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    Sunday, August 23, 2020

    BTC The BTC Paradox: “A 1 MB blocksize enables poor people to run their own node!” “Okay, then what?” “Poor people won’t be able to use the network!”

    BTC The BTC Paradox: “A 1 MB blocksize enables poor people to run their own node!” “Okay, then what?” “Poor people won’t be able to use the network!”


    The BTC Paradox: “A 1 MB blocksize enables poor people to run their own node!” “Okay, then what?” “Poor people won’t be able to use the network!”

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 09:06 PM PDT

    Ethereum development group switch focus to BCH

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 03:43 PM PDT

    Tortuga: The lightweight, non-custodial, self-hosted payment gateway you've been waiting for!

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 05:57 PM PDT

    I'm very pleased to announce the availability of my payment-gateway project: Tortuga.

    Tortuga lets you sell a digital file for cryptocurrency. All you need to be able to do is run a docker container (I run mine on a little VPS from digital ocean).

    Benefits:

    • Totally non-custodial. Funds go directly to you.
    • Uses an xpub key, so every transaction goes to a new address (essential for privacy).
    • No need to share any personal information with anyone (in contrast to hosted solutions like BitPay or CoinGate).
    • No need to run your own full node in order to sell stuff (in contrast to BTCPayServer). Uses rest.bitcoin.com and blockchain.info to verify transactions.
    • A checkout link is just a url that looks like https://yourwebsite/checkout/bitcoin-cash/your-product-code . Include it as a link on any website. No need to run any specific CMS or eCommerce platform (e.g. wordpress/woocommerce).
    • Each buyer gets a unique download URL, which will work for a fixed number of downloads of the file.

    Current Limitations:

    • For now, Tortuga only supports selling digital files. There's no support for handling other types of products or services.
    • For now, orders are limited to a single product/file/download. Largely because that's all I needed for myself at the moment.

    Supported cryptocurrencies:

    • Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is supported natively.
    • Nano (NANO/XRB) is supported via BrainBlocks.
    • Monero (XMR) is in the works and coming soon.
    • Possibly BTC and DASH in the future.

    You can read more about it at https://github.com/unyieldinggrace/tortuga

    The deployment instructions on the github page should be sufficient for technical users. I'll try to make time to write a step-by-step setup tutorial on read.cash at some stage (or if someone else wants to do it, that might be a good way to score tips!).

    Motivation:

    I made this payment gateway for idealistic reasons. I wrote a book called Taxation is Slavery: The Biblical Case for Libertarian Politics. Among many other things, this book argues that fiat money-printing is a form of immoral counterfeiting, and that we should attempt to secede from the fiat power structures by using cryptocurrency. To live that out, I was determined to find a way to sell the book directly to readers, completely peer-to-peer. In this way, I'm helping to "close the loop". I'm giving people something good to spend their (crypto) money on, without either them or me ever having to convert it to fiat.

    The book also includes a brief sub-chapter on how the very existence of Bitcoin should force many Christians to re-evaluate the way they understand Jesus' statement about "giving to Ceasar what is Caesar's". Bitcoin has no president or king's face on it. There is no engraving of any Caesar. Thinking this through might be of interest to many Bitcoin fans :)

    Ready to see it in action?

    You can test out the payment gateway by seeing how I use it on my own site. Just click one of the crypto checkout buttons at https://beingbiblical.com/books/taxation-is-slavery

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    Roger Ver says he is willing to sell the Bitcoin.com domain for 22 million Bitcoin Cash!

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 10:21 AM PDT

    On-chain Uber proposal from Memo.cash

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 08:11 PM PDT

    How to add a BCH Donate button for my blog?

    Posted: 23 Aug 2020 12:20 AM PDT

    I'm not a good coder and the methods I've tried are difficult for me. Does anyone know of a way that I can add a donate BCH button for my blogger site?

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    For merchants it is now 300% more expensive to accept Bitcoin than PayPal and Stripe

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 02:36 PM PDT

    UCL engineers set new world record internet speed

    Posted: 23 Aug 2020 01:54 AM PDT

    We were prepared to host the Merit and USDH payments for the Floating Man Festival at Liberland! Serbian Corona regulations made that impossible, but you can still see how it would have worked :) Excited to see becash be used in Liberland!

    Posted: 23 Aug 2020 12:15 AM PDT

    Bitcoin ABC supporter is "apparently" now against Open Source software, as ironical as it may sound.

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 02:39 PM PDT

    Please Help Brainstorm Project Ideas for Upcoming BCH DevCon

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 03:16 PM PDT

    Hi all,

    I'm the developer of the BCH browser extension, SnappyCash (video). I'm participating in the Sept 4-6th BCH DevCon, and would like your help selecting a project.

