The author of the eCash hard fork responded to criticism from the Bitcoin community
Bitcoin developer Paul Stortz provided further clarification regarding the eCash hard fork and rejected accusations of 'stealing' Satoshi Nakamoto's coins.
"We're not taking Satoshi's bitcoins, we're gifting him 600,000 eCash. The balances will remain untouched," he wrote.
Earlier, the programmer proposed to restart the first cryptocurrency while maintaining the core architecture of the network. Owners of digital gold will receive an equivalent amount of eCash.
However, Schtorz intends to distribute the coins supposedly belonging to Nakamoto differently: out of 1.1 million BTC, allocate 600,000 eCash to the creator of Bitcoin, while the remaining 500,000 will be directed towards ecosystem development.
According to him, this will help avoid a 'zombie project' scenario, where a fork exists without real support from participants and developers.
The community criticized the idea: redistributing assets contradicts the sanctity of ownership. Schtorz countered that this is not about real coins, but rather the emission rules in the new blockchain.
He also admitted that a significant portion of early bitcoins may be irretrievably lost — they haven't been moved in over a decade. The developer added that in the 'heated' discussion surrounding this topic, sometimes misleading information circulates.
Recall that in mid-April, Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp and a group of experts presented a draft of the controversial proposal BIP-361, which suggests freezing coins vulnerable to quantum computers.$BTC
