Bitcoin (BTC) traded 1.5% lower against the US dollar during the one day period ending at 18:00 PM ET on October 8th. In the last seven days, Bitcoin has traded up 2.7% against the US dollar. Bitcoin has a total market capitalization of $1,233.78 billion and approximately $2.28 billion worth of Bitcoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Bitcoin coin can currently be bought for approximately $62,422.18 on exchanges.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 0.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $330.46 or 0.00529401 BTC.
- Arweave (AR) traded down 1.7% against the dollar and now trades at $19.01 or 0.00030450 BTC.
- Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded down 1.8% against the dollar and now trades at $45.72 or 0.00073247 BTC.
- eCash (XEC) traded 3.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Syscoin (SYS) traded down 1.5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.10 or 0.00000161 BTC.
Bitcoin Profile
BTC 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 19,765,040 coins. Bitcoin’s official Twitter account is @bitcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. The official message board for Bitcoin 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.
Buying and Selling Bitcoin
Investors seeking to trade Bitcoin using US dollars directly can do so using Coinbase, Changelly or GDAX.
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