Bitcoin Cash is a hard fork of Bitcoin with a protocol upgrade to fix on-chain capacity. Bitcoin Cash intends to be a Bitcoin without Segregated Witness (SegWit) as soft fork, where upgrades of the protocol are done mainly through hard forks and without changing the original economic rules of the Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is released on 1st August 2017 as an upgraded version of the original Bitcoin Core software. The main upgrade is the increase in the block size limit from 1MB to 8MB. This effectively allows miners on the BCH chain to process up to 8 times more payments per second in comparison to Bitcoin. This makes for faster, cheaper transactions and a much smoother user experience. Why was Bitcoin Cash Created? The main objective of Bitcoin Cash is to to bring back the essential qualities of money inherent in the original Bitcoin software. Over the years, these qualities were filtered out of Bitcoin Core and progress was stifled by various people, organizations, and companies involved in Bitcoin protocol development. The result is that Bitcoin Core is currently unusable as money due to increasingly high fees per transactions and transfer times taking hours to complete. This is all because of the 1MB limitation of Bitcoin Core’s block size, causing it unable to accommodate to large number of transactions. Essentially Bitcoin Cash is a community-activated upgrade (otherwise known as a hard fork) of Bitcoin that increased the block size to 8MB, solving the scaling issues that plague Bitcoin Core today. Nov 16th 2018: A hashwar resulted in a split between Bitcoin SV and Bitcoin ABC

Bitcoin soared to a new all-time high above $125,000 in early October 2025 before a sudden mid-October sell-off erased its gains. Starting around October 10, a wave of profit-taking spurred by macroeconomic jitters (including a U.S. tariff threat against China) triggered a sharp 17% price drop within days. This ferocious volatility wiped out an estimated $19 billion in leveraged positions as exchanges scrambled to handle the cascade of liquidations. By the end of October, Bitcoin had fallen about 8-9% for the month, marking its first negative October performance since 2018 and breaking a six-year "Uptober" streak of typically strong October gains.

Market sentiment turned cautious through November as Bitcoin extended its correction. The cryptocurrency slid below $90,000 by mid-November - its lowest level in seven months - ultimately dropping nearly 30% from its early October peak. Investors pulled a record $523 million in a single day from BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (the largest spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund), reflecting a broader risk-off mood across crypto assets. Some analysts pointed to investors rotating into gold and other safe havens as Bitcoin's status as "digital gold" came under scrutiny during the downturn.

Despite the pullback, several developments underscored continued confidence in Bitcoin. Institutional and corporate buyers took advantage of lower prices: publicly traded tech firm MicroStrategy added 8,178 BTC (about $835 million worth) in November, bringing its total holdings to nearly 650,000 BTC. At the same time, U.S. policymakers moved toward clearer crypto regulation. President Donald Trump's administration maintained a crypto-friendly agenda, and Congress considered the CLARITY Act to define how digital assets like Bitcoin are regulated. Analysts noted that growing institutional adoption – from robust demand for Bitcoin ETFs to ongoing corporate accumulation – suggested the late-2025 pullback was a temporary consolidation rather than the start of a prolonged bear market.