Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
Overview
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is the #21 cryptocurrency by market value. It's currently trading at $247.39, -3.08% over the last 24 hours. It has a circulating supply of about 20,084,778 BCH, and trades 93% below its all-time high.
All-time high & low
BCH is currently about 93% below its all-time high of $3,785.82 (set 2017-12-19). Context for how far it has moved — not a signal about where it goes next.
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What is Bitcoin Cash?
Bitcoin Cash is a hard fork of Bitcoin with a protocol upgrade to fix on-chain capacity. Bitcoin Cash intends to be a Bitcoin without Segregated Witness (SegWit) as soft fork, where upgrades of the protocol are done mainly through hard forks and without changing the original economic rules of the Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is released on 1st August 2017 as an upgraded version of the original Bitcoin Core software. The main upgrade is the increase in the block size limit from 1MB to 8MB. This effectively allows miners on the BCH chain to process up to 8 times more payments per second in comparison to Bitcoin. This makes for faster, cheaper transactions and a much smoother user experience.
Bitcoin Cash profile
Supply
About 20,084,778 BCH are in circulation out of a maximum supply of 21,000,000 — roughly 96% of all BCH that will ever exist.
BCH — frequently asked
What is the BCH price today?
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is trading around $247.39, -3.08% over the past 24 hours. Prices update live on this page.
What is Bitcoin Cash's market cap?
About $4.97B, ranked #21 among all cryptocurrencies.
What is the maximum supply of BCH?
Bitcoin Cash has a maximum supply of 21,000,000 BCH.
How far is BCH below its all-time high?
BCH is about 93% below its all-time high of $3,785.82.
What is Bitcoin Cash?
Bitcoin Cash is a hard fork of Bitcoin with a protocol upgrade to fix on-chain capacity.
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