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The eCash Beta, Days 1 to 22: Eight Sidechains in Five Hours, a Difficulty Tug of War & the Builders Who Kept the Lights On

The eCash Beta, Days 1 to 22: Eight Sidechains in Five Hours, a Difficulty Tug of War & the Builders Who Kept the Lights On

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.

The eCash Alpha, Days 4 to 15: Doldrums, Orphan Blocks, and the Week the Old World Cracked

The eCash Alpha, Days 4 to 15: Doldrums, Orphan Blocks, and the Week the Old World Cracked

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.

eCash (ECX) Hard Fork 101: What to Expect This Halloween

eCash (ECX) Hard Fork 101: What to Expect This Halloween

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…

The Hivemind Master Plan: A Tour of All Seven Sidechains Launching With Ecash

The Hivemind Master Plan: A Tour of All Seven Sidechains Launching With Ecash

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.

Thunder: The Drivechain That Ended the Blocksize War

Thunder: The Drivechain That Ended the Blocksize War

Paul Sztorc designed Thunder, a high-volume payments sidechain that gives both big blockers and small blockers what they actually wanted.