Bitcoin Cash is a proof-of-work cryptocurrency that emerged from a hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017. The fork was driven by a dispute over how to scale Bitcoin’s transaction capacity: one faction favoured increasing the on-chain block size, while the other supported the SegWit approach. Bitcoin Cash implemented a larger block size \u2014 initially 8 MB, later 32 MB \u2014 to accommodate more transactions per block, aiming to reduce fees and enable everyday payments. It shares Bitcoin’s 21 million coin supply cap and uses SHA-256 proof-of-work.<\/p>\n
Bitcoin Cash has undergone its own subsequent forks, most notably the November 2018 split that produced Bitcoin SV. BCH has implemented additional features over the years, including the CashAddr format, CashTokens \u2014 enabling fungible and non-fungible tokens on the BCH chain \u2014 and support for simple smart contracts. BCH’s price is influenced by Bitcoin’s broader cycles, miner economics tied to the shared SHA-256 algorithm, its competitive positioning as a payments chain, and periodic network upgrades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bitcoin Cash is a proof-of-work cryptocurrency that emerged from a hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017. The fork was driven by a dispute over how to scale Bitcoin’s transaction capacity: one faction favoured increasing the on-chain block size, while the other supported the SegWit approach. Bitcoin Cash implemented a larger block size \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"tmp_coingecko_id":"bitcoin-cash","tmp_symbol":"BCH","tmp_rank":0,"tmp_chain":"","tmp_ticker":"","tmp_pair":"","tmp_yahoo_symbol":"","tmp_faq":"[{\"q\":\"Why did Bitcoin Cash split from Bitcoin?\",\"a\":\"The August 2017 split arose from a disagreement about scaling Bitcoin. One group, which became Bitcoin Cash, favoured larger blocks for lower fees and higher throughput. The other favoured Segregated Witness and layer-2 solutions. Unable to reach consensus, they split the chain through a hard fork, sharing all history before the fork block.\"},{\"q\":\"What are CashTokens?\",\"a\":\"CashTokens is a 2023 protocol upgrade enabling the issuance and transfer of fungible and non-fungible tokens directly on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. It extended BCH's utility beyond payments using a UTXO-native design, attaching tokens to BCH's existing unspent-transaction-output model rather than an account-based system.\"},{\"q\":\"How does BCH's block size affect fees?\",\"a\":\"Bitcoin Cash's 32 MB block limit lets the network process more transactions per block than Bitcoin, keeping on-chain fees very low during moderate demand. However, larger blocks require more bandwidth and storage for nodes, and critics argue this makes running a full node less accessible, potentially concentrating the network.\"},{\"q\":\"What risks should BCH holders consider?\",\"a\":\"Bitcoin Cash has seen community and developer fragmentation since its 2018 fork, and its market cap and developer activity remain far smaller than Bitcoin. It competes with many low-fee payment networks. BCH's price is highly correlated with Bitcoin, and future consensus disputes could cause additional disruptive chain splits.\"}]"},"class_list":["post-1000046","coin","type-coin","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.themarketperiodical.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coin\/1000046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.themarketperiodical.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.themarketperiodical.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/coin"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.themarketperiodical.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}