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Transcript of Amaury Sechet presenting at the Bitcoin Cash City Conference 9/5/19
3 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash – Simple Fundamentals"
Software Fundamentals; https://www.csc.gov.sg/articles/how-to-build-good-software
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"BCHA Technical Specs"
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BCHA Technical Specs
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"Why BCHA "
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Why BCHA
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What just happened to BCH?
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"What just happened to BCH?"
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List of exchanges support for BCHA
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"List of exchanges support for BCHA"
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"My hope for BCHA"
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The day before the fork
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"The day before the fork"
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"Store of Value"
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Store of Value
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"A New Hope"
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A New Hope
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"Bitcoin Funding Models - Non-coinbase vs Coinbase"
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Bitcoin Funding Models - Non-coinbase vs Coinbase
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"The Three Founding Pillars of Bitcoin Cash"
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The Three Founding Pillars of Bitcoin Cash
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Coin Fugazi Podcast 11: Builders on Bitcoin Cash Excited for New Coinbase Rule
4 years ago: commented on the article "Where I'm at in my BCH journey"
That's a great plan. Moon and devs work for free. Brilliant
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"Where I'm at in my BCH journey"
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"Bitcoin Cash November 15th Upgrade - What price is right?"
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Bitcoin Cash November 15th Upgrade - What price is right?
4 years ago: commented on the article "BCH; Sharpen your knives..."
they are now getting paid, reliably, by the miners, to perform a job that they are commissioned to do. If they don't do it? Or perform poorly? The miners will put them under review, and court replacem...
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"Are You Not Entertained?"
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"The OG Bitcoin business model is broken"
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The OG Bitcoin business model is broken
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The IFP: Part 3
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Bitcoin ABC v. BCHN bchd BU
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"Bitcoin ABC v. BCHN bchd BU"
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"Have I tipped you?"
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Have I tipped you?
4 years ago: commented on the article "BCH; Sharpen your knives..."
Precisely the opposite. It needed anonymity to appear less legitimate, insofar as there is nobody to attribute to its creation & punish, and encourage the entire cypherpunk coders to contribute . Now,...
4 years ago: published the article
BCH; Sharpen your knives...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash as a Hangover Cure"
THIS is something like the retort I was looking for from an earlier article of mine, which meant to highlight the ailment of BTC network losing its MoE qualities... writing style on 💯 too, per usual...
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"Bitcoin Cash as a Hangover Cure"
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Bitcoin Cash as a Hangover Cure
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"Amaury Séchet: Part 2"
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"Amaury Séchet: Part 1"
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Amaury Séchet: Part 1
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash is the Remnant "
I get what he's saying... the reactionary narrative to HODL led to an emphasis on spedn, which led to a lacking of the SoV proposition. To me it seemed obvious that the utility of BCH led to it's SoV...
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"Bitcoin Cash is the Remnant "
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Bitcoin Cash is the Remnant
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Fun At DevCon
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Animal Farm
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"Animal Farm"
4 years ago: commented on the article "Revisiting Ownership in Bitcoin"
Great articulation of such a... complex topic, as it interlopes words from the physical world, into the mathematical world, as you so aptly describe.
I'm reminded of the whole Jordan Peterson & Sam H...
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"Revisiting Ownership in Bitcoin"
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Revisiting Ownership in Bitcoin
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Arbitrary Rule of Amaury; the Rhetoric & Actio..."
A hashwar is not what I was implying. An amicable split would foster better relations following a split. Band together, in the sense we recognize our vision for p2p cash, but different means of achiev...
4 years ago: commented on the article ""
Astute observation... lol. I'll have to start playing around with this! I wonder if a #hashtag functionality works here... #bitcoin
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Arbitrary Rule of Amaury; the Rhetoric & Actio..."
The Miners don't care if ABC claims ownership or not, so long as they write valuable code commensurate to the IFP fee. Perhaps it's bc the real "owners" of any chain is the people behind the hash sup...
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Are these "short posts" like tweets? 🧐🤔
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Arbitrary Rule of Amaury; the Rhetoric & Actio..."
"current ABC software is designed to make the ethical chain unprofitable."
This sentiment is what underlies the #Bitshevik movement.
Follow your conscious & follow the ethical chain.
I don't view i...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Arbitrary Rule of Amaury; the Rhetoric & Actio..."
Are you saying that the whitepaper does talk about monetary policy & how it shouldn't be enforced by code? If you could cite where you see that, I must've missed it.
And can you expand on how a poten...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Arbitrary Rule of Amaury; the Rhetoric & Actio..."
