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I put out another release of BChat in the morning (v30/01 00:30).

Will probably be a couple of days before I do another one. If you have any really high priority requests, leave them here for consideration in that release.

I already know image support has been requested a lot, as well as better feed mix of replies and remembering scroll position in the feed.

e0491bf3... 2d ago

BChat, as cool as it is, is a major distraction away from what a wallet should do. There are already thousands of chat apps already and adding BCH to anyone of them (Signal, NOSTR) would be a much better use of resources than expecting the world to join BChat.

What IS missing from all of the wallets I've used (many), BCH or otherwise, is an extremely easy to use multisig feature.

This would make escrow standard for all business transactions. It puts credit & warrantees directly in the hands of users.

Just like memo, BChat will have maybe 20 regular users all telling each other how awesome BCH will be once it catches on? That's the same problem unmodified NOSTR has, it's BTC only, and only Lightning "zaps" at that.

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fshinetop 2d ago

It's not a major distraction, especially for BCH with its small ecosystem and community one of the things a wallet should do is encourage people to use it and engage with the community which is exactly what BChat does.

Existing NOSTR clients/community is pretty hardcore BTC only so good luck getting them to add BCH. And yes, getting Signal to support BCH would be huge but if you think getting them to add it is easier than developing BChat I think Selene/BChat devs would love to hear about it.

TheBCHPodcast 2d ago

BChat can be switched off in Settings, so people who find it distracting can use that.

BChat IS adding BCH to NOSTR, that's the whole point. It runs on NOSTR backend. Yes, there are thousands of apps, but if the BCH community does not have its own venue for discussion than it will 100% guaranteed eventually be censored or manipulated by outsiders - that has been seen over and over again. Also, BChat drives non trivial transaction volume, even with its small community, which is something the BCH community desperately needs to find a way to do.

I do agree we need to find ways so that it doesn't become a circlejerk of BCH users telling each other how great they are. No free tips stops it being about beggars, but we need to raise the discussion further than BCH alone over time anyway.

Multisig, vaults & so forth for security are also something we are thinking about quite seriously. But it's a big development effort, may be superceded by the imminent XO templates, and it's only relevant to a far smaller pool of dedicated users (not the average person being onboarded to BCH).