TL;DR: Crypto Dev Digest (CDD) documents cryptocurrency development, highlighting the projects and persons working under the hood. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) halving moves up from previous expectations. Bitcoin scripts written in Rust. Learn how to run CashFusion and CashShuffle remotely, and so much more in this installment.



BCH Halving in 20 Days

According to CoinGecko, Bitcoin Cash is 20 days, 15 hours, and 30 minutes (as of publication) from reaching block 630,000. This triggers what’s known as The Halvening, or halving of the BCH block reward. It will go from the current 12.5 BCH per block as found by miners, to 6.25 per block — a significant decrease baked-in to the inflation schedule.

The original projection was sometime in late May of this year, around the 24th, roughly matching that of its parent coin, BTC (BCH is about 4,900 blocks ahead, however). But that was later revised to early May for BCH, and it now appears to be less than three weeks away, all things being equal, April 7th, 2020. Analysts are divided as to its immediate impacts.

The inflation rate, capped at 21 million, is considered a feature of BCH’s hard money properties. In theory, less BCH released after April 7th, 2020 should cause a price spike upward, assuming demand remains constant or is even spurred on psychologically by the notion of ever-less coins circulating. Some believed the early pump of BCH in January and part of February of this year anticipated the halving, following conventional wisdom.

And then the market tanked. This new territory is compounded by the fact BCH hasn’t gone through a halving in its short history. It’s also just weeks ahead of the Bitcoin Cash network upgrade, scheduled for May 15th, 2020, which suddenly became more controversial with late January’s introduction of the Infrastructure Funding Plan for Bitcoin Cash (IFP). Many enthusiasts are watching carefully, wondering at the delicate balance of security and hash rate, miner profitability, and speculative price.

Crescent Cash Wallet to Feature SLP In-App SLP Token Creation

Crescent Cash v1.12 will feature SLP token creation in-app! pic.twitter.com/08XyKXv7pt — pokkst (@pokkst) February 28, 2020

BitCartCC Gets Legs

Once again, this super great project 🙂https://t.co/PESp7aYnAR — Karol Trzeszczkowski (@KTrzeszczkowski) February 28, 2020

Building a Future of Disruption

BTCD, Decred implementation in (Go) has been used for new implementations like LN, and BCHD now, Atomic Swaps & others codes as well. Nice to see, $DCR building a future of disruption, and for public benefits. – https://t.co/fTTnGoq4Mf – https://t.co/xgzdsjWT3s @rogerkver — Michae2xl (@michae2xl) March 1, 2020

Bitcoin Scripts in Rust

Just made a thing. Now you can write Bitcoin scripts inline in Rust!https://t.co/id3Iep78cc pic.twitter.com/nsSleK6tem — Matt Bell (@mappum) March 3, 2020

Google and Slack Help Virtual Twitter All-Hands Global Meeting

We just held our first fully virtual Twitter global all-hands using @Google Meet and @SlackHQ. We had folks all around the world working from home, and some in our offices. Worked flawlessly, and enabled some things that weren’t possible before. Thanks Google and Slack! https://t.co/qD3d09pluZ — jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) March 3, 2020

BCHD Multi-Sig Implementation

New MuSig Implementation in BCHD https://t.co/e61npvyBzN — Cláudio Gil (@m4ktub2) March 3, 2020

Negotiated and Executed P2P via On-Chain Messaging

What you see in this transaction is an "atomic swap" of $BCH for $SPICE What you don't see is that the exchange itself was negotiated and executed peer-to-peer via on-chain messages. Blockchain itself is the order book. Publishing protocol + code soonhttps://t.co/GDKV5aD6Py — Ⓥin Ⓐrmani (@vinarmani) March 6, 2020

Running Remote CashShuffle and CashFusion

Brave Hearth v 0.3 Released

Version 0.3 of the Brave Hearth extension is out: * Support for ReadCash authors

* Support for general donation areas like @eatBCH or @CashShuffle websiteshttps://t.co/bXYU0hLKlV — Cláudio Gil (@m4ktub2) March 8, 2020

CashNumbers: Smart Contract to Register Unique NFT SLP Token

Working on CashNumbers—smart contract that allows registering a unique number as NFT SLP token. Allows sending BCH to a human readable 10-14 digit number. Transfer to different address possible (unlike CashAccounts!), which is required for smart cards. What do y’all think? pic.twitter.com/FnyAfhLjrb — Tobias Ruck (@TobiasRuck) March 12, 2020

Novel Way of Writing BCH Script

ANNOUCEMENT: I developed a completely novel way of writing Script for #BitcoinCash! ✅ Auto-completion

✅ Name stack items

✅ Checks stack validity

✅ Type checking (ints, byte arrays, bools)

✅ Pushops using Rust code

✅ Build complete tx in Rust Release in a couple of days 💪 pic.twitter.com/QV8H9k1TlO — Tobias Ruck (@TobiasRuck) March 15, 2020

BCHN Wants Feedback

Bitcoin ABC 0.21.2 Released

Bitcoin ABC 0.21.2 has been released. This release includes Initial Block Download improvements and removal of the deprecated “accounts” API. Download it here:https://t.co/7Jb7xdD5lV Release notes:https://t.co/GGmU3CpeT2#bitcoincash #bch #bitcoin — Bitcoin ABC (@Bitcoin_ABC) March 17, 2020

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