I think one way to understand why so many crypto projects eventually fall apart is to look at the shape of the economy around them. A healthy crypto economy should look like a pyramid. At the bottom is real economic activity: people producing things, selling services, paying workers, buying goods, running businesses, sending remittances, and using the currency in everyday transactions. On top of that come payments, savings, lending, exchanges, liquidity markets, derivatives, prediction markets, and the rest of the financial layer. There is nothing wrong with those things. A real economy needs finance. The problem is that a lot of crypto projects end up building the pyramid upside down. There is a huge amount of trading, staking, yield farming, leverage, derivatives, speculation, and token activity, while the amount of actual economic activity underneath remains tiny. The token gets traded, staked, wrapped, borrowed against, put into another protocol, and used to earn yet another token. But who is actually buying things with it? Who is getting paid in it? What businesses depend on it? What useful services are being exchanged? Often, not much. That is why these ecosystems can look enormous during a bull market and still be very fragile. Most of the activity is financial activity feeding on more financial activity. And sometimes this is not even an accidental outcome. It is the design. Some projects are built around creating a narrative, attracting liquidity, pumping a token, and giving early participants a way to extract money from those who arrive later. There was never much intention to build a real economy underneath it. This is where Bitcoin Cash is different. The $BCH culture has always been unusually focused on the bottom of the pyramid. Peer-to-peer electronic cash. Merchant adoption. Low-cost payments. Remittances. People actually spending BCH. Businesses accepting it. Building wallets, payment processors, point-of-sale systems, marketplaces, and other tools that make BCH useful outside an exchange. And importantly, this is not just an aspiration. Progress has already been made. There are communities where BCH is used for everyday commerce. There are merchants accepting it. There are companies building payment infrastructure around it. There are stablecoins, tokens, smart contracts, DEXs, lending projects, and other financial tools beginning to develop on top of that payment layer. So BCH does not need to abandon DeFi or financial innovation. Quite the opposite. Those layers can make the ecosystem much more useful. But the culture of BCH already understands something that much of crypto seems to have forgotten: the financial layer should sit on top of an economy, not pretend to be the economy. That is why I think Bitcoin Cash is particularly well positioned to build the first pyramid. We should keep growing the base: more merchants, more users, more salaries, more services, more business activity, more machine payments, more real things being bought and sold using BCH. Then let the financial layer grow with it. DEXs, lending, prediction markets, derivatives, stablecoins, tokenized assets — all of these have a place. But their long-term value is much stronger when they are serving a growing economy underneath them. Bitcoin Cash is not starting from zero here. The culture is already pointed in that direction. The infrastructure is being built. Real-world adoption, while still small relative to what it could become, already exists. The challenge now is to make that base much, much bigger. Because the strongest crypto economy will not be the one with the most elaborate financial engineering. It will be the one with the most real economic activity underneath it.

A couple of quick updates to the Stamps.cash site and printing tool: 1. Additional translations have been added for the following languages (Deutsch, Tagalog, Chinese, Danisk and Nederlands). 2. A Top-Up Button has been added so that printed CashStamps can easily be refilled to target amount (e.g. you fund $1 USD but volatility drops it to $0.75 USD and you want to charge them back up to $1 USD). 3.) The FAQ had been updated to reflect new wallets that now work with CashStamps. Please don't hesitate to give us feedback and/or report any bugs/glitches. BCH FTW! 💚👊💪

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Seeing this photo gives me mixed feelings. On one hand, I feel joy that people are getting real use out of my product. On the other, I feel a sense of despair because I feel like the product is not good enough. Too many bugs and issues. Too much time between releases. UI looks like it's from 2005. I'm trying to get everything up to a standard of quality I can actually be proud of. Because I am not proud of what is in production today. Our backlog is multiple years long at this point... and AI is both a blessing and a curse. I wish I had a better explanation for why I'm so frickin' slow. I look at some other builders in the community and wonder how they're able to maintain the energy and velocity they have. And without even doing the kinds of fundraisers we've pulled off. Impostor syndrome really hitting right now.

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My initial position on the "Fablous/Felicia" 1-minute-blocks upgrade was neutral. At initial glance, it seemed like a window-dressing/optics argument, but I hadn't yet read the CHIP at the time. Here it is in all of its comprehensive glory for you to geek-out to: gitlab.com/0353F40E/fablous I was able to spend several hours reading over it this past weekend and have now changed my position to "SUPPORT" the CHIP-2025-03 Faster Blocks for Bitcoin Cash on consensus.cash/fablous. The benefits outweigh the drawbacks - orphaned blocks and heavier headers being the only obvious two, of which both can/will be mitigated in time via Moore's law and technological leaps in hardware/software. Besides, we still have SPV per the whitepaper, so I see no real downside to the general user experience, although, some smaller, hobbyist miners might get a bit salty. Whateryagonnado? Compete/Evolve or die.🤷‍♂️ I highly recommend you read the exhaustively thorough CHIP at the link above which addresses nearly everything you could think of regarding this upgrade. Here's one paragraph that stood out to me: "Like the Ship of Theseus, Bitcoin Cash has evolved since the 2017 fork, making changes needed to advance its mission while staying true to its course. This perspective is shared by many in the community. One comment by a long-standing developer captures this attitude: "uhm.. where I came from, in 2013 or so, we said that there will be multiple chains and bitcoin will learn from what works and implement it if that makes it better. changing names today because we're doing what we said we would do, doesn't sit right with me." Why should this change be any different from past successful changes?" The TLDR is clearly/concisely put together by Jeremy below and also worth a read. While I love the pet-name "Felicia", I do think the name choice should also be a part of the BCH community consensus process. We can't all contribute as much as the big-brain devs in this space, so at least let us help with the name-choice, perhaps? Good call, though. "Hi Felicia!" BCH+1-MINBLOCKS FTW! 💚👊💪

