Bitcoin (BTC) traded up 1.8% against the dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 22:00 PM Eastern on August 16th. Bitcoin has a total market cap of $1,167.93 billion and $28.05 billion worth of Bitcoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. During the last seven days, Bitcoin has traded 2.4% lower against the dollar. One Bitcoin coin can currently be bought for about $59,162.59 on exchanges.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $338.61 or 0.00572142 BTC.
- Arweave (AR) traded 2.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $21.49 or 0.00036307 BTC.
- Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 1.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $42.55 or 0.00071893 BTC.
- eCash (XEC) traded down 4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Syscoin (SYS) traded up 4.6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0737 or 0.00000125 BTC.
About Bitcoin
Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm. Its launch date was July 13th, 2010. Bitcoin’s total supply is 19,740,981 coins. The official website for Bitcoin is bitcoin.org. The Reddit community for Bitcoin is https://reddit.com/r/bitcoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. The official message board for Bitcoin is bitcointalk.org. Bitcoin’s official Twitter account is @bitcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here.
Buying and Selling Bitcoin
Investors seeking to acquire Bitcoin using U.S. dollars directly can do so using Coinbase, Changelly or GDAX.
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