Bitcoin (BTC) traded 0.2% lower against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 10:00 AM ET on October 19th. One Bitcoin coin can now be bought for $68,169.30 on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. Over the last week, Bitcoin has traded up 8% against the U.S. dollar. Bitcoin has a total market capitalization of $1,347.70 billion and approximately $1.34 billion worth of Bitcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded down 1.5% against the dollar and now trades at $362.98 or 0.00532473 BTC.
- Arweave (AR) traded down 1% against the dollar and now trades at $18.69 or 0.00027416 BTC.
- Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded down 2.7% against the dollar and now trades at $50.53 or 0.00074120 BTC.
- eCash (XEC) traded 0.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Syscoin (SYS) traded 1.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.10 or 0.00000148 BTC.
Bitcoin Profile
BTC is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm. It was first traded on July 13th, 2010. Bitcoin’s total supply is 19,769,853 coins. The official website for Bitcoin 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.
Buying and Selling Bitcoin
Investors seeking to trade Bitcoin using US dollars directly can do so using Coinbase, GDAX or Gemini.
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