Bitcoin will undergo an eCash hard fork on August 21

In April this year, Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc announced that the Bitcoin eCash hard fork would be activated at block height 963,648 (around August 21), launching a new chain named eCash. Meanwhile, eCash will airdrop its native token, ECX, at a 1:1 ratio to all Bitcoin addresses holding BTC before block height 963,648. No registration or pre-claim is required, but users need to transfer their BTC to eCash's self-custodial wallet. As of now, the support rate for this hard fork within the Bitcoin community is relatively low.

Notably, Bitcoin will also undergo the BIP-110 soft fork in August. At block height 961,632 (around August 7), BIP-110 enters a mandatory enforcement period, and at block height 963,648 (around September 1), the BIP-110 soft fork will be officially activated.