Ahhh an actual comment & not spam! so refreshing thank you lol
It wasnt my intent to hide my belief that an ABC IFP fee has a good chance of fostering the BCH mission. Why would "picking a side" prec...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Arbitrary Rule of Amaury; the Rhetoric & Actio..."
@zaibimayoo 🧐
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Arbitrary Rule of Amaury; the Rhetoric & Actio..."
Bitcoin Cash is as Bitcoin Cash does. We will get to see which one builds the chain which best serves as a P2P electronic cash system for the world. Outside that, the label of which one is "the real B...
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Arbitrary Rule of Amaury; the Rhetoric & Actio..."
🤣🤣🤣
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Arbitrary Rule of Amaury; the Rhetoric & Actio..."
🤣🤣🤣 before seeing it was you, when I first read your comment I was like, wow thats a new one & rather egregious LMFAO RE; all this mofo spam on here pining for the points payout ughhh
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Arbitrary Rule of Amaury; the Rhetoric & Actio..."
He tried, and realized it was futile. I feel ABC exhausted these options in trying to follow "the community." But at the end of the day, stuff needs to get done, and consulting the illusory "community...
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BCH Unlimited 1.9 is Released
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The Arbitrary Rule of Amaury; the Rhetoric & Actions of a Dictator?
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The Bitcoin ABC 2020-2022 Strategy & Roadmap
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ABC Dragging Feet or Existential Choice?
4 years ago: commented on the article "Did you know? A couple of fun facts about Bitcoin..."
Thanks for reading my article! Best of luck to you & BCHN.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Why I Recently Converted From ABC to BCHN"
Would be a good exercise to contrast this article with that of Joannes Vermorel's https://blog.vermorel.com/journal/2020/8/24/empirical-insights-on-bchn.html
4 years ago: commented on the article "10 Points for Radical Transparency> Radical Privac..."
youre not doomed to a downvote. i invite you to actually read the article! I'd value your feedback
4 years ago: commented on the article "10 Points for Radical Transparency> Radical Privac..."
read the last sentence
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10 Points for Radical Transparency> Radical Privacy; a means for achieving indiv...
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Who supports Bitcoin ABC?
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"Who supports Bitcoin ABC?"
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"Governance Pre-Consensus Can Bring Stability to Bitcoin Cash"
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Governance Pre-Consensus Can Bring Stability to Bitcoin Cash
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"A message from chairman Maomaury to reach.cash"
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A message from chairman Maomaury to reach.cash
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Simplest Reason against the IFP"
When you say donations from the blockchain, do you mean the IFP coinbase fee?
I love this second point. It's a point I struggle to package adequately to the community, given the ethos of Bitcoin bei...
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"Supporting the New Bitcoin Cash Coinbase Rule "
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Supporting the New Bitcoin Cash Coinbase Rule
4 years ago: commented on the article "The Simplest Reason against the IFP"
I'm revisiting this article. This is a great point. But, if Miners consent to such funding, why don't they just direct it towards the developers themselves? Why does it need to be implemented unilater...
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Transactions in Stamp: Part 1 - Privacy
4 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin ABC's 8% Play for Bitcoin Cash"
This is exactly what I needed. Great analysis & always love the color commentary. Feel like a got a a map of the landscape now. Looking forward to CoinFugazi this is a hot start
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Bitcoin ABC's 8% Play for Bitcoin Cash
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"Bitcoin ABC's 8% Play for Bitcoin Cash"
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Are You Not Entertained?
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Amaury doesn‘t get paid
4 years ago: commented on the article "Announcing the Bitcoin Cash mêmé competition of 20..."
https://read.cash/@SeanBallard/some-freshly-baked-memes-for-at-micropresidents-competition-240404df
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Some freshly baked Memes for @micropresident's Competition...
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An interview with Shammah Chancellor about his new project: Stamp
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The Cryptocurrency of Theseus: What is our Identity, and why are we fighting?
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Remembering the Liberty Dollar, the threat to BTC; Node Decentralization, HODL &...
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Remembering the Liberty Dollar, the threat to BTC; Node Decentralization, HODL &...
4 years ago: published the article
Remembering the Liberty Dollar, the threat to BTC; Node Decentralization, HODL &...
4 years ago: published the article
Remembering the Liberty Dollar, the threat to BTC; Node Decentralization, HODL &...
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"Bitcoin Core developers do understand economics"
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Bitcoin Core developers do understand economics
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BCH Privacy using CashFusion for dummies
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"Personalized payouts from the fund"
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Personalized payouts from the fund
4 years ago: commented on the article "The 5 worst replies to J.K. Rowling's Bitcoin twee..."
