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    Beginner’s Guide to Vertcoin

    Oliver DaleBy Oliver DaleOctober 30, 201715 Comments10 Mins Read
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    Vertcoin markets itself as being “the people’s coin,” as it is a decentralized currency that the users own. To go into more detail, this is a digital currency that you can send over the internet like other cryptocurrencies. Vertcoin, or VTC, aims to focus on the original traits of cryptocurrency, giving users a financial system they own. There are no large banks, manufacturers, or mining hardware that control Vertcoin. Instead, anyone can mine it to make a profit.

    Vertcoin was developed by community members who put in time as volunteers. To ensure its fair distribution, there is no ICO, premine, or airdrop. Instead, the entire project runs on donations and volunteer efforts. Vertcoin is a finite resource, like gold is, and lets investors protect their money while enjoying minimal transaction fees. Vertcoin has software that can be used on Windows, Macs, or Linux as a multiplatform digital currency.

    Vertcoin Website

    Who Is Behind Vertcoin?

    Table of Contents

    • Who Is Behind Vertcoin?
    • Why Is Vertcoin Decentralized?
    • Vertcoin Wallets
    • How Do You Send or Receive Vertcoins?
    • How to Buy Vertcoin
    • What Are the Specs of Vertcoin?
    • How To Mine Vertcoin?
    • Join a Mining Pool
    • What Are Future Plans for Vertcoin?
    • Conclusion
    • Useful Links:

    Every developer or other member of the Vertcoin team is a volunteer. Vertcoin encourages anyone with an interest to donate to the project and future projects or to volunteer their time. The volunteers are all highly trusted and work around the clock to ensure an open-source environment. The team is passionate about programming, cryptography, building, mining, branding, and more.

    The lead developers behind Vertcoin constantly strive for various advancements in technology related to the blockchain. The open-source community allows for group brainstorming and information sharing, as well as the implementation of advanced features. The focus has been and always will be on creating a strong relationship with the other developers who use the blockchain while learning and sharing with others.

    Vertcoin Team

    At the moment, the lead developer is James Lovejoy, who has been programming since age 10. He is an undergraduate researcher at MIT DCI, where he works on enacting a decentralized monetary policy. Other developers have experience in various programming languages, work in fields like physics, and have worked in cryptocurrency for years, and some have even been in software engineering since 1998. Because Vertcoin is developed by volunteers, the backgrounds of the team vary greatly, but they all share a common interest.

    Why Is Vertcoin Decentralized?

    One of the main features of Vertcoin is that it is decentralized, and it was actually designed in a way that resists centralization. The algorithm behind Vertcoin helps stop developers from creating custom mining hardware which contains specialized chips known as ASICs . This ensures that each transaction will be validated by the network, which is widely distributed. This also prevents the pressure to sell that happens when a group of large mining pools flood the market at the same time with newly mined coins.

    The developers behind Vertcoin work tirelessly to ensure that specialized mining equipment cannot be used to mine Vertcoin. They also put in the same level of effort to ensure that consumer-grade hardware is enough to mine. For you as a miner, this means that you can fairly compete with others, without worrying about unscrupulous manufacturers of hardware taking advantage of their ability to mine or not sending preordered equipment.

    Vertcoin Wallets

    Vertcoin offers wallets to download from the official website, there used to be a web wallet but it has been discontinued due to DDOS and other issues so for now you need to download a wallet to your computer or use a wallet on an exchange such as Bittrex – we only recommend you do this if you are purchasing VTC or exchanging them as you don’t hold the private keys to your wallet on an exchange.

    Vertcoin Wallets

    The wallet is available to download for Windows, Mac and Linux.

    How Do You Send or Receive Vertcoins?

    Once you have a Vertcoin wallet, you are ready to send and receive Vertcoins. All you need is an address, which will start with a V and feature a total of 26 to 36 alphanumeric characters. The funds typically clear in less than five minutes. There is only a very small transaction fee that helps support the network upkeep. This is incredibly small, and transferring 100VTC will only lead to a fee of around 0.001VTC.

