BitShares (BTS) traded 0.8% higher against the dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 21:00 PM Eastern on August 18th. BitShares has a market capitalization of $5.35 million and $61,019.65 worth of BitShares was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One BitShares coin can now be purchased for about $0.0018 or 0.00000003 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. During the last seven days, BitShares has traded down 9.8% against the dollar.
Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:
- TRON (TRX) traded 0.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.13 or 0.00000229 BTC.
- Tezos (XTZ) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.65 or 0.00001108 BTC.
- Terra Classic (LUNC) traded 0.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0001 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- aelf (ELF) traded up 0.6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.38 or 0.00000655 BTC.
- Terra (LUNA) traded up 0.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.32 or 0.00000544 BTC.
- GXChain (GXC) traded down 0.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.37 or 0.00000634 BTC.
- Adshares (ADS) traded 0.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.22 or 0.00000378 BTC.
BitShares Profile
BTS uses the hashing algorithm. Its launch date was July 19th, 2014. BitShares’ total supply is 2,995,060,000 coins. The Reddit community for BitShares is https://reddit.com/r/bitshares and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. The official website for BitShares is bitshares.github.io. BitShares’ official message board is bitsharestalk.org. BitShares’ official Twitter account is @bitsharesgroup and its Facebook page is accessible here.
BitShares was created by Daniel Larimer, Charles Hoskinson, and Stan Larimer. Charles Hoskinson was a co-founder but has since left the team.
BitShares can be used to participate in decentralized autonomous companies (DACs) offering various services by becoming a shareholder and securing the company through your computer. The platform uses its own token, BTS, for participation and services.”
Buying and Selling BitShares
It is usually not currently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as BitShares directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire BitShares should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Changelly, GDAX or Gemini. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase BitShares using one of the exchanges listed above.
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