Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency that is a fork of Bitcoin.
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14 Facts About Bitcoin Cash
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Bitcoin Cash is a spin-off or altcoin that was created in 2017.
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Since its inception, Bitcoin Cash users had maintained a common set of rules for the cryptocurrency.
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Bitcoin Cash supporters wanted to keep blocks small so that nodes could be operated with less resources, while some large block supporters find it acceptable that, nodes might only be run by universities, private companies and nonprofits.
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Group of bitcoin activists, developers, and China-based miners were unhappy with Bitcoin Cash's proposed SegWit improvement plans meant to increase bitcoin's capacity; these stakeholders pushed forward alternative plans which would increase the block size limit to eight megabytes through a hard fork.
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In relation to Bitcoin Cash it is characterized variously as a spin-off, a strand, a product of a hard fork, an offshoot, a clone, a second version or an altcoin.
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Emin Gun Sirer, a professor at Cornell stated that Bitcoin Cash was focused on use and Bitcoin was "enormously" focused on store of value.
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Originally, both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash used the same difficulty adjustment algorithm, adjusting the mining difficulty parameter every 2016 blocks.
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Since 1 August 2017, Bitcoin Cash used an addition to the DAA, called an Emergency Difficulty Adjustment algorithm.
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EDA adjustments caused instabilities in mining difficulty of the Bitcoin Cash system, resulting in Bitcoin Cash being thousands of blocks ahead of Bitcoin.
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Group of researchers demonstrated that, as of June 2019, Bitcoin Cash DAA fails to generate new blocks at a constant rate as long as the hash supply is elastic.
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In contrast to that, the group demonstrated that Bitcoin Cash DAA is stable even when the cryptocurrency price is volatile and the supply of hash power is highly elastic.
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On 15 November 2018, a hard fork chain split of Bitcoin Cash occurred between two rival factions called Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV.
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On 15 November 2018 Bitcoin Cash traded at about $289, and Bitcoin SV traded at about $96.
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