BitShares Trading Up 6.2% Over Last 7 Days (BTS)

BitShares (BTS) traded 1.8% higher against the dollar during the one day period ending at 12:00 PM Eastern on April 15th. In the last week, BitShares has traded 6.2% higher against the dollar. One BitShares coin can currently be purchased for about $0.0009 or 0.00000001 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. BitShares has a market cap of $2.84 million and approximately $106,858.66 worth of BitShares was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.

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

• TRON (TRX) traded 2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.25 or 0.00000292 BTC.
• Tezos (XTZ) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.50 or 0.00000584 BTC.
• Terra Classic (LUNC) traded 0.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0001 or 0.00000000 BTC.
• aelf (ELF) traded 0.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.21 or 0.00000250 BTC.
• Terra (LUNA) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $0.16 or 0.00000184 BTC.
• Adshares (ADS) traded 10.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.52 or 0.00000617 BTC.
• GXChain (GXC) traded 3.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.27 or 0.00000318 BTC.

BitShares Profile

BitShares (CRYPTO:BTS) uses the hashing algorithm. Its genesis date was July 19th, 2014. BitShares’ total supply is 2,995,060,000 coins. BitShares’ official website is bitshares.github.io. The official message board for BitShares is bitsharestalk.org. The Reddit community for BitShares is https://reddit.com/r/bitshares and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. BitShares’ official Twitter account is @bitsharesgroup and its Facebook page is accessible here.

According to CryptoCompare, “BitShares (BTS) was first introduced in a White Paper titled “A Peer-to-Peer Polymorphic Digital Asset Exchange” by Daniel Larimer, Charles Hoskinson, and Stan Larimer. It is a brand of open-source software based on as blockchain technology as used by Bitcoin.Unlike bitcoins, which do not produce any income for their owners, BitShare can be used to launch Decentralized Autonomous Companies (DACs) which issue shares, produce profits and distribute profits to shareholders. As such, BitShares is about making profitable companies that people want to own shares in, thus creating a return for the shareholders. The first DAC launched by this process was called BitSharesX, a decentralized asset exchange based in Hong Kong.BitShares was originally launched under the name of ProtoShares (PTS); it was later renamed to BitShares (BTS) and “reloaded” in November 2014 by merging several products into BitShares (BTS).”

Buying and Selling BitShares

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

BTS/USD price chart by TradingView