Bitcoin (BTC) traded 2.5% higher against the US dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 19:00 PM E.T. on October 24th. In the last seven days, Bitcoin has traded up 1.1% against the US dollar. One Bitcoin coin can currently be purchased for approximately $68,129.79 on major exchanges. Bitcoin has a market cap of $1,347.09 billion and approximately $31.47 billion worth of Bitcoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $367.40 or 0.00539258 BTC.
- Arweave (AR) traded 2.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $18.26 or 0.00026796 BTC.
- Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded up 4.6% against the dollar and now trades at $48.83 or 0.00071667 BTC.
- eCash (XEC) traded 1.7% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Syscoin (SYS) traded 6.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.11 or 0.00000159 BTC.
About Bitcoin
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 19,772,475 coins. Bitcoin’s official Twitter account is @bitcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. 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.
Buying and Selling Bitcoin
Investors seeking to acquire Bitcoin using US dollars directly can do so using Gemini, Coinbase or GDAX.
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