Bitcoin (BTC) traded 3.1% higher against the US dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 23:00 PM ET on August 19th. Bitcoin has a total market capitalization of $1,195.37 billion and approximately $26.95 billion worth of Bitcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. One Bitcoin coin can currently be bought for $60,548.44 on major cryptocurrency exchanges. In the last seven days, Bitcoin has traded 1.8% higher against the US dollar.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded up 2.6% against the dollar and now trades at $343.03 or 0.00566863 BTC.
- Arweave (AR) traded up 3.6% against the dollar and now trades at $21.94 or 0.00036252 BTC.
- Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded up 2% against the dollar and now trades at $42.86 or 0.00070834 BTC.
- eCash (XEC) traded up 2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Syscoin (SYS) traded 59% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.18 or 0.00000293 BTC.
Bitcoin Coin Profile
Bitcoin (BTC) is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm. It launched on July 13th, 2010. Bitcoin’s total supply is 19,742,315 coins. Bitcoin’s official website is bitcoin.org. Bitcoin’s official Twitter account is @bitcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. The Reddit community for Bitcoin is https://reddit.com/r/bitcoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Bitcoin’s official message board is bitcointalk.org.
Bitcoin Coin Trading
Investors seeking to acquire Bitcoin using U.S. dollars directly can do so using Changelly, Coinbase or GDAX.
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