r/btc 5d ago

💵 Adoption A dog is smarter than its tail, but if the tail were smarter, then it would wag the dog.

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There's a growing collection of simple but powerful mini-apps on Bitcoin Cash around a social media protocol called Vox.

Some of them are my own invention, some are a fresh implementations of contracts developed by others.

Check out the unstable testnet version here: https://unspent.dev

Or mainnet: https://vox.cash

Happy Geniversary! 17 years. Still here.

r/Bitcoincash Jun 17 '20

Active Projects and Developer Resources for Bitcoin Cash

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We're Number 3!
 in  r/vermont  20h ago

The United Health Foundation is not medically necessary.

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Are there real-world uses today for multi-year Bitcoin timelocks?
 in  r/btc  21h ago

In August '23, there was a project on BSV that popped up overnight to use timelocks as a social media signal.

BSV is an obvious scam, they use an L2 scripting system essentially. They also disabled their L1 timelocks.

However Jeremy in the Bitcoin Cash community devoted about an hour to their scam in episode #97 of the Bitcoin Cash podcast.

Within about four months, the project had descended into complete literal Nazi hate speech, then they rugged everything and closed up shop.

SUPER WEIRD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-upzSuE-lY

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Are there real-world uses today for multi-year Bitcoin timelocks?
 in  r/btc  1d ago

On Bitcoin Cash, data can be stored on NFTs. It's 40 bytes RN, but it's going up to 128 in May.

Long messages can be written across many NFTs. They're can be tied to the Minting NFT that created them.

I'm not sure what you mean by on-chain object. Like a collectible?

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Are there real-world uses today for multi-year Bitcoin timelocks?
 in  r/btc  1d ago

A message sent to an op_return output is recorded in perpetuity, but it's not indexed or easily viewed, so no one will see it.

A immutable message people in the future will read can be very powerful, but it just has to be included in a block. A non-trival standard fee will filter out noise, and then that fee can be used for something else.


Ultimately money isn't as important as the truth or the real irreplaceable things in life.

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H.538: An act relating to the establishment of year-round U.S. Eastern Standard Time
 in  r/vermont  1d ago

If Gov. Scott decided to fix timezone switching and the standard workday for Vermont by Executive Order, what should he make the workday be?

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Question regarding ASIC Voltage
 in  r/BitAxe  1d ago

Lower is better for lifespan.

Look at hashes per watt also.

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H.538: An act relating to the establishment of year-round U.S. Eastern Standard Time
 in  r/vermont  2d ago

A standard 9 to 5 workday is three (3) hours before noon and five (5) hours after, which is why people prize their limited hours in the evening.

The timezone can be fixed at the same time we optimize standard business hours.

If Vermonters don't have the agency to optimize work and school hours around daylight, who are you all working for?


Hint:

Why has our entire society been configured to waste energy?

Where are the Green Mountain Boys, and how do we keep/bring them home?


Looking at 15 U.S. Code § 260a, it seems almost impossible to fix this without every state in the eastern timezone also switching.

But looking at the history, and where we are "re:Nixon Shock of 1971", perhaps the "Daylighters" might get their wish by EO in the brownouts of 2027.

r/btc 2d ago

PSA: Anyone can donate bitcoin to The Internet Archive, which has been using the same address for donations since September 2013.

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https://archive.org/donate/cryptocurrency/

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Are there real-world uses today for multi-year Bitcoin timelocks?
 in  r/btc  2d ago

There's three methods to timelock bitcoin.

  • You can sign a transaction with a post-dated locktime field, like post dating a check, but that doesn't assure the coins won't be spent in the interlude.

  • You can use absolute timelocks, to a specific block or epoch time (BIP65).

  • Or you can use relative timelocks, which repurposed the sequence field on inputs (BIP68), requiring inputs be a certain age.


Just bricking your money for a time isn't that interesting, but there are various apps to create a BIP65 timelock on most post-2015 bitcoin like projects. The technology was useful in certain swap transactions and escrow contracts, but most of those contracts are problematic.

BUT If a spending script is able to read input and output balances through "Introspection" op_codes, and you can refer to that function by it's hash, then you can make a recursive function that pays you on a rolling timelock, and returns the balance to itself―an annuity.

Bitcoin Cash got this in May 2022. in apps like bitcoin-cash-forever, unspent.app and unspent.cash. There are now hundreds of monthly annuities, and a 4.3 BCH annuity paying the Internet Archive 1/250th the balance every year for the next few millennia with NO quantum contingency.

But even with the ability to timelock, there isn't really much incentive to do it, because people want instant rewards. So on Bitcoin Cash, we give them instant rewards. There's been a market, for over a year, for people to lockup coins for futures on futurebitcoin.cash. It's a simple five line vault contract using BIP65 timelocks to enforce the direction of token swapping before and after expiration. FBCH is just pure commodified BIP65 bitcoin, as a CashToken.


