Aug 21, 2026. Bitcoin hard fork.
If you hold BTC, you'll hold eCash 1:1.
No claim. No whitelist. Drivechains activated. Quantum-resistant L2 ready. Run a node after fork day. That's it.
Check @eCashCom https://t.co/495UUt0139
🚨 BREAKING
SATOSHI ERA WHALE JUST BURNED 107.00 $BTC WORTH OVER $8000000.00 🤯
THIS WHALE JUST SENT 5 TRANSACTIONS IN A ROW TO A BITCOIN BURN ADDRESS.
WHAT'S GOING ON HERE??
BREAKING: New Bitcoin Fork
I am helping create a **new Bitcoin Hardfork** -- dropping this August, called "eCash".
- Your coins will split. For example, if you have 4.19 BTC, then you will get 4.19 eCash.
- You may sell your eCash -- or keep it. Or ignore it!
Vegas:
- Yes, I will be in Vegas next week.
- No, I won't mention this, on stage -- (that would be rude).
Our L1 Node...
- is a near-copy of Bitcoin Core.
- is Sha256d mined.
- forks via a one-time difficulty-reset -- to its minimum value. (So, mining will be crazy at first.)
- Yes, we will change the seed nodes, the name, the network magic, etc.
Codewise, the L1 will remain compatible with Bitcoin Core:
- We will continue to merge their changes (even the bad ones).
- The L1 will activate Bip300/301 via CUSF -- the core untouched soft fork. So, no lines of code will be changed, on the L1.
- The activation client will be published periodically (link below).
- We will do several bug bounty contests this summer.
- The client will be frozen 30 days prior to the fork.
Yes, there will be Drivechains:
- We have 7 in developement right now.
- Users can also submit their own.
- Drivechain is a vision of "competing L2s" -- this avoids the "dev capture" problem.
- These L2s are all Merged Mined. Miners automatically get free $.
- Our L2s are already capable of planetary scale, and onboarding 8 billion users.
- We also have a zCash-like L2, with strong privacy.
- Other L2s: Truthcoin (Prediction Markets), CoinShift (Decentralized Exchange), BitAssets (NFT etc), BitNames (Identity), Photon (Quantum Resistant).
Unlike BCH (the 2017 fork):
- There is no "Bitcoin" in the name. New name, new brand.
- You are getting advanced warning (4 months).
- We are replaying all txns (at first). We will release a coin-splitter tool.
- This is a permanent & sustainable fix to Bitcoin's problems (instead of a 1 MB to 8 MB temporary fix).
- Back in 2017, the BTC tech stack was strong, and expectations for Lightning were strong. Today, it is the reverse.
Video to follow.
karma doesn't drive markets, but bitcoiners surely deserve it for
- embracing DATs
- idolizing a guy that sells $1 of Bitcoin for $1.50 to retail
- believing in fantasies like "the four year cycle" and "stock to flow" or an ever growing MSTR premium
- embracing apocalyptic self-serving ideologies like "hyperbitcoinization"
- denying obvious realities, like the fact that stablecoins stole the MoE crown from BTC
- persisting in delusions like "the lightning network will work any day now"
- spending dev resources on wasteful navel-gazing instead of fixing real problems
A while ago I made a startup prediction that every AI application startup was likely to fail due to the rapid expansion of the foundational model providers.
I'd like to elaborate on that, since many people interpreted it in only one way - and there are TWO main ways they are likely to be killed.
The first one is like the quoted post below: a foundational model provider releases a new feature that does what the startup does, and the startup dies.
Many people interpreted it that way, and so plenty of people offered their objections citing examples in the past where nimble startups had disrupted platform incumbents.
The second cause is more subtle: the rapid expansion of capabilities by foundational model providers causes a roiling sea of constant market chaos that disrupts the orderly growth of small- and medium-sized startups.
Large ships can survive a huge storm, small ships stand no chance just because the waves are too high. Some of the storm is caused by the large ships, but not necessarily even in a way that benefits them. They are struggling to keep up in their own race.
Growing businesses prefer stability (or at least orderly chaos), and my claim is that the level of economic chaos and its rate of change is too high for application startups to survive. I mean, we're literally entering the Singularity now.
The foundational model providers are throwing off so much overhang (untapped value) that individual programmers - their numbers unleashed by vibe coding - will be able to constantly disrupt growing startups as those startups try to make their way from small to medium and beyond: after their initial founding moment and achieving PMF, they now have to stabilize and scale by building distribution channels. This is where they will be constantly vulnerable. (God help them if they aren't unit profitable, and many AI startups have huge capex)
One counter-argument was startups who represent a unique set of valuable training data. The thesis is that if you can discover, encode, and label a set of valuable training data that no one else has, you can create a service for that. Maybe.
The question will be whether that's enough to sustain becoming a generational company. You might still be better selling out in 18 months for the bag of cash.
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