@TomZ activity
1 year ago: published the article
Products, not features!
1 year ago: commented on the article "PanXCafé: Building a circular economy with Bitcoin..."
Cool to see you starting this and are looking for overseas investors.
The question I have not seen answered is the business part of it. It is clear your heart is in it, but you need more to do good b...
1 year ago: gave $5.00 tip to
"Small step for [a] man and one giant leap for an island"
1 year ago: commented on the article "CHIP-blockGrowth: Ensuring safe permissionless blo..."
Thank you for letting me know, added it now!
1 year ago: published the article
CHIP-blockGrowth: Ensuring safe permissionless block growth
1 year ago: commented on the article "On Mercenaries and Grifters."
The basics of open market rewards a person being honest and doing their best ONLY in a repeat-payment situation.
This is extremely relevant in your story as all the ways that we, in bitcoin cash, hi...
1 year ago: published the article
Flowee Pay beta-3 update
1 year ago: commented on the article "CASHTOKENS - a New CHIP For Bitcoin Cash coming In..."
See also https://read.cash/@TomZ/completing-bitcoin-cash-with-cash-tokens-e530d38d
1 year ago: commented on the article "Flowee Pay debut on Mobile (Beta)"
The Flowee Pay wallet on desktop already has encrypted wallets and protection, see
https://read.cash/@TomZ/flowee-pay-release-protected-wallets-2a760f22
this has not yet made it to the mobile user-i...
1 year ago: published the article
Flowee Pay debut on Mobile (Beta)
1 year ago: commented on the article "Perma-banned on r/btc Reddit"
There are more than 2 mods, you seem to think that all the good came from one and all the not-so-well-worded came from me. That is not so. As I wrote in my other comment, the "kind and human" comment...
1 year ago: commented on the article "Perma-banned on r/btc Reddit"
> To the other mod that was kind and human, cheers.
I try. Can't please everyone. Happy that my words were seen as kind and human.
1 year ago: published the article
Completing Bitcoin Cash with Cash Tokens
1 year ago: published the article
Two Worls Colliding and a Decentralized Web
1 year ago: gave thumbs up to the article
The Resolution of the smartBCH Experiment.
1 year ago: commented on the article "The Resolution of the smartBCH Experiment."
Great update, thank you for writing it. Its probably the most insightful update on that community to date. :-)
> SmartBCH is of course a project built on top of BCH.
I feel triggered enough to poin...
1 year ago: published the article
Oracles
1 year ago: commented on the article "Offline dumb wallet design"
In early drafts of a next payment protocol the PoS would have the opportunity to ask the offline wallet to please provide the previous transaction it is spending from.
The PoS can then broadcast mult...
1 year ago: published the article
Offline dumb wallet design
1 year ago: published the article
Flowee Pay Release: protected wallets
1 year ago: commented on the article "Payment Channels"
> this makes it sound like funds move, which sounds custodial
Custodial means that someone else holds the keys to moving it and you are not able to move it without their permission. That is a rather...
1 year ago: published the article
Payment Channels
1 year ago: commented on the article "The CoinFlex Chronicles: Mark Lamb Vs Roger Ver"
The end section where you speak positive about smart-BCH is a bit too optimistic.
smart-bch is basically a 2nd layer protocol which bootstrapped using BCH instead of doing some sort of initial-coin-o...
1 year ago: commented on the article "Crypto's real goals"
Thank you!
You are right about the 1000 euro bill! I mixed it up with my own countries' old currency which did have one of 1000.
https://www.knm.nl/1000-gulden-spinoza-1972-pr/nl/product/10250/
Tha...
1 year ago: commented on the article "Crypto's real goals"
👍
1 year ago: commented on the article "Crypto's real goals"
The difference between the European Central Bank and "the government" is indeed possible to describe, but not really relevant to this article. The ECB is still owned by the governments. It just is a c...
1 year ago: published the article
Crypto's real goals
1 year ago: commented on the article "The Rise of NFTs"
Further reading on NFTs: https://read.cash/@TomZ/the-value-of-your-nft-98248103
1 year ago: commented on the article "How well does zero-conf work?"
> Is it possible for a double-spend proof message to be generated when the sender is not attempting to double-spend?
No.
You need a specially written wallet to double spend, it is not possible to ac...
1 year ago: published the article
How well does zero-conf work?
