Bitcoin Cash More Profitable To Mine (For Now)steemCreated with Sketch.

in bitcoin •  8 years ago 

Disclaimer: I am calling Bitcoin Cash BCH because the ticker "BCC" is already used by another coin which I refuse to talk about at this moment and I would recommend you to be very careful when dealing with.

Since August 1 it has been a battle between Bitcoin lovers and Bitcoin Cash enthusiasts, in the beginning the winner was clear, BCH had such a small hashrate that blocks took hours to be processed, leading to abnormally high transaction times. Though the concept of the idea for this fork having 8MB blocks was to increase speed and reduce fees, it would not help if miners do not support.

Luckily enough a few days later the difficulty was readjusted on both networks and Bitcoin Cash became faster to ind a middle point between difficulty and hashrate. That is good for customers and miners, now customers will have faster transaction times and miners will mine more blocks in a shorter period of time.

For a while Bitcoin Cash even became more profitable to mine than Bitcoin itself, the low hashrate of the network, lower difficulty and the price all summed up has resulted in that.

I think that now BTC and BCH will compete for hashing power and buyers just as much as ETH does with ETC (but in the case of Bitcoin the "winner" is not clear yet)

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