Vertcoin (VTC) Market Capitalization Tops $4.08 Million

Vertcoin (VTC) traded up 2.9% against the U.S. dollar during the 1 day period ending at 14:00 PM Eastern on May 9th. Over the last seven days, Vertcoin has traded down 8.2% against the U.S. dollar. One Vertcoin coin can now be bought for approximately $0.0588 or 0.00000095 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. Vertcoin has a total market capitalization of $4.08 million and approximately $15,672.08 worth of Vertcoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.

Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed over the last 24 hours:

• Bitcoin (BTC) traded 0.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $62,024.32 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $0.15 or 0.00000240 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded down 3% against the dollar and now trades at $444.43 or 0.00716541 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded 0.6% higher against the dollar and now trades at $82.08 or 0.00132343 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 1.6% against the dollar and now trades at $5.81 or 0.00009366 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded down 2.9% against the dollar and now trades at $27.32 or 0.00044048 BTC.
• Arweave (AR) traded up 11.6% against the dollar and now trades at $41.69 or 0.00067220 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded up 4.1% against the dollar and now trades at $134.73 or 0.00217214 BTC.
• Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 0.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $63.59 or 0.00102531 BTC.
• eCash (XEC) traded 0.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.

Vertcoin Coin Profile

Vertcoin (VTC) 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 69,337,635 coins. The official website for Vertcoin is vertcoin.org. 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. 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 presently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Vertcoin directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade Vertcoin should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Changelly, Gemini or Coinbase. 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