Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
A Bitcoin fork designed for faster and cheaper peer-to-peer payments.
About Bitcoin Cash
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a fork of Bitcoin created in 2017 with the goal of improving scalability. It achieves this by increasing the block size, allowing more transactions to be processed per block and resulting in lower transaction fees compared to Bitcoin.
Key Characteristics
- Algorithm: SHA-256
- Block Time: 10 minutes
- Max Supply: 21 million BCH
- Block Reward (First Block): 50 BCH
- Block Reward (Current): 3.125 BCH
- Halving Schedule: Every 210,000 blocks
- Difficulty Adjustment: Every 2,016 blocks
- Preferred Mining Hardware: ASICs
- Preferred Mining Software: Visit Mining Softwares page for details
- Pool Explorer: MiningPoolStats
Useful Links
Important Documents
Quick Facts
Created: 2017
Creator: Amaury Séchet
Max Supply: 21M
Block Time: 10min