Bitcoin Private (BTCP) Trading Up 0.5% Over Last 7 Days

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded flat against the dollar during the one day period ending at 11:00 AM Eastern on November 3rd. One Bitcoin Private coin can now be bought for approximately $0.19 or 0.00000700 BTC on exchanges. Bitcoin Private has a market cap of $910,556.88 and $24.10 worth of Bitcoin Private was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last week, Bitcoin Private has traded up 0.5% against the dollar.

Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:

• Zcash (ZEC) traded down 1.3% against the dollar and now trades at $36.36 or 0.00053105 BTC.
• Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded 3.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $21.31 or 0.00031120 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded 4.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $7.06 or 0.00010307 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded 6.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.16 or 0.00000235 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded 5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.21 or 0.00000305 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded up 29.5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0629 or 0.00000092 BTC.

Bitcoin Private Coin Profile

BTCP is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Equihash hashing algorithm. Its launch date was 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 currently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin Private directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade Bitcoin Private should first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Gemini, GDAX or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy Bitcoin Private using one of the aforementioned exchanges.

BTCP/USD price chart by TradingView