{"id":209098,"date":"2017-08-01T17:52:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T21:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/bitcoin-has-split-in-two-so-you-can-have-double-the-cryptocurrency-the-verge\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T17:52:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T21:52:31","slug":"bitcoin-has-split-in-two-so-you-can-have-double-the-cryptocurrency-the-verge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/cryptocurrency-2\/bitcoin-has-split-in-two-so-you-can-have-double-the-cryptocurrency-the-verge\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin has split in two, so you can have double the cryptocurrency &#8211; The Verge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    A little after     8AM ET today, Bitcoin was split into Bitcoin Cash, an    alternative cryptocurrency, in a chain split that had been    anticipated for months. The split, called a hard fork, comes    out of a bitcoin groups desire to combat high transaction fees    and a bitcoin    size limit that made mining larger blocks invalid.  <\/p>\n<p>    This has a nuanced implication for Bitcoin owners. If you own    Bitcoin and control your private keys, the same private keys    can be used to spend your newly minted Bitcoin Cash.  <\/p>\n<p>    If you own Bitcoin but dont control the keys, then it depends    on whether youve chosen to keep your bitcoins on a Bitcoin    Cash-friendly platform or digital wallet. Each platform is    treating the new Bitcoin Cash differently. To enjoy this extra    currency, you should check with your platform and wallet to see    what the company policy is.  <\/p>\n<p>    the worlds most popular cryptocurrency exchange has    rejected the new Bitcoin Cash  <\/p>\n<p>    As a prelude to the split, Bitcoin trading platforms like    CEX.io suspended Bitcoin    withdrawals beforehand. CEX.io will    allow both cryptocurrencies and split the coins for its    customers. CEX.io chief marketing officer Eugene Kovalyk says,    Whether we will list Bitcoin Cash as a new trading pair    depends on the demand. If demand is big we should consider    adding it definitely...No one should lose Bitcoin Cash on our    platform.  <\/p>\n<p>    Meanwhile, the worlds most popular cryptocurrency exchange,        Coinbase, has rejected the new Bitcoin Cash to some    customers chagrin. It argues that their systems cant support    Bitcoin Cash without a major system rework that is currently    not worth the unknown value of Bitcoin Cash. A spokeswoman for    CoinBase says, If this decision were to change in the future    and Coinbase was to access Bitcoin Cash, we would distribute    Bitcoin Cash to customers associated with Bitcoin balances at    the time of the fork. Coinbase would not keep the Bitcoin Cash    associated with customer Bitcoin balances. The exchange    allowed a brief window of time before August 1st for users who    wished to access Bitcoin cash to withdraw their funds from    Coinbase.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/8\/1\/16075276\/bitcoin-cash-hard-fork-coinbase\" title=\"Bitcoin has split in two, so you can have double the cryptocurrency - The Verge\">Bitcoin has split in two, so you can have double the cryptocurrency - The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A little after 8AM ET today, Bitcoin was split into Bitcoin Cash, an alternative cryptocurrency, in a chain split that had been anticipated for months.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/cryptocurrency-2\/bitcoin-has-split-in-two-so-you-can-have-double-the-cryptocurrency-the-verge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrency-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}