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Bitcoin Cash is a hard fork of Bitcoin with a protocol upgrade to fix on-chain capacity. Bitcoin Cash intends to be a Bitcoin without Segregated Witness (SegWit) as soft fork, where upgrades of the protocol are done mainly through hard forks and without changing the original economic rules of the Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is released on 1st August 2017 as an upgraded version of the original Bitcoin Core software. The main upgrade is the increase in the block size limit from 1MB to 8MB. This effectively allows miners on the BCH chain to process up to 8 times more payments per second in comparison to Bitcoin. This makes for faster, cheaper transactions and a much smoother user experience. Why was Bitcoin Cash Created? The main objective of Bitcoin Cash is to to bring back the essential qualities of money inherent in the original Bitcoin software. Over the years, these qualities were filtered out of Bitcoin Core and progress was stifled by various people, organizations, and companies involved in Bitcoin protocol development. The result is that Bitcoin Core is currently unusable as money due to increasingly high fees per transactions and transfer times taking hours to complete.…
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Supply and valuation
| Price | $301.09 |
| Market cap | $6.05B |
| Fully diluted valuation | $6.05B |
| Circulating supply | 20,099,616 BCH |
| Total supply | 20,099,909 BCH |
| Max supply | 21,000,000 BCH |
| Algorithm | SHA-256 |
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What is the price of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) today?
As of October 7, 2026, one BCH trades at $301.09. The price is -4.59% over the last 24 hours and -1.69% over the last seven days.
What is Bitcoin Cash's market cap?
Bitcoin Cash has a market capitalization of $6.05B, ranking it #19 among all cryptocurrencies by market cap.
How many BCH are in circulation?
20,099,616 BCH are in circulation, which is 95.7% of the maximum supply of 21,000,000 BCH.
What is Bitcoin Cash's all-time high?
Bitcoin Cash's all-time high is $3,786, reached on December 19, 2017. At $301.09 the current price is 92.0% below that peak.
How much BCH is traded each day?
About $229.67M of BCH changed hands in the last 24 hours, equal to 3.8% of its market cap. That is a healthy level of liquidity for a coin of this size.
How has Bitcoin Cash performed over the past year?
Since October 7, 2025, BCH has moved -47.80%, from $576.77 to $301.09. The period high was $654.84 on January 4, 2026 and the low was $190.35 on June 25, 2026.
When did Bitcoin Cash launch and how is it secured?
Its network uses the SHA-256 algorithm.
What are the risks of holding Bitcoin Cash?
Price risk first: BCH moved +16.39% over the last 30 days and -47.71% over the last year, and it is 92% below its all-time high. Supply is capped, so dilution is limited. Liquidity: $229.67M trades a day, which is adequate for its size. Add custody risk (exchange failure or lost keys) and regulatory risk. Coinucation does not give investment advice.
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