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Third Anniversary of Bitcoin Cash Highlights a Myriad of Network Improvements
• https://news.bitcoin.com, by Jamie RedmanThe Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fork took place almost three years ago in 2017 and the official anniversary is twelve days away. A lot has happened since then and in 2018, the Bitcoinsv (BSV) community forked away from the BCH chain.
Currently, BTC, BCH, and BSV are the largest and most popular Bitcoin branches by onchain use, adoption, and overall market valuations. The Bitcoin Cash fork stemmed from the multi-year scaling debate over the 1MB block size limit, and the BTC chain still maintains that consensus limit.
In 2017, the BCH block size was increased and ever since then, it's been raised to 32MB. Besides having a much larger block size, the BCH chain has seen a myriad of improvements during the last three years.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) developers have increased to the block size to 32MB, re-enabled old Satoshi opcodes, added version bits voting, and increased the default datacarriersize to 220 bytes.