Hello, Bitcoin Cash

What is Bitcoin cash?

Bitcoin cash (BCH) is a cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies are digital assets that are bought and sold online. Crypto, as it’s known, can be used for a variety of things, including making payments and online transactions. Bitcoin cash is not related to Bitcoin. It was created in a hard fork.

Bitcoin cash was created by a group of developers who decided that they didn’t want the Bitcoin blockchain to have any limitations on how much data can be added to it. The original Bitcoin protocol could only process a limited number of transactions per second. This limited the size of its blockchain, which is the decentralized ledger that holds all of the transaction records for the cryptocurrency.

When the developers wanted to add more transactions to the blockchain, they couldn’t do it without increasing the block size, which would have taken years to do manually. Instead, they created a new coin with the same name, but with a larger block size.

Bitcoin cash uses an identical proof-of-work system as Bitcoin, and its blockchain size is also similar.

How can you get Bitcoin Cash?

Bitcoin cash has two ways of getting it. The first is by purchasing it directly from one of the exchanges. Exchanges will either have an order book or they can be traded on an order book. In this case, traders can put their sell order on the order book and buyers can place their buy orders on the order book. The exchange will match up buyers and sellers based on the price and quantity that they want to trade. The other way that you can get Bitcoin cash is by mining it. Mining is when you use your computer to solve mathematical problems in order to validate transactions and earn new coins.

How to Store Bitcoin Cash

The safest way to store your bitcoins is in a hardware wallet like Ledger or Trezor. This way, if your computer is infected with malware, it won’t be able to steal your coins. Your private keys are stored on a device that is only connected to your computer through a USB cable. A hardware wallet also means that if your computer gets stolen, your coins won’t be compromised.

What are the pros and cons of Bitcoin cash?

Pros:

• Bitcoin cash has a larger block size than its predecessor. This means that it can handle a higher number of transactions per second. This means that transactions can be completed faster, which can make the network more secure.
• Bitcoin cash was created because some developers didn’t want to see the limitations placed on the original Bitcoin blockchain.
• Bitcoin cash uses a proof-of-work system like its predecessor. This means that the network will still be secured through the amount of computing power being used to mine new coins.

Cons:

• The original Bitcoin protocol had been working fine. This means that there wasn’t really a need for a larger block size.
• Bitcoin cash is a separate cryptocurrency from its predecessor. This means that you won’t be able to use both interchangeably on the same wallet or exchange.

What can you do with Bitcoin cash?

Bitcoin cash can be used in all of the ways that other cryptocurrencies can be used, including paying for goods and services online, transferring money to others, and investing. The biggest advantage is that it allows for faster transactions and is cheaper to transact than its predecessor. This makes it a better choice for smaller purchases or when you’re just trying to pay someone back for something.

You can use BCH in the same way that you’d use other cryptocurrencies. You can transfer it to others, invest in it, or use it to pay for goods and services.

One activity growing in popularity is using Bitcoin cash in casinos. Casinos accept cryptocurrencies as payment so that you can gamble using BCH. You’ll find that most casinos will allow you to deposit and withdraw in BCH. There are plenty of bitcoin cash casinos in operation and most of them are reputable.

Hello, Ian

Hurricane Ian is looking very bad-ass as it bears down on Florida’s Gulf Coast. The exact predictions for landfall keep changing, but it looks like it will strengthen to Category 4 and impact the Fort Meyers area.

That’s where my brother is, staying in a cheap motel with his family. I’m not really sure what they’re going to do when Ian hits, but I’m glad they’re not in one of those tall condominium towers on the coast line.

The TV is showing the hurricane coming towards Florida. It looks pretty bad, and I hope it doesn’t hit too hard. I hope everyone stays safe and out of the way of this big storm.
Ian is already being compared to Katrina because of its size. There are comparisons with Andrew from 1992, which devastated the state of Florida.

I’m sure the news will be talking about this all week.

Mace Windu’s Lightsaber

Search Google for “mace windu lightsaber” and you’ll get over 2.1 million results. Most of them will point out that his light saber is purple. Legend has it that’s because the actor portraying him, Samuel L. Jackson, personally asked George Lucas for a purple light saber so that he could easily be spotted in a big fight scene.

But what if Mace Windu had a more common light saber color? What if Mace Windu’s light saber was red or green?

Like any great conspiracy theory, there’s a few reasons that makes some sense:

He could have just liked it better that way. He might have just felt more powerful when swinging a red saber. The Empire might be too stupid to even recognize it. He was simply standing at the right height or angle of attack and his opponents had their backs to the sun.

That’s because his color wasn’t “purple”. It wasn’t any color on the visible spectrum at all. Mace Windu’s “color” is the “color” of plasma.

“So how did that work, then?”, you might ask.

A Little Bit About Light

Like all of the other visible wavelengths (reds, oranges, yellows, blues, greens, browns), light starts out as packets of energy called “photons”. The electrons in each individual photon have a well-defined frequency.

Atoms themselves, made up of positively charged nuclei, negatively charged electrons, and negatively charged atoms called “protons” all positioned next to each other, have a more random structure that results in lower energy orbitals called the “valley” of lower energy. Electrons will “tunnel” from a higher energy orbital (the “peak”) of an atom all the way down to a valley orbital of a different atom. When a photon hits an atom in this configuration, the atom loses an electron to the photon’s high energy state. That freed electron makes for a more unstable atom in an overall neutral configuration. A molecule in that configuration is more likely to ionize, that is to lose another electron to a high energy photon. When a neutral molecule does ionize, we have a reactive intermediate, but also a strong absorption of light and a creation of heat.

So if a photon hits an atom right in its peak, the atom remains in its peak, the molecule becomes ionized, and the photon gets absorbed by another molecule. In a chain reaction, the same process is repeated through all of the other molecules until eventually all of the photons absorbed and turned into heat energy. If an energetic photon happens to be absorbed right on an orbital transition from peak to valley, or vice versa, the newly created positive or negative charge can “jump” the empty orbital gap and result in another photon being produced with exactly the same frequency, and energy, of the initial one. This process, where one photon splits into two photons that are exactly in phase, is called “fluorescence.” In other words, light with energy.

Of course, this is very technical and not much about Mace Windu’s light saber color, or why it might be red or green instead of purple.

But it should give us a good idea of how light works. It’s still just packets of energy. It doesn’t matter what color those packets happen to be. The color of something isn’t intrinsic to how that thing actually appears to us.

Mace Windu’s lightsaber probably was made to look purple. But it’s really the color of plasma. And that’s awesome.

Welcome to my WordPress

I spend most of my time on Tumblr but I thought it would be fun to add a WordPress blog into the mix. Tumblr is almost always about images but WordPress is more about words (duh.)

I like to make and collect images. I like to write words. I also collect a lot of both.

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

– Mahatma Ghandi