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    BTC "Here's the first ever Cash Account registered using bitcoincashj. No external Cash Account API server used. Completely permissionless and trustless registration."

    September 10, 2019

    BTC "Here's the first ever Cash Account registered using bitcoincashj. No external Cash Account API server used. Completely permissionless and trustless registration."

    "Here's the first ever Cash Account registered using bitcoincashj. No external Cash Account API server used. Completely permissionless and trustless registration."

    Posted: 10 Sep 2019 12:32 AM PDT

    Blockchain data should be fungible & unpoliced in the same manner that a dollar bill should remain fungible even if once used in a crime, otherwise it becomes a game of regulation that is impossible to win, but results in less freedom. This is exactly what BCH opposers want: A restricted blockchain.

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 08:40 PM PDT

    This is in response to the recent topic about the threat of storing illicit material in a blockchain.

    The road of policing blockchain data leads to a loss of freedom for all.

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    Bitcoins peculiar history: Tis but a scratch!

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 07:44 AM PDT

    Jonathan Silverblood: "This is what has been the most enlightening experience when visiting the #BitcoinCashCity - the adoption here reached a point where merchants don't care about the tech - they just want the customers."

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 01:35 PM PDT

    Electron Cash 4.0.10 (with CashShuffle) is now available for Windows, Mac & Linux

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 10:32 AM PDT

    Andrew Clifford (BU President) gives his personal view on factors impacting Bitcoin Cash adoption. He covers moving the decimal place, fractional satoshis, ISO codes and reducing friction in adoption.

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 08:29 PM PDT

    Crescent Cash v1.7.8 is now being rolled out to the Google Play Store! New Desktop versions are currently live on crescent.cash! (bitcoincashj update)

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 11:55 AM PDT

    This update to Crescent Cash updates the bitcoincashj library. I spent last night fixing the bitcoincashj library to work better with CTOR. Before it worked okay, but when sending coins to yourself (either once, or multiple times within a block) it would often freak out and not recognize some UTXOs as spent, causing the wallet to think you have a higher balance than you actually do.

    This has been solved (as far as I can tell) with my new update that basically does some additional/better sorting. I tested this by writing a script to send to myself 25 times within one block on the testnet, and it worked amazingly well!

    This fix was needed for three reasons:

    1. For the ability to send coins to yourself

    2. For future work on bitcoincashj, like implementing a native system for registering Cash Accounts within a bitcoincashj wallet.

    3. Just to get this fixed in general.

    I've since updated the bitcoincashj GitHub with the new fix: https://github.com/pokkst/bitcoincashj

    Crescent Cash Android is being rolled out to the Google Play Store, so expect the update to go live in a few hours.

    Crescent Cash Desktop is already updated on crescent.cash.

    Enjoy!

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    Meltem Demirors: “i've spent all weekend discovering that nearly every person i know from MIT has been complicit in taking money from Epstein and whitewashing his image (or defending people like Joi who did) i don't even know what to do with this information other than be very, very sad”

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 11:18 AM PDT

    Jay Clayton Reports ‘Progress’ is Being Made on Bitcoin ETFs

    Posted: 10 Sep 2019 12:27 AM PDT

    Hayden Otto welcomes delegates to the BCH City - home to the highest Bitcoin merchant adoption per capita in the world. Noel Lovisa then presents on how this was achieved, detailing a number of major BCH infrastructure projects taking place there.

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 08:26 PM PDT

    JajaaSB on the ground at Bitcoin Cash City Conference ��

    Posted: 10 Sep 2019 01:42 AM PDT

    Dr. Paul Chandler is the founder and CEO of Aptissio Australia, the first global start-up to build Bitcoin Cash software applications using Emergent Coding techniques

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 11:54 PM PDT

    I spent some time in Townsville investigating the level of adoption for myself. There is definitely a high presence and awareness of BCH. When I asked merchants whether they accepted Bitcoin Cash or cryptocurrency it was never followed by a puzzled look, everyone knows about it.

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 08:33 AM PDT

    Curious 4% Bitcoin BTC price movement around the time of Jeffrey Epstein's death.

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 07:43 PM PDT

    No, Amaury, Bitcoin's OP_RETURN is Not the Only Way To Easily Store Child Pornography on the Blockchain. It's Actually Doable with Most Any Writable Public Accessible Resource.

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 11:29 AM PDT

    So the latest drama in Bitcoin (Cash) land is a kerfuffle over blockchain data. This tied coincidentally into a discussion about miner soft limits since regulating data in any way is relevant. This is the kind of drama I like though, because I think resolution can be had with zero to minimal community/project damage.