    Before I commit to an idea, I'd like to know what you'd like to see in a project! Right now I'm thinking about a permissionless ride sharing web app with privacy protections. If you have an idea, please share in the comments. I'll likely select the most upvoted project if I have the abilities needed!

    My skills:

    • Fullstack Web developing
    • Machine Learning +AI
    • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
    • Trustless architectures
    • Web Extensions
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    Reminder that CashFusion is amazing, and it makes Bitcoin Cash the only coin with easy and affordable privacy, that is accepted at more than 100,000 merchants around the world.

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 05:23 AM PDT

    Thank you BCH community| Flipstarter.gameflame.cash Got Funded!!

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 09:57 AM PDT

    I want you all to know I don't take a single penny for granted, and I will make sure to return a great value for funds I`ve received, towards BCH adoption......
    https://read.cash/@ralak/flipstartergameflamecash-got-funded-766d7ab6

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    Report finds $50 billion of cryptocurrency moved out of China hinting at capital flight against Beijing rules - CNBC

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 06:22 PM PDT

    Bitcoin Scalability w/ Big Blocks

    Posted: 23 Aug 2020 01:43 AM PDT

    BTC chain supporters state that with small blocks they can achieve more decentralization, because more people will be able to run small size nodes.

    I think there is a mistake on this statement, because with small blocks Bitcoin won't scale, it will reach it's limits while the fees will be extremely high to use, that will limit the adoption of BTC onchain usage, will create an image of non scalable blockchain. Sacrificing Bitcoin scalability just because some newcomer people won't be able to run their own node.

    On the other hand with big blocks Bitcoin can onboard much more people, that will drive more adoption and that means higher demand = higher price, so those who are engaged with Bitcoin will be able to afford buying more HDD disk space to run nodes, and support the growing Bitcoin network.

    submitted by /u/walerikus
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    Looks Like ViaBTC will Mine Both Chains with Two Pools

    Posted: 23 Aug 2020 01:22 AM PDT

    Flipstarter works so well because it is a game-theoretic solution to funding public goods through repeated assurance contracts!

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 01:37 PM PDT

    Support uncensorable free speech with the member.cash flipstarter!

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 12:39 PM PDT

    Some folks are saying that a voluntary funding model is communistic.

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 08:00 AM PDT

    1. Voluntary funding pretty much the exact opposite of communistic. It's... well, voluntary and, maybe more importantly, it's competitive. The folks receiving voluntary contributions need to provide a product people actually want.

    2. Ironically, kicking people off your network if they don't fund the "commons", while not a "tax" per se (since blockchains are permissionless), is wayyyyyyyy more reminiscent of communism.

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    sent BCH to BTC and yes it was SEGWIT

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 09:14 PM PDT

    i just sent BCH from my coinbase wallet to my BTC ledger wallet...smfh

    coinbase prompts me to use SEGWIT before sending coin...ffs lol

    still UNCONFIRMED on the blockchain

    how can i get my BCH back ?

    submitted by /u/Krypto-Knight-Rider
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    I use Cronnit.us to schedule the "Fusion Friday" posts ahead of time. It's open source, super easy (login using Reddit's API), and they accept BCH donations!

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 06:14 AM PDT

    Searching For Peace

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 08:46 AM PDT

    Where to buy btc when I cant get verified anywhere

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 06:13 PM PDT

    I am in Australia and want to buy larger amounts of bitcoin than my $300 limit on coinbase but cannot get verified on local bitcoins as I am underage. Could anyone help me out with suggestions as to how I could go about this problem?

    submitted by /u/offensiveparadox35
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    Need comprehensive explanation of differences between forks

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 08:18 AM PDT

    /u/georgedonnelly contacted me and suggested that Prohashing switch from Bitcoin ABC to a different implementation of Bitcoin Cash. While his reasoning seems sound, our job is to make customers happy, so it not our place to make that decision ourselves. I personally am confused about why some Chinese pools have taken it upon themselves to alienate a portion of their customers who disagree their positions.

    To be fair, we will post a poll to determine the proportion of customer hashrate that supports each option, signal blocks proportionally according to the results, and then mine both forks after November.

    Is anyone aware of a single post or article that provides a summary of the conflict? So far, I've only been able to find biased articles that describe what one side is doing, or which cover someone's reaction to the topic. Such an article would be a great find, because I can link to it to avoid having to answer a lot of support tickets.

    submitted by /u/MattAbrams
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