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Is Bitcoin Cash (BCH) halal?

Permitted

The six conditions are met for a spot purchase.

Verdict calculated by Halal Bourse's published rules from an investigation of primary sources (project documentation, registers, decisions), conducted on 10/07/2026 and not reviewed by a human.

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The asset

Native currency of the Bitcoin Cash network (SHA-256 proof of work), created by a split (hard fork) of the Bitcoin network on August 1, 2017 Issuer: No issuer: open-source network; according to the Grayscale fund's SEC filing, no official developer or group of developers controls it.

BCH is used to pay on the Bitcoin Cash network. The supply is capped at 21 million BCH; the block reward is 3.125 BCH. As of October 6, 2026 (23:49 UTC), CoinGecko reports 20.10 million BCH in circulation, a price of €276.90 and a market capitalization of €5.57 billion (rank 22).

Why this verdict

  1. Permissible purpose : met. BCH serves as a payment currency on its own network (“peer-to-peer electronic cash”); its acceptance as payment is documented by BitPay (2024). No gambling, interest-bearing lending or impermissible content is found.
  2. No riba : met. Holding pays no yield: new BCH are created on a fixed schedule and go to the miners who produce the blocks (proof of work). No native lending or staking mechanism appears in the sources read.
  3. No gambling : met. The spot purchase is of an asset recorded on a public ledger and transferable directly between users; it is not a contract on a price difference.
  4. No excessive gharar : met. The issuance rules are published: cap of 21 million BCH, reward halved every 210,000 blocks, about 20.1 million BCH in circulation as of June 30, 2026. No official developer controls the network; no anonymous party controls issuance, a treasury or admin keys in the sources read.
  5. Real ownership : met. BCH is held and transferred without an intermediary, in a personal wallet. The withdrawal conditions of purchase platforms were not studied.
  6. No fraud or manipulation : met. No sanction or deception targeting the network was found; AMF blacklist: no results. Information: the concentration of large wallets (the Grayscale fund writes that they hold a significant percentage) and the U.S. proceeding against Roger Ver, a known promoter of BCH and not an issuer, closed in October 2025 by a deferred prosecution agreement over tax matters concerning his bitcoins. Halal Bourse rule (October 6, 2026): information, not established fraud; condition considered met.
  7. Réseau ouvert et généraliste : met. un outil neutre
    • « No single entity owns or operates the Bitcoin Cash Network, the infrastructure of which is collectively maintained by a decentralized user base. » Grayscale Bitcoin Cash Trust (10-K, SEC) (2026-09-03)

Tolerance case

T1. BCH is the native currency of an open network (maintained by its users, with no owning entity); it is a payment network, like the bitcoin it came from, which may qualify the word “general-purpose” in the T1 case. There is no issuer receiving revenue: T2 and T3 not applicable.

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