ECX Bitcoin fork on October 30: what investors need to know before the snapshot

The information provided in this article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Cryptocurrency investments carry a high degree of risk. Always conduct your own research.The ECX blockchain reads every balance at Bitcoin block height 973,728 at the end of October and assigns a new coin to each one. Anyone whose bitcoin sits at an exchange will only receive it if that firm supports the fork.The documented position: anyone holding their own bitcoin keys at the end of October will be credited the coin from the ECX split without having to do anything. Anyone whose bitcoin sits at an exchange will receive it only if that firm supports the fork and passes the credit on to its customers. The cut-off is not a calendar date but a fixed counter in the Bitcoin blockchain: block height 973,728. By our calculation that falls on October 30, 2026; the project's own roadmap names October 31. Your Bitcoin is neither moved, locked nor altered in the process. Our own assessment follows in a separate section below. A fork is the split of a new blockchain from an existing one: from a set point onwards, two networks carry the same history forward separately. The snaps...