Flowee

Working on Flowee Pay, a wallet for #BitcoinCash.

The world needs proper peer to peer money, our aim is to accelerate the world towards a BitcoinCash economy.

[Kallisti.cash 🍏 @kzKallisti]

Bitcoin Cash solves this.

[Flowee @FloweeTheHub]

@kzKallisti @penguinj42 Posted.

[Flowee @FloweeTheHub]

@kzKallisti @penguinj42 I'll see if I can flush the ideas to bchr. I didn't think of them when I did the other stuff (the list of chips) a week ago.

[Flowee @FloweeTheHub]

It is hard to put Bitcoin Cash in a labeled box. Is it cash? Is it a product? Is it a platform? Is it a community?

When new people want to find out what it is they will inevitably want to put a label on BCH in order to help them understand the coin. And this label they will learn from online resources.

There are various problems that are easy to identify there:
We lost "whatisbitcoincash" due to the opposition reporting it, and nobody bothered to put up a copy.
We have a TON of sites all explaining things, most of them are not updated and you can see the state of our web presence by simply asking "who put up a banner that there was going to be an upgrade around half of may?".

But the really important part is how the community at large thinks about Bitcoin Cash. The forums, the discord and other places. What is being reported as news, what is being celebrated.

If you look critically you'll notice that 80% or so of the people that call themselves (any variation of) bcashers are actually not using the coin for money. The vast majority of talk is about those 'viral adoption driver' ideas. New apps, some new website, another opcode proposal etc.

But how much is signalling that this is money to be used for payment of goods and services?

If you want to make people care about using Bitcoin Cash as money, start by showing you can use Bitcoin Cash as money. To the world. Repeatedly.

The main downside of this complete bias away from the payment usecase is that the basic answer to "success" is ANYTHING BUT payment. We see people getting very creative in coming up with new stuff. Stuff that is expensive for the wider community to handle, I don't want yet another upgrade that will solve all our problems, except payments.
When you ask them why not payments, they will literally tell you that we tried (we didn't) and it didn't work. 🤯

So the first thing to make people care is to make yourself care. And show people that you care. Not some philosophical caring, but just because the tech is awesome. 💪

[Flowee @FloweeTheHub]

@kzKallisti @penguinj42 There are a list of strategies that solve this, strategies that actually coincide with basic good wallet design anyway.
As such I think we can get to a solution that is good enough for everyone.

But it already can work for the majority today. While we aim for improving CF later.

[Flowee @FloweeTheHub]

@kzKallisti @penguinj42 It is not people's expectation that is the problem.

You don't win by copying the competitor at massive cost.

Instead you win by educating the (factually true) superiority of the native solution.

Naturally, there is no mobile product providing CF, might be a bit of an obstacle.

[Flowee @FloweeTheHub]

Now it looks like AI subscriptions were always running at a loss and the companies have to massively increase their costs to break even.

Was it all just a ploy to make people addicted to the usage of AI and the fear of being unproductive again the lever to extract the monies?

[Flowee @FloweeTheHub]

On our webservers I've long avoided doing some captcha or similar, but the AI bots got so bad that they disrupted operations. So I gave in. We now use some POW solution.

After 24 hours I did the math, it is shocking!
99.89% of the requests were by bots.

[Steve Thurmond @stevethurmond]

And there you have it!

Nothing official just yet from @ttracesofficial, but looks like Deano @deanharrisonTT crushed it again with a commanding, 15-second lead over Peter Hickman (2nd) and Michael Dunlop (3rd) to win the 2026 Isle of Man TT Superbike class, adding a 6th TT championship and 36th podium to his belt.

BitcoinCash and Dean Harrison FTW!💚👊💪 We are incredibly proud to back you, sir! ☺️ 🫡

[Flowee @FloweeTheHub]

@Devon_Eriksen_ the whole AC thing is funny to the vast majority of europeans because the need for AC in a house is simply not there.
See, the US is significantly more south. There is a wish for at home AC for 3 weeks a year.

Installing a full unit is rightly a luxery, unlike in the US.

