Bitcoin Private Price Up 0.5% This Week (BTCP)

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded flat against the US dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 11:00 AM Eastern on December 31st. Bitcoin Private has a total market capitalization of $910.56 thousand and approximately $24.10 worth of Bitcoin Private was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last seven days, Bitcoin Private has traded 0.5% higher against the US dollar. One Bitcoin Private coin can now be bought for $0.19 or 0.00000700 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges.

Here is how similar cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:

• Zcash (ZEC) traded down 5% against the dollar and now trades at $508.34 or 0.00578908 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded 4.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $8.89 or 0.00010120 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded up 4.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.27 or 0.00000303 BTC.
• Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded up 22.6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.73 or 0.00000830 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded up 34.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0366 or 0.00000042 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.33 or 0.00000375 BTC.

About Bitcoin Private

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

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.”

Bitcoin Private Coin Trading

It is usually not presently 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 GDAX, Coinbase or Changelly. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy Bitcoin Private using one of the aforementioned exchanges.

BTCP/USD price chart by TradingView