Bitcoin Private (BTCP) Price Hits $0.19 on Top Exchanges

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded flat against the US dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 12:00 PM ET on January 16th. During the last seven days, Bitcoin Private has traded 0.5% higher against the US dollar. Bitcoin Private has a total market cap of $910.56 thousand and $24.10 worth of Bitcoin Private was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Bitcoin Private coin can currently be bought for $0.19 or 0.00000700 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges.

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

• Zcash (ZEC) traded down 2.1% against the dollar and now trades at $409.00 or 0.00430854 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded 11.7% higher against the dollar and now trades at $13.31 or 0.00014024 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded 8.8% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.67 or 0.00000705 BTC.
• Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded 143.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.90 or 0.00001997 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded 37.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0372 or 0.00000039 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded down 13.6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.34 or 0.00000362 BTC.

Bitcoin Private Profile

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 website 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.”

Bitcoin Private Coin Trading

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

BTCP/USD price chart by TradingView