{"id":647214,"date":"2026-08-23T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=841582"},"modified":"2026-08-23T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T14:28:15","slug":"paul-sztorcs-bitcoin-fork-ecx-rips-past-25000-blocks-in-just-13-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/paul-sztorcs-bitcoin-fork-ecx-rips-past-25000-blocks-in-just-13-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Sztorc\u2019s Bitcoin Fork ECX Rips Past 25,000 Blocks in Just 13 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/paul-sztorcs-bitcoin-fork-ecx-rips-past-25000-blocks-in-just-13-hours-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"ECX blockchain screenshot.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Since Paul Sztorc\u2019s ECX hard fork kicked off, more than 25,092 blocks have been mined during the Alpha phase, and block times have swung wildly. The network has already chewed through several difficulty adjustments, with some delivering massive upward jolts. ECX Blasts Through 25,000 Blocks in 13 Hours Bitcoin\u2019s latest fork has kicked off its [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Paul Sztorc\u2019s ECX hard fork kicked off, more than 25,092 blocks have been mined during the Alpha phase, and block times have swung wildly. The network has already chewed through several difficulty adjustments, with some delivering massive upward jolts. ECX Blasts Through 25,000 Blocks in 13 Hours Bitcoin\u2019s latest fork has kicked off its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":647215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-647214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647214","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=647214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}