eCash (XEC): A 10 Point Fundamental Analysis
Reading Time: 7 minutes Disclaimer: The following is for informational purposes only and is not intended as financial or investment advice. You should not rely on this information as a substitute for professional guidance tailored to your personal circumstances. Beware, investing involves risks, including the potential loss of principal. eCash is a cryptocurrency that was created as a fork […]
The Beginning of a New Epoch
Reading Time: 2 minutes When moon? The age old question of our time. It’s the one thing every crypto enthusiast wants to know: when will their favorite coin pump, and by how much? A couple of days ago I posted a short tweet thread comparing how XEC has performed since the start of the year, versus the broader cryptocurrency […]
What will Milei do?
Reading Time: 3 minutes In case you haven’t heard, Argentina just elected the first Anarcho-Capitalist president in the history of the world, Javier Milei. If you’ve never heard of anarcho-capitalism, it’s a political ideology that seeks to eliminate the state, and provide all services through voluntary transactions in a free market without government intervention. Honestly, I’d never heard of […]
On Culture and Governance, or: Comparing Open AI and eCash
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently there’s been a lot of speculation about what happened behind the scenes at Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT. Here’s what we know. This past Friday, the 4 person board of directors fired the CEO, Sam Altman, and was immediately met with enormous backlash from both company insiders and outsiders alike. While no details […]
eCash Staking Rewards 101
Reading Time: 4 minutes Now that staking rewards are live, I’m seeing lots of questions that can easily be answered as long as you have a little basic knowledge. Questions like how often can I expect to win a block? How do I participate? Why are the blocks so slow? This article will try and answer those questions as […]
Celebrating 3 years of progress
Reading Time: 4 minutes As we witness the successful rollout of staking rewards on the eCash network (on what also happens to be the 3 year anniversary of the eCash fork), I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at all the progress that’s been made thus far. A lot has happened since the […]
Everything you want to know about eCash staking rewards
Reading Time: 5 minutes In eight days, the eCash network will be undergoing its regularly scheduled semi-annual upgrade, except I would say this upgrade is anything but regular. That’s because once the upgrade is complete, there will be a radically new incentive structure in the eCash protocol. In addition to the IFP allocation going from 8% to 32%, which […]
5M transactions per second: Part 2
Reading Time: 3 minutes As I said in part 1, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a technical background, but what follows is my understanding of some of the technical aspects of how eCash plans to scale from ~100 transactions per second, to 5 million transactions per second. It can only happen with huge blocks, of course, potentially […]
5M transactions per second: Part 1
Reading Time: 3 minutes The stated goal of the eCash project is to achieve 5M transactions per second, or 50 transactions per day for 10B humans on the planet. For comparison, Visa handles about 1700 transactions per second with claims that it can theoretically handle over 24,000 transactions per second. Basically, eCash is aiming for ~200x Visa’s theoretical limit. […]
eCash Basics
Reading Time: 3 minutes eCash is led by the development team of Bitcoin ABC, the same team that created Bitcoin Cash in 2017. After three years of shepherding that project, ABC and much of the Bitcoin Cash community fell out of consensus when ABC proposed an infrastructure funding plan, or IFP, whereby 8% of the block reward would go […]