I am sure that mostly everybody understand what is causing the current BITCOIN CASH bull run up these days but, if you are not aware or you are just a newcomer at the cryptosphere let me tell you that this rise is due to the recent announcements that have been done in major exchanges as BINANCE or COINBASE, telling that they will support the BITCOIN CASH hardfork, which is planned to happen around November 15th.
Well, it means that BITCOIN CASH algorithm is going to be upgraded on that date and to do so, a great majority of miners have to support the algorithm upgrade but...in this case seems that there is not a great consensus and thus the most likely to happen right now is that a proportion of the total miners will support the old algorithm, and that means they will continue mining the current algorithm, and another somehow equal proportion of miners will support the new upgrade proposed and so they will mine the new algorithm.
So, in a particular moment, 4:40:00 PM (UTC), there will be a split of the original BCH Blockchain, two blockchains with similar history but deviating each other form then on.
As a consequence, if you would have BITCOIN CASH in any of the exchanges (COINBASE, BINANCE...) which have announced support to the hardfork, you would be "rewarded" with an additional crypto as a result of it.
Till here everything seems very logical and reasonable. In short, BITCOIN CASH is rising because is providing an opportunity to double the amount of tokens.
Please, bear on mind that doubling tokens does not mean doubling the equivalent "money" since no one knows the price of the new Crypto but we are sure there will be the same quantity of tokens as you have it as BCH at the time of the fork.
As you can see, this statement is fully applicable here. People is investing hard because there is a serious proposal, supported by major exchanges, on having chances to be "rewarded".
But my experience tells me that the pump may dump before the new will become a reality and so I think is fair to prevent about.
I do not know how high is going to reach BCH in this bull run, take the image below as a pure example and possibly very far from the expected top, however it would not be very weird to see a DUMP just a few hours or maybe a days before the HARDFORK milestone.
So, invest if you want but be cautious because the market still is in the consolidation if not in the corrective trend...
...nonetheless, enjoy the ride!
*Disclaimer: This is just my personal point of view, please, do your own assessment and act consequently.
Neither this post nor myself is responsible of any of your profit/losses obtained as a result of this information.
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