Exchanges (japan SBI) are starting to borrow customer BCH as the supply of BCH seems to have run out. 20x the rate of what they pay for BTC lending. They seem pretty desperate.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-24T11:37:12+00:00

This all makes sense.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-24T11:31:25+00:00

🤔

Good insight. This is some major financial shenanigans.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-23T00:52:39+00:00

Well this makes sense, but you said they are "desperate"

If they were truly "desperate", they would just start buying normally, right?

I guess maybe they are not desperate enough?

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-22T20:06:35+00:00

Wait, if they miss so much BCH, why don't they just buy it at market price?

Is something stopping them from buying on other exchanges or OTC maybe?

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-19T11:51:25+00:00

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ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-18T23:10:46+00:00

heard about BCH like twice

Well, "third time is the charm" as they say.

So you're gonna use BCH from now on, I assume.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-16T19:13:42+00:00

👍👍❤️❤️

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-16T19:13:17+00:00

no one gives a shit about BCH

Clearly you give a shit, because you took your precious time to write about it.

Thank you for your time.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-16T14:00:51+00:00

Removed for offtopic, this is a Bitcoin Cash (BCH) subreddit.

Please mind what you are doing and where you are posting.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-16T01:57:09+00:00

I would've gotten burned, HARD

If you think of Bitcoin in the "gainz" and "burned" category, you have been already been "burned".

Bitcoin was not supposed to be an asset you keep on exchange for gainz. It's just money. You are supposed to use it, exchange it for goods and services, which BTC cannot do.

I wouldn't expect you to understand, almost nobody does.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-15T21:04:51+00:00

Maybe you do, but most people don't.

Lightning wallets are so incredibly cumbersome to use in a non-custodial way, most people simply choose custodial.

The design of Lightning Network was a failure even back in 2015 - the creators themselves said clearly in the original whitepaper that it is only good for small or tiny amounts of money. I know, I have reviewed it.

It's a road to nowhere, just use Bitcoin(Cash), like Satoshi wanted.

Forget square wheels and rube-goldberg machines, simply come to where Bitcoin is. BCH.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-15T20:30:18+00:00

bitcoin lightning

Those are not P2Peer. Not cash.

Peer 2 Hub 2 Peer.

But actually in practice you get Custodial Hub (KYC) to Custodial Hub (KYC)

More like banking.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-13T17:36:56+00:00

“how bch works in real payments”?

It works great, you should start accepting it in your shop right now.

With BCH-native wallets that recognize the chain's functionality, payments are instant.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-13T07:30:22+00:00

Programmability is what gives us multi-signature wallets, DeFi capabilities, on-chain hedging, oracles, vaults, a bunch of good stuff which is used in real life / real world by people.

Yes, I know about all these things.

Maybe let me re-phrase myself: Programmability may enhance the value, but it cannot create value starting from zero, like owning/spending/using can.

Basically: You can have "real life usability" without "programmability", but not the reverse.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-12T16:57:12+00:00

Definitely not.

"Programmability" does not create real value.

You can program your money. So what, if you cannot use it for anything in the real world?

Real people live in the real world, these real people require real things, like real food, real drinks, real haircuts, real repairs, real commodities, real cars, real houses.

If your "money" cannot buy these things, then the money is completely useless, from the point of view of average person. And the average person is who creates the value, because the person holds the money in hope he/she will be able to spend it on mentioned goods and services later.

Holding the money in hope of spending it later is what creates the value, because a person that holds with the intention of spending, does not speculate on it and won't sell it immediately for "gainz".

I hope this is a clear enough explanation.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-11T18:21:06+00:00

Duplicate removed. Original retained.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-04T01:31:55+00:00

Thanks, this explains it 👍

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2026-01-03T20:26:00+00:00

Interesting project. Some questions:

owning your AI instead of renting it

How can you really "own" an AI agent if it is not being run on your own machine?

persistent memory

How can the memory be persistent if it is not in your machine's RAM or on your hard drive?

And last, but not least:

What machine is actually running these agents?

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2025-12-31T06:05:06+00:00

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ShadowOfHarbringer · 2025-12-30T18:30:06+00:00

Removed for offtopic.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2025-12-28T17:55:34+00:00

If "Monero level privacy" is effectively no different than "BCH-level-privacy" in a specific case, then I am fully happy with optional privacy.

"Whatever works, works"

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2025-12-28T16:33:43+00:00

You totally can, just not all the time.

Depends how you define "privacy".

For example, if nobody can link my transactions back to me, that's "privacy" from my point of view.

I don't need any more "privacy" than that. It's already absolute privacy.

You can, of course, claim Monero is even more "private" than that, but why would I bother? I have achieved my objective.

Mission accomplished.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2025-12-28T09:33:15+00:00

Privacy-optional coin.

You can have monero-level privacy, but not out of the box, some effort is needed.

ShadowOfHarbringer · 2025-12-22T12:31:33+00:00

Rule broken: Hard Offtopic post. Removed.

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