16 posts
October 30, 2026
On October 29th 2026, eCash became a live Bitcoin fork with real if transient hashrate, five activated sidechains, one native market, one wrapped market, a list of broken websites and a founder who says he expected worse.
October 10, 2026
Three weeks later the beta has become something more useful than a launch party: a long, sometimes grumpy, often brilliant rehearsal in which most of the heavy lifting was done by people LayerTwo Labs does not pay.
September 12, 2026
On September 6, 2026, roughly 4,000 BTC, worth about $319 million, moved out of the Liquid Network's peg wallet in a transaction the federation never meant to sign. ErgoBTC flagged the pegout(https…
September 7, 2026
In August and September 2026, two veteran Bitcoin developers left the main chain within weeks of each other. Luke Dashjr's BIP-110 fork restricts data and shrinks Bitcoin down to money only. Paul Sztorc's eCash fork adds drivechains and opens Bitcoin up to everything. An honest comparison of the two most consequential Bitcoin forks in years.
September 7, 2026
The second stretch of the eCash alpha: a hashrate hangover, the first production incident, the first community drivechains activated under proof of work, the first withdrawal bundle, pECX price discovery, and a $320 million lesson from Liquid about why federations are not the answer.
August 26, 2026
The first days of the eCash alpha: a difficulty that started at 1, 26,000 blocks in 15 hours, pools being blacklisted by hash rental platforms, a 93 dollar pECX, and a Telegram chat that never slept.
August 13, 2026
On the evening of August 10th, 2026, what began as a paranoid war-gaming session about the Coldcard exploit turned into one of the most substantive public Q&As on the eCash (ECX) hard fork to date.…
August 7, 2026
Layer Two Labs founder Paul Sztorc has confirmed that the eCash (ECX) hard fork will still begin on August 23rd, 2026, but it will no longer arrive as a single event. Instead, the BIP-300 fork will…
July 23, 2026
This is a summary of Paul Sztorc's appearance on the X show "Bitcoin & Chill," hosted by Wicked (@wsbitcoin) on July 22, 2026, and archived on YouTube by Rexpaces. Unlike the friendly eCash Space…
July 20, 2026
On July 18, 2026, at the request of the Stacker News moderator Scoresby, Paul Sztorc sat down for an AMA on one of the most Lightning-friendly forums in Bitcoin. The result was surprisingly positive.
July 9, 2026
The July 8 Space was the most chaotic of the entire run-up, and it was chaotic on purpose. What started as a calm housekeeping session from Paul Sztorc turned into a two-hour free-for-all featuring…
June 29, 2026
A technical and economic briefing for hashrate allocators ahead of the August 21, 2026 fork (block 964,000).
May 28, 2026
Paul Sztorc proposed the first drivechain design in November 2015. Eleven years later, on August 21, 2026, it finally activates on Ecash. Here is the complete year-by-year record of how we got here.
May 23, 2026
Drivechains let Bitcoin host any experiment on a dedicated sidechain — without launching a new coin, without trusting a federation, and without weakening the main chain. Here
May 23, 2026
Every altcoin since 2011 is an experiment that should have been a Bitcoin sidechain. Drivechains finally make that possible.
May 23, 2026
Drivechains were first presented in 2015. Became a formalized BIP in 2017. Have been promoted as a soft fork for Bitcoin for almost a decade. This could have been an easy activation, which makes everything possible on Bitcoin. But they chose the hard way.