Vertcoin Reaches Market Capitalization of $4.88 Million (VTC)

Vertcoin (VTC) traded up 2% against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 13:00 PM E.T. on April 15th. One Vertcoin coin can now be purchased for about $0.0680 or 0.00000080 BTC on popular exchanges. Vertcoin has a total market cap of $4.88 million and approximately $24,159.42 worth of Vertcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. In the last seven days, Vertcoin has traded up 12.8% against the U.S. dollar.

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

• Arweave (AR) traded 2.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $5.12 or 0.00006017 BTC.
• Bitcoin (BTC) traded up 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $85,031.90 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded 1.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.16 or 0.00000184 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 0.5% against the dollar and now trades at $9.34 or 0.00010990 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded down 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $324.13 or 0.00381223 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded 0.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $75.64 or 0.00088970 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded 2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $216.10 or 0.00254163 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded down 1.6% against the dollar and now trades at $15.11 or 0.00017767 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.
• IOTA (MIOTA) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.16 or 0.00000189 BTC.

Vertcoin Coin Profile

Vertcoin (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 71,796,160 coins. Vertcoin’s official message board is medium.com/vertcoin-blog. The official website for Vertcoin is vertcoin.org. 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 Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Changelly, GDAX or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy Vertcoin using one of the exchanges listed above.

VTC/USD price chart by TradingView