eCash: Bitcoin hardfork activating Drivechains (BIP300/301) • Every BTC holder receives ECX 1:1 • On or around October 31, 2026
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Bitcoin Hard Fork: eCash Beta Is Live
Bitcoin's biggest limitation has always been change itself. New functionality means years of soft fork debate, while L1 stays intentionally frozen to protect the monetary base.
Drivechains (BIP 300/301) fix this: sidechains pegged to BTC, independent of L1. Succeed, and Bitcoin gains new utility and fee revenue. Fail, and L1 is untouched.
eCash is the first real network built on this model, and Alpha proved it. Hashrate hit 9.44 PH/s, 7 independent pools mined blocks, and the community shipped a bunch of tools unprompted:
1/ pecx.shop / peesex.shop - first pECX↔BTC AMM, built in days
2/ szats.world - pECX faucet, hit by proxy farmers within hours
3/ explorer.alpha.ecash.ninja - the first block explorer
4/ eCashPool & NurseryPool - community mining pools, one paying out in Thunder on principle
5/ ecashmeter.com - drivechain fee tracker, flipped live weeks early
6/ The eCash Splitter - official coin-splitting tool, GUI + CLI, shipped mid-alpha
New drivechains proposed. Blind merge mining tested live. Consensus bugs diagnosed by block height and root cause, faster than most funded eng teams manage.
Beta is now live: ecash.com/join
Beta improves the pECX burn rate 👉 1,000 pECX → 20 real ECX (up from 10 in Alpha)
The pECX tokens are in addition, not instead of the original 1:1 airdrop. Every BTC holder still gets ECX 1:1 at full launch on October 31 regardless. Burning pECX now is a bonus on top of that, extra ECX for showing up early.
Receiving and splitting:
Hold BTC non-custodially at the fork block, you get equal ECX automatically, nothing moves or converts. eCash uses opt-in protection, not built-in, so every wallet and exchange keeps working on day one, but that means until you split, moving BTC could move your ECX too.
Splitting is a one-time fix, three ways to do it, two are one-tap in official eCash software, the third uses standard Bitcoin tooling only.
BTC on an exchange? You can't split yourself. We're in touch with exchanges about crediting ECX, or you can withdraw to self-custody before Oct 31 and split it yourself.
👉 ecash.com/join
A brief documentary by @Vladcostea on why @Truthcoin decided to launch eCash and how it’s different from Bitcoin 🎥
youtube.com/watch?v=4o9aZ-xY…
How did a decade of sidechain research and Bitcoin debate end in a fork?
It started with Drivechains, @Truthcoin’s proposal to connect Bitcoin to sidechains.
Here’s the eCash (ECX) backstory, explained 🤓
Getting ready for fork?
Start at ecash.com/join and follow the flow for onboarding, coin-splitting guides and the checks to make before moving your coins.
Bitcoin Drivechains retweeted
The eCash hard fork is launching in 6 days
On Bitcoin’s 18th birthday, every BTC holder will receive free ECX
So here’s a documentary that explains why @Truthcoin decided to launch this fork and how it’s different from Bitcoin
Time stamps:
0:00 Teaser
0:54 Title
1:45 Act I: The Announcement
3:39 Act II: The Derangements
9:52 Act III: How Drivechains Work
14:32 Thunder & zSide
18:21 Act IV: Paul Is Right
19:08 Paul vs. the Lightning Crowd (TABConf 7)
22:14 Paul Sztorc vs. Peter Todd
24:47 Alex Gladstein vs. Paul Sztorc
27:04 Act V: October 31, 2026
34:00 Credits
Bitcoin Drivechains retweeted
Hardfork forecast: Thursday, 2:30 PM EST !
Lately, BTC Blocks have arrived extra-fast, so the fork is happening sooner than expected.
Remember: Self-custody your BTC! If you keep it on an exchange, they may not give you your ECX.
BUILD SOMETHING WEIRD.
Your first ECX project does not need a pitch deck. A tiny, weird demo will do.
Show what it does, link the repo, label the network and tell us where you're stuck.
ecash.com/sidechains/
Bitcoin Drivechains retweeted
Bitcoin should have been the natural home for new ideas. Instead, its culture forces builders to fight, tooth and nail, just for permission to try. (Which they mostly don't get.)
Every ETH / Doge / Solana / etc project should instead be on BTC -- using BTC, and paying fees in BTC. This brings life to Bitcoin itself. Sadly, Bitcoin has squandered this opportunity for 10+ years.
