Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Price Tops $474.62

Posted by on Mar 17th, 2026

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 0.2% lower against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 9:00 AM ET on March 17th. Bitcoin Cash has a total market capitalization of $9.50 billion and approximately $316.15 million worth of Bitcoin Cash was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Bitcoin Cash coin can currently be purchased for approximately $474.62 or 0.00642914 BTC on exchanges. In the last week, Bitcoin Cash has traded up 6.1% against the U.S. dollar.

Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:

  • Arweave (AR) traded 0.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.88 or 0.00002544 BTC.
  • Bitcoin (BTC) traded down 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $73,823.16 or 1.00000000 BTC.
  • Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 1.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $15.44 or 0.00020915 BTC.
  • eCash (XEC) traded 0.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
  • Syscoin (SYS) traded up 1.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0124 or 0.00000017 BTC.

Bitcoin Cash Profile

BCH is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm. It launched on August 1st, 2017. Bitcoin Cash’s total supply is 20,008,506 coins. The Reddit community for Bitcoin Cash is /r/Bitcoincash and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Bitcoin Cash’s official Twitter account is @bitcolncash and its Facebook page is accessible here. The official message board for Bitcoin Cash is bitcointalk.org. Bitcoin Cash’s official website is www.bitcoincash.org.

According to CryptoCompare, “Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a decentralized cryptocurrency created in 2017 through a hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain. It has a larger block size than Bitcoin, allowing for faster and cheaper transactions. Bitcoin Cash can be used as a means of exchange and store of value and is gaining acceptance among merchants and businesses worldwide. It was created by a group of developers and miners who believed that Bitcoin needed modifications to address scalability issues. The main developer team was initially called “Bitcoin ABC,” but development has since become more decentralized.”

Buying and Selling Bitcoin Cash

Investors seeking to trade Bitcoin Cash using US dollars directly can do so using Gemini, Changelly or GDAX.

BCH/USD price chart by TradingView

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