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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.
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 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 15, 2026
On October 31st, 2026, exactly eighteen years after Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper, a new chain called eCash will split off from Bitcoin, copy its entire ledger, credit every BTC…
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 30, 2026
This essay reflects upon Paul Sztorc's appearance on "What to Expect When Expecting Forks," hosted by the MARA Foundation and Isabel Foxen Duke on July 30, 2026, roughly nine days before BIP-110's …
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
The July 15 Ecash ECX Space approached issues such as the fee model, specialized vs general smart contracts, and Ecash's governance philosophy in relation to Bitcoin. Paul Sztorc patiently answered to all questions.
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.
June 29, 2026
A technical and economic briefing for hashrate allocators ahead of the August 21, 2026 fork (block 964,000).