Developers Debate Bitcoin Fork Reassigning Satoshi-Linked Coins

Developers are debating the implications of Paul Sztorc's eCash hard fork proposal, which would create a new chain copying Bitcoin's history and reassign ~500,000 Patoshi-pattern coins (widely tied to Satoshi Nakamoto) to eCash investors, while BTC holders get 1:1 eCash at snapshot—leaving the original BTC ledger unchanged. The idea emerged April 27 amid a 1.65% BTC price drop to $76,903, targeting an August launch in ~119 days, with proponents touting scalability and privacy gains. Critics warn of community splits like past forks (Bitcoin Cash 2017, Ethereum Classic 2016), dilution risks, and links to debates over ~5.6 million dormant BTC and quantum threats, potentially pressuring BTC's immutability appeal.