TL;DR: Crypto Dev Digest (CDD) documents cryptocurrency development, highlighting the projects and persons working under the hood. The Pirate Bay (TPB) shilled former BTC maximalist Richard Heart’s project, HEX. VPN PIA’s acquiring by Kape could shake up the industry. Orchid releases its white paper. Bitcoin ABC rolls out version 0.20.7, and so much more!



The Pirate Bay Shilled HEX

TPB is a go-to for cryptocurrency enthusiasts, many of whom are savvy in the ways of torrenting simply by virtue of the industry. It might have been a genius marketing move on behalf of Richard Heart’s project, HEX, to get prime landing page placement, full color, mere hours before going live.

To everyone who thinks #BitcoinCash is a scam – this why it came about. #Ethereum / $BCH ‘ers saw this play out and we did the right thing. We forked away from the corruption running #Bitcoin. You’re slowly going to see the truth come out.@ChicoCrypto $BTC pic.twitter.com/ZgxXutf3uV — BittBurger (@BittBurger) November 29, 2019

The iconic ship logo was replaced with a referral image to HEX, apparently part of an obvious affiliate program. TPB has swapped out its logo before to shill VPN sites it associates with, but, as far as we can determine, HEX is the first crypto-related attempt. Terms were not disclosed, but analysts assumed a standard 20% kickback from HEX wasn’t out of the question (rumor is HEX has already generated $3 million, and might be headed to CoinMarketCap).

Heart, a former BTC maximalist who once chastized Ethereum, has made a complete 180-degree turn philosophically, embracing the chain to effectively launch an ERC20 token iteration on a certificate of deposit-like theme. He’s also openly acknowledged how BTC, by way of Bitcoin Core developers, has stalled and stagnated.

Bitcoin ABC 0.20.7 Released

Bitcoin ABC 0.20.7 has been released! Two new RPC commands have been added: scantxoutset and getzmqnotifications. See the release notes for details. Download it here: https://t.co/NlfppeHFED #bitcoincash #bch #bitcoin — Bitcoin ABC (@Bitcoin_ABC) November 27, 2019

Huge Deal Most are Overlooking

With BITBOX and CashScript, BitcoinCash FINALLY has the scripting environment on Bitcoin that I hoped for in Bitcoin since the beginning. For YEARS Bitcoin Scripting was BLOCKED due to transaction malleability and Block Size issues This is a HUGE DEAL most are overlooking pic.twitter.com/MqMQu1yHCF — Rhett Cryptography [#800cc] (@HeyRhett) November 26, 2019

Double Spend Attempts on Bitcoin Cash Documented

Some interesting historical statistics charts by #BitcoinCash developer dagurval, about double-spending attempts on $BCH network. Note: not all double spends are attempts at fraud. Occasionally fraudulent DS's may occur, but insufficient data to confirm.https://t.co/vqmOxedkPn — bch 'make Bitcoin cash again' protocol upgrade (@btcfork) November 27, 2019

read.cash Gets Help From SideShift.ai

Over 10⁸² Combinations

'With 53 inputs and 38 outputs, [in this BCH @CashShuffle + #CashFusion TX] there's over 10⁸² combinations that would need to be dealt with to check for possible matches.' – Jonald Fyookballhttps://t.co/DHy32IO4Yy — Bitcoin Cash Fans (@BitcoinCashFans) December 1, 2019

Reuseable Address Success

i sent to reusable paycode 010c034f9bd2fae48e56449a520ebb4a7177c055f8a98f9548d012fb612a32a4c5e9a902e187b3aff0d0d57b1870b004ad877f59254ffa5fd69693a0c0203cab600dbfaf000000000000000000 (checksum unimplemented) with 1/4096 anon set, and recovered the coins https://t.co/ZBhHl9GR2C — imaginary_username (@im_uname) December 1, 2019

Orchid White Paper Released

New whitepaper released! Read all of the details about our decentralized network and layer two scaling solution to protect #privacy on the internet. #VPN https://t.co/Vf6We4hMeM https://t.co/Vf6We4hMeM pic.twitter.com/bDA68mTeW9 — Orchid (@OrchidProtocol) December 1, 2019

.eth Domains Beta Dashboard

Dope new @ensdomains dashboard (beta) from @DuneAnalytics just released 🔥 -Almost 400k(!) names/subdomains registered 🚀

-23k unique participating addresses 👏

-173k ETH spent (because ETH is money) 💸https://t.co/BcJgFCCD2f — Anthony Sassano | sassal.eth (@sassal0x) December 1, 2019

VPN Private Internet Access (PIA) to be Acquired by Kape Technologies

“Popular VPN provider Private Internet Access (PIA) is set to be acquired by Kape Technologies. This will transform the company into a major player in the VPN industry. The deal has sparked a lively debate about Kape’s intentions and PIA’s future, but the company stresses that it remains committed to protecting the privacy of its users.” More.

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HonestCash Editor Improved a Little

The @honest_cash Editor Has Just Improved a Little! Let's spread BCH. Start writing under https://t.co/AEgIumKcHd. pic.twitter.com/MwljE7vDe1 — Adrian Barwicki (@AdrianBarwicki) December 2, 2019

Have Paywalls Ever Been Easier?

CashScript v0.2.3 Released

#CashScript v0.2.3 has been released! What's new?

– 🐛 Bug fix where unequal bytes types could not be concatenated. When bytes of different sizes (e.g. bytes3 & bytes8) were concatenated, an error was thrown because they were "unequal" types. They can now be concatenated. — Rosco Kalis (@RoscoKalis) December 4, 2019

Mind Blown

TIL: You can enter cointext:phone-number-here into Electron Cash and send Bitcoin Cash via SMS to a phone number. Mind blown. @CoinText @vinarmani @electroncash This needs better UI for visibility. I've used Electron Cash since the split and had no idea. https://t.co/YWVsDEkJsa — read.cash (@readcash1) December 4, 2019

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