets. Bitcoin Cash software requires standards for locating and verifying metadata, allowing user-recognizable names, descriptions, icons, ticker symbols, and other information to be associated with on-chain artifacts like identities, tokens, and contract systems. The BCMR hopes to solve this problem.
CASHSCRIPT UPGRADES TO V0.8.0-NEXT.3
The latest release of CashScript is now available. Improvements include greater scripting abilities for BCH using CashTokens. This release builds on the last "next" release and adds automatic UTXO selection for fungible CashTokens, updated documentation and other improvements and fixes.
