Bitcoin Cash Plus: FAQ's

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Bitcoin Cash Plus?

Bitcoin Cash Plus is peer-to-peer electronic cash for the Internet. It is fully decentralized, with no central bank and requires no trusted third parties to operate.

Is Bitcoin Cash Plus different from 'Bitcoin'?

Yes. Bitcoin Cash Plus is the continuation of the Bitcoin project as peer-to-peer digital cash. It is a fork of the Bitcoin blockchain ledger, with upgraded consensus rules that allow it to grow and scale.

If I own Bitcoin, do I automatically own Bitcoin Cash Plus too?

Anyone who held Bitcoin at the time Bitcoin Cash Plus was created became owners of Bitcoin Cash Plus. This means that Bitcoin holders as of block 501407 (January 2nd, 2018 about 7:10 am UTC) have the same amount of Bitcoin Cash Plus as they had Bitcoin at that time. If your Bitcoins are stored by a third party such as an exchange, then you must inquire with them about your Bitcoin Cash Plus.

How is transaction replay being handled between the new and the old blockchain?

Bitcoin Cash Plus transactions use a new signature hashing algorithm indicated by the flag SIGHASH_FORKID. These signatures are not valid on the Bitcoin Legacy network. This prevents Bitcoin Cash Plus transactions from being replayed on the Bitcoin blockchain and vice versa.

Why was a fork necessary to create Bitcoin Cash Plus?

The legacy Bitcoin code had a maximum limit of 1MB of data per block, or about 3 transactions per second. Although technically simple to raise this limit, the community could not reach a consensus, even after years of debate.

Was the 1 MB block size limit causing problems for Bitcoin?

Yes, In 2017, capacity hit the 'invisible wall'. Fees skyrocketed, and Bitcoin became unreliable, with some users unable to get their transactions confirmed, even after days of waiting.

Bitcoin stopped growing. Many users, merchants, businesses and investors abandoned Bitcoin. Its marketshare among other cryptocurrencies quickly plummeted from 95% to 40%.

Does Bitcoin Cash Plus fix these problems?

Yes. Bitcoin Cash Plus immediately raised the block size limit to 8MB as part of a massive on-chain scaling approach. There is ample capacity for everyone's transactions.

Low fees and fast confirmations have returned with Bitcoin Cash Plus. The network is growing again. Users, merchants, businesses, and investors are building the future with real peer to peer cash.

Why didn't Bitcoin raise the block size if it was easy?

Some of the developers did not understand and agree with the original vision of peer-to-peer electronic cash that Satoshi Nakamoto had created. Instead, they preferred Bitcoin become a settlement layer.

Many miners and users trusted these developers, while others recognized that they were leading the community down a different road than expected.

These two very different visions for Bitcoin are largely incompatible, which led to the community divide.

Didn't SegWit increase the block capacity? Will Bitcoin Cash Plus ever have SegWit?

Segregated Witness or "SegWit" is an unacceptable substitute for increasing the blocksize for several reasons.

First, even if used in 100% of transactions, the increase would equate to 1.7MB blocks. Thus, it is a small capacity increase at best. It will not handle exponential growth or worldwide usage. Second, the soft fork implementation results in discardable signatures, which weakens Bitcoin's security model. Third, it makes future capacity increases more difficult due to bandwidth inefficiency and quadratic hashing attacks which SegWit doesn't solve since an attacker isn't forced to use it.

For those (and other) reasons, Bitcoin Cash Plus was necessary as a pre-SegWit fork. Segwit will not be adopted.

Which Development Team is In Charge of Bitcoin Cash Plus?

Unlike the previous situation in Bitcoin, there is no one single development team for Bitcoin Cash Plus. There are now multiple independent teams of developers.

This decentralization of development (and decentralization of software implementations) is a much needed and important step forward.

What is the ticker symbol for Bitcoin Cash Plus?

Bitcoin Cash Plus is represented by a number of different ticker symbols depending on the service or wallet. BCP are the most popular tickers.

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