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Block Height

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The number of blocks preceding a given block in the chain. Height is often used to reference time in protocols with predictable block intervals.

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$BCH Bitcoin Cash
The Fork
The Bitcoin Cash hard fork was executed on August 1, 2017, at block height 478,558. At that point, the Bitcoin blockchain split into two separate chains: ...