What follows is the first ever guest post on this blog. Not only do I think it’s a great article that every eCash supporter should read, but I also wanted to use this opportunity to showcase a cool eCash app that built by Cláudio Gil called thebigguy.club. It allows anyone to “generate an address that ensures each party will get the agreed-upon share”. I am using it to split all payments received to unlock this article 50/50 between myself and Mirvyn less the 20 XEC fee charged by the app. Now onto the article…
Water for Every Farm; Self-Custody for Everyone — P.A. Yeomans and the eCash Roadmap
by @Mirvyn
As my knowledge of the eCash project continues to grow — thanks to the eCashers with expertise who graciously share their knowledge — I am continually astounded by the engineering feats being accomplished by the Bitcoin ABC development team and contributors. It would be easy — and worthwhile — to talk from a UX (user experience) standpoint, though my appreciation goes a lot deeper; to what enables that very UX to exist at all; i.e. the eCash Roadmap.
When — as a newly-minted Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fan who unexpectedly stumbled across XEC — I first looked into eCash and read the Roadmap, very little of it made sense to me. And, to be honest, at the time all I really cared about was how many steps remained until its completion. However, after listening to many interviews of the eCash developers and reading every article about updates to the network, I have since come to not only gain a fair understanding of the eCash Roadmap itself, but also the immense planning that has gone into it.