Bitcoin Price Reaches $65,410.41 on Exchanges (BTC)

Bitcoin (BTC) traded up 5% against the US dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 8:00 AM E.T. on April 19th. Bitcoin has a market cap of $1,287.73 billion and approximately $50.33 billion worth of Bitcoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. During the last seven days, Bitcoin has traded 7.1% lower against the US dollar. One Bitcoin coin can currently be bought for approximately $65,410.41 on major cryptocurrency exchanges.

Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:

• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded up 0.8% against the dollar and now trades at $483.89 or 0.00739777 BTC.
• Arweave (AR) traded up 16.1% against the dollar and now trades at $28.06 or 0.00042893 BTC.
• Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded up 1.4% against the dollar and now trades at $66.79 or 0.00102105 BTC.
• eCash (XEC) traded up 4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0001 or 0.00000000 BTC.
• Syscoin (SYS) traded 7.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.23 or 0.00000344 BTC.

Bitcoin Profile

Bitcoin (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 19,686,975 coins. Bitcoin’s official Twitter account is @bitcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. Bitcoin’s official website is bitcoin.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 message board is bitcointalk.org.

According to CryptoCompare, “Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency that uses peer-to-peer technology and a blockchain to record transactions. It was created by Satoshi Nakamoto and the first block was mined on January 3, 2009. Bitcoin transactions are recorded on a blockchain, which is a distributed ledger that can be accessed by anyone to verify transactions. Transactions are verified by miners, who are rewarded with a set amount of Bitcoin and transaction fees. The supply of Bitcoin is limited to 21 million coins and it is divisible to eight decimal places. A wallet is needed to use Bitcoin and it consists of a public key, which is used to send and receive payments, and a private key, which is used to control the wallet. Bitcoin can be used for a variety of purposes, including everyday transactions, as a store of value, or for investment.”

Bitcoin Coin Trading

Investors seeking to acquire Bitcoin using US dollars directly can do so using Coinbase, Gemini or GDAX.

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