i just login into Bittrex (it's been a while) and i noticed there was some BCC credit in my account. So looks like if you had BTC on the exchange, then they did the right thing and gave you the BCC.
https://cash.coin.dance/blocks ...also an interesting view as to who is mining. Oh yeah, check out the message text in block 478617 from Suprnova - someone was having a bad day.
... and the address mentioned in the Genesis Blocks is here... in one of Hong Kong's shopping streets. https://www.google.com.au/maps/plac...fa9c5b460c252cac!8m2!3d22.27824!4d114.1769816
All this happened while I have been moving house to an area with no net yet, I managed to log on hot spotting off my phone out in the paddock where it's got coverage, I had some dust on yobit that I noticed was credited equal amount of BCC, wish I had been more prepared for it
Been waiting for the first signal that BCC might be coming off the bottom after all the "free bitcoin" crew finished dumping it. I'm a buyer today. Next question is how best to store it. Any decent cold wallets picking up proper support for BCC?
Electron Cash seems to work ok. It a fork of electrum which is open source. You can import/export your private keys.
I have been very disappointed with bitcoin cash. I thought it would do much better than it has. The idiots that forked it should have reduced the difficulty at the fork, so more blocks could be found. Instead a block has been found every half hour, one hour or two hours and I think that has undermined the currency. I expect it to disappear. No confidence, no developers, poor support. I installed a bitcoin cash node and it wrote over the core node blockchain. Thankfully I made a copy of it, all 137 Gb.
Difficulty adjustment was always going to take time and be dependant on it finding it's price. It just needs to settle down and it'll find it's place. Hopefully that will be soon. Remember, at the end of the day it is basically the same code as Bitcoin. So it is technically sound.
https://www.coinspot.com.au in oz now supports buying and selling Bitcoin Cash (they call it BCC, not BCH) for those in Oz who want to liquidate to fiat. Currently AUD$307 sell price.
Gaining support. My initial amount - Bittrex kindly turned half the Btc I held into bcc at a 1:1 ration (wasn't much) - the price plummeted. I rebought more at low. Could this achieve parity with Btc is the question.
I expect it will get interesting again before November. I'm feeling a bit better (been quite sick recently) and so I will share my thoughts. 1. Bitcoin miners have a vested interest in Bitcoin Cash at least surviving, if not thriving. They will support it until at least November. 2. The Bitcoin Core mob will probably resist the 2MB hard fork, so expect another fork threat to emerge by October. 3. If there is any issue with SegWit (security / unverified transactions) and/or there is any emergent congestion on the BTC fork in the coming months, there will be a rush to BCC. All up I think there is plenty more upside potential than downside risk to BCC at this price level and point in time. DYOR
Hope your feeling better M8 Going to be a lot of fun and games huh , maybe another Bit (insert symbol here) thingy will emerge. One with Segwit and no x2... Oh wait that is bitcoin itself now, or one with no Segwit and x2.... Uhmm nah that is BCC/BCH right ? Whatever it is I can't see it being SegWit with x2 ever, not with the tribalism and politics involved. Bigblock V Smallblock, who will win out in the end ? Personally I think BCC has already solved a lot of issues without the complications that SegWit could introduce or heading in a direction closer to the current SWIFT type system than the vision laid out by Nakomoto with the original concept of BTC.
Thanks. I can see the 2MB hard fork part of SegWit2x being veto'd or delayed indefinitely. The big blockers might move into BCC leaving BTC for the segwit small block factions. Reckon that'd be fine until BTC shows some congestion and transaction backlog - which might not take long because SegWit is little more than a band aid. Then BCC comes roaring into consideration due to being the better scaling option. The Bitcoin Core, SegWit and small blocker fanboys really strike me as being naive and very short sighted. They'll have their time in the sun for now but I don't think BCC is just going to go away.