Bitcoin Private (BTCP) Trading 0.5% Higher Over Last Week

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded flat against the U.S. dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 21:00 PM ET on October 27th. One Bitcoin Private coin can now be purchased for $0.19 or 0.00000700 BTC on exchanges. Bitcoin Private has a total market capitalization of $910,556.88 and approximately $24.10 worth of Bitcoin Private was traded on exchanges in the last day. In the last week, Bitcoin Private has traded 0.5% higher against the U.S. dollar.

Here is how similar cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:

• Zcash (ZEC) traded up 10.6% against the dollar and now trades at $38.25 or 0.00056491 BTC.
• Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded 0.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $21.70 or 0.00032040 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded 4.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $7.57 or 0.00011181 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded down 2.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.18 or 0.00000265 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded 2.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.24 or 0.00000348 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded down 15.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0481 or 0.00000071 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. Bitcoin Private’s official website 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 Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Changelly, Gemini or GDAX. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to purchase Bitcoin Private using one of the exchanges listed above.

BTCP/USD price chart by TradingView