Buy BCH with UpTradeBuy Bitcoin Cash with a dedicated broker handling the trade from your first question through to settlement into institutional custody.
Buy Bitcoin Cash with a dedicated broker handling the trade from your first question through to settlement into institutional custody.
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Fund your account and get your quote Fund in your preferred currency and your broker prepares a live quote, so you know exactly what you’re getting before you commit. Larger orders route through OTC execution.
Buy and settle into custody Confirm with your broker and your BCH settles into institutional custody secured by Fireblocks. Hold it there or withdraw to your own wallet anytime.
General considerations not advice. How you act on them depends on your own circumstances.
Crypto is volatile Bitcoin Cash’s price can move sharply in both directions sometimes within a single trading session. It’s an asset class to approach with capital you’re prepared to see fluctuate in value. General information only not a prediction or recommendation.
General information only, not a prediction or recommendation.
Where it’s held matters Crypto bought on an exchange typically sits on the exchange’s balance sheet. Institutional custody holds your BCH separately a structural difference worth understanding before you buy.
How custody worksBroker vs exchange Buying Bitcoin Cash through a broker works differently from a self-serve exchange order book. Understanding how the two differ helps you choose the path that fits how you want to buy.
See the differenceLarger trades are different Buying a significant amount of Bitcoin Cash in one go can move an exchange’s order book against you. OTC execution is built for size filling large orders without that market impact.
About OTC tradingBitcoin CashA plain-English look at what it is, how it works, and what it's used for, so you can understand the asset before you buy.
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a proof-of-work cryptocurrency that emerged from a hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain on August 1, 2017. The fork was driven by a fundamental disagreement about how Bitcoin should scale with one camp favouring Bitcoin’s existing block size and Layer 2 solutions, and the other arguing for larger blocks at the base layer to keep transactions faster and cheaper on-chain. Bitcoin Cash took the latter approach, increasing the maximum block size to handle more transactions per block directly.
Bitcoin Cash shares Bitcoin’s foundational architecture: it uses the same SHA-256 proof-of-work consensus mechanism, the same 10-minute target block time, and the same hard cap of 21 million coins. The key technical difference is block size. Where Bitcoin’s blocks are limited to 1MB (with SegWit increasing effective capacity), Bitcoin Cash increased its block size limit to 32MB allowing significantly more transactions to be processed per block. This larger block size is designed to keep on-chain fees low and confirmation times predictable even as transaction volume grows, without relying on secondary layers. BCH also introduced the CashAddr address format and, more recently, CashTokens a protocol upgrade enabling fungible tokens and NFTs to be issued natively on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. Like Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash follows a halving schedule. Block rewards are halved every 210,000 blocks approximately every four years. The most recent halving occurred on April 4, 2024, reducing the block reward from 6.25 BCH to 3.125 BCH. The next halving is expected around 2028.
Bitcoin Cash was designed specifically as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system fulfilling what its proponents describe as the original intent of the Bitcoin whitepaper. Its large block capacity keeps transaction fees consistently low, making it practical for everyday payments, remittances, and merchant acceptance. BCH is accepted by a range of payment processors globally and is listed on virtually every major exchange, giving it broad liquidity and accessibility. The introduction of CashTokens has expanded its utility beyond simple payments, enabling a new layer of programmable functionality on the base chain. Bitcoin Cash is also held as a long-term digital asset by investors who value its sound monetary policy fixed supply, predictable issuance, and a halving schedule identical to Bitcoin’s.
• Bitcoin fork. Bitcoin Cash forked from Bitcoin in August 2017 at block 478,559. Holders of Bitcoin at that point received an equal amount of BCH giving it immediate wide distribution at launch.
• 32MB block size. Bitcoin Cash supports blocks up to 32MB, compared to Bitcoin's ~1-4MB effective capacity. This keeps on-chain fees low and transaction throughput high without requiring Layer 2 solutions.
• Fixed supply. Like Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash has a hard cap of 21 million coins. The same halving schedule applies block rewards halve every 210,000 blocks, approximately every four years.
• Proof of Work (SHA-256). BCH uses the same SHA-256 mining algorithm as Bitcoin, meaning the two networks compete for the same pool of miners.
• CashTokens. A 2023 protocol upgrade enabling the native issuance of fungible tokens and NFTs directly on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain, expanding its programmability.
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