Bitcoin Cash

Bitcoin Cash is another altcoin created by a hard fork from the Bitcoin core. It has a larger block size limit of up to 8 MB and does not include SegWit (Segregated Witness).

Networks Mainnet, Testnet
Released 2017
Consensus Proof of Work (PoW)
Smart contracts No
Block time 10 minutes
Smart contract language(s) supported No
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The Bitcoin Cash API — build without running a node

Access Bitcoin Cash blockchain data through one unified REST API: transaction and address data, balances, block data, and real-time webhooks for on-chain events — with no Bitcoin Cash node to run and maintain. Start free and scale as you grow.

Blockchain data

Read Bitcoin Cash transactions, addresses, balances, UTXOs, and block data through one REST API.

Real-time webhooks

Subscribe to on-chain events — incoming and outgoing transactions, confirmations, and mined blocks.

No node to run

Skip the infrastructure — managed, always-synced access with no node to operate or maintain.

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The 2017 fork of Bitcoin

Since Bitcoin Cash forked from Bitcoin core, the two don’t have that many differences between them. Bitcoin Cash uses slightly different technology than SegWit, called SecureSigs, and has a significantly lower price per coin than the original Bitcoin.