CMC#	Market Cap (USD)	Volume (24hr)	Circulating Supply	NVTS	Change (7d)	Change (24h)	Savings Per 1K
4	$5,630,960,000.00	$1,372,530,000.00	17,963,600 BCH	51	0.49%	1%	-$1,535.97

Background

Bitcoin Cash ("Bcash") was created out of tension among early Bitcoin investors over rising transaction fees and increasingly divergent opinions on the best on-chain scaling solutions for Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash also prioritizes strict adherence to what is called Satoshi's "vision" for the original Bitcoin. Viewing peer to peer transactions as the core value proposition of the network and the factor that should be optimized versus other competing factors like security. Versus the more progressive development philosophies of the Bitcoin core software contributors. Who view security as the factor that should be optimized for with the whitepaper reflecting a rough blueprint or important historical document. The execution of the fork on August 1, 2017 led to confusion amongst investors who tried to claim, sell, or spend their BCH due to inconsistent exchange tickers, branding misinformation, and incorrect address use. Bitcoin Cash users lose coins when attempting to send BTC to a BCH address and vice versa. Recognizing this issue Bitcoin Cash migrated to a new address format in January 2018 to improve usability and reduce the chances of errors leading to lost coins. Bitcoin Cash expects to ultimately become more decentralized and widely used than Bitcoin by scaling transaction throughput faster via a higher paced development cycle for technological improvements significantly reducing transactions costs versus Bitcoin. It is expected due to the technology requirements needed to scale the network. Individual users will not be able to run nodes easily via PCs like they can for the Bitcoin network making it potentially less censorship resistant than the Bitcoin blockchain.

Technology

Bitcoin Cash forked from Bitcoin at block 478559 since it breaks out of Bitcoin's consensus rules, making transactions are incompatible. Bitcoin Cash shares Bitcoin's genesis block and entire blockchain history up to block 478559. Bitcoin Cash's fork initially increased block sizes from 1 MB to 8 MB and later to 32 MB. To date, Bitcoin Cash has 6 competing node implementations: BitcoinABC, Bitcoin Unlimited, BXT, Parity, Bitprim, and Bitcoin Cash. Bitcoin Cash is designed to be Simple Payment Verification (SPV) friendly. SPV means payments can be verified as included in the main chain without validating the entire blockchain on the client device. Post hard fork Bitcoin Cash re-enabled opcodes previously disabled in the early days of Bitcoin for fear of bugs. Re-enabling the opcodes makes Bitcoin Cash’s scripting language more flexible than Bitcoin’s so assets could potentially be tokenized on its chain and simple smart contracts executed. To improve Bitcoin Cash’s scaling capabilities Graphene blocks are being incorporated to replace Compact Blocks. Graphene Block’s can store a similar amount of information in 10% of the space of a Compact Block using Bloom filters and lookup tables. Bitcoin Cash is implements canonical transaction ordering (CTOR), complimenting Graphene’s use for block generation. CTOR eliminates the requirement for miners to independently discover the valid order for blocks. It also allows for parallel block validation absent intermediate states and reduces certain attack vectors around the artificial bloating of blocks. Moving forward Bitcoin Cash wants to further secure the zero confirmation transactions required for scaling by implementing avalanche. Avalanche would protect unconfirmed transactions via pre-consensus by a group of validating nodes prior to the transactions being included in the next Block. Miners of the last 100 blocks would form the pre-consensus group. Bitcoin Cash is designed to fork every 6 months to implement recent upgrades from the project’s open-source software developers. When developers and miners reach consensus on the upgrades the main chain simply adopts them as a soft fork. On November 15, 2018 consensus was not reached on the latest upgrades. Hard forking the original Bitcoin Cash chain and subsequently establishing a new chain with its own token, Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision (BSV).

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