Vertcoin Price Down 11.1% This Week (VTC)

Vertcoin (VTC) traded 0.1% higher against the US dollar during the 1-day period ending at 16:00 PM ET on August 22nd. One Vertcoin coin can now be bought for approximately $0.0605 or 0.00000100 BTC on popular exchanges. Vertcoin has a total market capitalization of $4.24 million and approximately $11,365.52 worth of Vertcoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. Over the last week, Vertcoin has traded down 11.1% against the US dollar.

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

• Bitcoin (BTC) traded down 1.4% against the dollar and now trades at $60,360.62 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded down 2.6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.10 or 0.00000174 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded down 1% against the dollar and now trades at $346.95 or 0.00574788 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 0.8% against the dollar and now trades at $5.83 or 0.00009663 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded 0.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $63.82 or 0.00105727 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded up 4.2% against the dollar and now trades at $168.92 or 0.00279859 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 0.7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $19.40 or 0.00032145 BTC.
• Arweave (AR) traded up 0.2% against the dollar and now trades at $24.36 or 0.00040356 BTC.
• Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 0.8% lower against the dollar and now trades at $44.10 or 0.00073058 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.

Vertcoin Profile

Vertcoin is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Lyra2REv2 hashing algorithm. It launched on January 10th, 2014. Vertcoin’s total supply is 70,098,072 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 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.

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 Coinbase, Changelly 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