    How to Buy Vertcoin

    As a cryptocurrency, you can also buy or trade for Vertcoins. The simplest method is to pay for your Vertcoins using Bitcoins. There are numerous exchanges that include VTC. English markets include Yobit, Bleutrade, Bittrex, and Poloniex. Chinese markets include Jubi and 19800, and Europeans can use Litebit.

    The easiest way to buy Vertcoin with fiat currency is to purchase Ethereum or Bitcoin, Coinbase is our recommend company to do so as you can buy with Credit Card, Debit Card or Bank Transfer. Then send this over to an exchange such as Bittrex to purchase your VTC, you can then withdraw this back to your vertcoin Wallet.

    Coinbase Website

    This process might seem a little convoluted at the moment, this process could well become easier in the future as the space matures and atomic-swaps become possible – granting you the ability to easily swap between Bitcoin, Litecoin and Vertcoin.

    What Are the Specs of Vertcoin?

    Vertcoin uses the Lyra2RE(v2) algorithm, and it has 84 million generated. The block time is 2.5 minutes with 50 coins rewarded per block. The subsidy will halve every 840,000 blocks, which is about every four years. There is no premine, and the difficulty retarget time is set to retarget with every block using Kimoto’s Gravity Well.

    Segregated Witness was activated in May 2017, and the developers feel that this is the top choice for transaction malleability. SegWit increases the block size limit while letting the developers implement second-layer solutions to continue to improve Vertcoin.

    Vertcoin also uses the lightning network for instant blockchain transactions, which are scalable. This should provide the ability to massively increase the network capacity by simply moving most transactions off the blockchain to process quickly. Part of the lightning network development is the Atomic Cross-Chain, a decentralized method of exchanging Vertcoins with others. This lets you seamlessly exchange Vertcoins with Bitcoins or Litecoins in your wallet.

    The developers are also working on stealth addresses, which was previously available but had to be temporarily disabled for work. This is one of the most important privacy features, and it gives users “Stealth Addresses” that are displayed on the public ledger instead of more personal details.

    How To Mine Vertcoin?

    You can take advantage of proof-of-work mining. This is essentially using your system’s computing power as a way to validate the network transactions. You then are rewarded for your help generating additional Vertcoins. Mining Vertcoin makes logical sense from a miner’s perspective, because there is no need to worry about mining hardware manufacturers taking advantage of you or using unscrupulous methods to mine; they won’t work, as mentioned above.

    Before you start mining, make sure you have a Vertcoin address to send your coins to. You can download one of the official wallets, or if you are a member of an exchange which deals in Vertcoin, such as Bittrex, you can generate an an address there and mine directly to the exchange.

    To get started GPU mining Vertcoin, you need to download the correct mining software for your card as follows:

    • AMD Cards – SGMiner Download
    • Nvidia Cards – CCMiner Download

    Extract the files on to your hard drive, for this example we will be using CCMiner on a Windows machine.

    Join a Mining Pool

    The next step is to choose a mining pool to join, by using a pool as this combines your hash rate with others on the same pool and you all share the rewards. This results in more predictable earnings at regular intervals. Here is a list of mining pools you can use to mine Vertcoin:

    • Dev-run p2pool node http://pool.vtconline.org
    • Give Me Coins http://give-me-coins.com/vertcoin-pool
    • Mining Pool Hub https://vertcoin.miningpoolhub.com/
    • Coinotron https://www.coinotron.com/app?action=ChartNoLogon&span=0&type=C&name=VTC
    • List of p2pool nodes https://bitmakler.net/mining_VertCoin-VTC__pools
    • Always Hashing p2pool http://vtc.alwayshashing.com:9171/static/
    • ZPool https://www.zpool.ca

    We will use Miningpoolhub, this is a good pool which allows you to register and then you have access to lots of different coin pools. Create an account with a username and password :

    Register an Account

    Once you are signed up, visit the “Wallet” link in the sidebar and enter your wallet address and a pin number – make sure you remember this pin as you will need it to make changes to your account.

    Add Your Wallet

    Next, visit the “Workers” link in the sidebar and create a new worker with a name and password – note these down as you will need them shortly.

    Create a Worker

    The next step is to create a .BAT file, create a new document in notepad and enter the following :

    ccminer-x64 -a lyra2v2 -o stratum+tcp://hub.miningpoolhub.com:20507 -u login.workername -p workerpassword

    Replace login.workername with your username and worker name, replace workerpassword with your worker password you created before.

