Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a cryptocurrency that was born as a hard fork of the original Bitcoin protocol which emerged during the block war in 2017 since Blockstream, a company behind the development of Bitcoin, did not want to increase the block size of Bitcoin. While followers of Satoshi Nakamoto's original white paper sought to scale Bitcoin's main network so that it would become Peer to Peer electronic money, it is for this reason that Bitcoin today faces such high fees on its main network because they never increased your block size of 1 megabyte
