{"id":589013,"date":"2026-04-24T22:53:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/bitcoin-developer-paul-sztorc-announces-btc-hard-fork-called-ecash\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:53:45","slug":"bitcoin-developer-paul-sztorc-announces-btc-hard-fork-called-ecash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/bitcoin-developer-paul-sztorc-announces-btc-hard-fork-called-ecash\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc announces BTC hard fork called eCash"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bitcoin<\/p>\n

The hard fork will introduce a new, competing layer-1 blockchain and seven layer-2 scaling networks, according to Sztorc’s announcement.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc announced on Friday that a new hard fork of the Bitcoin network called eCash will be deployed in August.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin holders will be able to exchange their BTC for eCash at a 1:1 ratio once the hard fork is live, Sztorc said in an X post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

He added that the layer-1 node software for the chain will be a \u201cnear-copy\u201d of the BTC Core client software and will use the SHA-256 hashing algorithm used by the Bitcoin blockchain, with a reduced initial mining difficulty<\/u><\/a> to make it easier for participants to mine blocks.<\/p>\n

Source: <\/em>Paul Sztorc<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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The hard fork will introduce a new, competing layer-1 blockchain and seven layer-2 scaling networks, according to Sztorc’s announcement. Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc announced on Friday that a new hard fork of the Bitcoin network called eCash will be deployed in August. Bitcoin holders will be able to exchange their BTC for eCash at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-589013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}