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    Chinese Citizens Will Be Required To Scan Their Faces To Use The Internet

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 06:35 PM PDT

    Promoting Bitcoin Cash to over 200 taxi cabs in Maracaibo, Venezuela (more photos coming soon!)

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 12:28 PM PDT

    Video from the Bitcoin Cash talk at Maracaibo Venezuela - Over 200 taxi cabs ����

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 05:01 PM PDT

    How do I make this a business case?

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 12:29 AM PDT

    Dear fellow enthusiasts,

    I'm working for a finance/accounting company as SRE/DevOps with 50+ developers and 100+ other professionals. I'm initiating lots of conversations about BTC, BCH, Monero, smart contracts, IPFS. the financial revolution, how we are trying to separate money from the state and tons of use cases (EliPay, Purse, CoinText etc.)

    I know there are lots of serious people here working in IT, FinTech or just genuinely have great ideas and fresh approaches so please share your thoughts.

    My manager told me that if I make a business case off Crypto they pay for my expenses (to go to meetups etc) but that is not the point. The point is that I have a chance to steer the wheel slightly of a very successful tech company towards Crypto.

    How do I make it a business case?

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    History Lesson: Western Union vs Bitcoin

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 02:06 PM PDT

    made a silly bitcoin cash webpage

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 11:34 PM PDT

    if u send bch to the address provided; the lightbulb💡 graphic will change color. (Not instantaneous, prbly need to add another script for that but there's a refresh button)

    https://adnjoo.github.io

    bahah

    Basically just reads the transaction count at the address and changes light accordingly.

    I guess u can get more complex e.g. send with op_return hex color , and it will change to that, or something else?

    Lots of potential applications ? possibly..

    :P anyway thanks for reading :) bch ftw!

    *if you try please don't send alot of money, a few cents will do..

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    The second most widely used cryptocurrency for payments is not ETH or XRP. It is BCH

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 10:09 AM PDT

    Bitcoin Fees: BTC $1.27 / BCH $0.00

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 03:47 PM PDT

    Andreas Brekken: "When I worked on Bitcoin exchanges back in the day, we didn't even keep track of the transaction fees." (Humans of Bitcoin Podcast - Timestamp 27:00)

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 11:00 AM PDT

    The U.S. Government Tried To Shut Down Bitcoin - Forbes

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 05:18 PM PDT

    Emergent Coding/Codevalley Investigation, part2: How does CodeValley company work.

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 04:21 PM PDT

    Here is Part 2 of my investigation on CodeValley and Emergent Coding.

    Part1 + Addendum was an analysis of how Emergent Coding works

    Part2 is an analysis of how CodeValley company could possibly work.

    Part3 will be an analysis of potential attack scenarios, their potential seriousness and how to mitigate them if they actually happen.


    TL;DR

    • There is a long list of slightly suspicious, moderately suspicious and highly suspicious / almost condemning actions taken by CodeValley
    • Based on these actions, I propose 7 models that could logically explain how CodeValley came to be / how it works from the inside.
    • I estimate the probability of CodeValley being a dishonest company with ulterior motives to be 97% (I could still be wrong). Depending on what kind of dishonest company it is, these motives can be focused/targeted on Bitcoin Cash or not.

    I hereby present all the evidence concerning CodeValley company collected by me during the course of my investigation.


    EVIDENCE: Almost neutral behaviors (Almost acceptable, not condemning, not suspicious or only slightly suspicious, like a relatively "normal" company would do):


    A1) CodeValley is not interested in getting any funding, apparently. The CEO himself has stated that they are interested only in developers [Archive]. This is not actually bad itself, it may be a strategy to get developers interested in the project first so they popularize it and get the funds later after the tech is popular already

    A2) They are trying to get as many [paying] people as possible involved, without actually telling these people what they will be involved in. This is moderately dishonest.

    A3) CodeValley is "Anchor Tenant" at Australia's Bitcoin Tech park. Whatever that means - because there is no documentation or information of how this is supposed to work. Will CodeValley have decision power of whether other companies can or cannot occupy the tech park and on what kind of conditions & terms? If they do have some kind of decision power or veto power, they could easily use this to influence or even force other companies into their highly secretive and proprietary technology.

    A4) The company is extremely secretive about anything that would explain how the product is supposed to work. It takes solid PR-beating with a club until bleeding starts for the company to share any details whatsoever about the product they have.

