Vertcoin Trading 2.1% Higher This Week (VTC)

Vertcoin (VTC) traded up 4% against the U.S. dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 18:00 PM Eastern on September 20th. One Vertcoin coin can now be purchased for about $0.0592 or 0.00000094 BTC on popular exchanges. Vertcoin has a total market capitalization of $4.16 million and approximately $11,719.49 worth of Vertcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last week, Vertcoin has traded 2.1% higher against the U.S. dollar.

Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:

• Bitcoin (BTC) traded up 0.3% against the dollar and now trades at $63,129.72 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded up 0.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.11 or 0.00000167 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 1.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $336.03 or 0.00532234 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 1.6% against the dollar and now trades at $5.71 or 0.00009039 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded down 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $65.26 or 0.00103364 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded down 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $176.06 or 0.00278870 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $19.00 or 0.00030099 BTC.
• Arweave (AR) traded up 1.4% against the dollar and now trades at $20.20 or 0.00031999 BTC.
• Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 0.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $48.84 or 0.00077363 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.

About Vertcoin

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 70,304,435 coins. The official message board for Vertcoin is medium.com/vertcoin-blog. Vertcoin’s official Twitter account is @vertcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. The Reddit community for Vertcoin is https://reddit.com/r/vertcoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Vertcoin’s official website 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 presently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Vertcoin directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade Vertcoin should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Coinbase, GDAX or Changelly. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to buy Vertcoin using one of the aforementioned exchanges.

VTC/USD price chart by TradingView