1 year ago: commented on the article "Embedding YouTube, Vimeo, lbry.tv videos"
Odysee videos not embededed?? :(
https://odysee.com/@Flowee:1/flowee-pay-receive:4
1 year ago: published the article
Supporting UTXO Commitments
2 years ago: commented on the article "Introducing BCH Multipurpose Farm || Please suppor..."
This is probably a little off-topic, but I would be very happy if you could consider my question.
In the pictures it shows you are planting and growing corn. It is my understanding that corn is reall...
2 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Introducing BCH Multipurpose Farm || Please support my flipstarter campaign
2 years ago: commented on the article "The value of your NFT"
cool thoughts!
Just be aware that this equals you publishing for the world your serieal numbers. And that means that anyone on the street can see your car and with a bit of effort find out its yours,...
2 years ago: published the article
The value of your NFT
2 years ago: published the article
Flowee Pay, December release
2 years ago: published the article
Flowee Pay release, what did we add this time?
2 years ago: commented on the article "Flowee Pay release, whats new?"
I think that is a great idea.
Flowee Pay already today recognized cash-fusion transactions and shows them in the overview. Creating them is indeed something that would be needed too.
2 years ago: published the article
Flowee Pay release, whats new?
2 years ago: commented on the article "Mesh networking with Yggdrasil"
Yggdrasil is indeed different from onion networks, Ygg does not aim to make requests anonymous. At best you are semi-anonymous as your Yggdrasil generated IP-address will be visible to websites you vi...
2 years ago: published the article
Mesh networking with Yggdrasil
2 years ago: commented on the article "Why is bitcoin becoming legal tender is bad for cr..."
> Merchants are also obligated to do commerce in USD
So, you are saying that it is illegal for anyone doing business in the US to not accept USD ?
There is no such law to my knowledge.
Feel free...
2 years ago: commented on the article "Why is bitcoin becoming legal tender is bad for cr..."
> A legal tender is, "money that is legally valid for the payment of debts and that must be accepted for that purpose when offered."
Agreed.
> In short, A legal tender is an asset/payment system th...
2 years ago: commented on the article "New Flipstarter campaign: Implementing Double-Spen..."
> Knuth's code is not descended from Satoshi's code (like BCHN, BU and Flowee) so copying the code is not an option for us.
Hmm, when I look at your CTransaction and the one from Flowee, they look v...
2 years ago: commented on the article "New Flipstarter campaign: Implementing Double-Spen..."
> The estimated time for implementing DS-Proofs on Knuth core library is 320 hours. At a rate of 0.2 BCH/hr the total requested funding for this phase of development is 64 BCH.
Dude, check your numbe...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Quality of Service in a Decentralized World."
Thanks for spotting that!
3 years ago: published the article
Quality of Service in a Decentralized World.
3 years ago: commented on the article "Why I don't see the point of group-tokens"
> A pillar of your argument, however, is that Group itself is a very simple change
What I tried to explain is that the group itself is making changes in parts that already work just fine. I didn't m...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Why I don't see the point of group-tokens"
The only part of the token ecosystem you can move to a full node is the transfer of token-amounts. Group moves nothing else there.
So while you worry about getting false info for a transfer, you miss...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Why I don't see the point of group-tokens"
SLP is an entire stack, it includes the middleware.
Group, labeled SLP2.0, does not replace that stack. Does not make that entire stack miner-validated. Does not remove the need for the middleware....
3 years ago: commented on the article "Why I don't see the point of group-tokens"
> I did not []
no, as you so clearly state, you are not the one this referred to.
3 years ago: commented on the article "Why I don't see the point of group-tokens"
I'm happy you commented and pointed this out, but not sure why you felt the need to point this out. This is well known and assumed.
Just like in SLP the way to find out the name of a token you just r...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Why I don't see the point of group-tokens"
> knowing whether a token is valid is the hard/frustrating part
Why don't you just ask an SLP validating node? (marked as middleware in the article)
3 years ago: published the article
Why I don't see the point of group-tokens
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
General Protocols Statement on "CHIP-2021-02 Group Tokenization for Bitcoin Cash"
3 years ago: gave $0.50 tip to
"The World Cries With You Myanmar"
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
The World Cries With You Myanmar
3 years ago: gave $2.00 tip to
"Kailangan ang isang development fund."
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Kailangan ang isang development fund.
