Vertcoin Trading Up 9% This Week (VTC)

Vertcoin (VTC) traded down 3.4% against the U.S. dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 12:00 PM E.T. on April 7th. Vertcoin has a market cap of $4.01 million and approximately $25,138.35 worth of Vertcoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Vertcoin coin can currently be bought for $0.0559 or 0.00000072 BTC on exchanges. Over the last seven days, Vertcoin has traded up 9% against the U.S. dollar.

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

• Arweave (AR) traded down 5.6% against the dollar and now trades at $5.14 or 0.00006581 BTC.
• Bitcoin (BTC) traded 4.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $78,121.09 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded 9.3% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.15 or 0.00000187 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded 1.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $8.94 or 0.00011442 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded down 8% against the dollar and now trades at $271.51 or 0.00347553 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded down 11.4% against the dollar and now trades at $69.78 or 0.00089326 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded 5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $200.62 or 0.00256807 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded down 6.4% against the dollar and now trades at $14.51 or 0.00018577 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.
• IOTA (MIOTA) traded 5.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.15 or 0.00000189 BTC.

About Vertcoin

Vertcoin (VTC) is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Lyra2REv2 hashing algorithm. It launched on January 10th, 2014. Vertcoin’s total supply is 71,738,172 coins. The official message board for Vertcoin is medium.com/vertcoin-blog. Vertcoin’s official Twitter account is @vertcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here. The official website for Vertcoin is vertcoin.org. The Reddit community for Vertcoin is https://reddit.com/r/vertcoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here.

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 buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Vertcoin directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade Vertcoin should first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Gemini, Coinbase or GDAX. 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