Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Price & Crypto Analysis (Updated Oct 18, 2026, 12:32 AM ET)Bitcoin Cash (BCH) down 0.6% vs yesterday's close, 93% below its record
Updated Oct 18, 2026, 12:32 AM ETBitcoin Cash (BCH) is -1.50% over 24 hours with a market cap of $5.54 billion (rank #22).
Bitcoin Cash is a hard fork of Bitcoin with a protocol upgrade to fix on-chain capacity. Bitcoin Cash intends to be a Bitcoin without Segregated Witness (SegWit) as soft fork, where upgrades of the protocol are done mainly through hard forks and without changing the original economic rules of the Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is released on 1st August 2017 as an upgraded version of the original Bitcoin Core software. The main upgrade is the increase in the block size limit from 1MB to 8MB. This effectively allows miners on the BCH chain to process up to 8 times more payments per second in comparison to Bitcoin. This makes for faster, cheaper transactions and a much smoother user experience. Why was Bitcoin Cash Created? The main objective of Bitcoin Cash is to to bring back the essential qualities of money inherent in the original Bitcoin software. Over the years, these qualities were filtered out of Bitcoin Core and progress was stifled by various people, organizations, and companies involved in Bitcoin protocol development. The result is that Bitcoin Core is currently unusable as money due to increasingly high fees per transactions and transfer times taking hours to complete.
Project description as published by the project (via CoinGecko). Not written or verified by BuyMeWhiskey and not a prediction or recommendation.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Category | Smart Contract Platform, Layer 1 (L1), Bitcoin Fork, Proof of Work (PoW) |
| Hashing algorithm | SHA-256 |
| Official website | bch.info |
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Price | $275.68 |
| 24h change | -1.50% |
| 24h high / low | $279.76 / $271.00 |
| 24h trading volume | $124.27 million |
| Market cap | $5.54 billion |
| Market cap rank | #22 |
| Fully diluted valuation | $5.54 billion |
| Circulating supply | 20,104,200 BCH |
| Total supply | 20,104,487 BCH |
| Max supply | 21,000,000 BCH |
| 7d / 30d / 1y change | -0.36% / +15.48% / -41.35% |
| All-time high | $3,785.82 on 2017-12-19 (-92.72% from ATH) |
| All-time low | $76.93 on 2018-12-15 (+258.33% from ATL) |
Daily closes, 2025-10-19 to 2026-10-18: low $190.35, high $654.84.
| Date (UTC day) | Close | Change | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-18 (live) | $275.68 | -0.65% | $124.27 million |
| 2026-10-17 | $277.47 | -1.56% | $122.15 million |
| 2026-10-16 | $281.87 | +5.05% | $158.06 million |
| 2026-10-15 | $268.32 | -2.08% | $140.83 million |
| 2026-10-14 | $274.01 | +3.21% | $158.97 million |
| 2026-10-13 | $265.47 | -7.22% | $198.34 million |
| 2026-10-12 | $286.14 | +2.26% | $137.30 million |
| 2026-10-11 | $279.81 | +1.24% | $136.20 million |
| 2026-10-10 | $276.37 | +2.00% | $220.23 million |
| 2026-10-09 | $270.96 | -9.71% | $254.14 million |
| 2026-10-08 | $300.10 | -3.76% | $204.01 million |
| 2026-10-07 | $311.82 | -1.57% | $159.91 million |
| 2026-10-06 | $316.78 | -0.61% | $172.42 million |
| 2026-10-05 | $318.72 | -0.28% | $138.75 million |
| 2026-10-04 | $319.62 | +2.62% | $140.18 million |
| 2026-10-03 | $311.46 | +0.70% | $248.54 million |
| 2026-10-02 | $309.29 | +1.03% | $169.43 million |
| 2026-10-01 | $306.13 | -0.49% | $209.49 million |
| 2026-09-30 | $307.63 | -0.86% | $245.12 million |
| 2026-09-29 | $310.29 | -6.64% | $318.96 million |
| 2026-09-28 | $332.36 | -1.07% | $268.89 million |
| 2026-09-27 | $335.96 | -2.10% | $185.64 million |
| 2026-09-26 | $343.15 | +1.41% | $375.55 million |
| 2026-09-25 | $338.39 | +0.24% | $498.64 million |
| 2026-09-24 | $337.58 | -2.14% | $1.13 billion |
| 2026-09-23 | $344.97 | +29.16% | $1.24 billion |
| 2026-09-22 | $267.09 | +5.71% | $324.35 million |
| 2026-09-21 | $252.67 | -0.88% | $159.07 million |
| 2026-09-20 | $254.91 | -0.17% | $195.20 million |
| 2026-09-19 | $255.35 | +9.18% | $305.02 million |
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Bitcoin Cash is trading at $275.68 as of Oct 18, 2026, 12:32 AM ET, -1.50% over 24 hours (CoinGecko).
$5.54 billion, ranked #22 by market cap.
$3,785.82, set on 2017-12-19. It is -92.72% from that level now.
20,104,200 BCH circulating out of a max supply of 21,000,000.
Information only. Not financial or investment advice and not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any asset. No price predictions. Data: CoinGecko; may be delayed or inaccurate.