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
我们需要发展基金
3 years ago: commented on the article "GP Statement on CHIP-2021-02-Add-Native-Introspect..."
meta comment; https://read.cash/@TomZ/cash-improvement-proposals-a62b21e3
3 years ago: gave $1.00 tip to
"“It Always begins with Ourselves”"
3 years ago: commented on the article "Big ideas in BCH"
> listed six items which seemed to have rough high level consensus
Well, no, someone just wrote that and most of the devs in the space only saw the list when it was published. Thats not consensus. S...
3 years ago: published the article
Reminder: Bitcoin Cash does not have a blocksize-limit in its consensus rules.
3 years ago: gave $1.00 tip to
"Show Your Support For BitcoinCash Using Your Talent!"
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Show Your Support For BitcoinCash Using Your Talent!
3 years ago: commented on the article "Full Transcript: Jeffrey Tucker on Bitcoin, Bitcoi..."
I think I'll make this my yearly re-watch. Jeffrey is soo on-topic and points out WHY we developers are doing this, what the stakes are and sometimes I just need that. You know?
Thank you for making...
3 years ago: gave $5.00 tip to
"Full Transcript: Jeffrey Tucker on Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monetary Fundamentals, and Human Rights"
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Full Transcript: Jeffrey Tucker on Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Monetary Fundamentals, and Human Rights
3 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin was meant to scale: Storing the blockchain..."
From [this scaling article](https://read.cash/@TomZ/could-bitcoin-cash-replace-visa-0021e11e):
> disk space wise you can get a VISA-competitor for $3 per day. There are probably millions of businesse...
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
What's With The Bitcoincash Logo?
3 years ago: gave $0.50 tip to
"What's With The Bitcoincash Logo?"
3 years ago: commented on the article "An overview of Bitcoin Cash consensus upgrade sche..."
Absolutely, easiest to start is here: https://t.me/BCHNetworkDiscussions
3 years ago: gave $1.00 tip to
"Restart: Zero BCH"
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Restart: Zero BCH
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Funny Moments as a Merchant of Bitcoin Cash
3 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash Full Node - No Updates on May 2021"
Please note that Flowee the Hub should be in the list of full nodes that made this announcement.
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
About the AnyHedge protocol and how Bitcoin Cash is already a store of value
3 years ago: commented on the article "Happy New Year! 10 predictions for Bitcoin Cash"
hmm, no... I mean that a company can exploit its platform advantage by shipping a bitcoin cash wallet that is made the default for those platform users... Just like IE on Windows.
IE held back web...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Happy New Year! 10 predictions for Bitcoin Cash"
In case you are misunderstanding what the microsoft example is: they used their platform (Windows) to get an advantage for their browser (IE). They got fined by the EU and possibly other governments a...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Happy New Year! 10 predictions for Bitcoin Cash"
> What are you thinking about? Scam?
What I was thinking about is the line before:
> Where we saw Microsoft exploit its platform advantage, I expect we will see companies try this here too.
---...
3 years ago: published the article
Happy New Year! 10 predictions for Bitcoin Cash
3 years ago: commented on the article "Could Bitcoin Cash replace VISA?"
I'd support that!
3 years ago: commented on the article ""
https://noise.cash/u/Flowee
3 years ago: published the article
Could Bitcoin Cash replace VISA?
3 years ago: commented on the article "Flowee revamp, check it out!"
> what the argument is for you NOT providing a DSProof field
Hmm, my suggestion was to do it in the rest service or any of the other existing ones. So, if that is what you want then we agree.
> so i...
3 years ago: commented on the article "An overview of Bitcoin Cash consensus upgrade sche..."
> else we'll descend into either balkanized chaos or centralized dictatorship
I would not jump to such drastic conclusions :) Or, simply: making dramatic statements requires you to prove them.
You d...
3 years ago: gave $0.50 tip to
"Raising the Bar on Bitcoin Cash Upgrades"
3 years ago: commented on the article "Flowee revamp, check it out!"
> is what I'm asking for possible with Flowee the Hub?
Flowee the Hub has had DSProofs for more than a year, the design in the full node is to put the in the P2P protocol. It does that.
> i know BU...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Flowee revamp, check it out!"
> existing data services (eg. ElectrumX and Fulcrum). However, I'm interested in providing a REST-based API query for DSProofs.
As far as I know, ElectrumX does exactly that. It is a REST based ser...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Flowee revamp, check it out!"
Hello!
DSProofs are designed and are now shared between full nodes, this was a large amount of work (and is still ongoing) because a lot of full nodes want to coordinate and forward each others DSPro...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Flowee revamp, check it out!"
Our products are meant to be the infrastructure for Bitcoin Cash. We build the roads mapping out the wilderness so makers can reach all the exciting destinations with much less fuss.
