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A curated list of Bitcoin Cash projects & resources
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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a project to scale bitcoin on-chain as an electronic peer-to-peer payment system for the world. πŸš€


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Contents

Getting Started

State of the Project

Whitepaper

β€œBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” by Satoshi Nakamoto.

Bitcoin Cash is one chain of Satoshi Nakamoto’s blockchain invention which was deliberately hard-forked on August 1st, 2017. It shares the whitepaper, first block, and all bitcoin block history prior to the fork. It attempts to implement the central idea outlined in that paper.

Below is a copy of the original nine page whitepaper:

Open-Source Wallets

Below are non-custodial open-source wallets that use features specific to Bitcoin Cash.

Best BCH Wallets is a tool for selecting a wallet based on operating system and features.

Mobile

Desktop

Electron-Cash Plugins

Cli

Browser

Paper/Offline Generator

Podcasts, News, Media

Bitcoin Cash focussed media and content.

Projects Built on Bitcoin Cash

All of these apps are mostly stable and active. Always check the notes of a particular project before risking a large sum of value. Links are checked on a weekly basis, but function is not checked.

Apps (Social)

Crowdfunding

BCH Native Decentralized Finance

DefiLlama - Statistics for Bitcoin Cash Defi.

Collectables

Entertainment

Exchanges

Bitcoin Cash is supported on hundreds of exchanges, these are a few.

Centralized

More decentralized

Oracles

Faucets

Network

Explorers

Services

Utilities

Web

See Also

These are other projects dedicated to listing projects in the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem:

Merchants and Services Accepting Bitcoin Cash

A Short List

These vendors have accepted bitcoin for years and are committed (or sympathetic) toward the idea of electronic cash payments.

Although some of these may appear to only accept Bitcoin (BTC), they do, in fact, accept Bitcoin Cash also.

Geographic lists

Projects dedicated to listing or enabling eCommerce.

Some Charities and Foundations

Just some good charities for the world at large.

eCommerce Merchant Resources

Bitcoin Cash Open-Source plugins

Non-Custodial Payment Processors

BCH-to-Fiat Payment Processors

Payment Processor Status

Documentation

General

Base Protocol

Secondary protocols

Bitcoin Cash Standards is a site dedicated to collecting, some of which are listed below:

Discussion

An archive of past and future ideas for Bitcoin Cash ongoing at Bitcoin Cash Research (BCR). Collaborating participants have recorded their thoughts and concerns about various potential ideas & implemented improvements.

CHIP Process

Protocol changes, software standards and application specifications may be proposed by anyone. The recommended process for consensus building and conflict reduction is known as the Cash Improvement Proposal (CHIP) Process.

Previous consensus changes, May 2023:

Anyone may propose an improvement to Bitcoin Cash, but the responsibility is on the CHIP owner to see the idea through to fruition and build consensus.

Bitcoin Script

Software

Full Nodes

Developer Resources

Open-Source Teams Building on Bitcoin Cash

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

– An African Proverb.

There are various groups developing software stacks & apps for the broader ecosystem.

Simple Payment Verification (SPV)

Libraries & SDKs

Language Agnostic

Typescript

Javascript

Python

Rust

Java

C

PHP

R

Endorsements

Below is a list of endorsements made in the Chip Process in reverse chronological order.

The Adaptive Blocksize Limit Algorithm (ebaa) CHIP for the May 2024 BCH Upgrade is AWESOME!

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The CashTokens and P2SH32 CHIP Proposals for the May 2023 BCH Upgrade are AWESOME!

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The Archive

Due to the nature of bitcoin, some stuff is forever…

Bitcoin Script tools

Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP Token)

The Permissionless Software Foundation is actively maintaining an SLP wallet and indexer, denoted with starts (⭐) below.

Protocols

Libraries

SLP Token Projects