Bitcoin Cash

Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency that was created as a fork of the original Bitcoin blockchain in 2017. The fork occurred due to disagreements within the Bitcoin community over proposed changes to increase Bitcoin's block size, which would impact the network's scalability and transaction processing capabilities. A group of Bitcoin developers, miners, and supporters who favored larger block sizes broke away to create Bitcoin Cash as a separate cryptocurrency. The key technical difference is that Bitcoin Cash has increased the block size limit from 1MB to 8MB, which allows it to process more transactions per second compared to Bitcoin. When the Bitcoin Cash fork occurred, anyone who owned Bitcoin at the time automatically received an equal amount of the new Bitcoin Cash cryptocurrency. This essentially provided Bitcoin holders with a free airdrop of the new asset. Since the split, Bitcoin Cash has been positioned as a more peer-to-peer, transaction-focused cryptocurrency compared to Bitcoin, which has increasingly been treated more as a digital store of value. Bitcoin Cash has faced ongoing debates and controversies within the cryptocurrency community regarding its legitimacy and direction.