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Bytecoin (BCN) ranks #1262 by market capitalization, at $4.88M. It belongs to the Others sector (Privacy). It has traded since Feb 9, 2015, across 16 markets on 1 exchanges, with $0.144721 of volume in the last 24 hours. Its all-time high of $0.0863532 was reached on May 9, 2018; the current price is 100.0% below that peak. Its cycle low of $5.30098e-06 came on Jun 16, 2025.
99.8% of the maximum supply of 184.47B BCN is in circulation.
About Bytecoin
Bytecoin is a privacy-focused peer-to-peer cryptocurrency implementation of CryptoNote.
Background
Bytecoin is one of the first post-Bitcoin, privacy-focused cryptocurrencies that implements CryptoNote, also used by other privacy coins like Monero. The Bytecoin team believes Bitcoin's on-chain transactional privacy is insufficient for a widely used, peer-to-peer value transfer network.
Borrowing the CryptoNote white paper, Bytecoin implements one-time ring signatures which enable complete transactional unlinkability between network participants. Unlinkability is one of two primary transaction data privacy goals for Bytecoin, the other being untraceability. Bytecoin believes Bitcoin does not sufficiently, if at all, meet these privacy requirements, and they aim to build a protocol that does.