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The missing human right *No better day to write this than 1 January, 2020.* *It took longer to write than I expected though, so published on the 2nd ;-)* Hello. I'm here to tell you about your human right to transact freely, in the currencies of your choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights I call it "**freedom of transaction**", and it is **missing** from places where we ought to find, like the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the EU Charter of…
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On Bitcoin chain reconvergence In his recent article titled "What are the Key Properties of Bitcoin?" on nakamoto.com, Jameson Lopp brought the following argument about convergence of Bitcoin clients, taking a swipe at Bitcoin ABC for their recent (Nov 2018) implementation of rolling checkpoints: https://nakamoto.com/what-are-the-key-properties-of-bitcoin/ While there are several other things I can and would like to critique about his article, in this post I'll focus on this…
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An Electron Cash SLP workaround I needed today Going to describe some steps taken to work around a little Electron Cash SLP (v3.6.1) wallet issue I encountered today, in case it helps others. I tried various things to resolve before coming across this way which worked for me. I won't go into too much detail (screenshots etc) for privacy reasons. The Problem It started when I wanted to transfer some tokens of a particular type (I'll call them ACME tokens) from my Electron…
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Mythbusters, please submit your articles to Mythbusting (8b0b) community! I've created a community for it because I noticed there are people applying the topic seemingly at random. The community feature seems to give us a good way to filter out such unrelated posts. https://read.cash/@Read.Cash/what-are-communities-on-readcash-d1c2fafa Please visit the 'Communities' link (also present at the top of the read.cash page) to view communities and submit your existing articles. Or…
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I want my website to accept donations. BTC or BCH? Many websites could well use a few more public contributions to keep going, but their donation pages often only list PayPal, Patreon or bank account details, and are missing cryptocurrency donation options. If you have a site and are wanting to accept cryptocurrency, you may be wondering which is better to accept: Bitcoin (BTC) or Bitcoin Cash (BCH) ? Let me explain in a simple way: When someone sends either of these two…
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When you just HAVE to verify a whole batch of Bitcoin signatures ... then you probably need a little Python script free software magic to help you: https://gitlab.com/btcfork/bitcoin_batch_signatures See README for details on how to use. Everything that's needed should be included, except for your own input text files (pubkeys/addresses, messages to sign, and corresponding signatures to verify). Some trivial example files included - the format as shown above is simply plain…
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Community translation effort: subtitles for Bitcoin Cash Register! Note: you may also want to check out the updates to this translation effort (please check latest update if your language has already been translated or is in progress - if in doubt, leave a comment and ask me :) Update #3, Update #2 , Update #1 https://read.cash/@btcfork/bitcoin-cash-register-subtitle-translation-update-3-4e289ed1…
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Bitcoin Cash Register: subtitle translation update #1 [ Please see most recent update] https://read.cash/@btcfork/bitcoin-cash-register-subtitle-translation-update-2-7e96bcc1 Recently I posted an article to kick off a community translation effort for subtitles to the Bitcoin Cash Register video. https://read.cash/@btcfork/community-translation-effort-subtitles-for-bitcoin-cash-register-13c258c9 I got some good feedback and would like to give a status update where we are. But…
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Bitcoin Cash Register: subtitle translation update #2 Very nice, as you can see on the right we now have 10 languages fully translated for the subtitles! *[edit: I believe it's now up to ~14, but I haven't had time to write a new full update article yet)* Let me brief you on the current ones, where we still need reviewers or translators, and how you can help, so that people can easier introduce merchants to Bitcoin Cash merchants can understand the benefit and power of this…
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Introducing TechnicallyCorrectToken (TCT) *"Zimbabwe had the world's highest concentration of billionaires."* If you're like me, you might have one or two friends who like being correct. And maybe you have some friends who believe that being technically correct is the best kind of correct. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hou0lU8WMgo Behold - the new TechnicallyCorrectToken (TCT). Designed to express a range of emotions to those friends in a friendly way, ranging from subtle…