Just a week ago...
3 years ago: published the article
Flowee revamp, check it out!
3 years ago: commented on the article "Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for..."
> I do think, however, that we should agree and formalize at least one ISO4217 compatible unit that also works in accounting software, that may use ISO4217 due to legal requirements.
Anyone doing thi...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for..."
> X means it does not belong to any national currency
The actual standard is a bit more harsh in its wording. It says that anything starting with X is not regulated by them and not recognized by the...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for..."
I agree on part of the problem. I agree that it is important to talk to bookkeeping software makers on an approach that works well. And I agree that this likely means they store (in the books) the equ...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for..."
> to be honest, I'd be fine with just using satoshis directly
I'd think that practically every wallet has the standard range of visualizations. BCH/mBCH/µBCH ( bits or cash)/sats.
3 years ago: commented on the article "Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for..."
Personally, I'd say you are overthinking this.
* wallets are valued in fiat, not in crypto for quite some time to come (probably for years to come).
* when people start to label prices in crypto inst...
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
General Protocols Launches Production Oracle
3 years ago: commented on the article "Was There Ever a Funding Problem?"
What I understand is that the entire BCH ecosystem rejected the taxation based funding. (IFP). The premise being that taxation (or whatever you want to call it) makes it not be Bitcoin Cash anymore....
3 years ago: commented on the article "Was There Ever a Funding Problem?"
> But that is based on how much they buy, there's no garuntee that their efforts will be correlated with compensation.
Reward is indeed not based on effort, reward is based on actual effect and resul...
3 years ago: gave $0.10 tip to
"help me coverting to legacy address"
3 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash (BCH) forked in again, a pair of chai..."
> BCHN makes a risky gamble by trying to hire and tax a vast number of BCH workers.
You have that reversed, mate.
3 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash - Beyond the November 2020 Hard Fork"
Thank you for this video.
Some corrections:
* The portraying of the 15th as having "those supporting the Bitcoin Cash Node" is something I reject, and most industry players with me. There was simple...
3 years ago: gave $0.50 tip to
"Multiple Business with BCH"
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Multiple Business with BCH
3 years ago: commented on the article "Bch forking"
you can, and probably should, mark it as spam.
3 years ago: commented on the article "When and how to spam scalenet"
Awesome post, and I'm indeed very happy to see Scalenet happen. We got a [MR](https://gitlab.com/FloweeTheHub/thehub/-/merge_requests/18) last month and it is supported in `Flowee the Hub`.
`Flowee T...
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
When and how to spam scalenet
3 years ago: commented on the article "What Bitcoin Cash Developers are Building Right No..."
As far as I can see, EC is very happy to stay the technical project it is.
I have better hopes for a wallet like https://bitcoincashresearch.org/t/flowee-pay-yet-another-wallet/111
3 years ago: commented on the article "What Bitcoin Cash Developers are Building Right No..."
EC has a smaller audience due to it being made to be very technical, I'm sure that has a lot to do with there being less attention for it.
3 years ago: commented on the article "What Bitcoin Cash Developers are Building Right No..."
Thank you for putting the many hours in that this must have taken, it is an awesome collection of work going on in BCH!
You wrote:
> In the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem, there is no official roadmap but i...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Upcoming Bitcoin Cash Fork? | Conflict between Bit..."
[This](https://read.cash/@TomZ/reminder-november-15th-bch-protocol-upgrade-4c7357f7) is the shortest explanation:
The Bitcoin-ABC team has chosen to alter their client so miners running their softwar...
3 years ago: commented on the article ""
Paying with Bitcoin Cash will stay really low fee.
3 years ago: commented on the article ""
We want the amount of people actually using Bitcoin Cash for actual trade to grow.
3 years ago: commented on the article "A Proven Model for Adoption that Bitcoin Cash Shou..."
I'll add you to the beta-testers team :)
3 years ago: commented on the article "Scaling Bitcoin Cash"
32MB is larger than 1MB.
3 years ago: commented on the article "A Proven Model for Adoption that Bitcoin Cash Shou..."
My post absolutely was about non-monetairy contributions.
The two projects @tula_s talks about will take quite some effort to make the UX well done, the more hands working on it the better. I'd much...
3 years ago: commented on the article "A Proven Model for Adoption that Bitcoin Cash Shou..."
Contributions welcome :)
3 years ago: commented on the article "A Proven Model for Adoption that Bitcoin Cash Shou..."
