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

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) traded flat against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 0:00 AM E.T. on October 22nd. One Bitcoin Private coin can currently be bought for approximately $0.19 or 0.00000700 BTC on major exchanges. Bitcoin Private has a total market cap of $910,556.88 and approximately $24.10 worth of Bitcoin Private was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last week, Bitcoin Private has traded up 0.5% against the dollar.

Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:

• Zcash (ZEC) traded down 0.3% against the dollar and now trades at $37.70 or 0.00056229 BTC.
• Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded down 1.2% against the dollar and now trades at $22.66 or 0.00033798 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded down 1.9% against the dollar and now trades at $7.87 or 0.00011743 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded down 3.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.25 or 0.00000374 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded 3.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.17 or 0.00000255 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded up 5.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0570 or 0.00000085 BTC.

Bitcoin Private Coin Profile

Bitcoin Private 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.

***The official Bitcoin Private ticker is “BTCP” and trades under that name on all the exchanges where it has been listed. ***”

Bitcoin Private Coin Trading

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

BTCP/USD price chart by TradingView