    A5) Instead of just explaining how the product works and allowing developers to become amazed with the beauty of the mechanism that makes it go, they chose to keep everything opaque and hide as much as they can about the product. It's like they are convinced that if they reveal too much, everyone will run away. It does not necessarily yet signify a bad actor, it could be just a bad business decision


    EVIDENCE: Somewhat suspicious behaviors


    B1) Despite being 11 years in the field,

    • CodeValley's product is not available as an actual software at all

    • They cannot disclose list of their patents, even though their Intellectual Property is being obviously well-protected

    • Almost nobody known in the world uses any of their product, they have no big "success stories"

    B2) The company does not even want to reveal its business plan. Maybe it doesn't have any? But how did it get $50M in funding without a business plan? So the logical conclusions are, they

    • Either do have a business plan and are ashamed to show it for some reason OR

    • They don't have any business plan, in which case other factors are at play - most probably insidious or dodgy factors

    B3) Noticed all the posts of CodeValley CEO have an automatic +3 upvotes in most topics their CEO answers. This is a little suspicious, but to be fair - in today's social media-soaked times it may be normal for any company to engage in honest and a little less honest PR damage control.

    B4) The whitepaper and the presentation of their product is deliberately extremely vague and contains no concrete information. Deliberately, because it takes serious mental gymnastics to write so much text without actually giving any concrete information about a product which has actually a pretty simple premise of binary software fragment market. And such mental gymnastics can only be done on purpose. This reeks of dishonesty.

    B5) Since I started the investigation, CodeValley CEO and a shill which appeared later tried to use multiple different psychological attacks on me. Specifically:

    • "Symphatizing" with my (supposed) hardships that had led me to this investigation, my hard childhood or whatever, and showing understanding (attacks details: make yourself closer to the person by symphatizing, thus provoking softer, less agressive responses, pretending to care and positioning yourself as a friend)

    • Praising me despite knowing actually nothing about me (attack details: make the attacked feel good about himself, pretend to be a friend, which changes that state of mind of attacked to more relaxed and makes him become susceptible to more manipulation tactics)

    • Inviting me to a "workshop" in Austalia, paying for hotels, plane and expenses, despite not knowing me (attacks: 1. Bribe using free services, 2. use more psycho-manipulation tricks in person, the way they are more effective)

    B6) Failure to answer what is the source of funds for my supposed travel to australia, how will it be booked in their spending financial sheets, how it will be "raised". Just dropping the topic, like it never existed.

    B7) CodeValley's funding sources are extremely shady. The big fund that brings unknown percentage of money to the table [Archive] is completely opaque and CodeValley does not want to share any information whatsoever about it


    EVIDENCE: Highly suspicious or nearly condemning behaviors


    C1) Despite being 11 years in the field, CodeValley does not give internal(binary & download) access to anybody, even their current business partners [Archive]

    C2) After weeks of the investigation, once people steering CodeValley saw that I cannot be easily swayed, bought or discarded as an obvious troll, their shills start begging me to "not connect the dots" in part3 and consult them first before writing anything [Archive]. And all this while still claiming not being an obvious shill. Also another manipulation tactics by praise. This is pure gold (or rather: pure malice).

    C3) Emergent Coding shills are bothering me in a similar way to CSW Shills - meaningly they spam PMs/comments in my direction specifically after telling them to leave me alone and after I add them to RES ignore list. Normal reddit users and even Core Shills never do that, so I conclude that they must have similar mindset to CSW/Calvin/nChain Shills, which will, most probably, mean being dishonest with their intentions.

    C4) The company does not even talk about WHY it doesn't want to reveal its business plan. It would be almost okay if they said "we cannot reveal the plan due to contract with company XYZ or the Government". But they don't. This is extremely suspiciuous and signifies something nefarious.

    C5) The company does not even talk about WHY it doesn't want to reveal its patents. One explanation like "listen, we cannot do it, we have NDAs or contracts with other entities" would be something. But no. Instead, once questions about patents start, they go completely silent - except only their shills immediately show up [Archive] and start explaining "possible reasons why". Also highly nefarious behavior typical for people ulterior agendas.


    I will also now present theories of possible models that could explain occurence of company similar to CodeValley in nature:


    MODEL 1. A normal honest company: Having incompetent owners, victims to the [sunk cost fallacy], developing product that will never work and pointlessly hoping for their dreams to come true while also trying to pull as many people in as possible, for some psychologically peculiar reason (something akin to group suicide).

