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@bch_cashalyst much needed

everyone loves to connect with the local community, we'll be releasing a new directory that house every bitcoin cash chapters. Bitcoin cash Nigeria? how to link up with the community? Bitcoin cash Canada? how lo link up with the community and more.

@monsterbitar @jongoose69 We need both 1 min blocks and asking all the services to support ds proofs.

@jongoose69 0-conf is great, but not all services accept zero-conf, and that's fine. They should be allowed to choose what risk profile to take. This one wanted one confirmation.

Once again I find myself waiting for a payment to clear before heading out for some errands. 25 minutes since last block. Looking forward to continued discussion on lower BCH block times, to see how/if we can address this in a good way.

@bitrequest CashTokens support

@txariv What would you like to see improved?

@TomasForgac @JurajKarpis @jeffreytucker was always pleasure to talk with you there man.

I loved every moment I spent, had some of the most meaningful conversations, and met some of the most wonderful people there. Proud to have hosted its hall packed with people for @Jurajkarpis book launch, had @jeffreytucker call in for a Bitcoin meetup, and was honored to share some thoughts at many events. Sad do see it go but happy to keep the memories of it while it was there. Thank you for making it a reality @wilderko, @jurbed , and of course Roman and others not on X kryptomagazin.cz/en/paralelni-p…

@0xRugova @Vladcostea regular meetups at Cafe Decada for many years. Also the newly established Liberty Loft.

@Vladcostea Been there a few times, awesome place didn’t even know it‘s closed… so sad to see. Are there any other options in Prague?

Paralelni Polis is dead horrible news for bitcoin adoption in Europe This was the first cafe to accept bitcoin payments in 2014 Had a coworking space where you could meet hackers & anarchists Hosted hundreds of conferences & community meetups Nurtured open source startups Displayed the works of underground artists Sold overpriced drinks and food that everyone gladly bought to support the movement Even mobilized the community during the pandemic to have a huge remote conference with dozens of volunteering hosts and guests If you were a bitcoiner who came to visit Prague, Paralelni Polis would let you sleep in their dorm for free. If no dorm was available, they had couches too Now it’s dead. Much like bitcoin adoption in Europe. In the beginning, they would force all cafe customers to buy bitcoin to pay for the drinks. There was a Bitcoin ATM at the entrance, but the employees would usually offer to trade bitcoin for cash in person to avoid the 10% fee. In recent years, Paralelni Polis rebranded as Second Culture. Started accepting credit cards for payment, cut down on the number of events, faced an identity crisis that ultimately led to its demise. Even some OGs who basically built the place didn’t want to visit anymore. Call it local drama and politics, but it was bad for everybody involved. The worst of outcomes happened and bitcoin culture is now crippled. I feel sorry for the newcomers who will never experience the joy of walking into this place to experience a true bitcoin economy. Heavily ideological, but somehow functional. Now Paralelni Polis and its incumbent Institute of Cryptoanarchy are dead. What remains inside is an unplugged ATM and the Monero logo on the door – a hint that the dream of peer to peer electronic cash has moved elsewhere. Now we never spend, shake hands with bankers and deny the existence of a second best while technically losing by every significant metric. Good night, sweet prince!

@Vladcostea there was more than 1 problem, but the place had an identity crisis since about 10y ago when they failed to grow a spine and stand up to the bitcoin hijackers. Related - hope you already got your @bchbliss ticket Vlad, they are running out ;)

2 years ago, Paralelni Polis put up this canvas to mock Saylor’s shitty takes. It was super ballsy because the gigachad was in town to attend BTC Prague. Ironically, the place went downhill from here.

@SantinoMiele @crecimientoar ;) tulasacra.github.io/bch_stickers/

Yendo en el 71 al New Aleph Hub de @crecimientoar para el DeFi Summit de hoy, me divierte mucho encontrarme con estos easter eggs por la ciudad 😅

@Lightswarm @BitcoinCashOG thats vscode+codex plugin? how does that compare with cursor?