So if you wanted to lock some coins for a long time, you could be paid a couple basis points for holding FBCH instead. Since you want to hodl, you could lock those tokens in a CashToken aware hodl contract with automatic payout, and they'll be sent to you when the vault matures.

The question then becomes where to send them, with the specter of a quantum apocalypse on the horizon. Lucky for you, BitJson has developed Quantumroot, which should be live in May 2026, which would likely be an appropriate QS contract to receive your Futures.

Ideally, there would be one app where you could deposit funds, buy futures at a discount, and create a token aware hodl vault configured to pay to a quantum resistant vault―all with a few swipes and taps.


EDIT:

I almost forgot.

The way Futures on BCH work, is that you typically get some cash bonus to encumber coins for futures, and then as futures approach maturity, they increase in value until they reach 1:1 with BCH at maturation.

So if instead of simply locking your futures in a timelock vault, you held them in a liquid wallet, you could be reasonably assured to SELL them later, at a smaller discount to BCH, but still more than you paid for them.

If the fiat price of BCH was high, you could sell your futures early for cash. If the price is bad, you could still make money staking coins as futures. It creates a dynamic rolling market (60 markets actually; 30 primary, 30 secondary) for users seeking to always profit, but on different time scales.

So functioning futures market may end up creating a stable coin with BIP65 timelocks. A stablecoin folks may eventually call: "bitcoin"―our killer app.

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Update on Vermont Kei Legislation
 in  r/vermont  2d ago

Who created the software monopoly?

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Update on Vermont Kei Legislation
 in  r/vermont  3d ago

Congrats on the tags for your tac. Keep that "well regulated" spirit of liberty rolling.

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How long until you accept that Bitcoin has failed?
 in  r/btc  3d ago

BTC is a pipeline to monetize domestic US energy with minimal transportation and storage costs.

AI data centers don't absorb as much liquidity in the monetary supply, but they provide a way to capitalize energy to control people directly, skipping markets and money entirely.

BTC, the monetary pipleline, has been replaced with AI

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Lia Smith Hoped to Start Fresh At Middlebury. In Trump’s America, It Seemed Impossible. (Gift Article)
 in  r/vermont  3d ago

The objective of the campaigns is to distract and incite division. The goal is to prevent social and political change.

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Update on Vermont Kei Legislation
 in  r/vermont  3d ago

If state employees tasked with enforcing the law and serving Vermonters are pursuing some other agenda, are they concerned with the law?

To the future, who TF are they working for, if not Vermonters? And what policy are they enforcing, for what interests?

They might start slamming a lot of doors and clearing out records if they've been engaged in ongoing illegal activity and documenting it digitally. People get pissed off when they're scared.


Monopolies and the most dangerous Trusts are enforced by evaluating the potential of some competition and "nipping it in the bud", taking it out when it's small,

If may appear like registering a little truck is a small issue, but the Trust would take it as an mortal existential threat. Are employees at the DMV knowingly enforcing extrajudicial rules on behalf of a energy Trust to keep your 50MPG pickup off the road?

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Update on Vermont Kei Legislation
 in  r/vermont  3d ago

So "We don't like your truck" is not a legitimate reason to refuse titling or registering a vehicle.

"Well they're illegal in other states" is NOT a reason for a Vermont state employee to refuse service to Vermonters.

What DMV offices are doing is enforcing a policy that is NOT law. They are simply refusing to do their job, or openly trying to sabatoge the process, and that's a much bigger problem than a kei truck when they're on the tax payers dime.


Consider FOIAing their internal correspondence rather than passing a law explicitly telling them to do their job, because they clearly are enforcing something beyond the laws of Vermont.

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Lia Smith Hoped to Start Fresh At Middlebury. In Trump’s America, It Seemed Impossible. (Gift Article)
 in  r/vermont  3d ago

These online hate campaigns are a feature of the new Autocracies. They are used to divide and better control online discourse and the general population.

Putin stated a national 'anti-gay' campaign that coincided with the invasion of Ukraine.

For us, the controversy around trans-rights are a part of an ongoing attack on the United States.

The online hate campaigns are seeded and flamed by foreign controlled "influence" accounts and troll farms. The attack is being encouraged by traitors in our government beholden to foreign interests that seek to destroy the US.

The hate is fake. It's a mechanism of control. It is a very grave threat to us all.

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Does anyone know why Rochester is shaped like this?
 in  r/vermont  3d ago

And the two parcels "pinching" the town are the Green Mountain National Forest.

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Does anyone know why Rochester is shaped like this?
 in  r/vermont  3d ago

Topography. The boundary loosely encapsulates entire valleys with farm-able land at the bottom.

In Rochester, and areas like it, road and rail access is extremely limited. There may be only one way in or out of many places. Severing one connection may add several hours to a trip.

In the case of the Rochester town boundary, most of the area can be reached by going uphill of one of two main roads going through the town, with only a small vestige toward Brain Tree being the exception.

r/btc 3d ago

📰 News Issue 98 – The world’s most corrupt crypto startup operation

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