Bitcoin (BTC) traded 1.2% lower against the dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 20:00 PM ET on August 3rd. One Bitcoin coin can currently be purchased for approximately $60,689.93 on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. Bitcoin has a market capitalization of $1,197.73 billion and $31.51 billion worth of Bitcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last seven days, Bitcoin has traded 10.3% lower against the dollar.
Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 4.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $364.70 or 0.00600930 BTC.
- Arweave (AR) traded 7.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $22.68 or 0.00037377 BTC.
- Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 1.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $43.00 or 0.00070860 BTC.
- eCash (XEC) traded 0.7% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Syscoin (SYS) traded down 1.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0825 or 0.00000136 BTC.
About Bitcoin
Bitcoin 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 19,735,225 coins. The official website for Bitcoin is bitcoin.org. The official message board for Bitcoin is bitcointalk.org. The Reddit community for Bitcoin is https://reddit.com/r/bitcoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Bitcoin’s official Twitter account is @bitcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here.
Buying and Selling Bitcoin
Investors seeking to trade Bitcoin using US dollars directly can do so using GDAX, Gemini or Changelly.
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