What Is Bitcoin Cash? Why Is Bitcoin Splitting? - The Beginner's Guide

Ethereum miners are renting Boeing 747s to ship graphics cards and AMD shares are soaring

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Some software developers came up with a way to speed things up by reengineering bitcoin's universal ledger, which is called the blockchain. This is a significant improvement over other proposed plans, such as the SegWit2X fix, which would have only increased capacity to a modest two megabytes. For that reason, they've suggested a "fork" - meaning the blockchain could be split into two potential paths, potentially meaning a new currency and a strong competitor to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin cash will increase the size of transactions that can be processed on the network, but it has had a slow start, Grandham said.

He said: "That bitcoin tree is going to continue to grow like nothing happened today".

All of this takes place on a blockchain, which Bitcoin uses too. "Bitcoin Cash is one block behind", Bitcoin Magazine said on its liveblog at 9:24 a.m., ET.

If the fork goes ahead, users will only be able to receive and sell the new token on certain digital currency exchanges and digital wallet providers, as several have decided not to support it, including Coinbase, BitMEX, and Bitstamp.

On the USA -based GDAX exchange, Bitcoin rose to $2,836, up $84.1 or 3.06% while Bitcoin Cash fell 18% to $292.62. In a presser it released, Ethereum advised people to be very careful about Bitcoin Cash because it has some security implications. If you leave your bitcoins in Zebpay, Bitcoin Cash will not be available to you.

Because of the uncertainty regarding whether Bitcoin Cash will be created, and the timing and method of the creation of Bitcoin Cash, alongside the development of trading markets for Bitcoin Cash, if any, Greyscale Investments can offer no assurance as to whether or when proceeds from the liquidation of any Bitcoin Cash associated with the bitcoin held by the Trust will be distributed. The repercussions of the structural changes could take days to determine.

[W] e made a decision to temporarily stop accepting bitcoin deposits and withdrawals at each exchange due to the possibility of the branching (split) of the bitcoin protocol.

Ethereum was invented by Vitalik Buterin, a Canadian computer programmer born in Russian Federation who cut his teeth on Bitcoin as a teenager.

Smart contracts are what investors are really excited about, and have contributed to Ethereum's sharp rise in value. Even Coinbase will not be supporting Bitcoin Cash. This was demonstrated on Tuesday when Bitcoin, the oldest decentralised currency, faced a hard fork.

One of India's largest bitcoin exchanges, Zebpays said in a statement to its customers that it will not support Bitcoin Cash or its trading.

On Tuesday, August 1, Erik Voorhees, the founder of ShapeShift.io, a Bitcoin exchange site, announced that what he is referring to as a "hard fork" between Bitcoin currency and cash, has happened.

Bitcoin is built on something called a blockchain.

The scheduled execution of the bitcoin hard fork proposal Bitcoin Cash which is set to begin on August 1, 12:20 UTC, is hours away and yet the market, investors and traders remain confident in bitcoin and its ability to scale. BTC is presently trading at around $2,750 on the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index.

Where will bitcoin cash debut in the market cap rankings? It's also possible to exchange bitcoin for USA dollars and other currencies.

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