Not exact matches
If you want to
split your keys onto two
chains (bitcoin and bitcoin
cash) you can simply withdraw your bitcoin to a wallet that is BCH - compatible.
A little over a month ago we published an announcement regarding our ongoing engineering efforts to allow withdrawal of bitcoin
cash (BCH) for customers who had bitcoin balances at the time of the
chain split.
Previously, Bitcoin underwent a hard fork on August 1, 2017,
splitting into two separate
chains; however, both communities were in agreement as to which
chain would be called Bitcoin, and which
chain would be called Bitcoin
Cash.
A little over a month ago we published an announcement regarding our ongoing engineering efforts to allow withdrawal of bitcoin
cash (BCH) for customers who had bitcoin -LSB-...] A little over a month ago we published an announcement regarding our ongoing engineering efforts to allow withdrawal of bitcoin
cash (BCH) for customers who had bitcoin balances at the time of the
chain split.
That's mostly due to the fact that when the original bitcoin
chain split into two, it created a lot of «free» bitcoin
cash.
One argument is that owning bitcoin
cash is different from the original bitcoin, because otherwise why go through the trouble of a
chain split, if not to create a new coin with different properties?
The bitcoin
chain split is by now old news, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions about Bitcoin
Cash (BCC), the cryptocurrency born from the hard fork on August 1.
Bitcoin
Cash is the realization of the «User Activated Hard Fork» (UAHF) that was first announced as Bitmain's contingency plan in case of a
chain -
split caused by the BIP148 user activated soft fork (UASF)-- although the mining hardware producer has sent out mixed signals about the project since.
Bitcoin
Cash is being listed as BCC on most other platforms, but, that ticker symbol is already in use on the Bitfinex platform by the
chain -
split token representing Bitcoin Core.
Those people who had Bitcoins before the
chain split or fork will automatically be given the same amount of the newly created «Bitcoin
Cash» if they held their own private keys or were using software that supported the
split, or
chain fork.
In August the Bitcoin network experienced a
chain split, or commonly known as a hardfork, which created a new kind of cryptocurrency: Bitcoin
Cash (BCH).
Note: The Ethereum hard - fork is a planned fork of the network, meaning that the Metropolis upgrade is not a
split chain, such as Bitcoin
Cash or Ethereum Classic.
Bitcoin
cash (BCH) is a hard fork (A hard fork occurs when a blockchain
splits into two incompatible separate
chains) cryptocurrency of Bitcoin (BTC).
Bitcoin
cash is a result of the
split in the
chain of Bitoin back in August of 2017 when a group of developers wanted to upgrade to a coin that would provide for larger block sizes.
Moreover, the company Viabtc has pledged to support Bitcoin ABC with its own mining pool and will call the token «Bitcoin
Cash» if the protocol
splits off from the main
chain.