Our Mission

To lead Bitcoin Cash to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the blockchain.

Intro

I want to start by personally thanking everyone for their interest in the C2 and for their work on Bitcoin Cash. This is an amazing group of very smart, creative and talented people and it's truly an honor to create the future w/ you each day.

Innovation on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain is moving at light speed and it's critical that we get the infrastructure in place to have everyone on the same page w/ interoperability for BCH to scale as big as the Web and beyond.

Bitcoin Cash is a decentralized and permissionless ecosystem. Getting players on the same page may seem counterintuitive but consortiums can have network effects. If the right players all engage it can tip the entire ecosystem. The cooperation and professionalism that we show each other in the C2 will end up having profound reprocussions on our entire industry and the world.

Concerns

A wise man once said:

Do you know the #1 responsibilty of any organization? It's to keep itself alive.

We want to immediately address 2 concerns which are very sensitive to our community

* Centralization

* Bureaucracy

As an organization we're very aware that a huge part of the power of BCH is it's decentralized and permissionless nature. We believe it's the same thing which gives the Web it's power.

It's our intention that the C2 remain as lightweight as possible. We view ourselves as a bottom-up emergent organization w/ hierarchy only existing to facilitate our mission statement.

It's our hope that the community recognizes the value of the C2 and helps develop the systems we need to best govern a decentralized and permissionless ecosystem.

Existing work

* JSON RPC documented and merged in to the bitcoincash.org spec repo

* Started an official 1.0 spec . Will eventually host the spec and a tool which lets devs search by method/feature to see which clients are 1.0 compliant

I want to give a shout out to Shammah from ABC for the work he's already done in this space. The C2 is in no way meant to step on the toes of the work he and the existing BCTF have done.

I'm personally working w/ both teams to confirm we're on the same page and everyone's goals align.

Issues for immediate discussion

* OP_RETURN prefixed protocols. BlockPress/Memo are just the first. Do we need an extendable meta protocol like XML? Do we need a BIP44 like convention?

* Units of division. cash , bits , sats ?

* New OP codes. Emerging non-standard transaction types.

Action Items

As an industry we don't know what we don't know. We need to get a sense of which companies are actually building on BCH, what libs/frameworks they are using and what are the barriers to them always being on the latest and greatest.

* Create list of companies and contacts.

* Create questionnaire w/ the following questions

Questionnaire

1. Do you write your own BCH application code? If so w/ what tools/libs?

2. Do you run your own full BCH node? If so what type (ABC/BU/XT)

3. What are your pain points on implementing upgrades right now?

Call to action

Money is critical to the human condition. Bitcoin Cash is the best money the world has ever known. As an industry we have the opportunity to be proactive, move quick, build bridges and standardize or a larger player will co-opt BCH and do it for us.

Thank you again for being involved in the C2. Our actions will have far reaching effects and we look forward to working w/ you.