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@JonathanSilverblood · 2 years ago

CashAccount Report: May2021

It has been a year since I followed up on the adoption metrics for the CashAccounts payment aliasing protocol that stores your data on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. While there hasn't been any signi...

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@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

Can we get native transaction introspection on Bitcoin Cash?

In the November 2018 upgrade of Bitcoin Cash, a new feature was added that allows developers to verify external signatures provided to a transaction. This in turn opened up the doors to do what is cal...

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@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

Formalize an alternative unit and ticker name for 1/1,000,000th of a Bitcoin Cash.

We're soon past 2020 and it has been more than a decade since the introduction of Bitcoin. In the years that have passed, we have had countless users tell us that it is difficult and frustrating to ad...

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@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

The Road to AnyHedge

Have you ever wondered what it takes to build a smart contract financial product on Bitcoin Cash? In the first half of 2019 I joined a small team to build a non-custodial futures contract, or at least...

154 likes · 104 comments · Developers and programmers (c0e2)

@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

I have release v2.0.3 of Electrum-cash, a quality and bug-fix release: Fix regression issue with automatic reconnection. Fix issue where initial connect would never reject on failure. Fix issue where...

15 likes · 3 comments · Electrum-cash (f45e)

@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

Random thoughts on parenting: control and influence over others.

When you are a baby, you don't know where the extent of your power begin and ends: When you are hungry, you flex your I-am-hungry-muscle, and food is delivered into your mouth. When you drop your t...

19 likes · 2 comments · Parenting (c55d)

@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

v2.0 of `electrum-cash` released. Quality fixes, bug fixes and some new features, most importantly **websocket** support: https://gitlab.com/GeneralProtocols/electrum-cash/-/tags/v2.0.0 Adding a bu...

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@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

Beta Price Oracle: Requesting current price

Introduction We at generalprotocols are running a public beta of a Price Oracle that is used for our AnyHedge product. This article will show you how to use the @generalprotocols/price-oracle...

22 likes · 6 comments · Developers and programmers (c0e2)

@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

electrum-cash: strategic use of clusters

Introduction Electrum-cash is a javascript/typescript library for communicating with electrum servers. This article will showcase some common ways you can set up and configure clusters as well as...

47 likes · 3 comments · Electrum-cash (f45e)

@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

electrum-cash: how to use a cluster with multiple servers

Introduction Electrum-cash is a javascript/typescript library for communicating with electrum servers. This example demonstrates how to create and connect to a cluster of servers, wait for the clu...

30 likes · 1 comments · Electrum-cash (f45e)

@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

electrum-cash: debugging problems and reporting issues

Introduction Electrum-cash is a javascript/typescript library for communicating with electrum servers. This example demonstrates how to enable debug output, control what debug messages to show and...

41 likes · 3 comments · Electrum-cash (f45e)

@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

electrum-cash: connecting to a server

Introduction Electrum-cash is a javascript/typescript library for communicating with electrum servers. This example demonstrates how to create a connection to a server and how to cleanly shut down...

33 likes · 4 comments · Electrum-cash (f45e)

@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

electrum-cash: getting started

Introduction Electrum-cash is a javascript/typescript library for communicating with electrum servers. This example demonstrates how to install the library with npm and how to include it in your...

40 likes · 3 comments · Electrum-cash (f45e)

@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

v1.2.0 of `electrum-cash` released. Plenty of quality fixes and some new features to: https://gitlab.com/GeneralProtocols/electrum-cash/-/tags/v1.2.0

9 likes · 3 comments · Electrum-cash (f45e)

@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

electrum-cash: working with transaction history

Introduction Electrum-cash is a javascript/typescript library for communicating with electrum servers. This example demonstrates how to get a list of all transactions for a given address and noti...

30 likes · 3 comments · Electrum-cash (f45e)

@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

electrum-cash: broadcasting transactions

Introduction Electrum-cash is a javascript/typescript library for communicating with electrum servers. This example demonstrates how to broadcast a raw transaction and how to get notified of when...

53 likes · 5 comments · Electrum-cash (f45e)

@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

electrum-cash: working with balances

Introduction Electrum-cash is a javascript/typescript library for communicating with electrum servers. This example demonstrates how to get the balance of an address and how to get notified of cha...

70 likes · 15 comments · Electrum-cash (f45e)

@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

With the typescript conversion of the electrum-cash library complete and relased, next up is automatic reconnection (and restoring subscriptions on reconnection) as well as websocket support, so that...

10 likes · 2 comments · Electrum-cash (aa64)

@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

CashAccounts Report: may2020

Yesterday, I was contacted by a user on discord who was having problems with the Bitcoin.com REST API they were using, and later a developer of a wallet having similar problems. The wallet developer w...

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@JonathanSilverblood · 3 years ago

Flipstarter Centralization Rant.

A viewpoint that recently cought my attention with regards to Flipstarter is that it allegedly represents a centralization concern, and that should the IFP fail to activate we would, going forward, ex...

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@JonathanSilverblood · 4 years ago

Flipstarter - A unique opportunity

The Flipstarter infrastructure campaigns are ready and with this article I would like to give my views as to why I think this is a unique opportunity for growth and profit. Normally when you're spe...

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@JonathanSilverblood · 4 years ago

Javascript Electrum Library

In the last couple of months I've been working on a decentralized finance product for an upcoming company building Bitcoin Cash applications. Reliability is very important for us but I've been having...

9 likes · 15 comments · Electrum-cash (b6b2)

@JonathanSilverblood · 4 years ago

About reference.cash

In early 2019 I proposed that we should build an independent set of documentation for the Bitcoin Cash network. While it would take several months until the right talent would be found to initiate thi...

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@JonathanSilverblood · 4 years ago

How I wish read.cash integrated CashID

Read.cash has supported badger-specific cashid for a while now. I'm glad there's an option to login that, in theory, doesn't need username, passwords and emails. Sadly, the design and implementation m...

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@JonathanSilverblood · 4 years ago

How to host a successful meetup.

It is easy to misstake strong attendance for success when talking about meetups, but while having people show up is an important factor it is not the deciding factor . Meetups as small as only 2~3 pe...

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@JonathanSilverblood · 4 years ago

Why we should allow more than one OP_RETURN per transaction.

I will start off by saying that I am fully committed to the idea that we should prioritize the cash usecase and that by storing arbitrary data on chain we are reducing the ability for that usecase t...

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@JonathanSilverblood · 4 years ago

What am I doing now?

Quite some time ago I was spending almost all of my time building things for Bitcoin Cash and it felt like I was making immense progress: For CashID a specification , library and tools . For Ca...

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@JonathanSilverblood · 4 years ago

Evaluation of read.cash

First Impression The website homepage is clean and non-cluttered which is generally positive as it means that the majority of the space is reserved for content. I feel though, that a short introducti...

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