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Bitcoin Cash
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fork of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin in August 2017
Key facts
- Code
- BCH
- Implementation s
- Bitcoin Cash Node ("BCHN"), Bitcoin Unlimited ("BU"), Bitcoin Verde ("Verde"), K•th, BCHD, BCHC
- Latest release
- BCHN: 28.0.1 / 29 December 2024
- Project fork of
- bitcoin
- Written in
- BCHN: C++, BU: C++, Verde: Java, K•th: C++, BCHD: Go, BCHC: C++
- License
- BCHN: MIT , BU: MIT , Verde: MIT , K•th: MIT , BCHD: ISC , BCHC: MIT
- Ledger start
- 3 January 2009 (17 years ago) ( 2009-01-03 )
- Split height
- #478559 / 1 August 2017 (8 years ago) ( 2017-08-01 )
- Split from
- bitcoin
- Split ratio
- 1:1
- Timestamping scheme
- Proof-of-work (partial hash inversion)
- Hash function
- SHA-256
- Issuance schedule
- Block reward halved every 210,000 blocks
- Block reward
- BCH 3.125
- Block time
- 10 minutes
- Block explorer
- blockchair .com /bitcoin-cash /blocks
- Circulating supply
- 19,767,947
- Supply limit
- 21,000,000
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency that is a fork of bitcoin. Launched in 2017, Bitcoin Cash is considered an altcoin or spin-off of bitcoin. In November 2018, Bitcoin Cash further split into two separate cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bitcoin Cash” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.