    MODEL 2. A normal dishonest company: A normal company with dishonest and manipulative owners that understand perfectly that the product they are selling is pointless and will never work as advertised. But they try to pull as many developers as they can into their system, make them sign contracts and NDAs, so money can be milked from them in a hopefully steady manner. There is a danger this type of company can morph into Placeholder company(3), pure evil-type company(7) or patent troll company(6).

    MODEL 3. A "Placeholder" company: A shell company positioned in some specific place by a very wealthy and influential person or organization. It is a sleeper company, that remains dormant for a long time until it accomplishes enough and gains enough foothold in the specific industry that the actual owner can use it to influence the industry and earn huge money or achieve certain goals in politics. Example: nChain.

    MODEL 4. A "Phantom Placeholder" company: The same as placeholder company, except it (owner, ceo and employees) does not actually know that it is a placeholder company. The biggest investor (the actual owner) has "other plans" for the company, which he will reveal in appropriate time and make the company do whatever he wants.

    MODEL 5. Dirty money company: Company created for laundering dirty money (from prostitution, drugs, illegal gambling, human trafficking or illegal arms). Mostly harmless, will just produce junk and pretend it is doing something until the money run out. Or if they won't run out, it will produce junk indefinitely.

    MODEL 6. A patent troll: A company that deliberately created or used very complex technology in order to pull as many companies as they can into their system in order to sue them and then milk them continuously through trials and lawyers.

    MODEL 7. A "pure-evil" company. Company that is deliberately working in order to destroy or cripple a technology or an industry for political gain while pretending to be saints and pretending to make progress in the field/industry. Examples: Blockstream, GAZPROM(russian company).


    I estimate the probability of CodeValley being one of models 2-7 at 97% and being a model 1 at 3%.

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    Raising Money For Hearthstone Competitor

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 10:37 PM PDT

    I think it would be awesome to way to raise awareness for Bitcoin by crowd funding money for him, since Blizzard stole the money he won. Its only 3k so shouldn't be too difficult especially with all of the attention for Hong Kong lately.

    I do not know how to contact him, or to verify someone isn't attempting to impersonate him, but that doesn't seem insurmountable. Thoughts?

    I'll throw $100 in if someone can figure a way to get it to him

    Link for those out of the loop

    https://www.businessinsider.com/blizzard-blitzchung-hong-kong-china-hearthstone-boycott-outrage-2019-10

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    BrewDog and Bitcoin.com...this can only lead to an awesome night!

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 05:10 PM PDT

    Bitcoin Cash Settles More Value Than ETH in Dollars Moved

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 02:14 AM PDT

    How to Determine Output Index?

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 08:59 PM PDT

    Can someone explain how to determine the output index of a transaction. Description says first output has index 0, second has index 1.

    Can someone tell me which of the outputs (inputs?) are index 0 and index 1?

    https://www.blockdozer.com/address/bitcoincash:qqtnk6k32ggq88vkw8snr2vde5y3setetqheeksmnh

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    Need an ELI5 on generating a raw bch tx offline

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 05:46 PM PDT

    I have tried the ccoin.cash, but I am confused about what to enter in:

    TransactionID N Script

    I have the keys to my inputs, I can also look up the tx details on the inputs, but I can not get it figured out.

    Please use an existing tx/address to give me an example how to. Thanks!!!

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    Now to get these 'Made in Africa' smartphones to have a built-in wallet that supports Bitcoin Cash

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 07:25 AM PDT

    Had some CoinSpice pizza recently and they are some of the best pizzas I ever had, paid with Bitcoin Cash. Also not on the menu picture is Bitcoin Cash beer, absolutely delicious.

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 07:40 AM PDT

    Unicef now accepting donations through bitcoin and ether - The Guardian

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 11:18 PM PDT

    Pierre Rochard and other maxis sucking up to JP Morgan

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 10:56 AM PDT

    Crypto Exchange Binance Launches P2P Trading Supporting Chinese Yuan

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 01:39 AM PDT

    Meet the former prosecutor asked to investigate bitcoin who became the face of crypto VC investing - CNBC

    Posted: 09 Oct 2019 01:18 AM PDT

    How much would you pay to own your own data? [Poll]

    Posted: 08 Oct 2019 10:14 PM PDT

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