Bitcoin Private (BTCP) Trading 0.5% Higher This Week

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded flat against the U.S. dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 8:00 AM ET on February 10th. One Bitcoin Private coin can now be bought for about $0.19 or 0.00000700 BTC on exchanges. During the last seven days, Bitcoin Private has traded 0.5% higher against the U.S. dollar. Bitcoin Private has a market cap of $910,556.88 and approximately $24.10 worth of Bitcoin Private was traded on exchanges in the last day.

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

• Zcash (ZEC) traded 2.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $32.38 or 0.00033285 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded 3.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $11.30 or 0.00011617 BTC.
• Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded up 31% against the dollar and now trades at $4.67 or 0.00004803 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded 2.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.15 or 0.00000151 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded 0.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.19 or 0.00000199 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded 0.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0614 or 0.00000063 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. The official website for Bitcoin Private 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. Bitcoin Private’s official Twitter account is @bitcoinprivate and its Facebook page is accessible 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. ***”

Bitcoin Private Coin Trading

It is usually not possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin Private directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade Bitcoin Private should first purchase Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Changelly, GDAX or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to purchase Bitcoin Private using one of the aforementioned exchanges.

BTCP/USD price chart by TradingView