There is something that is currently going on within the cryptocurrency communities, specifically the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities, in which they are currently being stopped by transaction fees. There is also an obvious attempt at making Bitcoin Cash lose the top 10 spots in the lists using other cryptocurrencies that are, technically, not for currency usage at all. But before you ask, what are these cryptocurrency lists? These are sites like the following, but not limited to: CoinGecko CoinMarketCap CoinCodex Essentially, these sites track cryptocurrencies based on their performance in multiple exchanges, and this is why you should ignore these sites at all. Usage or Price The thing with cryptocurrencies is that they are, in essence, secure ways of transmitting currency. The technology they have brought is a triple-signature database that everyone has to download (called blockchain) also allowed database technology to progress to the point that there are companies who wish to invest in this technology. The thing with these blockchains is that they are public, and therefore you can see who and how many transactions are made during a specific period, and transactions can be modified that you can see where they came from and what its specific usage was. Bitcoin only became price-oriented since it started gaining traction to buy and sell items. However, these "medium of exchange" users soon get overwhelmed by people who just want to see the price rise and make a million. During the same time, Bitcoin would get crippled and it would reach various tipping points, only for the corrupted Bitcoin developer team, Blockstream, to send massive attacks to ruin the chain. That's how Bitcoin Classic, Bitcoin XT, and other small pre-Bitcoin Cash forks failed. It was only during the implementation of Segregated Witness that it would spark the war for usage versus price in the form of the blocksize debate. The debate was simple, in fact. Should Bitcoin (BTC) raise its blocksize? There were two sides to this debate; those who want big blocks and those who want small blocks. The size of small blocks, however, had the support of those that didn't want Bitcoin to succeed in replacing the monetary system used on the Internet and had fear of being replaced in the real world as more and more people used Bitcoin for their everyday lives that even big companies such as Steam started to allow usage. These central banks, who controlled most of the Bitcoin-based communication and discussion forums started using lies and began blocking the big blockers away from the forums, censoring talks and banning users. These frustrated users also caught the eyes of the ones who developed mining tools and other larger developers and they have created Bitcoin Cash as a result, just a few months before December 2017's ~$100 fees. The thing though, is that the central banks and Blockstream still managed to do their social tactics and kill off most of Bitcoin Cash's momentum for the most part, and they are still doing it these days. They can't stop Bitcoin Cash from regaining its true momentum, however, as due to the arrival of Bitcoin Cash-based utilities like read.cash, noise.cash, Detoken.net, Simple Ledger Protocol tokens, and other multiple applications have created a spike in transaction usage. During the first days, both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cashers became suspicious of the new growth. Most of them actually suspect it was a test, others saying that someone's spamming the network, but then, there were talks back when there was an actual stress test to never test on the mainnet chain and use testnets instead. This new spike of transactions is from people who wanted money and were given a chance to get some through noise.cash through a simple banner on read.cash, telling about an alpha site. It also acted a lot like Twitter in its early days, and the site gives "Free Tips" which is just the site's way of allocating a specific amount from funding given by Bitcoin Cash's own startup investor, Marc De Mesel. This guy also donated to the fund used in read.cash. 😍😍😍💘💘💘💜💜💜
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