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Bitcoin Cash soars more than 100% to record high above $900

Published 08/20/2017, 09:38 AM
Updated 08/20/2017, 09:38 AM
© Reuters. Bitcoin Cash soars to record high above $900

© Reuters. Bitcoin Cash soars to record high above $900

Investing.com - Bitcoin Cash prices rose sharply on Sunday, jumping to a record high above the $900-level, amid optimism that faster transactions times will speed up the spread of the cryptocurrency.

According to market participants, over half of Bitcoin Cash’s transaction volume was made on trading exchanges in South Korea, such as Bithumb and Coinone.

Bitcoin Cash was last at $774.00 by 9:35AM ET (1335GMT), up about 106.4%, or $398.96.

It touched $935.50 earlier, the highest the Bitcoin offshoot has ever traded in its less than three weeks of history and an increase of almost 400% from its low of $210 on its first day of trading.

The surge means that the total market cap of Bitcoin Cash has now reached around $13 billion, making it the third-largest digital currency after Bitcoin and Ethereum.

The rapid price rise has made it more profitable for miners to mine Bitcoin Cash as opposed to the original Bitcoin.

Prices of the original Bitcoin slumped around 6%, or $250, to $4,087.70, continuing its retreat from last week's all-time peak of $4,489.10.

It fell to a low of $3,951.30, amid growing investor concerns that the digital currency could face a second split in November.

Bitcoin’s blockchain split into two earlier this month, after members of the bitcoin community rejected the first part of the SegWit2x upgrade, creating a competing currency called ‘Bitcoin Cash’.

The most important difference between the two coins is that Bitcoin Cash allows for faster transaction times by using custom block sizing.

Bitcoin Cash has a block size with an 8-megabyte transaction limit. Bitcoin transactions on the other hand are limited to 1-megabyte every 10 minutes.

Elsewhere in cryptocurrency trading, Ethereum was down almost 3.5% to $292.53. It has the second-largest market capitalization among cryptocurrencies at nearly $28 billion.

To stay on top of the latest moves in the crypto-space, be sure to check out: https://www.investing.com/crypto/

Latest comments

IT shows that someone controls bitcoin and it is now subject to inflation. That's the nail in the coffin. It needed to be scarce but now it is multiplying into different forms. Bad news.
yes, but now it falls in total with bitcoin.
true. And ethereum too
632$ is a certainty. then afterwards we head for future's target
It's just gonna rebound to 1000
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