Vertcoin Price Tops $0.0741 on Exchanges (VTC)

Vertcoin (VTC) traded down 1.9% against the US dollar during the one day period ending at 7:00 AM E.T. on January 16th. One Vertcoin coin can currently be purchased for about $0.0741 or 0.00000078 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. In the last week, Vertcoin has traded up 1.9% against the US dollar. Vertcoin has a total market capitalization of $5.46 million and approximately $15.18 thousand worth of Vertcoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.

Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:

• Arweave (AR) traded 0.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $4.02 or 0.00004218 BTC.
• Bitcoin (BTC) traded 1.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $95,312.28 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded down 4% against the dollar and now trades at $0.14 or 0.00000145 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded 1.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $702.48 or 0.00737029 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded down 4.4% against the dollar and now trades at $599.53 or 0.00629017 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $8.90 or 0.00009337 BTC.
• Zcash (ZEC) traded 7% lower against the dollar and now trades at $410.73 or 0.00430932 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded 4.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $72.24 or 0.00075792 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 3.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $12.54 or 0.00013154 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.

About Vertcoin

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 73,638,716 coins. Vertcoin’s official website is vertcoin.org. The Reddit community for Vertcoin is https://reddit.com/r/vertcoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Vertcoin’s official Twitter account is @vertcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. The official message board for Vertcoin 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 possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Vertcoin directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Vertcoin should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Gemini, Coinbase or Changelly. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase Vertcoin using one of the exchanges listed above.

VTC/USD price chart by TradingView