The main advantage of Bitcoin Cash is its new software that allows quicker transactions. Bitcoin is also trying to increase transaction speed by tweaking its own software.
It's called "Segregated Witness," a change in bitcoin's rules that would allow people to put more transactions on each block of code used to trade the digital currency.
SegWit2x, as it is also known, is set to roll out later this week.
It is SegWit2x
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