Excellent post
What an amazing week for Bitcoin cash
https://www.yours.org/content/bitcoin-cash-ecosystem-updates----week-20--december-10-16--13c162e77ac3/Bitcoin Cash Ecosystem Updates -- Week 20 (December 10-16)
The last week I've been live blogging the latest developments in the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem.
It cost around a $1 last week for access to a whole week of live updates. This week I want to try something different -- making the whole livebloging free.
This whole week I'll live blog ecosystem updates here because what is happening in the ecosystem is much more fascinating than the daily price moves.
Welcome to the party!
Of course you are always welcome to tip.😛
December 10 2017 Sunday
Ongoing Bitcoin Unlimited Elections -- and they include some pretty neat BUIPs to add opcodes to Bitcoin Cash.
Dr. Craig S. Wright says that shorter block confirmation times are no-go.
https://twitter.com/ProfFaustus/status/939719237911883776Faster blocks were on the Bitcoin Unlimited roadmap as a possibility future improvement, but it seems even besides Dr. Wright, there is significant opposition in the community to the idea.
On the topic of fast confirmations, /u/awemany has done a proof-of-concept code for subchains.
https://twitter.com/sickpig/status/939884908838875138December 11 2017 Monday
26,000+ Bitcoin.com wallets were created in the last 24 hours. It seems every week the number of Bitcoin.com wallets daily downloads is increasing.
December 12 2017 Tuesday
Privacy is coming to Bitcoin Cash, with Cash Shuffle. An Electron Cash extension that, according to their website, "allows users to combine their transactions with others, creating obfuscation."
The largest dark market, Dream Market has enabled Bitcoin Cash support for their merchants. Silk Road was one of the earliest cases for Bitcoin in the early days, so the fact that they're switching to BCH is very good news indeed.
Bitcoin.com says they will offer a Visa Debit Bitcoin Cash card.
https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/940253050731679744 Roger Ver gave a great pitch for Bitcoin Cash (and explaining the importance of utility in cryptocurrencies) for CNBC. This pro-BCH interview got top-spot on Yahoo Finance.
https://twitter.com/CNBCFastMoney/status/940361899648065537 The uncensored reddit and Bitcoin Cash reddit's readers are going through the roof.
https://imgur.com/Iu4AMN0 Brian Kelly endorsed Bitcoin Cash live on CNBC.
https://twitter.com/Egon_01/status/940363756831420419 OKEX exchange rolls out full support for BCH trading pairs.
Another cool Bitcoin Cash block explorer was released by BTC.com.
Bitcoin Cash is now offered on all Satoshi Point atms. This is at least the third atm company that has started offering BCH support. Lamassu's support has been in the news a lot today. General Bytes also supports BCH on their machines.
December 13 2017 Wednesday
Bitcoin.com's wallet has surpassed 1 million installations. Their numbers have taken off since they started offering the wallet, so curious how long it will take them to double.
There was another great interview of Roger Ver, this time by Jimmy Song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycdSrwlDQuA&t=7s Bitcoin Unlimited voting has ended, and BUIP077 (Enable representative tokens via OP_GROUP) on Bitcoin Cash and BUIP078 (Enable Binary Contracts in Bitcoin Cash via OP_DATASIGVERIFY) passed handily. Exciting times are coming for Bitcoin Cash.
December 14 2017 Thursday
Blockchain.info has released full Bitcoin Cash support for their wallet.
December 14 2017 Thursday
SFOX opened the doors to Bitcoin Cash trading today. They write: "This move gives traders the power to buy and sell BCH directly with SFOX through its ability to trade across multiple different exchanges, and with access to 9 advanced trading algorithms. " Bullish news, if you ask me.
December 15 2017 Friday
Brian Kelly again pitched Bitcoin Cash live on CNBC, declaring, "Bitcoin Cash is effectively Bitcoin."
Edge (formally known as Airbiz) has announced that Bitcoin Cash will be supported in their next wallet.
Egon reports that incognito payments (one assumes with Cashshuffle) is coming to more wallets January & February.
Someone has posted a $5,000 bounty to add Cashshuffle.
Uquid has started offering Bitcoin Cash debit cards. It is only available in some countries though and fees are high.
The first Bitcoin Cash atomic swap was completed.
Amaury Sechet, one of the main developers of Bitcoin Cash gave a interview today. He mentions many more implementations CashShuffle and the address change as two things to long for in the next couple months.
https://youtu.be/C2KJhyBS2s0December 16 2017 Saturday
Bitpay.com has announced they are rolling out full support for Bitcoin Cash. Integration with their debit card comes this month and full merchant support early 2018.
It is now possible to buy Bitcoin Cash with a credit card. The rate isn't too good -- so it will be great to see more companies enter this space.
BitcoinCash Fund has released a weekly update on what is happening with them. Pretty awesome to see all the work that is being done to further adoption and growth in BCH.
Mycelium has always been some of the most vocal small-blockers. Yet they announced that they too will be offering Bitcoin Cash support in their next version.
Electron Cash says that they are doing the final testing on a new Base32 cashaddr format for BCH. Deployment date is January 14 2018.
Nejc Kodrič reports that 100k new users are are opening accounts on Bitstamp every day. Bitcoin Cash is one of the few currencies Bitstamp offers -- so very good news indeed.
https://twitter.com/nejc_kodric/status/941956310341423104 Vaultoro has announced they will offer Bitcoin Cash support! They are hands down the most transparent exchange out there -- with user-verified Bitcoin and gold holdings. (Gold in a secure Swiss vault under the customer's name.)
Bitcoin Cash is truly going viral. There was a report today of a BCH atm all the way over in Kazakhstan.
https://twitter.com/arruah/status/941907329007669248