Bitcoin Private Trading Up 0.5% This Week (BTCP)

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded flat against the US dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 16:00 PM Eastern on September 16th. One Bitcoin Private coin can now be purchased for approximately $0.19 or 0.00000700 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. In the last week, Bitcoin Private has traded up 0.5% against the US 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.

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

• Zcash (ZEC) traded down 2.4% against the dollar and now trades at $28.99 or 0.00050180 BTC.
• Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded down 2.7% against the dollar and now trades at $21.81 or 0.00037752 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded down 4.7% against the dollar and now trades at $7.60 or 0.00013155 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded down 3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.17 or 0.00000301 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded down 4.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.23 or 0.00000392 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded down 3.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0462 or 0.00000080 BTC.

Bitcoin Private Profile

Bitcoin Private is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Equihash hashing algorithm. It launched 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.

***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 purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin Private directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Bitcoin Private should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Changelly, GDAX or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Bitcoin Private using one of the exchanges listed above.

BTCP/USD price chart by TradingView