Bitcoin Cash

Overview

Bitcoin Cash ($BCH) is the first Bitcoin ($BTC) hard fork dedicated to increasing block sizes and on-chain transaction throughput. Supporters of Bitcoin Cash believe that hash power decides the future of the network and in late 2018 a battle to control hash power broke out between competing implementations. Bitcoin Cash ABC wants to make upgrades to support smart contract oracles and transaction re-ordering while Bitcoin Cash Satoshi's Vision (SV) believes in expanding block size instead of focusing on new features. Below are tools to understand the history of Bitcoin Cash and the November 2018 hash power battle.

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Table of Contents

• History
• November 2018 Fork
• Tools

History

The Birth of BCH: The First Crazy Days of “Bitcoin Cash”

– Bitcoin Magazine

History of Bitcoin Cash

– Datanoid

Politics, Religion, and Bitcoin (Cash)

– TwoBitIdiot

The Bitcoin Cash Story

– Scalar Capital

A beginner’s guide to Bitcoin Cash

– Linda Xie

What is Bitcoin Cash?

– CoinTelegraph

November 2018 Fork

Nodes, Opcodes, and Satoshi's Vision: Today's Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Explained

– Bitcoin Magazine

The Companies in the Middle of the Bitcoin Cash Debate and Where They Stand

– The Block

Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Report

– Circle Research

An Interview with Calvin Ayre: The Man Behind the Scenes of the Bitcoin Cash Debate

– The Block

How to Watch the Bitcoin Cash Fork As It Happens

– CoinDesk

When the Fork Forks: What You Need to Know as Bitcoin Cash Goes to War

– Bitcoin Magazine

Tools

Next Scheduled Bitcoin Cash Network Upgrade

– Coin Dance

Hash Tracker

– Hash Wars

Block Explorer

– BTC.com