TomZ

@TomZ · 9 months ago

How I talked to my neighbors and what came out of it Feb 28, 2023 The idea of starting my own Bitcoin Cash wallet has been with me for a while. Recently I reached a phase when the software became us...

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@TomZ · 10 months ago

CHIP-blockGrowth: Ensuring safe permissionless block growth

Title: Block Growth Type: Process Layer: Coordination Maintainer: Tom Zander Status: Draft Initial Publication Date: 2023-01-04 Latest Revision Date: 2023-01-06 Version: 0.1 Latest CHIP version: htt...

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@TomZ · 11 months ago

Flowee Pay beta-3 update

Just before our Christmas holidays, we are happy to announce for immediate release a new beta release of Flowee Pay for Android. Venturing into Android is an interesting trip, last beta was quite s...

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@TomZ · 11 months ago

Flowee Pay debut on Mobile (Beta)

First (barely) usable version Flowee Pay is a cross-platform wallet, which connects directly to the peer-to-peer full nodes. It is the only wallet on Bitcoin Cash that does not require some servers i...

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@TomZ · 1 year ago

Completing Bitcoin Cash with Cash Tokens

When Bitcoin was first introduced, a little over 14 years ago, it caused quite a stir. More importantly, it caused a lot of people to look at the ideas behind money and finance from a new perspective....

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@TomZ · 1 year ago

Two Worls Colliding and a Decentralized Web

The original bitcoin software is written in C++, is a standalone application and uses low level 'sockets' to build its peer-to-peer network over the Internet. Then we have the other world where apps...

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@TomZ · 1 year ago

Oracles

DeFi (Decentralized Finance) on a blockchain hits one basic problem: everyone has to be able to verify the entire historical chain, even 20 years from now. What this means is that any decision on a tr...

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@TomZ · 1 year ago

Offline dumb wallet design

How people prefer to use Bitcoin Cash is likely reflected by what people do today. When I look around me the vast majority of people that pay electronically do so by using a bank-card and only a small...

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@TomZ · 1 year ago

Flowee Pay Release: protected wallets

The 1st of August is coming up and Bitcoin Cash celebrates its liberation day. For 5 years now we've been growing and building on actual peer to peer cash! Flowee Pay is much younger, about 2 years o...

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@TomZ · 1 year ago

Payment Channels

There are several really cool ideas from decade-old discussions on Bitcoin which have not lost their power and deserve to get attention every now and then to see if someone is willing to make an actua...

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@TomZ · 1 year ago

Crypto's real goals

The Chinese proverb "May you live in interesting times" has always been said to be a blessing and a curse in equal measures. Honestly, for most of my life this idea did not really mean much to me and...

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@TomZ · 1 year ago

How well does zero-conf work?

hey guys, just wanted to add some details around the actual state of the zero-conf transaction security right now on the Bitcoin Cash chain as this is pretty exciting and I feel its in need of more a...

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@TomZ · 1 year ago

Supporting UTXO Commitments

Running the backbone of modern crypto systems, like Bitcoin Cash, are so called "full nodes". They earn that name by being able to download the raw transaction blocks and validating them to comply wit...

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@TomZ · 1 year ago

The value of your NFT

This topic comes up a lot and I got tired of writing the same general answer on chat every week, so here a quick starter on what NFTs are and what they are not. The letters NFT stand for Non-fungible...

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@TomZ · 1 year ago

Flowee Pay, December release

Here are the Flowee Headquarters, also known as my home, we believe that Bitcoin Cash is the future for most payments and it is not for nothing that our motto is to accelerate the world towards a Bitc...

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@TomZ · 2 years ago

Flowee Pay release, what did we add this time?

Tonight Flowee Pay released the 2021.06.3 version of the Flowee payment solution, or wallet. Flowee aims to accelerate the world to a Bitcoin Cash economy and realizes that a user friendly and private...

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@TomZ · 2 years ago

Flowee Pay release, whats new?

What we really need in Bitcoin Cash are enthusiastic users. We have a lot of great tech, a lot of fun people and more and more stores you can use your cash in. But we can surely do with a wallet that...

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@TomZ · 2 years ago

Mesh networking with Yggdrasil

A couple of months ago I learned of a new technology called Yggdrasil . This is a so called overlay network that uses mesh-networking. And I think this is very exciting for the broader Internet worl...

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@TomZ · 2 years ago

Quality of Service in a Decentralized World.

When millions of people use a central service, like reddit, google or facebook, we see how quality of service is important for the brand and for the user experience. Every now and then those big servi...

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@TomZ · 2 years ago

Why I don't see the point of group-tokens

A couple of months ago we saw a revival of interest in the miner validated tokens idea for Bitcoin Cash. I ended up spending about 2 full time weeks investigating the proposals and the ideas behind th...

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@TomZ · 2 years ago

Reminder: Bitcoin Cash does not have a blocksize-limit in its consensus rules.

This is your friendly regular reminder that the blocksize limit was removed from the consensus rules on August 2017 with the following statement in the original BCH spec ; the client shall enforce t...

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@TomZ · 2 years ago

Flipstarter campaigns continue to be successful, some people still have not yet realized that this is not donation based, just like kickstarter isn't donation based. This is people investing in their...

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@TomZ · 2 years ago

Happy New Year! 10 predictions for Bitcoin Cash

At the edge of our new year, there are too many people looking back, which for 2020 is a tad depressing. So instead I'm going to do a forward-looking post. Where do I see Bitcoin Cash in 3 to 5 years...

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@TomZ · 2 years ago

Could Bitcoin Cash replace VISA?

Does it scale? A story written by reddit user jessquit made me wonder, how crazy is it to think that VISA's world wide usage would be able to move to Bitcoin Cash? Jessquit writes: According to V...

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@TomZ · 2 years ago

Flowee revamp, check it out!

When I founded Flowee it was about 2 months after the creation of the Bitcoin Cash fork and the big blocks chain. At this time the only product was "the Hub", a full node. The reason I started the Fl...

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@TomZ · 3 years ago

Scaling Bitcoin Cash

I've been testing and improving scaling on Bitcoin Cash since 2016, as we have been focusing on other topics for a while there has not been a whole lot visible progress, and with this post I want to r...

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@TomZ · 3 years ago

Reminder: November 15th BCH protocol upgrade!

In 4 weeks there is a planned protocol upgrade for Bitcoin Cash. This means that you need to run a newer software stack to continue participating in Bitcoin Cash after that day. It helps to upgrade e...

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@TomZ · 3 years ago

Making regular payments more secure with dsproof

Several years ago I invented an exciting concept of a Double Spend Proof. To understand what it is, let's first figure out what a double spend is. When I use Bitcoin Cash and I pay someone, I spend a...

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@TomZ · 3 years ago

Double Spend Proofs, phase 2

Hello dear Bitcoin Cashers. People are again focusing on building a good money and this has led to a big milestone approaching for Double Spend Proofs (DSPs). I want to share an update on the progress...

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@TomZ · 3 years ago

How to ensure income for Crypto-currency infrastructure development

A hot topic for some time now is the funding of infrastructure development in Bitcoin Cash. Several methods have been suggested and tried, with varying degrees of success. A translation is available...

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