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What’s the Difference Between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash?

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January 24, 2019 by Coinsource

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Cryptocurrency is such a new concept in the financial technology world, and is so rapidly evolving and growing, it’s hard to keep up with what the different currencies are and how they differ from each other.

Bitcoin was first created in 2009 and since then, many other cryptocurrencies have emerged and many have already failed and disappeared. According to Investing.com as of February 2019 there are 2,517 cryptocurrencies! While Bitcoin is considered the “gold standard” for cryptocurrency investments, there is a lot of activity in the top 5, after Bitcoin. Ethereum, Ripple, EOS, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin are popular and among the more familiar names.

About Bitcoin Cash

Because Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has the name “Bitcoin” in it, many people are understandably confused about what it is and how it’s different from the original Bitcoin (BTC). Bitcoin cash is considered a “fork” of Bitcoin that split from the BTC blockchain network on August 1, 2017.

This happened as a result of a disagreement among several groups about the ongoing development of Bitcoin. One group was made up primarily of Bitcoin miners, and the other group included the majority of the Bitcoin community, and the core developers. They disagreed on the technicalities of mining and recording transactions into “blocks” on the blockchain. The miners wanted to allow larger blocks of 8 MB and subsequently 32 MB in size, and they support Bitcoin Cash. The core developers wanted to upgrade the process of compressing transaction data so more transactions could fit into each 1 MB block, and they support Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Compared to Bitcoin Cash

Basically, there’s not a lot of difference between the two cryptocurrencies, but they are now entirely separate and not interchangeable. Bitcoin Cash tends to have lower fees, but also doesn’t have as much community acceptance.

Original Bitcoin has greater security and stability and a much larger infrastructure supporting the distributed network. As of January 5th, 2020, Bitcoin has been trading just below $34,000 (up over 300% from 2019) and Bitcoin Cash has been trading at just over the $400 price point, way down from a high of more than $1700 in May of 2018.

Other Variants

Since the fork of Bitcoin Cash, other updates have taken place resulting in a number of other forks. Soft forks include Bitcoin XT, Bitcoin Classic, and Bitcoin Unlimited. Hard forks, like Bitcoin Cash, include Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Dark, Bitcoin Diamond, and Bitcoin Private. Other hard forks that don’t include “Bitcoin” in their name but were built on the same open source code. These include Litecoin, Dogecoin, Namecoin, and Peercoin.

Investing In Bitcoin VS Bitcoin Cash

As far as deciding which cryptocurrencies are the best to invest in, a quick search online will reveal that a lot of sites have their own opinions, but no one has a crystal ball. CoinTelegraph has done an interesting price analysis, and their top 10 are Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, EOS, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Tron, Stellar, Binance Coin, and Bitcoin SV. To see what users on Quora are recommending, their predictions include Bitcoin and Ethereum as well as some names we haven’t mentioned yet, like IOTA, Zilliqa, Holochain, Elastos, and Quarkchain. As with any type of investing, it pays to do your homework before spending your hard-earned money!

PLEASE NOTE:

Coinsource Bitcoin ATMs provide a convenient way to use cash to buy and sell Bitcoin (BTC). Our network does not handle Bitcoin Cash (BCH).

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