Vertcoin (VTC) Trading 17.8% Lower Over Last Week

Vertcoin (VTC) traded 9.1% lower against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 21:00 PM ET on October 22nd. During the last seven days, Vertcoin has traded down 17.8% against the U.S. dollar. One Vertcoin coin can now be purchased for $0.0559 or 0.00000083 BTC on exchanges. Vertcoin has a total market capitalization of $3.94 million and $14,989.79 worth of Vertcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day.

Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:

• Bitcoin (BTC) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $67,299.31 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded down 4.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.14 or 0.00000207 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 2.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $355.99 or 0.00528973 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded 0.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $6.06 or 0.00009004 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $69.15 or 0.00102757 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded up 0.6% against the dollar and now trades at $157.14 or 0.00233491 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded down 2.4% against the dollar and now trades at $18.97 or 0.00028185 BTC.
• Arweave (AR) traded down 0.8% against the dollar and now trades at $18.41 or 0.00027359 BTC.
• Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $47.93 or 0.00071226 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.

Vertcoin Coin Profile

VTC is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Lyra2REv2 hashing algorithm. Its launch date was January 10th, 2014. Vertcoin’s total supply is 70,536,485 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 Twitter account is @vertcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. The official message board for Vertcoin is medium.com/vertcoin-blog. 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 Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Changelly, Gemini or GDAX. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to purchase Vertcoin using one of the exchanges listed above.

VTC/USD price chart by TradingView