Why there are more BCH then BTC?

[Wall-ET]

Hello,

I just noticed that there are currently 16,659,412 BTC   and 16,753,075 BCH   
This makes 93,663 more BCH then BTC.
Strange is that I just noticed that. Do not know if it was from beginning like this, or did it just happened in the long term?

This means 7,493.04 more blocks then BTC.
This makes 52 days difference.

So this makes me wonder how did that happen and who mined them?
Was it at start, or are they just mined faster?
If they are mined faster why is that, as they have changed just the size of blocks and not the block per 10 minutes...

[pumpmydump]

BCH and BTC have a different difficulty adjustment

When a lot of hashpower causes blocks to be mined quicker or slower than 10 minutes on average, the difficulty to find a new block adapts differently on BCH and BTC

In several instances over the past few months there were times when BCH blocks were mined something like every minute, and other times when they were mined every few hours.

But the difficulty does not adjust so that blocks are mined every 10 minutes on average over the whole history of the blockchain, but only 10 minutes on average over a limited period. This means that over the whole history of the blockchain the average can be less than 10 minutes. In some periods many more blocks were mined on the BCH chain than on the BTC chain, as a result of different difficulty adjusment algorithms (and different hashpower), and that's why they have different lengths now, well at least that's my guess

[Cnut237]

well at least that's my guess

That's exactly my guess as well, so I'll back you up! I' don't follow it so much now, but I remember that bitcoin cash had some big difficulty adjustments (reductions) after people stopped mining, and then they all flooded back... and left again when it got more difficult, etc.

[In the silence]

well at least that's my guess

That's exactly my guess as well, so I'll back you up! I' don't follow it so much now, but I remember that bitcoin cash had some big difficulty adjustments (reductions) after people stopped mining, and then they all flooded back... and left again when it got more difficult, etc.

Yes, that is right BCH is faster than the original network, and it adjusted the difficulty with ease unlike the bitcoin network.
Sometimes slow because of the miners migrating from the other network.