Bitcoin Private (BTCP) Trading 0.5% Higher This Week

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded flat against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 8:00 AM Eastern on February 18th. 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. One Bitcoin Private coin can currently be bought for $0.19 or 0.00000700 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. In the last week, Bitcoin Private has traded up 0.5% against the dollar.

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

• Zcash (ZEC) traded down 3.2% against the dollar and now trades at $34.17 or 0.00035513 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded down 7.8% against the dollar and now trades at $13.48 or 0.00014008 BTC.
• Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded down 7.8% against the dollar and now trades at $4.79 or 0.00004980 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded down 0.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.18 or 0.00000192 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded down 5.7% against the dollar and now trades at $0.20 or 0.00000206 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0606 or 0.00000063 BTC.

About Bitcoin Private

BTCP 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. The Reddit community for Bitcoin Private is https://reddit.com/r/btc_private and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. The official website for Bitcoin Private is btcprivate.org.

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 trade Bitcoin Private should first purchase Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Changelly, Coinbase 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