Jonathan Silverblood

Jack-of-most-trades that likes deep subjects like bitcoin, governance and energy.

Not a trained economist, please do not take my tweets as financial advice.

[Jonathan Silverblood @monsterbitar]

@MarcDeMesel I would argue that what matter isnt the individual upgrades, but things like paryonusd, actual usecases that provide utility.

Now we are demonstrating in practice that the tech is fairing well against eth and btc, so up to builders prove the value of this tech to users.

[Joel Valenzuela @TheDesertLynx]

The Bitcoin Cashers are some of the few in crypto that are still committed to decentralization and sovereignty.

It was great connecting to everyone at BLISS who just gets it.

[Jonathan Silverblood @monsterbitar]

@TheBCHPodcast @kzKallisti @bitjson sure, but there's still also a lot of legacy cruft, non-optimized header sizes, multiple 4byte data fields in most transactions that are just left empty 99.9% of the time etc.

bitcoin was a great start, I don't think we'll get to resolve most of these, but they are still there.

[Jonathan Silverblood @monsterbitar]

@TheBCHPodcast @kzKallisti there's at least faster blocks and UTXO commitments, and most likely there are more BTC inherited parameters that could still be tuned.

The scripting language is great now, though - just consensus rules are wider than script.

[Jonathan Silverblood @monsterbitar]

@btcplusplus *most

[Jonathan Silverblood @monsterbitar]

@btcplusplus How come BCH can complete lost of the great restoration project, add loops, functions, native tokens, native introspection, big integers etc with arguable more research and tests, yet BTC can only fight their users?

[Jonathan Silverblood @monsterbitar]

@BTC_JEDI21 Yes, the @BCH_BULL :D

[Jonathan Silverblood @monsterbitar]

To fix any problem, you should first agree that it is a problem.

If you do not, you will never prioritize the solution.

[The Bitcoin Cash Podcast @TheBCHPodcast]

Basically 5y ago, BCH wasn't competitive as crypto. Poor rep, no good/proven/aligned wallets, podcasts, conferences, hackathons, DeFi etc.

Now: a somewhat competitive (small) crypto. However we AREN'T a competitive payment & consumer platform.

Good start, but level up needed.

[Steve Thurmond @stevethurmond]

Bitcoin Cash is about to start showing up at conferences. This campaign below is our first foray into legitimate representation (an exhibit booth) at the @Futurist_conf in Toronto, July 21-22, much thanks to one of @KennethBosak's many connections in the crypto space 🙏. The campaign below is already funded, but they really need a professional backdrop/tablecloth/booth setup that was not included in the campaign ask.

A humble, but professional, backdrop will go a long way in proper representation at this event and many others in the future, so please do what you can to help these guys offset the cost by overfunding the campaign. Modest exhibit setups are about $1200 on the low end.

Let's support this effort best we can! BCH FTW!💚👊💪👇

https://t.co/GXpnqViHAU

[Steve Thurmond @stevethurmond]

Was great to be able to chat with Mark Edge @MarkEdgeShow at the 2026 @bchbliss conference a few weeks ago. Mark is a Bitcoin OG, BCH ally, and via @FreeTalkLive, likely exposed more people in the US to Bitcoin in the early days than any other source at the time. One story being that 'Bitcoin Jesus', @rogerkver, learned about Bitcoin through Mark's show in 2010, which we discussed in our conversation below.

Check it out and tune into his new show, 'Sal & Mark' with @SallyMayweather that's really picking up speed. We are working on BCH collaborations with Sal & Mark both in the near future.

[Jonathan Silverblood @monsterbitar]

@MarkQuarter @TheBCHPodcast @BitcoinCashOG @GeneralProtocol @bchbliss @bitjson well, if you're not going to engage with the subject matter and insist on outsource your thinking despite being informed that it is technically wrong, there is no discussion to be had here.

[Jonathan Silverblood @monsterbitar]

@MarkQuarter @TheBCHPodcast @BitcoinCashOG @GeneralProtocol @bchbliss @bitjson so this is just outright incorrect. please read the CHIP if you want to have a meaningful discussion.

"When changing block time, the reward per block is proportionally adjusted so block reward per unit time remains constant, meaning expected revenue over time is unchanged."

[Jonathan Silverblood @monsterbitar]

@MarkQuarter @TheBCHPodcast @BitcoinCashOG @GeneralProtocol @bchbliss @bitjson on the topic of AI/LLMs, I also asked grok to review the chip and find any related community discussion, then asked it to evaluate it, and for me it was strongly in favour of the chip.

It's verdict isn't very interesting though, as it's more likely to simply be people-pleasing.

[Jonathan Silverblood @monsterbitar]

@MarkQuarter @TheBCHPodcast @BitcoinCashOG @GeneralProtocol @bchbliss @bitjson Please be specific and technical in your answer so that we can do a proper evaluation of the concerns.

[VLAD HOSTS THE BEST PODCAST IN BITCOIN @Vladcostea]

You know, I really respect bcashers for being true remnants

9 years later, even after they had 2 major community splits (BSV and XEC)

even after the lead developer left

even after market has clearly favored small block BTC

while the hashrate is ~1% of Bitcoin’s

they keep going

lots of high profile big blockers dropped their support around 2020 to embrace Ethereum

but there are still devs shipping new features and OP codes that put Bitcoin Core to shame

in spite of having fewer resources.

Never had inflation bugs, the lesser degree of conservativeness didn’t make the dev team sloppy

They even reported the 2018 inflation bug in Bitcoin, didn’t try to exploit it in a time when they could easily become destructive.

Wasabi 2.0 was inspired by Cash Fusion, many of the covenant proposals are iterations of the already available OP_CheckDataSig and the reactivation of OP_CAT.

The big blockers actually did a great job scaling Bitcoin, settling for dynamic 32 MB blocks that can be bigger only if the user pays for it, and ironically setting up much stronger foundations for trust minimized L2s. They can even run a better version of Lightning, with fewer hiccups.

Without any grants from HRF, Jack Dorsey’s companies, MIT, or mainstream financial institutions – which is probably why they were able to ship code instead of trying to find the meaning of the word “consensus”.

Bitcoin Cash did a great job scaling and making Satoshi’s codebase more useful. I wish Core would learn and try to compete instead of “bikeshedding”.

I also wish it wasn’t taboo to look at competing codebases and take the best parts. You know, like actual cypherpunks who don’t need to signal loyalty to a church in order to be taken seriously.

[Jonathan Silverblood @monsterbitar]

@MarkQuarter @TheBCHPodcast @BitcoinCashOG @GeneralProtocol @bchbliss @bitjson Based on your arguments, I think you have not read the actual CHIP for the change, so here's a link: https://t.co/R2c1uiKwio

If you still have concerns, that's great, let us know the technical specifics you think is bad, ideally also let the CHIP writer know.

[Jonathan Silverblood @monsterbitar]

@kit_sats Since 2013 I've held meetups, onboarded merchants, mined, co-founded a company and built a defi product.

I am more disciplined than ever, but the answer is "no", since I have never bought bitcoin.

I've only traded my time and talent for it, and now I live on the BCH chaintip.

[Jonathan Silverblood @monsterbitar]

@hodlonaut hypocrisy yes, weakness no. they know very well what they are doing and have been successful at doing it for a decade.

you finding out now is the sign of weakness.

you don't even know what battle you are fighting yet.