[Tadek Solarz @TadekSolarz]

Observaties vanuit het riool

Volgens Volkskrant-hoofdredacteur Pieter Klok is X een “open riool”. Wie er nog zit, draagt volgens hem bij aan een medium dat “de democratie ondermijnt”. Vertrek zou daarom de enige oplossing zijn.

Ik zit inmiddels zestien jaar op dat platform. Lang genoeg om te zien hoe het verruwde. Maar ook lang genoeg om te weten dat die verruwing niet op sociale media begon. De omslag zag ik eind jaren negentig al bij de traditionele media.

Tot die tijd bestond er een duidelijke scheiding tussen redactie en commercie. Journalisten maakten journalistiek, advertenties waren herkenbaar als advertenties. Abonnementen en reclame financierden samen de krant. Artikelen hoefden geen emoties op te pompen of permanent aandacht vast te houden. Journalisten konden gewoon hun werk doen.

Dat veranderde toen uitgevers ontdekten hoeveel advertentiegeld bij tussenpartijen bleef hangen. Kranten gingen advertenties zelf verkopen en langzaam vervaagde de grens tussen commercie en redactie. Partnercontent, branded journalism, native advertising. De lezer mocht steeds vaker zelf raden wat onafhankelijk was en wat niet.

Daar begon de erosie van het gezag van de dagbladen. Niet bij Elon Musk, maar op de eigen redactievloer. Daarna maakte internet het oude model definitief kapot. Advertenties verdwenen, oplages daalden en journalistiek alleen bleek online onvoldoende rendabel. Artikelen moesten verkeer trekken. Koppen werden harder, emoties winstgevender, verontwaardiging een verdienmodel.

Clickbait wordt graag toegeschreven aan sociale media, maar traditionele media hebben het uit economische noodzaak zelf grootgemaakt.

Sociale platforms maakten het proces later zichtbaarder en extremer, maar de toon was toen al gezet. Columnisten moesten scoren, meningen moesten circuleren, morele profilering werd onderdeel van het businessmodel. De traditionele media legden zelf de infrastructuur van het huidige riool aan.

Woorden die ooit met grote terughoudendheid werden gebruikt, zoals fascisme, nazi, genocide en ondermijning van de democratie, zijn in opiniestukken en columns steeds normaler geworden als morele kwalificaties in gewone politieke discussies. Dagbladen speelden daarin een belangrijke rol door die taal te legitimeren en te normaliseren. Vanuit die institutionele autoriteit verspreidde die verruwing zich verder via talkshows, politiek en sociale media.

Ik kom uit een generatie waarin zulke termen met terughoudendheid werden gebruikt. Tegenwoordig volstaat afwijken van de morele consensus binnen delen van de kwaliteitsmedia soms al om in de buurt van “fascisme” terecht te komen.

Daar wringt het Volkskrant-commentaar. De morele verhevenheid waarmee over grote groepen mensen wordt gesproken, maakt van een analyse al snel een sociaal oordeel. X is een “riool”, reacties zijn “drek”, gebruikers worden impliciet tegenover verstandige burgers geplaatst. Dat zijn geen observaties meer maar sociale etiketten. Daar spreekt niet alleen afkeer van een platform uit, maar ook wantrouwen tegenover het vermogen van gewone mensen om zelf onderscheid te maken tussen onzin en waarheid.

Wat ontbreekt is zelfreflectie. Traditionele media hebben zelf meegebouwd aan de cultuur die zij nu veroordelen. Aan de toon, de verontwaardiging en de morele profilering. De dagbladen hebben een deel van hun gezag verkwanseld door journalistieke afstand en objectiviteit steeds vaker in te ruilen voor moreel opportunisme.

Vertrek van X is de enige manier om ondermijning van de democratie te stoppen | de Volkskrant
https://t.co/734D65Dk1B

[Flowee @FloweeTheHub]

The Flowee peeps are happy to announce a new release of the full node and related applications.

Flowee the Hub is now fully compliant with the recent Bitcoin Cash protocol upgrade! 🎉

After a couple of weeks of intense work all new features on BCH have been added to the Hub.

