🔥 #BCH meets #XMR, wtf?! Sent to one address, but a different address got the bitcoin-cash:native? Something is off here >> or is it just private? I think #Zcash just got serious competition. This tx is already post-quantum, verified on-chain. Let that sink in $ZEC.

Buckle up. #BCH #Bitcoin finance.yahoo.com/markets/cr…

Two ZK proof systems verified natively on BCH's base layer. No sidechain. No rollup. No custom execution environment. Just the BCH virtual machine, running on Chipnet, accepting or rejecting transactions based on whether the cryptographic proof checked out. The common assumption is that Bitcoin-style chains are too constrained for ZK verification. Bitcoin Script is a simple stack machine designed for spending conditions — not for the large-integer arithmetic that elliptic-curve pairings and polynomial commitments require. If you want ZK on a Bitcoin-family chain, the conventional answer is: build a separate execution environment and bridge to it. BCH took a different path. And the result is on-chain, verifiable, and replicable by anyone running a Chipnet node. The first demonstration is ShieldKit, built by Toorik. It implements a Groth16 zk-SNARK verifier on the bn254 curve, compressed to 54 kilobytes, running inside a single standard BCH transaction. The use case is a shielded pool: a user computes a proof offline that they're authorized to deposit or withdraw, submits it to the on-chain verifier, and the transaction either satisfies the constraint or it doesn't. No trusted intermediary. The proof is the authorization. Genesis, deposit, and withdrawal transactions are publicly viewable on Chaingraph's Chipnet explorer. Open source on GitHub. The second is BCH-FRI-STARK-Verifier, built by 0zkbrewer. A hash-based DEEP-ALI FRI-STARK verifier — structurally different from Groth16, built on different mathematics. Where Groth16 uses elliptic-curve pairings, FRI-STARKs use hash chains and polynomial commitments. The verifier runs on the unmodified BCH VM via a multi-input P2SH32 covenant transaction where the spend itself is the verification. A demo version was funded and spent on Chipnet at block heights 314509-314510: 28 covenant inputs, 92,191 bytes. The network accepted it. That acceptance is on-chain proof the covenants executed correctly. Now the comparison that matters. BTC's script VM has not received a meaningful capability expansion since Taproot in November 2021. The conversation around covenants and OP_CAT on BTC has been running for years with no activation date. Michael Saylor framed BTC's consensus rules as a "constitution" in 2026 — arguing base-layer changes should be rare and require near-unanimity, explicitly including covenants in that framing. BTC's resistance to base-layer change is a deliberate design goal. Immutability is the point. The result is that a comparable ZK verifier on BTC's base layer would require a consensus change. That's the kind of change currently in explicit dispute. BCH's VM expansions came through the CHIP process on the annual May 15 schedule. The U8 upgrade in 2022 added native transaction introspection and 64-bit integer arithmetic. The VMLA upgrade in 2025 delivered CHIP-2024-07 BigInt — removing the VM's fixed integer length limit entirely. Before that, BCH Script was capped at 8-byte integers. ZK proof verification requires arithmetic over numbers far larger than 2^64. Pairing operations in Groth16 and polynomial evaluations in FRI-STARKs both need field-element arithmetic that a 64-bit cap cannot support. BigInt removed that ceiling. Integers are now bounded only by the 10,000-byte stack element limit. The Layla upgrade in 2026 added bounded loops and function definitions — a verifier that needs to iterate over proof components can now do that with a loop rather than duplicated bytecode. Two different proof systems. One base layer. The reason both worked is that the VM became general-purpose enough through incremental upgrades to handle the underlying mathematics of each. The honest status of both projects: neither is mainnet-ready. ShieldKit is unaudited and development-only. The FRI-STARK verifier is explicitly labeled research code by its author — a fully soundness-wired version currently runs 120,537 bytes, over BCH's 100KB standard-transaction limit, and byte-reduction work is in progress. Both are real, on-chain, and testable on Chipnet today. Not finished products. The structural point is what the comparison reveals. A Groth16 SNARK and a FRI-STARK are built on fundamentally different cryptographic assumptions. If only one had verified natively on BCH, you might reasonably call it a coincidence — some alignment between that specific proof system's math and what BCH Script happens to compute. Both working independently is evidence the VM's capability expansion was general-purpose, not narrowly tailored to one scheme. BTC's VM, unchanged since 2021, cannot run either. The scripts that make ShieldKit and the FRI-STARK verifier possible — BigInt arithmetic, bounded loops, P2SH32 covenants — do not exist on BTC. A ZK application on BTC today goes to a sidechain or a rollup. On $BCH, two independent teams demonstrated it in the base layer, on testnet, using the VM that every full node already runs. One chain's VM has been expanding on a predictable annual schedule. The other's has been stable by design. The ZK verification capability is a direct output of that difference.

Yup. BCH has quantum safety. BTC does not.

Damn Ukraine! 😂

Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin—ProPublica

Another fun fact - Clinton was the ONLY president in recent times that actually managed a surplus in Federal budget. Isn't that interesting?

Indeed. Dumb as a door mat.

