Bitcoin Gold Price Tops $21.84 on Major Exchanges (BTG)

Bitcoin Gold (BTG) traded down 1.9% against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 18:00 PM ET on October 13th. Bitcoin Gold has a market capitalization of $382.59 million and approximately $1.10 million worth of Bitcoin Gold was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Bitcoin Gold coin can currently be purchased for $21.84 or 0.00034729 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. During the last week, Bitcoin Gold has traded 2.8% lower against the dollar.

Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:

• Zcash (ZEC) traded 2.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $35.11 or 0.00055813 BTC.
• Horizen (ZEN) traded down 0.6% against the dollar and now trades at $8.12 or 0.00012905 BTC.
• Komodo (KMD) traded down 1.7% against the dollar and now trades at $0.26 or 0.00000416 BTC.
• Pirate Chain (ARRR) traded 0% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.17 or 0.00000265 BTC.
• ZClassic (ZCL) traded 3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0490 or 0.00000078 BTC.

Bitcoin Gold Coin Profile

BTG is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Equihash hashing algorithm. It launched on October 25th, 2017. Bitcoin Gold’s total supply is 17,513,924 coins. The Reddit community for Bitcoin Gold is https://reddit.com/r/bitcoingoldhq and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. The official website for Bitcoin Gold is bitcoingold.org. Bitcoin Gold’s official message board is forum.bitcoingold.org. Bitcoin Gold’s official Twitter account is @bitcoingold and its Facebook page is accessible here.

According to CryptoCompare, “Bitcoin Gold (BTG) is a cryptocurrency . Users are able to generate BTG through the process of mining. Bitcoin Gold has a current supply of 17,513,923.589. The last known price of Bitcoin Gold is 22.12494418 USD and is down -0.07 over the last 24 hours. It is currently trading on 77 active market(s) with $1,331,404.10 traded over the last 24 hours. More information can be found at https://bitcoingold.org/.”

Buying and Selling Bitcoin Gold

It is usually not currently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin Gold directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Bitcoin Gold should first purchase Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Gemini, GDAX or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to purchase Bitcoin Gold using one of the exchanges listed above.

BTG/USD price chart by TradingView