Vertcoin Price Prediction and Analysis in December 2019

Today, we will be using historical data and market price forecasts for VTC in order to determine a Vertcoin price prediction for December 2019.

Vertcoin Overview

Vertcoin was first developed in 2014, forking from Litecoin. The coin is built on the PoW consensus algorithm, but unlike Bitcoin and other cryptos, it was designed to be ASIC-resistant.

The cryptocurrency enables fast digital transactions without requiring any third party to validate the transaction.

Due to the fact that Vertcoin is based on Litecoin, it also inherited some of Bitcoin’s features, as Litecoin was also a fork of Bitcoin.

But there are some major differences between Vertcoin and Bitcoin. The first one is that Vertcoin has a transaction confirmation time of 2.5 minutes, and Bitcoin requires 10 minutes to confirm transactions. While the Bitcoin supply is capped to 21 million, Vertcoin has a total supply of 84 million, which is four times bigger than that of BTC.

Also, in terms of mining accessibility, Vertcoin can be mined by anyone, as the coin does not allow ASIC hardware devices. This means that people can mine with GPU cards, which are more accessible and affordable pieces of hardware. On the other hand, Bitcoin requires expensive ASIC devices in order to produce a mining profit, and there are also numerous mining farms that have greater hash rates that dwarfs the efforts of any solo miner.

At first, Vertcoin used Scrypt-N algorithm for its PoW consensus, but then ASICs for Scrypt-N started being developed, so the team had to take another approach.

This led to the creation of the Lyra2RE algorithm, updating Vertcoin on December 13th, 2014 to implement the algorithm.

Lyra2RE enables the project’s team “to change memory usage and time cost independently, giving [them] more leverage against ASICs.”

Since its implementation, Lyra2RE has been upgraded to Lyra2REv2 through another hard fork on August 10th, 2015. The update was made in order to stop a botnet that had taken control of 50 percent of the network’s hashing power.

Vertcoin Price Prediction: Analysis

Vertcoin started November at $0.24, but towards the end of November 2^nd, the coin shot up to $0.33.

VTC failed to maintain its sudden gains and slowly began descending on November 4^th, going below $0.3 levels. Vertcoin closed that day at $0.294018. From November 5^th to November 21^st, Vertcoin has minimal fluctuations, trading on average between $0.25 and $0.27.

The following days, VTC fell to $0.21-$0.22 support levels, but then on November 27^th, the coin started shooting up to $0.27. The bullish trend continued until November 29^th, testing frequently the $0.3 resistance level, but then towards the end of the day, Vertcoin fell back to $0.27.

The coin continued to slip gradually in the following days, with December opening at $0.24. December 2^nd saw VTC trading at $0.26 at the start of the day but then fell back to $0.23.

Today, December 4^th, the coin opened at $0.225., and it is currently ranked 195^th according to a market cap of $11,791,348.

The calculated pivot, resistance, and support levels are:

• Resistance Level (R3): 0.285
• Resistance Level (R2): 0.272
• Resistance Level (R1): 0.253
• Pivot Point: 0.241
• Support Level (S1): 0.222
• Support Level (S2): 0.2098
• Support Level (S3): 0.191

Developments

On December 1, the Vertcoin blockchain suffered a 51% attack, but it was then discovered that it was not successful, as the hackers that orchestrated the attack did not make enough profits to cover the attack costs.

James Lovejoy, Vertcoin’ lead developer reported the failed attempt to perform the attack on the network.

The developer noticed that on November 30, the cost of renting resources for Lyra2REv3 algorithm saw a sharp increase. On December 1, an anonymous attacker removed 603 blocks from the main Vertcoin network put in their place their own 553 blocks.

But the attacker experienced some issues executing his plan:

“Based on the market prices during the attack’s preparation and the difficulty of the blocks the attacker produced, we estimate the attacker spent between 0.5-1 BTC to perform the attack. The total value of the block rewards the attack received is 13825 VTC (~0.44 BTC). Given the attack was likely not profitable to perform based solely on block rewards, the motivation for the attack is not certain,“ – stated James Lovejoy.

After the developer contacted Bittrex, which has the largest volume of VTC, the exchange then blocked its wallets.

It is suspected that Bittrex was the original target, but the double-spend portion attack was abandoned as Bittrex disabled its wallet before the fork could go through.

This was the second 51% attack on Vertcoin – the first one taking place in December 2018.

The Github page of the project has only 50 repositories, with two people working on the project and monthly updates. The community is not very active compared to other coins of its size. The blog does not have any new posts regarding upcoming or current developments, nor are there any roadmap achievements mentioned on its official site.

Vertcoin Price Prediction: Market Opinion for December 2019

To get a better feel of the market sentiment, we have included some of the sites that have made their own Vertcoin price prediction for December 2019.

Cryptoground

Cryptoground predicted that in one week, the coin will be $0.2677, with an increase of 18.25%. By the end of December, VTC is expected to be trading at $0.2758, with an increase of 21.81%.

Digitalcoinprice

Digitalcoinprice forecasted that in December, Vertcoin will have a trading price of $0.05540420, which would mean a decrease of -76.05 %. This is one of the most bearish VTC predictions we have found so far.

Bitgur

Bitgur predicts that by the end of December, the coin will be on average $0.2593, with a maximum value of $0.31870002 and a minimum value of $0.17230001.

Coinfan

Coinfan estimates that VTC will have a minimum estimated price of $1.5057, with a maximum estimated value of $1.92395. This is a rather optimistic prediction considering current values.

Vertcoin Price Prediction: Verdict

We hope that the information we have provided in our article will be of help to you in your Vertcoin mining endeavors. Keep in mind that there is no price prediction that is 100% accurate, and most of it is speculation.

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