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@TomZ in May 2020

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Flowee/Seeder Last week I introduced the world to a new library called P2PNet. A C++ library that allows developers to build a wide range of Bitcoin Cash related applications. https://read.cash/@TomZ/floweep2pnet-312d182c Working with a work-in-progress wallet quickly made me realize that the Bitcoin network is full of nodes that are not actually following the Bitcoin Cash chain. And this makes connecting to them less than useful. Unfortunately the various seeds and standard…

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FloweeJS; finding negative block times. As the focus for Bitcoin Cash protocol development is shifting to the November upgrade we should look at the difficulty adjustment algorithm (DAA). The current DAA, that doesn't work so well, is a simple filter and it has been suggested by various people that an exponential decay filter would work better. A little investigation shows that when blocks have so called negative duration, this causes problems for such a solution, though. So…

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BCH: designing a roadmap, part 1 I have been looking at the financial system that this world uses, and I think we can do better. A peer to peer cash system that eliminates the need, though not always the wish, for centralized decision points and clearing houses. I believe I found this improved system in Bitcoin Cash. **If you want to go fast, go it alone. If you want to go far, go together.** — African Proverb Bitcoin Cash is at a point where it needs to grow to become what…