Bitcoin Cash is a fork of Bitcoin that increased the block size to enable more transactions per second and lower fees. It emerged from the 2017 scaling debate and positions itself as the original vision of Bitcoin as peer-to-peer electronic cash.
2017
Bitcoin Cash hard forks from Bitcoin at block 478,558
2018
BCH splits again — Bitcoin Cash ABC vs Bitcoin SV hash war
2020
Bitcoin Cash halving reduces block reward to 6.25 BCH
2021
BCH reaches $1,600 but fails to capture mainstream momentum
Peer-to-peer payments, micropayments, merchant transactions
💡 Did You Know
On the day of its fork in August 2017, every Bitcoin holder received an equal amount of BCH — one of the largest wealth redistributions in crypto history
⚠ Controversies & Red Flags
The Bitcoin Cash community itself forked again in 2018 into BCH and BSV in a deeply divisive hash war led by Craig Wright.