Bitcoin Cash has failed to make use of its 8MB block size, analysts say

Get the Full StoryIn 2017, a veritable civil war was fought between camps of Bitcoin believers: those who sought to keep its block size at 1MB, and those who wanted to increase it. Those looking for bigger blocks found themselves rallying behind a then-new cryptocurrency a hard fork of Bitcoin called Bitcoin Cash BCH whose premise rested on re-creating Bitcoin to mine 8MB blocks. The idea was and still is that larger blocks technically allow for more transactions to be confirmed at once, as you can fit more of them into a single block. This supposedly makes a blockchain more efficient. As This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: Bitcoin

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