“Whatever is going to happen will happen”.

Three BCH evangelists in Shenzhen set up a Satoshi Academy to study the underlying protocols and new technical features behind BCH.

Edward Liu , former founder of Bitkan, left the company and is devoted himself to promoting bch. Earlier this year, he developed a tip bot that bch proponents can use on Sina Weibo. The idea came from Tippr .

Edward believes that the best way to promote bch is to develop killing apps which offer great user experience and make users “addicted”.

He is now focusing on a movie ranking app and a bch foundation that offers equity of bch-related projects to people who invest and donate to the foundation. The foundation is more of an alternative to Jihan’s proposal of funding development with a fraction of block rewards.

I can’t wait to see this ranking app get launched some day.

Lightning Huang , an early bitcoin adopter, has been translating and writing stories about bitcoin and blockchain since 2014. He quit his job in 2014 and used nine credit cards to get as much cash as he could to buy bitcoin. I asked him why he thought bitcoin has value, he told me that bitcoin is a nice creation, it is a bless. If one day he stops feeling it is beautiful, then he would stop investing in it.

In 2014, Lightning printed bitcoin flyers and spread them at the subway station. Back then everybody thought he was a weirdo, but he just didn’t give it a shit. Now more and more people start to realize the value in cryptocurrencies and invite Huang to share his stories with bitcoin.

Huang has always been a strong supporter of big blocks. He is now financing several engineers and developers to learn everything about bch and tap the potential of it.

Wang Peng , president of Southern Blockchain Research Institute, is truly warm-hearted. He provides space for the Academy to hold lectures.

Initially, they plan to hold weekly meetup, but realized that it’s impossibly to prepare a subject per week. The 1st lecture was held on June 12. Zhang Binbin , product manager of Coinex introduced a self developed BCH-based Authenticator . Lightning delivered a speech about UTXO Commitment .

Satoshi Academy will hold another lecture next Tuesday to share audience with bitcoin scripting and multisig.