Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Price — Buy & Swap BCH

The story behind Bitcoin Cash

BCH split away from Bitcoin in August 2017 after years of bitter argument over how the network should scale, raising the block size limit from 1 MB to 8 MB and later to 32 MB in pursuit of cheaper, more plentiful transaction space. The project fractured again in November 2018, this time producing Bitcoin SV as a further splinter, and Bitcoin Cash has since added CashTokens for issuing assets on the chain and a smoother difficulty adjustment algorithm to keep block times steadier during volatile mining conditions.

What BCH is used for

You would use BCH for low-fee payments and merchant checkout, where fees typically run well under a cent, and increasingly for tokens issued through CashTokens rather than the coin alone. Some point-of-sale processors and remittance services favour it specifically because its blocks rarely fill up, which keeps settlement times predictable even during busy periods — something that cannot always be said of more congested chains.

Bitcoin Cash in the market today

Bitcoin Cash remains one of the larger Bitcoin forks by market value and stays widely listed on major exchanges, though it never displaced Bitcoin as the everyday settlement network its founders originally hoped it would become. It now competes for payment use cases with Litecoin and with newer, faster proof-of-work coins such as Kaspa, in a corner of the market that dollar stablecoins have also quietly encroached on.

How to buy or swap BCH

1. Pick BCH as the asset you want to receive.
2. Choose what you're paying with — crypto or a fiat card.
3. Monivo compares every connected exchange and routes your order to the best available rate.
4. Paste your wallet address and confirm — funds arrive in minutes.