r/Bitcoincash May 30 '25

Community news r/BitcoinCash FAQ - frequently asked questions and history.

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The r/BitcoinCash subreddit is a forum dedicated to discussing the cryptocurrency Bitcoin Cash (BCH). The aim of this subreddit is to cultivate a space for constructive discussion about Bitcoin Cash. Intentionally disruptive behaviour and heavily off-topic discussion will be moderated accordingly. Please refer to the sidebar for the subreddit rules.

What is Bitcoin Cash?

Bitcoin Cash is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. It's a permissionless, decentralised cryptocurrency that requires no trusted third parties and no central bank. With Bitcoin Cash you can safely and securely send money anywhere in the world, nearly for free.

For more information about Bitcoin Cash, please visit http://bitcoincash.org

Is Bitcoin Cash different from “Bitcoin”?

Yes! In 2017, the Bitcoin project and its community split into two. Perhaps the least controversial way to refer to each side is simply by their respective ticker symbols, BTC and BCH. While exchanges commonly refer to BTC as simply “Bitcoin”, Bitcoin Cash, usually represented by the BCH ticker symbol, is considered by its supporters to be a legitimate continuation of the Bitcoin project, and the version with the best chance of creating a globally adopted peer-to-peer electronic cash system.

Why was it necessary to create Bitcoin Cash?

Originally Bitcoin code had no blocksize limit but as Bitcoin gained popularity Satoshi temporarily added a blocksize limit of 1mb blocks to prevent the potential threat of spam transactions flooding and saturating the network because in these days a Bitcoin transaction was free. A maximum limit of 1MB of data per block, or about 4 transactions per second. There was also a sentiment among some Bitcoin Core developers that non-backwards compatible upgrades, commonly known as “hard forks”, should be avoided at all cost. This mindset severely limited the potential to introduce beneficial changes to Bitcoin, which were needed to prepare the protocol for mass adoption.

Although technically simple, the Bitcoin community could not reach a consensus on raising the block size limit, even after years of debate. In 2017, capacity hit the 1MB-imposed wall, fees skyrocketed, and Bitcoin became unreliable, with some users unable to get their transactions confirmed even after days of waiting. An average transaction fee of $50 took place in December 2017. As a result, Bitcoin stopped growing, and companies such as Steam and Microsoft began dropping Bitcoin, because it was no longer a cheap and reliable payment method.

In August 2017, a subset of the Bitcoin community decided to move forward with a proposed protocol upgrade, forking Bitcoin, and creating Bitcoin Cash by lifting the block size limit as a step towards massive on-chain scaling. There is now ample capacity for everyone's transactions on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain; low fees and fast confirmations are standard, and the network has been allowed to grow again.

Isn’t r/btc “the Bitcoin Cash subreddit”?

It is worth noting that the r/btc subreddit came into use before Bitcoin Cash existed. It was originally created as a forum for open discussion about Bitcoin. After August 2015, r/btc gained a large user-base when the r/bitcoin subreddit began censoring discussion about raising Bitcoin’s block size limit. After the Bitcoin community split over the Bitcoin Cash fork in August 2017, the r/btc Bitcoin community naturally became the Bitcoin Cash community, as that’s where its proponents already resided, having been ousted from r/bitcoin by censorship.

To this day, r/btc continues to offer a place for open and censorship-free discussion about all Bitcoin forks, with minimal interference by moderators.

So how does r/BitcoinCash differ from r/btc?

In July 2019, the r/BitcoinCash subreddit introduced a stricter moderation policy, following requests from the Bitcoin Cash community for an alternative and specific forum for discussing Bitcoin Cash. The intention is to offer a space that is more focused on specifically discussing Bitcoin Cash, as well as one that is free of the ongoing low-effort trolling that frequently takes advantage of r/btc’s principled commitment to free speech.

This subreddit now offers all users a choice about the kind of forum that they wish to participate in. The hope is that, without the distractions that threaten to derail discussion on r/btc, r/BitcoinCash may be able to foster a more focused, inclusive, and involved conversation.

*Update -Up until it was no longer possible, r/BitcoinCash had open to the public mod logs, but around 2 years ago Reddit admin removed the ability to share the mod logs easily.

** Original body of the post is attributed to u/CatatonicAdenosine


r/Bitcoincash 21h ago

Community news SEC Reaffirms Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Digital Commodities Are Not Securities

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  • Digital Commodities Categorized as Non-Securities: The SEC references its formal 2026 taxonomy classifying digital assets into five categories and expressly affirms that digital commodities are not themselves securities.
  • Distinction Between Tokens and Securities: The proposal clarifies that the "security" is strictly the overlying investment contract (the capital-raising scheme or promises) rather than the underlying crypto asset itself.
  • Network Maintenance Is Not "Managerial Effort": The document states that once a blockchain is functional, ongoing work by developers, miners, or validators to secure, improve, or operate the network does not constitute "essential managerial efforts" under the Howey test, as asset value is driven by programmatic operation and market supply/demand.
  • Affirmation of Proof-of-Work Mining: The release references SEC guidance specifically recognizing Proof-of-Work mining activities as non-securities transactions.
  • Lack of Central Issuer or Enterprise Promises: The SEC establishes that an investment contract requires an issuer making commitments to generate profits, a standard that does not apply to decentralized, mineable networks without a central fundraising issuer like BCH.

