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Re:The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined by colordrops on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @07:12PM (#14906354)
According to what definition? 2% of BTC mining power is still more than most other coins.
Re:The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined by makomk on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @07:25PM (#14906446)
Coinbase doesn't support most other coins either. There are exchanges that are enthusiastic about supporting all of the altcoins out there, but Coinbase isn't one.
Re:The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined by colordrops on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @08:43PM (#14906888)
It's already in the top 4 coins in market cap. Seems like a reasonable coin to support at this point.
Re:The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined by makomk on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @08:58AM (#14910132)
That market cap is illusionary because there's no way to deposit BCH into exchanges right now. ViaBTC apparently requires 20 confirmations which would take about a week at the current hash rate, the other exchanges like Kraken and Bittrex aren't accepting deposits at all and don't plan to for a few days yet. So essentially all of the BCH making up that market cap cannot in fact be sold at all right now; the only BCH can be is from Bitcoins that was in exchanges that support BCH at the time of the split.
Re:The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined by kobeya on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @02:52AM (#14908484)
Market cap is not a useful metric. It hase very low liquidity at the moment.
Re:The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined by jhall1468 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @02:01AM (#14908249)
It's been extremely volatile so at this juncture price means little. Give it some time before arguing it has any value, the market hasn't decided yet.
Re:The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined by sobani on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @09:35AM (#14910411)
Right at this moment it's values at $717.00 per BCH vs $2694.42 for a BTC.

You'd argue it's better for me to have wait until the price stabilizes at 2% of BTC before I'm allowed to cash out?