Bitcoin (BTC) traded 4% lower against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 16:00 PM Eastern on August 15th. Bitcoin has a market cap of $1,126.55 billion and $1.87 billion worth of Bitcoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. In the last seven days, Bitcoin has traded 4.1% lower against the U.S. dollar. One Bitcoin coin can now be purchased for $57,068.14 on cryptocurrency exchanges.
Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded down 2.3% against the dollar and now trades at $330.62 or 0.00579334 BTC.
- Arweave (AR) traded down 1.1% against the dollar and now trades at $20.93 or 0.00036678 BTC.
- Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 2.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $42.47 or 0.00074412 BTC.
- eCash (XEC) traded down 1.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Syscoin (SYS) traded 6.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0688 or 0.00000121 BTC.
Bitcoin Profile
Bitcoin is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm. Its launch date was July 13th, 2010. Bitcoin’s total supply is 19,740,400 coins. The official website for Bitcoin is bitcoin.org. The official message board for Bitcoin is bitcointalk.org. Bitcoin’s official Twitter account is @bitcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. 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 acquire Bitcoin using U.S. dollars directly can do so using Changelly, Coinbase or Gemini.
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