Tl:dr ?
3 years ago: commented on the article "Reminder: November 15th BCH protocol upgrade!"
You and me both, a lot of people have asked ABC to stop forking off and it is unfortunate they have chosen to do so at our protocol-upgrade day (which they completely follow, and agree with, by the wa...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Scaling Bitcoin Cash"
> Would like to hear your personal opinion on the upcoming BCH fork.
see
https://read.cash/@TomZ/ifp-coin-is-the-new-ico-9cfc509f
and
https://read.cash/@TomZ/reminder-november-15th-bch-protocol-upg...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Can Bitcoin cashCash reach $1k "
check out https://generalprotocols.com/
3 years ago: commented on the article "স্কেলিং বিটকয়েন নগদ"
Thank you for translating my post!
Original: https://read.cash/@TomZ/scaling-bitcoin-cash-68bffc6a
3 years ago: commented on the article "Scaling Bitcoin Cash"
There is a link to https://flowee.org somewhere in the article ;) But I didn't really introduce Flowee, indeed. Thank you for asking!
Flowee is a family of products. We start with the Hub, which is...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Scaling Bitcoin Cash"
All these innovations are available for free and with a freedom license on gitlab.
3 years ago: published the article
Scaling Bitcoin Cash
3 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoincash"
see bch.info
Rejecting your post for the bitcoin cash community based on it intentionally spreading fake news.
3 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoincash"
What? No, he's not the co-founder either... He wasn't even supporting Bitcoin Cash when it first started.
Where do you get your information from?
3 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoincash"
I don't know where you copied this text from, but I would like to ask this blatent lie to be fixed:
> RogerVer is Founder Of Bitcoincash
This is false, he is not.
3 years ago: commented on the article "How to ensure income for Crypto-currency infrastru..."
It turns out that developers actually react quite well to other forms of motivation than money as well. Typically even better. As the saying in tech goes: the salary should be such so we stop talking...
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Bitcoin cash the sleeping giant.
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Emotional Well-Being
3 years ago: commented on the article "Reminder: November 15th BCH protocol upgrade!"
Exchanges and you should follow the above information. You can find a node of choice on:
https://bch.info/en/nodes
3 years ago: published the article
Reminder: November 15th BCH protocol upgrade!
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Historical context for the Bitcoin Cash fork in November 2020
3 years ago: commented on the article "Making regular payments more secure with dsproof"
Cool!
3 years ago: commented on the article "Making regular payments more secure with dsproof"
everyone is free to put up a translation.
Please link to this article!
3 years ago: published the article
Making regular payments more secure with dsproof
3 years ago: gave $0.10 tip to
"Introducing myself."
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Introducing myself.
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
"We Depend On The Fund.."
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Bitcoin cash community has raised over 10,000$ for charity! Congrats.
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
What's the difference?BCHN and Bitcoin ABC?
3 years ago: commented on the article "What's the difference?BCHN and Bitcoin ABC?"
awesome!
You wrote:
> The profit obtained from BCH itself is shared amongst the developers and Amaury is one of them.
I feel a bit of confusion from this.
BCH is not a company. Developers do not...
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Just Got Bored let's make Visual illusion Picture
3 years ago: commented on the article "How to increase your BCH earnings.."
> @TomZ thank you for your help and the tips too sir.i appreciate it.
As a token of your appreciation I kindly ask you to use a commonly used logo that is green. The organge one you use is a color us...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork, Free Coins Again"
You are misunderstanding the English.
Popular does not mean "main".
3 years ago: commented on the article ""
Answered here;
https://read.cash/@TomZ/ifp-coin-is-the-new-ico-9cfc509f
3 years ago: commented on the article "Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork, Free Coins Again"
> Three main implementations work in BCH at the moment: Bitcoin ABC, BCHN, and Bitcoin Unlimited.
Check https://bch.info/en/nodes and notice that there are 6 nodes, not just 3.
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
The Best Time To Buy Crypto.
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Tim Draper lauds Bitcoin cash after purchasing it
3 years ago: commented on the article "How to ensure income for Crypto-currency infrastru..."
This is so good!
Can you create a new post with your translation?
Your post will get views and that gives you points.
3 years ago: commented on the article "How to ensure income for Crypto-currency infrastru..."
> Sir can i also translate this too?
You will make me happy if you translate this.
Please create post with the translation and that means you get views and you get the points.
Then reply when you hav...
