Bitcoin holders are scheduled to get at least one airdrop this summer, as one explicit hard fork will take place in early August and a separate soft fork attempt appears destined for failure. While ...

Bitcoin holders are lined up to receive a matching balance of a new asset called ecash (ECX) when the project kicks off its three-stage hard-fork rollout with an alpha launch around Bitcoin block ...

A Bitcoin hard fork leaves your BTC untouched, but an unprotected spend can replay onto ECX. See the latest status and how coin splitting works.

Bitcoin supply statistics explained: how many coins are mined, when the last one arrives in 2140, and how miners earn money after the 21 million cap.

A planned August fork called eCash would copy Bitcoin’s ledger and give existing BTC holders equivalent balances on a new chain, while diverting about 500,000 forked coins attributed to Satoshi ...