    Bat file

    Now save this file  in the same folder as your mining software with a .bat extension ( change “save as type” from text to All files ).

    Bat Save

    Now double click this BAT file and the program will then start mining. Your window should then look like this :

    VTC Mining

    You can then visit the Dashboard at MiningPoolHub to see your hash rate and other information about your mining.

     

    What Are Future Plans for Vertcoin?

    Vertcoin shares its progress and roadmap via Trello, allowing all members of the community to stay up to date with the various projects. It has completed support for Ledger Nano s and Ledger Blue, the development fund website, an atomic swap for Litecoin and Vertcoin, and the core wallet.

    At the moment, the team is working to finish developing the 1-Click Vertcoin Miner, which is currently in beta. The team is also working on a TOR Electrum Wallet along with hidden service nodes, and expanded support for Vertcoin exchanges and wallets. Other current projects include enhancing the website and developing an AMD GPU miner.

    Vertcoin Roadmap

    Once those projects are complete, the team will move onto re-implementing the stealth addresses and developing a Vertcoin wallet for iOS. The team will also work on Vertcore, allowing users to import the old style, and implementing more SegWit addresses.

    The long-term projects include creating a mailing list and developing merchandise and other gear. Vertcoin also hopes to create Vertcoin Insight Explorer, provide support for Trezor 2, add a browser to the Wallet’s URI protocol, and develop Merkelized Abstract Syntax Trees. Vertcoin Block Reward Halving is also on the backlog, with an estimated date of Dec. 12.

    Conclusion

    Vertcoin is a useful addition to the cryptocurrency market because it allows all miners to profit. Those who develop mining hardware have ruined the profitability of mining other cryptocurrencies for the average person (without buying that expensive hardware), and Vertcoin does an excellent job of addressing this issue.

    The fact that it can be used on nearly all systems and with a range of miners will allow it to appeal to a range of users while constantly expanding, likely increasing the value of Vertcoin in the future. It is also a nice change that users can participate in to any extent they want, whether with donations, programming, mining, or simply providing ideas.

    Vertcoin has recently seen a large rise in price, probably due to people’s interest in ASIC-Resistant coins and the possibility of cross-chain atomic swaps between currencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin and Vertcoin, meaning you will be able to swap these coins directly without the need for a middle-man being involved.

    Vertcoin Price

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    15 Comments

    1. WobblyBobbleNoggin on October 31, 2017 1:52 pm

      This is a nice writeup! The only thing you missed is Vertcoin’s fantastic One-Click-Miner, which is incredibly simple while not sacrificing features. Currently optimized for Nvidia cards and only available for Windows, but definitely worth mentioning!

      • Oliver Dale on October 31, 2017 2:11 pm

        Hey, Thanks.
        The reason I didn’t link it is because it’s getting flagged as malware on some anti-virus programs – I know its not but some malware contains mining software in it.
        I actually got a warning from Google when I linked a similar piece of software in our Verge Currency post.

    2. Mane on November 13, 2017 12:20 pm

      What happens if im getting “yes”-es on my private pool and how can I check my income?
      Thank you in advance!

    3. Lostchild on December 2, 2017 8:45 pm

      Ive tried different ccminers and wallets I’m about to give up on this.
      It shouldnt be hard but its not working for me.
      ‘

