Jerry | Lightswarm

Bitcoin Conference 2026 in Vegas was a good reminder of how “mature” the Bitcoin industry has become. And by mature, I mean stale. Lots of capital. Lots of infrastructure. Lots of people pretending the industry knows where it’s going. But once you cut through the branding and the recycled talking points, the direction still feels weak. Same old assumptions. Same old standards. Same old comfort zone. That’s why Bitcoin Cash stood out even harder to me. BCH has orders-of-magnitude more room for real-world application adoption than the BTC crowd wants to admit. Not because of slogans. Not because of branding. Because the actual design space is bigger. And that’s the part that drives maxis insane. You can only hear “multisig multisig multisig” so many times before realizing a huge part of this industry has frozen itself intellectually. Multisig is still treated like the pinnacle of fund control, as if Bitcoin just hit its final form years ago and nobody needs to think any harder. Meanwhile BCH already has covenant capabilities that open up far more serious models for custody, treasury controls, lending structures, and other real-world financial applications. Not theory. Not cope. Not “someday.” Actual capability. That’s the funny part about Bitcoin discourse online. A lot of keyboard warriors talk like they’re defending technical truth, but the second you get into real conversations, most of them have barely explored the design space at all. They’re not arguing from understanding. They’re arguing from tribe. They call BCH a scam. They repeat the same tired lines. They posture endlessly on Twitter. But once people are out in the real world, face to face, a lot of that confidence evaporates fast. Because it’s much harder to hide behind memes and social reinforcement when someone is walking you through actual capabilities that your side either ignored, mocked, or never bothered to understand. That was one of the better parts of Vegas: there are still open-minded people in this industry. Not everyone is trapped in maxi theater. Not everyone is interested in performing for their timeline. Some people still want to talk seriously about what can actually be built. And if this industry ever decides it wants more than stale narratives and self-congratulatory circle jerking, BCH deserves a much closer look. Because the gap here is not technical. The gap is that too many people would rather type furiously about the future than admit BCH already unlocked parts of it. PS: Shoutout to my homie @00TATTS for all the work he's doing spreading the good word on BCH while doing tattoos for people in Vegas. Amazing to finally meet the people you've only seen online

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@francispouliot_ You managed to enable covenants on BTC???? Cuz BCH covenants don't care about who actually signs when you are able to enforce everything else

I think I've solved another major problems for self-custodial wallets.

JUST IN: The Republican Jewish Coalition Victory Fund just filed another $470,000 of spending against Thomas Massie. There has now been more than $20,000,000 of outside spending in this race. It is the most expensive House primary in history. Track election spending on Quiver.

Congratulations to the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem on the successful Layla upgrade activation. This is one of the most important upgrades $BCH has seen in years. Bounded loops, restored bitwise operations, reusable functions, expanded CashVM capabilities, and deeper programmability are now live on Bitcoin Cash. We are beginning to see the early stages of what will become a major expansion in BCH use-cases. DeFi on Bitcoin Cash is coming at a level many people still underestimate. Dapps and developer platforms are all beginning to form simultaneously around CashTokens and CashScript. Just as important, the ecosystem around BCH is evolving beyond pure protocol development. Marketing , capital pipelines , creator economies, entrepenuers solving problems, are beginning to kickstart alongside the technology itself. The chain is becoming easier to build on, easier to coordinate around, and easier to deploy real products into. As proud sponsors of BLISS, BCH-1 is on the ground showcasing the continued growth of the Hackcelerator and the teams building through this next phase. Post-Layla, $BCH enters a new era. Bitcoin Cash continues strengthening its fundamentals regardless of market conditions, expanding its capabilities while staying aligned with Bitcoin’s original peer-to-peer design.

@sylcloutier youtube.com/live/yABYMi77e…

Great to see $BCH having their own event! A change from BTC digital gold meetup! 😉 I have not been able to watch the stream yet, but I will try to catch a bit of it! Decentralization, P2p transactions, privacy & scalability! ✅

Buenos Aires last week to meet the $BCH community Slovenia tomorrow for the @bchbliss conference $LTC and $DASH later this summer Comes with supporting payments across 20+ chains.

