Bitcoin falls below $5,000

Re:Bitcoin falls below $5,000 by nemothekid on Monday November 19, 2018 @01:42PM (#18488624)

I _think_ the split came down to how to support the increasing rate of txn/s. The Bitcoin cash folks wanted to increase the "block size" which required a hard fork. The Bitcoin "board" wanted to implement a new "protocol" called lightning instead.

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Re:Bitcoin falls below $5,000 by yifanl on Monday November 19, 2018 @01:45PM (#18488642)

Ah, I was talking about the new split, I understand the original fork was over the blocksize cap.

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Re:Bitcoin falls below $5,000 by sunshiney on Monday November 19, 2018 @02:55PM (#18489220)

Just the normal agreed-upon fork every 6 months but this time things heated up with the hashing war, which featured antminer pulled all the miners in his pool from BTC into BCH, causing downward price pressure.

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