Bitcoin Private (BTCP) Price Tops $0.19

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded flat against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 9:00 AM E.T. on January 17th. Bitcoin Private has a market cap of $910,556.88 and approximately $24.10 worth of Bitcoin Private was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Bitcoin Private coin can now be bought for $0.19 or 0.00000700 BTC on exchanges. During the last seven days, Bitcoin Private has traded 0.5% higher against the dollar.

Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:

• Zcash (ZEC) traded up 1.9% against the dollar and now trades at $55.24 or 0.00053824 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded 3.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $29.67 or 0.00028913 BTC.
• Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded up 1.2% against the dollar and now trades at $11.59 or 0.00011289 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded 2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.31 or 0.00000305 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded 0.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.20 or 0.00000195 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded up 3.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0442 or 0.00000043 BTC.

Bitcoin Private Profile

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

BTCP/USD price chart by TradingView