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Following Bitcoin Cash on its rise to global reserve currency.

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#157:

BCH BLAZE & Layla Lock-In

feat. Jonathan Silverblood

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Sunday, 17th August 2025

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Pump It Up

USD $591.21 = 100 megasats (way up). 1 BTC sat = 200.2 BCH sats (up). 1 ETH = 771 megasats (down).

Selene (30d): 578 users. Tokenaut TVL: 12 211 BCH

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Listener Survey 2025

Yearly Podcast survey is back, weigh in with your opinion on the state of BCH!

20 questions, no sign up, takes only 5 minutes!

bitcoincashpodcast.com/survey

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Jonathan Silverblood

BLAZE & BLISS organizer, CHIP author, GP

https://x.com/monsterbitar

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BCH BLAZE

  • “Igniting BCH innovation through competition”
  • Online hackathon to help build developer interest in BCH and the Layla lock-in
    • Kinda like BLISS, but online & competitive
  • Registration on the 1st of September
  • Running November 15th - 23rd
  • Teams of 1-4, 11+ BCH in prizes, required to utilise a 2026 CHIP
    • Will have team mentors to assist
    • Targeting existing BCH teams as well as new entrants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl3NvqjBAo0

bchblaze.cash

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Loops

https://x.com/TheBCHPodcast/status/1952333288346902648

https://t.me/bchchannel/495713

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P2S

https://x.com/TheBCHPodcast/status/1952333288346902648

https://t.me/bchchannel/495713

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Bitwise

https://x.com/TheBCHPodcast/status/1952333288346902648

https://t.me/bchchannel/495713

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Functions

https://x.com/TheBCHPodcast/status/1952333288346902648

https://t.me/bchchannel/495713

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1 Minute Blocks

https://x.com/TheBCHPodcast/status/1952333288346902648

https://t.me/bchchannel/495713

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UTXO-Z

  • Fernando from Knuth & the BCH Argentina team release preview of “UTXO-Z”
    • Reworked database optimised for BCH
    • 33 million lookups/sec for recent outputs (45x faster than LevelDB)
    • 1.5 million looks/sec for complete pipeline (2x faster)
    • 2.5x faster initial block download
    • Numbers were run on production, but ONLY relevant to UTXO operations (so won’t be quite that good in practice)

https://x.com/KnuthNode/status/1955632743200530447

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Bitcoin Mechanic Update

  • Bitcoin Mechanic’s latest video shows exactly the things predicted on Episode 119
    • Recognises that Bitcoin is under attack, community asleep, boiling frog
    • Increasing frustration rubbing up against cognitive dissonance to a tipping point
    • SegWit = the original bad code
    • Ping/pong malicious/ignorant devs
    • No fork BUT need a “mass migration”
    • Caught in the weeds of soft/hard forks, but doesn’t want to get caught up in “minutiae” on other topics
    • 10% of people know about the conspiracy (hoax) - That was Bcashers
  • Gloria merges PR for lowering min relay fee

https://x.com/TheBCHPodcast/status/1954882962060956034

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33106

https://x.com/bamskki/status/1956725538002805100

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Community Comment Of The Week

Vlad & Cory’s Non-Existent Solutions

https://x.com/TheVladCostea/status/1955656032883270035

https://x.com/coryklippsten/status/1956655789378011617

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XMR 51% Attack

  • Qubic mining pool leverages AI GPU farms to get 51% control of Monero
  • Deliberately orphans chains of blocks from other miners, 6/7 block reorgs
    • Delisted from Kraken
  • XMR falls from rank 23ish to rank 30ish
  • XMR pundits downplay it as no big deal & FUD, until it turns into a big deal
  • ASICs prove superior to “Everyone can GPU mine! So decentralised!” midwits
  • Discussion of BCH/XEC in alternative inspirations

https://x.com/CaffeinatedUser/status/1954999609039917448

https://x.com/sethforprivacy/status/1951707156228497596

https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/136

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Message To The Community

Open platform to speak to the Bitcoin Cash community, with any thoughts, advice, feedback, criticism, encouragement, story or point of view you feel should be more prominent or appreciated.

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FundMe (Eps 156 - 165)

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  • Running now - 89% finished: https://fundme.cash/campaign/57

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  • majamalu (Marcelo)"Jeremy is made of whatever prophets are made of”
  • molecular "The show we love"
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  • Milton Friedman
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Supporter Appreciation

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Donators!

Patrons

  • Ricky
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Sponsors!

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That's called obsession

It's something that you live

The only single thing that matters

After your wife and your kids

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Cos if you can't learn to float

Then you sink or you swim

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Shoutouts for the show

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Thanks for watching!

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Meme Of The Week

Pump It Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0Ulu0kmFMg

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