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BCH-USD

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Market value
$6.4B
Traded in 24 hours
$162.7M
Coins
20.1M BCH in circulation, and in total
Highest price ever
$3,785.82 19 December 2017
Rank
#21
Price · last 30 days

In its own words

“Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash”

Checked 27 Sep 2026 at bitcoincash.org (opens in a new tab)

Published, not verified.

Genesis, Bitcoin Cash

Last block the two chains share
478,558Blockstream (opens in a new tab)

Mined 1 August 2017, 13:16 UTC. It sits on both chains with the same hash.

Split from
Bitcoinbitcoincash.org (opens in a new tab)

CoinGecko files it under the category “Bitcoin Fork” too.

First block of its own
Blockchair (opens in a new tab)

Block 478,559 on the Bitcoin Cash side, mined 1 August 2017, 18:12 UTC. Its first transaction carries the message “/ViaBTC/Welcome to the world, Shuya Yang!/”. Bitcoin's own block 478,559 is a different block.

Bitcoin Cash is the branch that left Bitcoin.
A chain split.
The project's own words: “On August 1st, 2017, the chain split at
block
478558 and Bitcoin Cash was born.” Bitcoin Cash shares every block before that one with Bitcoin; from the next block on, the two chains are different.

bitcoincash.org (opens in a new tab)

Whitepaper
bch.info/bitcoin.pdf
bch.info (opens in a new tab)
Official site
bch.info
bch.info (opens in a new tab)
Show the technical record
That block's hash
Blockstream (opens in a new tab)

Checked 22 Sep 2026. A record of beginnings, not advice.

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