@BitcoinCashOG Literally vibe coded this BCH & cashtoken airdrop add-on today for the OPTN wallet while at a conference

OPTNLabs named Runner-Up in Tech Track at the Hackcelerator with their modular wallet extensions. Faster dApp integrations ahead! #BitcoinCash #BCH

@Cryptotea if you want to know how we ended up here read @HijackingBTC , if you want to know how to move forward follow @BitcoinCashOG

Satoshi didn’t create bitcoin for its price to go up, he created it to be used as a currency

@cculianu @Vladcostea Even for some hypothetical high-frequency ACH, simple one way payment channels would still be better. For LN to be better, you would also need a rapidly changing set of participants.

LN really is a useful tech for large institutions that do may frequent payments back and forth. Think 2 banks talking to each other. It's basically an ACH replacement for crypto. The notion that it should/could be used for everyday payments by average schmucks like you or me buying coffee is laughable. The main weaknesses are: needing 24/7 uptime to monitor shit and needing to keep channels open to receive. This is not practical for regular schmucks. It's only for institutional. Always was always has been.

Ideologies are great for as long as they are grounded in facts and serve an achievable goal Toxic bitcoin maximalism was mostly a reaction to the 2017 forks, to make sure that the original chain remains known as “Bitcoin” and promising tech like Lightning gets a chance to compete Almost a decade later, Bitcoin is less relevant for payments and the Lightning network is still a small-scale experiment. Other digital money networks emerged and took 40% of what used to be Bitcoin’s market. There used to be a time when everything was a reaction to Bitcoin or an attempt to improve Bitcoin’s design. Today we have projects that don’t care about Bitcoin at all and serve entirely different use cases. You can’t possibly live in complete ignorance like it’s still 2017 and a whole decade of market information doesn’t exist. Update your worldview, adapt to the new conditions. Understand that there are people who don’t give a shit about Bitcoin, but use other blockchains instead. Don’t be afraid of learning. Because if you are and you convince all your friends that ignorance is the way, that’s how Bitcoin keeps on losing market share and relevance. Adapt or die.

@paolo_aga the stablecoin is going to be based on a basket of assets. Thats why @FundTokens_Cash is so important.

To get rid of all the troubles that affect the world today we need a steady worldwide adoption of Bitcoin Cash and a really stable coin that's not based on fiat currencies.

@joemar_taganna @SusonoTabi Ok but how is a widespread merchant adoption possible without the inflow?

A few years ago, we conducted a detailed assessment of crypto-based remittances in the major corridors to and from the Philippines. What we found was clear: margins in traditional remittance markets are already compressed due to intense competition among established players. Fees are low enough that once you factor in crypto on-ramp and off-ramp costs, the total expense of sending funds via crypto ends up roughly the same — and in some cases, even higher. Our conclusion was straightforward. Bitcoin Cash–based remittance only becomes economically compelling when recipients can retain and spend BCH directly, rather than immediately converting back to fiat. The real advantage emerges when off-ramping is minimized or eliminated — allowing users to avoid exchange spreads, withdrawal fees, and additional friction. In short, crypto remittance is not primarily a fee-reduction play. It becomes transformative when it evolves from a transfer rail into a usable payment ecosystem. So our strategy now is widespread merchant adoption first, remittance will follow.

Doing awesome work. I'm sure there's more to come. @joemar_taganna any plans on trying to break into the remittances market?

@BitcoinOutLoud not sure about the changes themselves but i love the vibe code approach.

Just as a proof of concept I "vibe coded" the UI redesign for Electron Cash I proposed a while back: youtube.com/watch?v=Kv9KKD…

@VinnyLingham meet the people fixing it, come to @bchbliss

I wrote this in January 2018 when the BTC community wanted to build “Digital Gold”. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) forked away and then subsequent to this post, Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision (BSV) also forked from BCH. If you want to read a neutral post about my arguments for and against digital gold, start with this blog post I wrote. It was at a time when everyone in the community believed the digital gold narrative would get Bitcoin to $1m/coin by now. We also didn’t realize that Epstein was funding Blockstream and MIT Labs. I’ve been very skeptical of the digital gold narrative, and even more so right now, given what we’re seeing between the divergence of Gold and Bitcoin.

@maskedmaxi @kzKallisti BCH has NOT been 51% attacked.

