Bitcoin (BTC) traded down 3.9% against the U.S. dollar during the 1 day period ending at 19:00 PM E.T. on August 4th. Bitcoin has a market cap of $1,152.18 billion and approximately $31.51 billion worth of Bitcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. One Bitcoin coin can now be purchased for about $58,380.47 on exchanges. In the last seven days, Bitcoin has traded down 14.3% against the U.S. dollar.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 8.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $332.99 or 0.00569922 BTC.
- Arweave (AR) traded down 7.7% against the dollar and now trades at $21.01 or 0.00035956 BTC.
- Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 6.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $40.15 or 0.00068721 BTC.
- eCash (XEC) traded 8.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Syscoin (SYS) traded down 7.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0762 or 0.00000130 BTC.
Bitcoin Profile
Bitcoin is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm. Its launch date was July 13th, 2010. Bitcoin’s total supply is 19,735,656 coins. The Reddit community for Bitcoin is https://reddit.com/r/bitcoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. The official website for Bitcoin is bitcoin.org. The official message board for Bitcoin is bitcointalk.org. Bitcoin’s official Twitter account is @bitcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here.
Buying and Selling Bitcoin
Investors seeking to acquire Bitcoin using U.S. dollars directly can do so using GDAX, Gemini or Changelly.
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