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title: "Bitcoin Cash (BCH) price, heat score and market data"
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name: "Bitcoin Cash"
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heat_score: "27"
heat_band: "COOL"
market_cap_rank: "22"
price_as_of: "2026-08-15"
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# Bitcoin Cash (BCH)

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) trades at $204.79, down 9.7% over the past 30 days. Its market cap — supply times price — is $4.1B, the 22-largest in crypto. Over a year it is -65% (down), and it sits -95% from its all-time high. Total value locked on this chain is $7.2M — negligible against market cap, which simply means TVL is not what this asset is for. On tradability, the book is thin, so incoming money moves the price easily. Taken together, the overall heat score is 27 (COOL). A higher number means more of the conditions for a rally are in place — it is not a price forecast.

Last updated 2026-08-15 · Price $204.79 (as of 2026-08-15)

Heat score: **27** (COOL) — a deterministic 0–100 read on how many of the conditions for a move are in place. Not a price forecast.

## Market data (as of 2026-08-15)

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Price | $204.79 |
| Market cap | $4.1B (rank #22) |
| 24h volume | $156.6M |
| Circulating supply | 20,075,322 BCH (about 100% of total supply) |
| Total supply | 20,075,337 BCH |
| Change from all-time high | -94.6% |
| Chain fees (24h) | $135 |

## What is Bitcoin Cash

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.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is Bitcoin Cash (BCH)?

Bitcoin Cash is a hard fork of Bitcoin with a protocol upgrade to fix on-chain capacity. Read more →

### What is the current price of Bitcoin Cash (BCH)?

$204.79 as of 2026-08-15. The price moves daily, and this page is rebuilt every day.

### What is the market cap of Bitcoin Cash (BCH)?

About $4.1B as of 2026-08-15, which ranks #22 across all crypto assets.

### What is Bitcoin Cash's heat score, and what does it mean?

The heat score is 27 (COOL) as of 2026-08-15. It is our own 0–100 measure of how many of the conditions a rally needs — momentum, tradable volume, light supply and a supportive market — are currently in place. It is not a price forecast. The model multiplies its factors, so a single missing condition holds the whole score down.

### What is the supply of Bitcoin Cash (BCH)?

As of 2026-08-15, 20,075,322 BCH is in circulation out of a total supply of 20,075,337 BCH — about 100%. The remainder may reach the market through future unlocks.

### What is the all-time high for Bitcoin Cash (BCH)?

The all-time high on record as of 2026-08-15 is $3,785.82.The price is $204.79 today, -94.6% from that high.

### How much Bitcoin Cash (BCH) can I buy with $100?

At the 2026-08-15 price ($204.79), $100 buys roughly 0.4883 BCH before fees and spread. Crypto is divisible, so you do not need to buy a whole coin.

### Will Bitcoin Cash (BCH) go up? What are its prospects?

We do not forecast prices or give investment advice. What this page does is track Bitcoin Cash every day through factual data — the heat score, supply structure, charts and development activity. Use it as material for your own judgement; the decision is yours.

### Is the Bitcoin Cash chain actually being used?

As of 2026-08-15, chain fees over the past day came to about $135. Fees stand in for real demand for block space.

### Where can I buy or trade Bitcoin Cash (BCH)?

It trades on major crypto exchanges. Which venues you can use depends on where you live, so check what is licensed in your own jurisdiction. This is information, not a recommendation of any asset or exchange.

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Sources: CoinGecko (data provided by CoinGecko), DefiLlama and alternative.me. Figures are as of 2026-08-15 and change daily. Information only; not investment advice or a recommendation to trade.
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