Bitcoin Private (BTCP) Trading Up 0.5% This Week

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded flat against the dollar during the 1 day period ending at 20:00 PM ET on April 16th. In the last week, Bitcoin Private has traded up 0.5% against the dollar. Bitcoin Private has a total market capitalization of $910,556.88 and $24.10 worth of Bitcoin Private was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Bitcoin Private coin can currently be purchased for approximately $0.19 or 0.00000700 BTC on exchanges.

Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:

• Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded 1.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $36.60 or 0.00057397 BTC.
• Zcash (ZEC) traded up 1.2% against the dollar and now trades at $21.26 or 0.00033337 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded down 1.1% against the dollar and now trades at $8.40 or 0.00013180 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded 7.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.33 or 0.00000516 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded up 0.5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.40 or 0.00000630 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded up 0.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0603 or 0.00000095 BTC.

Bitcoin Private Coin Profile

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. Bitcoin Private’s official website is btcprivate.org. Bitcoin Private’s official Twitter account is @bitcoinprivate and its Facebook page is accessible here. 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.

***The official Bitcoin Private ticker is “BTCP” and trades under that name on all the exchanges where it has been listed. ***”

Buying and Selling Bitcoin Private

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 Coinbase, GDAX or Gemini. 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