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.
