Vertcoin Trading Up 4.5% Over Last Week (VTC)

Vertcoin (VTC) traded 0.5% lower against the dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 0:00 AM ET on August 26th. Vertcoin has a market cap of $4.71 million and approximately $26,269.62 worth of Vertcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. In the last week, Vertcoin has traded 4.5% higher against the dollar. One Vertcoin coin can currently be purchased for about $0.0671 or 0.00000107 BTC on exchanges.

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

• Bitcoin (BTC) traded 1.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $62,949.46 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded down 3.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.11 or 0.00000168 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 2.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $344.66 or 0.00547513 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded 1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $5.82 or 0.00009250 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded 1.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $63.30 or 0.00100553 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded up 0.6% against the dollar and now trades at $165.22 or 0.00262469 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 3.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $19.48 or 0.00030943 BTC.
• Arweave (AR) traded down 1.3% against the dollar and now trades at $25.85 or 0.00041061 BTC.
• Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded down 3.6% against the dollar and now trades at $44.47 or 0.00070651 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.

About Vertcoin

Vertcoin is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Lyra2REv2 hashing algorithm. Its genesis date was January 10th, 2014. Vertcoin’s total supply is 70,128,922 coins. The Reddit community for Vertcoin is https://reddit.com/r/vertcoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Vertcoin’s official message board is medium.com/vertcoin-blog. Vertcoin’s official website is vertcoin.org. Vertcoin’s official Twitter account is @vertcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here.

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 currently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Vertcoin directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade Vertcoin should first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Changelly, GDAX or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy Vertcoin using one of the aforementioned exchanges.

VTC/USD price chart by TradingView