Bitcoin (BTC) traded 2% higher against the U.S. dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 22:00 PM E.T. on August 6th. Bitcoin has a market capitalization of $1,118.39 billion and $47.34 billion worth of Bitcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. One Bitcoin coin can now be purchased for $56,666.04 on major exchanges. During the last seven days, Bitcoin has traded 14.3% lower against the U.S. dollar.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $315.78 or 0.00557263 BTC.
- Arweave (AR) traded up 1% against the dollar and now trades at $20.61 or 0.00036364 BTC.
- Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $37.50 or 0.00066181 BTC.
- eCash (XEC) traded 4.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Syscoin (SYS) traded 1.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0719 or 0.00000127 BTC.
Bitcoin Profile
Bitcoin is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm. It launched on July 13th, 2010. Bitcoin’s total supply is 19,736,600 coins. Bitcoin’s official Twitter account is @bitcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. The official message board for Bitcoin is bitcointalk.org. Bitcoin’s official website is bitcoin.org. The Reddit community for Bitcoin is https://reddit.com/r/bitcoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here.
Bitcoin Coin Trading
Investors seeking to trade Bitcoin using US dollars directly can do so using Gemini, GDAX or Changelly.
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