May 2026 upgrade: loops & functions live

Bitcoin that works.

Pay anyone for under a cent. Mint a token without a smart contract. Run the Bitcoin covenants that are still only proposals on Bitcoin Core (BTC).

Learn it. Build it. Watch it run.

Grab a Wallet → Start Building 
// Mint your first CashToken (Token Pioneers #1)
const genesis = await wallet.tokenGenesis({
  amount:     1_000_000n,
  commitment: "cafe",
  capability: "minting",
});

console.log(genesis.tokenIds[0]);
// → 8a3f…c91e   fee: 0.00000431 BCH
→ Follow the full tutorial
The short version

Three things BCH does well.

Cheap, fast payments. Tokens built into the coin. Bitcoin Script with the limits lifted. Each one works on mainnet today.

Money

No gas. Postage.

You pay a flat rate per byte, not a bid in a gas auction. A typical payment costs about a tenth of a cent, and it shows up in the other wallet in seconds.

$ open /spend
Tokens

Tokens with no approvals to drain.

CashTokens live inside the coin itself. There is no token contract, no approve(), no admin key and no upgradeable proxy. Minting one costs under a cent.

$ open /cashtokens
Lab

Bitcoin's covenant lab.

Covenants, introspection, big-number math, loops and functions: ideas Bitcoin Core (BTC) still debates already run on BCH mainnet. Try them for a fraction of a cent.

$ open /build
4 steps

Get started with BCH.

Take your time at each step. Nobody can reverse a payment for you, so learn your tools first.

  1. 1

    Download a Wallet

    Pick an open-source, self-custody wallet. Send yourself a few cents first and learn how it works.

  2. 2

    Back up your Recovery Phrase

    Your recovery phrase is your money. Write it down, store copies in more than one safe place, and never type it into a website.

  3. 3

    Get some BCH

    Earn it, or buy a small amount from a reputable exchange or trader. Start small while you learn.

  4. ✓

    Ready!

    Send, receive, spend, mint a token, or deploy your first contract.

    Pick a wallet →
Spec sheet

The numbers.

The figures behind the claims, as they stand today.

Typical fee
~$0.001
About 1 satoshi per byte. You pay for the size of the transaction, not for computation, so the fee stays flat and predictable.
Payment shows up
Seconds
Wallets see a payment right away. Double-spend proofs warn merchants if someone tries to spend the same coins twice. Blocks confirm every 10 minutes on average.
Block size
32 MB+
The limit grows with sustained demand under the adaptive algorithm (ABLA). Today's blocks use a small fraction of it.
Supply
21M
A fixed supply, secured by SHA-256 proof of work. The history is shared with Bitcoin up to the 2017 split.
Native tokens
20k+
More than 20,000 CashToken categories are minted on-chain, with no token contract involved.
Upgrades
Every May
CashTokens in 2023, adaptive blocks in 2024, more VM compute and big-number math in 2025, loops and functions in 2026.
How it works

You already understand UTXOs.

A UTXO is a coin. It has a value, a lock that says who can spend it, and a serial number. When you pay, you hand over whole coins and get change back, just like paper cash.

Bitcoin works this way too. Run a real transaction below and watch its coins get spent and minted. Then follow any coin back through history.

The UTXO Machine

Reads the chain live from public Fulcrum servers

More on UTXOs → Learn to build on BCH
Pick a project

What will you do with it?

Ship an app, open a till, mint a token or mine a block. Each path below takes you from zero to a first transaction.

Build on BCH

The cheapest place to touch a real proof-of-work blockchain. Learn UTXO and covenants, which are Bitcoin skills, and ship apps where a test transaction costs about $0.001.

$ open /build

Accept BCH

A fee you can work out in your head, no chargebacks, and double-spend alerts for payments that haven't confirmed yet. Take BCH in a shop, online, or for freelance work.

$ open /accept

Mint a CashToken

Fungible tokens and NFTs are native to the chain. Make one in minutes.

$ open /cashtokens

Send money home

Move value across borders in seconds, with no forms and a fee that rounds to zero.

$ open /buy

Mine a BCH Block

SHA-256 proof of work. Join a pool, point your hash rate at BCH, or run a full node.

$ open /mining

Earn BCH

Freelance, create, claim bounties, run a Flipstarter or run infrastructure.

$ open /earn

Spend BCH

Pay merchants online and in person. No account, no permission, under a cent.

$ open /spend

Follow a tutorial

Step-by-step guides, field reports and ecosystem notes from the BCH Works blog.

$ open /blog

Connect with the BCH community

Get help, find a mentor, and meet the people building BCH around the world. Everyone is welcome.

$ open /support

Read the honest overview

What Bitcoin Cash is, how it compares with Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana, and what it isn't good at yet.

$ open /bitcoin-cash
Straight talk

What BCH isn't (yet).

Every chain has trade-offs. Here are ours, so you can decide with the full picture.

  • Small ecosystem

    A few hundred active builders and thin liquidity. Most people have never used a BCH app.

  • Not private by default

    BCH is a transparent ledger. You get self-custody and censorship resistance, not anonymity.

  • 10-minute blocks

    Payments show up in seconds, but wait for 6 or more blocks (about an hour) before you treat a large payment as final.

  • Less hash rate than Bitcoin Core (BTC)

    BCH shares the SHA-256 algorithm with Bitcoin and has a small fraction of its hash rate.

Compare BCH with Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana →

Watch

Bitcoin Cash in three clips.

Short videos on permissionless money and what it means to hold your own keys.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Blog

From the workbench.

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