    I just posted a possible solution to the soft limits.

    The other issue is a return to a prior concern. I'm not sure how long BitcoinABC lead dev Amaury Séchet has been followed Bitcoin, but his conversation which prompted a popular thread leads me to think he missed the topic of storing child porn or other objectionable information on the blockchain, which has definitely come up before. Here is a snaphot of the conversation: https://i.redd.it/zji6fm2azdl31.jpg

    Amaury seems outraged and emotional about things I'd view as business as usual, things like soft limit settings and OP_RETURN usage.

    Overview

    The Bitcoin blockchain is a source of focus, for more reasons than monetary bookkeeping. Given it's a global, public, immutable, uncensorable ledger, people have imagined ways to exploit that for their own ends for things having nothing to do with money. Some usage has been innocuous, such as recording weddings symbolically. Of course more eyebrow raising data can be recorded too, prompting concerns over morality, possibly even legality about hosting information deemed illegal to store or distribute such as child pornography or classified government files.

    Amaury focuses on OP_RETURN which allows storage of data non-essential to a transaction. Bitcoin Cash increased this to 220 bytes specifically to encourage a more versatile blockchain.

    Of course 220 bytes isn't a lot for a file. Something like an objectionable picture file would be really low quality. So we don't 'store files' on the blockchain in the straightforward way someone might imagine. Instead, storage "schemes" are used to allow much more capacity. For example, a simple scheme might be to break a big file into smaller chunks and store those in OP_RETURN data over several transactions. In this way, the entire file is permanently stored on the blockchain to anyone having access to those transactions.It only requires software to extract the data and reconstruct the file. It's this obvious scheme that I think Amaury has problems with (which would explain why he'd be concerned about not limiting numerical transaction expense with soft size limits).

    However, OP_RETURN isn't necessary to store files, because files are just (binary) information and it's already possible to write information easily to the blockchain in transactions. Anyone constructing a transaction can specify the amount. Since we're already using a predetermined scheme and special software to reconstruct a file from transaction data, we can simply pull data organized a certain way (encoded) in transaction amounts! Since BCH transactions are meant to be nearly free to create we can easily and cheaply store data representing large files ready to reconstructed by our software, no OP_RETURN needed. The only way to prevent this would be to prevent any transactions being recorded at all...

    It doesn't stop there. Consider the King James version of the Christian Holy Bible. A given edition is probably held by many millions of people. If we obtained a copy we could devise an encoding scheme, say one referencing page number first, then number of characters to skip to yield the next letter, where letters up to M represent 1 and letters after represent 0. Well, we can then take an objectionable image broken into binary 1s and 0s and find the sequence, using our bible, to derive a code representing a reconstruction of the image by our software. Now we can publish that code and say indignantly anyone carrying that bible is carrying child porn! This illustrates the ridiculousness of trying to derive or police meaning from potentially arbitrary information. There is no limit to the possibility of what can be charged. If the resource is writable, as is a blockchain or string of Tweets for example, all potentially offensive information is self-contained, ready to be reconstructed.

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    I wonder what all these bootlickers are going to do when their local government makes Bitcoin illegal. It is pretty difficult to imagine a scenario in which Bitcoin overtakes fiat without it first being made illegal.

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 05:26 PM PDT

    SEC Chair Says Crypto Industry Has "Made Progress" Addressing Issues Needed for Bitcoin ETF Approval...

    Posted: 10 Sep 2019 02:01 AM PDT

    Bitmain’s New Antminer 17 Miners Snapped up in Minutes, Bitcoin Hashrate Go Higher?

    Posted: 10 Sep 2019 01:56 AM PDT

    Funny that people are using Jack's Cash app to buy and sell Bitcoin Cash on local.bitcoin.com

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 09:32 AM PDT

    Despite Setbacks, Darknet Markets Show Continuous Growth in 2019

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 12:10 PM PDT

    Bitcoin Cash Meetup tomorrow night at 7pm in Maggie Valley you will be able to pay for your refreshments with the Bitcoin Cash that you receive just by stopping by. Learn how you can buy, spend and if you are a business owner you can discover how quick and easy it is for you to accept BCH.

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 11:00 AM PDT

    16 months of efforts and hard work rewarded. 4 mil EUR investment from Bitcoin.com and Pangea Blockchain Fund.

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 09:18 AM PDT

    How To Encourage Healthy Tech Discussion - Mark Lundeberg

    Posted: 09 Sep 2019 01:25 PM PDT

    Exclusive interview Charlie Lee: People will start using BTC and LTC without even understanding how it works.

    Posted: 10 Sep 2019 02:11 AM PDT
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