BCH Weekly News #79 (May 9, 2022)
Lovers of BCH and the luxury fashion brand Gucci will be pleased to know that the high end fashion retailer will now accept BCH and other major cryptos in their US stores.
The Bitcoin Verde team has concluded their first BCH scaling tests to determine how well BCHN and Fulcrum servers perform when handling very large blocks as well as to identify better techniques for future evaluations. The test located some bottlenecks that will be addressed before the next major blocksize increase.
BCH Wallet Paytaca has upgraded to version 0.7.1. This update includes darkmode and LNS support. LNS allows people to send smartBCH to registered addresses that are easily readable and remembered by humans such as satoshisangels.bch
Liga Prof. FootGolf in Argentina was recently sponsored by Bitcoin Cash Argentina. Photos from the first two games were posted on twitter.
Bitcoin Cash was the most traded coin on Sideshift.ai with the BTC/BCH pair topping over $2 million of trades in one week. The second most traded pair was ETH/SOL at $900k
Defi monitoring site Defillama recently had an explosion of smartBCH dex additions largely due to the efforts one passionate submitter, Pat. Total Value locked numbers will now better reflect the true amount of money on the smartBCH side chain with this addition of 7 more DEXes
Bitdeer and Satoshi's Angels are sponsoring the May 2022 Bitcoin Cash Upgrade Livestream. To celebrate, $1000 in BCH will be given to the community before, during and after the live stream. The live stream with be on May 15th at 12:00pm UTC: on Youtube. Guests include: Emergent Reasons, Imaginary_Username, Jonathan Silverblood and Jason Dreyzehner. The event will be hosted by Alex and Cheap Lightning.
