Bitcoin might split again — here's what you need to know

Bitcoin power brokers were unable to come behind a single solution that would have preserved a unified cryptocurrency by Tuesday morning's deadline.
As such, the digital currency has officially forked and split in two: bitcoin cash and bitcoin.
Bitcoin cash is a fork of the bitcoin system: It's a new software that has all the history of the old platform, but instead of 1-megabyte blocks, it will have 8-megabyte blocks.
Miners have been able to mine for bitcoin cash since Tuesday morning, but the