Hahaha the JK fiasco was so revealing. Got a longgggg way to go. Further shows me that it's not going to just be ppl fleeing to BTC bc muh scarcity. The ux needs to be there for increased adoption>dem...
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"The 5 worst replies to J.K. Rowling's Bitcoin tweet"
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The 5 worst replies to J.K. Rowling's Bitcoin tweet
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Remembering the Liberty Dollar, the threat to BTC; Node Decentralization, HODL &...
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read.cash needs to be a MeRiToCrAcY
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"read.cash needs to be a MeRiToCrAcY"
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"Mythbusting: Running a Bitcoin node is "expensive" if block size is bigger"
4 years ago: commented on the article "My Experience Using OpenBazaar for buying Bitcoin..."
someone is trying to get a piece of that read.cash fund payout 😝
4 years ago: commented on the article "My Experience Using OpenBazaar for buying Bitcoin..."
Yes! Thanks. Indeed very important for those in the know to actually use these platforms & share. If not us, who? Rare opportunity we have. In the process of also using Purse.io & local.bitcoin. Might...
4 years ago: published the article
My Experience Using OpenBazaar for buying Bitcoin Cash
4 years ago: published the article
My Experience Using OpenBazaar for buying Bitcoin Cash
4 years ago: commented on the article "My Experience Using OpenBazaar for buying Bitcoin..."
Thanks! Plan on writing more on practical guides/examples/experiences of actually using these cool technologies
4 years ago: commented on the article "Upvotes and downvotes"
I agree. I also think it would be cool to have a downvote mechanism where you can pay, but instead of going to the author (obvi) it goes to the newly implemented read.cash fund
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BCH House Ghana Update - April 2020
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"read.cash fund"
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read.cash fund
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Testing the new read.cash points system
4 years ago: published the article
My Experience Using OpenBazaar for buying Bitcoin Cash
4 years ago: commented on the article "Taking back our identities"
Makes so much sense.
TLDR; this new messaging protocol runs by users paying per message ($BCH satoshis) instead of Googles funding your messages by selling your data, which enhances privacy & limits...
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"Taking back our identities"
4 years ago: commented on the article ""How to fix bad writing before you type a single w..."
Realizing this was dumb was just antsy to share it w the community somehow. Apologies & thanks for the notification
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"How to fix bad writing before you type a single word"
4 years ago: commented on the article "How to make 1 Billion people use BCH?- my idea"
Very cool & refreshing to see a systemized & rather actionable approach to adoption! Makes sense to me.
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"How to make 1 Billion people use BCH?- my idea"
4 years ago: commented on the article "King of Bitcoin (Cash)"
Totally agree. The BCH commitment to an accepting & voluntaryist culture is what sets it apart, and holy balls CashFusion is a gamechanger, no doubt. No wonder it is the only crypto to be introduced t...
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"Three simple and effective ways to secure your crypto wallets from hackers (personal experience)"
4 years ago: commented on the article "Three simple and effective ways to secure your cry..."
I am curious for the tactic you use when writing down passwords! I use the same tactic, but interested in yours. I was struggling to follow your method in the post. I just use obvious unique individua...
4 years ago: published the article
Can't Spell Culture without the Cult; A synopsis of the BCH experience
4 years ago: commented on the article "To Be a Better Writer, Don't Identify as a Writer"
holy cow amazing piece! v inspiring thanks for writing this
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"To Be a Better Writer, Don't Identify as a Writer"
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"Mythbusting: Bitcoin must have internet and a smartphone to work"
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"Article"
4 years ago: commented on the article "Hello read.cash, I'm stephany and this is my firs..."
I'm reminded of this song/video given your love of music & Hispanic roots!
https://youtu.be/jMoufkGH0dk
4 years ago: commented on the article "Hello read.cash, I'm stephany and this is my firs..."
So cool that this platform & BCH has randomly connected me to a soul in Venezuela! So awesome. This is why I love Bitcoin. Censorless, borderless, hard & honest money for humanity! Hope the best for y...
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"Hello read.cash, I'm stephany and this is my first post. (presentation)"
4 years ago: commented on the article "When MUSIC meets BCH"
I may have missed something, but how does music meet BCH? I saw the last sentence about "cross-chain musicoin with Bitcoin Cash" but not sure what is meant by that.
The PPP smart contracts for distri...
