Bitcoin Private Price Up 0.5% This Week (BTCP)

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded flat against the US dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 16:00 PM ET on April 19th. In the last seven days, Bitcoin Private has traded 0.5% higher against the US dollar. One Bitcoin Private coin can now be bought for approximately $0.19 or 0.00000700 BTC on popular cryptocurrency 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 24 hours.

Here is how similar cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:

• Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded up 0.3% against the dollar and now trades at $35.67 or 0.00055637 BTC.
• Zcash (ZEC) traded up 3% against the dollar and now trades at $22.43 or 0.00034995 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded 1.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $8.72 or 0.00013607 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded up 3.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.40 or 0.00000626 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded 2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00000636 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded 0.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0606 or 0.00000095 BTC.

Bitcoin Private Coin Profile

Bitcoin Private (CRYPTO: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. 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.

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 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 GDAX, Coinbase or Changelly. 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