{"id":84782,"date":"2018-11-16T02:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T10:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/when-the-fork-forks-what-you-need-to-know-as-bitcoin-cash-goes-to-war"},"modified":"2018-11-16T02:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T10:22:24","slug":"when-the-fork-forks-what-you-need-to-know-as-bitcoin-cash-goes-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/when-the-fork-forks-what-you-need-to-know-as-bitcoin-cash-goes-to-war","title":{"rendered":"When the Fork Forks: What You Need to Know as Bitcoin Cash Goes to War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-the-fork-forks-what-you-need-to-know-as-bitcoin-cash-goes-to-war.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin seems largely a \u2018psychological\u2019 currency whose value oscillates mostly in response to changes in folk\u2019s opinions rather than shifts in some real underlying store of value, imo <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/articles\/when-fork-forks-what-you-need-know-bitcoin-cash-goes-war\/\">https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/articles\/when-fork-forks-what-yo\u2026-goes-war\/<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/paper.li\/e-1437691924\">https:\/\/paper.li\/e-1437691924<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you need to know to get up to speed.<\/p>\n<p><b>As a quick reminder, what is Bitcoin Cash again?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin Cash (sometimes referred to as \u201cBcash\u201d or \u201cBCH\u201d) is a cryptocurrency that<a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/articles\/birth-bch-first-crazy-days-bitcoin-cash\/\"> split off<\/a> from the main Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017. Culminating from Bitcoin\u2019s years-long scaling dispute, the spinoff project most notably increased its block size limit through a contentious hard fork upgrade, \u201cforking off\u201d to become its own coin \u2014 though some of its proponents see it as the \u201creal Bitcoin.\u201d While currently trading at a fraction of bitcoin\u2019s value \u2014 around $480 at the time of writing \u2014 Bitcoin Cash is the fourth biggest cryptocurrency by market cap and has garnered support from big names in the cryptocurrency space like <a href=\"http:\/\/bitcoin.com\">bitcoin.com<\/a> CEO Roger Ver and Bitmain co-founder Jihan Wu.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/articles\/when-fork-forks-what-you-need-know-bitcoin-cash-goes-war\/\">https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/articles\/when-fork-forks-what-yo...-goes-war\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin seems largely a \u2018psychological\u2019 currency whose value oscillates mostly in response to changes in folk\u2019s opinions rather than shifts in some real underlying store of value, imo https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/articles\/when-fork-forks-what-yo\u2026-goes-war\/ https:\/\/paper.li\/e-1437691924 Here\u2019s what you need to know to get up to speed. As a quick reminder, what is Bitcoin Cash again? Bitcoin Cash (sometimes referred to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}