4.8.1-ecx2

Pre-release. Unsigned. For testing on the ECX betanet only.

Second tagged build of Electrum eCash, built on upstream Electrum 4.8.1.

Read this before downloading

• Nothing here is code-signed. macOS Gatekeeper will refuse to open the app; Windows SmartScreen will warn. Working around those warnings is a habit worth not building on software that holds Bitcoin keys. Signing and notarization are outstanding.
• There is no update mechanism. If a serious bug is found there is no way to reach you. Watch this repository.
• Do not put value you care about into this build.
• Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by the Electrum developers or Electrum Technologies GmbH. Do not report issues with this software to them.

Downloads

Platform	File
Windows installer	electrum-ecash-4.8.1-ecx2-setup.exe
Windows standalone	electrum-ecash-4.8.1-ecx2exe
Windows portable	electrum-ecash-4.8.1-ecx2-portable.exe
Linux AppImage	electrum-ecash-4.8.1-ecx2-x86_64.AppImage
macOS (arm64 only)	electrum-ecash-4.8.1-ecx2-unsigned.dmg
Source tarball	Electrum-eCash-4.8.1.tar.gz
Source only (no bundled deps)	Electrum-eCash-4.8.1-sourceonly.tar.gz

The macOS build will not run on an Intel Mac. Every hosted Intel macOS runner
has been retired, so CI can only produce arm64. Intel users should run from
source for now.

This build does not collide with an existing Bitcoin Electrum install: separate
data directory (~/.electrum-ecash), separate launcher (electrum-ecash),
separate install location, separate bundle and package identifiers, and it
registers ecx: rather than bitcoin: URIs.

Verifying

shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt

These checksums establish only that your download matches what CI produced. They
are not a signature and prove nothing about who built it. Until GPG signing
and reproducible-build attestation exist, the meaningful check is to read the
source and build it yourself.

What this is

ECX is a Bitcoin hard fork whose addresses are byte-identical to Bitcoin's. This
wallet talks only to ECX, sets ECX's replay-protection nLockTime on every
transaction, and refuses to broadcast one that could replay onto Bitcoin.

See FORK.md
for what each change does, and its Known gaps section for what is still
missing -- including that fiat rates would price ECX at the Bitcoin price if
enabled, and that the coin-splitting feature is not built yet.