Vertcoin (VTC) Price Hits $0.0561 on Top Exchanges

Vertcoin (VTC) traded 3.4% higher against the U.S. dollar during the 1-day period ending at 13:00 PM ET on January 17th. One Vertcoin coin can currently be bought for approximately $0.0561 or 0.00000054 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. In the last week, Vertcoin has traded 3.3% higher against the U.S. dollar. Vertcoin has a market capitalization of $4.00 million and approximately $18,042.85 worth of Vertcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day.

Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:

• Bitcoin (BTC) traded 5.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $104,408.64 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded up 6.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00000395 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded 5.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $136.66 or 0.00130886 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 4.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $487.31 or 0.00466731 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded 0.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $9.73 or 0.00009322 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded up 5.1% against the dollar and now trades at $230.04 or 0.00220331 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 2.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $27.85 or 0.00026677 BTC.
• IOTA (MIOTA) traded down 1.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.39 or 0.00000378 BTC.
• Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $58.41 or 0.00055943 BTC.
• Arweave (AR) traded 1.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $17.45 or 0.00016714 BTC.

Vertcoin Coin Profile

VTC is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Lyra2REv2 hashing algorithm. It was first traded on January 10th, 2014. Vertcoin’s total supply is 71,160,097 coins. Vertcoin’s official Twitter account is @vertcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. Vertcoin’s official message board is medium.com/vertcoin-blog. The Reddit community for Vertcoin is https://reddit.com/r/vertcoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. The official website for Vertcoin is vertcoin.org.

According to CryptoCompare, “Vertcoin (VTC) is a cryptographic currency, similar to Bitcoin and Litecoin, with one major difference – Vertcoin believes that everyone who has a personal computer should be able to join the Vertcoin network.

Vertcoin is a Litecoin Fork, that in turn is a Bitcoin Fork.

Vertcoin is also the first cryptocurrency to implement Stealth Addresses, a new technology for providing privacy on the public ledger. The block reward reduction is made every block to retarget difficulty with Kimoto’s Gravity Well algorithm.”

Buying and Selling Vertcoin

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

VTC/USD price chart by TradingView