Bitcoin (BTC) traded up 1.2% against the U.S. dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 8:00 AM E.T. on December 16th. During the last week, Bitcoin has traded 5.1% higher against the U.S. dollar. One Bitcoin coin can now be purchased for $103,601.28 on major cryptocurrency exchanges. Bitcoin has a market capitalization of $2,050.98 billion and $3.60 billion worth of Bitcoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 3.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $524.82 or 0.00506605 BTC.
- Arweave (AR) traded 2.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $21.18 or 0.00020445 BTC.
- Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded down 3.2% against the dollar and now trades at $64.22 or 0.00061995 BTC.
- eCash (XEC) traded down 3.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Syscoin (SYS) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.14 or 0.00000137 BTC.
Bitcoin Profile
Bitcoin (CRYPTO: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 19,796,865 coins. The official website for Bitcoin is bitcoin.org. Bitcoin’s official message board 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 acquire Bitcoin using US dollars directly can do so using Gemini, GDAX or Coinbase.
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