Vertcoin (VTC) Hits Market Cap of $4.00 Million

Vertcoin (VTC) traded up 5.7% against the dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 0:00 AM ET on October 17th. Over the last seven days, Vertcoin has traded 5% higher against the dollar. Vertcoin has a market capitalization of $4.00 million and $29,896.79 worth of Vertcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. One Vertcoin coin can now be purchased for $0.0567 or 0.00000084 BTC on popular exchanges.

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

• Bitcoin (BTC) traded up 0.2% against the dollar and now trades at $67,636.57 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded 6.7% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.13 or 0.00000197 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded up 1.9% against the dollar and now trades at $371.73 or 0.00549592 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 0.2% against the dollar and now trades at $6.09 or 0.00009007 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded up 2.7% against the dollar and now trades at $72.82 or 0.00107665 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded up 0.3% against the dollar and now trades at $158.37 or 0.00234146 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 1.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $19.13 or 0.00028280 BTC.
• Arweave (AR) traded down 1.5% against the dollar and now trades at $18.81 or 0.00027817 BTC.
• Bitcoin SV (BSV) traded 0.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $51.33 or 0.00075898 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.

Vertcoin Coin 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 70,500,847 coins. 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. The official website for Vertcoin 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.”

Vertcoin Coin Trading

It is usually not possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Vertcoin directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade Vertcoin should first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Gemini, 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