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The Bitcoin Cash fork occurred on 1 August 2017, at block 478,559. Up to the previous block (478,558), the bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash blockchains were identical. This means that anyone who owned one bitcoin at the time of the fork automatically owned one unit of Bitcoin Cash. The technical difference between Bitcoin Cash and bitcoin at the time of the fork is that Bitcoin Cash supports larger block sizes. This allows the Bitcoin Cash blockchain to process more transactions per second compared to bitcoin.
Bitcoin Cash was the first of the bitcoin forks, wherein software development teams modified bitcoin's code and released coins with "bitcoin" in their names, effectively creating "money out of thin air." In relation to bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash is variously described as a spin-off, a strand, a product of a hard fork, an offshoot, a clone, a second version, or an altcoin.
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