This is my endorsements for the Bitcoin Cash CHIPs targeted for activation on May 15th 2026. TLDR; I fully support the activation of the four proposed CHIPs by Jason Dreyzehner. Bitwise operators Link Reactivation of old op codes. This is a no-brainier. Fully endorse. Loops Link One of the exciting building blocks for Bitcoin Cash… Read More »
Some time ago I stumbled upon the be.cash project from Tobias Ruck that demonstrates a new technology for a completely offline wallet that can communicate directly to a Point-of-Sale (“PoS”) system to produce a bitcoin cash transaction based on Bitcoin Cash smart contracts.I recognized that the technology was novel and kind of neat but I… Read More »
This is a follow-up post to the previous BIP-70 ideas I had a while back. I think I have come to the conclusion of what the easiest way forward should be but I do not really know how to formally standardize it. The original BIP has a section about extensibility: […] Implementations that need to… Read More »
A couple of weeks ago I took a deep dive into the Bitcoin Payment Protocol, aka BIP-70. The reason behind doing that was that I tried to make a payment to a BitPay merchant using the Android version of Electron Cash and it actually failed, which required a few e-mails back and forth to BitPay… Read More »
The end of this month marks the 10 year celebration of a magnificent invention that I know will play a major role in our future society. On October 31st 2008 the still unknown pseudonymous entity Satoshi Nakamoto sent an email to unveil the first permissionless, censorship resistant and amazing cryptocurrency which he/she/they named Bitcoin. During… Read More »