Because as bitcoin cash gained market share (imagine a scenario in which bitcoin cash goes up to 25k and bitcoin goes down to 25k) both networks now are both easy to attack as hash rate moves from bitcoin to bitcoin cash. This makes both vulnerable to 51% attacks. I get your argument that in the grand scheme of things a 51% attack doesn’t matter too much, but that’s not the way the rest of the world thinks. The fact that bitcoin has never been 51% attacked, and BCH has, is a huge red flag for most people. Most people care that their money works when they want it to work. I have honestly been considering moving 5% of my bitcoin stack to BCH, but it’s still very hard for me to envision a scenario in which Bitcoin fails, BCH takes over and everything is well and good. You have another thread explaining how you see it going down?

It's easy to frame Bcashers as butthurt, raging children who are simply crying about their garbage BTCBCH ratios. But it's so much more than that. It's the fact that you and I both understand the civilization-changing consequences of mass Bitcoin adoption. When people disparage and dismiss Bitcoin Cash, it hurts. Because in a space rife with actual fraud, we've had the mission of dismantling abusive financial systems and empowering people all over the world from DAY ONE. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. Remember Napster? Kazaa? Limewire? BitTorrent? These things revolutionized and disrupted billion-dollar industries and necessitated unprecedented legal definition. Do you think the people who operate, manipulate, and benefit from the legacy system are going to let us do the same thing to money? Without a fight? You're ridiculous if you think so. And so here we are - fighting the good fight as hard as we can. Then there's these idiots with laser eyes who keep trying to friendly fire... or are they actually aligned with the enemy? It really seems so, because they keep talking about how rich they are in the enemy's money... Thanks to what can only be viewed as outright sabotage, I now see CashApp taking over my city's "p2p" payment niche instead of Bitcoin. What happened to "magic internet money?" Why has everyone seemed to have lost the plot? We're running out of time. We must start using Bitcoin, or Bitcoin will die. And it's not just a matter of opinion - it's a matter of economics. There are two ways that miners can justify their capital expenses: 1. Hoping a handful of people will pay hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of dollars every 10 minutes as the price and hashrate of BTC increases and the money that people actually use gets devalued OR 2. Hoping millions to billions of people and entities will pay mere pennies or less, as often as they want and can afford, to engage in the majority of their economic activities. Which is more likely? Which is more affordable? Which results in higher value reaped by miners, which results in higher value gained by users? It's easy to cop out and say "time will tell" but we don't need to wait because we can just do the math ourselves. Verify. Don't trust. And trust me. We BeCashers have done the verification. Day after day. Year after year. We have been consistent, and after many years of turbulence, we're visibly returning from the grave... Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. So in a world that seems to be going to shit faster than ever... WHY ARE YOU STILL AGAINST US?

@monsterbitar @kzKallisti @TheBCHPodcast @BitcoinCashOG @bitjson @GeneralProtocol nice :) HoN was awesome, easy to build AIs for youtube.com/watch?v=v5dyzK…

@kzKallisti @TheBCHPodcast @BitcoinCashOG @bitjson @GeneralProtocol I'll take that support role any day of the week. Never got into LoL, but spent considerable time in HoN and Strife, most of it as support characters built as CC/Damage just to trap people who can't see past the stereotype. :)

BeCashers as a League of Legends team: Top - @TheBCHPodcast - Solo Tank Mid - @BitcoinCashOG - Map Control / Tower Defense Bot - @bitjson + @GeneralProtocol - ADC glass cannon + Support playmaker Jungle - @kzKallisti - farm mobs / gank

@mocadotapp @BitcoinCashOG i love bchbull, but i think integrating CashTokens first would be more useful.

@BitcoinCashOG The Bitcoin cash community keeps innovating and adding more use cases to $BCH, love to see this! This seems like something we can integrate directly into our wallet, do they have APIs or how can we make it happen?

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@kzKallisti it wasnt just reddit, it was ALL the discussion platforms - irc, mailing list, conferences, facebook groups

I wasn't actually there at the time so I don't really stake on this one. Maybe some people who got banned from r/Bitcoin *at the time* (not years later like me) can share their opinion?

@millennialzoom @monsterbitar @Scavacini777 Especially if you keep adding nodes on crap hardware. You are just slowing the network down. Please don't do that.

@monsterbitar @Scavacini777 "decentralization for the sake of decentralization is missing the point" Interesting thought! I guess there is a point where over decentralization becomes an unnecessary hindrance to the network.

Is it true that running a full node doesn't necessarily help with Bitcoin's decentralization? In my head: More nodes verifying the network is BETTER, right?