ETA 11 days to hard fork. Vlog 3.
* y2k analogy. The difference is no one believed the software was right and the year should actually switch back to 1900.
* Stephen Pair talks about segwit2x from a business point of view: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitpay-ceo-stephen-pair-talks-bitcoin-hard-forks-segwit2x-and-sidechains/
* Segwit has locked in
http://www.coindesk.com/bip-91-locks-means-bitcoin-not-scaled-yet/
* Good article on the lack of guarantees provided by BIP 91 -
hard fork still likely https://medium.com/@jmanini/has-segwit2x-lock-in-avoided-a-bitcoin-fork-afd2fd72bcc9
* Tweet by Peter Todd encouraging his followers to still support UASF even with BIP 91: https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/888195011917078529
* Jameson Lopp's celebratory tweet: https://twitter.com/lopp/status/888200452197801984
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8RqgEzD0OA
* ETA 2 Days. Vlog 12.
* Now 4 full node implementations of Bitcoin Cash: https://twitter.com/BitcoinCashFans/status/891290966757343232
* Coin dance monitor page https://cash.coin.dance/
* Reminder of other monitor page https://www.btcforkmonitor.info/
* People are moving large volumes of bitcoin off Coinbase in anticipation of Bitcoin Cash leading to withdraw delays https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6qaqis/coinbase_outgoing_btc_transactions_delayed_up_to/
* Jameson’s article: https://www.coindesk.com/spv-support-billion-bitcoin-users-sizing-scaling-claim/
* My response to Jameson: http://disq.us/p/1kxz8a4
* tldr: SPV can scale to billions of users.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnM2DE_-KIQ
Yours is a way to earn money for creating and discovering good content. This is a demo of a simulation of a micropayment from user-to-user on Yours. This is only a simulation, and the micropayment logic has not yet been tested on a real blockchain nor integrated into the Yours UI. After we finish some edge cases in the protocol, we will test it again on bitcoin testnet and issue another update.
https://engineering.yours.network/articles/2016-08-01-a-user-to-user-smart-contract-micropayment/
https://www.yours.network
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzAmVN5UD2c
Lightning UX https://blog.lightning.engineering/posts/2018/05/02/lightning-ux.html
“What the fuck? Sell your BTC.” https://twitter.com/abrkn/status/992744771054485506
Why we chose Bitcoin Cash over Litecoin https://www.yours.org/content/why-we-chose-bitcoin-cash-over-litecoin-2cb321dec039
Lighting Network vs. Bitcoin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew2MWVtNAt0
Hypothesis: Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is the only blockchain that improved on the original protocol by Satoshi Nakamoto. Every other blockchain unintentionally regressed. https://twitter.com/ryanxcharles/status/992547215552868353
The Bitcoin Solution: Just launch it and don't bother trying to fully explain it to anyone. So innovative that the people trying to copy and improve the project actually don't understand what they're doing and end up making it worse instead. https://twitter.com/ryanxcharles/status/992535887345991680
Chris Pacia: Reply to Giacomo
1 https://www.yours.org/content/reply-to-giacomo-26cbedb5bb58
2 https://www.yours.org/content/reply-to-giacomo-2-d67e78a632ff
Giacomo manifesto shows everything wrong about BTC cult https://twitter.com/giacomozucco/status/991438749748740097
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEg-Rl7x2tc
My talk at the Texas Bitcoin Conference, March, 2014.
Topics discussed:
* Why bitcoin is exploding - the four forces that monetize bitcoin (intrinsic value, first-mover advantage, network effect, self-interest of bitcoiners)
* Bitcoin is the economic singularity
* How I quit my PhD and went full-time bitcoin (of course)
* Privacy in bitcoin wallets (mixing, coinjoin, merge avoidance, stealth addresses)
* Security in bitcoin wallets (multisig, 2-of-3, 3-of-5)
Slides:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/211494377/How-I-Quit-My-PhD-And-Went-Full-Time-Bitcoin-Ryan-X-Charles
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F57HIxQuMo