      02 12:41:08] NVML GPU monitoring enabled.
      [2017-12-02 12:41:08] NVAPI GPU monitoring enabled.
      [2017-12-02 12:41:08] 1 miner thread started, using ‘lyra2v2’ algorithm.
      [2017-12-02 12:41:08] Stratum difficulty set to 64 (0.25000)
      [2017-12-02 12:41:08] lyra2v2 block 834729, diff 122222.589
      [2017-12-02 12:41:09] GPU #0: Intensity set to 20, 1048576 cuda threads
      [2017-12-02 12:41:10] API bind to port 4068 failed – using port 4069
      [2017-12-02 12:41:12] GPU #0: ASUS GTX 1070, 39.04 MH/s
      [2017-12-02 12:41:12] accepted: 0/1 (diff 0.394), 39.04 MH/s booooo
      [2017-12-02 12:41:21] GPU #0: ASUS GTX 1070, 39.67 MH/s
      [2017-12-02 12:41:21] accepted: 0/2 (diff 0.357), 39.67 MH/s booooo
      [2017-12-02 12:42:01] GPU #0: 2096 MHz 248.95 kH/W 159W 44C FAN 39%
      [2017-12-02 12:42:18] GPU #0: ASUS GTX 1070, 39.57 MH/s
      [2017-12-02 12:42:18] accepted: 0/3 (diff 1.300), 39.62 MH/s booooo
      [2017-12-02 12:42:28] Stratum difficulty set to 32 (0.12500)
      [2017-12-02 12:42:29] GPU #0: ASUS GTX 1070, 38.89 MH/s
      [2017-12-02 12:42:29] accepted: 0/4 (diff 0.150), 39.38 MH/s booooo

      • Mane on December 2, 2017 8:54 pm

        @Lostchild
        Try One Click Miner, its great and very simple.

        • Daniel on December 7, 2017 3:11 pm

          @Mane
          Tried for about 4h with ~49MH/s (on the software windows) and did not get any share. Totally wasted resources… Do you have any suggestions?

    4. jon on December 5, 2017 8:28 pm

      I’m trying to use the one click Miner and it shows that it’s mining but the log show that it’s not mining

    5. Tim Tits on December 9, 2017 9:46 am

      Hi, I’ve been using it since nicehash got hacked, I’m using electrum vtc 2.9.3.3 with vertcoin 1 click miner, I’ve noticed that when I go to sleep the electrum receiving wallet changes to another address (for some reason I have 22) whilst the worker address in the miner stays the same… Whenever this happens I stop receiving payments but the pool still registers me as working but to the unchanged address…

      In the 4 or 5 days I’ve been using it, I’ve never once received a payment from any of the other addresses, which are all meant to pay in same way… I’ve tried looking around but can’t find anyone having the same problem… Any ideas what may be going wrong?

      Thanks,

    6. Willybloo on December 13, 2017 9:37 pm

      You need to download the Vertcoin core wallet is what I was told. I set up a wallet there, encrypted it, and now am seeing deposits. It took awhile to get the full blockchain FYI.

    7. Rallito Caabas on December 15, 2017 2:55 pm

      I wanted to learn how am i going to invest in vertcoin.

      what specific wallet can i use. I only have coins.ph which is available in our country.

      Please advise the soonest time possible

    8. Daniel on December 19, 2017 10:18 pm

      Hi,
      is possible mining with CPU solo mode?

      Regards,
      Daniel

    9. PK on January 3, 2018 6:26 am

      Hello,

      Can I use Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580 GPU card? Please advise. If yes then what is the correct mining software I need to use?

      thanks,
      PK

    10. Orizon on January 5, 2018 10:29 am

      Sure, spending your life savings on VERTCOIN might have been the best thing you’ve EVER done…

      But you made the bought VTC, you did it with one thing in mind… SHOOTING FOR THE MOON.

      VTC has that 10X factor, which you will have too when you wear this shirt in public. You will get the attention of others HODLing VTC, and their girlfriends.
      This comfy 100% cotton shirt can be shipped out in a few days.
      Check it out here –> https://shirtspice.com/collections/cryptocurrency-t-shirts/products/vertcoin-boom-to-the-moon-shirt

    11. BionicDong on February 14, 2018 7:28 pm

      Great informational Article Oliver, cheers. Please see a link to a personal project of mine –
      https://vertcoinprice.org/ The site offers the live Vertcoin Price updated once every minute. It has price charts, market cap, 24 hour volume and historical data on Vertcoin. Prices for fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies with over 110 currency pairs with Vertcoin. USD, GBP, EUR, CAD, AUD JPY, SGD, BTC, ETH, XRP, LTC, XMR and many more. I plan to keep adding more currencies for conversion also, I think this would be a great resource for your readers…

    12. Nic on June 5, 2019 2:08 pm

      Great post, Oliver!
      My name in Nicholas, I’m a contributor to vertcoin page on Bitcoinwiki. https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Vertcoin
      You can check it out and I’ll gladly update it due to your suggestions if you’re interested.

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