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What the fork is happening with Bitcoin?

Bitcoin "forked" on August 1, splitting into two distinct cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. 

The schism was the result of an argument about the future of Bitcoin. Regular Bitcoin has an average of three to four transactions per second, with a limit of seven a second. For comparison, credit card company...

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