https://ecash.com/blog/Essays on Bitcoin, sidechains, mining and the ideas behind eCash.enThu, 22 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://ecash.com/blog/bitcoin-is-facing-a-brain-drain/https://ecash.com/blog/bitcoin-is-facing-a-brain-drain/Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBitcoinWhy developers are leaving Bitcoin, and how sidechains could give them room to experiment without changing its monetary base. https://ecash.com/blog/democracy-missing-pieces-two-pages/https://ecash.com/blog/democracy-missing-pieces-two-pages/Sat, 10 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMTPaul SztorcGovernanceA condensed two-page overview of the full Democracy's Missing Pieces series, distilling the core arguments on Bitcoin governance and the case for eCash. https://ecash.com/blog/blockstreams-big-mistake/https://ecash.com/blog/blockstreams-big-mistake/Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMTPaul SztorcStrategyA post-mortem on Blockstream's strategic decisions and why the Lightning Network approach failed to deliver Bitcoin's original scaling promise. https://ecash.com/blog/democracy-missing-pieces-9-10/https://ecash.com/blog/democracy-missing-pieces-9-10/Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMTPaul SztorcGovernanceThe concluding installment: implications of democratic governance failures for decentralized systems, and what Bitcoin must do differently. https://ecash.com/blog/democracy-missing-pieces-7-8/https://ecash.com/blog/democracy-missing-pieces-7-8/Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMTPaul SztorcGovernanceParts 7 and 8 dig into median voter theory and Bitcoin's structural inability to make good governance decisions under adversarial conditions. https://ecash.com/blog/democracy-missing-pieces-5-6/https://ecash.com/blog/democracy-missing-pieces-5-6/Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMTPaul SztorcGovernanceParts 5 and 6 examine how Bitcoin's governance structure systematically produces bad outcomes, and why design, not culture, is the root cause. https://ecash.com/blog/democracy-missing-pieces-3-4/https://ecash.com/blog/democracy-missing-pieces-3-4/Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMTPaul SztorcGovernanceParts 3 and 4 apply historical precedents for democratic governance failures to Bitcoin's current development stagnation. https://ecash.com/blog/democracy-missing-pieces-1-2/https://ecash.com/blog/democracy-missing-pieces-1-2/Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:00:00 GMTPaul SztorcGovernanceAn introduction to the series: how democracy's missing pieces explain Bitcoin's inability to scale, and why eCash charts a different course. https://ecash.com/blog/derangements-of-bitcoin/https://ecash.com/blog/derangements-of-bitcoin/Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMTPaul SztorcBitcoinA taxonomy of the most persistent and damaging intellectual derangements within the Bitcoin community, the ideas that have held the network back for a decade. https://ecash.com/blog/ideal-mining-edac-pools/https://ecash.com/blog/ideal-mining-edac-pools/Mon, 26 May 2025 12:00:00 GMTPaul SztorcMiningIntroducing EDAC (Expected-Demand-Adjusted Cost) mining pools: a framework for ideal mining that aligns miner incentives with long-run network health. https://ecash.com/blog/popular-mining-lies/https://ecash.com/blog/popular-mining-lies/Mon, 26 May 2025 12:00:00 GMTPaul SztorcMiningA critical examination of widely-accepted mining narratives, debunking the myths and exposing the economic distortions they create for the Bitcoin ecosystem. https://ecash.com/blog/unlimited-blocksize-bsv/https://ecash.com/blog/unlimited-blocksize-bsv/Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMTPaul SztorcDrivechainsWhy BSV's unlimited blocksize approach creates an unsolvable data availability problem, and what this means for honest blockchain scalability. https://ecash.com/blog/precedence-ossification/https://ecash.com/blog/precedence-ossification/Sat, 01 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMTPaul SztorcBitcoinHow Bitcoin's codebase and culture have become ossified by precedent, preventing necessary upgrades and creating a path dependency that favors the status quo.