Jihan Wu on Bitcoin Cash Halving: the Key for Successful BCH Lies in Building a Booming Ecosystem

Apr 9, 2020

Bitcoin Cash (BCH), the world’s fifth-largest cryptocurrency and bitcoin’s most famous offshoot, has undergone its first halving, in which the mining reward of the bitcoin cash network has been cut in half to 6.25 BCH from 12.5 per block. On April 8, 2020, the first halving for bitcoi...

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Undergoes First Block Reward Halving, New Addresses Surge 4x

Apr 9, 2020

Bitcoin Cash, the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap and Bitcoin’s most famous offshoot, has undergone its first halving. The event reduces the rewards miners get for completing a block on the network and happens every 210,000 blocks in order to maintain a fixed supply rate of 21 millio...

Bitcoin Cash Halving Set for Tomorrow, But it Might Not be Bullish at all

Apr 8, 2020

While Bitcoin’s halving has been one of the most heavily discussed topics in the crypto industry, the reduction in block rewards is set to hit Bitcoin’s offshoots as well. With less than 24 hours to go before the mining reward for Bitcoin Cash decreases from 12.5 BCH to 6.25 BCH, it’s...

Interesting Separate Halvings for Bitcoin, BCH, BSV

Apr 4, 2020

The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) block reward halving is in four days (ETA date: 8 Apr 2020 at 11:46 UTC) while Bitcoin SV (BSV) is expected to have its halving two days later. These reported schedules leave both forks of Bitcoin with about five weeks short of Bitcoin halving (ETA dat...

Top Dev Renews ‘Dialogue’ on Why Ethereum Devs Would Prefer BCH Network

Sep 29, 2019

There is a new feature on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network that would make the fork of Bitcoin a darling for developers working with Ethereum, says Director of Developer Services at Bitcoin.com. BCH's Gabriel Cardona in an interview explains how BCH and Ethereum overlap with token...

The Story behind Bitcoin Fork

Aug 27, 2019

Haipo Yang is the founder and CEO of crypto mining pool ViaBTC and crypto exchange CoinEx. This article offers a look at what really happened behind the Bitcoin fork two years ago. It’s been over two years since Bitcoin Cash was officially forked from Bitcoin on August 1, 2017....

BCH Going Back to BTC? Bitcoin Twitter Handle Change Adds to BCH Worries

Aug 20, 2019

The non-reversal of a default setting of Bitcoin.com's Twitter handle which is known to represent Bitcoin Cash (BCH) after it changed to now carry Bitcoin.org (meant for the Bitcoin (Core) community) on its page profile is raising questions as well as theories. The squabble follows a ...

Litecoin Block Reward Halves Tomorrow

Aug 4, 2019

Tomorrow is Litecoin’s block reward halving. The Litecoin block mining reward halves every 840,000 blocks and, this time, the coin reward is expected to decrease from 25 to 12.5 coins at every 2.5 minutes approximate block generation time. The event will coincide with the network achieving at ...

Ethereum Wants But Can’t Use Bitcoin Cash for Scaling, Dash Calls

Jul 17, 2019

Vitalik Buterin's has suggested using the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchain as a short-term scalable data layer solution for Ethereum. In his writing on an Ethereum research forum, the Ethereum lead cites BCH's high data throughput (32 MB per 600 sec = 53333 bytes per sec) and very low f...

Bitcoin’s Correlation With Altcoins Declines in Q2

Jul 7, 2019

The average correlation between Bitcoin and most other large cryptoassets declined in Q2 2019 unlike the previous quarter, a Binance's Crypto-Correlations Review has shown. Though general correlations amongst other cryptoassets remained quite high in Q2, the report says Bitcoin's corre...