What is Bitcoin Cash (BCH)?

Bitcoin Cash (sometimes referred to as Bcash, and mostly using the tickers BCH or BCC) launched today. Anyone who held bitcoin at 12:20 p.m. UTC should have an equivalent amount of BCH attributed to their Bitcoin private keys.

What is Bitcoin Cash (the network)?

More philosophically, these two use cases combine with the decentralized and open nature of the protocol to make Bitcoin Cash (the network) a method for supporting and enhancing global economic freedom. The total supply of Bitcoin Cash will never exceed 21 million coins. This is written into the code that defines the Bitcoin Cash protocol.

What is the difference between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash?

Bitcoin Cash has a larger maximum block size (32MB) than Bitcoin (1MB). The larger block size increases the volume of transactions that the Bitcoin Cash network can process on chain. While Bitcoin typically processes between 3-7 transactions per second, Bitcoin Cash has the capacity to process as many as 200 transactions per second.

How big is Bitcoin Cash?

Bitcoin Cash also has increased the size of the blocks on the blockchain throughout its history—in 2018, its block size was 8MB. In June 2022, the block size increased again to 32MB. 8 Is Bitcoin Cash Still Available? Yes, Bitcoin is available for trading.