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Drivechain fees on eCash do not go to the developer. Most of the money ends up with miners, and the split moves with eCash's block speed.

Drivechain security, explained. Miners can steal from a drivechain, but it takes weeks in public and costs more than it pays. Here is the math.

What makes eCash different from Bitcoin? Drivechains, a new difficulty rule, miner votes and reassigned Satoshi coins. What changed and what stayed the same.

BitWindow features you probably missed. Store files on chain, write paper checks, solo mine, vote on drivechain withdrawals, and 16 more.

What is CUSF? The Core Untouched Soft Fork adds rules to Bitcoin without changing Core. How the enforcer works, how eCash uses it, and the critics.

Paul Sztorc sat down with Pete Rizzo about ten days before eCash forked from Bitcoin. The timing makes it worth reading now rather than then. He was asked what success would look like, and we can check his answer against what the chain actually did. Most of the interview is not about eCash. It is about why he thinks Bitcoin stopped being able to change at all. The argument: Bitcoin's caution looks smarter than it was Sztorc's central claim is that Bitcoin gets credit for a de

Search for an eCash wallet and most of what you find holds a different coin. There is no single best eCash wallet. One splits your coins away from your Bitcoin for you. A different one is the only way to use drivechains. Nothing does both. This page sorts them by what you are trying to do. First, check which eCash you mean Two unrelated coins use the name. XEC is a Bitcoin Cash fork from 2021. It has been on big exchanges for years, and it has its own wallets. ECX is the Bitc

Elements+ is a drivechain that hides how much you sent. The transaction is still public and still verifiable. Anyone can check that the money adds up. They just cannot read the number. It holds slot 24 on eCash, activated on October 29, 2026. What confidential transactions do On Bitcoin, every amount is in the open. Anyone can read what you paid. Confidential transactions replace the visible amount with a commitment, which is a sealed version of the number. With it goes a ran

eSTAMPS writes art directly into eCash transactions. It went live on fork day, October 29, 2026, and it worked straight away. It is run by Stampchain, the team behind the Bitcoin Stamps protocol, using the same tools they use on Bitcoin. It also arrived with a back catalogue. Because eCash forked Bitcoin, every stamp ever made on Bitcoin came across with it. What a stamp is A stamp is an image stored inside the blockchain itself, rather than on a server somewhere. That part s

eCash forked from Bitcoin on October 29, 2026, at block 973,728. The chain came up and has not stopped. Miners showed up in force. It also launched without the one thing it exists for. Five drivechains were proposed within minutes of the fork, and all five were voted down. Four hours later most of them activated. The miner blocking them turned out not to be attacking anything. He was being careful with software that was genuinely broken, and he did not know the threshold he w

The eCash airdrop gave every Bitcoin holder 1 ECX per BTC. There is no claim form. Here is how to check you have it, what to do next, and the scams.

How to split BTC and ECX so spending one does not spend the other. Steps for each kind of wallet, what to check, and the replay values that matter.

How to buy eCash ECX after the fork. The free route, SideShift, the Solana wrapper, safe self-custody, and the traps that already cost people money.

What is Flush? A fast drivechain on eCash where anyone can create and trade tokens. How it works, who built it, block times, fees, and current status.

What is Truthcoin? A prediction market drivechain on eCash where paid voters settle outcomes. How it works, Votecoin, history, and status.

eCash changed Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment four days before launch. Here is what the new rule does, why Paul Sztorc did it, and what it means for you.

What is the next Bitcoin? eCash (ECX) is Bitcoin with a few minor changes plus drivechains: optional chains for privacy, big blocks, and more, all on one coin.

Liquid Network Hack Explained: Federated Sidechains vs Drivechains (BIP 300)On September 6, 2026, someone drained about 4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network. That is roughly $320 million, the largest crypto theft of the year. Bitcoin itself was fine. The bug was not in Bitcoin. It was in a sidechain built on top of Bitcoin. So the obvious question: would a drivechain have stopped this? The honest answer is partly. A drivechain would not have prevented the bug. The same

You read a headline about a new Bitcoin fork called eCash. You open your exchange app to look it up. There it is, already trading. You buy some. You just bought the wrong coin. Two different cryptocurrencies both use the name eCash. One is ECX. The other is XEC. They run on separate blockchains, built by separate teams, for separate reasons. Owning one does not give you the other. The confusion goes deeper than two coins. Five different things have carried the name eCash sinc

Bitcoin just split into a new chain. If you hold Bitcoin, you may already own part of it. On August 23, 2026, developer Paul Sztorc activated the first stage of the eCash alpha launch. The new chain passed 25,000 blocks in about 13 hours, with miners pointing real hashpower at it right away. That kind of early activity is rare for a brand-new fork. What is the eCash alpha launch? The eCash alpha launch is stage one of a Bitcoin hard fork built by Paul Sztorc and LayerTwo Labs