Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency that was created in 2017 as a result of a hard fork from Bitcoin. This split was driven by a disagreement within the Bitcoin community over how to scale the network. Bitcoin Cash proponents favored increasing the block size limit to allow more transactions per block, aiming to improve the scalability of the cryptocurrency. As a result, Bitcoin Cash features a larger block size compared to Bitcoin, which it advocates say leads to lower transaction fees and faster processing times. It operates on the same underlying blockchain technology as Bitcoin and seeks to fulfill the original promise of Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.
