17 posts
September 20, 2026
The last fortnight of the eCash alpha: the Lukecoin price circus, Liquid's cautionary tale echoing, six sidechains racing for slots, the great pECX burn, the community pooling its small change, and a betanet that went from proposal to retarget in a day.
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 1, 2026
This is the seventh and final piece in our series covering the seven BIP-300 sidechains shipping with the eCash hard fork, and it's focused on CoinShift.
September 1, 2026
This is the sixth piece in our series covering the seven BIP-300 sidechains shipping with the eCash hard fork. Previous entries covered Thunder(https://ecashblog.com/posts/2026-06-22-thunder-drivec…
August 19, 2026
This is the fifth piece in our series covering the seven BIP-300 sidechains shipping with the eCash hard fork. Previous entries covered Thunder(https://ecashblog.com/posts/2026-06-22-thunder-drivec…
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…
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 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 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…
July 2, 2026
The final X Space of June ran a full two hours, and it followed the now-familiar rhythm: a slow, almost meandering solo open from Paul Sztorc, then a steady build into some of the sharpest technical exchanges of the entire launch run-up.
June 29, 2026
A technical and economic briefing for hashrate allocators ahead of the August 21, 2026 fork (block 964,000).
June 26, 2026
When Ecash forks in August 2026, drivechains will not arrive empty. Seven sidechains are ready to activate: Thunder, BitNames, BitAssets, Hivemind, ZSide, CoinShift, and Photon. Here is the complete tour.
June 26, 2026
The conversation ran over two hours and covered a wide spread of territory, from a new mobile wallet to the cultural meltdown around Michael Saylor to a genuinely pointed disagreement about whether the Ecash drivechains will be complete on launch day.
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.