BCH arbitrage between Coinbase and Kraken: we compare the price of BCH on Coinbase (spot) and Kraken (spot) in real time — the executable spread (buy at the ask, sell at the bid), basis, volume and deposit/withdrawal status. You can see whether the gap holds or is a one-second blip you would never get into.

About Bitcoin Cash

Bitcoin Cash is a hard fork of Bitcoin with a protocol upgrade to fix on-chain capacity. Bitcoin Cash intends to be a Bitcoin without Segregated Witness (SegWit) as soft fork, where upgrades of the protocol are done mainly through hard forks and without changing the original economic rules of the Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is released on 1st August 2017 as an upgraded version of the original Bitcoin Core software. The main upgrade is the increase in the block size limit from 1MB to 8MB. This effectively allows miners on the BCH chain to process up to 8 times more payments per second in comparison to Bitcoin. This makes for faster, cheaper transactions and a much smoother user experience. Why was Bitcoin Cash Created? The main objective of Bitcoin Cash is to to bring back the essential qualities of money inherent in the original Bitcoin software.…

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BCH: Coinbase — deposit open, withdrawal open.

Open interest in BCH right now — $194.9M: Binance $70.3M, BingX $43.0M, Bybit $27.9M, OKX $22.7M, Bitget $13.3M. See OI BCH.

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About BCH arbitrage

How do I read the BCH spread?

The spread is how many percent higher BCH trades on one exchange than on the other. We measure it at tradeable prices (ask/bid) net of fees; “net” is closer to what you actually keep.

Is this arbitrage worth taking?

Look past the spread: check volume, order-book depth and the deposit/withdrawal status on Coinbase and Kraken. If deposits or withdrawals are shut, or the book is thin, the spread exists on paper but you cannot trade into it.

How do I get BCH alerts?

Build a rule in the the builder with the spread threshold you want — the notification arrives as a Telegram direct message within seconds.