u/LovelyDayHere

I could easily explain how this works, but I've been banned from commenting in r/bitcoinismoney (the BIP110 supporter sub).

If you really are curious about how replay protection on forks works, u/GinormousHippo458 , it seems we could have the conversation here.

It's old hat for us "bcashers" because BitcoinCash implemented replay protection to ensure a clean fork.

Sadly though, most BIP110 folks seem ignorant on that and believe the Core propaganda that BCH is some kind of scam hatched out by evil actors.

No, we were just early to realize that BTC had been developmentally centralized & hijacked and that we needed a fork to continue decentralized development of scalable p2p electronic cash.

Reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoinismoney/comments/1vq5rp7/stay_tuned_the_impending_pow_change_to_blake2b/

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Amen

I see "you need to zoom out!" as an argument on here very often.

However, it is fallacious and irrelevant to most people.

People who don't own Bitcoin care about what Bitcoin can or might do for them in future. Not whether some people made great gains in the past from nearly nothing to 120K.

People who don't own Bitcoin already are likely to ask questions about future performance, and one just has to look at the current crop of predictions to realize that nobody has a clue (this might be natural, but bagholders often try to sell you an impressive price target as a carrot).

People who DO own Bitcoin are much more likely to have bought in later than earlier. There are very few OG's who made a killing. ATH was only 9 months ago, and since then it's done an impressive pullback, wiping out a lot of gains for more recent arrivals.

"Zoom out" is likely to raise questions for more people than it restores confidence.

It builds on another fallacy, that past performance is allegedly an indicator of future performance.

This is especially relevant when we are talking about a dynamic market where Bitcoin competes with other assets and forms of money and payment.

We ought to see that "zoom out" is a weak argument, and Bitcoin in any case would be better served by stronger arguments than pointing at a chart.

... is that if you advocate for the original Bitcoin idea, you get called a BCH shill, by newborn accounts.

That tells me everything I need to know about the degree of fear that the establishment has for the original concept of peer to peer electronic cash and sound money.

To those who think we're beating a dead horse by staying on the original message of Bitcoin... what's YOUR prospect for the future? Do you really think BTC is still going to be able to deliver a sound money system, or do you think that it simply doesn't matter anymore?

This is what a new Bitcoin price megathread could look like.

Obviously just a mock-up.

We can't have a new one, we are stuck with one from months ago stickied for ... forever?

Why?

If 1/10th of 1 percent (or 0,1%) of the world, that is 8M people, each did just one transaction per month, with the Bitcoin (Cash) block time staying at the average 10 minutes/block, that would mean blocks would need to contain at least 1,800 transactions each, to account only for those transactions and not the rest that is going on too.

Practically, this means that if everyone who holds bitcoins, were to resolve to do at least one base layer transaction per month, it would have an enormous effect on the base layer utilization.

Now 1800 transactions per 10-minute block is still only a small rate, around 3 TPS.

Such rates are well within the capacity of blockchains that are usable as p2p cash. The BitcoinCash, Monero, Litecoin or Dash blockchains can probably each handle at least one magnitude more, if not more.

If we want to see blockchains used for p2p cash, I think we need to resolve to make more transactions.

esp. when we can afford a short term economic hit and slightly increased workload by making more smaller transactions instead of e.g. one less frequent larger one. An example might be paying for VPN on a monthly basis instead of an annual prepayment even if it costs a few bucks and extra minutes to do more transactions.

But we would be getting something out of it:

• a better-utilized network, with more usage evident to those not already using it (because it's L1 traffic)
• ensuring the network works well better throughout time, because you're exercising it more regularly
• lowering the average amounts transacted by spreading them across multiple payments, which signals the attractiveness of the network to regular users of other payment networks, where the amount distributions are also skewed towards a larger mass of smaller payments

Those of us who already have ways to make payments using p2p cash even more frequently, e.g. weekly or daily, would boost these effects even more. While those of use who might only have a monthly occasion, could aim to seek out more avenues to spend and replace.

This should of course be real economic use cases, not simply sending money between your own wallets.

2026-05-15T12:44:28Z Successfully reconstructed block 00000000000000000098477ac7012172945743fe04ad49903b8af91ee7220cd4 with 1 txn prefilled, 0 txn from mempool (incl at least 0 from extra pool) and 0 txn requested (0 tx bytes), reconstr. block size 197 bytes
2026-05-15T12:44:28Z Connected coinbase 2ad9d193fe08b66af0e34a8e518360fe30a5cfb7b77a31b586d70d5f59b6ead2
2026-05-15T12:44:28Z ERROR: ConnectBlock(): coinbase pays too much (actual=312500227 vs limit=312500000)
2026-05-15T12:44:28Z InvalidChainFound: invalid block=00000000000000000098477ac7012172945743fe04ad49903b8af91ee7220cd4  height=951145  log2_work=89.549679  date=2026-05-15T12:40:31Z
2026-05-15T12:44:28Z InvalidChainFound:  current best=0000000000000000009647b105551f1776362ef92f08aa0312311ff0e9fdad3f  height=951144  log2_work=89.549674  date=2026-05-15T12:40:18Z
2026-05-15T12:44:28Z ERROR: ConnectTip: ConnectBlock 00000000000000000098477ac7012172945743fe04ad49903b8af91ee7220cd4 failed, bad-cb-amount (code 16)
2026-05-15T12:44:28Z InvalidChainFound: invalid block=00000000000000000098477ac7012172945743fe04ad49903b8af91ee7220cd4  height=951145  log2_work=89.549679  date=2026-05-15T12:40:31Z
2026-05-15T12:44:28Z InvalidChainFound:  current best=0000000000000000009647b105551f1776362ef92f08aa0312311ff0e9fdad3f  height=951144  log2_work=89.549674  date=2026-05-15T12:40:18Z
2026-05-15T12:44:28Z Considered switching to better tip 00000000000000000098477ac7012172945743fe04ad49903b8af91ee7220cd4 but that chain contains an invalid block.
2026-05-15T12:44:28Z ERROR: AcceptBlockHeader: block 00000000000000000098477ac7012172945743fe04ad49903b8af91ee7220cd4 is marked invalid
2026-05-15T12:44:28Z ERROR: AcceptBlockHeader: block 00000000000000000098477ac7012172945743fe04ad49903b8af91ee7220cd4 is marked invalid

More important than this, though:

Congratulations to all BitcoinCash developers, miners and users for successfully activating the Layla (May 2026) upgrade!

Looking forward to the exciting possibilities unlocked today, such as Quantumroot.