Bitcoin Private (BTCP) Trading 0.5% Higher This Week

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded flat against the US dollar during the one day period ending at 8:00 AM Eastern on February 6th. In the last week, Bitcoin Private has traded 0.5% higher against the US dollar. One Bitcoin Private coin can currently be purchased for about $0.19 or 0.00000700 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. Bitcoin Private has a total market capitalization of $910,556.88 and $24.10 worth of Bitcoin Private was traded on exchanges in the last day.

Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:

• Zcash (ZEC) traded 4.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $31.25 or 0.00031706 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded down 8.8% against the dollar and now trades at $11.73 or 0.00011904 BTC.
• Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded 1.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $4.79 or 0.00004859 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded down 3.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.15 or 0.00000154 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded down 2.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.19 or 0.00000191 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded up 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0424 or 0.00000043 BTC.

About Bitcoin Private

Bitcoin Private is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Equihash hashing algorithm. Its genesis 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 website is btcprivate.org. 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.

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 possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin Private directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade Bitcoin Private should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Changelly, Gemini or GDAX. 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