Bitcoin will undergo the eCash hard fork on August 21

Odaily Planet Daily News In April this year, Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc announced that the Bitcoin eCash hard fork would be activated at block height 963,648 (approximately August 21), and a new chain named eCash would be launched. At the same time, eCash will airdrop the eCash network token ECX at a 1:1 ratio to all addresses holding Bitcoin before block height 963,648. No registration or pre-claim is required, but users must transfer BTC to the eCash self-custodial wallet. As of now, support for this hard fork within the Bitcoin community is also low.

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