3 years ago: commented on the article "BCH: Looking back and Moving forward"
> Without this, we make an electronic money for yesterday's fiat applications.
Is there something wrong with the fiat applications the world uses today?
It doesn't sound bad to aim to integrate wit...
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
General Protocols policy regarding software and services after Nov 15 BCH upgrade
3 years ago: commented on the article "After Bitcoin cash November upgrade, what's next?..."
> I would like to be a part of your team sir in expanding the useing of BCH in my country and beyond. I'm ready sir. Thank you.
Bitcoin Cash is very open to people, you have to want to be a member a...
3 years ago: commented on the article "BCH must move forward no chain split please...."
Hello there!
The Bitcoin Cash community has been working really hard in moving on to be a strong team without the ABC node.
The Bitcoin Cash community is hundreds of people working hard every day to...
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
BCH must move forward no chain split please....
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Did you know? A couple of fun facts about Bitcoin ABC which will shock you!
3 years ago: commented on the article "Who supports Bitcoin ABC?"
Here are well over 50 companies and individuals that are against;
https://read.cash/@sha256_88ebd526/bitcoin-cash-bch-november-2020-upgrade-statement-f7c03159
Here is another pretty big one, it alone...
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Amaury Séchet is Forking Bitcoin ABC away from Bitcoin Cash
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Why I Recently Converted From ABC to BCHN
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Bitcoin Cash was going GREAT until this IFP nonsense.
3 years ago: commented on the article "Searching For Peace"
I have been considering writing something similar.
Our shared goal is to make our awesome ideas bring prosperity to a huge amount of people, which means we will need to have our community grow. And w...
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
Searching For Peace
3 years ago: commented on the article "Double Spend Proofs, phase 2"
Wow, thats awesome!
3 years ago: published the article
Double Spend Proofs, phase 2
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
论Amaury为何该退位让贤
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
On Why Amaury Should Resign
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
My 2 Sats
3 years ago: commented on the article "BCH: Looking back and Moving forward"
Hey Andrew,
I see you focus in your personal roadmap a lot on new features, likely to compete with ETH and such which already have them, is that about right?
What do you think about the effort of ma...
3 years ago: commented on the article "How to ensure income for Crypto-currency infrastru..."
The conclusion you highlight is based on the artument linked. Here is the link again:
https://read.cash/@TomZ/mythbusting-we-need-a-developer-fund-3e0d7f20
3 years ago: commented on the article "How to ensure income for Crypto-currency infrastru..."
The basic fact of human nature means we'll have millions of possible chains. And we (= humanity) will iterate and try many of those.
I am optimistic that the push for network effect, which real money...
3 years ago: commented on the article "How to ensure income for Crypto-currency infrastru..."
Mining companies focus much more on mining software, which they already maintain and I'm sure there are about as many forks as there are bigger mining companies.
This isn't really relevant for the re...
3 years ago: commented on the article "The story of how BCHs 2020 DAA came to be."
Ha ha, yeah, I see. We will soon activate the 4th DAA by now. How time flies...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Mythbusting: We need a developer-fund"
Hello Marc, thanks for the tips!!
Flowee did so far not do fund raising as the environment for recruiting passionate developers was just not there. Since last week a lot more options seem open and we...
3 years ago: gave thumbs up to the article
To Our Customers, Regarding the Bitcoin Cash Network Upgrade in November
3 years ago: commented on the article "To Our Customers, Regarding the Bitcoin Cash Netwo..."
> Flowee, BU and BCHN are written in the same language as ABC, so they can in theory port ABC code, and to some degree they do, but they's FAR from all they are doing.
In reality it goes all directio...
3 years ago: commented on the article "How to ensure income for Crypto-currency infrastru..."
> Having a model that can support both types of developers
This is why the article specifically [includes companies](https://read.cash/@TomZ/how-to-ensure-income-for-crypto-currency-infrastructure-d...
3 years ago: commented on the article "How to ensure income for Crypto-currency infrastru..."
Thank you for commenting!
> But life is not kind to all of us, and not everyone gets to do a job he enjoys
Absolutely, and I hope you find something that you enjoy.
My goal is to make sure that we...
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How to ensure income for Crypto-currency infrastructure development
3 years ago: commented on the article "Open letter to the creator of read.cash "
The[ original post](https://read.cash/@Read.Cash/my-response-to-micropresident-and-coinspice-d57a6dfd) hit hard, I could so imagine the pain and the problems of the guy. He always answers his emails q...
