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. This is all because of the 1MB limitation of Bitcoin Core’s block size, causing it unable to accommodate to large number of transactions.
Essentially Bitcoin Cash is a community-activated upgrade (otherwise known as a hard fork) of Bitcoin that increased the block size to 8MB, solving the scaling issues that plague Bitcoin Core today.
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Bitcoin Cash turned over $40,903,127 across the venues we index in the last 24 hours, which is 0.81% of its market capitalisation — a figure worth watching, because turnover well above its usual level tends to accompany the sharper moves.
The highest price our index has recorded is $654.49 on Jan 3, 2026, leaving BCH −61.39% from that peak.
The lowest is $190.41 on Jun 24, 2026, putting the price today +32.73% above that low.
Measured on Coinmico's own index since Dec 31, 2024, not on prices reported by someone else.
Bitcoin Cash is valued at $5,074,899,019, which ranks it #21 among the assets we track. It is the price of one coin multiplied by the 20,080,387 BCH in circulation.
At today's price, the full supply of 21,000,000 BCH would be worth $5,106,800,819. 95.62% of that supply is already circulating, so the rest is what dilution would still add.
Price divergence
Where the venues behind our reference price disagree.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) price has decreased today.
The price of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is $252.73 today with a 24-hour trading volume of $40,903,127. This represents a 6.99% price decrease in the last 24 hours and a 11.60% price decrease in the past 7 days. With a circulating supply of 20.1 Million BCH, Bitcoin Cash is valued at a market cap of $5,074,899,019.
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