Taxman gets the boot: Bitcoin Cash Node emerges as victor of hard fork

Taxman gets the boot: Bitcoin Cash Node emerges as victor of hard fork

As Bitcoin Cash goes through another fork, Bitcoin Cash Node seems to be the emergent winner for now. The Bitcoin Cash network just went through yet another fork after originally being created as a hard fork from the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain in August 2017. The hard fork on Nov. 15 split the Bitcoin Cash network into two new blockchains, Bitcoin Cash ABC (BCHA) and Bitcoin Cash Node (BCHN). The main difference between the two is the 8% tax on gross rewards that miners must pay to BCH ABC’s development team.Among the two networks, Bitcoin Cash ABC received very little hash power, while....


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