Bitcoin Cash is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that forked from Bitcoin in August 2017 with the goal of enabling more practical everyday payments. BCH addresses Bitcoin's scaling debate by using significantly larger block sizes (currently up to 32MB vs Bitcoin's ~1MB), enabling more transactions per block at lower fees. BCH aims to be the 'everyday spending' cryptocurrency while Bitcoin is positioned as 'digital gold.'
Bitcoin Cash shares Bitcoin's core design (SHA-256 PoW, 21M cap, UTXO model) but has larger block sizes allowing more transactions per block. This results in lower transaction fees, making BCH suitable for smaller payments. The halving schedule mirrors Bitcoin's. BCH uses a different difficulty adjustment algorithm (DAA) that adjusts every block rather than Bitcoin's every 2016 blocks, improving stability with fluctuating hash rates. BCH also supports CashTokens (fungible and non-fungible tokens) and smart contract capabilities via CashScript.
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As Bitcoin's block space became congested and fees rose to $10-50+ per transaction, small payments became economically unviable on Bitcoin. BCH solves this by increasing block capacity, keeping fees in fractions of a cent for most transactions. The goal is a usable cash-like digital currency for everyday commerce in the spirit of Satoshi Nakamoto's original whitepaper.
Hard-forked from Bitcoin specifically to increase block size and reduce fees, positioning BCH as the 'payments' use case of Satoshi's original vision while Bitcoin shifted toward a store-of-value narrative.
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BCH forked from Bitcoin to increase block sizes; BTC maintained small blocks and SegWit; BCH trades much lower and has smaller network effects
Both are payment-focused PoW cryptocurrencies; LTC uses Scrypt and has faster block times while BCH uses SHA-256 and focuses on larger block capacity
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