Blockchain Split: Bitcoin Cash Was Born

[andrzej.srankiewicz]

A Bitcoin Hard fork has occurred on August 1. The first Bitcoin Cash (BCH) block was mined only five hours later after the launch of the hard fork at 12:20 UTC.

The first BCH blocks were mined by the Chinese mining pool, ViaBTC, and one of them exceeded the size of 1Mb (max size of a BTC block) at 1,9Mb. So far, most BCH blocks are less than 1Mb and most probably it will take a lot of time until 2Mb blocks will be mined permanently.

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[kingcoinbase]

only five hours? That's crazy..!

[Neoclassical]

Thanks for the gift Jihan