TL;DR: Crypto Dev Digest (CDD) documents cryptocurrency development, highlighting the projects and persons working under the hood. Startup implementation Bitcoin Cash Node (BCHN) launches an April fundraiser. Ripple attempts to go DeFi. Kraken breaks CoolWallet; and so much more in this installment!



Bitcoin Cash Node Fundraiser

Bitcoin Cash Node (BCHN) announced its fundraiser for April 2020. “With this proposal,” the 26-page document explained, “we expect to gather the necessary resources not only to maintain code soundness and implement upgrades, with a focus on immediate ecosystem concerns, but also establish tools and infrastructure necessary to inspire confidence in Bitcoin Cash as a usable, promotable, reliable form of money.”

The team is determined to use Flipstarter for the campaign which, as with BCHN, was developed in direct response to the controversial Infrastructure Funding Plan for Bitcoin Cash (IFP). Both it and BCHN, however, have moved on from simply reactionaries and into full-fledged production mode, viable alternative mode. It’s one thing to complain, but quite another altogether to actually produce.

Bitcoin Cash Node – Flipstarter Proposal looks to raise slightly more than a quarter-million dollars, and a detailed line-item budget is laid out in nearly a dozen areas. For investors and BCH enthusiasts alike, the IFP has accomplished at least one positive: the bar for transparency has been upped, and BCHN shows the way. And with the recently announced Bitcoin ABC fundraiser and business plan, the community can avail itself of side-by-side comparisons.

Shout Out to Dev Jonathan Toomim!

Over the last 32 hours, I drove through Southern California, visiting medical facilities and workers, and donating 1800 surgical and 140 FFP2 masks. I visited over a dozen different facilities. Follow the link for some observations I think I can share.https://t.co/RhNwT91JSO pic.twitter.com/Gx06DCzKWu — Jonathan Toomim (@jtoomim) April 5, 2020

Bitcoin Cash Multisig Schnorr Added to Bitcore

☑️ Bitcoin Cash Multisig Schnorr support added to Bitcore v8.16.2!https://t.co/Ry2G0ReTmu Schnorr signatures are coming to Copay/Bitpay Wallet very soon, stay tuned. — ematiu (@ematiu) March 20, 2020

How to Become a Fullstack Dev

This article maps out how to become a #fullstack #developer on the #BitcoinCash network. The focus is on #JavaScript, but the concepts apply to any #programming language. Retweets are appreciated. Let's share the knowledge!https://t.co/i32lK2JUnd — Chris Troutner (@christroutner) November 25, 2019

Telegram BCHtipbot is Now Open Source

David Shares is a Solid Dude

Many thanks to @DavidShares who just acquired https://t.co/uQmHpg3ThM and redirected it. It's a very generous act and we'll be integrating it properly over the next few days. — FreeTrade (@FreeTrade68) March 22, 2020

BCH Ghana Endorses Zapit

A great new P2P exchange and remittance wallet for BCH.

We at @bchghana tested the app and are eager to use it for our project. If you want to give it a try, feel free to support @bchghana by using the referral: "koush" during setup. It has a built in decentralized exchange 👍 https://t.co/jdC9ITDNia — Koush (@KoushBCH) March 23, 2020

BitCash v0.5.3.4 is Available

BitCash v0.5.3.4 is available! Changelog:

– support for Latin America currencies

– fixed get_transaction() and get_transaction_testnet()

– added tests for the 2 methods above

– removed BitcoreAPI.get_transaction()

– under the hood improvementshttps://t.co/ItfGdwqHPt — Corentin Mercier (@merc1er) March 24, 2020

Ripple Attempts DeFi With Band

1/ ⛳️ We are thrilled to announce our partnership with fellow @binance launchpad project & @Ripple backed @Kava_Labs $KAVA to integrate $BAND into their cross-chain #DeFi platform. First major oracle to support DeFi beyond Ethereum 👇https://t.co/B6RaEZ2Iec — Band Protocol (@BandProtocol) March 23, 2020

