The 2017 Bitcoin fork that bet on cheap on-chain payments over layering.
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95.7% of the achievable supply is already circulating.
$3,785.82 -94.03% · Dec 19, 2017
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Bitcoin Cash split from Bitcoin in 2017 over the block-size debate: its founders raised the block limit so more payments settle directly on-chain at low fees, rejecting the layered approach of Lightning and rollups. Thirteen years of evidence later, the payments volume it sought never materialized at scale, but the network keeps operating with the same monetary schedule as Bitcoin and a community that treats on-chain scale as the point.
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Bitcoin Cash runs Bitcoin's original UTXO design with a much larger block limit, so routine payments settle directly on-chain instead of in a second layer. Difficulty adjustments keep block times stable regardless of hashrate swings, and the CashTokens extension adds native fungible and non-fungible tokens to the base layer. Security comes from SHA-256 proof-of-work, sharing the same mining algorithm family as Bitcoin.
Low-fee on-chain payments
Monetary asset with Bitcoin's issuance schedule
BCH captures value as money to be spent, not as a productivity claim on an application layer: fees are deliberately kept near zero, so network usage does not translate into revenue for holders. The value case is monetary premium — a scarce 21-million-cap asset whose utility is cheap settlement — and it competes for that role with Bitcoin itself and with stablecoins.
The supply schedule is Bitcoin's: a hard cap of 21 million coins with issuance halving roughly every four years. There are no pre-mine allocations to unwind and no protocol treasury; miner revenue and market demand fund everything. That simplicity is the point — supply policy is fixed and cannot be voted on.
There is no on-chain governance. Protocol changes emerge from independent full-node implementations whose software users choose to run, coordinated through informal developer groups and community consensus. The 2018 split that produced Bitcoin SV showed how far that process can fracture when agreement fails.
Payments adoption has not grown against stablecoin and Lightning alternatives
Shares SHA-256 hashrate economics with Bitcoin, which can crowd out its miners
Development community is small relative to its market capitalization
No. Bitcoin Cash split from Bitcoin in 2017 over the block-size debate and has developed as a separate network since. It shares Bitcoin's issuance schedule and SHA-256 mining, but its larger blocks, transaction history, and community are its own.
The founding bet was architectural: BCH keeps base-layer blocks large so payments never need a second layer, while Bitcoin concentrated activity into Lightning and rollups. Whether cheap direct settlement or layered scaling better serves payments remains the core disagreement between the two networks.
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Positioning as electronic cash, low-fee payments, continuous operation since 2017, SHA-256 proof-of-work, 21 million cap, and CashTokens support.
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