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Following Bitcoin Cash on its rise to global reserve currency.

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#164:

BLAZE Information & XO Blog

feat. Jonathan Silverblood

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Sunday, 19th October 2025

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Big Dump, BCH resilience

USD $469.80 = 100 megasats (down a lot). 1 BTC sat = 229.6 BCH sats (down slightly). 1 ETH = 836 megasats (down a lot).

Selene (30d): 605 users. Tokenaut TVL: 10 210 BCH

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Jonathan Silverblood

BCH BLAZE Visionary, General Protocols

https://x.com/monsterbitar

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BCH BLAZE

  • BLAZE is rolling
  • Information session was yesterday explaining how it’s all going to work
    • Recorded so you can check in on it if you missed the livestream
  • Registrations are open until October 30th! Sign up at DoraHacks!
  • How have things been going so far compared to our initial expectations?
    • What projects would you most like to see?
  • CashTokens being normalised

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

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Emergency Soft Fork

  • “Pleb slop”

https://stack.xo.cash/blog/2025-10-15-Intro-to-XO-The-Why-and-the-What

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Flipstarters

  • CashScript 220 BCH
    • Another year of work from Mathieu & Rosco
    • SDK is looking good already
    • Loops, functions, other contract functionality
  • Mainnet Pat 500 BCH
    • CashToken CashFusion & others
  • FundMe has hit 1 000 BCH raised! Incredible to see.

https://flipstarter.cashscript.org/en

https://fundme.cash/campaign/74

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Dankrad’s New Job

  • Dankrad Feist, prominent Ethereum developer behind “danksharding”, leaves the Ethereum Foundation after >7 years to join Tempo - a centralised competitor incubated by Stripe & Paradigm
    • … presumably for a lot of money
    • Debate begins in ETH community about how to prevent poaching of key talent
    • How much is the mission worth?
  • This is a problem BCH will eventually have
    • How do WE insulate ourselves as best we can?

https://x.com/dankrad/status/1979133618254405775

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Dankrad’s New Job

https://x.com/ajwarner90/status/1979256363143286925

https://x.com/jon_charb/status/1979322805281001614

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Meme Of The Week

Working for BP

https://x.com/GwartyGwart/status/1979147842125021655?t=LfEt_tVFFiiBWYygexu8pA

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Developer Credibility

  • How to get more credible devs?
    • Results - only produced (especially at scale) over time
    • Quantity
    • Presentation (public trust)
  • How does this build up across communities?
  • Can we get converts from BTC, or elsewhere? A mix?
  • 2:01:14 - 2:02:07

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtGC5wRWB3k&t=7273s

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British Digital ID

  • Mandatory Digital ID for every British citizen
  • Also required as part of right to work
  • No way this will be used to discriminate against people by turning off their bank accounts right?
  • “will have to be truly universal – consolidating a whole range of digital documentation used in everyday life”

https://x.com/_DannyKnowles/status/1971761732130689323

https://x.com/PeterMcCormack/status/1971612866123035048?t=ayfkmUdI_9d-m-yylOffUw&s=19

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Vietnam Debanking

  • 86 million (of 200 million, 43%) Vietnamese bank accounts deleted for lack of newly-required biometric authentication
  • Considered a “system cleanup” measure
  • Apparently closing account or transferring out money requires physical presence in Vietnam
  • “The move is billed as a measure to prevent fraud, cybercrime, and money laundering.”

https://x.com/TheGriftReport/status/1969063488690516195

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoiners-criticize-vietnam-closing-86m-bank-accounts

https://cryptoslate.com/vietnams-bank-account-purge-is-the-best-publicity-for-bitcoin/

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Community Comment Of The Week

Elon back in the mix - Debasement trade

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1977986775994843641

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AI Trading

  • Company gives LLMs $10k each to trade cryptocurrency as a
  • Their idea is to test for genuine intelligence?
    • How to separate this from randomness?
    • Would a repeatable market edge be sustainable?
  • AI trading on BCH is inevitable, but could we encourage it somehow??

https://nof1.ai/

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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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  • molecular "The show we love"
  • @cashstamps "Keep building & BroaCHing 💚👊💪🪲"
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  • CashDragon ""Pump it up!"

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Supporter Appreciation

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Donators!

Patrons

  • Ricky
  • Kyle
  • 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

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Shoutouts for the show

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Thanks for watching!

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