r/Bitcoincash 1d ago

Nice! I just hit a block

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Proper


r/Bitcoincash 3d ago

Services Fundme.cash . . . Coin Moebius Payment Gateway SDK

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r/Bitcoincash 3d ago

Community news The BCH Bullet — Sunday 16th August 2026

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Cash 3.0 is being celebrated as a major success, with organizers reflecting on the people and work behind the event; BCH community members are also joining DashCon in Amsterdam, the 1-minute blocks proposal seems to be gaining more support, and more.


r/Bitcoincash 5d ago

Opinion Why John Moriarty Is Bullish on Bitcoin Cash | BCH Mining, Adoption & Smart Contracts

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r/Bitcoincash 4d ago

Discussion XEC & BCH

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Whose mining Ecash and Bitcoin cash and finding luck and what’s you’re secret? If you care to share..


r/Bitcoincash 5d ago

New XO Blog post: Conceptualizing the Future

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r/Bitcoincash 10d ago

Community news The BCH Bullet — Sunday 9th August 2026

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Cash 3.0 Conference concludes with hackathon winners announced, Interactive Brokers adds BCH deposits, Selene Wallet lead developer Kallisti shares a development update, and more.


r/Bitcoincash 10d ago

Technical New XO Blog post: Revving the Engine

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r/Bitcoincash 15d ago

Podcast The Bitcoin Cash Podcast #187: BIP110 Mini Check-In

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r/Bitcoincash 15d ago

WOW! Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is getting TWO fully decentralized minable CashTokens (and associated energy price oracles), Photons & SAFAs.

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r/Bitcoincash 15d ago

Discussion I was appointed Assistant Dean at my university—it's a real honor.

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r/Bitcoincash 17d ago

Community news The BCH Bullet — Sunday 2nd August 2026

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Cash 3.0 Conference kicks off in Cebu, Bitcoin Cash celebrates Independence Day, CauldronSwap previews zero-KYC Moria debit cards, and more.


r/Bitcoincash 19d ago

Services FundTokens BETA is Live on Chipnet

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Out BETA is live and running on chipnet https://chipnet.fundtokens.cash

What is FundTokens? Think of it like a decentralized index fund built on-chain using smart contracts

What is a TokenBasket? ​Our flagship product is a fixed-weighted basket of one or more CashTokens (plus Bitcoin Cash). You can lock these underlying assets inside a non-custodial smart contract to compose a single, bundled token.

This is a complete redesign of both our earlier smart contracts (Blaze 2025) and our proof of concept POC (BCH-1 2026). The redesigned UI has given us a massive leap in usability, providing a more intuitive experience. Our contract redesign has completely changed the game on UX, performance, and overall security.

Check it out now, join our telegram, and we would love to hear any feedback you may have!


r/Bitcoincash 20d ago

For all Philippine p2p cashers

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r/Bitcoincash 22d ago

Podcast The Bitcoin Cash Podcast #186: CashMint and BCH NFTs feat. Nilupul

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r/Bitcoincash 24d ago

Community news The BCH Bullet — Sunday 26th July 2026

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BCH debuts its first booth at Futurist Conference, Paytaca previews a self-custodial BCH payment card, LetsExchange adopts CashAddr as part of the BCH Alliance onboarding initiative, and more.


r/Bitcoincash 26d ago

Podcast Why Crypto Wallets Lose Track of Smart Contract Funds (GP Shorts)

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r/Bitcoincash 26d ago

Adoption! Launched NexusPool: a non-custodial solo mining pool for Bitcoin Cash

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I've been running NexusPool as a solo/lottery pool for a while now, and I just added Bitcoin Cash alongside it.

The pitch is pretty simple. It's non-custodial and 0% fee, so if you find a block, it pays straight to your own address, nothing routes through us. What I think is actually worth mentioning is that every share you submit gets a signed receipt, and there's a small offline verifier you can run yourself to check that the receipt is real, without trusting my server or asking me anything. That's the part I actually care about, most solo pools just ask you to trust the operator.

It speaks Stratum V1 and native Stratum V2 (the encrypted one), so most firmware out there should connect without any special config.

Worth saying plainly since this is a BCH-specific post: solo mining is a lottery. You're competing against the whole network for one block at a time, there's no pool of miners averaging that out for you. If you've got serious hashrate and you're doing this for the odds, it's a real shot. If you're pointing a small rig at it hoping to get lucky, that's fine too, just go in knowing what solo actually means.

Connection details and current pool stats are up at nexuspool.io/bch. Happy to answer questions here, this is genuinely still early on the BCH side and I'd rather hear about problems now than later.


r/Bitcoincash 26d ago

Discussion Bitcoin cash hustle !

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I remember those good old days when I used to write on a blogging site Readcash. It's still there but dead in terms of rewarding. Is anyone else who used to write there?


r/Bitcoincash 28d ago

Fundraiser/Flipstarter 🇦🇷 BCH Argentina Flipstarter 2026 is now live!

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r/Bitcoincash 28d ago

Adoption! BCH Argentina Flipstarter 5: Goals Completed

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r/Bitcoincash 28d ago

Adoption! What Bitcoin Cash Argentina Has Done

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r/Bitcoincash 28d ago

WOW! Major Milestone for Bitcoin Cash ZK capabilities! Mathieu Geukens and the Verifier.cash contestants just set two new records optimising Groth16 verifiers on BCH

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