Bitcoin Private (BTCP) Price Hits $0.19

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded flat against the US dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 11:00 AM ET on December 23rd. One Bitcoin Private coin can now be purchased for about $0.19 or 0.00000700 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. During the last week, Bitcoin Private has traded up 0.5% against the US dollar. Bitcoin Private has a market cap of $910.56 thousand and $24.10 worth of Bitcoin Private was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.

Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:

• Zcash (ZEC) traded 6.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $416.96 or 0.00474761 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded down 3.8% against the dollar and now trades at $7.64 or 0.00008704 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded down 12.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.27 or 0.00000312 BTC.
• Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded 3.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.58 or 0.00000656 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded up 0.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0383 or 0.00000044 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded down 3.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.28 or 0.00000319 BTC.

Bitcoin Private Profile

BTCP is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Equihash hashing algorithm. It was first traded on March 3rd, 2018. Bitcoin Private’s total supply is 22,815,307 coins and its circulating supply is 4,785,761 coins. Bitcoin Private’s official Twitter account is @bitcoinprivate and its Facebook page is accessible here. The official website for Bitcoin Private is btcprivate.org. The Reddit community for Bitcoin Private is https://reddit.com/r/btc_private and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here.

According to CryptoCompare, “Bitcoin Private (BTCP) is a Bitcoin hard fork with the snapshot happening on February 28th, the fork will consist of a mix between BTC and ZCL.BTCP will use ZClassic (zk-snarks). This means payments are published on a public blockchain, but the sender, recipient and other transactional metadata remain unidentifiable.”

Buying and Selling Bitcoin Private

It is usually not possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin Private directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade Bitcoin Private should first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Changelly, Coinbase or Gemini. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy Bitcoin Private using one of the exchanges listed above.

BTCP/USD price chart by TradingView