THELOGICALINDIAN - As Bitcoincom appear beforehand today Bitcoin Cash miners accomplished the alpha of the angle on August 1 at 1237 pm UTC at block acme 478558 Now six hours after Viabtc mined the aboriginal Bitcoin Cash block nr 478559 at 614 pm GMT This was followed by the additional block nr 478560 that was additionally mined by the mining basin Viabtc
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Bitcoin Cash is Born
The Bitcoin Cash blockchain has auspiciously breach abroad from the bequest alternation as of block 478559. The block was mined by the China-based mining basin Viabtc at 2:14 pm EDT (6:14 GMT) and the basin additionally begin the abutting block 478560 anon after. The aboriginal Bitcoin Cash block was 1915175 Bytes or 1.9 MB in size, captivation 6,985 transactions. This is abundant beyond than BTC’s 1MB absolute and approx. 3,000 transaction throughput. The mining basin Viabtc additionally wrote in the block’s Coinbase abstracts “Welcome to the world.” The alignment additionally showed action via Twitter stating;
Bitcoin Cash Network Sees a Hashrate Increase, but a Swift Drop in Price
Bitcoin Cash prices accept alone decidedly back this morning’s aerial of $400 to a low of $220 at the time of writing. The amount of BTC seems unfazed by the aboriginal blocks begin and is still aerial about the $2740 range. Throughout forums and amusing media, anybody is talking about the fork. Of course, big blockers are adulatory the breach while baby blockers are cat-and-mouse to see article bad happen.
At the moment the Bitcoin Cash hashrate is growing boring and is currently operating at 247 PH/s or 3.9% of the BTC arrangement hashrate. So far, at columnist time, five blocks total accept been mined on the Bitcoin Cash network. Bitcoin.com will be abiding to chase the breach contest carefully so our readers can be abreast every footfall of the way.
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