With eCash, we get a glimpse of how things could be different.
For example, there is a new project "Fork", which is sorta like a pump.fun on eCash. I don't know if they will succeed, but I wish them good luck. @forkpadorg
Projects such as pump.fun are indeed silly, and irreverent — but so was the early internet. So was Bitcoin when it first came out. (Remember the "join us" wizard?) We need to let users be users.
After all, do we really want to live in a world where it is easy for someone to gatekeep what you do with your own BTC (or ECX)? I don't.
Today, developers have to convince Bitcoin a feature deserves to exist before the market gets to judge it.
Sidechains flip that. Build it first. Let users choose. If nobody wants it, it disappears.
Bitcoin Drivechains retweeted
The best way to ensure that you get these coins
Is to self custody your BTC
You should be doing that anyway!
BREAKING: New Bitcoin Fork
I am helping create a **new Bitcoin Hardfork** -- dropping this August, called "eCash".
- Your coins will split. For example, if you have 4.19 BTC, then you will get 4.19 eCash.
- You may sell your eCash -- or keep it. Or ignore it!
Vegas:
- Yes, I will be in Vegas next week.
- No, I won't mention this, on stage -- (that would be rude).
Our L1 Node...
- is a near-copy of Bitcoin Core.
- is Sha256d mined.
- forks via a one-time difficulty-reset -- to its minimum value. (So, mining will be crazy at first.)
- Yes, we will change the seed nodes, the name, the network magic, etc.
Codewise, the L1 will remain compatible with Bitcoin Core:
- We will continue to merge their changes (even the bad ones).
- The L1 will activate Bip300/301 via CUSF -- the core untouched soft fork. So, no lines of code will be changed, on the L1.
- The activation client will be published periodically (link below).
- We will do several bug bounty contests this summer.
- The client will be frozen 30 days prior to the fork.
Yes, there will be Drivechains:
- We have 7 in developement right now.
- Users can also submit their own.
- Drivechain is a vision of "competing L2s" -- this avoids the "dev capture" problem.
- These L2s are all Merged Mined. Miners automatically get free $.
- Our L2s are already capable of planetary scale, and onboarding 8 billion users.
- We also have a zCash-like L2, with strong privacy.
- Other L2s: Truthcoin (Prediction Markets), CoinShift (Decentralized Exchange), BitAssets (NFT etc), BitNames (Identity), Photon (Quantum Resistant).
Unlike BCH (the 2017 fork):
- There is no "Bitcoin" in the name. New name, new brand.
- You are getting advanced warning (4 months).
- We are replaying all txns (at first). We will release a coin-splitter tool.
- This is a permanent & sustainable fix to Bitcoin's problems (instead of a 1 MB to 8 MB temporary fix).
- Back in 2017, the BTC tech stack was strong, and expectations for Lightning were strong. Today, it is the reverse.
Video to follow.
Bitcoin Drivechains retweeted
ECX network support in a wallet you control
Tria provides self-custodial wallet support for ECX. Allocations are subject to the ECX project’s eligibility rules and terms.
Here’s what BTC holders should know: blogs.tria.so/en/ecx-support…
Bitcoin Drivechains retweeted
I have been warning of Bitcoin fatigue for many *years*, especially in my "post maximalism" essay (2018)
Unfortunately, few heeded my warnings. Now, the disaster has come to pass.
The fatigue is from:
- bs politics
- no soft fork upgrades
- lying to ourselves, constantly about lightning (et all)
- courting the NGU class (Saylor et al)
- courting the "toxic" class whilst not having our own act together
- hating on users (for example ordinals)
The sad truth is: Bitcoin has, in fact, been dying the last 10 years. Not economically or technically -- but culturally.
Will make a video on this ~tomorrow
The problems with Bitcoin are not technical. They’re cultural.
Core developers have become timid, self-interested, and lazy. Miners have abdicated their duty to maximize revenue and the utility of the coin.
Bitcoin has ossified, and it can’t be fixed from the inside. So we’re fixing it from the outside.
Between Proof of Work and Proof of Podcast lies a dimension where people actually ship.
Welcome to eCash.com
Bitcoin can’t ship new features. eCash solves Bitcoin’s upgrade bottleneck.
Shoutout to @TheBlockCo research team for breaking down how drivechains turn a Bitcoin hard fork into a permissionless testing ground, with 7 chains going live Oct 31.
Read the report: theblock.co/research/blockch…
