Recommended
The BCH community is large and decentralised (no one is in charge), and the community have produced a ton of educational resources, product & services, developer tooling & more.
For developer resources, see Code.
For BCH stats, see Stats.
All of the following creators and resources are highly recommended, but as always with crypto please consider each item on its own merits & with suitable skepticism:
Essential
- Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System: Satoshi's original paper introducing Bitcoin.
- The BCH Podcast Start Guide or Episode 85 of the Podcast
- The book Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver with Steve Patterson
- Who Killed Bitcoin?: Comprehensive explanation of Bitcoin's origins, BCH/BTC, and censorship.
- The Biggest Scam In The History Of Mankind: Explanation of US Federal Reserve money system.
- The Complete Satoshi: Emails, forum posts and other assorted ideas.
News, Discussions & Podcasts
- The Bitcoin Cash Podcast
- General Protocols
- Bitcoin Cash Foundation
- Casual BCH
- Tech Freely on Dunconomics: Series as Duncan & Bitcoin Jason discuss Bitcoin Cash.
Best Of
Some of the most active, exciting BCH projects.
- Selene Wallet: Blazingly fast BCH wallet. Disclaimer: Developed (in part) by The Bitcoin Cash Podcast! See Episode 82.
- Bitgree: Make Amazon purchases using BCH.
- A Fifth Of Gaming: Organise social game nights or play competitive tournaments for Bitcoin Cash. See Episode 94
- BCH Guru: NFT series & (upcoming) price prediction trading game. See Episode 80.
- BCH Bull: On-chain, non-custodial BCH price speculation & stabilising (solves volatility) tool. See Episode 72 & FAQ about AnyHedge. Disclaimer: Sponsors the show.
Adoption Projects
- Stamps.cash: Make redeemable physical stickers to hand out BCH to new adopters.
History
- 10 Years of Bitcoin: First decade of Bitcoin history explained.
- Bitcoin: The History Of A Revolution: Podcast explaining Bitcoin's origins and Blocksize War.
- History of /r/Bitcoin: The strangest subreddit ever.
- A (brief and incomplete) history of censorship in /r/Bitcoin
- A Quality Game Of Poker: Kim Dotcom talks to BTC Core supporters about Bitcoin, during the period he was trying to reconcile the two communities. Later he would convert fully to the BCH side after discovering just how fruitless it was trying to talk sense with the BTC side. Things became somewhat uncordial in response, as can be heard on Episode 12 of the podcast.
- Best of BCH Youtube Playlist: By the BCH Podcast, has many historic videos & debates saved there.
Mathieu Geuken's Yearly BCH reviews
- The year 2018 in Bitcoin Cash: BCH history, around the time of BCH vs BSV fork.
- The year 2019 in Bitcoin Cash
- The year 2020 in Bitcoin Cash
- No review was done for 2021.
- The year 2022 in Bitcoin Cash
- The year 2023 in Bitcoin Cash
The Resolution... Series
An unofficial series of articles written by various authors at their point of disillusionment with Bitcoin. Bitcoin always survived, but these articles are quite insightful as timecapsules regarding Bitcoin history.
- The Resolution of the Bitcoin experiment (2016): The original, Mike Hearn's famous post amid calamity in the Blocksize War, as featured in Hijacking Bitcoin.
- The Resolution of the Bitcoin Cash experiment (2018): BSV developer _unwriter adds his thoughts after the BCH/BSV split in 2018.
Concepts
- Letter from the CEO: Bitcoin CEO announcement.
- Nakamoto Institute Mempool: Bitcoin theory.
- Why Cryptocurrencies: What they are, what they do and why they matter. Check out the appearance by the author Jonas on the podcast.
Wallets
For more info, see the FAQ article on What are good BCH wallets?.
Open Source
- Selene: Blazingly fast BCH wallet. Disclaimer: Developed by The Bitcoin Cash Podcast! See Episode 82.
- Electron Cash: Power user BCH desktop wallet.
- Cashonize: CashTokens focussed web wallet.
- Paytaca: Phillipines-based BCH wallet.
- Stack Wallet: Multicoin wallet that cooperates well with the BCH community.
Closed Source
- Zapit: Indian BCH wallet, spend anywhere with UPI in BCH!
- Bitcoin.com: Slowly pivoting away from BCH but serviceable.
Games
- A Fifth Of Gaming: Organise social game nights or play competitive tournaments for Bitcoin Cash.
- Slime Shadies: Shady Battlegrounds: Browser-based Wormz style artillery shooter. Buy-in & win BCH!
CashTokens apps & NFT projects
See CashTokens apps
Discussion & Community
Developers looking for engineering discussion and resources, refer to BCH Developer community.
Telegram Groups
For development & coding groups, see BCH Developer Community.
