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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. 🚀

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

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Getting Started

State of the Project

Three Years In: A Bitcoin Cash Update From One of Its Founders – by Jonald Fyookball

Whitepaper

“Bitcoin: 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.

Mobile

Honorable mentions:

zapit – A native, non-custodial Bitcoin Cash wallet for iOS and Android. Non-OSS
Cake Wallet [src] [apk] – An open source wallet for iOS and Android supporting XMR and other currencies.

Desktop

Electron-Cash [src] – the awesome SPV wallet for Bitcoin Cash.
Flowee Pay [src] – A payment solution, a wallet, a basis for your new product. But currently just a desktop wallet.

Electron-Cash Plugins

Flipstarter Plugin – plugin for crowdfunding.
Nostron – Nostron is a plugin for the Electron-Cash BCH wallet.
Mecenas Plugin – recurring payments.
Last Will – dead man smart contract creation.

Cli

bchwallet – a secure Bitcoin Cash wallet daemon written in Go (golang)
bitcore-wallet – A command line wallet used for BitPay wallets.
openbazaar wallet – an SPV wallet in Go (golang) developed for openbazaar2

Browser

PSF wallet [src] – Static javascript web-wallet using gatsby react from the permissionless software foundation.
BCH Merchant PoS[src] – Bitcoin Cash Web Point of Sale, from SoftwareVerde.
CashTokens Webwallet – An experimental web wallet on the chipnet test network.

Paper/Offline Generator

Cash Address Generator – reputable javascript address generator suitable for offline use.
BCH Gifts – generate reclaimable preloaded paper private keys as gifts.

Podcasts, News, Media

Bitcoin Cash focussed media and content.

The Bitcoin Cash Podcast

The Bitcoin Cash Podcast – Available on Youtube [src] and RSS [src] audio versions, plus other video and podcast platforms (see links at bottom of website).

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)

read.cash – a conventionally hosted long-format blogging platform, with BCH tipping for content.
memo.cash – short message social media site with decentralized SLP token exchange.
noise.app – An invite only Bitcoin Cash powered micro-blogging platform.
OnlyCoins – Adult content monetization platform.
lazyfox – a Bitcoin Cash powered question and answer / tasking platform.

Crowdfunding

flipstarter [Introduction] [src] – a crowd funding app using anyone can pay multisig transactions.
IPFS Flipstarter [src] – An IPFS flipstarter campaign site.

Entertainment

Exchanges

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

Centralized

CoinEx – A BCH friendly exchange with automatic coin-splitting

More decentralized

BCH Bull [app] – web application that allows users, “Bulls”, to take long positions with leverage on Bitcoin Cash against a number of other fiat and crypto assets using the Anyhedge protocol.
AtmoicDex – Decentralized exchange with desktop clients supporting BCH and many UTXO coins, ETH, ERC-20 tokens

Oracles

Faucets

Network

Services

chaintip – An on-chain non-custodial tipping bot for reddit/twitter & github.
SideShift.ai – enables HUMANS and AI to shift between 30+ cryptocurrencies.
WhaleAlertBCH [src] – A twitter whalebot for BCH.
Chaintip Bounties – BCH bot for github bounties.
CCtip – Tipping for twitter, telegram, & discord.

Utilities

Address Monitor – An online utiltiy to monitor an address using bchd.
CashAccount – Online utility for cashaccounts (address handles).
Bitcoin.com Tools – A mix of Bitcoin utilities.
Bitauth IDE [src] [walk-thru] – An online IDE for developing Bitcoin Cash contracts.

Web

PayButton [src] – a simple html (or react component) button to accept Bitcoin Cash on a website.
Bitcoin Paywall [src] – WordPress paywall plugin

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.

Namecheap – dns, ssl and some packaged hosting.
keys4coins – Buy PC games and gift cards with cryptocurrency.
alfa.top – Buy mobile top-up (credit) and internet with cryptocurrency.
CheapAir – for your travel needs.
items sold by Newegg – good for a great headset.
Lanieri – makes a good suit.
partsoven – for that 3rd dimension of building.

Geographic lists

Bitcoin.com map – website and mobile app for discovering merchants, formerly marco coino.

Projects dedicated to listing or enabling eCommerce.

