Bitcoin Private (BTCP) Trading Up 0.5% This Week

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded flat against the U.S. dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 9:00 AM ET on April 7th. Bitcoin Private has a market capitalization of $910,556.88 and approximately $24.10 worth of Bitcoin Private was traded on exchanges in the last day. In the last seven days, Bitcoin Private has traded 0.5% higher against the U.S. dollar. One Bitcoin Private coin can now be purchased for $0.19 or 0.00000700 BTC on popular exchanges.

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

• Zcash (ZEC) traded 21.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $29.93 or 0.00038816 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded 9.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $7.11 or 0.00009227 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded down 5.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.10 or 0.00000132 BTC.
• Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded 8.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.94 or 0.00001216 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded down 8.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.12 or 0.00000152 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded down 6.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0664 or 0.00000086 BTC.

Bitcoin Private Profile

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.”

Buying and Selling Bitcoin Private

It is usually not currently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin Private directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Bitcoin Private should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Coinbase, Changelly or Gemini. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Bitcoin Private using one of the exchanges listed above.

BTCP/USD price chart by TradingView