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According to CoinMarketCap, BCH has a market value of $11.3 billion and is currently trading at $688, up more than 112 percent over the last 24 hours and 77.51 percent over the past seven days.

Its third place position puts it ahead of ripple, which has a market value of just under $7 billion and litecoin, which makes up $2.23 billion.

At 18:41 UTC, yesterday, the first steps were taken by miners when they signalled their movement toward the new roadmap. According to data provided by BlockDozer, the first block was mined by mining firm ViaBTC. Six hours after the event was expected to take place block 478558 marked a clean break and the official start to bitcoin cash.