Bitcoin (BTC) Reaches Market Capitalization of $188.42 Billion Posted by Caroline Horne | Jan 26th, 2018
Bitcoin (CURRENCY:BTC) traded down 1.1% against the U.S. dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 19:00 PM ET on January 26th. One Bitcoin coin can currently be purchased for $11,196.
50 on popular cryptocurrency exchanges including Livecoin, Coinnest, CoinEgg and Poloniex. In the last seven days, Bitcoin has traded down 4.
8% against the U.S.
dollar. Bitcoin has a market capitalization of $188.
42 billion and $9.82 billion worth of Bitcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day: Get Bitcoin alerts: Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 1.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1,614.
43 or 0.14434400 BTC.
Steem (STEEM) traded down 3.7% against the dollar and now trades at $6.26 or 0.
00055984 BTC. PACcoin (PAC) traded down 7.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.
0001 or 0. 1 BTC. Counterparty (XCP) traded down 9.4% against the dollar and now trades at $51.07 or 0.00458349 BTC.
Crown (CRW) traded 2.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $3.
62 or 0.00032366 BTC. Namecoin (NMC) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $3.
84 or 0.00034364 BTC. Unobtanium (UNO) traded down 1% against the dollar and now trades at $131.53 or 0.01176000 BTC. ATBCoin (ATB) traded down 19.
7% against the dollar and now trades at $0.60 or 0.00005402 BTC. CHIPS (CHIPS) traded 7.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.43 or 0.
00003902 BTC. Terracoin (TRC) traded down 0.
7% against the dollar and now trades at $0.31 or 0.00002841 BTC.
About Bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC) is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm. Its genesis date was January 3rd, 2009. Bitcoin’s total supply is 16,828,350 coins.
Bitcoin’s official website is bitcoin.org . The official message board for Bitcoin is bitcointalk.org .
Bitcoin’s official Twitter account is @bitcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here . The Reddit community for Bitcoin is /r/bitcoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here .
According to CryptoCompare, “Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks; managing transactions and the issuing of bitcoins is carried out collectively by the network.
Although other cryptocurrencies have come before, Bitcoin is the first decentralized cryptocurrency – Its reputation has spawned copies and evolution in the space.With the largest variety of markets and the biggest value – having reached a peak of 18 billion USD – Bitcoin is here to stay.
As with any new invention, there can be improvements or flaws in the initial model however the community and a team of dedicated developers are pushing to overcome any obstacle they come across. It is also the most traded cryptocurrency and one of the main entry points for all the other cryptocurrencies. The price is as unstable as always and it can go up or down by 10%-20% in a single day.
Bitcoin is an SHA-256 POW coin with 21,000,000 total minable coins. The block time is 10 minutes. “
Buying and Selling Bitcoin
Bitcoin can be bought or sold on these cryptocurrency exchanges: Paribu, BitBay, GDAX, HitBTC, Gate.io, Gatecoin, Bit-Z, Gemini, Coinroom, itBit, CoinEgg, Mr.
Exchange, CoinsBank, Livecoin, Quoine, GetBTC, ACX, BTC Markets, Poloniex, Bitbank, Bitso, ZB.COM, YoBit, Zaif, CEX.IO, Korbit, Coinnest, OKEx, xBTCe, Coinsquare, Coinrail, Coinone, BTCC, CoolCoin, BTCBOX, BtcTrade.im, EXX, Negocie Coins, bitFlyer, Independent Reserve, Kraken, Bitcoin Indonesia, CoinExchange, Bithumb, Huobi, BL3P, Allcoin, Bittrex, Binance, Bitfinex, BitGrail, Upbit, Tidex, QuadrigaCX, Coinfloor, WEX, Bitonic, Kucoin, Bibox, Foxbit, BTCTurk, BitMEX, Lbank, Luno, Liqui, Fisco, Cryptopia, Exmo, LakeBTC, RightBTC, BX Thailand, Bitstamp and Bleutrade. Investors seeking to acquire Bitcoin using U.
S. dollars directly can do so using Changelly, Gemini or GDAX. Receive News & Updates for Bitcoin Daily – Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and updates for Bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies with MarketBeat.
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