Vertcoin Hits Market Cap of $5.11 Million (VTC)

Vertcoin (VTC) traded down 2.7% against the U.S. dollar during the 1 day period ending at 8:00 AM Eastern on January 24th. In the last week, Vertcoin has traded down 8.9% against the U.S. dollar. One Vertcoin coin can currently be bought for approximately $0.0693 or 0.00000077 BTC on exchanges. Vertcoin has a total market cap of $5.11 million and approximately $15.04 thousand worth of Vertcoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.

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

• Arweave (AR) traded 0.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $3.57 or 0.00003987 BTC.
• Bitcoin (BTC) traded 0.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $89,515.29 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded down 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.12 or 0.00000139 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 0.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $597.62 or 0.00667621 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded up 2% against the dollar and now trades at $521.06 or 0.00582086 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded 1.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $8.98 or 0.00010029 BTC.
• Zcash (ZEC) traded up 2.3% against the dollar and now trades at $372.11 or 0.00415689 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded 0.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $68.43 or 0.00076450 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 0.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $11.69 or 0.00013065 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.

About Vertcoin

Vertcoin (CRYPTO: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 73,667,672 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. 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 possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Vertcoin directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Vertcoin should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Coinbase, GDAX or Changelly. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to buy Vertcoin using one of the exchanges listed above.

VTC/USD price chart by TradingView