Bitcoin Private (BTCP) Achieves Market Cap of $910,556.88

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded flat against the US dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 8:00 AM ET on October 17th. One Bitcoin Private coin can currently be purchased for approximately $0.19 or 0.00000700 BTC on popular exchanges. Bitcoin Private has a market capitalization of $910,556.88 and approximately $24.10 worth of Bitcoin Private was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last week, Bitcoin Private has traded 0.5% higher against the US dollar.

Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:

• Zcash (ZEC) traded 8.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $35.20 or 0.00052667 BTC.
• Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded down 2.6% against the dollar and now trades at $23.51 or 0.00035178 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded down 6.3% against the dollar and now trades at $7.89 or 0.00011809 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded 4.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.25 or 0.00000375 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded down 1.7% against the dollar and now trades at $0.17 or 0.00000251 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded 1.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0535 or 0.00000080 BTC.

Bitcoin Private Profile

Bitcoin Private is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Equihash hashing algorithm. Its genesis 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 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. ***”

Bitcoin Private Coin Trading

It is usually not possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin Private directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Bitcoin Private should first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Changelly, GDAX 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