10 posts
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 5, 2026
This is a summary and analysis of Paul Sztorc's August 3, 2026 appearance on Incrypted, a Ukrainian cryptocurrency media outlet, streamed live on YouTube and X. The wide-ranging ninety-minute conve…
July 9, 2026
For a decade, Bitcoin has been quietly losing its most thoughtful researchers and engineers to projects with friendlier development cultures. Here is who left, why, and what changes when the doors reopen.
June 22, 2026
Paul Sztorc designed Thunder, a high-volume payments sidechain that gives both big blockers and small blockers what they actually wanted.
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.
May 22, 2026
Every hard fork doubles the nominal Bitcoin supply on paper, but markets eventually pick one winner — and the loser's coins effectively disappear. Here's why Ecash has a small but real chance of being the one that's left standing, and why complacency is the most expensive position you can hold.