S17 E19: Deadalnix (Amaury Séchet) on Forking Bitcoin & Ecash
From Bitcoin Takeover Podcast by Vlad Costea
April 18, 2026 · 4h 29m · Season 17 · Episode 19
About this episode
Amaury Séchet discusses the forking of Bitcoin and the development of Ecash.
Amaury Séchet is the developer who forked Bitcoin in August 2017 to create Bitcoin Cash. Three years later, in the aftermath of an internal conflict about developer funding mechanisms, he also forked Bitcoin Cash to create Ecash (XEC): the evolution of the Bitcoin ABC client which adds the Avalanche protocol for a combination between the battle-tested Proof of Work security and the instant Proof of Stake finality. In this episode, we talk about the evolution of the Bitcoin protocol and why hard forks matter. Time stamps: 00:01:19 Introducing Amaury Séchet 00:03:06 Bitcoin Cash vs. eCash Price & Market Dynamics 00:05:05 Nihilism & Casino Culture in Crypto 00:06:55 Bitcoin Technical Debates: Covenants, Spam, Quantum Resistance 00:09:36 Quantum Computing Threats to Bitcoin 00:13:09 Satoshi’s Coins & Quantum Attacks 00:17:52 Changing Bitcoin’s Core Tenets & Confiscation Proposals 00:22:19 Consensus, Politics, and Forking 00:25:00 Quantum Resistance in eCash & BCH 00:27:16 Hard Forking vs. Scaling for Quantum Threats 00:30:06 Satoshi’s Wealth Across Forks (BTC, BCH, BSV, XEC) 00:32:13 AI, Protein Folding, and Future Tech 00:33:22 Cake Wallet, SideShift, and wallet integration for BCH…
People in this episode
Host: Vlad Costea
Guest: Amaury Séchet
Topics covered
- Bitcoin forks
- cryptocurrency evolution
- developer funding
- quantum computing
- economic liquidity
- blockchain technology
Keywords
- Bitcoin Cash
- Ecash
- Avalanche protocol
- Proof of Work
- Proof of Stake
- quantum resistance
- hard forks
- developer funding
- cryptocurrency market dynamics
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Bitcoin Cash, Ecash, Bitcoin ABC, Avalanche
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