Today marks a very important point on the history of Bitcoin.
Essentially, Bitcoin just split into 2 separate currencies - the original Bitcoin, and Bitcoin Cash.
In yesterday's post about the bitcoin hardfork I summarized the events in a simplified manner and got many positive comments about it.
Today, after all these exciting events are over, I want to share a quick recap with you, so that even someone with little crypto knowledge is updated about what's going on with Bitcoin.
For a summary about the hardfork and what Bitcoin Cash is all about, please visit my previous post.
I will not go into detail about it again, but just a brief explanation:
The Bitcoin network needed to be scaled, to increase the transaction speed. In order to do that, they want to activate SegWit at the end of August.
A certain group of Bitcoiners didn't agree with that scaling proposal, and instead wanted to form their own currency: Bitcoin Cash.
Timeline - Bitcoin Fork Day August 1
- As promised, the fork started at 12:20pm UTC. (The pivotal period began at 12:37 with block number 478,558).
- Then, it was just a matter of time to wait until the first block of Bitcoin Cash would be mined.
It took much longer than expected because the software continued with the same difficulty that is used to mine Bitcoin blocks, which is obviously quite high. - But then, at 6.14 pm finally the first Bitcoin Cash block was mined, containing 6,985 transactions.
- Shortly after, Bitcoin Cash launched on several exchange platforms like Kraken, OKCoin, TheRockTrading and more.
Bitcoin Hardfork - Conclusion
During this whole day, the Bitcoin price remained relatively stable at around $2700-2800.
Many were concerned that the Fork could cause a lot of chaos and that the Bitcoin price might crash - but actually, nothing sincere happened.
There are now 2 seperate currencies, Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash, and we can only wait and see how this split system will develop in the future.
For now, you should still stay away from Bitcoin Transactions (at least until tomorrow), but then everything will slowly return to normal in the crypto world.
Opinions about the Fork and Bitcoin Cash
As I've mentioned above, the Fork has created a huge debate and essentially split the Bitcoin community.
There have been countless speculations about the outcome of the fork - now that it's all over, let's look at some opinions and reactions:
“There are many misconceptions about Bitcoin Cash and what it represents. To be clear, Bitcoin is not forking. Rather, some developers have created a new digital currency and formulated an effective means of distributing it, by giving it to everyone with an existing Bitcoin balance.While the markets will ultimately decide, I think there is little chance that Bitcoin Cash will be successful in the long-term.
It may have increased capacity, but several issues remain. First, Bitcoin Cash has not solved scaling. It has merely kicked the can down the road with slightly larger blocks but still lacks a credible technology to scale to massively larger numbers of users. Second, Bitcoin will retain the network of integrated services that make the Bitcoin network useful to businesses and consumers.
With no substantial enhancements compared with Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash is unlikely to be integrated into those same services, given the substantial expense for businesses operating them to do so.”
-Ryan Taylor, CEO of DASH
“Whether we will list Bitcoin Cash as a new trading pair depends on the demand. If demand is big we should consider adding it definitely...No one should lose Bitcoin Cash on our platform.”-Eugene Kovalyk, Chief Marketing Officer of CEX.io
“People who are going to benefit from Bitcoin Cash are the ones who see it as free money, so they can then invest in something else. It's going to be a race to see who can sell it the fastest.”-Perry Woodin, CEO of Node40
"Bitcoin cash has a chance to become the dominant cryptocurrency contingent upon its ability to gain trust and support from both current and new players as well as security of its network. Due to, at least temporary, solution of the scalability issues, bitcoin cash could attract more new capital to the entire crypto space, thus helping increase overall market cap."-Borovykh of Blockchain Driven
"There are people with billions of dollars of skin in the game,. And they will ultimately go with the superior bitcoin network, and the market will follow."-Arthur Hayes, CEO of BitMex
“Bitcoin's best days are ahead of it and we'll see a lot of growth post fork. Now that lightning is enabled, we have a lot of good applications coming.”-Charles Hoskinson, CEO of Input Output HK
“There are pros and cons to everything. The downside of a split is that Bitcoin loses part of its ecosystem, and network effects are so important to this industry. That said, this isn’t a zero-sum game, and it’s more than possible to see both chains flourish in parallel.”-Rob Viglione, ZenCash co-founder
Bitcoin Cash price development
The last 2 days, Bitcoin Cash was valued around $300 or just below that.
Between July 31st and August 1, the BCH price then dropped to about $220.
After the successful hardfork today and when some exchange platforms launched BCH trading, the price then spiked to almost $400.
Currently, the price has settled to about $360.
How will the Bitcoin Cash price develop in the future?
Well, that's the question the whole crypto world is asking itself today.
As you can see from the statements above, some people think that Bitcoin Cash will essentially fail and not become a relevant currency at all. Others think that BCH is supported by many and could play an important role in the future of bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
Only time will tell how BCH will develop, and if more exchanges will start to accept it once demand rises.
What's your opinion about Bitcoin Cash? And if you've received some free BCH, will you sell it immediately or hold it?
