Bitcoin Cash BCH

Where BCH sits in the market

At #17, Bitcoin Cash sits in the top of the large-cap band, near enough to the leaders to be quoted like one of them. This close to the leaders the book behaves like a major most of the time: BCH quotes continuously on the large venues and the spread is rarely the reason a trade goes wrong. What separates it from the top ten is reflexivity — it takes the benchmark's direction and amplifies it, so drawdowns arrive faster than the rank suggests.

CryptoPingAi is currently streaming 8 live BCH order books (Binance, Bybit, OKX, Gate.io, MEXC, HTX…). That is wider coverage than most assets ranked near #17 carry, so a divergence on any one of them is far more likely to be a local liquidity event than a genuine repricing. One of them is a Korean won market, so the Kimchi-premium spread between the KRW and USDT quote is visible on this page.

BCH against its all-time high

BCH trades 92.5% below its $3,786 record (on 2017-12-20), which puts a 13.3x recovery between spot and that level. A drawdown of this size is usually a structural break rather than a correction — the market that set the high and the market trading today are not the same market. Using that print as a price objective is not a conservative assumption, it is a very aggressive one. It was set 9 years ago. A reference that old says more about the cycle it belongs to than about the asset as it trades now.

BCH across its historical range

The recorded range runs 49.2x, from $76.93 to $3,786 — wide by the standards of traditional assets, moderate for this one's class.

BCH trades roughly 3.70x above its record low of $76.93 (on 2018-12-16). Recovery from the bottom has been limited, which means the low is still close enough to function as a real reference level rather than a historical footnote.

BCH supply structure

Of a capped 21.0 million BCH, 20.0 million is circulating — 95.4% issued, with 967,678 still to be created. The remaining issuance is small enough that emission is a second-order influence on price, but the schedule still matters for anyone modelling multi-year supply.

What kind of asset BCH is

Bitcoin Cash is a base-layer network, so BCH is simultaneously the chain's security budget and its unit of account rather than a claim on a business. Value accrual runs through validator economics and through whatever activity settles on the chain itself. Because it is secured by proof of work, new BCH arrives on a fixed schedule and is paid to miners who carry real energy costs — a structural, price-insensitive source of sell pressure that proof-of-stake chains do not have.

CoinGecko files BCH under 5 categories, including Layer 1 (L1), Bitcoin Fork, Proof of Work (PoW), Coinbase 50 Index. Worth flagging from the metadata: BCH is a constituent of the Coinbase 50 Index.

How to set a Bitcoin Cash alert that is worth receiving

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) — quoted on 8 venues we stream — high dated 2017-12-20 — rank #17. On this profile the condition that carries signal is thresholds anchored to the recent range rather than to the all-time high.

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