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Open letter to the creator of read.cash
3 years ago: commented on the article "Joint Statement from BCH Miners regarding Bitcoin..."
Two devs spent a lot of time working on the speed of the RPC calls, specifically the JSON creation. They made stuff significantly faster and as a result using BCHN for mining has a direct advantage....
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Joint Statement from BCH Miners regarding Bitcoin ABC and the November 2020 BCH Upgrade.
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How BCH/BSV Fork Affected Adoption
3 years ago: commented on the article "Archive of IFP to IFP with Grasberg and assert som..."
You may have missed this IFP article. It was a little before ABC released their IFP, so it doesn't follow the naming but it is very much on-topic. https://read.cash/@TomZ/mythbusting-we-need-a-develo...
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Archive of IFP to IFP with Grasberg and assert somewhere in middle.
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Bitcoin Cash (BCH): Declaración de actualización de noviembre de 2020
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比特币现金(BCH)2020年11月升级公告
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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) November 2020 Upgrade statement
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The story of how BCHs 2020 DAA came to be.
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Why is Grasberg so controversial?
3 years ago: commented on the article "Why is Grasberg so controversial?"
> I suggest ABC withdraw Grasberg as a decision, and instead submit it as a proposal.
I want to add to this that a proposal that does not explain its (non-obvious) choices and goals doesn't really qu...
3 years ago: commented on the article "The Double Spend flowchart"
> This does assume that a double-spend proof can be constructed in time.
Every single peer can construct it, and it doesn't take any significant amount of time.
> In case of a miner bribe
Miner b...
3 years ago: commented on the article "The Double Spend flowchart"
The wait is based on the propagation time of a transaction around the network. This is regularly tested and the empirical evidence is shared. You can probably find that if you look for it.
But to mak...
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The Double Spend flowchart
3 years ago: commented on the article "On the choice of a new difficulty algorithm for Bi..."
Thanks for the link, this shows the point I was making.
At least to those of us who were around for those events. In practically all of those events the miners acted on the wishes of the community. T...
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On the choice of a new difficulty algorithm for Bitcoin Cash
3 years ago: commented on the article "On the choice of a new difficulty algorithm for Bi..."
Heya, thanks for this positive way of approaching the issue of one bad apple.
I do agree strongly that the best way forward is to have a general agreement that we should make based on actual finished...
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CPfP, on-chain usage.
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"The Not Invented Here Syndrome in Bitcoin Cash development"
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The Not Invented Here Syndrome in Bitcoin Cash development
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"4つのBCHノードとFlipstarterに関するAMA(質疑応答)まとめ"
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4つのBCHノードとFlipstarterに関するAMA(質疑応答)まとめ
3 years ago: commented on the article "BCH upgrade proposal: Use ASERT as the new DAA"
Hi there,
I wanted to point out you made a couple of mistakes with regards to the FTL:
First you write that it is a node-policy, this is incorrect. It actually is part of the consensus rules. This ca...
3 years ago: commented on the article "BCH: designing a roadmap, part 1"
Even just outside of the USA the influence of PayPal is far lower and there are real opportunities for the competition.
3 years ago: commented on the article "BCH: designing a roadmap, part 1"
I would suggest to not try and compete with ETH, instead compete with the rest of the world. That is a much bigger pie to get a piece of.
My point here is that its a waste of your time if you don't b...
3 years ago: commented on the article "BCH: designing a roadmap, part 1"
> we dont have a chance to compete without expanding programmability.
I am not that easy dissuaded, the payment experience is definitely something that can be much better. Integration with banks has...
3 years ago: commented on the article "BCH: designing a roadmap, part 1"
> Bitcoin Cash already has a good user experience
As the rest of your post points out, it may be good but its not good enough. There are a long list of improvements that can be made, opportunities us...
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The fundamental technical challenge with Avalanche, and how it hinders on-chain scaling
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BCH: designing a roadmap, part 1
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BCH: designing a roadmap, part 1
3 years ago: commented on the article "Some practical problems faced by Bitcoin Cash (BCH..."
> I don't know why you keep bringing up UTXO lookup costs. It does not make much sense to me to mix that with signature checking costs.
Because to calculate the sigchecks you need both the transactio...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Some practical problems faced by Bitcoin Cash (BCH..."
> SigChecks simply count the number of signature checks you execute, that's it.
For that to work you need to fetch the matching outputs for a tx. This means you need to do a UTXO lookup and load the...
3 years ago: commented on the article "Some practical problems faced by Bitcoin Cash (BCH..."
