Number of Bitcoin Cash Whales Drops Following 39% Price Surge
The number of Bitcoin Cash investors holding at least $3M dropped by 10 since Aug. 1 following the price surge to more than $311. Following a 39% price surge at the end of July, at least 10 Bitcoin Cash whales have left the network, possibly trading or selling their millions in holdings.
According to Crypto Twitter user Ali Martinez, data from analytics site Santiment shows the number of investors holding between 10,000-100,000 Bitcoin Cash (BCH) — roughly $3-30 million — has fallen by 10 since Aug. 1. The drop comes after the token surged 38.7% from $224.46 on July 17 to a three-month high of $311.34 on July 31, implying that a number of whales could have sold their holdings.
BCH continues to be the fifth largest crypto asset by market capitalization at $5.6 billion, with Chainlink (LINK) trailing at $4.6 billion. At the time of writing, Bitcoin Cash is trading at $307.84, having risen 3% in the last 24 hours.
Adjustments to BCH difficulty algorithm
Bitcoin Cash uses the SHA256D algorithm — the same as that used by Bitcoin. However, its hashing power is less than 5% of that of Bitcoin, which has sometimes left it vulnerable to a 51% attack.
In response, the BCH community has floated changing the algorithm as part of the network’s November upgrade. Cointelegraph reported on Aug. 7 that developers have worked out a compromise between two proposed solutions. The network will implement the ‘Aserti3-2d’ difficulty adjustment proposed by lead BCHN maintainer Jonathan Toomin, and an infrastructure funding plan.
Top Cryptocurrencies with Price Predictions
| # | Crypto | Prediction | Accuracy | CVIX | Price | 24h | 7d | Market Cap | 7d price change | |
| 1 |  BTC |
Bitcoin predictions | 73.2% | 59 | $101 363.57 | 5.75% | 5.84% | $2 006 042 665 897 |  |
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| 2 |  ETH |
Ethereum predictions | 72% | 57 | $3 857.57 | 5.71% | 6.44% | $464 612 564 631 |  |
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| 3 |  USDT |
Tether predictions | 94.4% | 1 | $1.000540 | -0.02% | -0.03% | $135 764 333 539 |  |
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| 4 |  XRP |
XRP predictions | 57.2% | 90 | $2.37 | -6.37% | 61.51% | $135 128 141 308 |  |
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| 5 |  SOL |
Solana predictions | 70% | 62 | $232.13 | -1.56% | -4.26% | $110 343 784 176 |  |
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| 6 |  BNB |
Binance Coin predictions | 82.8% | 25 | $721.64 | -3.72% | 10.51% | $103 922 816 425 |  |
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| 7 |  DOGE |
Dogecoin predictions | 65.2% | 77 | $0.428774 | 3.84% | 3.26% | $63 058 906 091 |  |
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| 8 |  ADA |
Cardano predictions | 57.6% | 87 | $1.18 | -1.47% | 16.46% | $41 425 711 143 |  |
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| 9 |  USDC |
USD Coin predictions | 94% | 1 | $0.999679 | -0.04% | -0.02% | $40 712 477 951 |  |
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| 10 |  TRX |
TRON predictions | 75.6% | 48 | $0.331780 | -11.09% | 65.01% | $28 627 475 807 |  |
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| 11 |  AVAX |
Avalanche predictions | 60.4% | 86 | $51.35 | -0.42% | 18.45% | $21 018 969 340 |  |
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| 12 |  SHIB |
SHIBA INU predictions | 71.2% | 51 | $0.000031 | 4.36% | 21.59% | $18 484 583 266 |  |
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| 13 |  TON |
Toncoin predictions | 64.4% | 78 | $6.80 | -0.76% | 6.38% | $17 327 281 996 |  |
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| 14 |  DOT |
Polkadot predictions | 60% | 91 | $10.40 | 6.30% | 25.76% | $15 864 507 110 |  |
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| 15 |  LINK |
Chainlink predictions | 58% | 88 | $23.82 | 0.40% | 31.04% | $14 933 658 983 |  |
