Videos General Protocols Space #34: Ask Me Anything I joined General Protocols Space #34 to talk about Virtual Machine Limits, BigInt, the CHIP upgrade process, BCH vs. ETH, decentralized exchanges, and instant finality with Zero-Confirmation Escrows (ZCEs).
Software Bitcoin Cash Upgrade 2024 Libauth, Chaingraph, and Bitauth IDE support one Cash Improvement Proposal (CHIP) for the 2024 Bitcoin Cash Upgrade.
Ideas Bitcoin Cash Metadata Registries Bitcoin Cash Metadata Registries share metadata between Bitcoin Cash wallets, allowing user-recognizable names, descriptions, icons, ticker symbols, etc. to be associated with on-chain artifacts like identities, tokens, and contract systems.
Ideas CHIP: ZCEs – Instant, Secure Payments on Bitcoin Cash Zero-Confirmation Escrows (ZCEs) enable instant, incentive-secure payments on Bitcoin Cash. They require no setup delay or ongoing relationship, and can be safely accepted without a waiting period.
Ideas CHIP: Ranged Script Numbers The Ranged Script Number (RSN) format is derived from the existing Script Number format used within the BCH VM, but it includes a prefix which allows RSN values to be safely parsed from serialized transaction messages.
Ideas CHIP: Bounded Looping Operations Two new BCH opcodes, OP_BEGIN and OP_UNTIL, would enable loops in BCH contracts without increasing processing or memory requirements.
PMv3 AMA on r/btc: Build Decentralized Apps on Bitcoin Cash with PMv3 I was r/btc on Reddit on May 2, 2021 for an AMA (Ask Me Anything). Some topics covered included prediction markets, PMv3, CashTokens, and Bitcoin Cash development.
Videos Video: Prediction Markets on Bitcoin Cash I spoke with George Donnelly about hashed witnesses, PMv3, CashTokens, prediction markets, synthetic assets, decentralized exchanges, BCH scaling considerations, comparisons with ETH, and more.
Videos Scaling Blockchains: Panel at TABConf 2019 I took part in a panel on Scaling Blockchains with Paul Sztorc, Theo Goodman, and Allen Piscitello at TABConf 2019.
Ideas Defensive Consensus: a Concrete Example Imagine three different implementations of “Simple Bitcoin” exist: Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
Ideas Defensive Consensus: Getting to a Multi-Implementation Bitcoin Network The word Bitcoin means a lot of things. It’s a protocol, a peer-to-peer network, a currency, and depending on who you ask, one or more open source projects. Bitcoin is written in C++ Bitcoin Core [https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin] is the C++ implementation of the Bitcoin protocol released
Bitauth IDE Bitcoin Script: a Reading List While thinking about and implementing BitAuth2017, I compiled a list of articles and resources about Bitcoin Script — the scripting…
Videos Bitauth Master Plan My (long) talk about Bitauth at the Atlanta Blockchain January 2017 Meetup. For a written summary, see the Bitauth2017 specification [https://github.com/bitauth/bitauth2017/blob/master/bips/0-bitauth.mediawiki]. Part 1 Authenticating Bitcoin Transactions [https://youtu.be/fJGZ44I_FHE?t=3m41s] (slide →) [https://bitauth.bitjson.com/#/1] Part 2
Ideas Bitcoin vs. Bits & The Legacy Financial System Over the past few months I’ve been participating in the Bitcoin Foundation’s Financial Standards Working Group (as time permits). Below are…
Bitcoin Cash Happy Birthday, Satoshi: a Milestone in the History of Money On Satoshi’s P2P Foundation profile, Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, has a listed birthday of April 5, 1975.
