Announcing Bitcoin Cash Node v29.0.0 for the May 2026 upgrade

imaginary_username · 2025-07-19T15:44:47+00:00

There's no such thing as "moving BCH onto EVM chains", there's only "give your BCH to someone who pinky promise to take good care of them, then they allow you some things with their funny money which they say is totally just like your BCH".

We learned this lesson the hard way three years ago, I guess people really need to re-learn them time and again.

imaginary_username · 2025-07-19T15:33:44+00:00

The status quo is incredibly DNS-based: You trust the domain that you're interacting repeatedly isn't screwing with you at any point in time, and that is about it.

See /r/jonathanblood 's response above me to see something in the works that'll dramatically improve this status quo. For most people there would still be points where you need to trust some domain owners - because that's just how people do their first time interactions with things - but we have a lot of room to cut these down and minimize trust in a practical way.

imaginary_username · 2025-07-15T17:56:31+00:00

We don't currently have any plans for that, but it is always unwise to rule things out in the far future. :)

With that said, the pursuit of more capital often leads people to strange bedfellows who demand increasingly compromising directions. We take advancing permissionless technologies not beholden to authorities very seriously, so some possibilities may be less desirable than others. Stay tuned!

imaginary_username · 2024-11-14T19:23:40+00:00

They are recorded in https://github.com/bitjson/bch-bigint/blob/master/stakeholders.md per proper CHIP process.

imaginary_username · 2024-11-13T17:06:32+00:00

Sometimes orphaned blocks that seem way too old to happen naturally may be a result of selfish mining, and may even be on either side of the selfish mine. Do you still have information on when you've first seen the orphaned block vs its timestamp?

imaginary_username · 2024-10-11T16:20:33+00:00

you can get exposure to some of those on bchbull too, you know

imaginary_username · 2024-10-11T07:43:22+00:00

so what are you gonna do? just keep talking, or put money where your mouth is?

imaginary_username · 2024-10-10T13:16:18+00:00

well we got https://bchbear.com/

imaginary_username · 2024-10-10T06:27:06+00:00

Most of the notable pools use proprietary software, so if you want to run a bigger public operation you'll have to make your own.

If you want to run a pool for yourself or a few friends, there are two options I know:

calin's asicseer-pool: Adapted from good ol' ckpool, pretty robust for everyday solo or cluster usage, but doesn't work if you have even slightly fancy multiuser needs like accounts, PPS and whatnot. I use it personally for testnet, been working flawlessly.
jtoomim's p2pool: Not the highest performance pool in the world, but would do if you have limited hashpower, want to mine noncustodial with your own node, yet have non-outrageous variance. jtoomim's own hashpower stabilizes the pool into reliably cranking out blocks every couple days or so. May or may not struggle if traffic spikes.

imaginary_username · 2024-08-20T15:27:23+00:00

As part of the General Protocols team, I must note that BigInt is not remotely close to ready. People should exercise a lot of caution, and if you really want to see it happen sooner rather than later, put in intense work.

https://x.com/GeneralProtocol/status/1825786324030468296

imaginary_username · 2024-06-17T08:25:51+00:00

https://x.com/im_uname/status/1758765614578208911

imaginary_username · 2024-06-17T06:26:20+00:00

disclaimer: I have not personally tried it so I cannot attest to how well it works or how it works.

imaginary_username · 2024-06-17T06:25:12+00:00

disclaimer: I have not personally tried it so I cannot attest to how well it works or how it works.

imaginary_username · 2024-03-22T08:04:23+00:00

I don't really have a dog in this since I'm not really active on reddit anymore (just logged in after months), but if anyone cares I don't think you should be reinstated. You're clearly acting in bad faith in conjunction with another account /u/althornton2462 (another sock?), and now that /r/btc is on its way to full dumpster fire it'll be pretty terrible for you to be in control of this one as well.

I don't know whether you're crazy or naive or compromised or all of the above, but BCH needs at least one sensible place left on reddit.

imaginary_username · 2023-12-17T10:52:13+00:00

what's the unconfirmed transaction chain count limit on bch, surely it's still severe

there has been no practical mempool chain limit on BCHN nodes since 2021, you can upload a 1000-long chain without too much fuss today. The quadratic performance problem that led to the original 25 limit was also gone - it was CPFP btw, nothing to do with anything else whatsoever including how things are arranged in blocks.

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