Would you be able to write a blog on that?
I'm still very much confused what the point was that was trying to be solved by the sigchecks feature addition, where the basic idea requires an actual UTXO...
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Simple thoughts at night.
3 years ago: commented on the article "FloweeJS; finding negative block times."
That's just beautiful! Thank you!
3 years ago: commented on the article "FloweeJS; finding negative block times."
Oh, I tried different approaches and was unhappy with the rendering. I must have done something wrong. Is there a tutorial ?
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FloweeJS; finding negative block times.
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Flowee/Seeder
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The Bitcoin Cash 12.5% Developer Fund Will Lower BCH Network Security as Hashrate Will Leave
4 years ago: commented on the article "Flowee/P2PNet"
Thanks for your question.
> @TomZ are you saying that PSPNet will work with ANY BCH node, not just SPV; which I doubt there are 1000??
yes, it will work with the full nodes of BCH.
According to htt...
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Flowee/P2PNet
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Flowee/P2PNet
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Flowee/P2PNet
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"Push Here To Split Chain"
4 years ago: commented on the article "What Makes Satoshi's Incentive Work"
I wrote on this topic here; https://read.cash/@TomZ/addressing-the-errors-in-peter-rizuns-proposal-07fa7241
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"Regarding the IFP...."
4 years ago: commented on the article "Introducing Flipstarter"
I understand your point of view, but I think you misunderstand that this is not some Microsoft or Adobe shipping a product they want to sell. This is an open source, a community effort. And those are...
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"Introducing Flipstarter"
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In defense of freedom software in Bitcoin Cash
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In defense of freedom software in Bitcoin Cash
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Double Spend Proofs: What they are and how they work.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Mythbusting: We need a developer-fund"
what?
4 years ago: commented on the article "Mythbusting: We need a developer-fund"
Choosing really good people is not going to be an improvement. Many individuals doing things without approval are still going to have more and better ideas than one person, no matter how awesome that...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Double Spend Proofs: What they are and how they wo..."
> so they should also be able to apply the same node policy.
The difference between consensus rules and a node policy is that policies are allowed to be changed by miners with zero effect on the blo...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Double Spend Proofs: What they are and how they wo..."
> If I understood this post you're saying Double spent proofs would help when there's diverging mempool policy on the network.
Yes, and as with any open market it is inevitable that we will see such...
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Double Spend Proofs: What they are and how they work.
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Double Spend Proofs: What they are and how they work.
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Mythbusting: We need a developer-fund
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Mythbusting: SPV is not secure
4 years ago: commented on the article "What are Communities on read.cash?"
Just wanted to comment that this is awesome!
I like the solution with the extensions, very simple and I expect it to work quite well.
4 years ago: commented on the article "What are Communities on read.cash?"
I personally use "DarkReader" plugin (for firefox) which makes practically all websites be in dark mode.
Read.cash looks great with it. Only subtle details like the little arrow icon to the upvote bu...
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Mythbusting: Bitcoin (on its own) cannot scale.
4 years ago: published the article
2019 was a good year for Flowee
4 years ago: commented on the article "On Bitcoin chain reconvergence"
To me this introduction of the 10-block "rule" is admitting something that the Lopps of the world are blind to:
Bitcoin (Cash) Miners need to be more than just some algorithms. They need to be aware...
4 years ago: commented on the article "Mythbusting: We need a developer-fund"
> I am happy to see your project is going well.
thank you!
4 years ago: commented on the article "Mythbusting: We need a developer-fund"
This article answers your questions:
[2019 was a good year for Flowee](https://read.cash/@TomZ/2019-was-a-good-year-for-flowee-03f769b4)
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Mythbusting: Bitcoin (on its own) cannot scale.
4 years ago: commented on the article "Mythbusting: We need a developer-fund"
> Of course the hardest part is determining who gets what funds
Every company that ever hired any worker has shared this burden. Calling it the "hardest part" is a bit of a stretch...
> Let market f...
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Mythbusting: We need a developer-fund
4 years ago: commented on the article "Mythbusting: SPV is not secure"
Updated to link to it, thanks!
4 years ago: commented on the article "Mythbusting: SPV is not secure"
Neutrino being SPV is good to know, I hadn't looked into it yet. Thanks for the links!
Their solution for the privacy issues are neat, but I think there is a much simpler and cheaper way to solve it w...
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Mythbusting: SPV is not secure
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2019 was a good year for Flowee