Vin Armani (CTO of CoinText) breaks down his theory on why Bitcoin is not really best defined as money, at least in our traditional understanding of it. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn1bmC3Pafw

Developer Joey King explains his work on the SLP Dividend Calculator, and discusses why this simple, easy tech could have implications beyond just something cool. Dividends are a legacy financial holdover, and their possible iteration within the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem carry fascinating possibilities. This episode is available on multiple audio formats here: https://coinspice.io/news/podcast-the-age-of-bitcoin-dividends-begins-slp-dividend-calculator-means-a-new-era-for-bch/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4EdXRKlcLc

Bitcoin Core (BTC) has been seemingly sabotaged to promote a supposed scaling solution known as the Lightning Network (LN). While it has been touted for years as "just around the corner", little progress has been made and there is no conclusion in sight. With the famous 18 months away™ deadline being reached on 9th of March 2019, this video is a fitting response. https://coinspice.io/news/btc-lightning-network-problems-18-months-away-from-being-solved-since-2015/ Follow Collin Enstad on Twitter: https://twitter.com/collinenstad Transcript of video: https://honest.cash/collinenstad/is-bitcoins-lightning-network-vapourware-the-transcript-2954/ Music by Matthijs Bos https://soundcloud.com/matthijsbos/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support the channel on BitBacker here: https://bitbacker.io/user/coinspice/ CoinSpice: https://coinspice.io/ https://twitter.com/CoinSpice https://t.me/coinspicenews ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVqZ0UOMmU

TL;DR: When the recent Infrastructure Funding Plan for Bitcoin Cash (IFP), from BTC.TOP mining pool founder Jiang Zhuoer, hit the peer-to-peer electronic cash community, anonymous developer imaginary_username (imaginary) was not pleased (to put it mildly). However similar his criticisms are of the IFP, one thing about him is different: he’s building an alternative to rival what he considers its major faults. Show notes: https://coinspice.io/news/podcast-imaginary_username-speaks-hes-working-to-build-a-developer-funding-alternative TIMESTAMPS 02:15 imaginary’s background 12:00 Reaction to the IFP 14:05 Clarifying his stance 17:00 The heart of the problem 22:10 Miners v. developers 25:20 Is there a need for protocol dev funding? 29:15 imaginary’s alternative 32:30 The human problem 33:30 The ad hoc team 35:50 Is voluntary funding practical? 37:45 Getting it shipped 40:45 IFP impact potential 43:30 Following imaginary ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuRuCpYvuFY