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Bitcoin Cash Protocol

About

Style Guide — Contributors — Target Audience — Project History

Basics

Overview — Blockchain Basics — Protocol Hashing Algorithms — Memory Pool

Transactions

Bitcoin Transaction — Unlocking Script — Locking Script — Transaction Signing

Blocks

Bitcoin Blocks — Block Header — Merkle Tree — Transaction Ordering

Script (Bitcoin transaction language)

Script — Operation Codes (opcodes)

Transaction validation

Transaction Validation — Block-Level Validation Rules — Network-Level Validation Rules

Proof of Work (PoW)

Proof of Work — Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm — Mining — Stratum Protocol — Mining Pools

Cryptography

Bitcoin Keys (Public/Private) — Signatures (ECDSA/Schnorr) — Multisignature (M-of-N multisig)

Network upgrades

Pre-BCH

Year (Creation)	BIPs
2012	Bip-16 — Bip-34 — BIP-35 — Bip-37
2014	Bip-65
2015	Bip-66 — Bip-68 — Bip-112 — Bip-113 — Bip-9
2016	Bip-133 — Bip-152
2017	Bip-157 — Bip-158 — Bip-159

BCH

Year (Activation)	Hard Forks
2017	BCH-UAHF (BUIP-55) — Upgrade-20171113
2018	Upgrade 20180515 — Upgrade-20181115
2019	Upgrade 20190515 — Upgrade-20191115
2020	Upgrade 20200515 — Upgrade-20201115
2021	Upgrade 20210515
2022	Upgrade 20220515
2023	Upgrade 20230515

Network protocol

Network Messages — Handshake

Addresses

Address Types — Base58Check Encoding (legacy) — Cashaddr Encoding

Simple Payment Verification (SPV)

SPV — Bloom Filters

Simple Ledger Protocol

SLP Overview — GENESIS — MINT — SEND — COMMIT

Miscellaneous

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