The trustee has been overseeing a incredible horde of hundreds of thousands of bitcoin, and now
an equal number of Bitcoin Cash.
For example, if you owned bitcoin before the bitcoin cash split, you could probably claim
an equal number of bitcoin cash tokens.
So that's the biggest difference, but also because Bitcoin Gold is a fork of the Bitcoin main chain, anybody who had Bitcoin before the split will also have
an equal number of Bitcoin Gold tokens after the split.
Bitcoin holders at the time of the hard - fork that created Bitcoin Cash on August 1, 2017, received
an equal number of Bitcoin Cash coins.
However, You will get
the equal number of Bitcoin Gold whose value depends upon the market sentiments.
In addition to the 202,185 bitcoins that it already had, the Mt. Gox estate now owns
an equal number of bitcoin cash digital coins.
One of the major advantages it already has is the fact that anyone who owned Bitcoin on August 1 will automatically get
an equal number of Bitcoin cash and with the proliferation of wallets and with exchanges accepting them, bitcoin cash is likely to do well.
Not exact matches
As a hard fork results in the creation
of a new cryptocurrency, each
Bitcoin investor receives an
equal number of whatever the new coin may be.
In the December revision
of his paper entitled «Metcalfe's Law as a Model for
Bitcoin's Value», Timothy Peterson models
Bitcoin price according to Metcalfe» Law, which posits that the value
of a network (
Bitcoin) is a function
of the
number of possible pair connections (among
Bitcoin wallets, assuming all are
equal) and is therefore proportional to the square
of the
number of participants.
As with
Bitcoin Cash, when the fork is officially produced,
Bitcoin owners also possess an
equal number of cryptocurrencies in Gold
Bitcoin
In order to get the
equal number of Segwit2x coins, investors are buying more and more
Bitcoin and even converting their alts to
Bitcoin, which is part
of the reason why we're seeing the decline in altcoin market cap.
The total market capitalisation
of the
bitcoin system recently exceeded $ 14.5 billion, with the total
number of bitcoins in circulation
equal to 16,058,763 BTC.
This is because each fork has always resulted in
bitcoin users receiving an
equal number of the new cryptocurrency in addition to their siting holdings.
After the split, those holding
bitcoins will receive an
equal number of Bitcoin2x for each
bitcoin they hold.