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"Some read.cash tips for new people"
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The Simplest Reason against the IFP
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"The Best Of Intentions: The Dev Tax Is Intended to Benefit Investors But Will Corrupt Us Instead"
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"Risk For Bitcoin Cash = Up"
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"Boosting articles"
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"My View on the Miner Infrastructure Funding Plan"
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"Thoughts on developer funding"
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"We dont allow the block-tax"
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"An average joe's thoughts on the new infrastructure funding plan for Bitcoin Cash"
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"BCH Privacy using CashFusion for dummies"
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"547 Leaflets were Distributed: The Town Reacts - What is Bitcoin Cash?"
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"Why Mises would love Mitra; Bitcoin Cash‘s hidden superpower that even Ethereum 2.0 doesn‘t have"
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"Don't forget the Mythbuster competition!"
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"Achievement unlocked: Bitcoin Cash fixed all common third-party transaction malleation vectors"
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"How to operate a Bitcoin Cash Full Node (Bitcoin Unlimited) on Raspberry Pi?"
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"Bitcoin Cash is getting a spec!"
4 years ago: commented on the article "More than 120 days in love with BCH!"
✊ keep fighting the good fight. Viva la revolucion!
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"More than 120 days in love with BCH!"
4 years ago: commented on the article "Why is BCH a fraction of the BTC price?"
1. Great point. Depending on the value of ur Bitcoin, & concentration of said Bitcoin into address(es) determines its security. (great read on confirmations needed for given tx value <https://www.bloo...
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"ABC Dragging Feet or Existential Choice?"
4 years ago: commented on the article "An Open Letter to Roger Ver"
RE; Amaury "attacking" Roger, I believe Amaury explains the situation well in this podcast w Coinspice. From the horse's mouth 👍
https://coinspice.io/news/podcast-bch-dev-amaury-sechet-gets-spicy-ro...
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"An Open Letter to Roger Ver"
4 years ago: commented on the article "Why is BCH a fraction of the BTC price?"
Insofar as keeping the cost of running a non-mining node low doesn't meaningfully contribute to decentralization, I tend to agree. However, the BTC blockchain is thermodynamically protected with the m...
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"BCH dominates cryptocurrency payments in Australia for 3 consecutive months"
4 years ago: published the article
Why is BCH a fraction of the BTC price?
4 years ago: commented on the article "Lead image"
Oh neat! Gotta love some good data insights. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one
4 years ago: commented on the article "Lead image"
OPINION; I liked it better without these images as thumbnails on home site... feels so busy & overwhelming & more about hit pieces than quality content. I fancied the feng shui of the site without the...
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"The Benevolent Dictator"
4 years ago: commented on the article "An Introduction"
I looove writing as well. I share the same issues you do with it, except I wouldn't say its necessarily laziness? As much as perfectionism, & the daunting expectations I lay onto myself... which leads...
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"An Introduction"
4 years ago: commented on the article "A Bitcoin Cash Story 2"
Lol only just read the first Bitcoin Cash Story & realizing it's more than likely a piece of fiction... whoops! Doesn't make it any less enjoyable or encouraging tho looking forward to the continuatio...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Sztorc v. Armani debate"
Great summary! Not my fave work from Vin, but that said also not bad. I know Steve Patterson was hammering him for his statement of BCH vision not to scale on-chain. I think that's a reasonable stance...
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"Sztorc v. Armani debate"
4 years ago: commented on the article "A Bitcoin Cash Story 2"
Wow... you're amazing for the actual act itself, but just as good is your recounting of it for us... inspiring me to do something similar! I've been discouraged the last couple months from educating a...
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"A Bitcoin Cash Story 2"
5 years ago: commented on the article "What Happens when BTC fees prohibit normal transac..."
I use BCH plenty & hope to use as much as possible! I will be testing the UX of local.bitcoin.com in coming weeks for USD liquidity as a vital component for adoption
5 years ago: commented on the article "What Happens when BTC fees prohibit normal transac..."
Skin in the game! 👌 I straddle both & try to stay informed on both networks, with a considerable bent towards BCH
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"The "red banner" day (post-mortem)"
5 years ago: commented on the article "What Happens when BTC fees prohibit normal transac..."
Wow! It has lots more options since my last use some months. I'll try it out soon. Thanks!
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"Why Adoption DOES matter"
5 years ago: published the article
What Happens when BTC fees prohibit normal transactions?
5 years ago: commented on the article "Transcript of Amaury Sechet presenting at the Bitc..."
So, the major distinction is between decentralization of the Bitcoin Cash NETWORK vs COMMUNITY. They are obvi separate, but it's important that the distinction be clarified.
Cooperation is key withi...
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"Transcript of Amaury Sechet presenting at the Bitcoin Cash City Conference 9/5/19"