$SIVE announced today that it is expanding InP manufacturing in Glasgow. The new capacity target is: ~100 million CW DFB laser annual production. Using Sivers’ historical $50-$100 per 8-laser array pricing, the implied revenue capacity might be ~$625M-$1.25B/year (not guidance, just illustrative modeling) I’m personally very surprised by the amount of capacity coming online from their new hybrid manufacturing model, targeted Q4 2027. Especially during an industry shortage, mentioned by $AVGO earnings call today.

This is real decentralized, peer-to-peer cash revolution happening in the Philippines. No custodians. No middlemen. Just people transacting directly with people. Powered by Bitcoin Cash! #BitcoinCash #BCH #Paytaca

Bitcoin Cash is money. So how many ways can you spend it? ⚡️ We’re kicking off BCH Explore with 3 real-world options: 🇳🇬 PaySats — airtime & data 🛒 Bitgree — shop online with BCH 🇦🇷 ParagonBit — gift cards, coming soon More BCH utility to explore. 🌍

The Knots guys have discovered pruning+SPV to solve IBD. If they'd read the Bitcoin whitepaper, as we recommended them often, they could have had this information since 2009. UTXO commitments will be next. Regardless, it is good to see that once again all roads lead to BCH.

I love how so many people requested $SIVE that Saxo Japan went out of their way to list it! Just goes to show how much demand there is for this laser company. Special shoutout to Saxo. And of course, excited for Sivers earnings + planned Nasdaq listing coming up.

Wake up babe, new Podcast project just dropped. Time to get some up-to-date data on 1 minute block sentiment. Just under 3 months to lock-in. My idea is that consensus.cash will help bring some clarity to the current muddy status & discussion.

Truth doesn't rust. Note how EVERYONE is capitulating their narratives to the vindicated BCH. - BTC: Ok BCH built better tech. - BIP110: Ok you were right about the Hijacking & node hoax. - BSV: Ok we cratered our project, CSW was a liar & scammer, wish we hadn't split.

BCH has never once EVER had a good run of momentum on price in combination with a calm, focussed, united, and tech enabled BCH community. We're now ready for both. If that combo comes together, people are going to find the results literally unbelievable.

Imagine if the bull run is starting & for the first time ever BCH outperforms on the way up. The narrative change would be seismic.

20 million sats moved on-chain through BCHNostr. That's not a projection — that's already happened, through a social platform where tipping is built into the same interface where you post, browse a marketplace, list a job, or back a crowdfunding campaign. Here's what that looks like in practice. A business in Argentina — one of the 400+ merchants in that country already accepting $BCH — sets up a Business Page on BCHNostr. They control the wallet. No intermediary holds the funds, no platform takes a cut before the money arrives, no approval queue. A customer finds them through the platform, tips them directly for a post or pays for something listed in the marketplace. The BCH goes straight to the wallet the business controls. That's it. This matters more in contexts where payment intermediaries are the problem, not the solution. Argentina has spent years cycling through capital controls, frozen bank accounts, and a parallel exchange rate that makes official financial infrastructure actively hostile to small businesses. The workaround for many has been cash — physical, anonymous, untraceable — because the formal system extracts too much and delivers too little. BCH at sub-cent fees is a digital version of that workaround, except it works across borders and doesn't require physical presence. BCHNostr adds a layer to that: the discovery and community infrastructure that cash doesn't have. A business with a BCHNostr page is findable. Their posts are visible. Their tip wallet is attached to their identity on the platform. The social graph and the payment rail are the same thing, not two separate systems bolted together awkwardly. The mechanism is Nostr — a decentralized protocol where no single company controls the relay infrastructure or the identity layer. Accounts are cryptographic key pairs, not usernames stored in a database that can be deleted or shadowbanned. BCHNostr builds on top of that with BCH-native features: the tipping, the marketplace, the jobs section, the crowdfunding. Because BCH transactions cost a fraction of a cent and settle in seconds without waiting for block confirmation, the economics of tipping actually work. Sending someone the equivalent of $0.25 for a post they wrote doesn't get eaten by a $2 fee. The tip is worth sending. Compare this to how creator monetization works on most platforms. The platform takes 30% or more. Payments require a bank account, which requires documentation, which requires infrastructure that isn't uniformly available. International tips involve currency conversion and wire fees that make small amounts pointless. The creator sees a fraction of what the supporter intended to send, weeks later, after the platform decides to release it. On BCHNostr, the business in Argentina with 400 followers and a tip wallet sees the full amount, immediately, in BCH they control. No platform holds it. No approval required. The 20 million sats already moved through the platform aren't sitting in escrow or pending review — they're in wallets their recipients own. Back to that Argentine business. They listed a service on the BCHNostr marketplace. Someone in Germany found it, decided it was worth paying for, and sent BCH. The fee was a fraction of a cent. The transaction confirmed in under 10 minutes. No bank account required on either end. No currency conversion gatekeepers. No platform intermediary deciding whether to release the funds. That's the BCH economy built into the social layer. Not a concept — 20 million sats of documented reality. bchnostr.com

Bcash making moves. #bcash #bitcoincash #bch #bitcoin

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