- Bitcoin Cash (main) group
- Bitcoin Cash Podcast discussion group
- /r/CashTokens
- BCH Gamers
- BCH Price Chat
- BCH Memes
- BCH Gurus
- BCH Bull
Many other Bitcoin Cash projects (including full nodes, CashTokens projects, wallets, region specific onboarding groups & so on) have their own Telegram groups, see the websites & information for those projects to find the links, or ask in the main Telegram group.
Twitter / X
A compilation of suggested accounts here.
- Bitcoin Cash Podcast
- Kallisti
- BeCashy
- Fiendish Crypto
- Emergent Reasons
- Cheap Lightning
- David Shattuck
- Cypher Cat
- MiniSatoshi
- Korben Dallas Multipass
- NeonDaThal
There are of course many other BCH Twitter users who can be found by following discussion from some of the suggested accounts.
Subreddits
- /r/Bitcoin Cash Podcast
- /r/CashTokens
- /r/BitcoinCash
- /r/btc. For why it isn't /r/bch, see What happened with /r/btc?.
Youtube
- The Bitcoin Cash Podcast
- Ray Uses Bitcoin Cash
- Ryan Giffin
- Bitcoin Jason
- Bitcoin Cash Foundation
- Mr Zwets
- Paul
- Forward Financial
- Cryptocurrency Theory
- BCH Network Discussions
- Kallisti.cash
Streamers
- The Bitcoin Cash Podcast
- Bitcoin Cash TV: BCH educator, gamer & variety streamer.
Instagram
Discord
TikTok
BCH specific social media
Technical
- Terabyte blocks for Bitcoin Cash: 2017 explanation of global scaling.
- BSV is a caricature of onchain scaling: BCH vs BTC vs BSV when it comes to scaling.
Tools
- CWAQRGEN: Generate branded BCH QR codes.
- 3D Printable BCH Things: Make your own BCH items!
- CG Wardrobe: Buy/sell 3D assets with BCH
- Address Converter: Convert BCH cash addresses to BCH CashTokens addresses.
Block Explorers
- Melroy's Block Explorer
- BCH.Loping Explorer
- Ninja BCH Block Explorer
- 3xpl.com BCH section - CashTokens support
- Blockchair
- Salem Kode CashTokens Explorer: Experimental, in development
- Bitcoin Unlimited Block Explorer
Blockchain Visualizers
- Buy Hodl Sell: Watch BCH / BTC transactions live (including amount).
- TxCity Blockchain Visualizer: Watch BCH or other transactions live.
- Johoe's Bitcoin Mempool Statistics
Node Visualizers
Payment Processing
Marketing sites
- Discover.cash: Quarterly updated site helping people onboard to BCH.
- Why Bitcoin Cash: Marketing site explaining the point of BCH.
Institutional Investment
Other BCH projects
- Journal of Global Surgery: Innovative medical journal open sourcing peer-reviewed articles following sufficient BCH contributing readership.
- BQuest: South African BCH spending suggestions.
Mining
- Fork.lol BTC/BCH Hashrate: Excellent site with very detailed hashrate stats & comparisons of BTC/BCH.
- CoinWarz Hashrate Chart
BCH Resource Directories
- Tula S Resource Compilation
- BCH Gang directory
- Awesome Bitcoin Cash
- Cypher Cat's BCH Portal
- Pantera's An Incomplete List Of Bitcoin Cash Services, Businesses, and Important Links
- BCH FAQ
- Bitcoin Protocol.org
- BCH Education Portal
- Mini Satoshi's Homepage
BCH Hangouts
Every two weeks on Twitter, Fiendish Crypto runs a community Bitcoin Cash chat / hangout session.
Listen to recent or archived episodes.
Why Bitcoin Cash
BCH vs BTC informational website by Kim Dotcom.
Monetary Fundamentals
Jeffrey Tucker talks about cryptocurrency and sound money.
They Lie
Hayden Otto discovers some special sunglasses. Good watch for fans of 80s cult movies.
Corporate interference in Bitcoin
Rick Falkvinge discusses Blocksteam's influence in Bitcoin (BTC), which explains why Bitcoin Cash (BCH) split off to route around this issue.
Money as debt
There is no escape in a fiat currency system. Why everyone and every country is constantly drowning in debt, the money IS the debt.
Bitcoin Obituaries
Declared dead 350+ times for over 10 years. RIP the haters.
Bitcoin Cash Homepage
Not "official", because nothing is or could be official in Bitcoin Cash, but a good source of information on Bitcoin Cash.
BCH Development Upgrades
Coin.dance development information
Keep an eye on what tech is being added to BCH, a currency that is constantly looking to improve itself without comprimising on being the world's best payment system.
General Crypto information
- CryptoFees.info: Check in on fee markets per crypto, BCH has cheap fees so it needs to generate massive volume (working on it!) to catch up to the bigger coins.
Bitcoin Cash Site
Adoption platform, blog and information source about Bitcoin Cash in the developing world.
A History Of Bitcoin
Roger Ver: A Short History of Bitcoin full of Intrigues, Censorship & The CIA?!
Roger Ver, prominent BCH advocate, is interviewed about the history of Bitcoin.