Vertcoin Trading Down 4.4% This Week (VTC)

Vertcoin (VTC) traded 2.2% higher against the U.S. dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 14:00 PM ET on September 16th. In the last seven days, Vertcoin has traded 4.4% lower against the U.S. dollar. Vertcoin has a total market capitalization of $3.88 million and approximately $15,827.63 worth of Vertcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. One Vertcoin coin can currently be bought for $0.0552 or 0.00000096 BTC on major exchanges.

Here is how similar cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:

• Bitcoin (BTC) traded down 3.7% against the dollar and now trades at $57,869.25 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded 5.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0992 or 0.00000172 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 2.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $311.86 or 0.00540881 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded 0.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $5.74 or 0.00009949 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded 2.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $62.39 or 0.00108214 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded up 0.5% against the dollar and now trades at $170.31 or 0.00295378 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded down 2.5% against the dollar and now trades at $17.68 or 0.00030659 BTC.
• Arweave (AR) traded 2.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $18.74 or 0.00032502 BTC.
• Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded down 3.2% against the dollar and now trades at $45.99 or 0.00079769 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.

About Vertcoin

Vertcoin (VTC) is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Lyra2REv2 hashing algorithm. It launched on January 10th, 2014. Vertcoin’s total supply is 70,275,622 coins. The official website for Vertcoin is vertcoin.org. Vertcoin’s official message board 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.

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 buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Vertcoin directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Vertcoin should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Changelly, Coinbase or GDAX. 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