Bitcoin will undergo an eCash hard fork on August 21

Odaily reported that in April this year, Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc announced the activation of the Bitcoin eCash hard fork at block height 963,648 (approximately August 21), which will launch a new chain called eCash. At the same time, 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 must transfer their BTC to eCash's self-custodial wallet. As of now, the hard fork has relatively low support from the Bitcoin community.

It is worth noting that in August, Bitcoin will also undergo a BIP-110 soft fork. At block height 961,632 (approximately August 7), the BIP-110 enforcement period will begin, and the BIP-110 soft fork will be officially activated at block height 963,648 (approximately September 1).