A curated list of Bitcoin Cash projects & resources
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a project to scale bitcoin on-chain as an electronic peer-to-peer payment system for the world. π
"Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" by Satoshi Nakamoto.
Bitcoin Cash is one chain of Satoshi Nakamoto's blockchain invention which was deliberately hard-forked on August 1st, 2017. It shares the whitepaper, first block, and all bitcoin block history prior to the fork. It attempts to implement the central idea outlined in that paper.
Below is a copy of the original nine page whitepaper:
Archived copy of the bitcoin whitepaper from bitcoin.org.
General Protocol Spaces - Available on Youtube and twitter.
Projects Built on Bitcoin Cash
All of these apps are mostly stable and active. Always check the notes of a particular project before risking a large sum of value. Links are checked on a weekly basis, but function is not checked.
Apps (Social)
read.cash - a conventionally hosted long-format blogging platform, with BCH tipping for content.
memo.cash - short message social media site with decentralized SLP token exchange.
Cashrain - A platform where creators create communities for their members.
noise.app - An invite only Bitcoin Cash powered micro-blogging platform.
BCHGANG Link Directory - A directory of links about the cryptocurrency Bitcoin Cash: wallets, merchants, exchanges, tools, references, block explorer, developer guides, tutorials and more.
Merchants and Services Accepting Bitcoin Cash
A Short List
These vendors have accepted bitcoin for years and are committed (or sympathetic) toward the idea of electronic cash payments.
Although some of these may appear to only accept Bitcoin (BTC), they do, in fact, accept Bitcoin Cash also.
BQuest - South Africans can easily spend Bitcoin Cash!
Projects dedicated to listing or enabling eCommerce.
Use.Cash - Guide for using cryptocurrency like cash.
Bitgree - service to privately purchase goods on Amazon.com and others at a discount.
Some Charities and Foundations
Just some good charities for the world at large.
Tails - The Amnesic Incognito Live System, is a security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity.
Save the Children - A United Kingdom based charity, founded in 1919, to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts. (Cryptocurrency donations are powered by The Giving Block)
Cash Pay Server[docs] - a self-hostable NodeJS micro-service that can be used to handle BIP70 and JSON Payment Protocol invoices for Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
WalletConnect - WalletConnect 2 implementation for Bitcoin Cash.
Memo Protocol - for the on-chain tweet style social media app.
CashShuffle[spec] - a privacy protocol for combining transactions with others, splitting to the lowest common amount.
Discussion
An archive of past and future ideas for Bitcoin Cash ongoing at Bitcoin Cash Research (BCR). Collaborating participants have recorded their thoughts and concerns about various potential ideas & implemented improvements.
Protocol changes, software standards and application specifications may be proposed by anyone. The recommended process for consensus building and conflict reduction is known as the Cash Improvement Proposal (CHIP) Process.
List of CHIPs - documents that record proposals to upgrade the Bitcoin Cash protocol, and their ongoing progress, both technical and consensus-building.
Anyone may propose an improvement to Bitcoin Cash, but the responsibility is on the CHIP owner to see the idea through to fruition and build consensus.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
-- An African Proverb.
There are various groups developing software stacks & apps for the broader ecosystem.
General Protocols[repos] - Team researching and developing protocols for non-custodial and trustless networks using BitBox. (Typescript and Javascript)
Electron Cash[repos] - Team maintaining a desktop SPV wallet with plugins and mobile app (Python)
Flowee[repos] - Team maintaining a non-mining full node and services to access the Bitcoin Cash network. (C++, NodeJs et al)
FullStack Cash[repos] - Team building web/ipfs apps based on BitBox compatible stack. (Javascript)
Mainnet Cash[repos] - Loose-knit team maintaining a shared server-side and client-side library.
Simple Payment Verification (SPV)
π΅ Fulcrum[repos] - A fast & nimble SPV Server for Bitcoin Cash.
π΅ Rostrum - Rostrum is an efficient implementation of Electrum Server written in Rust.
Libraries & SDKs
Developer tools - Page devoted to high level developer tools.