Spot our founder among some $BCH legends 👀 Zey takes the @bchbliss stage to talk about 'The missing piece' to make crypto payments as simple as a QR scan

Zay from the @mocadotapp team is presenting the Moca POS solution - BCH adoption isn't just a matter of belief, it's a matter of action! The Moca team is making it easier than ever for merchants to accept and use BCH!

Important Announcement Trading on THORChain is currently halted after a vault was compromised. Initial indications are user funds are safe and only protocol owned funds are affected. The network automatically detected abnormal behavior and halted signing activity, which alerted the broader community and prevented further outbound transactions. The investigation is still ongoing to determine the root cause. Contributors are actively working on the issue and we will report updates as we progress toward a solution. What we currently know: * One of the six Asgard vaults appears to have been compromised. * Current estimates place the loss at approximately $10.7m USD * The network automatically detected the abnormal behavior and halted signing activity, preventing further outbound activity. * Nodes securing the vault were subject to their bonded RUNE being slashed as a result of the unauthorized outbound transactions. * Churn activity has been paused while the investigation and remediation efforts are ongoing. * Onboarding additional chains and operations requiring churns will be delayed until the network is stabilized. * Initial indications show no individual user swaps were affected. We are asking all node operators to immediately review their infrastructure, hosts, key management systems, and operational security for any signs of compromise or abnormal behavior, and to report anything suspicious in Discord. Node operators participating in the affected vault are requested to securely provide Bifrost logs to the dev team for analysis using 'make relay' .

@SmartBCH @Smartcashdao any update on the project?

Will over 50% of polled attendees at BLISS 2026 indicate support for BCH Autist’s “Fablous” 1-minute blocks CHIP on Day 1 of the conference? So far, the prediction market on BCH Guru suggests the answer will be Yes!

Here’s an idea… Rather than the government mandating digital ID on all of us, we should be mandating digital ID on the government to monitor exactly where they spend our tax money and the meetings they have with corporate lobbyists. We don’t serve them. They serve us.

Today, I sent a letter to the CBC Ombudsman demanding an explanation and accountability for the use of taxpayer money to mislead, deceive and lie to Canadian citizens, including Members of Parliament, in attempts to trick them into participating in a fake documentary smearing the reputation of Canada's first prime minister. I look forward to her response.

@JayGenXer These people aren't incompetent. These people are treasonous

🚨 SAY IT LOUDER BEN MULRONEY!!! 🔥 Ben Mulroney just eviscerated Ottawa’s disgusting waste: Ottawa blew $19 BILLION on contractors in 2024-25… and it’s projected to skyrocket to $26.6 BILLION next year — even after they promised a pathetic 20% cut. Meanwhile, the public service has ballooned by 101,000 new bureaucrats since 2015. That’s a 39% explosion. Yet they still don’t have the in-house expertise and have to hire outside consultants for billions more? Ben called it exactly what it is: “This is disrespect to the taxpayer of the highest order.”
“Rotten to its core.” Pick one:
✅ 100,000 new government workers
OR
✅ $26.6 BILLION in outside “experts” They chose BOTH. This isn’t mismanagement — it’s taxpayer abuse on steroids. Canadians are paying for this circus while services get worse. Trudeau & Carney’s Ottawa is completely broken! RT if you’re done subsidizing the bloat. #cdnpoli #TrudeauMustGo #TaxpayerAbuse #GovernmentWaste (Video attached — watch @BenMulroney call it out!)

BCH goes private in Edge, Busted privacy myths, and tips in this month's Privacy Press!

Mark Carney 1 year ago: Canada is not for sale. Team elbow: YAY. Mark Carney now: Let’s sell off our airports. Team Elbow: YAY. Canada is a retard colony.

INSANE. Mark Carney says Canada is hitting Net Zero whether you like it or not. Meanwhile one carbon capture project costs over $20 BILLION. For that same money, Canada could buy roughly 500 of the most advanced water bombers on Earth… built right here in Calgary and put out forest fires immediately. He also scrapped the $2 BILLION tree planting program that actually removed carbon from the atmosphere naturally. This was never about the environment. It’s about control, contracts, and money.

Welcome to Bitcoin Maximalism. It's a small club, and you aren't welcome to use it

Massive shout-out to @dagur and the @RiftenLabs team for the exponential growth in users and activities in the past 2 years at @bchbliss