Vertcoin Reaches Market Capitalization of $5.33 Million (VTC)

Vertcoin (VTC) traded 2.6% lower against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 7:00 AM E.T. on January 20th. Over the last seven days, Vertcoin has traded 0.8% higher against the dollar. Vertcoin has a total market cap of $5.33 million and approximately $13.06 thousand worth of Vertcoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Vertcoin coin can now be purchased for about $0.0724 or 0.00000079 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges.

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

• Arweave (AR) traded down 0.9% against the dollar and now trades at $3.70 or 0.00004065 BTC.
• Bitcoin (BTC) traded 2.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $91,091.54 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded down 1.5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.13 or 0.00000138 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 2.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $574.08 or 0.00630222 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded down 10.6% against the dollar and now trades at $566.05 or 0.00621405 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded 3.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $8.71 or 0.00009560 BTC.
• Zcash (ZEC) traded 1.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $366.57 or 0.00402415 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded down 1.1% against the dollar and now trades at $69.40 or 0.00076184 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 1.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $11.79 or 0.00012945 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.

About Vertcoin

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 73,653,297 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. Vertcoin’s official Twitter account is @vertcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. 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 presently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Vertcoin directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade Vertcoin should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as GDAX, Gemini or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Vertcoin using one of the aforementioned exchanges.

VTC/USD price chart by TradingView