@Jonathansilverblood

(comment) I'm glad to see other people thinking about this problem in within our ecosystem and staying with low-complexity solutions. However, there are a few things in the model you describe here that I thin...

@JonathanSilverb... 1 year ago

(comment) I would suggest using https://sideshift.ai/ and convert Matic -> BCH directly, without going through SmartBCH. The Mist bridge uses sideshift and hop.cash internally, so your example above ends up...

@JonathanSilverb... 2 years ago

(comment) Yes, that is what I meant with "they act as the counterparty"

@JonathanSilverb... 2 years ago

(comment) So can we all be both Alice and Bob? Yes, but not at the same time. (or, you could, but no point in doing it) Does Alice and Bob have to know each other? No, but they need some way to...

@JonathanSilverb... 2 years ago

(comment) As an adult, privilegied, white man I find it shameful that despite the fact that a significant amount of humanities use of bandwidth on the internet is related to porn, and that in the western worl...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) Try this: import { ElectrumClient } from 'electrum-cash';

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) Before you can use the library, you first need to add it to your project. use "npm install electrum-cash", then in your source code add something like: const { ElectrumClient } = require('elec...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) Overall, great article. I'm looking forward to more growth so that the more energy efficient alternatives end up getting more market share.

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) Given a stable price, Bitcoin’s energy use will halve every 4 years This one isn't necessarily correct, right? Assuming bitcoin manage to attract fees to cover, or outperform, the reduction in...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) One problem with this is that it actually does not resolve the miner collusion version - as long as the miner is willing to keep the transaction a secret and not relay it, no one will be able to cre...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) The problem with hedging and stablecoins is that they are set to fiat value With anyhedge, once you have a viable price oracle out there, you could hedge in a basket of goods instead. (you kn...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) No, if anything that would be a cost-reduction since you wouldn't have to do the extra signature check.

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) Yes - the basic idea is to add new opcodes that push transaction information to the stack.

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) There has been two published draft specs, one by Jason and one by Tobias. They are mostly the same, with only some minor difference. Jason have since implemented his spec in libauth and found out th...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) Well done.

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) Have you made any progress with regards to the sign post? I would love to hear how it worked out. Also, I tipped you $10 here - feel free to also treat yourself to something along the way.

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) On the Detoken platform, users who want to take the contract position that is high in demand (say most people want to go long in a bull market, or go short in a bear market) pays a premium to the si...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) covenants are 2nd class citizens The difference between covenents as 1st class and 2nd class citizen is that when treated as first-class citizens, they are a natural part of the system, docume...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) It went into production about a week ago, so still quite new. There was a public beta before it that lasted a couple months where we had some issues, but they are all worked out now. https://read...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) Actually, the PUSH/PULL might just be an unnecessary simplification - we have programmable money here and there is plenty of opportunity and tradeofs. Don't like PULL? How about your wallet gives...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) probably requires what developers call an "oracle" Hey, what do you know, we over at @GeneralProtocols just built a price oracle that can be used for this, and it's in production :)

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) They did accept EUR though, as a transnational unit, but that kindof came as a result from successfully adding EU into another ISO list of "nations". They also have units for Gold and Silver and s...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) I can't help but smile when I read this kind of boring number-crunching and actually look at number and consider the implications. To see, out in the open, that BCHN has and uses all their funds in...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) I'm open to suggestions for currency symbol, it would indeed be useful to have on to make presentation short and clean.

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) I think the ecosystem should take action, because taking action improves on our ability to get adopted in commerce. I don't think we need to force all wallets, exchanges etc to use one over the ot...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) Having 8 decimals is just one way of displaying and it gives the best user experience I strongly disagree with this.

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) BTC primary goal is not to be usable as cash and integrate into payment system. We can't do a direct comparison with BTC on this.

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) when people start to label prices in crypto instead of fiat By staying with 8 decimals and difficulties to integrate into existing infrastructure you delay, if not prohibit entirely, this proc...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) The ISO4217 standard for currency code dictates that a code must either start with letters representing the issuing country, or with an X to indicate that it's not a national currency code. XCH is...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago

(comment) One $5 coffe with current bitcoin cash prices in... BCH: 0.01760563 XCH: 17,605.63 If we assume a successful scenario where BCH price goes up significantly: BCH: 0.00002857 XCH: 28.57 Whic...

@JonathanSilverb... 3 years ago