Vertcoin (VTC) Price Tops $0.0694 on Exchanges

Vertcoin (VTC) traded 1.1% higher against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 8:00 AM ET on January 28th. Vertcoin has a market cap of $5.11 million and approximately $14.47 thousand worth of Vertcoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. In the last week, Vertcoin has traded 3.7% lower against the U.S. dollar. One Vertcoin coin can now be bought for approximately $0.0694 or 0.00000077 BTC on popular exchanges.

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

• Arweave (AR) traded 1.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $3.34 or 0.00003710 BTC.
• Bitcoin (BTC) traded 2.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $89,989.13 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded 3.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.13 or 0.00000141 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded 1.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $595.91 or 0.00662198 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded down 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $476.69 or 0.00529724 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 0.8% against the dollar and now trades at $9.16 or 0.00010175 BTC.
• Zcash (ZEC) traded 3.7% higher against the dollar and now trades at $396.65 or 0.00440781 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded up 1.5% against the dollar and now trades at $69.88 or 0.00077657 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 2.8% higher against the dollar and now trades at $11.58 or 0.00012863 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 was first traded on January 10th, 2014. Vertcoin’s total supply is 73,682,310 coins. 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. Vertcoin’s official message board is medium.com/vertcoin-blog.

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 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 GDAX, Coinbase or Changelly. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy Vertcoin using one of the aforementioned exchanges.

VTC/USD price chart by TradingView