Bitcoin Cash BCH
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▼12.00%What Bitcoin Cash is
Bitcoin Cash was created in August 2017 by a hard fork of Bitcoin, splitting the network over a long-running disagreement about how to scale it. One camp wanted larger blocks so more transactions would fit and fees would stay low; the other preferred small blocks with additional layers built on top. Bitcoin Cash is the larger-block outcome.
Practically, it works: transactions are cheap and confirm reliably, and it functions well as electronic cash in the way the original whitepaper described.
What it did not win was the network effect. Bitcoin retained the overwhelming majority of hashpower, liquidity, developer attention and the name people recognise. Bitcoin Cash subsequently forked again in 2018 into Bitcoin SV, splitting an already smaller community. Lower hashpower also means proportionally weaker security against attack. It is a technically sound chain that lost the argument it was created to win, and its value case depends on believing that the market's verdict was wrong.
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Bitcoin Cash has no token contract — it is the native asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
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