Bitcoin Cash ranks #13 of 534 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #21: 8 of the 20 things ahead of it are claims on assets already counted.
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #13 |
|---|---|
| Rank counting claims | #21 |
| Market capitalisation | $6.8B |
| Price | $338.62 |
| Circulating supply | 20,094,041 BCH |
| Maximum supply | 21,000,000 BCH |
| Consensus family | Proof of Work |
| Consensus mechanism | SHA-256 |
| Own hashrate | 3.63 EH/s |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Multi-asset ledger |
| Regulatory class | Commodity |
Market figures from the 25 September 2026 build snapshot. Open the live view for real-time exchange prices and charts.
20,094,041 of a maximum 21,000,000 BCH have been issued, 95.7% of the total that will ever exist.
Bitcoin Cash is secured by 3.63 EH/s of its own work. Hashrate does not compare across algorithms — a SHA-256 hash and a Scrypt hash cost different amounts to produce.
Named a digital commodity in the joint SEC-CFTC interpretation (Mar 17, 2026).
Reported as the regulator's position, not ours. Assets nobody has ruled on are left unclassified rather than sorted by our own guess.
Bitcoin Cash is a Bitcoin protocol upgrade activated on 1 August 2017 (block 478,559). It follows the scaling approach Bitcoin's creator Satoshi Nakamoto described from the start: raising the base block-size limit as the network grows. Nothing was created that day. Bitcoin was released in 2009; on 1 August 2017 part of the Bitcoin community activated the block-size upgrade, and on 24 August a separate SegWit upgrade activated on the same network.
Satoshi wrote in October 2010 that the block-size limit could be phased in with a simple height-triggered change — if (blocknumber > 115000) maxblocksize = largerlimit — and that older clients would obsolete themselves by the time the change activated. Bitcoin Cash raised the base block to 8 MB in 2017 and to 32 MB in 2018 — the same mechanism, executed.
The full comparison of the two 2017 upgrade paths — the block-size raise and SegWit — and the site's position on the naming convention that treats one as "Bitcoin" and the other as "a fork of Bitcoin" is in the Journal: Bitcoin took two upgrade paths in 2017.
An asset counts once. Wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins are claims on something already in the list, so they are listed separately rather than added to the total. That's why Bitcoin Cash sits at #13 here versus #21 elsewhere — the 8 positions between them are claims we don't count as separate assets. The methodology sets out both rules, and the counting rule argues for them.
See the 1 wrapped and staked claim on Bitcoin Cash →