Qtum (QTUM) Price Up 28.8% Over Last 7 Days

Qtum (QTUM) traded down 1% against the US dollar during the one day period ending at 11:00 AM ET on August 24th. Qtum has a market cap of $92.64 million and $8.34 million worth of Qtum was traded on exchanges in the last day. During the last seven days, Qtum has traded 28.8% higher against the US dollar. One Qtum coin can now be bought for $0.87 or 0.00001099 BTC on major exchanges.

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

• Ethereum (ETH) traded 3.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $2,514.15 or 0.03164551 BTC.
• Cardano (ADA) traded down 0.6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.22 or 0.00000282 BTC.
• Cronos (CRO) traded 5.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0616 or 0.00000078 BTC.
• Hedera (HBAR) traded up 2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0805 or 0.00000101 BTC.
• Avalanche (AVAX) traded 0.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $7.57 or 0.00009523 BTC.
• Uniswap (UNI) traded down 2.5% against the dollar and now trades at $4.38 or 0.00005517 BTC.
• NEAR Protocol (NEAR) traded 1.8% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.98 or 0.00002494 BTC.
• Internet Computer (ICP) traded 1.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $2.42 or 0.00003051 BTC.
• Algorand (ALGO) traded down 0.4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0931 or 0.00000117 BTC.
• Cosmos (ATOM) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.57 or 0.00001970 BTC.

Qtum Coin Profile

Qtum (CRYPTO:QTUM) is a proof-of-stake (PoS) coin that uses the POS 3.0 hashing algorithm. Its genesis date was March 11th, 2017. Qtum’s total supply is 107,822,406 coins and its circulating supply is 106,093,020 coins. Qtum’s official website is qtum.org. The official message board for Qtum is qtum.org/blog. Qtum’s official Twitter account is @qtum and its Facebook page is accessible here. The Reddit community for Qtum is https://reddit.com/r/qtum and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here.

According to CryptoCompare, “QTUM is a blockchain platform that combines Bitcoin and Ethereum elements to provide a secure and decentralized environment for building and running smart contracts and dapps. Its hybrid consensus mechanism combines proof-of-work (PoW) and proof-of-stake (PoS) to achieve security and scalability. The platform uses familiar programming languages such as Solidity and C++ to make it easier for developers to build and deploy smart contracts and dapps. QTUM was created by a team led by Patrick Dai and is primarily used for building and running smart contracts and dapps, with the QTUM token used for payments, incentivizing network participants, and governance decisions.”

Qtum Coin Trading

It is usually not presently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Qtum directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Qtum should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Coinbase, GDAX or Changelly. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to buy Qtum using one of the exchanges listed above.

QTUM/USD price chart by TradingView