What is the current price of Bitcoin Cash?
The current price of Bitcoin Cash is $281.40 with a 1.15% change in the last 24 hours.
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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a proof-of-work cryptocurrency that split from Bitcoin in August 2017 to pursue one goal: cheap, fast on-chain payments, the "peer-to-peer electronic cash" described in the original Bitcoin whitepaper. Instead of keeping blocks small and moving payments to second layers, Bitcoin Cash raises block capacity so ordinary transactions stay on the main chain with low fees.
BCH keeps Bitcoin's 21 million coin cap, SHA-256 mining and halving schedule, and shares Bitcoin's transaction history up to the split. Since 2022 it has also added native tokens and a steadily more capable scripting system through yearly upgrades.
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Bitcoin Cash has no single founder or company. It was created by a group of miners, developers and businesses who opposed Bitcoin's 1 MB block size limit and the Segregated Witness (SegWit) soft fork, and it inherits Satoshi Nakamoto's original design.
Upgrades have activated every May 15 since 2020 (see below). They are coordinated through community "CHIP" proposals and implemented by several independent node teams, including Bitcoin Cash Node, BCHD, Knuth and Bitcoin Verde.
Proof of work (SHA-256) Miners with ASIC hardware compete to produce blocks roughly every 10 minutes, earning the block subsidy plus fees. Because BTC uses the same algorithm, hash power can move between the two chains.
Adaptive block size The Adaptive Blocksize Limit Algorithm (ABLA), live since May 15, 2024, keeps 32 MB as a floor and lets the limit grow automatically when sustained demand fills blocks, without another hard fork each time capacity needs to rise.
UTXO model with an expanding script Like Bitcoin, BCH tracks unspent outputs. Its script language has been extended with native introspection opcodes and bigger integers (May 2022), high-precision BigInt arithmetic and targeted VM limits (May 2025), and bounded loops, reusable functions, re-enabled bitwise operations and "Pay to Script" outputs (May 15, 2026). The result is a UTXO chain that can run meaningful contracts while keeping transactions small.
Fixed supply and halvings The maximum supply is 21 million BCH. The subsidy halves every 210,000 blocks, so issuance keeps falling until it reaches zero.
bitcoincash:), which avoids confusing BCH addresses with BTC ones.BCH is used to pay for goods and services, pay transaction fees, reward miners and fund token and contract transactions. It is also the gas for CashTokens: every token output carries a small amount of BCH.
Compared with Bitcoin, BCH has far larger blocks, no SegWit, and relies on on-chain capacity rather than the Lightning Network. Compared with Bitcoin SV, which split off in 2018, BCH kept a bounded (now adaptive) block size and continues adding new opcodes. Compared with Litecoin, another payments-focused Bitcoin derivative, BCH uses SHA-256 instead of Scrypt and has added native tokens and richer scripting.
Security comes from SHA-256 proof of work and independent full nodes that validate every rule. BCH receives only a fraction of the SHA-256 hash rate that secures Bitcoin, so the cost of attacking it is lower. ASERT adjusts difficulty every block, which keeps block times stable when miners switch between chains, and full nodes can be run on ordinary hardware at current block sizes.
Bitcoin Cash is the longest-running experiment in scaling Bitcoin's design on-chain. It shows what a Bitcoin-like, fixed-supply currency looks like with large blocks, native tokens and a programmable UTXO script, and it gives users who want cheap self-custodied payments an alternative to both Layer 2 networks and account-based chains.
BCH is listed on most major centralized exchanges and many payment apps. Availability, trading pairs and payment methods vary by country.
BCH trades on exchanges including:
Never send BCH to a BTC address or the other way around; the chains are separate. Check transactions on the Bitcoin.com explorer.
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Read the complete paper trading guideThe current price of Bitcoin Cash is $281.40 with a 1.15% change in the last 24 hours.
The daily trading volume is $18,820,578 representing a 22.54% change in the past 24 hours.
The market capitalization of Bitcoin Cash is $5,657,582,941, ranking #19 globally.
The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Bitcoin Cash is $5,909,304,388, calculated assuming the maximum supply of 21,000,000 BCH is in circulation.
Circulating: 20,105,453. Total: 20,105,450. Max: 21,000,000.
In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin Cash traded between a low of $272.38 and a high of $283.96.
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