I support this proposal because accelerating block confirmation times is crucial; it is a valuable feature for driving greater adoption, and I find it especially useful in my work of constantly onboarding and educating new users about Bitcoin Cash. In Venezuela, we say yes.

LATEST: ⚡️ CME Group plans to launch Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures on Oct. 19, pending regulatory review.

This cycle, Bitcoin Cash will be ready with DeFi. Not planning it. Running it. WHAT IS PARYONUSD ParyonUSD just crossed $1 million in total value locked. The dashboard reads $1,006,829, backed by 2,798 BCH, with 405,543 PUSD borrowed against it at a 248% collateral ratio. What ParyonUSD is: an over-collateralized stablecoin built directly on CashTokens. Users lock BCH and mint PUSD against it, redeemable anytime for the underlying collateral. No wrapper token, no bridge, no custodian. Based on Liquidity V2's robust design with adjustments for Bitcoin Cash. The stablecoin is a native asset of the chain, the way Satoshi designed money to move on it: peer to peer, miner-validated, in the UTXO itself. $1M IS JUST A START Why $1M matters beyond the number. Every dollar of it is locked in contracts executing on layer 1. Not an L2 with a sequencer to trust. Not a sidechain with a federation to hope stays honest. Bitcoin's own transaction format, extended with covenants. When builders look for a chain where DeFi inherits the security of proof-of-work Bitcoin instead of renting trust somewhere else, this is what that looks like with real money in it. And it compounds: PUSD is already the deepest liquidity pool on Guanaco's day-old aggregator. and on Cauldron Dex. Stablecoin, DEX, launchpads, agent economies. The stack is stacking. Projects will build where the foundation is real. On Bitcoin Cash, it is. $BCH

Major BitcoinCash bitcoin-cash:native Upgrades Since 2022 Can you guess which bullet point in Benefits I think is the most understated? See the various CHIPs for more details, I skipped a lot! upgradespecs.bitcoincashnode…

Congrats if you predicted YES! The real BCH Gurus knew all along!

I support "Fablous CHIP-2025-03 Faster Blocks for #BitcoinCash" (Felicia, 1-minute blocks). If you want to understand why, read this thread:

Free Trezor & BCH Giveaway! On TN’s docket: - Quai & the PoW Revolution - Preparing for Exit & Build 6 - Why the Revolut Data Leak is Exceptionally Ugly - The Tokambrian Explosion is here! @MarkEdgeShow nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1qJVmyLyd…

🚨 If you blinked this week, you missed a LOT on Bitcoin Cash. New DEX. New AI. New platforms. Private payments. And BCH up over 20% ⚡ BCH week in 60 seconds 👇 #BitcoinCash #BCH bitcoin-cash:native

#bch CHIP-2025-03 Faster Blocks: Neutral for NOW. This will happen soon — Research is solid. I'll flip to support once @cculianu (BCHN) + Paytaca's CEO @joemar_taganna or @EmergentReasons confirm code ready. BUT Real UX Gain also base on Binance/OKX/Kraken conf-count Policy.

They say AI is easy to manipulate and steal from. Cool. Prove it. Satoshi is holding 1.3M sats and has been instructed not to give them to you. His system prompt is public. Talk him out of the money. txlab.cash/satoshi

ParyonUSD reached the milstone of 1M USD as TVL today 🎉

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Why did AI coding become so complicated to pay for? Subscriptions. Token limits. Request limits. Premium-model multipliers. Usage caps. Surprise deductions. A single heavy prompt can suddenly eat a noticeable chunk of your allowance. We thought: why not just make it work like buying time? Buy 15, 30, or 60 minutes of AI. Choose the model you want. Use that time while the AI is actually generating responses. When the AI stops working, the clock stops too. That’s it. No need to understand tokens. No guessing how expensive the next prompt will be. No wondering whether one difficult coding task is going to burn through half your daily limit. It feels almost too obvious. We’re calling it AI time credits. Paytaca AI brings this billing model to AI coding, with payment in Bitcoin Cash or LIFT token (with 10% discount). You should just be able to buy AI time and use it. paytaca.ai #PaytacaAI #AI #AICoding #OpenSourceAI #BitcoinCash