© Sirwinchester
What do you guys think where BCH will floor? 200$,300$ , 600$?
Hi Sir W, i just resteemed this and wanted tonsay thanks for all the good info you've been providing. It's real helpful to just go onto steem to see what's really happening.
Cheers! from @thedamus
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Glad to hear that, thank you! Appreciate it!
did you get your BTCC?
So clear! I'm really a newbie but knew that something heavy will happen and something about the split but no more.. You explained in here perfectly... Thanks man!
Happy to hear that, thank you!
Very informative article you're prepared for us here. I feel like I know a bit more now. Thanks for taking the time to do this!
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the post!
Is now the right time to sell? Will BCH fall to almost 0?
Thanks for the report! I'm holding my Bitcoin Cash! I think it has great upside potential! Upvoted and followed!
Now the real btc will skyrocket cause people got free alts to dump and free money to buy more btc.
I think for now we will see a slightly 'false' bitcoin cash market price. It will take a week or so to stabilise out and figure its place in the market. Although, this is where a lot of the day traders can make BIIIG profit. (Im too scared to at this point!)
Exactly. Right now everyone pumped their savings into bitcoin to get some free BCH, and now slowly everything will return to normal. The Bitcoin price will likely drop a little because people will convert their BTC back to the usual altcoins.
I agree, the sea of green is starting to move up on alt coins.. Lets see my theory is about 14 days for stabilisation
Another simplified post for us newbies to understand clearly what's happening on the crypto world! Thanks again mate!
How do you think this will affect Steem? Anything positive? Your views will be much appreciated!
Cheers
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I think bitcoin (BTC) will prevail
Yes I think so too. Bitcoin will always remain the original cryptocurrency.
I have most of my Btc on blockchain so i didn't get the BCC. Im curious what your thoughts were an BCC and are you going to start using them more in the future?
Im just gonna stick to BTC and probably get more Eth on the side. The ideas are there, now we just need to start working on execution!
Great post, thanks for sharing it!
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Awesome info! It's pretty amazing.. I expected more volatility with the fork. But I'm glad bitcoin is stable. I haven't bought any bitcoin cash yet, maybe in the future
Me too, I expected some price chaos. But like you, I'm glad nothing crazy has changed.
That is a quality article.
About BCH future, all is speculation. In my not too informed opinion I expect it to go down hard in the first two weeks. Much of the sentiment I've seen online is people wanting some free cash. They'll be looking to sell their BCH soon, and a drop in price will inspire others to sell too.
For the long term, it depends on whether BCH can carve out a niche where it is uniquely useful. We'll see about that, but I am not expecting too much based on the number of developers for the platform.
Thank you!
You're right, most people just wanted to get some free BCH and sell it as quickly as possible. I'm also not sure if it has some long-term value. I guess we just have to wait and see.
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Time will prove BCC on the crypto market!
Thanks for the recap @sirwinchester! Had been looking for a nice summary like this so I can keep track of the events!
Today is a good day
I just wrote a post about how I think this was like the movie Multiplicity. I think this just confuses consumers and businesses while it is just another coin for traders and speculators. What keeps another miner from doing it again and again and again? Creating coins out of thin air.
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Good break down my friend. Thanks for the awesome post. Should be intresting to see how the next few months play out
Fully illustrated post with all the info needed in one place, glad you shared this because it answers a lot my questions about BCC and its future ,
Excellent post and explanation. Very clearly explained and I like all the quotes to give different views of this important event.
Upvoted 100% and resteemed.
I still think this will crash in the next few days. A lot of people who had BTC in hardware wallets don't have access to bcc yet. When they do the price will be driven down by a flood of coins on the exchanges. This price volatility is unheard of even in the Crypto market. It can't sustain its self for to long. Make money while you can, take profits back into BTC or ETH and I'm gonna wait for the crash and rebuy when it falls. I don't think BCC is going to fade away, it will have a good value on the long investment. But if you stay around to long right now you could lose a lot.
Best summary ive stumbled on today, last year i sold my ETC ... wish i would have kept it lol
I really didnt expect this price, i thought people were dumping it. The price is almost 500$ now, its bad for all cryptocurrencies, it will confuse new people in cryptos
Good content!
Great info ! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the insight @sirwinchester, because honestly, I haven't been paying any attention to the BTC HF. I've had some plays on Graphene based coins and that's been consuming my time and effort. This is the first in depth Bitcoin fork summary I've come by.
ViaBTC mines first hardfork block !
https://steemit.com/news/@niceviewsua/viabtc-mines-the-first-post-fork-block
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Good summary.
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Bitcoin Cash is now a thing :) with 10 billion market cap
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@ronaldmcatee/bitcoin-cash-bch-bubble-or-real-thing
This first successful fork will give a chance for others. As far as I understood, and let me say I am not an expert in Bitcoin, there is another fork coming up, in less than two months. The new coin will be BTCX. So.... probably Bitcoin will be reaching $5,000 before December????
Hey, I like Your posts :)