Bitcoin Cash
BCH$463.72
Market Cap
$9.28B
Volume 24h
$154.29M
Vol / Market Cap
1.66%
Rank
#18
BCH Price Chart
Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency created to enable faster and cheaper transactions than Bitcoin.
What Is Bitcoin Cash (BCH)? Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency created to offer faster and cheaper transactions than Bitcoin by increasing block size capacity.
A fork of Bitcoin created to address scalability limitations. It significantly increased block size capacity to process more transactions per block while maintaining low fees.
Scalable Digital Currency: Used as a medium of exchange for users who want larger block sizes and lower transaction fees for peer-to-peer electronic cash payments.
Big-Block Currency: Created via a hard fork to increase block size, focusing on low-fee peer-to-peer payments. Used by merchants who want Bitcoin-like PoW security with very low transaction costs.
Lower hashrate than the market leader increases 51% attack risk; struggles to expand beyond niche adoption.
