12 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 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.
June 21, 2026
This week, we witnessed Paul Sztorc in his element: explaining the design choices behind BIP 300, defending blind merge mining against intelligent pushback, sketching ambitious applications like BitNames and paid VPN networks, and engaging seriously with a sophisticated critic who disagrees with him about almost everything except the goal of building useful systems.
June 11, 2026
Two months out from the August 2026 hard fork, Paul Sztorc hosted another two-hour Twitter Space on June 10. The call was lighter on hard announcements than recent weeks but heavier on philosophy, …
June 4, 2026
Bitcoin's breakthrough was game-theoretic: a system in which thousands of mutually distrustful, self-interested actors would, by following their own incentives, produce an outcome that benefited the whole network. Ecash takes this philosophy forward.
June 4, 2026
The word "ecash" is older than Bitcoin. Older than the cypherpunk mailing list. Older than the World Wide Web, in fact. It belongs to a forty-year intellectual tradition of trying to build electronic money that respects human dignity.
June 4, 2026
The bulk of the call was spent doing two things the project has rarely done as openly before: defending the airdrop mechanic to a substantive critic for over thirty minutes, and walking through the technical and economic case for BIP 300's miner-voting design without retreating to slogans.
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.