Bitcoin Cash BCH
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CM Profile: Bitcoin Cash
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about BCH, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 0.22% and 0.30%, on 8 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold BCH. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 8 October- Price down 10.9% since 1 October.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell BCH
Selling $100,000 of BCH into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraken BCH/USD | 0.22% | $99,782 | 2026-10-08 median of 37 |
| Coinbase BCH/USD | 0.30% | $99,700 | 2026-10-08 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps BCH on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
BCH halving: 77,969 blocks to go
At block 1,050,000 the reward drops from 3.125 to 1.5625 BCH, halving the rate of new supply. Estimated April 2028.
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.
What Bitcoin Cash can do
Selling $100,000 on Kraken lost 0.22% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 8 October 2026
Anyone can send Bitcoin Cash to anyone, at any time, without asking permission. Its own site puts the usual fee at under a cent, and a confirmed payment is final. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Source: bitcoincash.org · checked 2 October 2026
The reward for each new block halves every 210,000 blocks, and the total stops at 21,000,000 BCH. The rule is part of the network itself. The halving countdown →
Source: Our halving series · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
About the asset
Bitcoin Cash has no token contract — it is the native asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
Price change
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Bitcoin Cash data synced 5m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell BCH.