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Even the celebrity of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin (BTC), has seen forks. One of the well-known Bitcoin forks happened on August 1, 2017. That’s the birthday of Bitcoin Cash. In this case, the developers couldn’t agree on what the size for a block should be. Some wanted the block size to go from 1MB to 2MB, but others wanted to increase it even more, to 32MB. Some people in the community loved the new big idea, while others thought the other group was crazy. So both groups decided to go their own ways. Bitcoin Cash adapted a brand-new symbol (BCH), too. People who already had BTC got the same amount of BCH added to their crypto wallets.

As of August 2018, BCH is valued at around $750, while BTC is worth ten times more, around $7,500. Only time will tell whether BCH ever surpasses the original protocol’s value. But hey, at least the forkers got some value out of it!