Electron Cash 4.0.14 With CashShuffle Available

Incognito Mode for Bitcoin Cash

Bitcoin.com Deprecating Many Public API Services

On April 1, 2020 https://t.co/S6kFZn7AVY will begin the process of deprecating many public API services. The primary services impacted will be SLPDB, BitDB and Bitsocket. Corresponding public APIs can still be found at https://t.co/NvJtGx8Y1V pic.twitter.com/9pasRtvYof — Bitcoin.com Developer Services (@BitcoinComDevs) March 27, 2020

1,000 Future be.cash Wallets!

I got a packet in the post. Hmm what is this? It’s a 1000 future https://t.co/sv7cGuvZmw wallets! No need to pay with stinky #digitaldollar. Payments faster, cheaper and more reliable than credit cards. Possible only on #BitcoinCash! pic.twitter.com/Uo7SRELofJ — Tobias Rrrrrrrrruck (@TobiasRuck) March 31, 2020

Bitcoin ABC 0.21.3 Released

Bitcoin ABC 0.21.3 has been released. Changes include new listwalletdir RPC, various RPC bug fixes, and improved logging. Download it here: https://t.co/dLhrt0EvD9 Release notes: https://t.co/y0LScKQ1z2 #bitcoincash #bch #bitcoin — Bitcoin ABC (@Bitcoin_ABC) March 31, 2020

Next Step in Improving Ethereum’s Privacy

Next step in improving ethereum's privacy (in addition to ongoing improvements to https://t.co/f8JT3wFmD4 and the like): some clean easy-to-use stealth-address-like scheme to send coins to an ENS name without publishing to the world that they got coins. — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) April 1, 2020

Signup.cash is dApps for Bitcoin Cash

Announcing Signup, a non-custodial platform as a service to build decentralized web apps for Bitcoin Cashhttps://t.co/lJkSeUJdyG — p0oker (@p0oker) April 1, 2020

Light at the End of the Tunnel

With the most recent mod to Bitcoin Verde, we're processing about 10 blocks / second, even during the heavy-usage years. ~18 hours for an indexing node isn't bad. Still more work to do, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. — Joshua Green (@joshmgreen) April 2, 2020

Crescent Cash Available on F-Droid

Kraken Cracks CoolWallet S Hardware

🚨 Kraken Security Labs has discovered a way to empty #crypto funds from the @coolwallet S hardware wallet when connected to its Android app. Here’s how we did it and what it means for users 🧵👇https://t.co/7AFG656U8h — Kraken Exchange (@krakenfx) April 3, 2020

CoinEx Chain Soon to be Available on GitHub

To embrace the true spirit of decentralization, the CoinEx #DEX code will soon be available on #github! @yhaiyang #CoinExChain team hope that more developers and communities could participate in the construction of CoinEx DEX ecosystem!🖥️https://t.co/soqGyRgYRe — CoinEx Chain (@CoinExChain) April 3, 2020

Wasabi Wallet v1.1.11

Today on #CoinJoinDay we celebrate with a major release of Wasabi v1.1.11 🔥🚀💚 >Multi wallet support

>Fast load time

>#CoinJoin into other wallet [daemon]

>New GUI icons

>Custom change address

>RPC server

>#Bitcoin Knots Install & reclaim privacy now!https://t.co/AdUvgEyq4D — Wasabi Wallet (@wasabiwallet) April 5, 2020

BIP47 Coming to Crescent Cash

Software Verde Email Newsletter is a Go

Brave Heart Chrome Extension Version 0.6 is Out

Version 0.6 of the Brave Heart extension is out: * Made the extension language aware (i18n)

* Added translation to Spanish

* Added translation to Portuguese

* Minor fix: don't show actions in past periodshttps://t.co/bXYU0hu9un — Cláudio Gil (@m4ktub2) April 6, 2020

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