Long-time Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc has announced eCash, a Bitcoin hard fork scheduled for August 2026, built around his decade-old Drivechain proposal
Sztorc plans to reassign fewer than half of Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1.1 million BTC equivalent on the new chain to early investors a move no previous Bitcoin fork has attempted
Bitcoin is trading at $77,819 at press time, down 0.04% in the last 24 hours, per CoinDesk
Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc announced on April 24 that he is forking Bitcoin into a new chain called eCash, scheduled to go live at block height 964,000 in August 2026. Every Bitcoin holder receives eCash at a 1:1 ratio at the time of the fork. Hold 4.19 BTC, get 4.19 eCash. Holders can keep, sell, or ignore it entirely. However, the fork itself isn’t the controversy, rather the funding mechanism is.
What Sztorc Is Proposing
Satoshi Nakamoto’s wallets hold approximately 1.1 million Bitcoin, identified through the so-called “patoshi pattern,” which
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