Bitcoin (BTC) traded up 0.7% against the U.S. dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 22:00 PM Eastern on October 18th. One Bitcoin coin can currently be bought for $68,393.98 on popular exchanges. During the last week, Bitcoin has traded 9.1% higher against the U.S. dollar. Bitcoin has a total market cap of $1,352.12 billion and approximately $34.49 billion worth of Bitcoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $367.27 or 0.00537005 BTC.
- Arweave (AR) traded 1.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $19.08 or 0.00027898 BTC.
- Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 1.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $50.87 or 0.00074375 BTC.
- eCash (XEC) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Syscoin (SYS) traded up 0.7% against the dollar and now trades at $0.10 or 0.00000150 BTC.
Bitcoin Profile
Bitcoin (BTC) 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 19,769,568 coins. Bitcoin’s official message board is bitcointalk.org. The Reddit community for Bitcoin is https://reddit.com/r/bitcoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. The official website for Bitcoin is bitcoin.org. Bitcoin’s official Twitter account is @bitcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here.
Bitcoin Coin Trading
Investors seeking to acquire Bitcoin using US dollars directly can do so using GDAX, Gemini or Coinbase.
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