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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