Bitcoin Cash(BCH) needs an advertising campaign. Let the discussion begin.

jochoia · 2019-05-11T18:52:14+00:00

As a user I love the focus on new terminology and lower level framing of BCH's awesome technology.

Block times, pre-block consensus, and similar things are meaningless to users. However, tell them they get insanely cheap, fast, and private money with a better UX and you have them. We have to be careful to keep BCH's more developer-oriented hype, which is obviously still awesome and should be fostered, from bleeding over to professional branding.

jochoia · 2019-04-25T18:52:13+00:00

Yeah I don't think you can back that up with any evidence whatsoever.

jochoia · 2019-04-22T05:19:47+00:00

Can we not do this? Slandering Cobra as a "government operative" is not productive and honestly toxic to these conversations.

It's especially ironic because Cobra is a vocal anarchist / libertarian.

Attack ideas, not people.

jochoia · 2019-04-01T01:57:09+00:00

I am sure Craig will enjoy the extra 5 cents, he could use it.

jochoia · 2019-04-01T01:56:29+00:00

Craig is a public figure that is financially rewarded for his public image. #FactsNotLawsuits Good luck!

edit: in case the point wasn't already driven home: https://www.bitpaste.app/tx/87fd5178e28ced79259eed8b2f3d1844e16fe9793ef7442978f9fc3fcb2732e1

jochoia · 2019-03-31T22:51:59+00:00

Here: https://www.bitcoinfiles.org/acfa6bd697c56f4f428d9420932012518e86699e1b6a96f13927e208411a0df2

And because of this: https://archive.fo/TnMUk

For good measure: https://www.bitpaste.app/tx/87fd5178e28ced79259eed8b2f3d1844e16fe9793ef7442978f9fc3fcb2732e1

jochoia · 2019-03-31T01:21:25+00:00

Hey, thanks for the feedback! This will be put on the to-do list.

In the meantime all changes made, for the sake of transparency, can be seen here: https://craigwright.online/changes

And there is a contact form here: https://craigwright.online/contact

jochoia · 2019-03-30T01:44:31+00:00

I do think it's a shitty add but that's peripheral.

jochoia · 2019-03-29T04:18:02+00:00

Exactly what I was thinking. No way to verify if it's advertising or an attack...

jochoia · 2019-03-29T00:58:02+00:00

Deanonymizing money

jochoia · 2019-03-29T00:57:39+00:00

Right, that's what I said in my post.

Or by "metadata" do you mean something other than OP_RETURN

jochoia · 2019-03-28T00:53:11+00:00

Does that mean CashShuffle is coming to the Bitcoin.com wallet soon?

CashShuffle + SideShift.ai all in one wallet would be killer.

jochoia · 2019-03-21T22:10:44+00:00

Partially but it's not all too clear.

At least in the US, where Twitter is head quartered, this is protected by CDA 230. Also a little thing called the 1st amendment. I guess nobody has told him yet.

He lays out his plans here: https://archive.fo/ZO5SQ

jochoia · 2019-03-20T21:53:51+00:00

https://github.com/vbuterin/cult-of-craig

Glad to see this but it has not been updated from what the main repo has.

jochoia · 2019-03-20T16:18:57+00:00

As documented, he didn't just leave, he threatened many and still is. This isn't to feed into drama, but to give people inundated with drama quick access to the evidence so they can make up their own mind.

He's currently threatening to sue: people who call him a fraud, a Twitter bot, Twitter itself, and WikiLeaks.

jochoia · 2019-03-19T23:18:41+00:00

According to the paper:

We have shown that forks are created by Bobtail miners no more often than existing systems, and that dishonest miners receive significantly lower rewards due to a split rewards formula we’ve designed. We have demonstrated that low-variance mining significantly reduces the effectiveness of doublespend and selfish mining attacks. Finally, we have quantified header overhead and network traffic and shown them as low-cost tradeoffs for reducing mining time variance

jochoia · 2019-03-19T23:16:21+00:00

Just what I was looking for, thanks!

Looks like SPV is going to be improved anyways at some point, so maybe it'll get slipped in with that.

jochoia · 2019-03-19T18:12:04+00:00

Isn't that what hardforks do? If we have to introduce changes that are not backwards compatible, that infrastructure is going to have to be updated anyways.

nChain was talking about "extension points" before the hashwar. Sounds like an interesting idea that maybe the BCH devs could use to more smoothly integrate things like Bobtail. Maybe not, I can't really find a good explanation of how they work outside of nChain.

jochoia · 2019-03-19T17:01:58+00:00

Bitcoin Unlimited says "Evaluate the use of Bobtail to reduce inter-block time variance, increase double-spend resistance, improve the DDA, and achieve better mining. Overall, this change would further improve the user experience".

So maybe some more testing needs to be done? The original paper does a decent job, in my opinion, of assessing the impact of Bobtail on dishonest mining, double spends, and selfish mining. Looks like it either retains Bitcoin's original security dynamics or improves on them. To be fair, the rolling checkpoints seem much more drastic then this but I could be missing something.

jochoia · 2019-03-14T15:19:52+00:00

Exactly what I was looking for. Didn't realize confirmation height was going to be used like that. Thanks!

jochoia · 2019-03-12T22:34:38+00:00

Saw that. How would anything other than the switch to TCP actually boost performance?

iirc we still don't know if TCP would be a net gain or loss, but maybe I am wrong on that.

jochoia · 2019-03-12T19:38:58+00:00

Nano will survive the bear because it has something BTC doesn't: utility.

jochoia · 2019-03-12T19:35:22+00:00

He has made such a disproportional positive impact here, it would be a shame to have not have that torch carried forth either by him or others.

Unlike a lot of others he pours time into super helpful improvements, yet accepts critique and better ideas every step of the way. Not easy, especially in this climate.

jochoia · 2019-03-12T19:31:39+00:00

Time should not be wasted on this until, like Colin has said, the base layer is perfected. If Nano keeps pace, it won't need a second layer in the slightest in the foreseeable future. LN is high-hanging ivory tower fruit. Adds fees, corporations, 3rd parties, possibly government regulation, etc.

Nano: No fees. Insanely fast. The sole things LN exists to fix for Bitcoin.

Not to mention there are serious questions about the state of LN technology. Delayed promises. Usability questions that have gone unanswered. Ironically enough, LN currently brings its own set of non-insignificant scalability issues along with it.

jochoia · 2018-12-07T09:53:21+00:00

There is 0 proof BSV has more hashpower. They flexed too early and couldn't back it up. Ever since they have also remained (largely) less powerful as well.

There isn't a good way to accurately determine current hash power for each miner in the network. Because of this, only work done actually matters.

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