The Accept Bitcoin Cash Initiative – list of merchants and stores.
Use.Cash – Guide for using cryptocurrency like cash.
Bitpay Directory – partial list of websites using bitpay as a payment processor (sometimes outdated).
Purse.io – service to privately purchase goods on Amazon.com (US) at a discount.

Some Charities and Foundations

Just some good charities for the world at large.

Tails – The Amnesic Incognito Live System, is a security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity.
Save the Children – A United Kingdom based charity, founded in 1919, to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts. (Cryptocurrency donations are powered by The Giving Block)
Electronic Freedom Foundation – dedicated to ensuring that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all the people of the world.
Bitpay Charity Directory A list of charities that accept Bitcoin Cash and other cryptocurrencies.

eCommerce Merchant Resources

Bitcoin Cash Open-Source plugins

CryptoWoo for WooCommerce – Bitcoin Cash integration for CryptoWoo

Non-Custodial Payment Processors

Prompt.cash [demo] [docs] – Non-custodial Bitcoin Cash payment gateway
Cash Pay Server [docs] – a self-hostable NodeJS micro-service that can be used to handle BIP70 and JSON Payment Protocol invoices for Bitcoin Cash (BCH)

BCH-to-Fiat Payment Processors

Payment Processor Status

status.bitpay.com – Current status with recent incidents.

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.

Bitcoin Cash Research – Site dedicated to technical discussion.

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.

Upcoming 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.

Miner Consensus

Bitcoin Mining Parliament [README] [src] – a decentralized place to talk, vote and more with delegated hashpower

Bitcoin Script

Software

Full Nodes

Developer Resources

Bitcoin Cash Research – Site dedicated to technical research on Bitcoin Cash.
Bitcoin Cash Discussions [youtube] – Site for hosting live meetings and discussions about protocols

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.

General Protocols [repos] – Team researching and developing protocols for non-custodial and trustless networks using BitBox. (Typescript and Javascript)
Electron Cash [repos] – Team maintaining a desktop SPV wallet with plugins and mobile app (Python)
Flowee [repos] – Team maintaining a non-mining full node and services to access the Bitcoin Cash network. (C++, NodeJs et al)
FullStack Cash [repos] – Team building web/ipfs apps based on BitBox compatible stack. (Javascript)
Mainnet Cash [repos] – Loose-knit team maintaining a shared server-side and client-side library.

Simple Payment Verification (SPV)

Fulcrum – A fast & nimble SPV Server for Bitcoin Cash.
ElectrsCash – Electron Cash Server, rust implementation.

Libraries & SDKs

Developer tools – Page devoted to high level developer tools.
Mainnet Cash List – A list of useful services for developers.

Language Agnostic

Typescript

PayButton [src] – Front end library that makes it easier to accept Bitcoin Cash by adding a buy button.
Libauth [src] – an ultra-lightweight, zero-dependency library for Bitcoin Cash and Bitauth applications. (Formerly bitcoin-ts.)
electrum-cash [docs] [tutorials] – JavaScript library that lets you connect with one or more Electrum servers.
flowee-js [docs] [src] – Bindings for using Flowee applications and libraries with the NodeJS JavaScript engine.
mainnet-js [src] – Typescript library, also available over rest.
bchd grpc web-client – protobuf based javascript client for interacting with bchd full nodes.
<qr-code> [demo] – A no-framework, no-dependencies, customizable, animate-able, SVG-based <qr-code> HTML element.

Javascript

bch-js [docs] – JavaScript library for creating web and mobile apps that can interact with the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and eCash (XEC) blockchains
electrum-cli – Super simple command line electrum client.
signup.cash [src] – Non-custodial platform as a service for building decentralized apps.
bitcore-lib-cash – javaScript library, maintained by bitpay.

Python

bitcash [src] – python3 library.
bchd python bindings – sample protobuf based python client for bchd.
jtoomim/p2pool – jtoomim fork of bitcoin pool mining software.

Java

bitcoincashj – Bitcoin Cash library for Java

C

Breadwallet Core – SPV bitcoin C library.

PHP

cashp – Library for BCH.

R

rbch – Extraction and Statistical Analysis of Data from the BCH Blockchain

GitHub – 2qx/awesome-bitcoin-cash: Bitcoin Cash projects & resources