Hi, homies. On August 1, we all went to HK for the BCH Anniversary Conference. I was SUPER excited to meet so many influential figures in the BCH community, like Jihan Wu, Roger ver, CSW, etc.

Anyway, the entire conference was quite last minute. Many BCH supporters were unable to buy tickets at BCH. CLUB . And let’s face it, the forum is Chinese, it’s not easy for foreign friends to book a ticket.

But there were actually a lot of things happened at the conference. And since i was there, I figure maybe i could do a recap of the conference.

Actually, most speakers delivered the same speech with the one they did at the CoinGeek conference back in June. So let me start with some new faces.

First, Jiang Zhuoer, CEO of BTC.TOP, one of the world’s biggest bitcoin mining pools.

Jiang’s powerpoint is bilingual. The title for his speech is All forms of liberty are righteous. In other words, any actions that could increase liberty to the world is just.

Jiang is a huge believer of Austrian economics. Well, you know what Austrian economics is all about, free market, critics of government and central banks.

He believes that one of the most important reasons why BCH will surpass BTC is that BCH enjoys more liberty. They differ not just in block size, but also in free speech, regulation, free market.

He explained that big block will not cause centralization. Big block means more users and more nodes. And he quoted Satoshi that there is no need for everyone to run a full node. When the network grows to a certain point, full node will be left to specialists, with server farms of specialized hardware.

To conclude, Jiang Zhuoer pointed out that there are only 0.2% blockchain users, BCH needs to implement smart contract to attract new users.

Anyway, more choices, more liberty.

Jiang did a really great speech. And it seems that Roger ver really enjoyed his speech. Roger kept taking photos of Jiang’s PPT. What a really good listener.

Speaking of roger, I read a lot of stories about him giving away free bitcoin to newbies. but I never actually see him do this in real life. This time in HK, I finally saw him helping a newbie download bitcoin.com wallet.

He is truly Bitcoin Jesus.

All right, now let’s talk about Jihan Wu. Nothing new in his speech. One thing I want to mention is that people tend to blame Jihan for everything Bitmain does, like Bitmain invested a lot of ICO projects. The community feels upset and ask him why invested so many ICO projects. It's not like you lack money.

Sure he is the CEO of Bitmain. But he does not own the company himself. The investment department makes such decisions.

Let's be nicer to him. He is already under a lot of pressure doing the mining business and getting involved in the scaling debate. He is a hero. I remember that last November, at the ETC (Ethereum Classic) Summit in HK, an emcee called BCH Bcash, and Jihan suddenly stood up and shouted

“It is Bitcoin Cash, not Bcash!”

What a man! Wow, the sexiest moment of Jihan, ever!

Let’s move on and talk about Craig Steven Wright, one of the most controversial figures in the community. I actually believe he is Satoshi. Well, I’m not sure if he wrote the Bitcoin whitepaper, but I think it’s his idea.

I know people might imagine Satoshi to be a nice gentleman, but I alway imagine him to be a badass. And Craig clearly is a badass.

Here I want to share a story with you guys. This April, after the Satoshi’s Vision conference in Japan, Roger was invited to another conference in HK. Roger values every opportunity to promote BCH and he tried to invite some other guests to go to HK, but other guests already booked their air tickets flying back home. Only Craig choose to change his flight and go to HK with roger.

Craig picks fights all the time. He is a pain in the neck, no, in the ass, but I like him a lot.

I also talked with Dr. Steph, a former scientist at nChain, who is now working on BCH’s smart contract solution—Obito. Obito is a Japanese word, meaning neck. The team wants Obito to work as neck connecting the head (blockchain) with the body (token).

Happy to see more development teams working on BCH's smart contract and tokenization solutions. Best wishes!