[Flowee @FloweeTheHub]

@SallyMayweather @cotta3 Use a clean or new bag to not have any reason for dogs or otherwise to cause you trouble going through customs!

Have a safe flight.

[Flowee @FloweeTheHub]

I started doing Java at the 1.2 release (previous century) and codebases today are unreadable to me because of all the new language features added and indeed the many people that somehow feel they need to use them all.

My language of choice is, and has been for decades, C++ because it is simple and straightforward.
Yes, you need to have the dicipline to avoid templates and avoid exceptions. Or at least use them sparingly. I reject probably 80% of the features added in the last decade.

Going to a new language because it has less features is likely a long term failing strategy, though. The one sign of a successful language is that they keep adding language features.

The ability of AI to help you doesn't really depend on the language, it depends on the quality of your codebase. Much like humans, to be fair. You have good abstractions and are consistent? Your AI will generate clean code with only minor need for attention.

All roads lead me to the same conclusion: it is not the language it is the "controller" (or programmer) having the dicipline to use the tool properly.

[Paolo 🤌🏻 Aga @paolo_aga]

The timeline is a graveyard of outrage.

Everyday more hysteria about who is controlling what, who is scamming whom, and which government is committing the next atrocity.

It's all noise. If you want to end the atrocities you have to stop funding the mechanism that enables them.

Modern wars and state-sponsored oppression are not possible without central banking.

The ability to print money, KYC and censor accounts and selectively freeze assets is the ultimate weapon of the state.

We aren't building "crypto" to get rich. We are building a decentralized economy on Bitcoin Cash to make this system of control obsolete.

When you hold non-custodial, censorship-resistant value, anchored to reality, not to a government's debt, you remove the fuel from their war machine.

Stop arguing about the noise. Start building the exit!

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

La taxe sur les petits colis chinois est un échec. Surprise totale. Les colis transitent désormais par la Belgique avant d'arriver en France, les emplois logistiques français ont disparu, et le consommateur paye pareil. Bercy découvre la deuxième loi de la thermodynamique appliquée à l'économie : un système contraint trouve toujours sa fuite.

Cette histoire est minuscule, mais elle est l'incarnation parfaite du problème français. À chaque fois que l'État touche à l'économie, ça finit dans le mur. À chaque fois. Sans exception. Pas par malchance. Par construction.

L'économie n'est pas un tableau Excel. C'est un système vivant de plusieurs milliards d'agents qui prennent des décisions chaque seconde en fonction de leurs contraintes locales. Quand vous taxez les colis chinois, vous ne créez pas magiquement des emplois français. Vous créez une perturbation que le système contourne en quelques semaines, en passant par la Belgique, par les Pays-Bas, par le Luxembourg, ou par n'importe quel point d'entrée moins taxé.

Le marché est un objet mouvant. Il a une intelligence distribuée que personne, absolument personne, ne peut surpasser depuis un bureau ministériel. Friedrich Hayek a obtenu le Nobel pour avoir formalisé exactement ce point en 1974. Cinquante ans plus tard, nos hauts fonctionnaires en sont encore à découvrir empiriquement ce qu'il avait démontré théoriquement.

Le seul mécanisme connu pour coordonner des milliards de décisions économiques simultanément, c'est le système des prix dans un cadre de libre-échange. Les prix transmettent en temps réel l'information sur la rareté, la demande, la qualité, le risque. Aucun ordinateur, aucun algorithme, aucun comité de planification ne peut répliquer cette densité informationnelle. Ce n'est pas une opinion idéologique. C'est un théorème.

Quand un fonctionnaire de Bercy décide de taxer les colis pour "protéger l'emploi français", il imagine un effet de premier ordre. Les colis deviennent plus chers. Donc moins de colis. Donc plus d'emplois locaux. Cause et effet, ligne droite, dossier bouclé.

