GDAX started trading Bitcoin Cash (BCH) this morning from 9 am, with little fanfare. The GDAX status update page indicated that all initial tests had been completed by 11:25, and all features were restored.

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The addition of BCH on GDAX follows the addition of hard fork on Coinbase website, which saw the price of BCH While Coinbase owns GDAX, it's not the same entity, but since the announcement, Coinbase has made no further promise of future additions.

The BCH price has reacted strongly, with increases on the day of the press, the coin exchanged at 1742 dollars

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However, the cryptocurrency community was not particularly pleased with the news, given the slowness of GDAX to implement the SegWit protocol. For example, Jameson Lopp, an engineer at BitGo, tweeted:

This is not a new revelation that a significant cause of bitcoin network congestion comes from popular services such as @blockchain, @coinbase, and @gemini that inefficiently use block space. If you do not want to contribute to the problem, do not use them. https://t.co/f1AO2ePRMw – Jameson Lopp (@lopp) January 12, 2018

Coinbase made promises regarding the integration of SegWit at the end of the year last, but delayed them. SegWit would allow cheaper and faster transactions. Other services are also slow to add support for SegWit, including Blockchain and Gemini.

Others responded to the news tweet the same way. User Chris Given replied: