Coinbase reported that customers who were holders of bitcoin during the 1st August hard fork, received
equivalent number of bitcoin cash in their virtual wallets.
Those who've been adding to their bitcoin position before the fork occurred have received
an equivalent number of bitcoin cash based on the amount of bitcoin they held at that time.
Users holding their Bitcoins in the wallets of which they have access to their private keys, will receive
the equivalent number of Bitcoin Gold coins for free.
With Bitcoin Gold, it is clear that those who holds Bitcoin, where they own their private keys at the time of upcoming hard fork will receive
equivalent number of Bitcoin Gold as well.
Some exchanges give
an equivalent number of Bitcoin cash while some give slightly less for a variety of reasons but this is something that you have to clarify with your exchange.
Most merchants who accept bitcoins price their goods in a conventional currency, converting to
an equivalent number of bitcoins at the time of sale.
Not exact matches
While
bitcoin's use as a payment mechanism seems to have taken a back seat to its value as an investment asset, the need for a greater
number of transactions is still pressing as the fees charged by the miners for processing are now more expensive than fiat
equivalents.
This may be inevitable unless (or until)
bitcoin and its
equivalents are recognizes as money or currency — something that Mr Crawford thinks is inappropriate for a
number of reasons set out in his treatise.
Bitfinex compensated the users whose
bitcoin was stolen by issuing them tokens
equivalent to the
number of bitcoin they lost, and then purchasing these tokens back from their users at
bitcoin prices over time.
Uphold members woke - up on August the 1st to find a new
Bitcoin Cash card in their Uphold wallet, with an
equivalent number of BCH (1:1) to their
Bitcoin card.
That came after the two split Aug. 1, with
Bitcoin holders receiving an amount of Bcash equivalent to their number of bitcoin
Bitcoin holders receiving an amount
of Bcash
equivalent to their
number of bitcoin bitcoin tokens.
And the Argentinian
Bitcoin economy is more than just talk; on Mercado Libre, a South America - focused
equivalent of Craigslist, many people publish products and services for sale for
bitcoins, and a significant
number of Bitcoin trades actually take place.
On July 4th, 2017, 9,176 businesses accepted
Bitcoin; while on Sep. 26, 2017 — the
number grew to 9,972 entities; an increase
of 796 brick and mortar businesses that accepted
Bitcoin as a payment method, which is
equivalent to an 8.67 percent increase.
Once a chain splits, you suddenly own a
number of split tokens
equivalent to the
number of tokens you had on the
Bitcoin network.
China also has an online discount store accepting
bitcoins, a high level
of Bitcoin activity on Taobao, the local
equivalent of Ebay, and a large
number of users eager to take up
Bitcoin having already gone through the virtual currency experience with Q Coin in 2007.
The founder also promised that in addition to the common practice
of crediting BTC holders with
equivalent balances
of the new coin (B2X), they would also receive «a proportional
number of Satoshi Nakamoto's
Bitcoins as a reward for their commitment to progress.»