It’s the first weekend of the NFL playoffs. You’re probably getting a Domino’s cheese pizza with garlic crust at some point today, right? How to buy Domino’s with shielded YEC as the starting point, and without touching fiat currency: Start with shielded YEC as your capital. Deposit YEC into an…

Right now, using shielded cryptocurrency to buy food in a pure, unadulterated, direct way can only be done at a handful of small coffee shops and hot sauce merchants. But what if you get a craving for a mission burrito, with chips and guac? The good news is, there is…

It seems some Ycashers are fond of the number 8. So why is 8 such a special number? In Mandarin, 8 “ba” sounds like the word for wealth and fortune. And 88 “Xǐ” sounds like the word for double happiness. Flight numbers into or out of China often include an…

I woke up this morning and found myself gazing out at a tree in our backyard. What makes that tree, and many like it, so pleasing? I went into the kitchen and grabbed a tape measure. Then I turned back to the tree and measured from my perspective. 13 inches…

Note: This article is not investment advice. About a hundred years ago, there was a devastating banking crisis. JP Morgan was called to testify before Congress about why his private NY bank was so successful when all others were failing. During that testimony, Morgan made one of the most epic…

I like to imagine when Bitcoin was being developed, its creator(s) envisioned an electronic system working similar to ‘real’ cash. Money be green and all. YEC uses a cash-based record keeping model, similar to bitcoin UTXOs. This is because YEC *is* cash, your electronic cash. How does it work? Say…

These days, we might as well have our phone numbers tattooed on our foreheads. Those digits have become identifiers, more and more. I’ve had my primary number for ~20 years, and can’t even begin to count every business, person and entity that links that number to my life. A short…

Have you ever sent cryptocurrency and wondered, “did I get the address right?” And then next time you send money, you just use PayPal or Zelle because sending to joe@gmail.com is easier and doubt-free? The FIO protocol provides an elegant solution to this usability problem, by replacing a long cryptocurrency…

YEC is #YourElectronicCash. YEC is yours. Ycash is a fair and open egalitarian blockchain, with a supply cap of 21 million YEC coins. When you own the private keys to your YEC, it is 100% yours. Send coins without a trusted third party. No permission required. No bank needed. No…