Bitcoin (BTC) traded up 0.2% against the U.S. dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 20:00 PM ET on May 5th. One Bitcoin coin can now be purchased for $64,041.82 on major exchanges. Bitcoin has a total market cap of $1,261.27 billion and $803.62 million worth of Bitcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. During the last week, Bitcoin has traded up 1.8% against the U.S. dollar.
Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded up 1.1% against the dollar and now trades at $469.12 or 0.00732326 BTC.
- Arweave (AR) traded up 13.4% against the dollar and now trades at $40.55 or 0.00063299 BTC.
- Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 0.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $64.73 or 0.00101041 BTC.
- eCash (XEC) traded 0.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0001 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Syscoin (SYS) traded 0.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.20 or 0.00000317 BTC.
About Bitcoin
BTC 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 19,694,521 coins. Bitcoin’s official Twitter account is @bitcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. 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. Bitcoin’s official message board is bitcointalk.org.
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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