Mais l'économie ne fonctionne jamais en effets de premier ordre. Elle fonctionne en cascades. Effet d'ordre 2 : les distributeurs réorientent leurs flux. Effet d'ordre 3 : les hubs logistiques s'installent en Belgique, et les emplois français disparaissent. Effet d'ordre 4 : la TVA française n'est plus collectée. Effet d'ordre 5 : les consommateurs payent quand même, donc leur pouvoir d'achat baisse. Effet d'ordre 6 : ils consomment moins ailleurs, ce qui détruit des emplois dans d'autres secteurs. Le bilan net de la mesure est négatif sur tous les indicateurs qu'elle prétendait améliorer.

Aucun fonctionnaire au monde n'a la capacité cognitive de prévoir une cascade à six ordres dans un système de cette complexité. Ce n'est pas une question d'intelligence individuelle. C'est une limite structurelle de l'intelligence centralisée face à la complexité distribuée. Les meilleurs économistes mondiaux ne le peuvent pas. Aucun haut fonctionnaire de Bercy ne le peut, peu importe le diplôme.

Donc soit ils sont insanes, soit ils sont déconnectés des réalités. Dans les deux cas, ils n'ont rien à faire à la barre.

La conclusion est simple. Chaque fois qu'un politique annonce qu'il va "protéger" un secteur, "soutenir" une industrie, "réguler" un marché, "encadrer" une pratique, vous pouvez prendre les paris à 100 contre 1 que le résultat sera l'inverse de l'objectif annoncé. C'est la régularité empirique la plus solide de l'économie politique française des cinquante dernières années.

Le marché se régule. Il a toujours su le faire. Ce qui ne se régule jamais, c'est la prétention des bureaucrates à savoir mieux que des centaines de millions de consommateurs et de producteurs ce qui est bon pour eux.

Le seul mode opératoire qui marche, c'est le suivant. L'État garantit le contrat, la propriété, la sécurité physique. Et il sort. Tout le reste est entre les mains de ceux qui ont leur peau en jeu, c'est-à-dire les entrepreneurs, les producteurs, les consommateurs.

Tout le reste, c'est de la planification soviétique en habit Saint Laurent. Et la planification soviétique a un taux de réussite historique parfait : zéro.

[Flowee @FloweeTheHub]

@NymFrance https://t.co/nK70iUBrlr

[Flowee @FloweeTheHub]

People seem confused what is going on here.

Google is basically in a better position than any government to introduce global ID, and this is what it is doing now. Visit a website on your phone, then the Google account it is logged in as will become your passport to get in.
It is fore-running the governments of the world that all try to do the same thing.

With the main difference that governments are incompetent and will largely fail. So when they inevitably do, Google is ready to sell them the service.

What is bad about this is that Google actually will have a good chance of making such a system work.

What is good about this is that goverments and especially the EU will never let an American company have that power.
Afterall, cancelling people or stories is best done silently.

Google just one-upped especially the EU, which is going hard on a digital ID for the net. With age verification set to become required at the end of the year. Age verification is really just a way of making all the adults use some sort of digital ID when they go online.

It looks like the governments have compition, something they didn't expect and very likely they won't appreciate.

[Flowee @FloweeTheHub]

People seem confused what is going on here.

Google is basically in a better position than any government to introduce global ID, and this is what it is doing now. Visit a website on your phone, then the Google account it is logged in as will become your passport to get in.
It is fore-running the governments of the world that all try to do the same thing.

With the main difference that governments are incompetent and will largely fail. So when they inevitably do, Google is ready to sell them the service.

What is bad about this is that Google actually will have a good chance of making such a system work.

What is good about this is that goverments and especially the EU will never let an American company have that power.
Afterall, cancelling people or stories is best done silently.

Google just one-upped especially the EU, which is going hard on a digital ID for the net. With age verification set to become required at the end of the year. Age verification is really just a way of making all the adults use some sort of digital ID when they go online.

It looks like the governments have compition, something they didn't expect and very likely they won't appreciate.

[Flowee @FloweeTheHub]

@EvaVlaar The sinister reason for why the EU is doing this is obvious when you see it. This is about gettiing people to use the digital ID.
Proof she said yes in the app and young ones wanting sex will thus need to use the digital id app.

The moment you see it, you can't unsee it.