"Nobody is using Bitcoin Cash!"

I just saw this video clip of Bitcoin Core thought leader John Carvahalo in which he says "even though the blocks are bigger, nobody is using Bitcoin Cash."

Scrolling through the last week or so of this BCH news feed on Telegram, here are just a few recent developments that demonstrate that not only is Carvahalo totally wrong, but that there is a whole lot more activity happening on Bitcoin Cash than on his Lightning Network obsession:

• Phonemaker HTC is now packaging a Bitcoin Cash wallet in their Exodus line of mobile phones.
• Mobile crafting/adventure game RealmX is using SLP tokens to represent in-game items (Props to /u/ad1ad for his excellent video review)
• The Bitcoin Cash City conference just wrapped up in Townsville Australia, a city with more than 100 local businesses all using BCH.
• The largest messenger app in Japan, one of the largest in the world, is now offering in-app BCH functionality to users in Japan.
• Rakuten, basically the Amazon of Japan, also launched their own wallet featuring BTC, BCH, and ETH. (same link as above)
• A Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) hackathon is taking place right now, with more than $7,000 in prizes up for grabs.
• Oracles.cash allows for easy oracle creation on BCH.
• A new version of CashScript allows for enhanced scripting and smart contract writing on top of BCH.
• There's also Nimbus, a new smart contract transaction format.
• And this cool new donatebutton.cash widget.
• Bitcoin Cash also has this cool livestream tipping tool for Twitch/Streamlabs that just upgraded its backend.
• Cheapair.com CEO Jeff Klee says in this podcast that BCH is the second most used currency on their platform behind BTC.
• Oh yeah, Bitcoin Cash has it's own native USD stablecoin, a transparency report of which can be found here.
• Australian food app LivenPay has integrated BCH payments into their network of more than 1,000 delivery restaurants.
• The Sudan chapter of the EatBCH charity organization was invited to attend the UN Climate Action Summit.
• This CBD oil company is giving away free CBD gummy bears when you pay the shipping cost in BCH.
• Bitcoin Cash meetups are regularly being held in 90 different cities around the world.
• CashShuffle has already made more than 164,000 BCH more fungible in over 30,000 shuffle transactions. Stats
• BCH's native tokenization scheme SLP has seen 4,500 tokens created and more than 125,000 token transactions in the past few months. Stats

All of this stuff just happened in the last week or two! ('m sure I've missed things, please comment other developments below.

Meanwhile in the world of Lightning Network:

• A critical vulnerability allowed people to spend non-existent bitcoins for the last three months.
• Former operator of LN's largest liquidity provider says he stopped due to constant anxiety about the security of funds.
• The operator of LN's current largest liquidity provider says he only makes ~$20 a month from having $5 million locked in this insecure network, while having spent ~$1000 in transaction fees just to open channels.

tl;dr The people who constantly repeat the nonsense claim that nothing is happening on BCH are either clueless or deceitful.

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