Brief bit of background: During the November 15th, 2020 Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hard fork (at block 661,447) BCHA (or Bitcoin Cash ABC) became it’s own chain.
More about that hard fork can be found at, Hash Watch: The Highly Anticipated Bitcoin Cash Fork Is Now Complete by Jamie Redman.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hard forks are more commonly known as scheduled upgrades as they’re planned in advance with the intention of only one chain continuing to be mined and the other being abandoned by everyone. Not always the case though, for instance during the above mentioned hard fork there were two competing fork proposals. Hence, the BCHA chain.
Fast forward to July 1st, 2021: BCHA rebrands and becomes eCash (XEC). More about the rebranding can be found at, eCash: Wealth Redefined by Antony Zegers
What is eCash? I’ve only just begun looking further into eCash (XEC) but I think the following, in my own words, describes it:
Their new website is https://e.cash although the Bitcoinabc.org website itself is still very relevant (software, binaries, downloads, documentations, etc.).
To date there appears to be more than 20 exchanges which support the rebranding. Including my favorite BCH related exchange, CoinEx!
There’s also bigger names, including the well-known and thoroughly popular Binance exchange. An up to date (and growing) list of supporting exchanges can be found at e.cash/get-ecash
Apparently Coinmarketcap supports the rebranding as well:
It appears that the ViaBTC mining pool also supports the name change / rebranding. Their site shows data for both BCHA (they call it BHA) and XEC.
That being said, their mining guide for both BCHA and for XEC leads to the same configuration instructions which are shown as being for XEC (eCash): support.viabtc.com/hc/en-us/articles/900004339303
I might try their configuration (Stratum URLs for mining XEC (eCash)). I use Braiins (BOS) mining firmware which makes it very easy to divide hashrate from a single machine (or multiple machines) and direct it towards different pools and different coins. I might direct a few TH/s to eCash (XEC) on the ViaBTC pool and see how it goes and then do a brief write up on it.
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