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Following Bitcoin Cash on its rise to global reserve currency.

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#142:

Crypto

Copium

& TapSwap Pump

feat. Emergent Reasons & Fiendish Crypto

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Sunday, 16th February 2025

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BCH rekt, again

USD $331.36 = 100 megasats (down). 1 BTC sat = 293 BCH sats (way down). 1 ETH = 815 megasats (down).

Selene (30d): 795 users. Tokenaut TVL: 5 212 BCH (bugged).

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EmergentReasons + FiendishCrypto

General Protocols co-founder + Fiendish & Friends host

https://x.com/EmergentReasons

https://x.com/FiendishCrypto

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Community Comment Of The Week

https://x.com/kzKallisti/status/1889688912177799576

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Community Comment Of The Week

https://x.com/jamesob/status/1886052395181904092?s=46&t=2dhBB5tcE70rXymhrRwvgg

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BTC/BCH ATL?

  • Price ratio & transactions
  • Solutions:
    • Price ratio - mUSD, mBTC (??), BCH Bull
      • Can we replace BTC from the ground up just like the banks?
    • Transactions - Working on something, no further details atm
  • What wasn’t mentioned:
    • Community infighting, lack of projects, lack of effort, low promotion, poor tech, self-sabotage or mistakes etc.

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TapSwap.cash/Pump

  • BCH Autist & mainnet_pat release their latest collaboration
  • BCH clone of Pump.fun, a very popular SOL “Token launchpad”
  • Someone creates a meme token, users can speculate by buying/selling initial supply off a bonding curve
    • If 80% of supply sells, creator gets an immediate 0.5 BCH payout
    • Gambling on steroids
  • Can this drive transactions/interest?
  • Should we encourage memecoins?
  • BCH infra getting there & savvyness too

https://gitlab.com/0353F40E/p-bond

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2027 CHIPs already?

  • Jason Dreyzehner releases another CHIP for 2027 - TXv5
  • Some immediate consternation about the difficulties of a new tx version
    • Some pieces can be separated, if someone will do the work.
  • Jason spoke about this on Fiendish & Friends #11
  • Thoughts on TxV5?
  • Thoughts on Loops, OP_Eval, P2S

https://x.com/bitjson/status/1884677494894453208

https://github.com/bitjson/bch-txv5

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ETH Foundation Failures

  • Amid declining ETH/BTC ratio, ETH Foundation receiving severe criticism
    • Vitalik declared himself solely responsible for changing the leadership, drawing further critique
  • ETH once again inflationary despite Merge (not so ultrasound after all)
    • What’s next? Just the Beam chain?
  • Second Foundation?
  • NGD = chaos for ETH
  • Vitalik makes a joke tweet about communism, more chaos
  • ETH Foundation boosts DeFi, staking (?)

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ETH Foundation Failures

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Not So Ultrasound

https://ultrasound.money/?timeFrame=since_merge

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BTC Problems

  • Taproot Wizards raise 30 million to bring OP_CAT to BTC
  • CTV advocates still hoping for their upgrade to achieve “”consensus””
  • MrHodl, Bitcoin Mechanic restart calls to lower blocksize to 300kb amid lacklustre backlog & mempool activity
    • Will mempools stay empty?
  • Ossifying still popular & in effect
  • NGU is slowing enough to cause doubts among BTC crowd

https://x.com/cyberFund_/status/1887235838456852826

https://x.com/TheBCHPodcast/status/1889697645582577866

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Other News

  • Trump administration continues to reduce resources to SEC crypto enforcement
  • GameStop considering investing in BTC & other cryptos
  • Javier Milei involved in some kind of LIBRA scamcoin by accident

https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1886911164367433912

https://x.com/CNBC/status/1890152644682928164

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BLISS 2025

  • Don’t forget to grab your BLISS Velma!
  • Come chat with Emergent & Fiendish live & in person!
    • Now 3 days!
    • Bachata!
  • Go to TapSwap.cash & purchase your Velma NFT using WalletConnect
    • 0.5 BCH / ticket

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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 136 - 145)

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  • majamalu (Marcelo)"founding father”
  • molecular "the show we love!”
  • ErdoganTalk "Economics writer”
  • Milton Friedman
  • @cashstamps "Keep calm and BitcoinCash. 💚💪👊"
  • Emergent Reasons "Please experiment with new ways to get you (Kz? Fiendish?) in front of some serious media spotlights"

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Supporter Appreciation

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Donators!

Patrons

  • Ricky
  • HP

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Sponsors!

  • General Protocols
    • Check out bchbull.com

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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

Start guide, FAQs, links at www.bitcoincashpodcast.com

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Shoutouts for the show

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Thanks for watching!

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